Tent 1.  Sanitary work, such as policing the campus, emptying garbage cans, sweeping the pavillion, disinfecting, etc.

Tent 2.  Preparing vegetables for the cook, drying dishes, pots, pans, cleaning up the kitchen, piazza, etc.

Tent 3.  Cleaning the boats, supplying wood for the kitchen, putting ice in the refrigerator, etc.

The next day tents 4, 5 and 6 will come on duty, and so on until each tent has been on duty during the week.

Leaders for the day will call the squad together after breakfast and explain the day’s plans.  Encourage the boys to do this work cheerfully.  Lead, do not drive the boys when working.  Not more than three hours should be consumed in camp work.

Sports and Pastimes

Bring rule books on athletics.  Study up group games.  Bring any old clothes for costumes; tambourines and bones for minstrel show, grease paint, and burnt cork—­in fact, anything that you think will add to the fun of the camp.  Good stories and jokes are always in demand.  Bring something interesting to read to your boys on rainy days.  Think out some stunt to do at the social gatherings.  If you play an instrument, be sure to bring it along with you.

Bank

Encourage the boys to turn their money and railroad tickets over to the camp banker instead of depositing them with you.

Camp Council

Meetings of the leaders will be held at the call of the superintendent.  Matters talked over at the council meeting should not be talked over with the boys.  All matters of discipline or anything that deals with the welfare of the camp should be brought up at this meeting.  Printed report blanks will be given to each leader to be filled out and handed to the assistant superintendent each Thursday morning.  Do not show these reports to the boys.

Bible Study

Each leader will be expected to read to the boys in his tent a chapter from the Bible and have prayers before “taps” each night, also to take his turn in leading the morning devotions at breakfast table.  Groups of boys will meet for occasional Bible study at sunset under various leaders.  Each session will continue twenty minutes—­no longer.  Sunday morning service will be somewhat formal in character, with an address.  The sunset vesper service will be informal.

Praying that the camp may prove a place where leaders and boys may grow in the best things of life and anticipating an outing of pleasure and profit to you, I am Your friend, (signature)

Opportunities

In securing men for leadership, impress upon them the many opportunities for the investment of their lives in the kind of work that builds character.  In reading over a small folder, written by George H. Hogeman of Orange, N .J., I was so impressed with his excellent presentation of this theme of opportunities of leadership that the following is quoted in preference to anything I could write upon the subject: