Surveyor:  A scout must map correctly, from the country itself, the main features of a half a mile of road, with 440 yards each side, to a scale of two feet to the mile, and afterward re-draw same map from memory.  Measure the heights of a tree, telegraph pole and church steeple, describing method adopted.  Measure width of a river, and distance apart of two objects a known distance away and unapproachable.  Be able to measure a gradient, contours, conventional signs of ordnance survey and scales.

Swimming and Life Saving:  A scout must be able to dive and swim fifty yards with clothes on (shirt, trousers, socks as minimum).  Able to fling and use life-line or life-buoy.  Able to demonstrate two ways of rescue of drowning person, and revival of apparently drowned.

THE PATROL

The simplest way to form a patrol of scouts is to call together a small group of boys over twelve years of age.  A simple recital of the things that scouts do, with perhaps an opportunity to look over the Manual, will be enough to launch the organization.  The selection of a patrol leader will then follow, and the scouting can begin.  It is well not to attempt too much at the start.  Get the boys to start work to pass the requirements for the tenderfoot.

The Patrol Leader:  Each patrol should have a patrol leader—­preferably a boy.  The choice of this leader has much to do with the success of the patrol.  He should be a recognized leader among the boys in the group.  Do not hesitate to entrust him with details.  Let him feel that he is your right-hand man.  Ask his opinion on matters pertaining to the patrol.  Make him feel that the success of the organization depends largely upon him, being careful, of course, not to overdo it.  You will find that this attitude will enlist the hearty cooperation of the boy and you will find him an untiring worker, with the ability to bind the boys closer together than you could ever hope to do alone.

POINTS OF INTEREST

1.  Scouting does not consist in wearing a khaki suit or a lot of decorations.  It is in doing the things that are required for the tenderfoot, second-class and first-class scout badges and the badges of merit.

2.  Scouts do not wish any one to buy things for them.  They buy their own equipment and pay their own way.

3.  Scouts do their best to keep the scout oath and law.

4.  The glory of scouting is “to do a good turn to some one every day without reward.”

5.  Scouts regard the rights of others, and do not trespass on the property or feelings of others.

6.  Scouting means obedience and discipline.  The boy who can’t obey will never command.

7.  Scouts are always busy and getting fun out of it—­at work, at school, at home, at play. Be a good scout.