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Show Course Is for Training Scoutmasters and Their Assistants. A special course will be given in scout leadership training for scoutmasters and assistants, beginning at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night at the public library, Oscar Kirkham, executive of the Salt Lake council. Boy Scouts of America, announced, an-nounced, yesterday. The course will consist con-sist of seven lectures and one hike. The meetings will be held weekly at the library, li-brary, and arrangements for the trip will be made by the men who enlist. Any person per-son IS years old, who is interested in scout planning, is eligible for the course. Instruction will be given in the scout movement, organization, the requirements require-ments of the tenderfoot scout, second-class second-class and first-class requirements, setting set-ting up exercises, scout songs and games, marching tactics, signalling, semaphore code, first aid, map-making, hikes and camping, nature study, troop meetings and inspirational scout stories. Dr. Charles G. Plummer, chairman of the committee on camping and hiking, will act as general instructor. Other instructors in-structors include Dr. Fred J. Pack, University Uni-versity of Utah; Dr. J. H. Paul, University Univer-sity of Utah; the Rev. Peter A. S'impkin, Philips Congregational church; Sylvester Q. Cannon, city engineer; Eugene Hammond, Ham-mond, T. George Wood, Oscar A. Kirkham, Kirk-ham, scout executive, and advanced scoutmasters. The class will be organized as nearly as possible as a scout troop. The men will be divided into patrols and will carry on their work in substantially the same manner as the boys do. The Boy Scout handbook will be used as a text. At the completion of the course, each man will be given a certificate by the national council, Boy Scouts of America. A fee of $1 will be charged those taking tak-ing the course to pay for the handbook, gauze and triangular badges, rope and twist, notebook and other incidentals. |