---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - John H. Taylor
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 18
number: 4
published: 1915-02
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'John H. Taylor, "Important Information for Scout Leaders," *Improvement Era* 18, no. 4 (February 1915): 371.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1804unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera1804unse
start_page: 371
end_page: 371
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1915-02)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1804unse
  publication_year: 1915
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1915, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Important Information for Scout Leaders

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MUTUAL WORK                               371

should be read, and also by naming at least one problem to be solved
by. the whole class in preparation. Other problems may be assigned to
individuals but the main problem should be worked at by every mem-
ber in his preparation.
     You must study the lesson, picking out the problems and plan-
ning for their presentation and solution, equiping yourself with apt
illustrations with which to illuminate your explanations.    You must
not forget that a lesson that is not problematic will be lacking in the
                                      —
elements of contest and conquest the two great spurs of youth.
     Remember that all teaching is not preaching. The latter is
admirably suited to congregations, and the former is especially adapted
to class work. See that your members have a chance to do one-half of
the asking and telling. See that the backward boy is led to say some-
thing.
      —  "Good meeting; I spoke."

                     Athletic and Scout Work

               Important Information for Scout Leaders
                        BY DR. JOHN H. TAYLOR

    In December the committee on Athletic and Scout Work gave in-
structions as to the method of handling the annual scout fee.   This
month we call your attention to the method of sending in new names
of boys and the amounts due, etc. These blanks can be obtained at the
Era office.
                                   FEES
     In remitting dues for new boys during the year, you may pay "pro-
portionate" dues for the unexpired period of the year for which your
troop is registered, as follows: 25 cents for 9 months or more, 20
cents for 6 to 9 months, 15 cents for 3 to 6 months, and 10 cents for
3 months or any part thereof. Thus, if your commission expires August
31, 1915, a boy entering your troop in June, July or August, 1915, will
pay 10 cents; if he joins in March. April or May, 1915, he will pav 15
cents; if he joins in December, 1914, or January or February, 1915,
20 cents, etc.. Obviously it is necessary to have a plan whereby no boy
receives a certificate beyond the period for which the troop is regis-
tered.
     If the original registration covered less than 12 Scouts then the
difference between the $3.00 minimum troop registration fee and the
amount for the originally registered Scouts at 25 cents each may be
anpHed toward the payment of registration fees for newly enrolled
Scouts in such troops.
                                CERTIFICATES
     A Boy Scout membership card will be provided for each boy reg-
ularly enrolled. It is understood that no boy shall receive this certifi-
cate nor wear the official badge or uniform until he has passed the
Tenderfoot test and taken the promise as prescribed in the Official
Handbook.
                               REGISTRATIONS
       Lst year, scoutmasters registered boys in New York as candidates
 to become scouts. A whole year has passed, and many of the boys are
 still candidates, and have no authority to call themselves scouts.  In
 a vear's time, a boy should be able to pass his Tenderfoot and Second
 Class tests, at least. Are we fair with the boy when we fail to do
 our work systematically, and carry him through these grades? Scout