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SUGGESTIONS
we hope prove helpful
BANANA
GHOSTS...
Trick
to Treat
your Troop
Quick 'n' easy fun-food
with bananas in ghost costumes!
For October refreshments.
At Hallowe'en or around campfire
when ghost stories are told, here
is a sleight of hand snack trick and
part of the entertainment, too.
To make Banana
Ghosts, you only need
large straight bananas,
one for every two people,
ice cream bar sticks, soft
white cleansing tissue for
"sheets" to cover banan-
as, dark felt marker for
making ghost faces, plus
a little spooky imagina-
tion to conjure up ghosts.
Cut each banana in half hori-
zontally. Poke sticks into the cut
end for handle. Cover banana with
a tissue. Make ghost eyes and
mouth with 3 or 4 quick touches
with marking pen. Push a second
white tissue onto handle to finish
ghost-robe and to cover human
hand which will hold spooky snack.
Your Banana Ghost is now
ready to be a scary hand puppet
or prop for telling ghost stories.
He's the quickest spook you ever
materialized, and delicious to eat.
Share ghost stories with your
troop—Washington Irving's"head-
less horseman" or some of Poe's
mysteries. Be prepared for scream-
ing when Scouts tell own favorites.
<^)j When the Banana Ghost "dis-
appears," his tissue costume is
handy to use to dispose of the peel.
alivays
a
happy treat
Everyone loves the lively,
fresh taste of delicious, popular
Wrigley's Spearmint Gum.
And, it's never rich or filling.
WHO STRENGTHENS AMERICA'S HERITAGE?
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We need more programs like Strengthen America's Heri-
tage". . . . "This is the best activity yon could have given us". . . .
"It should be repeated at frequent intervals". . . . These were
typical comments in the thousands of postcards sent to Mr. Brnn-
ton, our Chief Scout Executive, this summer.
On these cards, Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, and Explorer Ad-
visors gave their frank comments about the Strengthen Amer-
ica's Heritage program and briefly told about how they were
getting the most out of it in their packs, troops, and posts.
As I read these cards (or a few hundred of them), I noted that
a considerable number said something like this: "This program
should have received more publicity; the public should be made
more aware of it."
How true that is! But where should it receive publicity? And
what makes effective publicity? I think you will agree that the
place where Scouting's Strengthen America's Heritage program
should be publicized is in your press and on your radio and TV.
And I am sure you would be the first to say that the best pub-
licity is the news story of something that's happening in your
town.
In other words, if anything is to be done about making Amer-
icans aware of their heritage and appreciative of it and concerned
about whatever is necessary to strengthen its values, it has to be
done locally. That means it starts where your pack or troop or
post is; it grows into the lives of your impressionable boys be-
cause of the way you—their leader—make it real for them. It
spreads, if you make it real enough, to their parents and to the
community.
Here are excerpts from one reply to Mr. Brunton: "We felt,"
wrote a Scoutmaster from a Pennsylvania town, "that Scouting's
image was not what it should be. . . . Using the Strengthen Amer-
ica's Heritage program, we called a general meeting of the leaders
of our small community—the churches, the Legion, the Lions
club, the fire company. . . . The support we have had from these
leaders and from the newspapers, radio, and TV stations has
been astounding. . . And the Scouters of that area found them-
selves making public opinion.
A San Diego (Calif.) Scoutmaster writes, "We need more
programs like this for all citizens."
What strikes me as most significant is the awareness so many
of you have shown that America does need to be awakened, and
that you, in your strategic leadership relation to boys, can do
something about it.
Editor
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