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- Woodcraft traditions,
- Personal decoration for personal achievement,
- A heroic ideal,
- Picturesqueness in all things?
In my opinion, the Tribal or Indian form.
Fundamentally, it is a republic or limited monarchy, and many experiments have proved it the best. It makes its members self-governing. It offers appropriate things to do outdoors; it is so plastic that it can be adopted in a whole or in part, at once or gradually; its picturesqueness takes immediate hold of all; and it lends itself so well to existing ideas that, soon or late, most camps are forced into its essentials, call them what they will.
No large band of boys ever yet camped out for a month without finding it necessary to recognize leaders, a senior form, or ruling set whose position rests on merit, some wise grown person to guide them in difficulties, and a place to display the emblems of the camp; that is, they have-adopted the system of the Chief’s Council, Medicine-man and Totem-pole.
Moreover, the ideal Indian, whether he ever existed or not, stands for the highest type of the primitive life, and he was a master of Woodcraft, which is our principal study; he was unsordid, clean, manly, heroic, and picturesque always.
Nevertheless it must not be thought that I consider the Indian externals essential. Many camps have ..text pokračuje
