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Just a minute
“I have a problem, and I’m glad!” said someone. We looked up to see—you guessed it, our old friend Scoutmaster BLIMP. His Troop is just as lively as ever, maybe more so. It’s a good Troop.
“Who in the world,” we asked, “ever heard of anyone being glad he had a problem?”
“Oh, but you don’t understand,” BLIMP went on, “my problem is the kind you can be glad about. Want to hear the details?”
“Is it optional?” we asked, knowing better.
“No,” replied BLIMP. “It’s very simple. Before I got wise to myself, I used to worry a lot about what in the world to DO at Troop meetings. Since I have started using the Program Notebook and all the swell ideas in Scouting (see contents, Page 1) and since my Scouts have been reading Boys’ Life, we have a new and interesting problem ... with all this material we worry about what to leave out!”
Troops which discovered this new problem have just about finished a whirlwind month of compass work and orienteering, with a world of usable games and teaching methods in Scouting and almost an entire issue of Boys’ Life showing the Scouts the “how” of it.