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Cub Scout Pack 122
(Evans, Georgia)
 
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Motto


Do Your Best!

Sign


How:

1. Make the "peace" sign with your right hand

2. Hold your arm held straight up

Why:

The two fingers stand for the two parts of the Cub Scout Promise - "TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE" and "TO OBEY."

They look like a wolf’s ears ready to listen to Akela.

When:

Give the Cub Scout sign when say the Cub Scout Promise and Law of the Pack or when Akela raises the sign to ask for silence.


Salute


How:

1. Salute with your right hand.

2. Hold your fingers as you do for the Cub Scout sign.

3. Keep the two straight fingers close together.

4. Touch the tips of those fingers to your cap.

5. If you are not wearing a cap, touch your eyebrow.

Why:

A salute is a way to show respect to your leaders. It shows that you look up to them and respect them. We salute the flag to show respect to our country.

When:

You salute when you are in uniform and the National Colors pass, when you say the pledge of allegiance, or when you are formally acknowledging another Scout, especially leaders.


The Scout Oath


On my honor I will do my best

To do my duty to God and my country

and to obey the Scout Law;

To help other people at all times;

To keep myself physically strong,

mentally awake, and morally straight.

The Scout Law


A Scout is:

Trustworthy, 

Loyal, 

Helpful,

Friendly, 

Courteous, 

Kind,

Obedient, 

Cheerful, 

Thrifty,

Brave, 

Clean, 

Reverent

Handshake


How:

1. Hold out your left hand.

2. Put your first two fingers along the inside of the other's wrist.

Why:

The Cub handshake means that you "HELP" and that you "OBEY" the Law of the Pack

When:

When you shake hands with another scout or scout leader.

Origins:

The left-handed Scout handshake is a formal way of greeting other Scouts of both genders used by members of Scout and Guide organizations around the world when greeting other Scouts. The is made with the hand nearest the heart and is offered as a token of friendship. In most situations, the handshake is made firmly, without interlocking fingers, and many organizations only use this handshake when both people are in uniform. There are some variations of the handshake between national Scouting organizations and also within some program sections.

The 1935 Boy Scout Handbook says that "By agreement of the Scout Leaders throughout the world, Boy Scouts greet Brother Scouts with a warm left hand clasp."

All World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members share the left handshake, and when meeting other Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, it may be used in conjunction with the Girl Scout sign done with the right hand.

Various sources have attributed the origin of the handshake, as an ancient sign of bravery and respect, to Lord Baden-Powell's encounter after battle with Prempeh I, or to earlier published works by Ernest Thompson Seton. There exist various versions of the Prempeh story, all centering around African warriors using the left hand to hold their shields and to lower it and shake the left hand of the person was to show they trusted each other.

According to the Ashanti warrior version of the story, then-Colonel Baden-Powell saluted them with his right hand, but the Ashanti chiefs offered their left hands and said, "In our land only the bravest of the brave shake hands with the left hand, because to do so we must drop our shields and our protection." The Ashantis knew of Baden-Powell's bravery because they had fought against him and with him, and they were proud to offer the left hand of bravery.

The term itself was used as the title of a work by Hilary Saint George SaundersThe Left Handshake: The Boy Scout Movement during the War, 1939-1945, because of the extraordinary courage shown during those times. According to the foreword by British Chief Scout Lord Rowallan,

When Colonel Baden-Powell entered the capital city of the Ashanti people in 1890 he was met by one of the Chiefs who came to him holding out his left hand. B.-P. held out his right in return but the Chief said: "No, in my country the bravest of the brave shake with the left hand." So began the "left handshake" of the world-wide brotherhood of Scouts. In this book are told some of the stories of courage and endurance shown by Scouts in many different countries during the war of 1939-45. There would not be room even in many books to tell them all. Many, indeed, can never be told; some for political reasons, some because the actors died unknown. They remembered their Promise, to do their best to do their duty to God, and their Country; to think of other people and not themselves. So, when the time came, they were prepared in body and in spirit to render their service. Their record is unsurpassed; they were "the bravest of the brave."

The left hand is also closer to the heart, with that attendant symbology.

- Wikipedia.org, "Scout Handshake"