med boats are the safest and it is almost
impossible to tip them over. They are, however, much heavier and harder
to manage than the round bottomed boats. Care should be taken that not
too many girls go in one boat at one time and that whoever is put in
charge of the group must be obeyed. Girls should be taught to row, how
to enter a boat and leave it, how to tie it, how to seat passengers so
that the boat will be well balanced, how to row alone, and how to keep
stroke with another.

Camp Supplies

A list of firms handling approved equipment for camps will be furnished
upon request to National Headquarters Girl Scouts, Inc.

[Illustration: SETTING OUT FOR THE WATER HIKE]

WATER FRONT PROTECTION FOR SUMMER CAMPS

_By_

Captain Fred. C. Mills,
Red Cross Life Saving Corps,
Atlantic Division.

Every camp that is situated on water or has a near-by bathing place,
should organize its water front protection system before the camp opens.

Choice of Bathing Place

The swimming place should be so chosen as to combine, if possible, deep
water swimming for the experienced swimmers and a shallow bathing place
for beginners. The non-swimmers' pool should never be over four and
one-half feet deep at its deepest point.

Equipment

_For Beginners._ The non-swimmers' pool should be enclosed on three
sides by life lines, (1" to 1-1/2" manila rope, depending on weather
conditions), buoyed up every fifteen feet by cork floats or balsa wood
buoys, painted white and made fast at the corners to piles driven into
the sand, or to buoys moored with rocks or cement moorings. No beginners
should be allowed to go beyond these lines.

_For Swimmers._ The area to be used by Swimmers should then be plainly
marked off with white floats moored to the bottom, with a flag placed at
top. No swimmer, no matter how expert, should be allowed to go beyond
these floats, unless permission is obtained from the Master of Aquatics.

Great care should be taken that all diving platforms and spring boards
are safely situated and that the water surrounding these diving
arrangements is clear of all rocks, stumpage, etc., to the depth of at
least 10 feet. Ladders should be placed at the float to allow swimmers
to climb from the water easily.

[Illustration: LAYING THE FIRE]

_Tower._ A small tower, eight to twelve feet high, should be erected on
the shore so as to overlook the bathing place. A warnin