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Chapter Programmes Again.

One of the chief reasons that juvenile clubs often disband for lack of
interest is because nothing is laid out for them to do. In the first
place, let it be said that those Chapters succeed best which adhere to
one or the other of the following policies:

1, Choose some older person to direct everything, and then obey
implicitly the suggestions laid down by that older person; or, 2,
Resolve the Chapter into a committee of the whole. Let all have a voice.
Agree upon a programme, and then follow it. The thing to be avoided most
is the running of the Chapter by a few of its members.

After the routine business have a subject for discussion. Select this
subject a long time in advance. Name some particular phase of it, and
appoint one member to open and lead the discussion. Then have
three-minute talks, and urge each member to speak. Doing so is admirable
practice. If others fail to get much from what is said, the speaker will
himself get a good deal, because he acquires the habit of thinking on
his feet.

A good subject for a whole winter is American history. In order to have
a definite plan in its study take up the "Federal Principle." That might
do for the opening evening. Tell the member who is to open it to consult
Moore's _American Congress_, and learn how James Otis, in the
Massachusetts Assembly, made the first suggestion that the colonies get
together--furnished us with the Federal principle itself. Find out who
Otis was, and what became of his resolution when it got to the Virginia
House of Deputies. Getting down to the time of the Revolution, on later
evenings, find out why the Articles of Confederation failed--because
they had too little Federalism in them.

Another subject which Chapters might take up is American politics. This
is a good topic for ladies as well as for men. Use Johnston's book with
the above title f