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You can always spot the greenhorn – the first year camper – as soon as “Taps” sounds on the first night in camp. It’s the one who just can’t quiet down when the time comes for sleeping.

The experienced camper, comfortable and warm in bed, knows that night is for sleeping – knows that we’ll have more fun and be in better shape for all the activities next day, if we get a good night’s sleep now.

The greenhorn is the one who makes an uncomfortable bed and wakes up in the wee small hours, cold and sore and unable to get back to sleep. Greenhorns can’t stand to be cold and uncomfortable alone, so they wake up a few other soundly sleeping fellow Scouts to share their discomfort.

This, naturally, makes them unpopular scouts, not only with the others that they intentionally woke up, but with all the other campers who are roused by the noise created by the greenhorn out chopping wood to keep warm.

Don’t be a camp greenhorn. Night is for sleeping. Be quiet after “Taps” until you get to sleep, and if you wake up early in the morning, don’t give away your inexperience by getting up. Stay in bed until Reveille.

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.

Life is strange with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about,
Into success ’cause we stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow,
You may succeed with another blow.

Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worse that you must not quit.