Requirements July 1933 until October 1936

1. Have at least one month’s service as a Tenderfoot an know how and when to wear the Scout uniform.

2. Know the general directions for First Aid; demonstrate treatment, including dressing, where necessary, for hemorrhage, fainting, shock, bruises, burns, injuries in which the skin is broken, sprains, and demonstrate with the triangle the following bandages: head bandage, arm (sling), hand, foot and ankle bandage, eye and jaw bandage, (roller bandages may be substituted on arm and ankle), artificial respiration. The scout may elect to demonstrate any five requirements on animals.

3. Elementary signaling: know the alphabet of the Semaphore Code; or the General Service (International Morse) Code; or the elementary signs of the Indian Sign Language Code; or the letters of the Manual Alphabet for the deaf, either with one or two hands.

4. Track half mile in twenty-five minutes; or, if in town, describe satisfactorily the contents of one store window out of four, observed for one minute each.

5. Go a mile in twelve minutes at scout pace – about fifty steps running and fifty walking, alternately; or lay out, measured by the stride method and stake a four acre tract of land

6. Use properly knife and hatchet.

7. Prove ability to build a fire in the open, using not more than two matches; care for, and put it out.

8. Cook a quarter of a pound of meat and two potatoes in the open without the ordinary cooking.

9. Earn and deposit at least one dollar in a public bank or other savings institution. (Premiums paid on life insurance are accepted if earned); or earn, own and raise some farm animal, or earn and contribute at least one dollar or its equivalent to the family budget or to welfare work in the community.

10. Know the sixteen principle points of the compass.

11. Demonstrate his practice of at least five rules of safety at home, or work, or school, or on the street, or road, or farm.

12. Furnish satisfactory evidence that he has put into practice in his daily life the principles of the Scout Oath and Law.