I have republished (free for download, as usual) the 1925 Boy Scouts
Master at Arms Badge training booklet. Special thanks to Robert
Reinberger of http://www.budoforum.net

It is available at:
http://stores.lulu.com/lawson

Blurb follows:
It has long been known that the Boy Scouts issued a Master at Arms
Badge. In the United States, the Badge was retired in 1911. In various
European nations the badge lives on and can be fulfilled with many great
sports such as target shooting with firearms, Archery, or after-school
Asian martial arts. However, in the mind of many western martial
artists, it lives on as a pale shadow of its former self, consisting all
too often of “a note from the boy’s Sensei saying, ‘yes, he attends
class regularly’.”

Ah, but in “the good old days,” when things were always so much better,
the p oliticians representing the will of the people, the youth polite,
and the grass greener, the Master at Arms Badge reflected a more western
heritage by requiring, as it did, skill in any two of Singlestick,
Fencing, Boxing, Quarterstaff, Ju Jitsu, Wrestling, or Gymnastics (with
the most coveted text by WMA researchers being on Singlestick and
Quarterstaff being).

While myth, as usual, overshadows reality, it was with great excitement
that I read the post by Robert Reinberger of http://www.budoforum.net
when he made the 1925 English text available in raw scans. I am truly
grateful that he has preserved the original text and subsequently gave
me permission to republish.

Peace favor your sword,
Kirk