Scouting, [Volume 22, Number 6,] June 1934 Page: 5
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ACHIEVEMENT
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Gold Medals Awarded
For Life Saving
26
Total Awards By
National Court of Honor
Since Beginning
1,923
Eagle Badges
Awarded 1933
6,659
Total Since Beginning
71,217
Star Scouts 1933
30,246
Life Scouts 1933
13,546
Total Merit Badges
Since 1911
5,007,028
ACHIEVEMENT! What greater achievement than to save the lite of a
fellow human being? The National Court of Honor reports that
during the past year twenty-six Scouts received the highest award of the
Boy Scouts of America for this supreme achievement. It is impossible to
read the accounts of these rescues without having one's heart beat faster
at the heroism of these Scouts, for the most part young boys in their teens,
who forgetful of self, acted with courage and coolheaded resourcefulness
when the emergency arose. We can thrill with pride at the same time at
the evidence of Scout training displayed, the knowledge of what to do and
how to do it that mark the trained Scout.
• Since the beginning of the Movement, 322 Gold Medals and 1,037
Certificates for Heroism have been awarded by the National Court of
Honor for acts of heroism in connection with Life Saving. 26 Medals and
49 Certificates were awarded during 1933.
• Another factor of Scout Life Saving is based on First Aid training. It
is probable that during the past twenty-four years thousands of lives have
been saved because, when the emergency occurred, a Boy Scout was on
the scene and knew what to do. The number will probably never be known,
because such acts often go unrecorded, perhaps even unnoticed. Surely it
must be a great satisfaction to everyone connected with the Scout Move-
ment to know that his work makes possible a program of training that since
the beginning of the Movement has equipped 220,280 Scouts with the
knowledge given in the First Aid Merit Badge. Perhaps the Scout may not
be called upon to practice what he has learned for many years. A recent
case was reported of a father who saved the life of his little child by means
of First Aid that he had learned years ago when he was a Boy Scout.
© Eagle! The highest rank in Scouting! Last year 6,659 boys were
awarded their Eagle Badges. The Eagle Scout is better equipped to help
the community. By the Scout Program of activities which are carefully
devised for the purpose of character building and citizenship training, he
is equipped not only with what he has learned, with the skill he may have
acquired, but equipped with a power within himself, equipped with quali-
ties of resourcefulness, initiative, leadership. The Eagle Rank is the goal of
every Tenderfoot. It is a long trail that he has to travel and at times a
difficult one. Is it worth while? Ask one of the alert, eager-eyed boys who
proudly received his Silver Eagle at a Court of Honor last year.
I am now convinced that it is a healthy, educational and worthy organization
which does not promote the development of a militaristic spirit . . . May the society
of the Boy Scouts of America contribute to the development of preparedness to help
and to the joy of life in the consciousness of American youth.
PROFESSOR ALBERT EINSTEIN
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