Scouting, Volume 31, Number 3, March 1943 Page: 2
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Emergency Service in the Troop
A heavy snowstorm failed to dampen the enthu-
siasm with which several hundred residents of
Syracuse, N. Y., received a demonstration by
an Emergency Service Corps comprised of seventy-
five Scouts and Sea Scouts last winter.
Both the demonstration itself and the mobilization
preceding it were highly dramatic. Mayor Kennedy
of Syracuse handed one Scout a message officially
requesting the mobilization of the Onandaga Council
Emergency Service Corps within thirty-five minutes
at a given point. Dashing out to the front of City
Hall, the Scout started a signaling relay that carried
the message through ten different points to Scout
Headquarters.
Twenty-seven minutes later—a cut of eight min-
utes in the time set by Mayor Kennedy—Patrols
began to converge at the appointed square and in
short order set up demonstration points similar to a
three-ring circus. In each ring Scouts staged identical
demonstrations of first aid and other emergency
measures, as another crew of 150 Scouts established
and maintained police lines around the curb line.
This demonstration of the values of Boy Scout
Emergency Service Corps was born in the programs
of the Scoutmasters of Syracuse. Scouts were fully
trained in the basic essentials in their Troops and
later, as a Corps, were trained by the Council, the
Police Department, the Fire Department and the
Red Cross.
Plan today to adapt the full program of Emergency
Service Training to your Troop. Use it on a Patrol
basis.
Trained and capable Scouts have often been called
into stricken areas when other citizens, lacking in
such training, were banned. Justification of such con-
fidence in Scouting lies in the hands of the Scout-
master. Intensify Emergency Service Training in
your Troop.
Prepare your Scouts for any eventuality. Make
"Toughen Up, Buckle Down, Carry on to Victory"
the theme of your Troop, Squadron and Ship pro-
gram for 1943. Scouting made d very creditable
record on the home front last year. But this year,
and next, the demands will be even greater. Will your
Scouts be ready?
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