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"I Just Sent!"
IT WAS a typical Saturday morning in a typical small town, the streets
crowded with shoppers. Then all of a sudden things started happen-
ing. There was a loud explosion of an aerial bomb—the Fourth of July
type—followed by long blasts on the loQal fire department whistle.
In a few minutes the streets were being cleared by the police, and fire
engines and ambulances were racing through the business district.
Then came Scouts, racing to mobilization points and on into action in
the "emergency."
In a few minutes rescue units were carrying "victims" from office
buildings to the Courthouse Square, where first aid workers were hard
at it taking care of pretended injuries as described on tags attached
to each "victim." A Boy Scout Week mobilization was under way.
Among the groups in such busy action was a Troop which had been
asked to train and equip itself to handle communications. The Com-
munications Scouts received sealed messages which they were to open
and transmit when they reached their assigned posts. Then they scat-
tered and soon reappeared in action on top of some of the highest
buildings, with red and white Morse flags waving purposefully. It was
a very impressive sight. So much so that the mayor and a group of
city officials wanted to see the activity closer. So they climbed up the
stairs of an office building and out to the edge of the flat roof, where a
young Scout was busily whipping his flag.
"What message are you sending, Scout?" asked the mayor.
The boy stopped, looked blank for a moment, then blushed.
"I guess I don't know, Sir," he said. "I was so excited I forgot to open
my envelope. I just sent!"
Lots of us who have taken part in these make-believe disaster situ-
ations can recall similarly humorous developments. Everybody gets
a good laugh out of them.
But times have changed in the world, and there's nothing funny now
in emergency service demonstrations that go haywire. It doesn't take
much imagination to visualize a time when trained emergency service
workers could be of untold importance to our homes. So the demon-
strations that will be staged this Scout Week and in the months to
come will have a great deal of meaning.
Scouting, with its skills, and all that it stands for, has never been
more important to America than it is today.
Editor
SCOUTING is published monthly except August and bi-monthly June-July, and copyrighted 1951,
by the Boy Scouts of America, 2 Park Ave., New York 16, N. Y. Reentered as Second Class Matter,
June 13, 1946, at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879.
SCOUTING is edited in the Division of Program; E. Urner Goodman, Director
Editor, Lex R. Lucas Associate Editor, Cub Scouting, Gerald Speedy
Asst. Managing Editor, Tom MacPherson Associate Editor, Boy Scouting, Ted Pettit
Art Director, Don Ross Associate Editor, Exploring, Ted Holstein
Production Director, Geo. W. Goddard, Jr. Circulation Service, Joe Williams
NATIONAL OFFICERS — BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Honorary President, HARRY S. TRUMAN. Honorary Vice-Presidents, HERBERT HOOVER, WALTER W.
HEAD. President, AMORY HOUGHTON. Vice-Presidents, FRANK G. HOOVER, FRANCIS W. HATCH,
JOHN M. SCHIFF, KENNETH K. BECHTEL, CHERRY L. EMERSON. Treasurer, HARRY M. ADDIN-
SELL. International Scout Commissioner, THOMAS J. WATSON. National Scout Commissioner,
GEORGE J. FISHER. Chief Scout, ELBERT K. FRETWELL. Chief Scout Executive, ARTHUR A. SCHUCK.
Deputy Chief Scout Executive, PLINY H. POWERS.
EDITORIAL BOARD
WHEELER McMILLEN, Chmn., ALBERT E. LOWNES,, E. W. PALMER, HARRISON M. SAYRE,
EZRA TAFT BENSON, DR. J. M. T. FINNEY, JR., FRANK C. RAND, JR., KEN McCORMICK.
FEBRUARY, 1951, VOL. 39, No. 2
CONTENTS
FOR ALL SCOUT LEADERS
We Accept the Challenge 2
Homestead, U.S.A. 4
Crowned, Front Line Stuff 6
15,000,000 lb. Good Turn 7
Valley Forge Echoes 7
Put the "WHAT, WHO and
WHEN" in Your Crusade
Plans 8
Just A Minute 41
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FOR CUB SCOUT LEADERS
1951 Cub Scouting Program
Features 9
Cub Scouting Around the
World 10
Den Stuff for March 12
Pack Meeting 13
Getting Acquainted With the
World 14
Games From Other Lands 15
Where We Find Cub
Scouting 16
New Cub Leaders Basic
Training 17
Your Den Chief 18
FOR BOY SCOUT LEADERS
Let's Go, Pop 19
Planning for March 20
The Standard Patrol Award 21
Try This to Strengthen
Liberty 22
Purpose Camping 24
Project Bird House 26
Conservation Award 27
Game File 38
FOR EXPLORER LEADERS
Explorer March Planning 28
Emergency Service 30 ,
Philmont Scout Ranch 32
At the End of Your Rope? 35
Blue Ribbon Events 36
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