Scouting, Volume 43, Number 8, October 1955 Page: 1
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SCOUTMG
October, J 955, Vol. 43, iVo. 8
CONTENTS
Personally Speaking 1
We Move Toward a Goal 2-3
Partners with Youth 4-5
Worth Retelling 6-7
Scouting Goes to Boomtown 35-?)
Follow That Boy 10
Emergency! 11
Building a Bridge Across the World 12-13
Scout Shorts 14-15
A Den Mother Looks at Cub Scouting 16-17
Front Line Stuff 18
Scoop! 19
THIS MONTH'S COVER
In this colorful reproduction of
the painting for the official
poster of the new Four-Year
Program, these boys seem to re-
flect the real spirit of "Onward
for God and My Country."
SCOUTMG
SCOUTING is published monthly and bimonthly May-June and July-
August. Copyrighted 1955, by the Boy Scouts of America, New Bruns-
wick, N. J. Reentered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at
New Brm.jwick, N. J., under the act of March 3, 1879. SCOUTING
is sent to Scouters as a part of their registration. Subscription to all
others $1.00 a year. Edited in the Division of Program; C. M. Heistand,
Director.
Editor, Lex R. Lucas
Managing Editor, Forest Witcraft
Asst. Managing Editor, James Moise
Art Director, Don Ross
Production Director, George Corrado
Assoc. Editors: Ted Holstein, Walter
MacPeek, Sam Traughber
Circulation Service, Joe Williams
NATIONAL OFFICERS-BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
Honorary President, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. Honorary Vice-Presi
dents, HERBERT HOOVER, HARRY S. TRUMAN, AMORY HOUGHTON
President, JOHN M. SCHIFF. Vice-Presidents, FRANCIS W. HATCH
KENNETH K. BECHTEL, CHERRY L. EMERSON, GALE F. JOHNSTON
ELLSWORTH H. AUGUSTUS. Treasurer, HARRY M. ADDINSELL. Inter
national Scout Commissioner, THOMAS J. WATSON. National Scout
Commissioner, GEORGE J. FISHER. Chief Scouf, ELBERT K. FRETWELL.
Chief Scout Executive, ARTHUR A. SCHUCK. Deputy Chief Scout
Executive, PLINY H. POWERS.
EDITORIAL BOARD
WHEELER McMILLEN, Chairman, EZRA TAFT BENSON, O. A. HANKE,
FRANCIS W. HATCH, JOHN A. JONES, ALBERT E. LOWNES, CHARLES
McCABE, KEN McCORMICK, WADE H. NICHOLS, FRANK C. RAND, JR.,
HARRISON M. SAYRE.
Personalty Spoukitty
Four Scouts at a Wreck
In a letter recently received from a man in the
army, there is a story worth passing on.
"At 2055 hours (8:55 p.m., to us) one day last
month, a plane crashed near our base. Four men
ran from here and got there just after the jet fuel
exploded.
"What a mess! Shock cases all over and several
persons badly burned. One of the men went to
nearby houses for clothing to rip up into band-
ages and for baking soda and water, all to cover
burns. The fellows worked for four hour^, along
with several military police, easing the injured.
"In the midst of it all, one fellow exclaimed,
'Gosh, my Scout training comes in handy!' An-
other said, 'You were a Scout? So was I.' And
then the other two joined in with the same fact.
"After the emergency was over, those four
young fellows got together and exchanged troop
numbers, home towns, etc., as Scouts always do.
"When they were commended locally for what
they had done, they played it down, saying, 'Any-
one would have done the same thing—it was only
that we had the training. We just want to say
thanks to Scouting for having given us the best
training that we know of, training that helps you
Be Prepared for anything.' "
The young man who wrote this letter said that
ever since he was a child he could remember his
grandfather and his father putting on their Scout
uniforms and going to meetings and on hikes.
This led him to join up too, and now he has ten
years of Scout service, his father thirty years, and
his grandfather has passed the forty-year mark.
"After the air crash experience," he writes,
"you can bet your life that when I'm released
from the army, I shall return to Scouting to try
to return the training I received."
An attitude not hard to understand when a
young man has seen how Scouting pays dividends
and when he has had such a good example of de-
votion to Scouting.
It's a good bet that the sons of a lot of you are
very much impressed by the work you're doing in
Scouting—and especially by the fine spirit that
motivates that work—and that the example you're
setting will have much to do with their own atti-
tude toward service in years to come.
Another good dividend from your unselfish
leadership.
Editor
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