Scouting, Volume 30, Number 1, January 1942 Page: 4
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HAWAII—After Japanese air bomb-
ing of Hawaii, these Scouts are busy
cleaning crutches and arm splints at
an Emergency First Aid station.
work to cover collection of scrap
metals, old rubber and any other
waste materials which can be dis-
posed of locally through waste ma-
terial dealers."
Third, we have actual emergency
service work that is rendered un-
der abnormal conditions resulting
from national disaster, or, as has
been the case in Hawaii, from
actual attacks.
Our First Responsibility
A Scouter who was tempted to
overlook our first responsibility
asked me: "How much of our nor-
mal Scout activity is to be carried
on? Are we to eliminate all parts
of our Scout Program which do
not bear directly on winning the
war?"
By all means we must carry on
normal Scout activities, carry on a
program that encourages good fel-
lowship, and stress particularly,
more than ever before, the Scout
training that teaches a boy to care
for himself. In Scouting, in Boys'
Life, and in other publications
such as the Program Notebooks
and the 1942 Diary, emphasis is
placed at this time upon physical
fitness, first aid, personal health,
training in judgment and observa-
tion, skill in mobilization — quali-
fications essential to the develop-
A SCOUTING
ment of the most complete physical
and mental efficiencies.
With uncertain days before us,
one of the best things we can do is
to toughen the fibre of the boys of
America, thus equipping them with
the physical and mental stamina
to meet all sorts of hardship effec-
tively. We can build in them self-
confidence, reliability and a faith
in themselves. At this time of un-
rest, youth particularly needs an
active program like Scouting and
the stabilizing influences of the
Scout Oath and Law and the Ideals
of Scouting.
Second — Service Projects
In the second field of responsi-
bility, that is, help in certain proj-
ects requested by the Government,
there are several specific services
which we have now before us, as
stated above.
Troop Service Areas—In many
kinds of service (such as house-to-
house surveys, distributions and
collections) it is necessary to cover
every square inch of populated ter-
ritory. To this end it is recom-
mended that each Council divide
its territory into what might be
called Troop Service Areas for
each of which a Troop would as-
sume responsibility.
Under this plan, the entire terri-
tory of the Council must be cov-
ered. This may mean that where
there is no Troop in a given com-
munity a Troop from a neighbor-
ing town will include that com-
munity in its service area, or the
Local Council will make some
other provision to see that the
community is covered.
Of course, owing to variation in
the number and spread of Troops
over a Council's territory, it will
not be possible to distribute the
load absolutely evenly. In cases
where a certain territory is far less
adequately covered by Troops than
another, it should be a challenge
to redouble efforts to organize new
Troops in the former. As new
Troops are organized, boundaries
of Troop Service Areas can be
adjusted.
Policy on Service Projects
In the last paragraph of the Reso-
lution of the Executive Board (see
page 5) a policy is stated which
urges local Scout Officials to ex-
ercise the greatest care in assign-
ing Scouts for any other service
than service in connection with the
program of the National Govern-
ment in its undertakings incident
to the war. This policy was adopt-
ed to help local leadership to
eliminate many requests for mis-
cellaneous types of service which,
in view of the extraordinary de-
mands for Scout cooperation in
Government service, local officials
might not feel justified in under-
taking. It is not of course intended
that this policy should prevent
Scout cooperation in the customary
worthwhile community projects.
In the case of individual Troops,
it may be found that they have
been in the habit of carrying on
certain Good Turns or community
service projects as a part of the
Troop program over a period of
years, or that, because of some
particular need of the Parent In-
stitution or for some other reason,
they wish to undertake some spe-
cific project. This of course will
be a matter of individual adjust-
ment with Troop leadership.
CORPS
Left, Emergency Service Corps
Emblem
Right, the new Emergency Service
Apprentice Emblem approved by the
National Executive Board
Our Third Responsibility
This responsibility is for tasks
to be assumed by Scouts under
abnormal conditions resulting from
disasters or enemy attacks. Those
things which Scouts can do under
disaster conditions have become
quite well established through the
years. Their tasks in war condi-
tions have yet to be fully defined
but certain fields of service are
specified in the joint O.C.D.-B.S.A.
statement. Undoubtedly as time
Recruit Full Strength for Service in 1942
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