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Show A Worthy Good Turn The Boy Scouts of America observes its 48th anniversary anniver-sary during Boy Scout Week, Feb. 7 to 13, by launching a yearlong nationwide Good Turn. The Safety Good Turn, undertaken at the suggestion of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eis-enhower, will find 4,700,000 boys and leaders engaged in promoting traffic safety, outdoor safety, and home safety. We are accustomed to great achievements from our Boy Scouts. Their outstanding work in the 1952 and 1956 Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns, their Conservation Good Turn in 1954, their collection of nearly two million items of clothing, foodstuffs, and supplies for the needy in 1934, and other activities in behalf of their fellow Americans have given us approximately twenty million past and present pres-ent Boy Scouts who have learned the real meaning of service. ser-vice. Calling the Safety Good Turn "an opportunity for service ser-vice to your country in the highest tradition of the Boy Scouts of America," President Eisenhower said, "We must seek new ways to save the basic resources of our Nation: its people." He told the Boy Scouts that he was encouraged by the splendid results of their Conservation Good Turn. "I now urge you," he wrote, "to adopt Safety as your service project for 1958. Through the concerted action of your members, and in cooperation with other organizations, you can alert the public to the urgent need for reducing the tragic toll of accidents." We congratulate the Boy Scouts on past achievements and wish them well as they undertake this great public service to community, state, and nation. |