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Show Boy Scouts Aid Nation in Wartime History repeats itself! The Boy SoCuts of America is living again the stirring days of 1917 and 1918. The present conflict con-flict recalls the service rendered the Nation when Scouting was only on-ly seven years old. Now, on its thirty-second anniversary, anni-versary, the Boy Scouts of America Amer-ica again serves America at war. These services range from poster distribution to blackout first aid. Early in 1941, before the United States became involved in acutal war the Boy Scouts of America was asked to take the responsibility responsibili-ty for the distribution of posters advertising the sale of United States Defense Bonds and Stamps. Bov Scouts put up 1.700,000. Almost immediately the Office of Civflian Defense requested the aid of the Boy Scouts of America in helping to collect scrap aluminum for airplane construction. Boy Scouts all over the United States collected 10 million pounds of aluminum eighty per cent of aU collected. Then came the appeal to collect waste paper. Thousands of tons of waste paper have been gathered already by them and their quest for it continues. As in the last World War the Boy Scouts are doing those things of whi:h they are capable to help the home front in its fight for the democratic way of life. Scout-j Scout-j ing prepares boys for many "goorl ! turns" and America h.-.s learned i through war 2nd peace a Boy Sroat is dependable. |