Chapter 18).

In Senior Scouting there is Adventure in Citizenship! A spotlight activity may be:

_Home Management!_

Encourage Senior Scouts to take over the management responsibilities of their families for one week, with the cooperation of their parents. Each will plan menus, purchase food (no, he won’t have to cook it), make payments of bills, plan family entertainment, include cost, and finally report to the family showing a saving if possible on a satisfactory program.

Preliminary conferences with mother and dad will be necessary to learn certain routine and long-term obligations as well as to establish a family budget if one is not already in operation.

_Senior_ _Briefings_

● _It’s On Ice_

If your Unit is in the two-thirds of the States in the snow belt, it can do something spectacular when called on this winter for an act in a Council circus, high school assembly, or Scout Week demonstration. That is an ice rescue staged in realistic fashion.

A skater gliding around a pond suddenly breaks through. As he thrashes around in the water, another skater comes along, tries a rescue by incorrect methods, gets too close, and also breaks through. Then two Senior Scouts—instead of the Lone Ranger—come along and rescue the skater-swimmers.

The action takes from five to ten minutes, depending on how much of a script is written for it. A commentator verbally sets the scene and explains the wrong and right rescue techniques as they are used. If a public address system is not available, a megaphone or a strong voice should be sufficient.

The spectacular part is the staging. It is best in an arena where the spectators look down on it, although a stage will do, the lower the better. A platform is set up and covered with newsprint. The platform can be put together from fifteen long tables such as found in many church dining rooms. Set them together, three long and five wide, with an opening in the center of the resulting oblong. In this opening set a tank of water. It may be hard to get and handle, but it is the crowning touch when the audience sees the victims splashing about in real water.

Cover the whole platform, including the hole, with three or four thicknesses of blank newsprint. Ask the press foreman at a newspaper plant for the paper left on the spindles at the end of the roll.

The four actors, wearing ice skates, can give a good imitation of skating on ice after a little practice. Rehearse the act—dry runs without the water and paper—until it clicks. The actors and commentator will have to coordinate themselves. The men at the mike may have to work up a few ad libs where action might slow down in a performance. Then have a dress rehearsal.

Ice rescue techniques may be found in the _Safety_ Merit Badge pamphlet and the _Scout Field Book_.

_Game Equipment_

Game, equipment in your headquarters comes in handy during parties, and also is a pre-meeting attraction. The one danger is that sometimes the games are so popular they stretch the pre-meeting period over the major part of the evening. However, that can be avoided by a gentlemen’s agreement to close the games at a definite time on meeting nights.

Game equipment can be bought, of course, but it can be made inexpensively.

Darts is a game the GI’s found popular in war-time England. Make the target of corrugated cardboard cut from a large carton. Mark colored concentric circles on it with crayons. Make each dart of a match stick (kitchen size). On one end lash a needle with thread. On the other glue four small paper fins. Hang the target on the wall and let fly with the darts, making sure the firing range is not a thoroughfare.

_Table tennis_ requires a smooth 5´ × 9´ playing surface. If you don’t have a suitable table, get a piece of half-inch plywood. Sometimes you can make a better deal by taking two large scraps of standard pieces, sawing them to 5´ × 4½´ and then hinging or cleating them together on the bottom. If you don’t want to bother putting legs on this playing surface, lay it on a large table or two small ones, just so it is at least 30 inches off the floor.

Make paddles of quarter or eighth-inch wood, whittled or cut with a coping saw to shape and then sandpapered. They may be any size, but generally are 6″ × 12″ over-all.

The net must be 6″ above the table. Make it of cheese cloth or muslin, hemmed and reinforced with strong cord threaded through the hems. Hang it from dowels set in cleats that extend beyond the table edge at the center line.

Buy a supply of balls at the dime or sports store, or mail order house, and soon you’ll be searching for them under the furniture.

_Other games_ for which you can make most of your own equipment are shuffleboard and paddle tennis, providing you have floor space of 52´ × 6´ for the first, and 20´ × 44´ for the second. Buy or borrow a rule book, find dimensions of equipment, and turn it out in your workshop.

Emergency Service for Seniors

● Before the swirling flood waters had stopped pouring into Vanport, Oregon, last May, Sea Scouts were driving rescue boats through the break in the levee. They had been alerted two days earlier, and were ready when called.

Will your Senior Unit be ready when needed for disaster duty?

You cannot answer that question easily, because flood, fire, explosion, tornado, and earthquake strike so suddenly that there rarely is time for alerting. You may even think you will never have to face an emergency. But remember, few of the people at any scene of disaster _expected_ it to happen to themselves!

One thing is certain: if an emergency does occur in your community, Senior Scouts who have had emergency service training will be very greatly appreciated men to have on hand.

Every registered Senior Scout Unit is a potential Emergency Service Corps. As a Senior Scout registers in his Unit and becomes an Apprentice Senior Scout, he can at the same time become an Emergency Service Apprentice.

The Emergency Service Corps consists of Senior Scouts in their existing Units, under their own leadership, or Crews of Emergency Service Corps members in registered Boy Scout Troops, under their own Unit leadership. The term “Crew” replaces “Patrol” in Troops, thus indicating that it is a young man’s group.

There are three good reasons for promoting Emergency Service Training in Senior Units:

1. Senior Scouts are often the first to be called for service when disaster strikes. With this in mind, Emergency Service Training stimulates interest in the service principle of Scouting, as out-lined in the Oath, Law, and Motto.

2. As one of the important parts in the vigorous physical activity program requiring knowledge and skill, Emergency Service Training can be one of the important activities planned and promoted by the outdoor committee.

3. It develops knowledge and skills which contribute to the worthwhile training of the Scout, and insures his effectiveness in time of Emergency.

=THE NEW PLAN=

One of the most important changes in the Emergency Service Training Plan is that the emphasis is now on training being carried out within the Unit, under Unit leadership. It is recommended that the Local Council have a member of the District Commissioner’s Staff specialize as a coordinator of all Emergency Service Corps Units within his District. His responsibility would be to coordinate and supervise the activity of Emergency Service Corps within his area, organized in Senior Scout Units and Emergency Service Crews (within Scout Troops). He would stimulate Emergency Service Training within the Unit, providing lists of qualified instructors in the various skills required for Corps membership. He would recommend joint planning of inter-Unit and District activities for the purpose of Emergency Service Training, practice, and demonstration when and as desirable.

If an area larger than a geographical District is stricken, a Scout Executive, a Field Executive, or a Special Field Commissioner, should serve as Special Director and coordinator of the various Emergency Service Corps involved.

=START NOW!=

Now is the time to start pointing out the various phases of Emergency Service Training to program planning committees, and indicating how it affects them. Get them to suggest plans for organizing a Corps within their Unit.

The Senior Scout is immediately qualified as an Apprentice Emergency Service Corps member if the information obtained in any recent medical examination is sufficient to cover the items listed on the application for membership (Form C-1278, Cat. No. 4425), by adding the health history, and filing the application with parents’ approval.

The next step is to develop activity programs which will enable him to qualify for full membership. The requirements for the Emergency Service Corps are as follows:

Be a Registered Air Scout Observer, Explorer Woodsman, Ordinary Sea Scout, or First Class Scout of 15 or over, in excellent physical condition as shown by medical examination. He must run one mile in 7½ minutes, and climb an 18-foot rope, hand over hand in 25 seconds or less. He must whip the ends of a rope of at least ½-inch in diameter, and tie a square knot, sheet bend, bowline, bowline-on-a-bight, two half hitches, clove hitch, clove hitch secured with half hitch, taut line hitch, and Timber hitch.

Finally, he must have the written permission of his parents or guardian, the approval of his Unit leader, and must have earned the following Merit Badges: First Aid, Firemanship, Life Saving, Path-finding, Personal Health, Public Health, Rowing (where necessary), and Safety.

SCOUTMASTER’S MINUTE

⚜ Sometimes knowing the right thing to do in an emergency is just as important as having the courage to do it. That’s one reason why in Scouting, First Aid is an essential part of the Scout requirements. For instance, if Second Class Scout Gerald Maley of Cleveland, Ohio, had not practiced his First Aid, his friend would not be alive today. Last November, Scout Maley with his friend Norman were crossing a railroad bridge when the wind blew Maley’s hat off. It landed somewhere in the railroad yard under the bridge and the two boys climbed down to the yard to recover it. They hunted, but could not find it. Suddenly, Norman had an idea. “I’ll bet it’s on top of that box car over there.”

Up he climbed to look for it. Half way up he slipped, tried to save himself and grabbed a live wire which was hanging low.

The shock knocked him to the ground and the Scout ran to help him. Norman lay without moving and the Scout thought at first he was dead. But he had been practicing his First Aid in his Patrol. He immediately started artificial respiration in earnest just as he had practiced it in meeting the week before.

Soon Norman was breathing again, but screamed in agony as he came back to consciousness. He was terribly burned about the hands and arms. Again the Scout went into action. “Hang on, I’ll get you up to the road, we’ll find somebody who can get you to a doctor.”

“Transporting Injured,” he said to himself, “no chance for a four man carry now, I’ll have to use the good old ‘pack-strap’.”

He got Norman’s arms over his shoulders from his back and somehow managed to get up the bank to the bridge. Here he had to rest, but fortunately a car passed soon. Scout Maley hailed it and Norman was on his way to the hospital for treatment. After a few days he recovered.

The really remarkable part of this story is that Scout Maley was a smaller boy than his friend, and has a crippled leg, so that he is obliged to walk with a decided limp.

Some of you fellows with two eyes and strong arms and whole limbs might think over what this Boy Scout accomplished, as a result of his Scout training, to save his friend.

In recognition of Scout Gerald Maley’s skill, the National Board of Honor awarded him the prized medal of Merit, which is given in recognition of an outstanding act of service, putting into practice Scout skills and ideals.

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_Just a minute_

“I HAVE a problem, and I’m _glad_!” said someone. We looked up to see—you guessed it, our old friend Scoutmaster BLIMP. His Troop is just as lively as ever, maybe more so. It’s a good Troop.

“Who in the world,” we asked, “ever heard of anyone being glad he had a problem?”

“Oh, but you don’t understand,” BLIMP went on, “my problem is the kind you can be glad about. Want to hear the details?”

“Is it optional?” we asked, knowing better.

“No,” replied BLIMP. “It’s very simple. Before I got wise to myself, I used to worry a lot about what in the world to DO at Troop meetings. Since I have started using the _Program Notebook_ and all the swell ideas in SCOUTING (see contents, Page 1) and since my Scouts have been reading BOYS’ LIFE, we have a new and interesting problem ... with all this material we worry about _what to leave out_!”

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Troops which discovered this new problem have just about finished a whirlwind month of compass work and orienteering, with a world of usable games and teaching methods in SCOUTING and almost an entire issue of BOYS’ LIFE showing the Scouts the “how” of it.

There’s no excuse for running out of ideas!

The same is true of January. The December issue of BOYS’ LIFE (which will soon be on its way to your boys) is crammed full of ideas on “Handicraft,” the very popular theme for January.

Your Scouts will feast their eyes on a swell photo-feature called “Bead Work,” a Ben Hunt special which will bring out the Indian in a lot of our boys, and that’s good! This ONE feature _will be reprinted_, if you need a few just drop us a card.

Other handicrafts include “Tie Pins” by Glenn Wagner (no, _not_ Pie Tins!) and a bunch of back-of-the-book nifties you’ll want to try. Of course, Green Bar Bill scores his usual bull’s-eye with a page of terrific ideas for P.L.s, and all the usual features, articles, and shorts.

We toss-up an action packed basketball serial, “Backboard Magic” by Howard M. Brier, as well as “Rambling Christmas Tree” and “Voice of the Ugly Truck” by Ward and Conley respectively. There is a thrilling mountain climb described in “Ladders to the Clouds,” by Joseph Stocker, “Geared for Winter Woods,” by John J. Rowlands, and page after page of other thrilling Scout material.

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“May I put on my false whiskers and make a good suggestion,” asked BLIMP who has been peering over our shoulder.

“I know ... I know ...” we interrupted. “Remind all Scouters that there is NO better Christmas present for any boy, or any Troop ... than BOYS’ LIFE.”

“Exactly!” he replied, as he banged the door and went cheerily down the hall whistling “Jingle Bells!”

_M. H. M^cMasters_ _For Boys’ Life_

CUB LEADERS’ ROUND TABLE INDEX January to June 1948

=(See Scouting Index for September to December)=

=GAMES, HOBBIES, TRICKS, STUNTS AND SONGS= MONTH PAGE

Four Tricks Jan. 3

Games for February Jan. 8

Feats of Skill Feb. 2

Games for Handymen Feb. 7

Some Tricks for Feb. 8 March

Games Mar. 6

Indian Games Apr. 7

Outdoor Games May 5

Summer Games June 2

Nature Fun June 3

=HANDICRAFT= Cub Scout Handymen Feb. 4 Make a Yarn Ball Mar. 7 Indians Apr. 4 Shelters and Shanks May 2

=INSPIRATIONAL=

Time’s A Wastin’ Jan. 1

Happy Birthday To Us Feb. 1

Can ’Em; Grow ’Em, Mar. 1 Save ’Em

One Equals Three Mar. 8

My Boys Apr. 1

Jimmy’s World May 1

=PACK & DEN ACTIVITIES=

Jimmy and Snooker Apr. 2

Indian Council Fire Apr. 8 Meeting

Cub Scouts At Work May 7

=PACK AND DEN ADMINISTRATION=

Helping Your Jan. 6 Children Make Friends

Officers Meeting Feb. 6

Your May Parents’ May 4 Meeting

New Ceremonies Book June 8

=PROGRAM PLANNING=

New Achievement Jan. 2 Program

Program Outlines Jan. 3

Blue and Gold Month Jan. 4

Theme for February Feb. 4 Cub Scout Handyman

Theme for March Mar. 4 Legends and Traditions

Theme for April Apr. 4 Indians

Theme for May May 2 Shelters and Shacks

Theme for June June 4 Cub Scout Chefs

Theme for July Mar. 2; Achievement Helps Apr. 3

Pack Leaders Meeting Apr. 6

New Cub Scout Books May 6

INDEX FOR 1948 SCOUTING

_AWARDS, BADGES, REQUIREMENTS, UNIFORMS & CEREMONIES_

MONTH PAGE

Revised and New Jan. 16 Requirements and Insignia

Basic Scout Feb. 8 Requirements

Investiture for Feb. 32 Patrol Leaders

The Keys of Scouting Mar. 5

The Arrow Works Apr. 8 (Order of the Arrow)

Realigned Apr. 9 Requirements

The Way you Act; The Sept. 7 Way you Look

Awards for Sept. 39 Inter-Troop Contest

_CONSERVATION_

MONTH PAGE

Scout Citizens at Apr. 11 Work—Conservation

Conservation Apr. 31 Education

_CUB SCOUTING_

(See also CUB LEADERS’ ROUND TABLE Index for January through June on page 38.)

=_Games, Hobbies, Tricks, Stunts and Songs_=

Who’s Scared? Oct. 9

Dr. Quiz Oct. 13

Playway to Oct. 14 Advancement

Cub Scout Games Nov. 15

Den Doings Dec. 19

Cub Scout Treasure Dec. 20 Chest

=_Handicraft_= Good Will Nov. 10-11 Toy Repair Nov. 13

=_Pack and Den Activities_=

It’s As Simple As Apr. 18 ABC

Pre View of Coming Sept. 13 Events

Pack Meeting Sept. 21; Oct. 12; Nov. 12

Good Will Nov. 10

Musical Instruments Dec. 17

=_Pack, Den Administration_=

Lean Brother, Lean Jan. 14

Jimmy and Tommy Feb. 12

How to Make Friends Mar. 4 and Influence Kids

Only a Mother Can May 2 Love Him

Your Annual Planning Sept. 14 Activities

I said No! Sept. 15

Cliff Dwellers Nov. 8

Don’t Forget The Dec. 11 Denner

=_Program Planning_=

February In The Cub Jan. 14 Pack

March In The Cub Feb. 13 Pack

April In The Cub Mar. 13 Pack

May In The Cub Pack Apr. 19

June In The Cub Pack May 13

Summer In The Cub June-July Pack 12

Parents Meet Sept. 9

Your Annual Planning Sept. 14 Conference

Round-Up Time Sept. 16

Theme for September Sept. 20 Trading Spree

Theme for October Oct. 8 Making the New Elective Program Work

Parade of Oct. 10 Achievements and Electives

Theme for November Oct. 14 The Playway to Advancement

October Pack Leaders Oct. 15 Meeting

Goodwill Nov. 10

Theme for December Nov. 12 Christmas Pack Meeting

Blue and Gold Week Dec. 12

Music and Minstrels Dec. 14

Gentlemen, Be Seated Dec. 16

=_INSPIRATIONAL_=

Scoutmaster’s Minute Jan. 24; Feb. 30; Apr. 29; June-July 30; Sept. 40; Dec. 36

Can Scouting Meet Feb. 2 Boys’ Needs In 1948?

You and the Scout Feb. 7 Citizen

Letters to the Feb. 31 Editor

Under Polaris Mar. 2

Profitable Mar. 3 Experiences

If I Were a Mar. 7 Neighborhood Commissioner

The 5:19 Mar. 12

Props for Freedom Apr. 2

Only a Mother Can May 2 Love Him

Parents are People, May 5 Too

September Feet Sept. 4

Fable of Patrol That Sept. 23 Didn’t Work

Are We Pied Pipers? Oct. 2

On Going Modern Oct. 16

Adventure—That’s Nov. 6 Scouting

Our Den Mother Is Nov. 7 O.K.

Good Turns Begin at Nov. 20 Home

The Whole Scout Sept. 8 Family

The Brave Shake with Nov. 3 the Left Hand

Christmas Spirit Dec. 3

I Was A Den Dad Dec. 18

Give Dads A Chance Dec. 22

=_NATIONAL SCOUT ACTIVITIES_=

38th Annual Meeting June-July 3

Year of Achievement June-July (1947 Highlights) 8

Round-Up Sept. 2; Nov. 5; Dec. 10

=_Boy Scout Week_= Report to the Nation Jan. 4

=_NEWS_=

Photographic Contest Feb. 28

38th National Feb. 28 Council Meeting

Northernmost Troop Feb. 28

Fifteenth Lincoln Feb. 28 Pilgrimage

Audubon Nature Camp Mar. 20

1948 Camping Schools Mar. 20

Membership Figures Mar. 20; June-July 27

Your Report Went to Apr. 4 Washington

Silver Bay—Our First Apr. 7 Training Camp

Aquatic Schools Apr. 20

One Magazine for May 4 Whole Scout Family

Help Needed—Balala May 20 PTA Assn.

National Field May 20 Archery Tournament

Father’s Day May 21

Philmont Calling June-July 16

Visitors to June-July Washington 17

Our New Chiefs Sept. 3

American Cub Scout Dec. 13 Den In Peru

=_ORGANIZATION & RELATIONSHIPS_=

Double Track Jan. 2

Why a Public Jan. 8 Relations Program

Be Prepared for a Jan. 8 Good Turn

You Can Train Jan. 10 Yourself

Can Scouting Meet Feb. 2 Boys’ Needs in 1948?

The Whole Scout Sept. 8 Family

Organizations Sept. 12

Reaching Out Dec. 4

=_PERSONNEL_=

John Foster Dulles Apr. 2

George C. Marshall Apr. 6

Bishop Francis C. Apr. 20 Kelley

Frederick R. Burnham Apr. 29

Dwight D. Eisenhower May 20

E. C. Nims May 20

James E. West June-July 2

Elbert K. Fretwell Sept. 3

Arthur A. Schuck Sept. 3; Oct. 6

Lord Rowallan Nov. 1

=_READING_=

Book Jan. 23; Feb. 26; Reviews Mar. 11; Apr. 17; May 4; June-July 8; 27; Sept. 25; Oct. 28

=_SENIOR SCOUTING_=

You Can Train Jan. 10 Yourself

Paul Bunyan—Senior Mar. 8 Scout Encampment

Senior Scout Bites Apr. 14 Dog

High Adventure for May 8 Seniors

Advisor’s Part Sept. 33

Round-Up in Senior Sept. 36 Scouting

Briefings Oct. 28

Christmas for Needy Nov. 26 Kids

Spotlight Scout Week Dec. 31

Emergency Service Dec. 34 For Seniors

_Senior Jan. 12; Feb. 16; Scouting Mar. 10; Apr. 16; Program May 10; June-July Helps_ 14; Sept. 33; Oct. 28; Nov. 28; Dec. 33

=_Explorer Scouting_=

Gittin Thar Fustest Oct. 26

Vocational Oct. 29 Exploration

=_Air Scouting_=

Road Signs of the Jan. 5 Air

Air Marking Project Apr. 20

=_Sea Scouting_=

Sailing the Bounding Feb. 14 Main

Navigation Charts Oct. 29

=_TROOP PROGRAM AND ACTIVITIES_=

January, An Jan. 6 In-Between Month

Make It Fun Jan. 18

Activities Unlimited Feb. 10

Where to Go—Service Feb. 16 Project

Woodslore Apr. 22

Things to Do In Apr. 26 Nature

Philmont Calling June-July 16

Adventure at Home June-July 20

Push Planning Sept. 24

Troop Roundup Sept. 26

Using Patrols Oct. 18

Program Payoff Nov. 18

Scout Week Adventure Dec. 24

=_Camping & Hiking_=

Going It Light Mar. 15

Camp Cookery Mar. 17

Hike Meals Mar. 24

Supper’s Over—What Apr. 12 Next

Sixty Days to Camp May 6

Home In The Woods May 16

Pull Up A Log June-July 10

Summer Camp, Troop 5 June-July Tradition 28

Three Adventures Sept. 10

Hikin’ Sept. 30

Winter Camping Nov. 16

Doin’ It Right In Dec. 26 Winter

=_Emergency Service_=

Score 8—Death 0 June-July 6

Scouting Was There Oct. 4

Get ’Em Ready Nov. 22

=_Games and Contests_=

Your Scoutcraft Game Jan. 21; File Feb. 27; Mar. 21; Apr. 27; May 22; June-July 25; Sept. 28; Oct. 25; Nov. 25; Dec. 30

=_Handicraft, Camp Equipment_=

From Gopher Hole to Feb. 19 Usable Tent

Desert Camping Feb. 20

Campcraft Feb. 22 Skills—Indoors and Out

Bind Your SCOUTING Feb. 24

Tip Your Pup Tent June-July 26

Troop Neckerchief Nov. 24 Slides

Scouting On Main Dec. 8 Street

The Early Scout Gets Dec. 28 the Bird

=_Program Planning_=

Planning February, March, for: April, May, June, Summer, September, October, November, December and January Jan. 17; Feb. 18; Mar. 14; Apr. 21; May 15; June-July 19; Sept. 29; Oct. 19; Nov. 21; Dec. 23

Scout Jan. 9; Food Citizens Production, Feb. At Work: 9; Clean-up, Mar. World 6; Conservation, Friendship, Apr. 11; Health, May 14; Water Safety, June-July 18; Organizations, Sept. 12

_Scouting Skills, Miscellaneous_

There is Something Oct. 22; New

What a Compass Isn’t Oct. 24

Swap Corner Oct. 31

Scout Shorts Nov. 24; Dec. 21

=_WORLD FRIENDSHIP_=

Scout Citizens at Jan. 9; Work—World Friendship

Food Production, Feb. 9

Thanks American Feb. 28 Friends

Under Polaris Mar. 2

World Friendship Mar. 10 Ball

Another Way to Help Apr. 20

World Friendship June-July News 13

World Helps Nov. 14

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APPLY MERCUROCHROME

MOVE THE HOOK AROUND TO MAKE BARBED POINT COME THROUGH

WITH A FISHERMAN’S PLIERS CUT OFF THE POINT. CURVE THE HOOK BACK GENTLY AND FREE IT.

APPLY MERCUROCHROME TO WOUND AREA. FASTEN DRESSING AND BANDAGE.

SOME KNOW HOW, WHEN AND WHERE TO CAST

SOME DON’T!

BUT EVERYBODY SHOULD KNOW HOW TO PREVENT INFECTION

OH, HE’S OK. I’VE DRESSED HIS ARM. HERE’S YOUR HOOK. I’VE STUCK IT IN A BIT OF CORK. BY THE WAY I’M GOING FISHING WHERE THERE’S LOTS OF ROOM

Prevent INFECTION WITH MERCUROCHROME

It is dangerous to neglect wounds, however small; even scratches and small cuts may cause serious infections if they are not properly treated.

Mercurochrome (H.W.&D. brand of merbromin, dibromoxymercurifluorescein-sodium) is one of the best antiseptics for first aid use. It is accepted by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the American Medical Association for this purpose.

The 2% aqueous solution in applicator bottles does not sting and can be applied safely to small wounds. Injuries are reported promptly when Mercurochrome is used, because the treatment does not hurt. Other advantages are that the solution keeps indefinitely and the color shows just where it has been applied.

Doctors have used Mercurochrome in their practice for more than 25 years.

Keep a bottle of Mercurochrome handy for the first aid care of all minor wounds. Do not fail to call a physician in more serious cases.

HYNSON, WESTCOTT & DUNNING, INC. _Baltimore 1, Maryland_

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