SECTION X 
SIGNALLING FOR SCOUTS 
A. GENERAL SERVICE CODE 
The General Service Code, given herewith, also 
called the Continental Code and the International Morse 
Code, is used by the Army and Navy, and for cabling 
and wireless telegraphy. It is used for visual signalling 
by hand, flag, Ardois lights, torches, heliograph, lanterns, 
etc., and for sound signalling with buzzer, whistle, etc. 
The American Morse Code is used for commercial pur- 
poses only, and differs from the International Morse in 
a few particulars. A Scout need not concern herself with 
it because it would only be used by the Scout who eventu- 
ally becomes a telegrapher, and for this purpose the 
Western Union Company offers the necessary training. 
Wig Wag Signalling 
GENERAL SERVICE CODE 
The flag used for this signalling is square with a smaller 
square of another color in the center. It may be either 
white with the smaller square red, or red with the smaller 
square white. A good size for Scout use is 24 inches 
square with a center 9 inches square, on a pole 42 inches 
long and one-half inch in diameter. 
There are but three motions with the flag and all 
start from, and are completed by, return to position, which 
means the flag held perpendicularly and at rest directly 
in front of the signaller. 
Signaller should stand erect, well balanced on the 
arches of the feet. The butt of the flag stick is held 
lightly in the right hand; the left hand steadies and 
directs the flag at a distance from six to twelve inches 
above the right on the stick. The length of the stick will 
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