Milford chronicle., 1915-04-30

To-day we take up tine international
Morse Code, or as it is known in the
United States Signal Corps, the General
Service Code. lyTSis prescribed for all
visual signalling, Autobiography, and
on cables using siphon recorders. 1t has
been officially adopted by the Boy Scouts
of America in place of the Myer Code,
which is now discarded. Every Scout
SHOULD know this code, the different ways
of using it being many. It can be trans
mitted by sight or by sound 1t is writ
ten as follows
A.; B, &c, -; D, =; E, :;
#, -; G, -; H, 49,; I, e; ],
.---; K, -; L, -; M, -;
N, =; o, ---; P, -; o.;
R, -; S, -; T, =; U, -; V, 49,;
w, -; X, -; Y, Y,-.--;Z,-
Numberal-1, .---; 2, ..---;3,
-; 4. -; S, .... 6, -; 7,
--."; s, ---..; 9, ----.; 0,
Punctuation = Period, ......; comma,
.-.-.-; interrogation, -; hyphen |
or dash, -; parentheses before !
and after the words), .--.-; quota |
tion marks, beginning and ending), |
-; exclamation, -.-..--; apos-
rophe, .---.; semicolon, -.-.-.;
colon, ----...; bar indicating fraction,
-; underline (before and after word
or words it is wished to underline)
..--.<; double dash (between pream-
bic and address, between address and
body of message, between body of mes
sage and signature, and Immediately be-
fore fraction), -; cross, -.
Learn the alphabet and the numerals,
but as beginning the average Scout can
get along with the Period, comma and
iouble dash of the punctuation marks.
The double dash is especially important
In studying the alphabet, an easy way to
-emember it is to make up a series of
words to represent each letter, each word
n the series beginning with the letter
represented. Words of one syllable rep
esent a dot and words of two or more
yllables represent a dash. The follow
ng has been found useful, although it
will be still better if each Scout makes
p his own.
Am acorn; BUSY bees buzz buzz
-Camels cough curiously coarse; d.
)atty down dill; e-E; flee fl fumety
UNI; g-Giddy galloping goats; HE
I no hum; ii; Jump jested jocular
immy; k-Kandy kid Kroner; l-Look
mber lu lus; nl-Measley Michael n
'imble mig; o-Opaque oily oceans; p Z
'ipe peppery piper pipe; q-Quiet Quak
rs queer quirkings; RED roosters run;
See saw so; t-Teeter; u-Utes. use
tilities; VAIN votes vex victors; W
Vee Willie Wiggans; x-Xenaphon; Xxx
-Xenaphon; y-Yorick yet youthfully
odels; z-Zoroaster zestfully zu zus.
The numerals can readily be learned
5 they follow a regular system. Each
umeral has five elements in it. One is
ne dot and four dashes, two is two dots I
nd three dashes, and so on till FIVE, !
hich has five dots. Six has one dash
nd four dots, seven has two dashes and :
iree dots and so on till nought, which
as FIVE dashes.
There are several methods ofusing the
ontinental Morse Code for signaling.
Ie will take up the first, the wigwag
ethod, with the flag. There is one po-
ton and there are three motions. The
Osition is with the flag or other appli-
ace held vertically, the signalman fac
g directly toward the station with which
is desired to communicate. The first
otion, the dot. is to the right of the
'nder, embracing an arc of go degrees,
arting with the vertical and returning
it, and will be made in a plane at right
lgle to the line connecting the two sta
ons. The second motion, the dash, is
milar motion to the left of the sender.
he third motion, front, is downward di-
city in front of the sender and instantly
turned upward to the first position.
MS is used to indicate a pause or con-
usion. The beam of searchlight may