QST, №2, January, 1916, p. 5
Last month we detailed at length the efforts made by the Directors to place the League at the disposal of the Federal authorities for national defense purposes. This seems to have stirred the blood of many of our good American members, for we now have the formation of a Volunteer Radio Corps being actively agitated.
The idea seems to be to have the owners of the best Relay Stations offer their stations to the Government in time of need, and bind themselves to comply with certain regulations regarding secrecy, permanence, drills and regular listening hours, and log records, just as owners of automobiles and trucks in England and France join in a Corps and offer their cars and services to the Government on demand. In Europe these Volunteer Motor Corps and other similar organizations have done incalculable good, and there is no reason why in our great country with its enormous area and its extended sea front, a large number of privately owned radio stations would not be of equal value. What is said upon this subject on another page should be carefully considered by those of us who look upon our country as something to serve to the best of our individual abilities, whether there is anything in it or not, in the way of personal gain.