The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11

position clear across the arena two deep. Tn unison they went through the motions of saving wood, chopping
 wood, preparing a fire and flaming 1t, stirring pancake batter, Tapping the flapjacks, picking cherries and peaches
 ending up with an imaginary game of | ''catch'. How'd you like to go for row." shouted their leader so they all l sat down on the tanbark and pretended strenuously to work the oars. Would
 a swim be nice?" again asked the lead er.. "Ab-so-lute-ly!" responded the boys ] in syllable roar. You could hear nervous people gasp as 200 pairs of l hands tugged at pajama strings, and 200 legs stepped out of 'em, and the 1 shirts came off too. They took five
 breast strokes forward, five backward.
 had a nice dive or two, then gathered up their pajamas and beat it'' merrily
 for the woods to dress for breakfast | More charming than any musical comedy chorus" was one English news paper comment.
 MIAMI BOYS DO STUNT On the second afternoon of the Jam boree the Miami. Fla, patrol gave the
 Pine Tree Trek-cart drill of James D. Wilder, chief American sea scout. | While two other American troops went | through games with the duffle bags, | the Florida boys rolled out their cart, unpacked a large tent which was in position about the same time the camp 1 fire was lighted. The cart turned over made table, it's wheels and axles made towel racks, it's sides made two benches Kettles, pots mad pan in enormous quantities came out of the trck-cart and were aptistically distributed around | the fire. In a jiffy the whole patrol 1 was at a salute, the baker tdiglnified
 name for coolx) in the lead, attended py his staff, the chief fireman, chief handy lman, and chief waterman. After this Epatrol drill, one hundred American Scouts took positions. again across the great arena. but close to the audience, and with fire-sticks or flint and steel quickly had one hundred wood fires iblazing. Finally they recited their tpledge of allegiance to the Stars and Stripes-"to one nation indivisiole with liberty and justice for all"-formed in two great circles for shouts; America,
 Boy Scouts, U. s. A.-England! Eng Eland' with the sky rocket echo, Sis
 boom -ah, England. England" They
 marched off after singing the good might prayer:
 Gone the sun
 From the lake,
 From the hills.
 L From the sky.
 All is we'll,
 Safely rest.
 God is nigh.
 INDIAN PAGEANT
 i But the chief American display was Tn
 the Indian pageant, which drew more , applause than any other feature of tha weeks long programme. This pageant.
 designed and led by Ralph Hubbard, Boulder, Colo, son of Ebert Hubbard.
 was a most aristocratic production. The value of the ancient beaded Indian cos
 tunes worn by the boys is placed at
 $15,G00. All the boys were in full feath-
 CTS and paint. MT. Hubbard, as chlef' was principally assisted by Albert Dayis,
 also of Boulder, Colo, as Spotted Eagle, the medicine man, and by J. Solomon of New York City.
 Real towering Indian tepees, the first the Jamboree has seen-three of them went up in the background while ths tribe took it's positions in great circle. Big chief then smoked his pipe of peace Ito the four windss afterwards leading the tribe in the Omaha prayer, and in Shupeda, the Omaha war hymn. Live ! Her tattoos were beaten on queer shaped , Indian tom-toms and the tribe Stealthlly and irregularly began the weird move ments of the Sioux circle dance. Two , enormous buffalo skins and buffalo l skull with horns were placed sacra- , mentally by squaws in front of big 1 chiefs tepee, and then Mr. Hubbard showed what a master he is of Indian art Before the skins and horns, which
 were the altar for the buffalo ghost dance, he chanted the beseechful chants which the tribe took up, and made the
 slow, difficult supplicatory steps and swaying-the Indians pathetic plea to , IL the ghost of the buffalo to become once more incarnate and help sexpel the in- [ trusive white man. Excepting that North American Indians and trapper : scouts are the idols of the world Boy
 Scout movement, the British public is
 far removed from Indian lore, Yet the art and sympathetic appeal of the unin- telligible chants and the unexplained
 dances caught the heart Of the London . audience. There was great applause and , cheering.
 The audience was to have delight 1 ful surprise, for it's cheering had not
 died down before Big Chief, Spottea
 Eagle and six others of the most re- { splendent braves dashed into the arena bon horses. The audience did not Kno" , that the horses were British cavalry
 horses that the eight boys mounted for
 the first time in their lives when the? [ got in the saddle befora the first per formance in London. These were Che only horses in the Jamboree, and per mission to use them was obtained only after great insistence. The British Jam l bOree OFFICIALS thought lt WouAu oo N~-4
 gerous for boys to appear in the arena on
 spirited horses. Col L. R. Gignilliat or :, Culver Ind, commissioner in charge or : the American delegation, replied that there were several dozen young Tanks with him who could control perfectly the maddest horse on legs It is<doubt- I full if the reluctant permission wonid have been granted if the full programme had been known.
 After the eight Indian horsemen rode up and down the arena Tn various
 evolutions, while the American Boy
 Scout Land played. Big Chief and his
 braves suddenly jumped off their nerv- ous mounts, which were held by other Indians, and delighted the audienr re
 with the pcny war dance, which was
 followed by the dog song and the scalp dance Tepees were then removed upon the appearance of a cowpoy with
 sombrero and green handkerchief around his neck. With wild shout he whipped his &orse with his hat and
 went up and down the arena at break neck speed, even circling the bani,
 which made the horse stand on its n,.x :a~c Ha dropped a handkerchief