The daily morning oasis., 1920-07-10


ector general of Camp School for
the boys of the war devastated re
gions.
The school will be in the form
boy~' camp of large size located en-
the estate of Marquis de IAigle on
the A she River near Compeigne, on
he edge of the greater battlefields,
md will be the latest of many acti-
sities of the Amerit an Committee,
of which former United States Am
bassador to France Myron I. Her
rick is president, and Miss Anne Nor
AN, vice president and chairman of
he ex cutive committee, and Mrs. A.
NJ. Dixie is the official director in
.aarg of operations in France.
Ma of the boys who will be in
his great camp are orphans whom
he war deprived of all relatives, and
here will be others who have not
been in school and have practically
ave ,een without care since the be
inning of the war in 1914.
Mr.. Barclay who is one of the most
widely experienced men in the Scout
.nover ent and is known i'll nearly
very state in the Union as an ener-
;etic worker in the promotion of
couting, mas been given two months
ave If absence Ey the National
,ounc,i of the Boy Scouts of Ame,i;a
OF this work as a further contribu-
on by the Scouts Of this country
.lr.ugh the American Committee to
he service being rendered unfor-
unatec abroad especially those in
lie sorely stricken portions of France
Hail. Fullerton, "Chief Grub Scout,
hose great work during the war in
increasing the food supply of farms
nd gardens will always be reme1n-
ered, recently went to France under
he ouSpices of The American Commit
ee, where he has established dem
nstration farm in the devastated dis
riot, with French Boy Scouts for his
vorkmen, the object being to teach
american scientific agriculture in an
,ffort to speedily increase the food
supply there.
Gas builder of physical efficiency,
and morality as well, the superiority
# the Boy Scouts Of America pro-
gram is generally recognized" said
Dir. Barclay while busily engaged in
preparing to sail from New York on
the Mauretania July LIST.
1T IS for the purpose of adapting
md applying the American methods
f Scouting SO far as possible to con
ltions in the devasted regions that
we are going. 1t will be work for
he boys by the boys themselves. We
re just going to show them how to
go about Scouting in the American
style, especially in reference to out
loOr activities, which have been de-
iyelopeG here on scale unknown in
France or any other foreign coun-
try.
Naturally the boys we are going
10 deal with over there, many Of
yery poor and without parents and
aving long been without adult lead
4rship, will be the hardest kind Of
material to work on, but that will
make it all the more interesting and
worth while. We VIII divide the boys
the camp into troops and patrols
4ollowlhg our American plan, under
Scout masters and Patrol Leaders who
are now French Boy Scouts, and
zach them team play, sanitation,
personal health, and all that makes
for clean morals, and we will empha-
size the many outdoor activities for
which the Boy Scocts of America are
noted taking with US samples of all
kinds of tents and parapnernalia fc
up to date camping to serve as mod
els to use in the Camp School there.
Frank G. Irwin who has been
prominent in Scouting for many
years, accompa- les Mr.. Barclay as
me Of his assistants. Mr.. Irwin was
formerly Secretary of the Boy
Scouts of Saskatchewan, Canada,
was d Boy Scout delegate from
Canada to the coronation of King
George and was the organizer and
lirector for two years of the Boy
Scouts of Mysore, India. Recently
he has taken postgraduate work in
Columbia University, and was Scout
master of a troop in Manhattan
while studying there.
Another assistant with Mr.. Bar.
clay &c Carlile Bolton Smith, a First
Class Boy Scout whose home is in
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