The Washington times., 1921-08-08
LADS IN FRENCH
WAR-TORN AREA
At SCOUT CAMP
American Men and Women
Take Part in Work of Aid
ing Youngsters.
ny International News Service

PARIS. Aug. 8.-Through the
cooperation OF the three French
scouting organizations, Les Eclair-
eurs de France, Les Scouts de
France, Les Scouts de France, Les
Eclaireurs Unioniste de France and
the American Committee for Dew
astated France, about thousand
Frenchmen and boys, especially from
the devastated area of the Aisne,
are having an opportunity this sum
mer of attending a Boy Scout camp,
where they are being taught the
principles of scouting and how to
become scout leaders.
The two camps. which will operate
from July II to September 4. at La
Croix st. Ouen, near Compiegne
(Oise) and at Corey (Aisne): respect
lively, will be the largest scout camps
ever held in France.
Barclay i'm France.
Mr.. Lorne w. Barclay, National
Director of Education OF Boy Scouts
In the United States, has come to
France. at the invitation of the min
lister of foreign affairs. to represent
the American Boy Scouts and to
collaborate with representatives of
the French scout organizations in
the direction of the summer camps.
In addition, sixteen American men,
many of them college students, have
volunteered their services as assist
ants at the camp schools. Among
them are Henry Cabot Lodge, from
Harvard, grandson Of Senator Lodge;
Paul North and Jack Danforth, OF
Princeton: Ansley Newman and Bar
ry Rich, OF Yale. Some of these
boys are working their way over on
ships of the u. S. Shipping Board.
Chief Big Hawk, of the Seneca
tribe of Indians, has accepted the in
vitation to instruct the French boys
in Indian lore, woodcraft and outdoor
work. The National Catholic Welfare
Council is represented at the French
camps by George Boyle, and the Do.
minion Boy Scout Association OF
Canada is represented by Mr.. Labelle,
of Ottawa, Canada. DR.. D'Eliscu,
Of Temple University, Philadelphia.
has charge Of the camp sanitation.
Guests Of Americans.
Many OF the boys at the camps are
the guests OF troops OF American Boy
Scouts, who, i'm answer to an appeal
sent to them by Miss Anne Morgan, of
New York. have started a campaign
to raise S25 each to send represen-
tative French boy from some village
in the devastated region to one Of
the two camps as guest of their troop.
The main headers for the camps
were furnished by the French Scout
ing organizations, and leaders from
Great Britain, Belgium, Canada and
the United States have been invited to
join. The French leaders specialize in
pioneering and nature study and the
Americans in athletics, scout games,
boxing. wrestling. swimming, water
sports and life-saving and first aid.
The committee of direction for the
two summer scout camps has Mrs. A.
Murray Dixie as president and Miss
Anne Morgan as vice president. The
committee on technique is composed
Of Lorne w. Barclay, NJ Guerin -Des-
iardins, NJ. Jean Loiseau, NJ. TAbbe
SEWN and NJ. II. Guerreau.
Last year the American committee
organized Boy Scout camp at Franc.
port, in the Forest OF Compiegne.
where 261 boys received training in
scouting At the invitation of the
French government, $50 American
Boy Scouts came from America to
visit the camp and the battlefields
Of France.