Milford chronicle., 1928-08-31
BOY SCOUTS ACTIVITIES

Boy Scouts are being selected by
competition in ten Eastern states to
participate in the Boy Scout DEM
onstration at the Mohawk Indian
Village which will be set up at the
Eastern States Exposition, Spring.
field, Massachusetts, September 16
! to %. Here, for six days, the boys
will demonstrate various features of
the Scout program. The ten states
from which the boys are selected
comprise the area covered by the
Exposition and are, in addition to
the New England States, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Del
aware.
2his is the twelfth year of the
Exposition and boys will partici-
pate to a degree greater than ever
befoES. They camp in large number
on the Exposition grounds, raising
tepees and maintaing a village typi-
cal of the Indian villages of the
Mohawk Tribes and of the Plains
Indians of the Southwest. Shelters
and tents will be erected, and other
activities characteristic of the IN
dians will be carried out during the
days that, the boys are encamped.
The Boy Scout activities consti-
tute principal feature of the Ex-
position and provide some of the
most interesting spectacles Of the
Exposition. The Scouts who will
participate are being selected from
10000 of their fellows within the
Ten State Area. 1t is estimated that
fully S25,0O0 persons will see their
demonstrations of wOodcraft, Indian
lore and of the vocational merit
badge subjects in which Scouts
achieve proficiency. The Scouts Sc
lected will be chosen from Troop
Scouts, Sea Scouts and Lone Scouts, !
and the boys being picked according
TO standards which give credit to |
those who have indicated greatest |
ability in certain subjects. These |
Scouts in turn will represent their |
areas in the various Scout crafts |
contests, many of which |
are spectacular and picturesque.
Many of these activities possess an
interest to Scouts on
account of the fact that on several
occasions, during past years,
worlds records have been broken
in the Scout competitions at the
Eastern States Exposition.
In the Indian Village, various
types of improvised shelters used by
mountaineers and woods
men will be erected by the Scouts.
adirondack shacks, Indian tepees,
tents. and other varie-
ties of shelters will comprise the
village during the 1928 Exposition.
Besides the various activities
which the Boy Scouts will carry on
n the Mohawk Village and in the
numerous Merit Badge booth which
will be set up by Scouts from var
Gus communities, they will present
number of demonstrations before
he main grandstand. These will be
of the display each evening.
There will be approximately 25 of
he merit badge booths, each ap-
)roximately containing 100 square
DOT.
Many experts in Boy Scout activi- I
les will serve as officers of the en- Y
including w. c. Vessel,
Assistant National Camp Director, ;
". L. Van Sicklen Scoutmaster,
Brooklyn, New York, John Watson, ]
scout Executive, Washington, Pa,
George Fish, Deputy Scout Commis- i
ioner, Providence, Rhode Island, {
'homas C. Venable, Field Executive, t
Pa, Russell C. Wonder
ic, Assistant Scout Executive, Erie l
'ounty, New York and the Reverend
V. L. Huntsman, Roseland, N J.
of a famous freight L
ng Troop of Scouts who will attend y
he Exposition, and William Tonk- v
rs of Los Angeles, California, ex- 2
ert in Indian sign language.