Evening star., 1937-06-27
Scouts have it and will be expressing

scouts have IT ana WILL be expressing
it constantly.
At 8 o'clock on Wednesday evening
great opening campfire and torch
ceremony will give expression to Scout
brotherhood feeling when torches will
carry the flames from the central fire
to the many sectional f1replaces.
Expression through many other de-
vices may be noted-the Scouts own
newspaper, a l6-page 50,000-edition
tabloid, edited by Scouts-their own
amateur radio broadcasting system
with mobile equipment to direct move
ments Of sections in parade.
In America 1000 Of the amateur
radio operators are Boy Scouts.
The opportunity for expression in
pageantry is unlimited. These great
pageants, staged in the Monument
grounds stadium, will be led by the
worlds experts in this field. Ebert
Hubbard's son, an expert in Indian
dancing, will direct his famous wolf
dance" which transcends anything of
that nature ever staged. Other themes
include The Conquest OF Nature"
The Progress of Communication, :"
Mans Use OF Fire" Primitive Liv-
ing" pioneering Through the Ages"
and many historical pageants such as
THE Beginning Of America" and
Westward Ho."
Those who have studied the jam
boree program pronounce it not only
Washingtons greatest show in 1887,
but the worlds greatest show for the
year.
SENSORY contact, the urge to learn
Of tie world, is offered in every
phase Of the jamboree. Sightseeing
trips under the leadership Of Wash
ington Scout guides start the first day
and continue throughout the Today
period. A boat trip to Mount Vernon
heads this list and is augmented by q
general bus trip around Washington,
combination historical forts and
geological tour conducted by Park
Naturalist D. E. McHenry, and sew
eral other special bus trips to the
Cathedral, Monastery, Catholic Uni
versity, Bureau Of Standards, Naval
Observatory, Navy Yard and An
napolis. Also are scheduled daily ex-
ploration hikes in downtown Wash
ington. Usually the Washington Scout
guides are quite dependable, but oc-
casionally that unlisted urge to pull
fast one" on a brother Scout from
the country is irresistible. One Scout
has already pointed out the line of
demarcation of the Monument, l74 feet
up, where construction was stopped
for 80 years, and described it as the
high water mark"
At the Godollo, Hungry World JAM
boree of 1888, two Scouts met ON one
Of the camp streets. One wore the
sun helmet of the Arab Scouts, the
shirt OF Britisher, and carried an
African boomerang. The other wore
the Polish cap, Scotch kits and q
Greek shirt and carried q Hun
garian cane ak, which Is q cane with
battle-ax on the end. They looked
each other over and any horse trader
could tell that "dicker" was immi-
nent. BY signs they offered and coun-
ter offered-single swaps and combi-
nations-but they were both too shrewd
to be satisfied with a close trade.
Finally the boomerang Scout turned
and walked disgustedly away:
Trouble with these darn foreigners
is you can't talk to them" Hey,
you," shouted the Hungarian axman
who you calling a foreigner" where
upon Kansas City. Mo, Scout met
a brother Scout from Boston, Mass.
"GWAPs" will constitute one of the
interesting features of the local
jamboree and Scouts are bringing
their own distinctive items from home
probably the principal Washington
swap will be the Million year-old fos-
sil sharks teeth which are washed up
by the thousands on the shore OF
Chesapeake Bay at the Washington
Boy Scout Camp Roosevelt. The
Washington Scouts will be met fre-
quently with incredulity at this story
but We will wager that the local boy,
make good. Mount Vernon walnut.
and even some waxed and pressed
cherry blossoms may be used.
One Of the most troublesome urges
Of boyhood is the desire to struggle
and fight. Scouting solves this vexa-
tious problem by directing the fighting
spirit against things other than peo.
pie. There is greater glory in fighting
to reach standard in which q boy
raises another boy with him thar
there Is In licking another boy-se
teaches scouting. Also that there Il
greater glory and more work in over
coming ones self than in overcoming
another.
Another related urge, the desire fol
muscular control and eo-ordinattor
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