Evening star., 1937-07-02
5O-R|NG CIRCUS
STAGED BY SCOUTS
1900 to Offer Diverse Ac.
tivity of Scouting Again
Tonight.


Scouting, plus Just about all the ex-
tras the ingenuity OF 1000 youthful
performers could devise, had some
$4,000 spectators dizzy last night at
the first Of series of Scouting
cavalcades' held in the big jamboree
arena just north of the WASHINGTON
Monument.
The second cavalcade program will
De given in the same place at 8 O'Clock
tonight, with a wholly new cast of
scouts and new program from start
TO nnlsh. There are 10000 grandStand
seats available for spectators, tickets
Tor which are obtainable at the arena.
More than 10000 spectators last night
saw the show from the slope at the
base OF the Monument.
Scouts from the District of Colum-
bla and nearby States composing
Regions III and ", staged the OPEN
Ing cavalcade last night. Tonights
show will be put on by boys from New
England, New York and New Jersey.
who have been in training for several
months. Future cavalcades will be
staged by Scouts from other sections
OF the country the nights Of July 3,
3, 6 and 7.
Skillful Performance
Last nights show was an astonish-
ing exhibition Of the versatility, team
work and skill Of the youngsters from
al parts Of the world who have taken
washington by storm for the lo-dav
1amboree. 1t was hard to tell who got
the more fun out of the clean-cut
fast and exciting performance, the
cheering audience, large part Of it
composed Of participating Scouts,
or the boys who were putting on the
thow.
From the opening procession, led by
more than 800 massed United States
and Scout flags, to the closing fire
works, the boys kept up 4 fast and
FURIOUS tempo. Scouts of the world,
among them two Venezuelans who
mixed 10000 miles to Washington.
massed their flags and received A
fousinG cheer as they passed before
Chlef Scout James Z. West.
The Scouts cleared the arena m
the double, leaving behind details of
four boys in each Of several hundred
SQUARES into which the six acres of
stage was divided. These Young.
kters demonstrated uses of the Scout
necKerchlefs as bandages and slin9s
iof various types of injuries for max
ing life lines and impromptu stretch
erS. linen they demonstrated the var
1o'ls Scout games, scores Of different
games going on simultaneously in tn.
squares III Kaleidoscope confusion.
But confusion was worse COMPOUNDED
wren they wound up in "hog tying
contest which found nearly 1000
Youngsters tying each other up in
knots
Father and Son Chop.
Peter McClaren, woodchopnng
champion OF the world, and his son.
staged log -chopping contest, father
gong through his 14-inch log twice
IN about one minute, while son went
fhrough his once. The Scouts, who
nave bucked up against this log-chop-
ping themselves in an amateur status.
were pop-eyed.
The arena was Invaded by four big
parties OF Scouts who put on a re-
volving show which included bicycle
scouting and pitching OF camp; knot
tying, the use of slaves for making
stretchers, tents, tepees and signal
towers, and signalling with flags, lights
and smoke. At the same time, Sea
Scouts put on series Of drills in the
center OF the arena.
The second half Of the program,
staged by Region " Scouts from
Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia.
opened with q procession Of 80 floats,
illuminated by hundreds Of torch
bearers.
Indians and Fires.
War-whoops sounded and the arena
was invaded by Indians in paint and
feathers. who put on ceremonial and
war dances to the .throbbing of TOM !
Sons. They loped off and were suc-
ceeded by hundreds of Scouts carry
ing flints, steel and tinder. AL lights
went out, and IN the darkness the
boys struck OF q myriad OF sparks
and blew their tt..sder into flames in
matter Of seconds, except for the
lew unfortunates who needed matches.
Then came the widest scene Of the
evening as nearly 1000 boys engaged
m simultaneous tugs Of war, roping,
patton tWlrling, games, tumbling, pyra-
mid building, races which involved
Whirling until dizzy, Indian wrestling
and too many other things for any
reporter to record. Through it all,
siren screaming, went 4 Scout mine
sescue truck.
One Paul Criss, in the role of the
mighty woodsman, Paul Bunyan, DEM
or1strated his skill with \ double.
bladed Ak by shaving a comrade and
ehen chopping through q l4-tnch
hardwood los in 80 seconds.
The Scouts wound up the show by
pitching just about all the kinds Of
tents and tepees there are, ranging
from two-boy pup tents and lean-to
shelters to mess tents and towering
Indian tepees. In front of their tepees
they kindled camptires, around which
they sat, singing as the lights went
out around the field and a lone bugle
PUuAOcN U0PW 1IOlll OklC COlI1cT VI JUe
field and was echoed by another across
the arena.
Then the fireworks and the march
back to home camps, scattered over
e50 acres Of Washington park land.
Five delegates of Aleph Zadik Aleph
of B'Nai B'reth yesterday afternoon
presented 10 DR.. West resolution
adopted 1T the international conven-
lon Of the order, just closed in New
1ork, indofsing the Scouting move
ment and pledging support of Boy
Scout activities among Jewish boys
throughout the country. The dele
gates were Lowell Addison, oakland,
Calf, head Of the A. z. A.; Jerome
Vogel, New York, chairman Of the
"A. z. A. International Committee on
Scouting: Eugene Love, A. z. A. senior
deputy: Milton Reisman, Scout Of
Troop "a, South Bend, Ind, and Rabbi
Philip Bookstaber, Harrisburg, Pa. at