Evening star., 1937-06-27
By Vesfa Cummings.

not only Washington but the
entire transportation systems
~ Of America as $4,000 Boy
Scouts converge on the city for the
National Boy Scout Jamboree, to be
held here from next Wednesday until
July 9.
By steamer, train, bus, airplane,
auto and on foot they come-boys with
blue eyes, boys with slant eyes, boys
with brown eyes. boys with Cockney
accents, boys with Southern drawls,
boys who say "Bonjour" or "Buenas
dias," and boys who merely say
"Howdy." All are united in the bond
OF belonging to worldwide organi-
ration that has only two qualifications
for membership-that of being male
and that OF being young.
For months Washington has been
preparing to receive these youthful
visitors, coming from every State in
the Union and nearly every major
nation Of the globe.
Hundreds Of khaki tents now bloom
over $50 acres Of Potomac River water
front, loaned to the Scouts for their
jamboree by the Federal Government.
Thousands Of others will spring up
this week, brought by thousands of
youngsters, who will be seen pitching
them until a city OF youth Is founded
within sight of Americas most beau-
tiful historic shrines, the Washington
Monument and the Lincoln Memorial.
Special trains from all over the
United States will run into sidings on
the Jamboree City grounds, so that
Scouts may set up their camping gear
as soon as they leave the railroad, to
live under canvas together for 10 days.
The cost OF the whole jamboree period
to each Scout will be $25, plus his
train fare. and all railroads except
those in the southeastern section of
the country have made q special rate
Of l cent mile to Scouts Washington
bound for their conclave.
DR.. James E. West. chief Scout ex-
ecutive Of the Boy Scouts Of America
since January l. 1911, has completed
the vast number of details for the
event.
Harvey Gordon. veteran director of
engineering for Boy Scout jamborees
both in this country and abroad, has
directed construction work, including
an arena seating $4,000 persons, de-
signed for mass meetings.
A Scout trading post has been es-
tablished and stocked SO that delegates
to the Scout convention may purchase
necessities they have forgotten to
bring or lost along the route. The
Scout need not go without soap, a
toothbrush. handkerchiefs, post cards
or 4 pocket comb. and here, too, he
may buy camera films, bring his films
to be developed and send out his
laundry.
WHILE In Warrington, the Scouts
will write and publish their own
daily newspaper, with q circulation of
several thousand.
Eight miles Of pipe lines will haul
the millions Of gallons Of water that
will be used in Jamboree City daily,
and the canvas town will be serviced
by its own sewage system and water
supply. Drinking water, to be cooled
with an imposing poundage of ice, has
been piped into each troop camp
TWenty-four field hospitals spot the
grounds, and four physicians and four
medical students have been assigned
the task of rendering first aid for cuts
and bruises and treating illnesses,
guarding carefully that no contagious
or infectious diseases are permitted
in camp.
One hundred beds have been re-
served for Scout visitors at the Marine
Hospital and two Red Cross ambu-
lances will be on duty night and day
10 rush the boys into them in case
Of sickness or accident.
Scout leaders here have been bulle-
tined daily for weeks with reports
from local hospitals and clinics 80
that the jamboree could be called of
at once If some epidemic threatened
the city. Two Summers ago thous-
ands Of Scouts were disappointed by
the outbreak of several infantile pa
ralysis cases in Virginia. Although
around 5000 boys had already
reached Washington, more than TO-
900 were warned to stay at home and
the early arrivals were returned to
their parents at once, possibly pre-
! venting a serious spread Of the dread
disease.
While plans for taking care of Scouts
with stomach aches and abrasions are
thorough, a great deal more time has
been spent on preparing for the ma
jority, who will remain In perfect
health and require three meals . day