The Coolidge examiner., 1938-04-21

gained frst-hand knowledge Of
surveying and general forestry.
While exploring ancient mounds
in Ohio, Scouts found many skele-
tons, pottery, arrowheads, skinning
knives, and grinding pestle.
When Syracuse university sent an
expedition to the Andes, it was &C
companied by an Eagle Scout, who
spent six months there and helped
the expedition with its study of rare
birds, animals, and reptiles. Boy
Scouts Of Washington found a de-
| post of shellfsh fossils on the bank
Of stream, perfectly preserved
since the days when the ocean COW
cred the southwestern part of that
state. Scouts went with the East
Tennessee Archaeological society
when its expedition explored the
Little Tennessee river in quest of
the ruins of old Indian villages.
Learn Geography by Travel.
More than l,7OO separate camps
for Scouts were conducted in the
United States in 1888.
Since an average trip to and from
camp is about so miles, and 300 900
boys attended, they travelled to-
tai distance of 5000 900 miles. Add
to this the many tramps out of camp
and back. and the frequent hikes
made by troops from their home
town into the country, and a rough
idea is gained of how the boys
knowledge of geography is en-
HANGED
Finding his direction by the com
pass; the skillful use Of tools in
building huts and bridges; how to
cook his own food in the open and
set up a tent-are all among the
practical phases of outdoor life
taught TO boys.
No such mass of boys ever as
sembled as met for the Scout World
Jamboree at Birkenhead. England,
in 1929, with more than so, 600 pres
ent. representing 70 different ma
tionalities.
With the duke of Connaught, to
review the opening parade, was
Lord Baden-Powell. who gave the
signal by blowing blast on the
kudu horn, the tocsin of Zulu war
riors. To the bagpipe music of a
| Scottish boys band. the army
marched past. AS they came in
| alphabetical order, the Americans
marched first followed by the Aus
! tralians.
Their Jamboree in England.
1T was the youth of the world
that passed" wrote Sir Philip
Gibbs.
Arabs from Palestine, Morocco,
and Algeria in white robes, Indians
in green turbans, black boys from
the Gold Coast and Nigeria. natives
of Jamaica, Kenya. Barbados, Cey-
lon, and other far countries of the
British empire. Latin America was
there. with splendid contingents
from Brazil and Chile. The old
countries of Europe-Spain. France,
Holland, Denmark, Norway, Ger
many-had sent their young man.
hood, and new nations like Czecho-
slovakia, Estonia. Latvia, and Lith-
uania were strongly represented.
like our own naval boys. The Bra.
zilians were all in blue, except for
white caps. The Irish Free State
advanced under the green flag and
the harp. The sons of former enc
mies-Bulgarians, Hungarians. Bel
gians, Austrians, Greeks. Firms,
| Swedes, Japanese.
An unforgettable moment for the
American boys was when the prince
of Wales, later Edward VIII, stood
at attention to receive their salute.
Scouts in War and Disaster.
On mine sweepers, golfers, and
auxiliary ships British Sea Scouts
served with distinction in the World
war. Some were drafted to the
grand feet itself.
When the 47,000-ton hospital ship
Britannia was torpedoed in the Med
iterranean, several Scouts were
among her crew.
When a Brooklyn garage burned.
two men were overcome by smoke.
A Scout carried one man out by the
'freman's drag" which he had
been taught, and then rescued the
other by dragging him out with a
belt. He restored both men by Civ
ing artificial respiration, al SO
learned in his troop.
A thirteen-year-old Texas Scout
crawled on hands and knees into a
burning house and brought out a
baby. Another saved a comrade in
| Kansas who was caught on a live
wire while climbing a tree. A Cali
fornia Scout lost his life trying to
save two smaller boys from drown
ing.
An Italian Boy Scout on New
York's East Side saved six people
and a dog from a burning house