Evening star., 1938-01-26
NEW BOOKS
~ AT RANDOM
BY MARGARET GERMOND.
THE NATIONAL AND WORLD JAM
BOREES IN PICTURES. New York:
Published by the Boy Scouts OF

Published by the Boy Scouts Of
America
At nine o'clock in the morning of June
30, 1887, more than twenty-seven thou
sand boys stood at attention while the
two flags announcing the formal opening
Of the First National Jamboree OF the
Boy Scouts Of America were raised.
simultaneously in each Of the twenty
sections Of the giant camp on the banks
or within sight Of the gently flowing
waters of the Potomac River, the Stars
and stripes and the flag Of the Boy
Scouts of America took the breeze to
the accompaniment OF cannon and air
bombs. For ten consecutive days Wash
lngton was the home OF these Stalwart
youngsters. 1t welcomed them warmly,
observed them with growing sense Of
wonder at the bigness of the ideals they
represented and bade them adieu with
gratitude for the renewed faith in the
security OF the institutions Of American
democracy which their presence en-
gendered.
Only six months later comes q pic
torial history Of the Jamboree, twelve
by nine and quarter inches in size and
less than an inch thick, handsomely
bound and artistically arranged in ac-
cordance with the sequence of events,
plus a liberal allotment of informal
shots symbolic poses and scenes staged
against the natural and architectural
beauty OF the Nations Capital.
random guess is that very nearly
two thousand pictures are included in
the volume. selected with great care
from countless exposures made by pro-
fesSional photographers in the Scout Field
and others and supplemented by the
work OF amateurs. The volume also
covers the Fifth World Jamboree, held
IN Holland from July 81 to August l9,
1887. Responsibility for arranging the
pictures. writing the captions and putting
the book together was intrusted to Dr.
H W. Hurt and Stacy Wood. They
are to be commended along with the
photographers, advisers and others who
assisted in assembling and producing the
attractive and valuable book that now
records the story OF the two great 1887
Jamborees
In addition to the pictures. the volume
contains brief foreword by James E.
West, Chief Scout Executive; the invita-
ton OF the President Of the United
States issued on February 8. 1887 a
short description Of the Washington
scene during the Jamboree by DR.. George
J. Fisher Deputy Chief Scout Executive.
and sketch by Dr.. West, American
Camp Chief in Holland. of the scene at
the vast camp in Vogelenzang.
A short note accompanying the pic
lures OF the raising of the flags in WASH
ineton tells also Of the opening camp
fire at the close of the first day in these
few words:
National Scout Commissioner Daniel
Carter Beard lighted the campfire with
flint and steel-and the Scouts from
everywhere met each other all together
for the first thrill of such a meeting-at
the base of the towering Washington
Monument. Here Scouts, Leaders and
visitors were touched by the sense of
olgness-bigness Of the crowd, the Move
ment. our Nation and the bigness of Life
itself"
Another paragraph. this one from the
sketch by DR.. Fisher, touches upon q
different phase of the spiritual tenor of
those who attended the Jamboree:
"A clergyman found here the boys of
all faiths. They met in great convoca-
ton on Sunday, addressed by representa-
tlves OF all leading faiths. On Friday
evening. the beginning of the Jewish
Sabbath, several hundred Jewish bows
participated in the religious services of
their faith. On Sunday morning in the
arena Pontlfical Mass was attended by
several thousand Catholic Scouts under
the leadership of two Archbishops and
simultaneously throughout the camp.
Seven or eight Protestant meetings di-
rected by local clergymen were held.
The Mormon Tabernacle in the city was
crowded with Scouts, and the great Prot
estant Cathedral in Washington was
packed with boys in Scout Uniform. ). :.
A Scout loyal to his own religious faith
respects the religious beliefs and Gus
toms Of others"
Remembering that the twenty seven
thousand youngsters who gathered
around the campfire at the base of the
Washington Monument last summer
were representatives of nearly a million
such lads throughout the country reviyes
that sense Of security in the citizenship
OF the future which that inspiring spec
tacle symbolized. And this splendid pic
torial history Of the first great assembly
OF Boy Scouts in America is a worthy
contribution to the permanent records
of the event.
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HELL LET LOOSE. BY Francis Beeding.
New York: Harper Bros.
Colonel Alistair CRANKY is again the
chief mover in an International intrigue
myStery-the medium for hair-raising
thrillers that Mr.. Bleeding continues to
employ with an extraordinary degree of
success. This time war-torn Spain is
the scene OF activities, with Ronald
Briercliffe Of the British Intelligence
Service pitted against Russian, German,
ltallan and French agents who are seek
ing the same secret and invaluable in
vention that England would very much
like to possess.
Senor Alberto Marquee a physicist
who refuses to be converted to his wife
political views, is the inventor He is
imprisoned for his refusal to swear his
allegiance to those seeking to conquer
Spain, but in which of the many prisons
is the problem that confounds those who
would take his secret from him.
The story is long -drawn-out affair
that shifts from one battle-ground to
another between Madrid and Seville and
plunges its numerous secret agents into
dungeons, dugouts and other varieties of
prisons on one lap of their tortuous
journey, sends them flying in planes to
other scenes of chaos and fits them into
first one and then another of the con-
fusing military units that are as often
killing their own followers as their
enemies.
Following so much complication is a
bit difficult, but. after all, those who
enjoy the adventures of the astute Col
onel CRANKY expect to be thrown into