Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1937, Page 5

3300 SC0UTS JOIN INLIING FLAG New Cavalcade Program to | Be Given Tonight by Dixie Troops. Creation of a giant living United | States flag. composed of 3,300 jam- | boree Scouts from the New England | Btates, New York and New Jersey, last { night brought to a close the second of a series of “Calvalcades of Scouting.” staged by 25,000 Scouts from 25 na- tions in the arena just north of the Washington Monument. Using Scout scarfs of red. white and blue, with little white parasols for stars, the Scouts of regions 1 and 2 formed a flag 140 fect long under which the boys were packed so closely they could not stoop to pick up their hats until the formation began to expand. The flag stunt was the climax of an hour and a half of fast and furious fun for the participating Scouts and an audience of Scouts, Washingtonians | and visitors estimated at more than 25000. The arena, with seats for | 12,000 spectators, was crowded and | the slope of the Monument grounds overlooking the amphitheater. 3.300 in Cavalcade Tonight. ‘The third cavalcade of the series is to be given at 8 p.m. today in the arena by more than 1.800 Scouts from Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina. They will present the his- tory of their States from the days of Ponce de Leon to the present. In the second half of the production, | 1.500 Scouts from Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee will participate. Tickets for the grandstand seats may be obtained at the arena or re- | served seat tickets may be obtained | at many points throughout the city, | or by telephoning Metropolitan 2612. Proceeds of the ticket sale help defray the costs of the jamboree. Last night's cavalcade opened with & brief pageant depicting the landing of the Pilgrims and the observance of the first Thanksgiving, staged by Scouts of the New England States. This broke up into one of the now | famous jamboree 50-ring circus events as nearly 2,000 Scouts turned simul- | taneously to signaling, demonstrations of methods of carrying injured com- rades, formation of pyramids, kindling of fires, demonstrations of jiu jitsu and demonstrations with bullwhips. The boys with the whips, at a distance of 10 to 12 feet, cut into ribbons news- papers held up by fellow Scouts, Hundreds of Seamen. Whalers, clipper-ship sailors and | fishermen of the New England coast were honored in a production which began with a lone skipper and helmsman on an elevated platform | in the middle of the arena and ended with hundreds of slicker-clad sea- men, who were abruptly converted into tumbling, pyramid - building, | game-playing Scouts. Darkness fell. the stage was cleared The thin scream of a fife and the beating of drums was heard and the spotlights picked up “The Spirit of "6 The Scouts of both regions marched in with flags streaming and were massed in solid formation. They broke up to demonstrate use of the Scout scarf as bandages, slings, signal flags, stretchers and life-lines. The fleld was cleared except for Jeaders in the scores of numbered squares. Then there was a tidal wave | of running, velling Scouts with| whistles and noisemakers, who raced into the arena, 2,000 strong. Out of | the confused mass appeared troops | and patrols. In unison thev repeated the Scout oath and law and sang 8cout songs. Mammoth Battle Royal. The patrols formed hollow squares all over the fields, shirts came off,’ boxing gloves came out of packs and in a few seconds there were boxing matches and pillow fights by scores going on all over the arena. Referees, seconds and even members of the squares becam involvd in a scene of hopeless confusion. ‘The boys gathered in scores of knots. The loudspeakers announced a first aid demonstration. Out of the knots came flying shirts, shorts, hats, scarfs, shoes and stockings as from 0 many volcanoes. In a few mo- ments out of each human volcano was erupted a victim, bandaged from head to foot, to be held aloft in triumph above the heads of his too- many “doctors.” The victims restored to clothed normalcy, the Scouts formed their flags and the show closed with a display of fireworks. Yesterday, the fourth day of the encampment, found 25,000 Scouts settled down to camp life in the 850-acre reservation set aside by the Government on both sides of the Potomac. Initial cases of sunburn and sore feet have given away to tan and tough- ness and the boys in camps at Hains Point or along the Mount Vernon Boulevard think nothing of hiking ; from three- to five miles into the city and back during the morning and then marching to the arena and back home | in the evening, In addition to engaging in games, sports and outdoor exercises. 250 Tons of Food Daily. They are putting away their 250 tons of foodstuffs daily, and, except for occasional cuts and bruises and once in a while a stomachache or a toothache, the fleld hospitals find little to do. There are daily excursions by steam- er to Mount Vernon for 1,900 Scouts at a time, with optional sightseeing trips to points of interest in and near the city. Yesterday afternoon displays of soouting were given in the four camp theaters at 3 o'clock, with second per- formances at 4:30—a dally procedure during the jamboree, which gives the boys a chance to show what they have Jearned and an opportunity to learn grom their fellows from every State and 24 foreign lands. Sunset services for Jewish Scouts were held yesterday evening in the various regional centers. Last night there were campfire gatherings in many of the regional and sectional areas up to the time taps sent the boys:to bed at 10 p.m. WASHINGTON, D. Amateur camera fans at the Scout camp go to remarkable lengths to get unusuai “shots.” Dick Staner, Troop 22, of Akron, there was an even larger crowd on| OR10, tried this view of the Monument. HUNDREDS WRITING ABOUT JANBOREE Radio, Newspaper and Newsreel Men Keep Press Staff Busy. Almost 600 reporters, photographers, | radio announcers | and newsreel men today were covering | | the multiple phases of the national jamboree for readers and theatergoers | magazine writers, all over the world. A press tent larger, busier and noisier than the city room of & big metropolitan daily is the clearing house | for a mass of in- formation going out to every com- . munity in the United States and to a dozen foreign countries which 3 have sent delega- tions to the jamboree and {therefore are directly interested in its progress No city editor | driving his stafr after 8 fast- breaking story could work under higher pressure than Leslie Stratton, public relations director, Boy Scouts of America. Stratton has a rapid-fire comeback for a barrage of questions withering enough to flatten a less experienced man Job to Advise Newsmen. He and his staff have learned to talk into two telephones at once while dictating memorandums and answer- ing a few casual questions on the side. Stratton. There are features, high lights, camera | subjects and local delegations enough for all, and it's Stratton’s job to keep the newsmen in touch with their op- portunities. A telephone call from Los Angeles, a request for press passes for visiting special correspondents, a demand for mimeographed handouts, a query about a Scout from China—all are answered in almost the same breath, and always with haste, for others are waiting. Stratton and his staff refuse to get rattled—in fact, they haven't time. More than 526 news, camera, radio | and publicity men and women have reported to the press tent. Of these, about a score are local reporters, re- inforced by a dozen “still” photog- raphers. The wire services have 10 or 15 men covering the jamboree and as many photographers. Five crews of sound reel cameramen are on the job. Half a hundred Washington correspondents keep in touch with the delegations from the localities served by their papers, and there are 100 Boy Scouts commis- sioned by newspapers throughout the country to write stories about the jamboree. All three broadcasting companies have crews on the jamboree grounds. Stratton said that so far 79 photog- raphers with Washington news cre- dentials have applied for camp passes. In addition to the Boy Scout reporters, a sizable staff of Scouts are working for the Jamboree Journal, now being issued daily. Special Writers on Hand. Special writers are on hand from such magazines as the Saturday Eve- ning Post, Time, Life and Fortune, together with their photographers. A mimeographing machine is busy most of the day grinding out hand- outs enough to swamp one of the best publicity mills ever organized by a New Deal agency. These hand outs are sent to all Washington correspond- ents, to the National Press Club, to some 1,950 daily newspapers and 12,- 000 country weeklies. They also are filed at the press tent for use of the reporters on the grounds. A battery of 20 telephones connects the press tent with the jamboree switchboard, and two telegraph serv- ices have messengers on hand for running copy. The publicity depart- ment provides newsmen with trans- portation when they wish to visit some distant section of the far-flung camp. The department also signs the checks for hungry newspaper men dining on EBoy Scout fare in one of the many mess tents. If the world doesn’t hear about this Jjamboree, it won't be from lack of opportunity! . Air Clothes on Golf Fences. The fences erected in East Potomac Park to protect the greens on the golf courses are being used by the Scouts as places to hang their clothes for airing and drying. | Leon. SOUTS OF SOUTH PRES Stage Ponce de Leon Pag- eant and *“Down in Dixie” Tonight. Jamboree Scouts from the deep South will put on two rousing shows at the open air theater north of Wash- ington Monument tonight. C., ENT2 SHOWS | First will be a legend of Ponce de the explorer, who wandered through the primeval Southeast in quest of the fountain of youth. This story will be told in a series of striking episodes by boys from the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, | Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee. The* pageant will show Ponce de Leon searching for the fabulous foun- tain in his youth, then becoming a | disillusioned old man without ever finding it. But there's a legendary epilogue to an otherwise historic nar- rative. The explorer is shown at last { finding the fountain—Boy Scouting— | which restores him to perpetual youth, for Scouts are never old Dr. James E. West, chief Scout ex- | ecutive, will appear in this pageant, bestowing on Ponce ‘de Leon at the' close the badge of an Eagle Scout. “Down in Dixie” is the title of the second show, which another section of Southern Scouts will present. This will portray the old and new South, with a plantation scene and other features typical of the cotton States Singing, dancing and colorful scenes will mark this pageant. A total of 2.962 Scouts will take part in the two programs. HUNTING AUTOGRAPHS POPULAR WITH SCOUTS Autograph hunting seems to be sec- ond in popularity only to taking snap- shots of anything and everything at the jamboree camp. Undoubtedly the most autograph- sought boy in camp is Scout Yang, from Nanking, China’'s sole delegate. He can hardly walk three paces with- out having a booklet thrust at him. Every time Dr. James E. West, chiet Scout executive, makes an in- formal appearance, he is besieged by | autograph hunters, and sometimes he has to wave them away good-naturedly { because official duties press him hard. Flags Are Raised In World Section Without a Bugler ew Zealand Banner Down Three Hours for Repuairs. ‘They had “flag trouble” at jamboree headquarters the other morning. ‘The American troop in the world jamboree section, whose turn it was to take charge of the flag-raising ceremony, failed to arrange for a bugle tooter, so the colors of the vari- ous nations had to be raised in awk- ward silence. One of the flags failed to go up, however, bugle or no bugle. The staff that should have flown the New Zealand bunting was bare for almost three hours after the others were hoisted. It all can.e about when some one detected a flaw in the flag when it was lowered Wednesday after- noon. Four stars in the upper right-hand corner were in the wrong position, 30 the flag was rushed to a tailor's for an “emergency operation.” The bunting was under the scissors until 10 a.m. a 3, SATURDAY, JULY LY Scouts armed with cameras may be found in trees, atop tents and hanging to flag poles. risked a fall to get this place of Scouts Act || More Than 1,200 S 1 BY GORDON ENGLEHART. Local Scout Assigned to Cover the Jamboree for The Star. VERY Scout who comes to Washington has a natural de- sire to see its famous buildings and statues. Anticipating this one of the first thoughts of the Jam- boree Committee was to fulfill this de- sire adequately. Thus the guide serv- ice, composed of troops of Wash- ington, was founded. Every troop in the service is there voluntarily. The plan was | broached to the scoutmasters and | their response is shown in the fact | that over 1,200 | Scouts and 65 scouters are working willingly | every day. There are five | divisions. To each of these, 240 Scouts are assigned. Exact knowledge of his Gordon Englehart, | is required for every Scout. given a mimeographed copy of all in- formation which might be of interest to the boys in the troop he directs. division and also the jamboree grounds | He is | Don Wright of Evansville, Ind., vantage. —Star Staff Photos. as Guides how Jamboree Boys Sights of Washington. 1t is all written up in conversational | style. but he is only asked to learn | the content. It starts out something | like this: “I am detailed as your guide | for this sight-seeing trip through area No. 4. My name is Iama member of Troop No. —— of the Dis- | trict of Columbia Council. Naturally, | I would like to meet each one of you boys personally. * * *” Then follows directions for the tour, and littie de- “This red building in front of us houses the Smithsonian Institution. Strange as it may seem * * *" The five division headquarters are | located at the Lincoln Memorial, Ar- lington Cemetery, Mount Vernon, Sev- enteenth street and Constitution ave- nue and Fourteenth and Cricket. ‘The service is available nine hours a day, from 8 am. to 5 pm. The | troops work in two shifts, the first| from 8 until 12 and the second from 12 to 5. They rotate the next day. | Their main purpose is, of course, to show out-of-towners the city, but this is not their only one. They act as orderlies for headquarters. They take care of all ushering at the great arena shows. And one of their busiest jobs the first few days was meeting trains, helping to unload the Scouts’ luggage and then directing the troops to their positions at the jamboree. Evidence that the white man might have lived in the Mississippi Valley as Christ was brought to the Boy Scout jamboree by Scouts from East St. Louis, IIl. In a long wooden box in the exhibit tent of region 7—Scouts from the Mid- dle West—are the separated bones of a skeleton and other relics taken from famous Monks Mound, largest arti- ficial mound in the United States, located near St. Louis. Discoverers of the skeleton believe it may be that of a white man, be- cause of the cranial characteristics of the head. Monks Mound, 72 feet wide, 1,080 feet long and 104'; feet in altitude at the highest point, has yielded a wealth of relics of past centuries. The skele- ton with the cranium of possibly a white man was buried with pots, urns and stone arrows. Near the exhibit hall is one of the unique gateways of the great tent city, a gate of stainless steel brought | by the Scouts of Starved Rock Area Council, La Salle, 11l The reservation of the Marion (Ind.) Scouts and Uncle Sam HEN you come right down to it, Uncle Sam probably is the biggest swapper in this haven of swappers, the jamboree encampment. For a batch of good will from 26,- 000 of his nephews, Uncle Sam swapped - $700,000 worth of Army equipment—cots, blankets, canteens, shovels, coffee pots, butcher knives, flags and the amazing assemblage of tents, which, if placed end to end, would cover one square mile. Uncle Sam’s was an Indian gift, of course. The United States Army might want i0 do some camping of its own at s future date, and the equipment must be zeturned. But it won't cost the Boy Scouts one nickel for the use of this tremendous amount of Army equipment. The Scouts are bonded to replace any article lost or destroyed, but the United States will stand the wear and tear cost. The job of supplying these 26,000 Boy Scouts with tents and acoessories was handled by Maj. R. L. Roberg, U. 8. A, Ordnance Reserve, who is quartermaster for equipment. It was a tough job. The equipment came from Army posts within a 100-mile radius of Washington and from points as far away a8 Columbus, Ohio, New York and Philadelphis. early as 600 years after the death of , 'Scout Exhibit Hints White Man Lived in U. S. About 600 A.D. | Scouts, also near the exhibit hall, is| surrounded by an old rail ‘fence, the rails stripped from native Indiana timber and erected to remind the Hoosler lads of their home State. STARS AND BARS FLY ON BANKS OF POTOMAC Confederacy’s River Once Again, and Will Go Down Avenue. ‘The Stars and Bars of the Con- federacy flies on the banks of the Potomac River these da The flag of “the lost cause” was run up by a troop of Scouts from Richmond, Va. Russell S8tarke, a senior patrol leader in Troop No. 22 of Richmond, said the Virginia Scouts had more than 50 Confederate flags on hand and would carry them down Pennsyl- vania avenue during the jamboree. Visitors to the Richmond troop's headquarters are made to salute the flag. scriptions of each point of interest, as: | Emblem Crosses | 1937. After a day of shutter-clicking and lens-focusing many of the boys are fit prey for a “photographer’s mightmare,” illus- trated by Reed Whetstone of Lawrence, Kans. HOOT OWL MASCOT OF COLORED TROOP | Texas-Kentucky Contingent | of 24 Refuses Offers for !‘ Solemn Bird. Twenty-four colored Scouts, six from IKentmky and the rest from Texas, | and seven leaders form the only com- | pletely colored Scout troop attending | the jamboree. They are camped m | section O, troop quarters 21, in East | Potomac Park | Under Scoutmaster J. B ‘Texas Area Council, the only colored Scout council in the country. Colored | troops in other States are included in | councils in which white troops pre- dominate. Their camp is decorated with pine tree limbs and boughs brought from the pine tree section of Texas, and for a mascot they have a brown hoot | owl which has the liberty of the camp and generally is perched solemnly atop the entrance to troop quarters. The Scouts are specializing in Negro | spirituals, and are practicing some of the songs which they will sing at sev- eral of the arena shows. Back in iT""‘ they have a band, but did not | bring this with them. They are active in trading with the other Scouts, but so far have turned | down all offers | tractive, for their owl. | items include cowhorn neckerchief | slides, plaster of paris tiger heads, | cowhorn pincushions, painted seashells and bone and carved wood slides. 'CAMP REPRESENTS SIX MONTHS' WORK Storms Tented City Was Ready for Scouts. A six-month job of planning and installing equipment was completed by engineers before the first jamboree troop settled on its alloted camping site. Only minor details in the general plan remained to be worked out when the Scouts began to pitch their small tents around 20 nuclei, which consist- ed of kitchen and headquarters tents, water pipe lines, telephone connec- | tions and sanitary equipment cations assigned to the various troops {in the 20 sections and emergency commissaries and headquarters tents. The success of the completed camp is due in large measure to the work of Harvey A. Gordon, | physical arrangements for the jam- boree, and the Federal engineers, who gave him every assistance. Gordon's assistant is Ray Bryan. Last November 15 the two Scout executives set up their jamboree con- struction office on the ground and fell to work over their drawing boards. By March 1 they had crews surveying | every camp site in the 20 sections. On April 3 the directors moved into construction headquarters to start the actual work of laying 10 miles of water line, clearing strests and camp sites, pitching 4,000 tents and building sectional kitchens. Peak construction this Spring saw 105 carpenters, 30 plumbers and help- ers, 50 engineers, accountants and checkers, 150 C. C. C. enrollees and 48 maintenance men at work on the huge skeleton camp. The work was carried forward in all sorts of weather. Last Spring & Potomac flood submerged the section on Columbia Island, but the workers had the equipment out before the erest of the high water arrived. Make $700,000 Trade With the tents that some of the Scouts brought with them, there are spproximately 5,000 tents, stretching from the Washington Monument to Hains Point and Columbia Island. The Army supplied 3,901 tents. These include 1,835 of the 16 by 16 “pyram” tents; 1,800 of the small 9 by 9s; 140 of the 16 by 50s; 30 of the 14 by 14s and 126 of the large 40 by 80s. Maj. Roberg said this probably is the largest group of the 40 foot by 80 foot tents ever assembled. This type is used by the Army chaplains. Besides all these, Uncle 8am fur- nished 400 mattresses, 30,000 ecots, 20,000 bed sacks, 16,060 blankets, 29,- ! 000 canteens, 196 Army field ranges, 125 flags. The Army equipment in use also includes 9,000 meat platters, 1,800 rakes, 3,300 shovels, 1,800 hand axes, 854 sterilizing bags, 40 field telephone units being used in the arena, 900 coffee pots, 1632 butcher knives, 1,632 cook spoons, 1,632 meat forks, 13,000 serving spoons. The 1,000 American Scouts who will travel overseas to take pari on the fifth world jamboree to be held July 29 to August 13 in Bloemendaal- Vogelansang, the Netherlands, will be supplied with complete Army camp- ing units. These already have been Anderson | | they are here representing the East ! no matter how at- | Their trading | Handicapped Job, baut | Camp streets had been laid out, lo- | automobile roads marked off to the | director of | HYDE PARK SCOUTS AWAIT PRESIDENT Dutchess County Contingent Reproduces “Summer White House.” | Scouts from Dutchess County today | were preparing the approaches to their reproduction of the “Summer White House” at Hyde Park in antici- | pation of a presidential visit to their camp, near the Virginia end of | Arlington Memorial Bridge. Mr. Roosevelt's home on the Hudson has been copied in exact detail as | to front facade and landscaping, on | & scale of one-third natural size. The exhibit has been completed and the | | Scouts now are decorating the road up which they expect the President to | drive some time Wednesday. | The miniature “Summer | House” cost more than $3,000 was presented to Dutchess County Boy Scouts for use at the jamboree | by Prederick Acker. president of the | Central Hudson Gas & Electric Co,, a White the Hudson Valley. Duplicate Trees. The company’s trucks brought the exhibit here after it had been com- pleted in New York. and Scouts helped set it up. The company supplied funds for the purchase from local growers of evergreens and shade trees, which were placed about the lawns of the “Summer White House™ in exact imitation of the original setting. Thus a front view of the reproduc- tion is an optical illusion which would | deceive casual observers. Scouts are | photographing the exhibit and send- | ing the pictures back to New York[ State to fool the home folks. A small cannon barrel maunlsd| on the front porch of Mr. Roose- velt’s New York State residence is | | reproduced here, along with a ship’s | | bell said to be a favorite of the President’s. ! The idea for the reproduction was conceived by Gerald A. Flewelling, | Scout commissioner for Dutchess | County, and proposed to the local | council, which approved the plan. The council then laild the project before Acker, who financed it. Acker | has been afriend of Scouting for years, and personally paid the ex- | penses of several Dutchess County | boys now attending the jamboree. 50 by 18 Feet. ‘The reproduction is 50 feet long and 18 feet high. Graveled walks lead up to its doors. The lawn is nicely graded and sodded. Miniature vines | | cling to the “fleld stone™ facade, and | evergreens flank the entrance. The Dutchess County Scouts are | quartered in tents immediately be- | hind their “Summer White House. They hope that the President will | visit the exhibit in the late morning | on Wednesday, so that he can stop for lunch with them. As yet, however, | they have not been informed of | Mr. Roosevelt's plans. It was said only that the Presi- dent will visit the camp some time Wednesday. By that time every possi- _ ble detail will be perfected, the Scouts | said. PE T R {BUS LOADED, SCOUTS FILL PATROL WAGON | Several Washington policemen got | the surprise of their life when they re- turned to the ‘patrol wagon they had parked at Union Station and found it full of Boy Scouts from New Bruns- wick. It seems that the “black Maria" and a special Scout bus were parked alongside each other. The Scout dele- gation filled the bus, and the over- flow piled into the patrol wagon, bag and baggage. The 10 Scouts were persuaded to find other means of locomotion—the police needed their “wagon” for an- other type of passenger. Program Sunday, July 4. 45 AM.—Breakfast. :00 A.M.—Religious observances of various faiths. P.M.—Song fest by sections. P.M.—Supper. 100 P.M.—Convocation at Washing- ton Monument—all sec- tions together, 10:00 P.M.—Taps. ' and | | public utility which serves much of SCOUTS TO ATTEND MASS SERVIGES {To Recognize Obligation to God as Set Forth in Constitution. Since the constitution of the B Scouts of America points out that “no | boy can grow into the best kind of citizenship without recognizing obligation to God." preparations } been made for impress gious services tomorrow, ti da:* during the first natios Chaplains of the Protes | olic. Jewish. Mormon and Science faiths will hold sepa ices nominations wil | pational convocation a nument. Ministers of var: ake part in this g, 1 of faith and consecr music will include a sa by the Marine Band and s | n2 of the massed audiences of Sco: |and visitors United in Allegiance. The object of the grand cont thus is set forth | “The purpose of objectify our allegianc gious principle: national life of worship, @on of loval forces wh | 1o the progress and well-bein | people from the foun republic.” | The rel a service fc last night in | the G | At 7 o'clock tomorrow ni; | joi assemb! e o the reli- which undergird o s not a union s started w at 7 o'clock for 2:30 pm a Archbishops at Mass. For the Catholic boys there will a solemn pon ial field mass arena at 10 am. tomo Joseph F. Orleans, will pontificate at the throns and Most Rev Francis J. L. Beckman, Archbishop of Dubuque, will preach the sermon. From 9 to 10 am. tomorrow Protes- tant denominations will join in services in each of the six sections . Wil- m C. Covert is chairman of the National Protestant Committee and jamboree chaplain for these groupe. Dr. W. L. Darby. secretarv of the Washington Federation of Churches, has arranged for local ministers to conduct these s Christ, Sct- entist, of Washington will hold a serve lice at 9 am. tomorrow in the Svivan Theater. The Christian Scientists | also have a tent set up on the G. H. Q. quadrangle. Apostle Melvin J. Ballard of the | Church of Latter Day Saints will lead a service In its chapel at Sixteenth street and Columbia road at 10 am. { tomorrow. Bus transportation will be ) provided Scouts who want to attend. 21 Boy Scouts Of Poland Here For Jamboree Bring Greetings From Nation U. S Gathering. “Harcerze z Pol e ‘This sign greets you as you rambla Across the section of the huge jam- boree camp nearest the Washinaton Monument. It means Boy Scouts of Poland, and 21 of them are guests of their American comrades. The Polish Scouts are mature, husky lads, averaging in age perhaps 20, a number of them Scoutmasters. They are older than most of the American boys, and they've come far to bring Poland's greetings to America's first National jamboree The first thing they put up was a gate and fence, a typical entrance to a Polish farmyard Then they erected a mess tent and set about un- furling their sleeping quarters and unpacking the national exhibits they brought Only two of the 21 speak English to any extent. One of these is Ede ward Woerki, who was born at Holy~ oke, Mass., but went to Poland when he was 10 and has remained thera since. Their interpreter and pilot during their American adventure is John A, Troike of Chicago, a National Scout commissioner, who speaks Polish flu- ently. Most of the Polish Scouts are col~ lege students or school teachers. They report about 60,000 Scouts in Poland. INFORMATION BUREAU OPERATED BY SCOUTS Union Station Office Aiding Boys and Parents En Route to Jamboree City. to Washington's Boy Scouts are operaf« ing an information bureau at Union Station to aid fellow Scouts en route to their camping grounds in the big Jjamboree city. The local Scouts are giving the newcomers directions as to whers their sections are located and the best means of getting there. During the busy days of arrival the bureau operated in shifts from 5 a.m. to mid~ night. More recently the Washington Scouts have been helping visiting parents to find their sons here. It's quite a task, what with almost 27,000 Scouts spread over miles of water front and park lands. 40-Foot Tower of Saplings. A 40-foot observation tower made ot saplings has been built in the center of the Firelands, Ohio, ares,