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33,000 SEE DIXIE 'SCOUTS PERFORM Impressive Pageant Staged by 3,300 Boys From Southland. Before a throng estimated at more then 35,000 Boy Scouts from nine Southern States attending the na- tiopal jamboree last night staged in their arena at the base of the Wash- ington Monument the third and most Impressive 50 far of a series of “Caval- cades of Scouting.” Based on the theme that scouting ideals expressed in the Scout oath and laws, “like the romance of life, are eternal,” the presentation differed greatly in character from those given previously. It was given in two parts, the first by 1500 Scouts from Louis- lana, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee: the second by 1,800 Scouts from Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina. More solemn in character than pre- ceding performances, the cavalcade heralded a day of impressive religious services for the Scouts today. Pope Grants Special Blessing. Pope Pius XI yesterday granted a special apostolic blessing to members of the Catholic Committee on Scout- ing and to all of those who will par- beipate in a solemn pontifical field mass at 10 am. in the arena. Notification that the blessing had been granted was communicated by His Excellency Archbishop Amalito Cicognani, apostolic delegate to the United States, now in Rome, in a radiogram received here by the Most Rev. Francis G. Kelley, Bishop of Oklahoma City and Tulsa and chair- Man of the Catholic Committee on Scouting. The text of the message Tollows “I am authorized to inform you that the holy father has granted a special apostolic blessing to the mem- bers of the Catholic Committee on Bcouting and to all those who partici- pate in the fleld mass being celebrated I Washington on occasion of the National Jamboree of Boy Scouts of America."” Plantation Scene Opens Show. “The Boys from Dixie,” opened last Right's show with a cotton plantation scene in which slaves hoed cotton around a little log cabin to the music of spirituals. There was a massing of banners as the 1,500 Scouts of Region V marched into the arena to stage simultaneous displays over a six-acre §tage of such Scouting activities as tower building. erection of camps, fire making. construction of tepees, first ®id. wall scaling, signaling with flags, flashlights and fireworks and many other activities. Sea Scouts fired a lifeline, rigged a breeches buoy and “rescued” a screaming “lady” who dis- closed hairy shanks and masculine socks and garters when “she” slipped into the carrier. A group of Scouts equipped with a trailer camp set up a complete camp, from tents with beds made up to a table and benches set up for supper, in three minutes. They broke camp and were ready to move in a fraction under two minutes. There was a picturesque Indian dance representing the earliest days of Scouting and the Scouts joined in a colorful salute to “Scouts of the North, East and West” while flares blazed from the tops of their hastily built towers and the United States flag 108 on & 30-foot portable staff The Scouts of Region VI based their show on the imaginary quest of Ponce de Leon through more than {our centuries for a fountain of youth which he finally found in the “eternal vouth of Scouting.” An aged De Leon, at the head of his army, visited the Seminoles, the Catawbas, the Chero- keee and other tribes in his quest and witnessed the growth and develop- ment of America. He saw De Soto exploring the country, Florida settled, Bouth Oarolina hotst its provincial flag. the first steamer, S8avannah, start Bcross the Atlantic and the launching of the Wright airplane at Kitty Hawk, N. C. He Found the Fountain, He witnessed the development of Bcouting and watched Scouts build en edifice upon a foundation marked "Reverence” and containing stones marked with the Scout ideals— "Clean, Kindly, Priendly, Brave, Help- ful, Thrifty, Loyal, Cheerful, Trust- worthy, Belf, Others,” and, on top “God” And in the ideals and spirit of Bcouting, explained the commenta- tor, he at last found his fountain of eternal youth. The cavalcade closed with the presentation by Dr, James E. West, Chiet Bcout, and Scout President W. W. Head of Eagle Soout badges to 46 Scouts of Region VI. “These badges,” Dr. West said, “are evidence that you have won 21 merit badges and are maintaining service relations with your troops and are putting into practice the ideals of the 8cout Law and Oath, “1 eharge you to make it your duty before God and man to meintain these ideals and pray that all your lives you may be good Scouts.” FLOOD OF GOOD TURNS 270,000 Uneelfish Acts Par for Jamboree. Some astatistician at the jamboree has figured up that if each visiting Bcout does-the daily good turn his troop manual enjoins, there will be at least 270,000 such unselfish acts per- formed during the big encampment. But, it was pointed out, with such enlarged opportunities the help-some- body-do-something department should be able to total up half a miilion good turns by July 9. Repi;—l; Scout’s Wire for Funds Holds UpPageant The Boy Scout Jamboree pageant was interrupted last night as loud speakers blared out to some 35,000 spectators the message: “‘Attention, Willis (Hippo) O’Connor of Ottawa, Canada, Scout contingent. Report to your headquarters at once for & telegram. Any cne seeing Willis ©O'Connor, tell him to report to head- qQuarters. It is urgent.” O'Commor reported to find the wire was from his father, Col. Willis O'Con-~ nor, chief aide de camp to the Gov- ernor Qeneral. The father had re- nursed a pair of baby rabbii found on their camp site. pair made just a (upper). Milk All through the night, one- hour shifts, two Indiana scouts The handful was fed them through an eye-dropper (lower). Ls But the best efforts of the boys, Don Camp and Bill- Sell, were in vain. The babies refused their food, grew weaker and weaker and finally passed away in the little nest of warm flannel made by the two boys. Yesterday the sorrowing Indiana boys placed the tiny rabbits in a cardboard “casket” and held funeral services beside a freshly-dug grave. Advocates of NEW kind of Boy Scout hat? The traditional wide-brimmed, khaki colored headdress thrown overboard for another type? The question was thrown into the whirl of the jamboree Friday, when at the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the National Council, the Execu- tive Committee of the Philadelphia Council submitted a resolution ask- ing that a new Scout hat be devel- oped, “since it is apparent that boys do not care to wear the present Scout hat.’ An inquiring reporter yesterday put that question to a cross section of the national encampment and found: | 1. Considerable sentiment in favor of a new hat. 2. Some sentiment for making hats optional as part of the official Scout uniform A member of the general staff of | the jamboree, who asked that his| name not be used, said: | “In the first place, the hat is a | nuisance. It’s always getting in the | way, and the only time it comes in handy for me is during a rain, when it acts as a good umbrella.” Favors Visor-Type Cap. While most of the interviewed wha dislike the present hat could offer no ideas for a substitute topper, tmsl man said he had a definite idea as to | a8 new kind | | | “Have you seen what the Polish boys are wearing? That's what I'd like to see in use. They are small, garrison-type caps, with visors. They look neat and they won't get in the | way."” | The resolution submitted by the | Philadelphia group also asked con- sideration of long trousers as an op- tional part of the official Senior Scout uniform. Sharts were agreed upon as the offi- cial uniform for the jamboree, but the regular Senior Scout uniform specifies breeches. Long trousers may be worn by Senior Scout leaders and officers. A number of thase interviewed felt that long trousers should be made optional, but as many others were of the opinion that Senior Scout dress should be the same, for the sake of appearance. Donald Conover, 14, Brookline Troop 3 of Philadelphia, would like a | hat with a wider brim, breeches for | the younger boys but “longies” for older Senior Scouts. Ralph Wilson of Beaumont, Tex., was emphatic in his belief that some new kind of a hat should be devised. Hats “Don’t Last.” "My chief objection.” he said, “is that they won't hold their shape, get fuzzy and don't last. Why, all the boys in my section of the ocountry dislike them. When we start out on a hike, they ask: ‘Do we have to wear the hats?’ Take this hat I have. T've only worn it a few days, and it already is out of shape.” Wilson's troop chief, §. F. Foster, wag of the same opinion. He said his boys would rather not wear any hats at all. E. A McIntyre, a Harvard, T, 8couter, said the boys don't wear eeived a letter from his son asking for $20. He wanted “to know what it is ol about,” Mo. Sailors, by tradition, have sweethearts in every is was dbut natural that the 300 Sea Scouts at the jamboree should adopt a Washington sweetheart. Varney, shown sewing the shirt of Charles Downing, St. Joseph, Scouts Want New Type Hat Broad-brimmed Topper Criticized by Smaller Style. hats unless they have to. As for the shorts, he said they're all right here, “but back in my home town, none of the Senior Scouts will weer them.” He said he thought should be made optional. The general staff member who did not wish to be quoted said a Scout can get a complete uniform for about | $5 or $6 and that the cost of the | official hat is almost as much as the rest of the dress combined. Phillip, Shivell, 15-year-old Scout from Kingsport, Tenn. said he is satisfied with the hat, but would like to see long trousers made optional Plerre Thyvaert, 15, of New York City, also prefers to leave the hat as it is. The resolution submitted by the Philadelphia Council. upon which no action was taken, said that the Na- | tional Council should develop a new Scout hat “that boys want to wear and that they feel is within a price that they can afferd, since it is ap- parent that boys do not care to wear the present Scout hat.” It said that 8 number of Senior Scouting units were losing boys due to the fact that they did not care to wear the pre- scribed uniform for Senior Scouting and asked consideration of long trousers as an optional part of the official Senior Scout uniform. U. S. BOY SCOUTS GREETED BY POLES | Visiting Group Delivers Letter Wishing Furtherance of Aims on Independence Day. An Independence day greeting was received yesterday at jamboree head- quarters from Boy Scouts in Poland. The message, addressed to the Boy Scouts of America, was signed by Dr. Michael Grazynski, president of the Polish Boy Scouts Association. The letter was delivered through the Polish delegation at the camp. “On occasion of the jubilee jam- boree of the American Scouts.” the message said, “I am sending, in the name of the Polish Boy Scouts Asso- | ciation, to all our American brother Scouts, brotherly greetings along with hearty wishes of the further develop- ment and mightiness of your organi- zation. “The Polish Boy Scouts are grate- ful to their brother Scouts in America for the fruitful collaboration, which | had place s0 far and have deep faith, that the true friendship, which joins our organizations and which is based on grounds of brotherly asso- ciation and our affection in common for the Bcouting idea, will be ever- lasting. “You have served God and your country loyally a quarter of an age already—obedient to the Scout law— ‘physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight'—and on this day of your great holiday all the Polish Scouts are sending you their heartiest wishes of further praise- worthy service for the good of your great aims.” In Port—Another Sweetheart port. So She is preity Jackie —Star Staff Photo, ' long trousers | SCOUTS T HOLD ARLINGTON RS | Selected Group of About! | 5,000 to Join in Services Tomorrow. Selected jamboree Scouts of the world, who have dedicated themselves to work for peace, will hold memorial services in the Amphitheater at Arling- ton National Cemetery at 9:45 am. tomorrow in honor of the Nation's | heroic dead of war and peace. Since the capacity of the Amphi- | theater is limited to 5,000, only one | Scout of each five in attendance at [ the jamboree can be admitted to the | services. The World Jamboree camp and international delegations will be | represented by 500 Scouts and leaders | | from 25 nations. Each of the other | | 20 sections will contribute a total of | | 250 Scouts and Scouters, 5,000 in all. | | The column of 5500 Scouts and | | leaders is to form inside the Memorial | | Gate, near section A of the cemetery, |8t 9:30 am. tomorrow and at 9:45 | a.m. all contingents will march to the | Amphitheater. Sections in East Po- | | tomac Park, near Hains Point, will be | | transported to the cemetery in special | buses. Massing of Flags. The program, which is to be broad- | cast, will begin with the massing of United States flags and Scout banners | on the right and left of the Amphithe- ater stage. Dr. James E. West, chief 8cout, will be the presiding officer and the ad- dress will be made by Dr. John W. Studebaker, United States ocommis- | be “Our Heroes of War and Peace.” The Region VII band will play and | | will provide an accompaniment for | the singing of “America” by the as- | | sembled Scouts. During the ainging | the foreign delegations and the Scouts { of the World Jamboree camp will place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Bugler te Sound Taps. ‘The services will close with the sounding of “Taps” by a Scout bugler in the band and the 8couts will march from the amphitheater and out of the cemetery in formation. | Boy Scouts representing each of the | 48 States, Hawaii and the District of Columbia will take part in Washing- | ton's Independence day celebration tomorrow night. Dr. James E. West, chief Scout ex- | ecutive, will designate two members | of each delegation to carry their col- ors in the procession of flags. In addition, 144 torch bearers will par- ticipate in the parade that will pre- cede the spectacular pageant of fire- works which the District is putting | on at the Ellipse. Fireworks Tomorrow. Nearly all the 25,000 Scouts at- tending the jamboree will be massed at this end of the park to see the fireworks and other features of the Fourth of July program. The nightly shows being staged by the boys in the arena will be suspended for that night to enable every one to celebrate the Fourth with Washington's thou- sands. ‘The Scouts are taking part at the request of Col. John W. Oehmann, chairman of the Independence Day Committee of military, patriotic and veterans’' organizations in the Dis- trict. Scout groups will put in a large part of Monday on sight-seeing trips to historic points, including Arlington National Cemetery and Mount Ver- non. Dr. West told the youngsters yes- terday they would be expected to ob- serve not only local prohibition against powder fireworks but also to carry out one of scquting's principles—‘A safe and sane Fourth of July.” 20-MINUTE BUS SERVICE PROVIDED FOR JAMBOREE Hains Point Line Route Is Given. Btarts at 8 A.M., Continues to 9 P.M. the jamboree camp is being main- tained by the Hains Point line, the only one reaching East and West Potomac Park. Buses. start from the south side of ' the Treasury, beginning at 8 a.m. and continuing until about 9 p.m. The 20- minute service will continue through- out the jamboree. Route of the Hains Point line is west from the Tressury terminal, south of White House and over State place to Seventeenth street, south to Constitution avenue, west to Lincoln Memorial, south on Riverside drive to Haitis Point. Returning, north on the drive to Tidal Basin, around the basin to Seventeenth street, north to State place and east to Treasury. ' —Star Staff Photos. Twenty-minute bus service through Bill Sell Marion, In the poor li without a of their furry friends. grave, wept without shame. “Gee,” he said, “we did the best we could for them—but and his comrades of Troop 2, d., were deeply moved by the loss Bill, shown at the ttle things didn't have a chance mother!” All Typfi qf Tents Seen Canvas Novelties Range From New Zealand Entry to Lancaster, Pa., Giant. BY GORDON ENGLEHART, Local Scout Assigned to Cover the Jamboree for The Star | ENTS, tents, tents. East or West, North or South, that's all you'l | see in the jamboree camp,| which is rightfully known as! the “City of Tents.” | At first glance, probably the only | type you'll notice will be rvgumnon} army wall tenis, but on closer in-| spection, there is a surprisingly varied collection. | The adminis- | tration offices at | ] | headquarters are like circus tents. The only others anywhere near their size are the kitchen fly tents, under which six tables are easily placed. The Scouts? from New land have ported with them a tent which has no cousin in camp. | They call it a house tent with fly. It | starts out like a common wall tent, but covering the entire top is a fly, Gordon Enclehart, | 22, and has been in service for four years at their local camporees; they have “never seen its equal.” It is 20 feet long and holds eight boys. It was | pointed out that while ordinary tents holding the same number of Scouts would weigh around 28 pounds, this weighs only 17. It is somewhat like an elongated Baker tent, but con- vertible flaps on the side transform it into a more serviceable tent. They the end of the jamboree. SCOUT HOSPITAL TENT moval Combination Is Spe- cial at 40 Cents. Some wag placed on the hospital { tent at the Scout jamboree a scale of “prices” for various services “Because of the rush of busines: said the placard, “the following | will prevail until further notice.” Prices cited: | Amputating, left leg, 50 cents; which is supported by logs which they ordered after arriving in camp. They | have added improvements of their| own to the original, which has' been in use in New Zealand for many | years.: They find it roomy and cool. Troops from Worcester, Mass., have | in use Dan Beard tents, which the| famous Scout himself designed. They hoid two boys comfortably: their dis- sioner of education. His subject is to | tinguishing feature is & brim which | juts out in front. New York State brought along Baker | tents made of airplane cioth in every color imaginable—blue, red, green, purple and orange. The contingent from Rochester, N. Y., is sporting Forester tents made of | & special material called aberlite. A combination wall and Forester tent is being used by Scouts from Cin- cinnati The Richmond, Va., Council is en- camped in small dog tents on whic scenes taken from the history of Vir- | ginia have been painted Scouts from Ohio, with an eye for variety, have transported from their native Indian haunts tepees. They have unlimited height and * hold four boys Kentuckians had in mind regular lean-tos, and had even built some on the grounds before they discovered | they were too small to sleep in. How- ever, they use them for supplies, etc. | Boasting 28 different uses, trail tents are employed by Ohioans. They are made of lightweight balloon silk. They can be used by single Scouts, arranged into small Baker tents and tied together into a form of pyramid ! tent. Explorer tents, looking like low- slung pyramids, are used by Scouts from Palmyra, Pa Second only to the Army wall tents | and officers’ tents (very similar) are | | the pyramid tents, looking exactly as their name implies, used by troops | from Washington, Pa. ; The most ingenious tent in camp is used by a troop from Lancaster, Pa. It was invented by Paul Kutz of Troop What’s This? Log Rolling in Reflection Pool? A schcd:filsd log-rolling, to be a log-rolling exhibit been suppl under water. [ A\ yellow, leg. 75 cents; left arm, 45 cents; | arm, 55 cents. Removing appendix, 35 cents. Removing tonsils, 10 cents Removing stomach, 90 cents. Removing spinal column only), 75 cents The sign added: (today removed for only 40 cents.” will probably be offered for sale at | LISTS SERVICE “PRICES” | Sign Says Appendix-Tonsils Re- | “Special—today | only—Have your tonsils and appendix | ~-JAMBOREE NEWS, SCOUTS' HEALTH RATING 1S HIGH Scratch or Bone Break Gets Prompt Attention—Few Cases So Far. A high score in health was given ‘Washington's 25,000 encamped Boy Bcouts yesterday by their chief medical officer, Dr. W. L. Smith. Dr. Smith, Public Health Service physician from New Orleans, sum- marized the ills and spills of the Scouts in a few words—"70 in the hos- pital s0 far, 20 discharged and not 25 bona fide hospital cases in the whole bunch.” Jamboree doctors take no chances If your own boy gets an infected foot or finger, you call the family doctor and your son is treated at home. But if he’s encamped in the jamboree tent city and gets the same thing, off he goes to the hospital. Not only are the Scouts as a whole doing very well in the way of health, but those who do have silments con- tracted them in many cases before they came to Washington or on their way to | the Capital by train, bus or boat. This | was the case with the only victim of poison ivy in camp, Dr. Smith said. It was the same with several victims of gastro-intestinal disturbences These boys were sick when they left the trains at Union Station. No Danger of Epidemic. Dr. Smith refused to view with alarm four cases of mumps and one “sus- pect” “There is no danger of an epidemic of any type,” he said. “The boys are confined to their own sec- tion and not allowed to mingle with Scouts of other sections.” Thus far, two Scouts have lost their | appendix under the knife. Botn are | doing very well, according to the medi- | cal chief The “breaks” so far have been a broken leg, ankle and arm and two broken collar bones. One Scout who was wrestling with a chum and an- other who fell down were the collar bone victims. A boy fell while sealing a wall and broke his ankle. Another Scout was standing on a log when he lost his footing. He put out his arm as he fell and it was broken at the wrist. Yesterday, there were only four hos- pital cases up to noon—three admitted and one under observation. Those | admitted had been hurt in accidents. | As for Fourth of July fireworks, the chief medical officer anticipated no casualties. He termed the dental sit- uation “very good.” Three dentists keep the dental unit open 24 hours a day on the headquarters ground. Sent Quickly to Hospital. “We take absolutely no chances.” | said Dr. Smith. “Under no cwcum- stances will a boy be kept in camp | over 24 hours if he is ill. We shoot them off to the hospital. Only sev- | eral minor cases can be charged to | the jamboree. Several boys were sent in for X-rays which proved negative Dr. Smith might be called the jam- | boree's first patient as well as its first medical officer. e was appointed to head the jamboree medical set-up two yvears ago. He came to Waskington to confer with the surgeon general of the Public Health Service about plans for the Scout reception “I told the surgeon general T was worried about the cars on the Memo- | rial Highway, for fear the encamped | Scouts might get hit by them.” re- | counted the doctor. “My fears should have been for myself.” { Dr. Smith left the Public Health | Building and was struck by an auto- | mobile as he crossed the mtersection at Nineteenth street and Constitution SCOUTS SKATE Entire Troop Roll About City to Sightsee. Troops 11 and 12, from Manhattan, N. Y. have found an easy and inex- pensive way of sight-seeing in Wash- ington—they use roller skates. Shortly after their arrival they | found that bicycles were hard to get | at times and they had to pay for them | whether using them or not. So the en- tire delegation of 70 Scouts and officers purchased skates and have been rolling | around town ever since. Their camp | is easy to reach by skate, too, being | the Lincoln Memorial. The Scoutmas- ters are Lawrence Abt and Gilbert | Lewis. Program Monday. 7:00 a.m.—Reveille. 7:45 a.m —Breakfast. 10:00 a.m.—Exercise at Tomb of Un- | known Soldier, Arlington. | 12:30 p.m.—Luncheon. 3:00 p.m.—Camp theaters, first per- | formance. 3:00 p.m.—Band concert in arena. 4:00 p.m.—Sea Scout regatta. 4:30 pm.—Camp theaters, performance. 6:00 p.m.—Dinner. 8:00 pm.—Independence day pro- gram. District of Columbia fireworks | display. 10:00 p.m.—Taps. second contest in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool yesterday turned ou. n by Scouts Emor; around Aberdeen, Wash. The contest was o, Daneker and Hans when the rollers ied Jor the contest instead of the regulation fir log. Both boys ended the exhibition ~ | Jocated next to a paved sidewalk near | avenue. He suffered a broken collar | bone, five broken ribs and the lower lobe of his left lung collapsed. He was rushed to Baltimore where he | remained in a hospital for 10 weeks. “The man who hit me had no money, 5o I didn't even collect dam- ages,” Dr. Smith recalled | SETS SPEED MARK The fastest Boy Scout at the jam- boree is Victor S. Wrazlowsky of Brooklyn. At least he broke all records on the speed-testing machine in the ex- hibit tent of Boys' Life, official publi- | cation of the organization. This machine registers automatical- | Iy the time it takes a boy to touch | three electrically recording buttons, | the first from a sitting posture on the floor and the other two after ristng and whirling to the right. Vietor made the test in 85 hun- dredths of a second. FAIL TO TUNE-IN PLANE The Boy Scout Jamboree short- wave wireless station, W-3-USA, made determined efforts all Friday night and yesterday to establish contact with Amelia Earhart, missing in the South Seas. But there was too much interference, and the Scout operators were unable to pick up the plane in distress or rescue planes. ‘They were still trying last night. Bielski from the lumber country discovered a cedar carlin had SCOUTS TOATTEND RELIGIOUS RITES Grand National Convocation Will Be Held at 7 0’Clock Tonight. Youthful voices of 25000 Boy 8couts will be lifted in songs of praise to their Maker when the grand na- tional convocation of the jamboree is held at the Washington Monument at 7 o'clock tonight, All faiths, creeds and sects will join in this mass outpouring of allegianne to the higher power which every good Scout recognizes as the basis o? his loyalty to his flag, bis parents. his leaders and to the internanonal brotherhood of boyhood which his order represents The convocation promises to be ons of the most impressive religious spece tacles the Capital has ever seen Massed about the Monument, the boys from every State in the Union, from distant island possessions and from nearly a score of foreign na- tions will sing “America, the Beau- tiful,” “Hail, Hail, Scouting Spirit,” “My Country 'Tis of Thee,” and the Kipling “Recessional.” The Marine Band will start the great outdoor service with “The Stars and Stripes Forever” and close it with “The Star Spangled Banner.” The convocation is under direction of the National Council, Boy Scouts of America, and its purpose is “To objectify our allegiance to the religious principles which undergird our national life. Tt is not a union service of worship. It is our united expression of loyal support of the spiritual forces which have contrib- uted so much to the progress and well-being of our people from the foundation of this republic.” Marine Band Concert. The Marine Band will give a con- cert from 6 to 7 o'clock. After the opening hymn, “America,” the army of boyhood will hear “tributes to the religious policies of the Boy Scout movement by national leaders of ma= Jjor religious faiths.” These tributes will he voiced for the Jewish Committee on Scouting by Rev. Dr, Israel Goldstein, D. H. L., rabbi of the congregation of B'Nal Jeshurun, New York City; for the Catholic Committee on Scouting by the Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, D. D, Archbishop of New Orleans; for the Latter Day Saints by Presi- dent J. Reuben Clark, jr., Salt Lake City, and for the Protestant Commit- tee on Scouting by Rev. Dr. William C. Covert, D. D.. chairman The invocation will be pronounced by Right Re lip Cook, D. D, president of the National Council of the stant Episcopal Church and Bishop of the Diocese of Delaware Walter W. Head, president of the Boy Scouts of America, will speak on “Our Debt to Religion.™ The singing will be led by Lannv Ross and Oscar Kirkham. The Most Rev. Francis L. Beckman, D. D, Archbishop of Bubuque, will pro- nounce the benediction, followed by the sounding of “Taps” by a group of buglers There will be other religious serv- ices during the day to impress on the Scouts the significance of their only Sunday in camp. Field Mass at 10 A.M. The Catholic boys will attend a solemn pontifical field mass a 10 am. in the jamboree arena. Arc bishop Rummel will pontificate a throne, and Archbishop Beckman will preach the sermon. Holy mass is ce ebrated daily in the various section of the camp where Catholic Scouts are located Protestant denominations will join in sponsoring morning services from 9 to 10 o'clock in six sections of the tent city. These services are under the direction of Dr. Covert Scout bands, group singing, ceremonies and responsive readings will mark the Protestant services, They were arranged by Dr. W. L. Darby, secretary of the Washington Federation of Churches, and partici- pating ministers are Dr. Covert, Rev. Allen A. Stockdale, D. D repre« senting the Congregational Church; Rev. Oscar F. Blackwelder, D. D, Church of the Reformation, Luth- eran; Rev. A. P. Wilson, Columbia Heights Christian; Rev William s. Abernethy, D. D, Calvary Baptisi: Rev. Albert P, Shirkey, Methodist Episcopal South; Rev. A. J. McCart- ney, D. D, Covenant-First Presby- terian; Rev. G. Ellis Williams, D. D, Methodist Episcopal: Rev Edward H, Pruden, Ph. D, First Baptist, and Dr. Rufus W. Weaver, Association of Baptist Churches. The same order of service will be observed at each of the Protestant services, to which the boys will be summoned by church call on the bugles. Patriotic Significance. Since this Sunday is Independence day, the religious significance of pa- triotism will be emphasized in sere mons. The four churches of Christ, Scien- tist, of Washington, will hold a serve ice in the auditorium tent at “G. H, Q.” near the Washington Monument, at 9 am. today Apostle Melvin J. Ballard of the Latter Day Saints Church invites bovs of that faith to attend a service in the chapel at Sixteenth street and Columbia road at 10 a.m Bus trans- portation from camp will be provided. Services for Jewish Scouts were held at 7 o'clock Friday night and at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, in the au- ditorium tent. The sermons were ' preached by Rabbi Phillip D. Book- staber of Harrisburg, Pa. Rabbi Jesse J. Finkle is Jewish chaplain of the Jamboree, under appointment of Dr, Cyrus Adler, chairman of the Na- tional Jewish Committee on Scouting, A reception for visiting Jewish Scouts was held yesterday afternoon in the auditorium. Morris Stein was chairman of the local Reception Com- mittee. flag TENT EXPERTS Philndelphin: ’i‘roopl ;itch Canyas 25 Different Ways. Educational note in the Scout camp is “How to Pitch a Tent 25 Different Ways,” & course offered to all-comers by two Philadelphia troops in section’ . R. Their camp is located near the Lincoln Memorial in West Potomas Park. There are 36 “trail tents” pitched there, each being nothing more than a 9-foot square section of lightweighs canvas, but the Scouts have found 25 different ways of setting them up,. ranging from the conventional lean-to model to complicated round and pyra= mid-shaped structures. The troops are —Star Staff Photo. | under the leadership of Scoutmasters - Win Phillips and Bob McCombe.