SCOUTING NEWS OVERSEAS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 206, 16 September 1937, Page 12

SCOUTING NEWS OVERSEAS

This is out of the bulletiu from headquarters in London. "The American National Jamboree to celebrate the silver jubilee of the Boy Scouts oi America, in Washington is now over and 25,000 Scouts from all parts of the world have gone liomewards witli enougli memories of the Western Hemisphere's greatest camp to last them a hietime. The tented city covered 350 acres of ground along the south bauk or the Potomac river. it was opened on June 29 and finished on July 9. A party of fii'ty-live scouts represented the British Isles. This greatest celebration of America's twenty-tive years of scouting was originally planned to take place in 1935, but owing tp illness ;n Washingtou, was postponed. President Roosevelt, who was Honorary Camp Chief, speut much of his timo tryiug to sea as niaiiy scouts iu camp as he could. Sea Scouts in Their Elemont. In additiou to the progrumuio arranged for Scouts, which iiicluded rallics and cainp-fires, about a thousand Sea Scouts gave displays on the river, They scb up their uncampment on Hains Poiub, between the Potomac and Washington Channel. There they constructed a model ship where they held special ship ceremonies and reviews. A Walking Broadoasting Station. Another feature of the broadcasting arrangements was the pack-set unit. With camplete sending and receiving appartus fitting into a pack about the size of an average scout ruc-sac, a roving announcer hiked through muny parts of the camp, commenting on the aetivities to millions of listeners in all parts of the world, through the prearranged wireless network. Shortwave stations cai'ried the jamboree programmes to listeners in Europe. The broadcasting studio was linked with the Washington master controi, and through that to New York master control of both the National Broadcast? ing Company'B networks totalling 120 stations.