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Among the Boy Scouts - Washington Jamboree called off

Media

Part of The Young Citizen: The Magazine for Young People

Title

Among the Boy Scouts - Washington Jamboree called off

Creator

Pimentel, Fernando

Language

English

Source

Volume 1 (Issue no. 8) September 1935

Year

1935

Subject

Boy scouts

Scouts (Youth organization members)

Camping

Rights

Fulltext

212 THE YOUNG CITIZEN September, 19!15 THE NATIONAL SCOUT JAMBOREE that was to be held in Washington the last ten days of August was unfortunately cancelled. This was to be the greatest boy get-logether in American history. The reason for the cancellation of the jamboree was the infantile paralysis epidemic occurring at Washington. D. C. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, America's number one Scout, on the advice of the health authorities had to call the Jamboree off. It was feared that with the thirty-thousand boys concentrated in a limited space, the danger of contamination was too great to be risked. However, we wer·.: assured that it was with the greatest reluctance and after all possible measures had been carefolly studied and considered, that this was.decided upon. It was a pretty hard job to disappoint, not only the actual thousands of Scouts participating, but also their brother Scouts. parents. relatives, friends and sympathizers of the great Scout MoVement. So when we come to think of it!, we realize that this gathering includes an enormous number of persons. Multiplying the number of parents, relatives and friends that every Scout participant has, by thirtythousand, we will get a fairly big sum total. That the Jamboree was to be the greatest and bes[ yet staged in Scouting history in America. can be seen from the program planned. There were to be dozens of demonstrations and exhibits everyday. The demonstrations included: every kind of outdoor fire that man from the Stone Age to the present has ever built: how to save drowning persons in every conceivabl<! situation; and a great variety of stunts. drills, exhibiBeggars in Austria Linz, Austria. Because the number of beggars on the streets of Austria are growing they are all going to be sent to a camp. The busy citizens of th:! country claim that the beggars are a great nuisance if left to run around on the street dirty and ragged. They claim, too, that they are ashame to have visitors from foreign countries think that Austria cannot make better provision for her beggars. So instead of subjecting the beggars to a street life they will be given a chance t.o work for their food ·and clothing. Whenever a policeman discoven a beggar on -the streets of Austria, he is obliged to take him to the station. From there the beggar is sent to a camp. It is in the camp where he is given work to do. And in return for this work each beggar will receive clothing and food and in most cases also sleeping quarters. tions, games, hikes. visits to all places of notable and historic interest in and around Washington, D. C In fact, it was to be the whole S~out World in minia-: cure, represented by every scout region in America and scouts from sixty other nations. They had all been invited to pitch their tents with the Boy Scours of America in this glorious ·celebration. And not only this, but fam'aus leaders and guests were to have visited the encampment. Besides Pre.>ident Roosevelt and manY other famous Scourers, this list also included hundreds of men unusually prominent in many fields and professions: great avi3tors: great baseball players; great boxers: great mo. tion pictures and great radio actors, etc. All this, was what thz Jaffiboree was to have bee1! Nevertheless, our. efforts in trying to send a delegation to this Jamboree have not been wasted. Our boYs were granted a spzcial privilege. They are to continue their journey as previously planned. They are to visit ~resident Roosevelt and other notable.,i and present them with typical Filipino gifts. As <i matter of fact, by the time this message is published· these events will have occurred. The boys have already visited New York. They were given rousing welcomes by Scouts and Scouter:; . wherever they went. They were shown every courtesy and consideration throughout their 'half-way round the world journey.·' Expzriences like these should serve as an incentive to every Boy Scout to make good in Scouting and .10' realize how fortunate he is to be a member of such a great and world-wide organization ( Smallest Motor in the .World Kiev., Ukraine. The smallest motor in the world has just been made by a sixteen year old boy in Ukraine. Victor Nikitashenko has made it. It weighs only 1.6 grammes which represents not quite one-sixteenth of an inch. Some parts can be seen only through a magnify. ing glass. A two-volt battery runs the miniature motor. The size of the armature is five millimeters in diameter. There arc 405 twists of thin wire on it. The model has been clo.sely examined by the Institute of Physics of the All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The Academy has found it to be genuir.r working model. This .;;rrangement gives the beggar a cleaner and healthier life. It gives him a chance to become a useful citizen.