Scouting, Volume 25, Number 4, April 1937 Page: 6
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The Scouts' Own Newspaper
The Jamboree Journal
This is a Reprint of a Communication to Scout Executives for Jamboree Scouts
It's Like This
It's a tabloid. Easy to handle. Easy
to pack and take home.
Adventures at the Jamboree and
pictures will crowd each other with
daily news from the Scout point of
view.
American wide—world wide Scout
news. Eastern and Western Hemis-
phere Scout news will be packed into
this tabloid. No advertising to take
up valuable space.
East will meet West. Asia will
hobnob with America. North will
meet South in this Scout made—made
at the Jamboree—Jamboree Journal.
Scouts from foreign countries, camp-
ing their native way, on the banks of
your own historic Potomac will furnish
news items and new ideas for your
newspaper.
It will burst with Regional and
Council news. It will overflow with
things to see—things to do—events
worth remembering.
Scout cartoons—Scout comic strips
and comics will add bright spots.
Who's that old timer over there?
Who's that leader here or there?
"Who's Who" will tell you.
Scout Reporters will send in the
last crisp details of last minute news.
You can be "Vox Populi" or what-
ever you want to call it and write the
Editor and see it published in the
paper. Register praise or register any-
thing of importance and have it printed
in the "Hit and Miss" column of
"Scout Scribblings."
Why It's Like This
In 1929 the "Daily Arrow" was
published at the Arrowe Park, Eng-
land World Jamboree.
So great was the Scout demand for
this Scout newspaper it became almost
impossible to maintain enough file
copies for records. Editions vanished
into the camps as the presses ceased
running.
Scouts turned to them and found
where to go—what to do—what was
happening and why. It was a guide—
a directory — an information booth —
aJi Soiled into one.
This Jamboree Journal will be all
this and will be your record—your
book of memories. It's the easiest way
to keep the gang at home posted as to
what you have seen and done, and
what everybody else saw and did.
Your Scoutmaster—your Dad and
Mother can be kept informed by this
Scout newspaper.
Without a past—without a future
except as a vital record, this news
sheet will spring full grown from the
presses on the night of June 28th.
For 11 glorious jam full days of
doings it will flash from the presses
of the Washington News.
Aided and abetted by the best news-
paper talent of Washington, D. C.,
but distinctly Scout reported and writ-
ten, it will see all and know all of the
Jamboree's high and low spots.
It will be a complete record for
your Troop or District scrapbook.
It will record the President of the
United States as he talks with the
30,000 Scouts or reviews them.
It will record the day your Con-
gressman and Senator met you at the
Monument.
It will record your Troop camp
site—your pageant—your play—your
highest high spot.
The world's greatest Scout inter-de-
nominational convocation on Sunday
will be recorded in news and camera
shots.
The fireworks on the Fourth of July
in which Washington excels but this
year will outdo itself will be caught
with high speed, candid cameras and
set down as a permanent record.
The Air Circus—the Navy flotilla,
the airplanes at Boiling Field right
next door to many camps will all be
noted, photoed, and will crowd each
other as front page news.
Your Diary (Of course you will keep
yours in the 1937 Scout Diary)
However, the most perfectly kept
diary or collection of diaries can never
record all the multitude of happenings.
16 x 11—176 pages (this size) packed
with diary notes and photos will be
the total of this Jamboree Journal,
"Diary" of Daily Doings. Quite a
sizeable book to take home or send
home to your folks and the Scouts of
the Troop you left behind.
Your gang who helped with their
team work and made it possible for
your getting to Washington will enjoy
reading and seeing the pictures on
those 176 pages. The least you can do
is to enter a subscription to the Journal
for them.
Then they'll know the whole story,
hot off the presses. Back home news
while it is news will be arriving each
day. Your brother, your dad, your
buddies will find your Jamboree face
smiling at them from some camera
shot, taken in the midst of some stir-
ring Jamboree incident.
You'll have little enough time in
your busy goings and comings for more
than short letters or postcards. They
won't expect more. Surprise them. See
that they get the whole complete story
of your "tenting ten nights" on the
historic romantic banks of the Potomac
far away. Subscribe for them.
The Troop
Your Scoutmaster and buddies can
gear quite a lot of Troop doings in
with the Jamboree. The broadcasts—
the regattas, the big opening and clos-
ing nights will be theirs to duplicate in
the camps and meeting places.
Councils
Bundle lots can be sent to Councils
if they so wish and will notify the
Editor promptly.
This vivid picture of National Boy
Scouting at its peak, produced by Scout
reporters is a wonderful approach to
the important men you wish to reach
in your Council.
It will give many workers valuable
vital talking points for Scouting talks.
Committeemen, Council Members,
Commissioners, should have this breezy
report of the greatest National activity
since 1910. Here is a mine of strikingly
helpful Scout material. Here is gath-
ered and recorded twenty-seven years
of Scout growth and accomplishment
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 25, Number 4, April 1937, periodical, April 1937; New York, New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth313026/m1/6/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.