Scouting, Volume 38, Number 7, September 1950 Page: 4
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Duplicating this view 171/2 times will give you an idea of the Jamboree camp. The aerial close-up
shows two of the thirty-five sections. The larger tents are commissary and section headquarters tents.
"Auld Lang Syne" was greeted with a sponta-
neous outburst of cheering as countless caps and
Patrol flags sailed skyward in a thunderous finale.
A Big Camp
Such were the big events which left Scout and
visitor alike with a new respect for the scope and
vitality of the Scout movement. But, unlike the
visitors who gazed in awe at the grand stage ex-
travaganzas, the Scoutmasters gazed in thrilled
satisfaction at the daily progress of the Jamboree.
Records will tell you that six thousand Patrols
cooked their own meals, but no records can reveal
the feelings of a Scoutmaster observing just one
Patrol — just 8 boys — preparing their own food
for twenty-three or more consecutive meals. How
many times last spring had he assured anxious
mothers that their boys would be well supplied
with food, and (hopefully crossing his fingers)
would be fully capable of feeding themselves.
Months of research and testing developed Jam-
boree menus which were nutritional and easy to
prepare on charcoal burners. Many a surprised
suburban parent in the past few weeks has learned
from a boy-that backyard cooking needn't be lim-
ited to weiners and hamburgers. The Jamboree
Scout cooked juicy steak, succulent fish, tender
chicken, fluffy flapjacks, and he boiled water in
ten minutes!
A smoothly-running commissary supplied the
food for the entire camp, but in day-to-day living,
each Troop and Patrol depended upon itself. Scouts
drew rations daily, prepared them, cleaned their
utensils, disposed of rubbish, and tidied up their
tents and grounds for daily inspection.
Tents were far from drab. Some were con-
structed in the shape of Conestoga wagons. Others
were finished to look like log cabins. Thousands
were decorated with cartoons, puns, and bragga-
docio. Gateways added greatly to the color. Scouts
from Dallas set up a huge cowboy and you
entered through his bowlegged chaps . . . New
Orleans Scouts built a complete replica of Jackson
Square ... A huge hen and her chicks guarded
the entrance to the camp of the "Georgia Broilers"
... A towering lighthouse for New England and
a blockhouse for Ohio ... A bamboo thatched
hut graced the Philippino entrance. It would have
taken the full week to see every gateway and
Troop site.
Scouts found time to be host to visitors from
other camps and in turn be visitors ... to practice
and play with bands and bugle corps which
thrilled all . . . to set up special demonstrations
in their own Troop areas and perhaps win a gold
or green pennant for all to know it was "outstand-
ing" ... to rehearse and appear in one of the big
pageants ... to don Indian costumes and treat
multitudes to authentic ceremonial dances ... to
spend a full day in Philadelphia visiting scenes
sacred to the winning of American Independence.
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