Scouting, Volume 23, Number 5, May 1935 Page: 19
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The Jamboree and You
By SILVER BADGE-R
'HIS month marks the beginning
of the most auspicious camping Schedule
season in the whole history of the
Boy Scouts of America. Before us is
a greater objective than has previously
motivated our outdoor living. There is
training to be done for the greatest
gathering of youth America has ever
Your Jamboree Representative
"One boy from every Troop at the
Jamboree!"
But what boy?
Not the one who can best afford to
pay his way, but the boy who can best
represent his Troop, the one who can
best absorb the significance of his ex-
perience and bring back with him in-
spiration and new knowledge to be
used as a living force for the future of
the Troop.
How to choose him? Let the spring
and early summer decide your choice.
Give all of your boys an opportunity
to become well trained so that they may
all have a chance when the final selec-
tion is to be made. At the same time,
have everyone pitch in to earn money
to send the chosen ambassador to
Washington.
The most important thing, naturally,
is that your representative be a true
Scout, one to whom the Scout Oath
and Law are more than empty phrases
to be repeated occasionally.
Next in importance is that your
representative be a real camper, trained
in the art of taking care of himself and
helping to take care of his Patrol and
his Troop.
The first quality is mostly one that
must grow in each boy from within.
The other can more readily be im-
pressed upon him from without.
It is taken for granted, naturally,
that your Patrols and your Troop have
kept up an extensive hiking program all
winter long. The point is how to ex-
tend the day hikes into short-term
camping expeditions.
To make these successful it is nec-
essary to keep in mind that they should
contain
1.A regular Camp day schedule,
conscientiously adhered to.
2. Opportunity for boy leadership.
3. Scoutcraft training.
4. Patrol and, later, Troop commis-
sary and cookery.
No Troop camp can be a success if
the day is permitted to pass in a sloven-
ly and slip-shod manner, the Patrols
getting up at any old time, the boys
doing or not doing their part of the
work in camp, sitting down to eat
whenever the cooks happen to have the
food ready.
Yet many Troop short-term camps
have been run in this manner in the
past.
A responsibility should be placed on
every Patrol Leader to see to it that
his gang is prompt and willing.
Leadership
Which naturally means that the lead-
ership should be placed in the hands
of responsible boy leaders—under the
supervision, only, of the adult leaders.
The Patrol Method in the Troop
can be nurtured and strengthened more
in camp than at the weekly Troop
meetings—and should be.
Advancement
"Scoutcraft training" is just another
way of expressing the idea of advance-
ment in the Troop.
Too much emphasis has been placed
upon "meeting Requirements" to get
another Badge. In camp the different
phases of Scoutcraft can be made living
things instead of "class room subjects."
A boy lights a fire and cooks a meal
to serve himself and others, not to
m
Lt. Col. Joseph Charles Fegan, representing
the United States Navy; a new member of
the President's Jamboree Committee.
"pass" a "test." He signals across the
lake to inform the boys of another
Patrol that they are to return to camp
immediately. He swims for the fun of
it. And so on.
The point is that every camping trip
of Patrol or Troop should give a boy
an opportunity to become a better
trained Scout, which mostly is depen-
dent upon the imagination of the
responsible leaders.
Troop Cookery
If we are to succeed in having
Troops summer camping under their
own leadership, Troop commissary and
Troop cookery must first be mastered
at numerous short-term camps.
It is poor procedure—unfortunately
widely practiced—to have individual
boys at Patrol and Troop camps sit
around individual fires preparing in-
dividual meals. It's too "Element'ry,
Dr. Watson!" as Sherlock Holmes
would say.
A boy gets his early training in cook-
ing by making his- own food on the
hikes of his Patrol. By the time he is
ready to go camping, he should have
graduated out of the beginner's class
into the next: be able to help prepare
a meal and serve it for his Patrol; i.e.
Patrol Cookery. This, in its turn, is the
logical step toward Troop cooking, at
which one Patrol at a time prepares
the meal for the complete Troop. This
method conserves time and energy and
is the most practicable for Troop sum-
mer camping.
Your Boy ct the Jamboree
The above points are features of the
Jamboree Camp reflected in the camp-
ing of your Troop.
In Washington there will be a regu-
lar daily schedule, there will be oppor-
tunity for boy leadership, occasiog for
every boy to show his Scoutcraft abili-
ties, and all commissary will be on a
Troop basis.
To be prepared for the Jamboree
your representative should have experi-
enced these features in his own Troop.
He has a right to! and so has every
other boy in your Troop!
Set out this year to have your whole
Troop in its camping come up to the
Jamboree standards, and its life will be
linked to that great event with an in-
visible, yet powerfully motivating
thread.
MAY, 1935
Plan Now for Troop Participation in the Jamboree
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