Scouting, Volume 48, Number 2, February 1960 Page: 26
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By WILLIAM D. CAMPBELL
International Scout Commissioner
n American troop, representing Region Eight in
the Middle West, was camped next to a troop from
Czechoslovakia at the 1946 World Jamboree in France.
The two troops found much that brought them close
together. A special friendship developed for one fifteen-
year-old Czech Scout.
Scouts usually return from a jamboree with an
address book full of names of boys with whom they
have promised to correspond. In this case the results
went much further. On their return to America, the
Mid Western Scouts decided that they would do some-
thing for their Czech friend.
Each agreed that he would earn money to put into
a fund to bring him to America. At the Christmas
reunion of the jamboree troop, they found that they
had more than enough to accomplish their plan; the
next year their friend was on his way.
The troop in addition had secured for him a four-
year scholarship at Friends University in Wichita,
Kansas. Not only did the Czech Scout complete his
college course at Friends University, but he continued
through law school and became an American citizen.
This project made the region international minded.
Its succeeding world jamboree troops have brought
four additional European Scouts to this country on
similar scholarships. One of these young men from the
Netherlands is now on a teaching fellowship at Johns
Hopkins University and studying to become a scientist.
A member of the Austrian contingent to our Second
National Jamboree in Valley Forge in 1950 was adopted
by a Wisconsin troop and given the opportunity of
completing his high school and college education in
that Mid Western state.
Other individual experiences, perhaps not as spectac-
ular, could be reported, but the final results of any
Good Turn, no matter how simple in appearance, can
never be fully evaluated.
One Scout leader who became international minded
through a world jamboree made arrangements with a
French Scout leader to exchange sons for a year. Both
of these young men are now heads of their families
in their own countries, with unusual understanding and
respect for the other's.
Although only a small proportion of us can attend
jamborees, Scouts and units can find many outlets for
world brotherhood interest. Some of these are obvious
while others depend on the interest and ingenuity of
the individual. The important factor is one's attitude.
In world brotherhood programs, for example, one
does not think of "foreigners." One of the first ideas
that a Scout learns at a world jamboree is that he,
himself, is a foreigner. The salutary lesson, when this
idea takes hold, develops some serious thinking. Some-
one has written a jingle that expresses it very well—
I used to think that foreign boys
Lived far across the sea,
Until there came a letter
From a Chinese boy to me.
"Dear foreign friend" the note began
As plain as plain could be.
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