NEXT SCOUT JAMBOREE
SOUGHT FOR AMERICA The next Boy Scout World Jamboree —the fourth —may be held in America in 1933, bringing together boys from all corners of the world. A resolution was unanimously approved by all delegates at the recent International Scout Conference, held in connection with the world jamboree in England, recommending that the next be held in the United States. Final action, however, was referred to the next International Scout Conference, vzhich will be attended by delegates from all parts of the world, and which will be held in Salzburg, Austria, during the summer of 1931, states the New York “Times.”
If the jamboree is.b'rought to America it will undoubtedly be an even larger gathering of boyb thhn that at Birkenhead this summer, said by Scout leaders to have been the greatest gathering of boys in the history of the world. Between 50,000 and 60,000 boys participated in the jamboree, among them nearly 1300 Boy Scouts from America. Many of the boys had earned money to meet the cost of the trip. Next February the Boy Scouts of America will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the organisation. Hubert S. Martin, director’ of the Boy Scout International Bureau in London, reporting to the International conference at Birkenhead, described a growth generally in the Scout movement throughout the world in the last three years in spite of the fact that the Boy Scouts have disbanded in Italy, where no such youth organisation is permitted at the present time other than the Balilla, under patronage of the Fascist regime. Mr. Martin reported increases totalling 208,000, which include gains in the movement in America in the last three years—leaders, 67,590; Rover Scouts (an older Scout organisation which does not exist in the United States), 11,512; Scouts, 69,974; Sea Scouts, 4674; Wolf Cubs (a younger Scout organisation vzhich does not exist in this country), 54,858.
The international committee of scouting, consisting of nine members, with Frank Presbrey and Mortimer L. Schiff, of New York, as American representatives, will meet at Kandersteg, Switzerland, in 1930. Lord Hampton, of England, and Emmerich Teuber, of Austria, have resigned from this committee, and the vacancies were filled by the election of Count Paul Teleki, Honorary Chief Scout of Hungary and the Rev. Esther J. Jacobs, General Chaplain of the Boy Scouts of Belgium.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 27 November 1929, Page 2
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