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Show York Oily. Niagara Falls, Dearborn, Dear-born, Mich., and Greenf iolcj Village; Vil-lage; Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. most pronounced about knees exposed ex-posed to the sun's glare by the abbreviated shorts. But they were all well and happy. Illness failed to mar the trip. In fact, most of the boys gained weight, despite miles of walking in eastern heat. The most serious seri-ous of the minor cuts and bruises expected concomittants of camp life, was suffered by Kenneth Hughes of Spanish Fork, son of Dr. Joseph Hughes, who accompanied ac-companied the group. His right foot was cut when the head of a shower was dislodged accidentally. acci-dentally. firoat Experience; ' Duffle bags. llmD and half- Travel Weary Scouts Return From Jamboree Y KAY McOriKE Spfrlal Hcnild Correspondent "Home apain!" That phrase, joyously re-echoed HI travel-worn scouts and scouters, who poured from their "Jamboree Special" early today at the Union depot, wrote "finis" tn a ereat scouting adventure. than a mere pleasure trip. It was literally an "experience of a life time." Great Scout City Without exception, the Utah scouts are still gasping at the efficiency of the organization which built the city of 26,000 in two days, conducted it with precision pre-cision for nine days, and demobilized demobili-zed the great camp in one day. Each sub-division, dubbed a "sectional camp," had its own executives, postoffice, hospital, cook tent, trading post, exhibit tent, quartermaster's department, and police force. Troop 7 of the Utah Paries council group, led by Abner Baird of Payson, handled this assignment for Region Re-gion 12. Religion waa not forgotten in this "glorified outing." Sunday night, July 4, all the Jamboree participants gathered for the second time in the arena for a religious convocation of youth. Respect for churches and religious religi-ous ideals was emphasized at the non-sectarian gathering. The L.D. S. church, the first organized church to adopt scouting, was one of four great religious groups recognized on the program. President Presi-dent J. Reuben Clark Jr., of the L. D. S. church, and a distinguished distin-guished Catholic, a Procstant and a Jew spoke briefly lauding the aims of the scouting movement. Earlier - in the day-, the various denominations had special services serv-ices for members in the Jamboree camp. The Utah Parks contingent conting-ent was comprised mainly of L. D. S. Scouts and attended the Washington Branch Crmpel. Previously Previ-ously they had conducted a pilgrimage pil-grimage to Palmyra, N. Y., and attended Manhattan ward in New York City. They visited Independence, Independ-ence, Mo., on their return trip. Sightseeing trips about Washington Wash-ington wer conducted daily during dur-ing the JamDorce. The Utah boys, many of whom had never been outside the state, also "saw" New filled at the start of tile trip three weeks ago, were brought back bulging with souvenirs and mementoes of the trek. Most prominent among the varied souvenirs sou-venirs were the "swapped articles," artic-les," exchanged by the ancient art of barter for prized personal possessions. Bits of Utah sagebrush, rock salt, and ore were exchanged by the youthful traders for Hawaiian leis, sequoia cones, French "fluer de Lis," pins, sales tax tokens, j and a hundred other items from I other states and other nations. I For virtually all of the boys, the Jamboree jaunt was more This group of khaki-clad .Mountain Men." gathered from all parts of central and southern Utah, traveled by rail and water m0,e . than 6,000 miles, visiting 11 states and Canada. En route, U,cy visited innumerable patriotic, patrio-tic, religious, and cultural shrines anil climaxed the transcontinental jaunt at a 10-day encampment in the nation's capital along with 26,000 other scouts from over the nation and the world. jlrcn But Happy The boys returned from -their thrill-packed trip, tired, dusty and sunburned, the redness being |