The sun., 1915-03-29
GULICKS DEFENDED
ON CAMP FIRE WORK
Committee Denies Large Pay
mpnts to President, Wife
and Daughters.

Tn. executive committee OF the Camp
Fire Girls made reply yesterday TO Miss
Grace f. j. Parker, formerly secretary
Of the organization. who says her resis-
nation was caused by difference of
opinIon between herself and Dr Luther
n. Gulick. the president. over the matter
of salary reductions. Miss Parker, in
effect, charged that members of the
Gulick family were taking too much
money from the treasury OF the or
These assertions of Miss Parker are
denied in detail by the committee, which
countercharges with the statement that
The resignation of the secretary was
accepted by the board without comment.
as the work OF the office had been ex-
,ravagant and she was not working with
the policies OF the board, executive COM
mittee or president"
Th. committee then quotes from "A
letter from starr !. Murphy. in which
he notifies the organization that John u
Rockefeller had cut his contribution 30
per cent. SAYING In explanation; 1T
seems to us that YOU might wisely con
slider whether IL would not be possible
10 effect some economies In your own
work"
"Our monthly expenditure" the com
mlttee's statement goes on, was aver
aging s5l00 last spring. We are no"
doing more and better work on an aver
age OF $3.50 per month. This reduction
in expenses has been brought about
through improving our business and
office management. on our payroll
there are now fifteen persons in june
there were thirty-six. Mr. Rockefelie'
was right and helped US by his sugges
! tlons az much a. by his gifts.
AT the time OF the resignation OF thu
secretary Or. Gulick was the only mem
/ her OF his family on our payroll. Whe'
the plan for reorganization which Dr
, Gulick suggested was pu, into effec
Mrs. Gulick was dropped along with th
other heads Of departments Hence tn
resignation OF the secretary could no
have been actuatcd by the number -
Gul!cks on the payroll
The committee says that Miss Parker
charge that Mrs Gulck received a saldr
Of $1,000 a year is false, asserting ina
Mrs Gulick has received onlN 5000 70
her entire service. dating back to befor
the birth of the organization.
As to the salaries Of the daughters,
the statement says, they wer" employc
by the board Of directors and not hy ~
lliuliCk not because tboN were tull1k'
but because they were the only ones wh
knew Camp Fire work, ritual, songs an
cereInonials who could y" secured. Th
total paid Miss Robinson was S35i :
for four months work two years ag'
Miss Gulick was paid $525 for s"vr
months work during 1913 and 1914
Mrs. Gulick receives no royalties fo
insignia, as charged by Miss Parker, III
,ntnnittep saws. and ADDS
Royalties are paid her by tn" cam
Fire Quitting Company, Mrs. Guile
has refused royalty on any article VIII"
the retail price of each article woul
have to be Increased in order to pay Il
royalty.
The total salaries paid by u.s. Il
gether with tn, royalties paid by Il
outfttlng company, have left us debtor
t. Mrs Guick and her daughters" Il
committee says The reason why IN,
3 have been prominent In this work is h
cause they created II, In our judgmcI
| the services OF Or. Gullck and his fami
\ have been Invaluable. Dr. Gulick n.
not been adequately compensated