The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-26
PROMINENT PEOPLE
ARE AMONG SUPPORTERS
OF GIRL SCOUT MOVE

New York, June 26-As a result
the third annual convention of the Ma
tional Girl Scouts, held recently in this
city, the support of the work of the
organization has been obtained from
many prominent persons, among them
Mrs. Douglas Robinson. Delaney Mic
oil, and Theodore II. Price, who took
an active part in the proceedings as
members of the nominating committee
which renominated the former officers,
Mrs. Juliette Low, president; Mrs. Ar
thur Osgood Choate, vice president, and
Edward H. Coy, treasurer. These Off
GERS were unanimously elected and an
executive committee, consisting of De-
jeremiah w. jerks, DR.. James E. Rus.
sell, Dean of Teachers College, the
Reverend Percy Gordon, Mrs Snowden
was elected.
| Not only has the national committee
been placed in a position whereby it
is expected TO recruit many thousands
Of girls throughout the country in an
army of efficiency, but the New York
council, during the past week, elected
officers, and this council will have
charge of all the local activities of the
organization. The local officers COM
prise Mrs. w. r. X. Taylor. commission
er; Mrs. Henry Morganthau, deputy
! commissioner; Miss Cora Nelsoa secrc-
tary; Mrs. Charles Riker, treasurer, and
Miss Caroline Lewis. scout director. On
the council are also Mrs. George Whit
ney, Mrs. Harold Irving Pratt, Mrs
Frederick. w. Allen, Mrs Oscar 6.
straus, Mrs. Samuel Sloan. Mrs. George
Ethridge Mrs. Walter Herman, Mrs
Chauncy McKeever, Miss Caroline Cho-
ate. Mrs. Louis Clark, Mrs Snowden
Marshall Miss Martha Draper, OF the
Board Of Education. Henry Pearson,
principal of the Horace Mann school.
and Carl Van Doren. On the honorary
council are Charles f. Hughes, John
II. Finley, Oscar S. Straus, Governor
Whitman, and Mayor Mitchell.
The convention was addressed bv
many prominent persons, among them
Mrs Torrington. chairman OF the Do
minion Council of Canadian Girl Guides.
and president of the National Commit
tee Of the Women Of Canada, who told
OF the work done by the Girl Guides,
an organization similar 10 the Girl
Scouts during the present war and how
effective had been their help to the
Canadian army and TO the civilian pop
ulation of Canada.
Lady Pellatt, chirman Of the Canadi.n
Council Of Women also spoke along sim.
ilar lines and cooperation between the
American and Canadian bodies. where
by the American organization shall he
rendered more effective, was arranged.
DIR. Thomas d. Wood. head OF the de
partment Of Physical Training, Colum-
bia University, spoke on the physical
training Of Girl Scouts. and declared Il
was more necessary that girls receive
physical development and attain To
higher health and standards than even
the Boy Scouts. He emphasized tho
benefits gained by discipline, outdoor
exercises and camp life, and suggested
a physical standard Of individual health
which should improve conditions, not
only OF the girls themselves, but in the
home also.
Dean James f. Russell. OF Teachers
College, delivered an address in which
he declared education should not be
confined to the lessons taught i'm
schools, but that in character building,
such training as the Girl Scouts secure
is most valuable. For this reason he de
clared he regards the Girl Scouts move
ment to be among the most significant
educational contributions OF our time
tional contributions OF our time.
Special stress was laid by Mrs. Jul
iette Low, the president, and others who
spoke, upon the part OF the Girl Scouts
can now play in connection with the
Red Cross. first aid, nursing. dispatch
bearing, and other duties OF war time.
The most important problem, howev.
er, OF the suggestions which the confer
ence developed, was that for agrlcul-
tural work by the thousands Of girl
members, by which II is hoped the pro-
duction Of foodstuffs win not only be
largely increased. but by which conser-
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