Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-17
DAY" TO
BE ESTABLISHED
BY CAMP FIRES

Fol- some time persons who have
witnessed the Festival of Dolls or
Girls day in Japan have felt that
some such festival might well he cs-
tablished in this country. Those who
are interested in the Camp Fire Girls
Of America realize that by them and
through them a Girls Festival could
most fittingly be started and estab-
lished.
The spring Of this year is an espe-
cially appropriate time to inaugurate
such a festival which would be a
tribute to the girls and women of the
nation. After a year of being in war,
the people of the United States have
awakened and become sensitive to
facts and conditions that they had ig-
nored before. A year of preparation
for war has made the nation realize
the great potentialities OF its women,
and the fact that women are as signi-
ficant to all parts Of its life as are its
men.
With the same devotion to their
country as the women have the young
girls in the United States given SER
vice. In h past year they have
proven that they will be more than
ready to assume the burdens now
added to the share Of womn when
the time comes for them to accept
ASSPO1loAOAlASlCo. AuC SlIl6 Ill
over the country have realized that
there were tasks to be. lone which
they were too young to do, and in
stead of sitting back to wait until
they were old enough to do thes more
exciting and romantic things, they
have cheerfully done the work Of the
women which they could do, so that
teir mothers might be free to do labor
that only women might do.
The OirlhOn6 and uyon6onhnn1 ~
the world have had new birth. The
day Of especial rejoicing when a son
Is born and Of disappointment when a
girl is born is past. The future holds
as good and as romantic things for
the girls Of today al 1t does for the
boys. Perhaps it is yer a little more
glorious thing to be a girl Of today
all the old glories of women to look
forward to.-the delight In being
beautiful, the JOY Of having the lover
prince come, and the wonder Of some
day holding her own babies in her
arms. the girl may look ahead to the
new unexplored woman's world she
may enter.
bration Of this new birthday Of Am
erican girlhood. Unlike the Girls
day Of Japan. 1t would not be in rev.
erence for the past; but like the
spring Of the year. it would be q re-
joicing in new life and a looking for
ward to the future.
The plan is to set aside a suitable
day and have a festival Of girls
dances and girls games and pleas
ufes in which the whole community
will take part. Az tn e weather is
still unsettled until June in many
parts of this country. 1t has been de-
cided that a Saturday in June would
be the best day to set for a universal
out-of-door festival. Saturday, the
twenty-second of June, has, therefore,
been chosen as Girls day for this year
and the third Saturday in June here
after. for by that time Of the year the
schools will be closing and the festiv-
al be made also in celebration Of the
summer vacation.
If Girls day is to be a success, the
Camp Fire Girls III mother it. II
is especially appropriate that they
who represent the largest organiza.
ton Of girls in the country, should BE-
the founders Of this day for all girls
But to be the founders of an insti.
tuition which is to be nation- wide
plans must be made by each Camp
Fire and the work organized.
The girls of the nation deserve tc
have a day Of their very own wher
the whole world should put on I'll
holiday dress in their honor. They
deserve to have the bells ring and thl
shops close an hour earlier than US
ual 20 that everyone may take par
in the celebration Of happy, health,
girlhood rejoicing in life and ready tt
meet the future.