The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-03

Rome, Ga, where girl scouting Is firmly established.
 While the majority of the girls and leaders taking the course at this camp were from Georgia, must add that Florida and Alabama were welk represented. Nearly a score were in attendance from Birmingham. Miss Hulda McNeel and Miss Virginia Ja- cobs remained in camp during the first week of August.
 "The high standard established by this camp in it's pioneer year means much for the success of girl scouting in the south"
 Only Thirteen Years old With only 13 years back of the movement, and today numbering thousands in its membership. the organization of the Girl Scouts of America has undoubtedly taken it's | place beside the really worth while 1 movements of modernity, and the | fine standard which 1t embodies and the strict representation which 1t requires, makes it an enviable in stitution to belong to and to take | its pledges upon ones self. The Promise
 Here is the Girl Scouts .promise:" On my honor,I will try
 To do my duty to God and to my l country;
 To help other people at all times. To obey the scout laws.
 1. A Girl Scouts honor is to be ] trusted.
 2. A Girl Scout is loyal.
 3. A Girl Scouts duty is to be useful and to help others. | A i-I fc friend f0 all and sister to every other Girl Scout.
 5. A Girl Scout is courteous. !, 6. A Girl Scout is friend to ami
 '. A Girl Scout obeys orders.
 S.~A Girl Scout is cheerful.
 g. A Girl Scout is thrifty.
 10. A Girl Scout is clean in thought, word and deed.
 Purpose
 The Girl Scouts. national asso- citation, is non-sectarian and non partisan. The object of the organi- zation is to give girls, through nat ural, wholesome pleasures, those habits of mond and body which will make them useful, responsible wom- en, ready and willing to take defi- nite part in the home, civic and na' tional affairs of their country.
 Scope
 Scouting has universal appeal There are scouts in the United States. Hawaii, Russia and --orway Central America. Alaska, Philip pines and West Indies. who are ask ing help in organizing. The Cir Guides, who are the British sisters of the Girf Scouts. are flourishins in England, Palestine, Canada, Aus tralia, Denmark, Portugal, New Zealand and China, and the Frencf sisters Les Eclaireuses' are rapidly attracting the young girls of France | Scouting meets a fundamental neec for recreation and education in every young girls life.
 Troops
 The unit of organization is the pa trol of eight members each. One or more patrols form troop and they are grouped whenever possible ac. cording to age and congeniality Each patrol has leader and cor poral and each troop a captain. The captain may choose lieutenants to as' sist her. It is advisable that trooI of two patrols have lieutenant an6 . that for every additional two pa trols another lieutenant be secured. Each troop selects for its name a flower, tree, shrub or bird. The members wear the emblem over the left pocket of their uniforms.
 Troops may be formed in connec- ton with any church, school. play ground, settlement or other institu' ton or organization. Unattached troops are aiso successful.
 TrcSp meetings are held weekly with the program fairly divided be tween recreation and education.
 Grades
 There are three grades, the Ten derfoot," Second Class" and "Firs Class" Admission to each grade | ] determined by test in the required