Evening star., 1923-02-11
Girls and Tn cir Affairs.
Conducted by Helen H. Fetter
lust as there is an increasing

YUsT as there is an increasing
number of national organlza-
tions for women in the United
States to develop their inter-
ests along many lines so there are
several organizations which are De-
coming increasingly important IN tne
part they played in helping the
young girl decide as to what Will De
her interests outside of home ana
school. Prominent among these Is
the Girl Scouts of America, a move
ment which was brought over from
England and adapted to the needs of
the American girl by Mrs. Juliet
Lowe
According to statistics received by
the District chapter of Girl Scouts
from the national headquarters In
New York city, there are nearly 200
900 scouts Last September the exact
; membe rship was listed as 126.2to
girls in the United States. and there
are many so-called lone troops
and lone scouts not among these
regularly registered members. These
figures show an increase of Is per
cent over last year. the troop otf-
GERS have increased "a per cent in
number and the councils have in
creased 34 per cent in enrolment.
Like the Camp Fire Girls, the Girl
Scouts have proved of such value in
training the younger girl that the
h National Council Of Girl Scouts has
announced that training courses are
now being given during the summer
and fall in forty-two higher educa-
tional institutions throughout the
United States. Arrangements have
heen completed to give these courses
in thirteen other institutions, making
the total number tifty-fve.
The educational department. head
cd by DR.. Louise Stevens Bryant. has
rapidly extended its work during the
last few months. The work in the
colleges is under the direction of DR..
Elizabeth kempcr Adams trustee OF
Nassar College and former professor
or education at Smith College These
courses are being given in twenty
Tour states and in the District
Amons the institutions now turning
/. out prospective Girl Scout leaders are
l Smlth college. Barnard College Mount
vlIolyoke College New York I-niyer-
Sity. Teachers College. in New York
one Wesleyan University. University
or Texas. Trinity college. at Wash
1ngton: Boston School of Physical
Education. the Washington state
Normal School, University of
Minnesota. Kansas State Normal
school. Carnegie Institute. at Pitts
burgh; Chautauqua institute, at cha
tauqua. n. Y; University of Wiscon-
sin and Grinnell University. Other
i; institutions shortly to begin or con-
IInue courses are Nassar College,
e.,.1,
iege for Women, University of Akron,
at Akron, Ohio, and Cornell Univer-
The purpose behind the Girl Scout
movement Is the recognition of the
lact that there comes time in the
Ire OF every young girl when she
needs help that the home alone can
not supply, and that school cannot
give her. Only contact with other
girls, who. as a group. can accom-
plish things, will satisfy this need
With the Girl Scouts, the girl finds in
her troup comrades with whom she
works and plays, activities that inter
as we'll as guide.
The mother realizes that her daugh-
ter Is safeguarded while she ex-
changes the experience of the home,
where she has been the center, for the
trusts both the scout leadership and
The scout plan. and knows the com
munlty backing. Infinitely better
this is than to have the girl cross
the threshold alone and go one knows
not whittier.
The father knows that this entrance
into the group experience is a whole
some beginning for the girl who faces
the many problems which greet her
s she takes upon her shoulders one
responsibility after another and faces
toward citizenship. Furthermore. he
loves TO see girls having d good
wholesome time out of doors. So he
joins his influence TO that of the sup
porting. group, and helps ito fund the
enternriSA