The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-09
BETTER r MANAGES
 IFOR GIRL SCOUTS
More Units Organizing And Membership Is Rapidly
 lnCreaSng

: Noticeable progress in the Girl Scout movement, since they have been included in the Community meeting of the Girl Scout council in the social science department of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad company. Mrs. John Coleman, chair man of the council. presided at the Meeting.
 Eg According to the report of Mrs. Raigs Sloss, acting director, 21 troops have been fully organized and 8 training class for leaders has been established among the girl under graduates at Birmingham Southern college. This class is ready to pro- vide trained leaders for the troops which request them.
 An atmosphere of renewed hope was evident at the December meet ing of the council and many plans Tor the future of the organization, which has run for more than year in spite of the fact that it operated on a budget of practically nothing year, were discussed, looking to the time when the Community Chest would af- ford them a budget sufficient to pay a scout executive and put the move ment on a sound business basis simi- lar to the one on which the Boy Scout movement now operates in Bir- mingham.
 Members of the council voted to create an advisory board of five men prominent in business and five wom- en we'll known in the club and social circles of the city, who will lend their Influence to "help make the Girl Scout movement the big and lro be in this city" The names of this advisory board have not yet been de- cided upon, but will be announced at the January meeting.
 Members of the board were most interested in the report of Mrs. Sloss, who has been acting scout executive for the past month and whose duty it has been to go to the various schools, churches and other organi- zations throughout the city who ask for help in organizing scout troops and help them to get troop.
 Mrs. Sloss reported 21 perfected organizations and a dozen or more zation and will be full-fledged troops within the next few weeks.
 The aim of the Girl Scout move ment Is to fit girls for service and for life, just IS the aim of the Boy Scout movement is, broadly speaking
 
 people are inclined to agree with the lady in a rural community who, as she put 1t, I need my gals at home l got enough boys and I don't want nobody making boys out of my gals They are too useful as gals The aim of the Girl Scout movement is not to make boys out of gals 1t Is rather to make the finest kind of girls and eventually the finest kind sof women out of the girls.
 "The thing we stress most of all flor the Girl Scouts Is home service and by home service we mean actual ..help in the home for mother, dish washing, baby tending, floor sweep ling. errand running, hundred other sthings. We urge every little scout to skeep a chart of her home service land when she reaches 50 hours of shome service she gets a home serv- ice badge, when she reaches 100 hours she gets a roseate and so on until she reaches 500 hours when she gets a medal, which she may keep to show to her friends"
 The badges, roseates and medals will be awarded to the Girl Scouts at the court of honor, which will meet at the Young Woman's Chris tian association once a month on Saturdays. Members of the council will be present at the court and the girls who are to receive the honors with their parents or a friend. For the present the court of honor will be private scout gathering.
 Mrs. Coleman. the chairman, an- nounced that the Girl Scout move ment now has a downtown office at 325 First National Bank building, and that persons wishing for any ganization can do so by coming or ganization ca do so by coming or "a