Evening star., 1923-11-11
Girls ar d Their Affairs.
Conducted BY Helen H. Fetter
HE reopening Of one of the
most important organizations;
FOR loool rr;,.l. of h;vb enhnnI


for local girls of high school
and grade school age was fea-
tured last Wednesday when the Girl
Reserves of the Y. w. c. A. held big
meeting in the evening and were for
mally organized for the winter.
These Girl Reserves were formerly
active, but during the past year. owing
to lack of a director personally re-
sponsible for their activities. the
groups have met only occasionally
and very informally. At the various
high schools of the city the Girl Re-
serves are known as the members of
the Friendship clubs and as such en-
JOY many little meetings among them
serves. Washington girls generally,
however. frequently do not realize the
wide scope of activities covered by
membership in the Reserves.
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MISS HELEN MCNEIL. the new d.
4s1 rector in charge of the Girl Re-
serves of Washington, has announced
an interesting list of principal meet
ings for the year. At a meeting on
December practical suggestions for
Girl Reserve work will be discussed.
MISS Ethel c. Einstein will be the
chairman, Miss Bertha Butts will be
IN charge of initiation. and others In
charge OF the meetings. various
phases will include Mrs. Howard Hos
ner, Miss Elsa Peterson, Miss Rose
mary Arnold and Miss Mabel r. Cook.
On January 8, girl problems and
development will be featured; on Feb
ruary 6, health education related to
Girl Reserves; on March :. tie organ
1zationS doing girls work will be dis
cussed: These include the Camp Fire
Girls, Cir! Scouts, and Girls Friendly
Association.
On April 10, out of doors with the
Girl Reserves will include discussions
for camping. hikes and proper dress
big meeting Of the year, will be an
afternoon hike and not an evening
meeting, as on the other occasions A
large campfire to gather about in the
evening will be feature.
MISS MABEL CRAFTY, general
WI secretary Of the national board
of the Y. w. c. A, has called the Girl
Reserves "a cross-section Of the whole
fellowship, the fresh stream Of which
feeds into the main current of the
movement at its source or along its
course-the very youth of its youth.
They have it's future in their keep
ing"
There are 177.oo0 girls in their
teens who are now members of the
Girl Reserves. OF this number 157, 900
live in cities and towns and belong
to rural branches of the association.
and 10000 are registered Girl Re-
serves in places where there Is NO
Y. w c. A. There are 1000 young
girls in business and industry in the
organization. $3.50 senior high school
girls and 1890 junior high school
girls. There are 330 Indian girl mem
bers and 1000 in foreign countries. In
the last sixteen years the membership
has grown from Sis to 177,000
There are several hundred members
in Washington.
Folks who criticize the way that
people who are more or less RESPONSE
Bile for flappers by their very indifer-
ence to them and their problems have
aroused the spirit of f1iprancy and
recklessnesS among the young folks
of today, may be interested to learn
that there are 7.400 volunteer advisers
FOR the members OF the Girl Reserve
units: there are 400 organized COM
mittees, 800 employed secretaries for
work with younger girls and sixteen
summer conferences for the younger
girls. This is practical cooperation
and will do more to help keep the
American girl a busy, useful person
and make her fine citizen to handle
respon sibiiities later than all the
spectacular preaching in the world.