The Cordova daily times., 1923-02-16
BIG MEET OF CAMP FIRE GIRLS

Camp Fire Girls will celebrate it's eleventh birthday on March seventeenth with a natlon- wide Grand Council Fire attended by over three hundred thousand girls.
 This gigantic birthday party will be held almost simultaneously in villages, cities, towns and rural districts throughout the United States wherever there is a Camp Fire group. It is being arranged by the 150,00O Camp Fire Girls and their guardians who make up this group Requirements for the party are that each girl bring one new girl into Camp Fire as her birthday gift to the organization, The slogan for Camp Fire birthday week IS "double your work, double yuor health, double your love, double Camp Fire" During March Icvery Camp Fire Girl in the country, no mat ter where she is, will invite one other girl to become a Camp Fire Girl, will teach her the Camp Fire law and help her to make her ceremonial gown. During birthday week which will begin with Camp Fire Sunday, March II, and end on the real birthday, March 17, each group will hold Grand Council Fire at which 1 all these 100000 new members of Camp Fire will be welcomed into the organization by the old members and initiated into Camp F're Honors for the years work will be awarded at these Council Fires and a message will be read from Mrs. Oliver Hartman, national president of the organization.
 During its eleven years Camp Fire has had more than 100000 members. These Camp Fire aumnae will be asked to attend this celebra- tion, to show what Camp Fire meant to them by coming back into the organization for the Grand Council Fire, by bringing new girls into the organization and by helping with the birthday fund
 In keeping with the spirit of service Camp Fire Girls recognize their birthday each year by doing something for girls less fortunate than themselves. Last year they raised SloOV which they turned over to Anna Pavlowa to aid Russian girls whom she was befrlendlng. This year the birthday fund will be used for providing summer camping trips for blnd and crippled girls who would otherwise be unable to 90 to camp. There are a number of such groups of girls who win their honors 1 just as other girls do and one of which boasts that every member in the group has won the
 highest Camp Fire honor. These girls will
 be lodged in comfortable farm-houses rather
 than in tents, but will enjoy the out-of-door
 cooking and activities that the other girls dc.
 Specially trained guardians will be in charge
 of them. Altogether 125,000 Camp Fire Girls
 were in summer camp last year and the aim IS
 to double the number this summer. The
 money given to the birthday fund will be
 earned by the girls themselves though the
 contributing of money towards the fund is
 optional with the girl.
 Special birthday honors have been designed
 for the Camp Fire birthday and will be award
 ed for securing one new Camp Fire girl; for
 getting one Camp Fire girl who has been out
 of Camp Fire for five more years to come
 back and take part in the celebration; for
 interesting and securing one new leader for
 a Camp Fire group; for speaking in churches,
 schools, before chambers of commerce, rotary
 clubs women's clubs and organization about Camp Fire and what it means to the girls.