The Winslow mail., 1924-08-01
NOTED LEADERS
IN CHILDREN'S
WORK IN CITY

The regular meeting of the Rotary
club this week was an exceptionally
interesting one, in that two eloquent
speakers and leaders Of children's
educational movement were on the
program. They were Miss Lura Lee
Bailey, assistant supervisor of voca-
tional training, director and or
ganizer of Camp Fire for girls in Ari-
zona, and Ben Owens, regional direc-
tor of education for the Boy Scouts
of America, who is now conducting
training courses in Scout leadership
at the Northern Arizona Normal
school.
Both these workers are greatly en-
Unused with their work among young
people, Miss Bailey with girls and
Mr.. Owens with boys. They possess
the rare ability to stimulate enthus-
iasm in those with whom they come
in contact, and the information they
impaired while here was revela-
tion to their hearers as to the great
degree the states educational sys-
TENS are cooperating in the work of
training boys and girls in other than
academic lines.
Miss Bailey is on a three-year
leave of absence from the Gary, Ind.
schools, where sh has charge of well
fare work for both boys and girls,
and where she was largely instru-
mental in making the Gary school
system the model for the rest of the
country to pattern after During her
stay in Arizona she is devotng her
time to the Camp Fire movement un-
der the auspices of the state univer-
sity. Miss Bailey explained in her
talk to the Rotarians that Camp Fire
is in no wise copy of the Boy Scout
movement, but that it is individual
and distinctive.
She explains the objective of Camp
Fire is to instil the fundamental idea
of giving service, to mold and develop
Womenly women, because a man alb
hors manly woman as much as a
woman abhors womanly man.
Miss Bailey says the Camp Fire
Girls program is founded on things
which are fundamental to girlhood
and womanhood, not to temporary.
but to eternal things. The basis of
the organization is the home and
hearth. The task of making the
home should be kept from becoming
drudgery and this Camp Fire does for
the girl.
The Camp Fire program takes care
of the birthright of girls and by di-
rection makes the girls imagination
wholesome and constructive The
program aims to train girls for those
responsibilities which will always re-
main distinctive from those of boys
and to prepare them to meet those re-
Sponsibilities easily and with under
standing. 1t encourages the girls to
create beauty about them and to make
beautiful homes, to dress simply and
becomingly, and recognizes the need
and desire of women to look as we'll
as they can, and, too, to realize their
economic responsibility with men,
Mr. Owens in his speech took as his
subject: THAT Boy" He said among
other things regarding boys that
there is no such thing as a bad boy
boys are not naturally bad, but
they are naturally busy-and this
BUSINESS may occasionally take the
form of occasionally violating the
customs of their elders if there is no
man to lead them in an organized
expression of their natural instincts.
There is no boy problem today, but
there is a big man problem and the
question is not what's the matter
with our boys?' but where are the
men to lead them?'
No community is better than it's
boyhood,' and no community has any
right to call boy bad until it has
given him leadership in an organized
opportunity to be good. Form not
reform is the only honest remedy
for the ills of Juveniles 1t is far
better to mold the boy than mend the
man"
Mr.. Owens is loaned Temporarily for
work in Arizona by the National
Council of Boy Scouts of Arizona to
give his efforts to the training of
Scout leaders in the normal schools
and state university that the methods
employed by Scouting may be carried
to small towns and rural communi-
ties where heretofore the scientific
principles of boy training could not
be had
He expresses great admiration for
the educational system of this state
in that this is the first state in the
union to train its teachers along this
line which he thinks is the most sig
nificant movement for the intelligent
training of boys and girls and for the
eradication of juvenile delinquency.
Mr.. Owens is the only man, who has
ever been awarded the gold medal
for life saving by the National Court
of Honor, and he was personally dec
Grated by the late President Harding
at Butte, Montana, week before the
presidents death.
Both speakers returned Wednesday
evening to their duties at Flagstaff
Normal, but before leaving Miss Bail
ley endeavored to secure women in