The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-11-16

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 Mrs. Page Sloss is another active worker for the Girl Scouts and gives oi her time untiringly for the organiza ton. Mrs. Sloss was before her mar riage lovely Katherine Jones, neice oi Mrs. Hardee Lewis and of Mrs. Hardet Johnston.
 With the opening of the Girl Scout building and budget campaign on Fri day, when a drive will be started in this city, to raise $266,666 as New York's quota of the national budget to enable the organization to extend its work, considerable interest centers around its founder, Mrs. Jukette Low of Savannah, Ga. Little has been writ ten about this interesting woman whose grandfather built the first house in Chi cago and whose early life was adven- l turous with Indian skirmishes and thrilling frontier life.
 Mrs. Low, with the cooperation of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, her personal friend, the founder of the Boy Scout
 movement in England, she founded  March, 1912. The name was later changed to Girl Scouts, and the head quarters moved to New York City. Un- til now the national council has al- ways lived in lodgings" but it hopes soon to have home of its own. On Friday, nationwide $501 OPS build ing and budget appeal will launched. Mary Roberts Rhinehart is chairman n nf nl women in all parts of the country will assist her.
 Since the organization of the Girl Scouts in 1912 half million girls have received scout training. They have been taught to cook. sew and care for chil- dren. Ideals of service, combined with initiative and self-reliance, have been instilled in the minds of hundreds of thousands of growing girls.
 Has OutgrOwn Its Quarters
 In New York the organization has outgrown first one building and then an other and now the need for larger quar- ters is imperative The new building will have four stories, a basement and an annex, and will be constructed in the Georgian style. In this building there will be a stock room, receiving and shipping rooms for the many supplies which the headquarters sends to Girl Scout leaders all over the country, an assembly hall with a capacity of 150 an information office from which in. quiries about the Girl Scout work will be answered, a sales room for Girl Scout equipment. and an attractive shol where many articles not directly con- nected with the Girl Scout movement will be on sale aud where afternoon tea also will be servedl
 Upstairs there will be offices for Mrs Jane Deeter Rippin, the national direc tor of the movement, and for the other national officers, room for the meet ings of the executive board, headquar. ters for the field department workers filing cabinets and all the usual divi sions of a busy and important head. quarters of a national movement.
 Girls are great idealists," says Mrs Rinehart, "They dream dreams not of success, but of happiness. They look uI rather than out. But they are vague and uncertain, full of wistful yearnings that lead nowhere. With cause and leader they will bring to them eager ness. loyalty, enthusiasm and unselfist effort
 The Critical Period For A Girl
 'There comes a critical time in 6 girls mental and spiritual life when sht is waiting impatiently for young wom anhood. The things of her childhood have lost their interest. she has aban doned her dolls and she is peculiarly iso lated. At the same time, with no in creased outlet for her activities, hel | Ic haip eli 1lo tn1 before by books, magazines, autOmo piles, moving pictures, all revealing this strange thing we call life, on which sht is yearning onlooker.
 "It is time to realize that hundred of thousands of young girls in this coun try doubly important now that they arc future citizens as well as potential moth CTS of future citizens, must have occu patton, a feeling of responsibility, { 9>practical idea to which they can brinf their loyalty and enthusiasm. They need organized play, they need to b' taught that which is the 'gang spirit among boys, they need to learn tha' their young bodies are to be used, moi decorated. Until they learn that wt shall have sickly mothers and punl babies.
 Home making, with cooking, forms tht most popular subject chosen by the Cir Scouts Girl Scouts also are helping tC beautify their communities by planting trees, building gardens in public square! and assisting in cleanup campaigns They are taking part in wild-flower con Servation movements, conducting weekly storytelling hours in orphanages ant game hours in public playgrounds. They are visiting hospitals, old peoples homes and this winter they will fill many thousands of Thanksgiving and Christ mas baskets. Last year 3,764 Scouts studied cooking and the next on th' list was laundry work, in which 3,43( girls took degree Some of the sub jects, in the order of their popularity were first aid. health, home nursing home making, hostess manners, citizen ship. craftsmanship, dancing, flowel . | n,hIio haolfh