Evening star., 1927-12-04
N0TABLES GIVE AID F.
TO GIRL SCOUTS.
Campaign to Raise S55, 900
Being Carried on by 236
D. c. Women.

Two hundred and thirty-siX notable
Washington women are participating
in the Washington Girl Scout cam
paiSn, which opened Friday and which
will continue until December >, to
raise $4,000 for a permanent fund
and budget to 1880. and spirited con
test is on between the leaders and
members of the 36 teams to reach
this goal.
The campaign has taken as its slo'
gan the statement OF Mary Roberts
Einehart that mo single movement
for the improvement of the American
people As a race. no advance OF
science or sanitation can compare in
Importance with the necessity of
building up morally. spiritually and
bodily our future mothers"
Standing behind the 1906 Girl
Scouts of the District and vicinity are
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, honorary COM
missioner and honorary president of
the Girl Scouts of America; Mrs. Vii.
liam II. Taft and Mrs. Woodrow Wil-
son, honorary chairman Of the Wash
ington Girl Scout campaign; Airs
Herbert Hoover, executive chairman
of the Girl Scouts Of America; Mrs.
Charles Lindsay, Jr, general chaf-
man. and Mrs. George Barnett, one of
the founders of the National Service
school, who is serving as executive
chairman of this campaign. In add.
tion TO these leaders are the members
of the Washington Council oi Girl
Scouts; Mrs. Henry Fl. Flather, chair
man of preliminary gifts. and Mis.
w. Woodruff Meek, treasurer for the
campaign.
The chief purpose of the campaign
is 10 afford Scout training for the
more than s6,t2s girls of Scout age in
the District Of Columbia.
The answer to what Scout train.
ing" would mean was given yester-
day by Mrs. Charles Lindsay, jr, of
Chicago, who was for many years as
ISOLATED with the Girl Scouts move
ment in Washington as its commits
sioner and who has come here to par
ticipate in the present campaign as
its general chairman.
"Speaking to the parents of Wash
ington," said Mrs. Lindsay. Il would
emphasize first of all that Girl Scout
ing means the best in life for your
girl wholesome compa nienship.
health. an appreciation of beauty, a
zast In home making. a variety of in,
terests, a sense of responsibility
this and much more you would give
AGts 4O pLl3S lO SAtS d WiucT OppUi'
tunity for wholesome, happy, useful
glrlhood is the aim Of the Girl Scouts.
"The Girl Scouts, a national asso.
citation, is non-sectarian and non-par-
tisan. The object Of the organization
is to give girls, through natural.
wholesome pleasure. those habits of
mind and body which will make them
useful. responsible women. ready and
willing to take a definite part In the
home, civic and national affairs of
their country.
Their activities might be said to
be threefold, to promote ideals of
home, health and citizenship in Wash
ington's greatest asset-the woman
hood of tomorrow These are days
when parents especially value the
thought that their daughters are with
wholesome companions, engaged in
wholesome activities. That knoWl-
edge grows in significance When par
ents realize that mature woman is
with their daughter and her friends:
. woman who is a trained leader of
girls, quick in her sympathy and I'M
derstanding Of them, wise In her guid-
ance. Through Girl Scouting this OPP