Evening star., 1932-10-08
|MRS. HOOVER PAYS
| TRIBUTE TO SCOUTS
Compliments Girls for Devils.
ing Ways to Help Relieve
Distress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. october g.
Mrs Herbert Hoover yesterday compli-
mented American girls for having
thought through" ways Of helping
the distress about them" in an address
to Girl Scouts.
After an afternoon. in her gray-green
uniform. watching pageantry out OF
doors in the brilliant october sunlight,
she turned to more serious subjects at
the banquet session where she was guest
of honor She wore a draped evening
dress of gunmetal shade with a slight
train.
In relief work last year. Mrs. Hoover
said. Girl Scouts not only had carried
out suggestions made by their leaders.
| but had themselves made splendid
, contributions in thinking"
Some girls reported helping children
in an orphanage," she said. Another
troop specialized in helping old people.
The most interesting thing is that they
i found if they could help other groups
to help people, 1t did more for their
morals than anything else" she said.
Means Character Development.
Increasing community service, Mrs.
| Hoover saio, meant to the Girl Scout
organization recognition Of our power
to help
And from the standpoint of the girl
1t means a tremendous character de-
velopment," she added
She said the Girl Scout organization
had seriously studied its whole rela-
ton" to national distress, which is
really always local" and had recon-
menGed plans in accordance with the
different needs of the different COM
munities."
Because of the effectiveness OF this
work. she added. Girl Scout groups
ale increasingly being asked to partic-
ipate in plans for relief and recreation
this Winter"
Going over Girl Scout tenants, Mrs
Hoover stressed obedience.
A Girl Scout, she said, finds obedience
easy to the self-decided laws of the
| unique government her own ancestors
/ devised. which We still earnestly believe
is the best government man has ever
devised for man."
Puts Stress on Truth.
Describing the advances in inventions
made by succeeding generations she
! pronounced it astounding" that those
| forefathers of ours provided a govern
| nlent so simple in its fundamentals, SO
| carefully balanced in recognition be-
tween Federal. State and local needs
! and the responsibilities of meeting each
| that We can still look unafraid at the
strength and hexibility of the whole
! structure"
| Our Constitution including its pro-
visions for readjustment, is living
growing thing, like our people" she
said. With them it will grow to meet
/ the demands of the oncoming age"
Mrs. Hoover closed by stressing truth
as the keystone in the building of the
! arch of character
Mrs. Hoover. in her annual interview
said. the country in its bigness" was
beginning. in the economic stress. to put
, into effect the helpful friendliness that
its boys and girls had been practicing
for years in Scouting
rs the economic situation sending
more girls into Scouting than there
were in normal times?" was one oues-
ton put to her
1T is amazing how they are coming to
Girl Scouting" was her answer They
feel they are needed more-as in times
of war"
Country Follows Example
She described how small girls. mot
lCu W III tcTHlS OI
, kindness" were noticing their neigh
| bors' needs and aiding them
And the country is beginning in its
bigness to put into effect what Girl
Scouts and Boy Scouts have been doing
! for years" she said
How did you happen to be a Girl
Scout?" asked her youngest interviewer
Ditzy Baker. 17-year-old representative
of a Richmond paper on her first as
signment.
L was Girl Scout long before there
was any organization she said. In
California and Iowa I went fishing and
! hunting with my father
Some fathers do not have the time
nor the inclination to take their little
| daughters on camping trips. as my IA
the- did. I felt so sorry for the ones
who were left behind"
Mrs. Frederick Edey Of New York was
reelected president and Milwaukee Sc
lected as the 1888 meeting place of the
National Girl Scout Convention.