Evening star., 1941-06-15

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in many things stressed in current
home defense efforts, Miss Hurd
pointed out.
The girls start out by planning
their meals-with particular atten-
ton to balanced diet and economy
of buying.
Safety precautions are strictly OBJ
served, but if accidents occur, first
aid treatment must be provided on
the spot.
Camp cooks learn to be self-re-
liant. Building fires out of doors
and cooking without customary
utensils-utilizing sticks and gadgets
that happen to be at hand-are all
part of the fun.
If branches must be cut for cook
ing or other purposes, Girl Scouts
must be careful to cut them proper
ly and not from trees that should be
untouched-a lesson IN conServa-
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Regulated rest periods after the
noon meal are observed in the
camps, but otherwise activities tend
to develop from the interests of the
girls themselves.
Hiking, exploring, singing, folk
dancing, archery-these are all on
the day camp program.
Map-making also is included, with
the indirect purpose of making Girl
Scouts useful citizens. Every Girl
Scout should know how to give dl-
rectionS-and give them well, SAID
Miss Durrett.
Girls to Offer Services
To Welfare Agencies.
The girls also will offer their serv-
ices to various welfare agencies in
Washington. This years projects
are not outlined definitely, but 1t
was recalled that last year Girl
Scout day campers put the feathers
in IS 900 automobile stickers used In
the Community Chest campaign.
With an average of one adult
volunteer leader for every eight girls,
the day camp activities are carefully
supervised. Glasses for the camp
leaders will commence on Thursday.
The first camp to open is at Rock
wood, Md. 1t will run June 24-July
4 for girls between 10 and 18 and will
have a special session July 22-Au-
gust 2 for Brownies who are from
to 10 years of age.
The camp at Fort Dupont in
Anacostia will run July 8-August T.
and the camp in Rock Creek Area
No. l. July 8-July 10, The camps
are open on Tuesdays through
Fridays.
A fourth camp at Fort Mahan In
Anacostia is provided for colored
girls. 1t will run June 25-July 81
on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
In addition, overnight camping
trips for intermediate and senior
Scouts are planned for August.
This years day camp program
is much larger than the program
last year when only the camps IN
Anacostia were in operation.
Women's Voluntary Services
To Provide Transportation.
The American Women's Volun-
tary Services is cooperating by pro-
viding necessary transportation.
In working under the supervision
of Miss Hurd the Scout day campers
will have the benefit OF a leader
with unusually varied experience.
Miss Hurd, in fact, is story In her
self, but one that can only be
touched briefly here.
Before arriving in Washington the
first of June, she got plans under
way for camps In three localities IN
Missouri, where she was Girl Scout
director.
Last week she made hurried trip
to Western Reserve University,
where she received her master OF
science degree in social administra-
ton from the school of applied So
cial science.
For several seasons she directed a
camp in the Rocky Mountains for
Salt Lake City and she spent last
summer in New Mexico. In 1888 she
spent four months on 'vagabond"
tour in South America and Europe,
putting up at youth hostels.