The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-28

National Girl
Scout Week To
Be Observed
Special Service Planned This
Morning at st. James
Episcopal Church

Dor will be held October 28-Novem.
Der 8, with the Girl Scouts of Will.
mington and New Hanover county
| joining with more than a million
members of their organization
throughout the nation to dedicate
themselves to a postwar program
for active citizenship.
Announcement of the dates and
plans for Girl Scout Week was
made yesterday by Mrs. j. S. webb
who stated that q feature of the
celebration in Wilmington will be
the special service to be held this
morning at st. James Eplscoapl
church, Third and Market streets,
at II o'clock with the scouts attend
ding h S service in body. The
! girls have been requested to as
senble between 1890 and 10: 45 a.
m. The procession will be led by
two flag bearers Lilly Damn and
Lille Pearl Jordon of troop 49,. the
two ushers will be Mickey Smith
and Barbara Saunders of troop III,
with the Girl Scouts taking part IN
the service.
The calendar of events will be
as follows:
Monday-Home making day, with
troops making individual plans to
celebrate the day such as prepar-
ing meals in their homes and as
sisting their parents; Tuesday-Cltl-
zenship day, will be noted by a
special service to be held with Bet
ty Bugg of troop Is intermediate
SCOUT and Ann Spiller (broWnle)
presenting Girl Scout schoH to
Mayor Lane, giving the service
projects the scouts have undertaken
in making them good citizens. The
service will be held at $3.50 O clock
at the city hall. Wednesday-Health
and Safety day, with girls of in
dividual troops checking on safety
and health in the homes and var
ious departments of the city. Also
on Wednesday at tea will be given
for the adult volunteer workers at
the YWCA from 4 until 6 O'Clock.
Thursday international friendship
day, the girls will write letters to
girl scouts of other countries and
make friendship bags, which will
contain such articles as needles,
pins, threads and hard to get items;
these will then be sent to the scouts
of other countries. Friday-Arts and
Crafts day, girls will re- style
clothes and costume jewellery and
begin to make Christmas presents.
Saturday-Out of doors days, pic
MICS and hikes will be held and a
special display of canned goods will
be on exhibit at the Grocerteria
by troop showing the canned foods
they raised during the summer in
their victory garden.
"Girl Scouting Citizenship in
Action Around the World has been
adopted nationally as the theme of
Girl Scout Week observances, Mrs.
Webb stated. The program for &C
tive citizenship which Girl Scout
troops will begin at that time is
a ''design for citizenship by Amer
lean girls for American girls" in
porating activities that will con-
tribute to the rehabilitation of chill
dren in devasted war areas, help
build world friendship and peace,
and develop awareness of the re-
sponsibilities of citizenship in a de-
mocracy.
The Girl Scout Active citizenship
program was developed by the
timely and democratic method of
asking every member of the or
ganization to participate in it's plan
ming Mrs. Webb explained. Many
troops win Wilmington and New
Hanover county contributed to the
program, sending in a variety of
suggestions that have been incor-
portaed in t h e organization ma
tional plan of work for the next
two years. 1t is believed that the
program is the first ever developed
by national youth organization in
consultation with it's entire men,
bership.
Because of the citizenship en-
phasis of Grill Scout Week this year,
all of the traditional Seven Service
days will be keyed to this theme,
and special tribute will be paid on
October 81 to Girl Scouting's foun-
der, Juliette Low, who believed
that the Scouting movement could
be vital force for international
peace an d understanding. Girl
Scout Week is celebrated annually
by members of the Girl scout or
ganization in memory of Mrs. Low.
Girl Scout Week opens today with
Girl Scout Sunday, at which time
uniformed troops will attend serv-
ices in their own churches or spe-
cial services arranged for the &C.
casion. Monday is Homemaking
Day; Tuesday, Citizenship Day and
the anniversary of Mrs. Low S
birth; Wednesday, Health and Safe
ty Day; Thursday, international
Friendship Day; Friday, Arts and
Crafts Day, and Saturday, Out-of-
Doors Day.
The Girl Scout postwar program
for active citizenship can be sum-
med up, according to Mrs. Webb,
as American youths expressed
desire to learn to be friends to all,
at home, in our own country and