GIRL SCOUT LEADER

MAY, 1933 VOLUME X Fifty-Five Photographers NUMBER 5

N a sunny day not long ago, a group of fifty-five era instead of placing it firmly on a tripod or a table. 0 Second Class Girl Scouts from different troops The text of the book, neatly typed and pasted in, in­ made an expedition to Central Park. It was a holiday, cludes the requirements for the Photographer badge; sev­ and the park was full of life. So were the girls; they eral photography games the group invented or adapted; were armed with films, eight expos- and an outline of the work done by ures to a girl, and their minds were the group during the period. The made up to adventure-they were book makes a neat and handsome ap­ hunting the requirements for the pearance in its brown-paper cover Girl Scout Photographer badge. bound with a green leather thong; Bright eyes soon . found subjects to it will be on display for several weeks photograph-a proud swan furnished at N a tiona! Headquarters for any an animal picture; some children who would like to study its makeup playing a game were chosen for the and read about the photography group picture; boys playing baseball games. made a picture-telling story; there After the book was finished, the were water scenes, landscapes; and group had a Photograph Party. Each statues for those hunting still life. girl came dressed as a photograph­ Later on, with the Central Park a squirrel, a building, a statue, and so pictures and others they had made on; as each passed in review, the rest successfully, the girls compiled a book discussed whether or not she would as a record of their combined work qualify as a good photograph under on the Photographer badge. They the badge requirements. pooled their photographs and selected The girls who took part in this from the lot those which best repre­ "course" carried the idea back to sented a discussion of photography their troops where it is being worked technique. Four or fi ve of the best out in troop size. Fifteen of the photographs were placed in the front girls have decided to carry their pho­ of the book-the sunset photograph tography on to a more advanced on this page is one of these-the fol­ Photographer badge work done by stage. They meet once a month. lowing pages of the book were de­ Emma Matthews, Troop 32, Local Badge Examiners voted to anaLysis: a good composition Council of North Hudson, N. f ., Some suggestions as to badge exam­ placed next to a poor composition; a included this sunset picture. iners come from the local council good background beside a poor back­ under which the girls who prepared ground; a badly lighted picture beside this photography book are organized. a well lighted one; an exposure made through a clean In the first place, attention is called to the fact that if lens beside one made through a dirty lens ; an underex­ you do something for someone, you will receive thanks­ posure compared with an overexposure; a !ightstruck pic­ and very likely be forgotten; if you can get someone to ture; an out-of-focus picture; a picture spoiled by tilting do something for you, you will interest the doer. Girl the camera; a time exposure spoiled by holding the cam- Scouts who go out to help a women's club by washing

CoNTENTs: Fifty-Five Photographers ...... 49 Colored Leaf Prints...... • ...... 50 Play-Pageant, Songs, Books, Swimming Chart ...... 50, 53 Craftsman Contributions to Camp...... 51 A Few Notes About Badges: Garden Flower Finder ; Rock Finder; Handywoman; Musician...... 52 Editorial Items: From Headquarters; International ...... 54, 55, 56 Youth Will Decide. Notes on an Article by Dame Katharine Furse ...... 57 Ideal Camp Awards ...... EDITH W. CoNANT 57 From Our Mail Bag: A Hike in Puerto Rico ...... RosA MARIA FERNANDEZ 58 Around the Toadstool: Fun for May Days...... 59 News and Notes of the National Equipment Service: B ehind the Scenes with Your Order...... 60 50 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER dishes on some special occasion are warmly thanked ; but IS covered with prints, lay it aside and allow the prints if the same club is approached and asked for help in a to dry. This will require some time. When the prints specific way, the members are likely to become Girl are absolutely dry they will fall off of their own accord. Scout supporters from then on. Observance of this na­ Do not try to pick them off or you will spoil the print. tural human tendency may well be applied to the selec­ The directions given above are for making glossy tion of badge examiners. Instead of choosing the ex­ prints. For these the photographic paper may be aminers all from one school, a committee on badges and Azo F, or Noco, of which Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 may be used. awards may go, for instance, to the president of the local The ·ferrotype plate (a plate 10" x 14" costs about 30 Junior League .for an examiner for Scribe and Minstrel cents) is necessary only for drying glossy prints; or­ badges; to a garden club for some one to test the nature dinary prints may be dried face down on cheesecloth. work; to a progressive school or a group of political If the production of these prints is made a patrol or economy students for a Junior Citizenship examiner; to group project, so that they may be made in quantities of an art school or community handicraft center for an ex­ about one hundred, the cost of making 2~2" x 4" prints aminer in arts and crafts. The committee's representa­ will be considerably less than one cent each, provided tive discusses the matter with the president of the club 8" x 10" paper is purchased and cut to the above size. or organization, who in turn describes the Girl Scout All the materials for this project may be purchased at a program to her members. By interesting one person in camera supply shop. an outside group in this fashion the active sympathy of the other members is enlisted. Songs and a Play-Pageant for Girl Scouts ScouTING 'RouND THE YEAR a play-pageant by Barbara Moore (Girl Scout Headquarters, 306 Clark Music Colored Leaf . Prints Building, Syracuse, N. Y., mimeographed copies, PROCESS for making leaf 50 cents). A prints on photographic paper is This play-pageant material is presented so clearly and described by Mr. P. B. Mervin, of definitely as to be susceptible of an infinite variety of Rochester, N. Y. The materials developments, from the very limited to the very ambi­ necessary are: a printing frame; pho­ tious; it is suitable for from 50 to 250 participants. The tographic paper and a coloring agent, text is accompanied by full descriptions, scene by scene, described below. If glossy prints are of the costumes and properties needed, and also by a list desired, a ferrotype plate and roller of suggestions for the music to be used. Miss Moore should be added. The prints may be prepared it for the Syracuse Girl Scouts, and coached made in a dark room by exposure to their presentation of it; it ought to be good fun, as well a forty-watt light, or in an ordinary as a good way to tell a local public something about Girl room, with exposure in sunlight; in Scouting. the latter case, care must be taken not to subject the sensitized paper to light before you make the print. CoME AND SING A SoNG compiled by Chicago Girl The process is as follows: In a dark room lighted by Scouts. a ruby light or a very subdued white light, place the Chicago Girl Scouts have mimeographed a very nice leaf to be printed (evergreen or deciduous) on the glass collection of songs, Come and Sing a Song, which they of the printing frame; place the sensitized side of the have compiled with due regard to copyright restrictions as photographic paper next to the leaf; clamp down the outlined in the article "In Regard to Copyrights" in this back of the frame and expose at a distance of about four issue of the LEADER. There are forty-four songs-rounds, inches, for from eight to fifteen seconds, to a forty-watt folk songs, game songs-including several original compo­ lamp. Then under the red light develop and fix the sitions by Marie Gaudette, which are always in demand. print exactly as you would a photographic print. After Miss Gaudette is State Director of the Rhode Island Girl the print has been adequately fixed, wash it thoroughly Scout Mandate Council. In addition to the songs in­ for about one hour in running water if possible, other­ cluded in the collection, there is a list of fourteen songs wise change the water six or eight times, leaving the and their sources, permission for the use of which was not print in water about ten minutes in each change. The obtainable. Further information in regard to Come and print is now ready for coloring. Sing a Song may be obtained from Miss Elizabeth Mundie, Girl Scouts Inc., of Chicago, 225 North Michi­ A good coloring matter is made with the paper called gan Avenue, Chicago. Japanese Watercolor. This comes in sheets about the size of a desk blotter; the dark green is 12 cents a sheet. In about three tablespoonfuls of water, depending on the SoNG-TIME compiled and arranged by Floy Adele Ross­ depth of color desired, place a square inch of this dark man (Pauli-Pioneer Music Corp., 119 Fifth Ave., green paper. Now take your print from the wash water, New York, 40 cents). place it face up on a piece of glass, remove the surface Here is a welcome addition to the summer camp music water from it with a towel, sponge, or roller, and then shelf: Song-Time, compiled and arranged for simple apply the colored water to the whole surface of the part singing by Floy Adele Rossman. The collection in­ print with a camel's hair brush. While the print is cludes 50 titles, both folk songs and composed songs. still wet, place it face down on a perfectly clean ferro­ The easy accompaniments and arrangements for part type plate and roll or press it thoroughly to remove all singing recommend Song-Time to Girl Scout groups. water from between the print and plate. When the plate Fj. H. MAY, 1933 51 Craftsman Contributions to Camp

AMP adventures and activities fulfill two needs: direction to make any sort of construction they choose. C the need of awakening the camper to the joy of A sundial of some sort is a good starting point for an making and doing, and the need of using some of the interest in nature, as well as in the history of time­ results of handicraft work to equip the camp. Camp life keeping; a sundial of stakes is shown in the Girl Scout teaches us how to make the most of ourselves, and how Diary for 1932; the to make the most of our equipment and tools, doubly one on the top of a THONG-HANDLED important in years when every effort must count for the stump, s h ow n on NOGGIN good of all. this page, would be The use of natural materials is particularly fitted to easy to make. To ~ supply the first need, that of quickening the camper's per­ watch the shadow ception of the many delights of primitive life. It is .fun of the day, creeping NOGGIN '"'' ~ · to make pack baskets, firewood baskets, fruit baskets of past a marked point, DISH - ~ strong willow fibre or ash strips, and stools with woven awakens the child's ash seats. It is fun to braid leather and make leaf prints. imagination to a It is fun to arrange an inanimate pet show of animals real picture of the made from twigs, nuts, moss, odd-shaped vegetables and umverse. gourds. In such pursuits, the joy of making is a suffi­ Music is an im­ cient reason for the existence of the article, and even portant part of most though the cleanup detail at the end of camp has to scrap c a m p programs, 2 the beloved wobbly basin-holders, the eccentric towel­ and many of the SAND-PAPERED racks, the rustic signs, and other evidences of an awak­ m u s i cal activities cocoNUT ened woods-imagination, it knows that next year a new most enjoyed by the LADLE crop will be produced with new delight. performers call for WITH Occasionally some camper shows such a genius for the musician to be WHITTLED durable lashings that her plate rack remains for use by his own craftsman HANDLE successive campers, but most articles made from natural and make his own materials do not form permanent camp equipment, even instrument. Peter when they are exceptionally well made, for then the girls W. Dykema, Pro- naturallv wish to take them home. The use of other fessor of Music at Teachers College, speaks in the March than na-tural roate.rials .-may he ~ expected in many- case CaT!Tpi.ng Magcrzine of agroup of 600 distmguisnea per­ to make a permanent contribution to camp equipment. sons who found great delight and amusement, under his The tin ovens cut from five-gallon oil cans one year1 are direction, in playing in an orchestra of toy instruments; enjoyed by other groups another year, not only as ovens he feels that more can be learned about harmony in but as shields for footlights in troop-house dramatics. The twenty minutes from a simple instrument like a taro­ costumes and properties used each year are available for patch fiddle than most of us would think possible. He next year's performance-if they are safely and accessibly also points out that joyous participation in a camp music put away; they may be kept in program is more to be desired than a meritorious per­ ) chests and boxes that a group of formance. girls who love to hammer and Those who delight in woodcraft will be interested in saw make as part of the handi­ the following notes, prepared by Mr. Edmund Seymour, craft work. The toy instrument on the making of noggins from the burls of trees. Mr. collection left behind by the Seymour, an ex-plainsman, is one of the charter members "Whittle" patrol last year is of the Camp Fire Club of America, is President of the _ _.J renovated and enlarged by the American Bison Society, and is a consultant to the Camp A sundial may be con- "W·histle" patrol of this year. Advisory Service of the Girl Scout organization. structed on a stump The mere sight of the little stage A burl is caused by some injury to the trunk of a .tree, the "Beeches" troop made last such as the cutting off of a limb or the entrance of a for­ year, for their puppet show, puts ideas in the heads of eign substance. The Indians used to make a warclub this year's "Vikings." by imbedding a stone axhead in a young tree; after the Most camps could benefit by engaging an able car­ tree had grown around the ax head, they would cut penter for a few weeks at some time or other, so that it down and shape it. Notice how a wire fence nailed some of the counselors would learn how to make shelves, to a ·growing tree becomes imbedded in the tree. bookcases, benches, and tables; how to make boxes, and Old apple trees furnish good b~urls for noggins; so do how to carve, paint, stain, or wax them; what wood and soft maples. Ash is easy to cut, but ash burls are hard what tools to use; how to put on hinges and locks; how to find. Cherry is good but requires special care to pre­ to make a simple portable stage set or puppet booth. If vent season-cracking; precautions are mentioned in the the fundamentals of solid carpentrv are well understood following directions. The tools needed for making nog-

by the counselor, she can help the groups under her 2 The L EA n ER for April, 1932. li ste(l helpful rrferences for those interested in musical source material; e:xtra copies are available at 5 1 See S1tggest£rns frr T11 iufer CamP Programs (National Equipment cents each. Service, 20 cent s )~ i\n article in the April LEADER described methods of preparing tin for usc on hikes and in camp. (Continued on page 53) 52 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER

tools will be interested in the suggestions about making their own equipment in "Craftsman A Few About Handy-Woman Contributions to Camp" on page 51 of this issue of the LEADER. If the leader can arrange for a good carpenter to show her troop how to saw straight, Notes Badges how to use a chisel and mallet, how to make a box cor­ ner and a chair leg firm and foursquare, she may discover that the girls will develop their own ideas and projects as to what they most want to make. Few children can resist the invitation of a well equipped tool box. Even those girls who have no apparent talent show surprising abilities if they are supplied with a little material and a chance to "watch it being done." Every encourage­ ment should be given to the plans and projects they make themselves-a clumsy dollhouse actually originated by the girl is more precious to the real teacher and leader than the most capable copy, because it goes hand in hand All girls working on the nature "Finder" badges with real development of character and self-assurance. should be supplied with the various nature notebooks is­ The Camping At! agazine for April gives a good handi­ G d Fl sued by the National Equipment Ser- craft bibliography; it quotes as follows from the psycholo­ ar en ower vice. The notebook for the Garden gist, William James: "The most colossal improvement Flower badge may be purchased for 40 cents complete which recent years have seen in secondary education lies with led stone cover; it inc! udes: in the introduction of the manual training schools; not (a) a section on the requirements for the badge, a because they will give us a people more handy and prac­ discussion of t·he interests of a flower lover, sou rcc tical for domestic life and better skilled in trades, hut material, directions how to use; section separately, because they will give us citizens with an entirely differ­ 10 cents. ent intellectual fibrr. ... They confer precision; because, (b) outline sheets on which to keep a record of the if you are doing a thing, you must do it definitely right flowers found; separately, 1 cent a sheet. or definitely wrong. They give honesty; for, when you (c) a set of outline drawings which may be colored express yourself by making things, and not by using and kept as a record or mounted for decorative words, it becomes impossible to dissimulate your vagueness purposes; section separately may only be bought or ignorance by ambiguity. They beget a habit of self­ in lots of 100 for $1. reliance; they keep the interest and attention always One troop studying minerals made a doll's house from cheerfully engaged ... " a large box, with labels and a chart showing the many Girl Scout musicians will be interested in the new song books reviewed on page 50 ; and the uses of minerals in the home. A similar Musician Rock Finder model, showing rocks, could be made of books listed on page 53 ; and in the re­ some area familiar to the troop, such as a garden or a minder on page 51 of the opportunities offered by a camp park. It is possible to use many kinds of central themes orchestra, even the most modest kind. for mineral study in order to awaken the interest of be­ E. S.C. ginners: holders of Housekeeper badges might study soap, The American Girl its action in cleansing, its manufacture, its composition, special hardwater soaps (see circular of the Bureau of In response to a demand .for Western-type fiction, Standards, No. 383, 10 cents). The chemicals used in the May American Girl presents "Little Eva" in which insect control would interest gardeners and naturalists Lenora Mattingly Weber, known for her ranch stories, (Farmers' Bulletin, No. 1495, 15 cents). These two tells of Kip O'Malley, Pinto Jones, and Em Dineen, pamphlets, and many others, may be ordered from the and their string of cow-ponies. "Tenpenny Girl" by Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C. Gladys Hasty Carroll, in two parts, presents a problem (stamps not accepted). to American ·Girl readers; "Ferry Tale" by Isabel Ross is The Geological Survey publishes a large number and a fourteen-year-old girl's adventure during an Ohio variety of state and United States maps, including con­ flood. "The Hoodooed Inn" continues to be full of tour maps, coal maps, power maps, and others. General shudders. information concerning map publications and sample sets "Making a New Spring Blouse" by Helen Perry Curtis of Geological Survey maps may be obtained by addressing will stimulate action on the Dressmaker and Needle­ The Director, U. S. Geological Survey, Washington, woman badges; "Out of the Eggshell," by Jane Carter, D. C. A Chemical Map of No1·tlz America, a colored gives recipes for cheese and chocolate soufflees; Sophie L. wall map, about 30' x 50', picturing chemicals and Goldsmith reviews "New Books for May Days." Other minerals, may be obtained from the N a tiona! Wholesale timely articles are "Let's Stay Fit" by Dr. Gulielma F. Druggists' Association, 51 l\1aiden Lane, New York Alsop, resident physician at Barnard College; "You're City, for 25 cents. A good general reference book is The Looking Well" by Hazel Rawson Cades, and the con­ Earth and Its His tory by ]. H. Bradley (Ginn, 1928, clusion of "If You Want to Play Tennis" by H azel $2.60). The Girl Scout Rock Finder notebook is 10 Hotchkiss Wightman. For the second month in suc­ cents, complete, from the National Equipment Service. cession a New Jersey Girl Scout is Star Reporter for Girls who are-or who wish they were-clever with the Scribes' pages. MAY, 1933 53

Craftsman Contributions to Camp nails with it. Because the tools are sharp, be sure to hold the noggin and the tool firmly; keep your eye on the (Continued from page 51) cutting point as you work, and work away from your gins may be available in your troop tool box. They may body and from the hand not holding the tool. To keep be bought for about $2.20. the noggin fr<;>m season-cracking, it should be put back in the water between operations, until ·it is fairly well Ma teriais Needed hollowed, whereupon you may oil it with a little linseed Girl Scout knife with reamer 1 auger bit oil either raw or boiled, after each session. straight gouge, ~" I curved gouge, ~" As the noggin approaches its final shape, measure the handle to fit both gouges I wooden mallet diminishing thickness of the sides and bottom (the bottom Linseed oil, boiled or raw Machine oil should be slightly thicker than the sides). This meas­ Tar, stain, or paint for the tree wound (use leftovers) urin~ is done wit? the fingers; and with the eye; and by holdmg the noggm up to a strong light. To make the Optional additions to the noggin maker's kit include a final surface, scrape with your knife, or a piece of broken piece of broken glass for scraping; sandpaper, coarse, glass with one sharp edge, and one smooth edge to place medium, and fine; beeswax. ~ext your hand; last of all, finish with sandpaper and Inspect the tree carefully for a burl in which there are linseed oil, and after the linseed oil has had a day or two no imperfections; saw it off, allowing enough wood to to dry, polish with a little warm beeswax. Rubbing with make a handle. After sawing off the burl, stain the your hand helps to polish. wound or paint it, with tar or some leftover paint about the color of the bark,· Thso that water can not get into the Suggested Sources tree an d d estray 1t. e burl should be kept in water several days until it is soaked through. Then remove SuMMER CAMP ENTERTAINMENT by Marie R. Hofer the bark with a knife, taking care not to cut or mar the (Highland Press, Chicago, 25 cents). wood underneath the bark, as the outside of the noggin A PRIMER OF HAND PUPPETS and GuiDE TO PUPPET should show the natural growth of the burl. PLAYS by Paul McPharlin, ISS Wimbleton Drive, If no serious imperfections are disclosed by the removal Birmingham, Michigan, 35 cents each. . of the bark, then plan your noggin. Trim the edges with MoNTHLY PLANT BuLLETIN ( Slingerland-Comstock, your knife. Take a pencil in the thumb and fore-finger Ithaca, N. Y., 15-cent pamphlet includes five and, steadying your hand by resting the middle finger months.) against the edge of the burl, make a mark all around WH.~T TIME Is IT? by M. Ilin (Lippincott, $1.50), the burl; this is the line you will cut from. Somewhere Illustrated; a history of timepieces. ne~r the center of the grain, in the part which you are ENRICHMENT OF C:.<\MP LIFE THROUGH Music (Li­ gomg tD cut away, you want a hole toward which-to-cut. __ br'!_ry on~am_Ql_n& NQ:._J, H. \Y. Gibso11,_ Water- This hole may be started with your knife and enlarged ~ town, Mass., twelve•page pamphlet, 25 cents). with an auger bit; but before starting with the bit take 1 HE DRUM BooK by Satis Coleman (John Day, $2.50). this precaution: measure the depth of the burl; subtract Mrs. Coleman's A Children's Symphony was re- about an inch, and measure the remainder on your auger viewed in the January LEADER. bit, tying a little string around the auger bit to mark the MAKI~G A~D PLAYI~G S.HEPHERD's PIPES, a pamphlet; distance, so that you will not ruin your burl by piercing With d1agram, dtrectwns, and ten airs; by Barbara · the ;?attorn of it with the bit. If the burl is large, it is Embury and Janet Tobitt (Orten and Nash, Royal- possible to remove much of the inside of it with the bit. ton, Vt., 75 cents). Now begin cutting, using the straight gouge: hold both BoARDMAN SwiMMING CHART (Bob Boardman 2380 the noggin and the gouge in the left hand the noggin East Neb Hill, Salem, Ore., $1 postpaid). , with the middle of the hand, the gouge 'between the thumb and forefinger; rest the hand on the knee. Tap the gouge with the mallet so as to gouge out the Brownie Training Courses inside of the burl, working toward the hole you made }ULIA WILLIAMSON near the center of the grain. Throughout this gouging process, keep each scoop well under control so as not to April 28 ...... Providence, R. I. cut yourself. 29 ...... Westerly, R. I. May 5 ...... Stamford, Conn. When the. greater part of the surplus wood has been 8-10 ...... Corning, N. Y. removed, take the curved gouge which may be used in 11-14 ...... Elmira, N. Y. the right hand, without a mallet; push with the center (Regional Conference) of the hand, twisting the tool to coax it through the wood. Two cautions are to be observed in such work. They KATHRYN FRANCIS are: take care of your tools, and take care of your fin­ gers. Tools must be sharp; sharpening a tool is quite an May 4-6 ...... Sioux City, Iowa art, so get some carpenter in your neighborhood to show (Regional Conference) you how it is done. All moisture should be wiped from 10-13 ...... Minneapolis, Minn. tools after each period of use, and they should be wrapped 15-20 ...... St. Paul, Minn. up together and put away between sessions. A little ma­ 22-23 ...... Northfield, Minn. chine oil is a good protection for tools not in use. Take 25-27 ...... Duluth, Minn. good care of the wooden ml.lllet, too, and don't drive 29-31 ...... Chisholm, Minn. 54 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER

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VoL. X MAY, 1933 No. 5 The Garden Scholarship This is a reminder that applications for the Lou Henry Hoover Scholarship in Gardening must be sent to the In Regard to Copyrights Special Committee on or before June I, 1933. The scholarship covers a period of two years at the School In answer to the many requests we have had for copy­ of Horticulture for Women at Ambler, Pennsylvania, right information, we should like to call attention to the and carries $500 annually, which provides ·more than extracts, given below, from a letter from the Copyright half the expense of tuition and maintenance. It is avail­ Office, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. able in September, I933. Girl Scout leaders are urged to read these paragraphs For further information, write to Mrs. Vance C. carefully and to observe the copyright law when com­ McCormick, Chairman of the Special Committee, c/ o piling Girl Scout song books, collections of poetry, plays, Girl Scouts, Inc., 570 Lexington Avenue, New York. and so forth, whether for sale or not. It is a temptation tQ use other writers' material at will but it is only fair and courteous to seek permission for the use of such ma­ Concerning Registration Forms terial. As a rule both publishers and authors are gener­ ous in granting permissions to groups such as the Girl Each Girl Scout troop or Brownie pack registers and Scouts, just as a farmer who posts a "No Trespassing" reregisters with National Headquarters on the form sign will usually grant permission to cross his land if per­ entitled Girl Scout Troop Registration Form, or Brownie mission is courteously asked. Pack Registration Form. When quoting a single verse in a local bulletin or A new captain or new lieutenant, a new Brown Owl other local publication, such permission as a rule is un­ or new Tawny Owl, must apply for a commission on necessary but at least the author's name and the source one of the following forms: Girl Scout Captain Applica­ of the poem or extract should be given (the name of the tion for Commission, or Girl Scout Lieutenant 'Applica­ book from which it is taken and the name of the pub­ tion for Commission, or Brown Owl Application for lisher). Commission, or Tawny Owl Application for Commission. Form the habit of putting down the complete sources A reregistering captain or lieutenant, Brown Owl or for your notebook jottings and then if you wish to use Tawny Owl, need not fill out again an Application for them as quotations la~r you will not be embarrassed by Commission in order to have her commission renewed. having no idea who said them or where they came from. The renewal of a commission is approved upon reregis­ tration of a leader with the troop ·or pack. From the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress Each Girl Scout, Brownie, or leader who did not reg­ " . . . the extreme period of protection afforded to ister with the Girl Scout troop or Brownie pack regis­ .. works under the copyright laws of the United States is ters on the form entitled Additions to a Girl Scout Troop fifty-six years. Works published more than fifty-six years Registration Form, or Additions to a Brownie Pack ago would now be out of copyright here and in the public Registration Form. In order not to delay these addi­ domain (free for the use of all) as regards their original tional registrations, it is important thai: each captain and text or version. Your attention is also called to the fact Brown Owl should have on hand several of these regis­ that works by non-resident foreign authors were subject tration forms. The forms may be obtained either from to copyright in the United States only after July I, 1891, the local council headquarters, if there is one, or from when the so-called International Copyright Act became National Headquarters. effective. Each troop committee or pack committee registers and "There is no copyright on Gover-nment publications, reregisters on the form entitled Troop Committee Regis- 55

/ration Form or Pack Committee R egistration Form. Na­ incorporate naturalness, sincerity, and enthusiasm, and to tional H eadquarters formerly requested that these regis­ give training in camp technique. Campers are advised tration forms be sent in in duplicate. This is no longer to bring a camp and cooking kit, a camera, archery tackle, necessary; one application form is sufficient to register and hockey sticks; golf c lub ~, tennis racket, and riding a troop committee or pack committee. A duplicate, how­ clothes are advisable for those interested in these special ever, should be kept for the local records. activities. The fe e for the four-week period is $120, plus special fees for tennis, riding, and so on. The extra Area Councils fee for the Girl Scout leadership course is $2. Address in­ quiries to Miss Rosalind Cassidy, Mills College, Calif. The new pamphlet Area Councils of the Girl Scouts, The Girl Scout leadership course is to be directed by Procedures of Organization, Administration, and Financ­ Thelma Mellick, of the Girl Scout National Headquar­ ing, Local Council Studies, Number 3, came off the press ters staff; it will give instruction in the methods and skills the middle of March. It is primarily for the use of: used in leisure-time activities for girls. It will be con­ ( 1) Local councils already chartered by Girl Scouts, ducted through the use of Girl Scout troop organization Inc., to have jurisdiction over two or more municipali­ and will include outdoor activities and a visit to Camp ties; Chaparral, arranged with the cooperation of Vaal Stark, ·( 2) Local councils considering the area form of or­ director of Chaparral. ganization. A copy of this pamphlet was mailed in March to each commissioner and local director of a local council whose International Training chartered jurisdiction covers two or more municipalities. The pamphlet is distributed without charge. Additional The Second International Training for Guiders and copies may be obtained on request to the Program Divi­ Girl Scout leaders will be ·held, Sept. 23-0ct. 4, at Our tion, Girl Scouts, Inc., 570 Lexington Avenue, New Chalet, Eggetli, Adelboden, Switzerland. Fraulein von York. Herrenschwand, Commissioner for Berne, Guider-in- Charge of Our Chalet, will be Guider-in-Charge of the The Nature Program in Braille training course as well. The trainers are to be Miss The following -texts have been adapted by Dr. Bertha Agnes Maynard (England), Mlle. Beley (France), and Chapman Cady and by Kathryn E. Maxfield, formerly a third trainer not yet chosen. . supervisor of educational research fo r the American Applications. Participation in the course is limited to Foundation for the Blind, now director of personnel and thirty entrants, applications to be considered in the order research, Perkins Institution. Due to the generous co- in which they are received. Leaders who would like to operation of the American Red Cross, the prices are at take the course should write without delay to Mrs. Ly­ cost of reproduction. Order direct froiiL the American_mau~arr,--ffitema-tionat-eom mitt ee-;~r l Red- Cross, 15 Lexington Avenue, New York. Scouts, Inc., 570 Lexington Avenue, New York, for appli- cation forms and full directions as to further procedure. Available in Braille Charges. Charges for the training course include the GIRL ScouT NATURE TRAIL GuiDE-Tenderfoot ( 20 booking fee and training fee which together amount to cents plus postage) about $3.42. The cost of board and lodging ranges from GIRL ScouT NATURE TRAIL GuiDE-Second Class (34 (Concluded on page 56) cents plus postage) GIRL ScouT NATURE TRAIL GuiDE-First Class (20 cents plus postage) T AMI: THE STORY OF A CHIPMUNK by Bertha Chap- MONTHLY ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP REPORT man Cady ($1 plus postage) As of March 31, 1933 Eight First Class Nature Projects: Bird Finder ...... 62 cents plus postage Girl Scouts 225,743 Garden Flower Finder ..... 43 cents plus postage Brownies 11,625 Insect Finder ...... 49 cents plus postage Captains 10,072 Land Animal Finder ...... 45 cents plus postage lieutenants 8,462 Fresh Water Life Finder ... 32 cents plus postage Salt Water Life Finder .. . . 32 cents plus postage Brown Owls 794 Tree Finder ...... 47 cents plus postage Tawny Owls 428 Wild Flower Finder ...... 51 cents plus postage Leaders holding temporary commissions .. 655 Local council members . . 5,832 Girl Scouting at College Community committee members . . 2,950 It would be hard to imagine a pleasanter or more Troop committee members ...... 14,181 profitable way to spend a summer vacation than with Pack committee membe.rs . . 179 such a group as is planned in the Mills College summer Troop and pack committee members (troop or pack not course. Mills College this year is making the interesting · yet registered) . 285

experiment of adding a course in Girl Scout leadership Local council standing committee memb~rs not registered to the courses available in its summer camp program held as local council members . . 175 June 24 - July 22. Associate Girl Scouts ... 3,019 The circular issued by the college states that the sum­ Total active membership .. 290,411 mer courses are organized into a camp program in order to 56 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER

International Training An Invitation from Poland (Continued from page 55) The Girl Guides of Poland have invited Girl Scouts from this country to attend an International Camp to be about fifty cents to a dollar a day per person, according held August 17-27 at Bucze, Poland. The camp will be to the comparative luxury of the lodging chosen. Mrs. under the direction of Polish Guiders and Rangers (lead­ Delano will let you know details about the method of ers. a_nd _older g~rls), and the program will emphasize paying charges if you write her that you wish to take trammg m campmg methods. The camp fee will be 20 the training. Polish zloty-about $2.40-for the ten days. Those The languages used during the course will be French attending the camp will supply their own camp outfits, and Englis~, w~t~ German translation when necessary. except for tents and blankets, which will be furnished Eleven natwnahues took part last year in the First In­ by the camp. It is planned to follow the camp period ternational Training at Our Chalet. "No one can with a four-day excursion, the cost of which will depend imagine what fun the training was last year," writes upon the number of participants. Dame Katharine Furse, Director of the World Bureau, in the April, 1933, Council Fire. "and it was wonderful how quickly everyone made friends and how soon patrol The Nineteenth Annual Convention spirit gained the upper hand." Many of those who _Now that summer has come, fall and the great annual visited Our Chalet last year are still keeping in touch Gul Scout event are not far behind. This year the na­ and are reporting on the spread, to their many troops tional convention, scheduled for October 11 12 13 will and companies, of the ideas and the enthusiasm engen­ be he_ld in the Hotel Schroeder, Milwauk~e, Wis.: and . der~d by the course. pr01mses to be one of the most economical 1 instructive and entertaining the Girl Scouts have ever held. ' The Juliette Low Memorial Awards Mindful of the difficulties that confront everyone at "We had a feeling that . . .. we had started a friend ­ present and of the urgent need for discussion of common ship which was just beginning and which would go on problems at this time, the National Board of Director~ and be more beautiful and greater as time went on ... has tried to arrange a convention that will be within a~ K~owing the Eu:opean Girl Scouts and Guides and being easy reach of every leader as it is physically and financially With them has given us a broader vision of international possible to make it. Scouting." Such an experience, as described by one of last To begin with, the hotel rates will be lower than last year's Juliette Low girls, awaits the Girl Scouts who have year's and there are three adjacent hotels .for those who been chosen to attend the Juliette Low Memorial En­ want a choice. The Hotel Schroeder is centrally located campment at Our Chalet this summer. with easy access to restaurants. ' The International Committee, Girl Scouts, Inc., has F;om the conference ~oint of view the arrangements selected the following Girl Scouts to receive the Juliette a_re Ideal. Two floors will be given over to the conven­ Low Memorial Awards for 1933 : Adelaide Van Vliet, tiOn and on one alone there are ten private meeting rooms. of Goshen, N. Y. (Region II); Virginia Powell of The pre-convention training, to be held October 9 and Bowling Green, Ohio (Region IV); Elizabeth Yat~, of 10, will be in the hotel itself. The Board will hold its Greensboro, N. C. (Region VI) ; Lenna Thomas, of session~ .during these two days, which will give leaders Webster Groves, Mo. (Region VIII). The girls' ages an additiOnal chance to consult with members whom they range from seventeen to eighteen years; all four are may wish to see. Golden Eaglets; and they have all been active in Girl To reduce th~ cost of pri~ting .and mailing, one copy Scouting for nearly ten years. Miss Elaine Clark of of the ConventiOn Call agam this year will be mailed Rochester, N.Y., will accompany the group as captai~-in­ or:ly to the following: to .each commissioner and local charge; she accompanied the American Juliette Low director and each chairman of a community committee. gifls abroad last summer in the same capacity. The present notice is therefore intended for those who /'The objective of the tour is the two-week international will not receive the Call. encampment at Our Chalet at Adelboden, Switzerland­ And now an additional inducement to come for those the "School of International Goodwill" as it was called who are .between-two-;ninds! Milwaukee is only ninety­ , ;.by Lord Robert Baden-Powell at its opening last sum- three miles from Chicago, where the World's Fair is \ ~mer. / Besides the four American girls selected for this being held June 1 to November 1; during this period year's award, the International Committee has invited the railroads are making special rates. So come to Mil­ one Girl Guide from Ireland and two Girl Guides (Girl waukee, prepared to tell us your troubles, to hear ours, Scouts) ·from each of the following countries: Belgium, and to compare notes about has-been and can-be-done. Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switz­ .Please Note: The registration fee for the convention erland. Will be $1.25. The hotel rates will be scheduled in the A two-day visit at Camp Andree before sailing has Call. The Hotel Schroeder is the convention headquar­ been arranged for the four American girls and their ters; other hotels near by are the Hotel Plankinton and leader. They will leave on the W esternland July 28 Hotel Pfister. Further information is obtainable at N a­ la~din~ .at Southampton, and on the way to Our C hale; tiona! Headquarters. will VISit Foxlease, the English Girl Guide camp· Lon­ • don; Paris; Berne, Switzerland. After the two' weeks Please Set Us Right at ~delboden, they will go to Montreux, Geneva, Paris If misdirected, the LEADER is not forwarded. At least agam, and then to Le Havre, August 31, to sail for home one month is necessary for change in mailing address. on the. S.S. Manhattan. Please send old and new address, troop number, title. 57

y 0 u t h w i 1 1 Decide "Behind nationalism are the' forces inimical to life." -Professor Einstein, in a New York speech.

An article by Dame Katharine Furse, Director of the better off child being admitted and the poorer child, who World Bureau of the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts As­ probably needs our training most/ being unable to join sociation, appeared in the February Trail Maker. Dame because of the expense involved . . . Katharine speaks of puzzling situations which have arisen "Surely a balanced mind, which is the ideal of good in some towns in England over a tendency on the part character training, should be a mind which has not been of local organizations outside the Girl Guide organiza­ molded into a limited pattern, but which has been given tion to require from the Girl Guides a kind of coopera­ the chance to judge for itself between right and wrong ... tion open to question on the part of individuals connected "My own belief is that we risk defeating our own with the organization. Such a request was one that the purpose if we are too rigid in ol"d-fashioned methods . . . Girl Guides circulate "Buy British" posters. The local lVIost modern young people have not the same prejudices commissioners' refusal was based on the realization that against color or against a different political party to their the parents of the children in the town, who treasured own as many of their older leaders still have. They will free trade principles, would feel that in acceding to the decide for themselves and, if our movement ceases to request the Girl Guide organization had trespassed upon move with the times . . . we older people will soon be these principles. left to dispute among ourselves, and the youngsters will "I am not suggesting that we, as individuals, should have gone on to something wider and more modern and not belong to other organizations or that we should not more attractive. work for them actively;" Dame Katharine continues, "Let us . . . prove that our devotion to our country "stagnation occurs when anyone limits her horizon, and is a devotion to all that is best in it, and through it, to devotes the whole of her attention and energy to any humanity as a whole. Let us be kind and humble, un­ one activity . .. but ... shall we make use of our young derstanding that all living creatures are God's creatures, Guides and Girl Scouts to further our purposes and ideals and that everything created by Him has the right to live instead of so training them that they will be able to and to be understood and accepted . . . " choose freely and wisely purposes and ideals of their own? American Girl Scout leaders may be interested to com- "The second danger is that we may betray our great pare the foregoing message with the statement of Secre­ ideal of universal friendship. For we sometimes see our tary of State Cordell Hull, quoted in the press as follows: movement divided into separ'ate groups by_ race .b_y __''.Ih.e._mad _p_w:s.uiLoLeconomi.c--n.ationa.lism-or.-alGOfness anguage, an even, now and then, by churches . . . We -every nation striving to live unto itself-has proved see it limited by the question of color . . . We see chil- utterly empty and disastrous. The practice of the half­ dren belonging to a particular creed kept out because the insane policy of economic isolation during the past ten adult organizers have a prejudice against that creed. Yet years by America and the world is the largest single every Girl Guide and Girl Scout Association belonging to underlying cause of the present world panic . . . Eco­ our World Association has the original Law: 'A Guide nomic disarmament and military disarmament are patent­ is a friend to all and a sister to every other Guide,' im- ly the two most vital and outstanding factors in business plying that, wherever we are, all Guides and Girl Scouts recovery." are friendly to one another. 1 (and who, because of her knowledge of hard facts, often makes a "Occasionally we even see class distinction, only .the particularly practical contribution of opinion and attitude-Eo.).

Ideal Camp Awards By Edith W. Conant National Training Adviser, Personnel Division

At the Camp Directors' Association meeting, held at The group decided, almost unanimously, that the ideal the Pennsylvania Hotel, December 3, 1932, a seminar camp should be free from artificial awards of any kind, discussed the subject of camp awards for a camper's and that if opportunity to earn social and individual ap­ progress in skill, health, and character development. A proval were given each camper. it would take the place review of the findings may be of interest to all who are of artifi.cial awards. Every child needs to have recogni­ now making camp plans. tion for effort and progress, and pleasure in his skill and The objectives of camping were discussed under three approval by his group should meet that need. For this main headings: reason it is imperative that campers live an,d play in Health: building stronger bodies and rested and alert small groups so that every individual has his chance to minds. contribute. There should be enough variation in the ac­ Skills: developing creative ability, better form and style, tivities offered so that every child has a chance to" develop wider experience in fun and responsibility. along his own particular bent as well as to try his hand Character: developing individual traits such as self­ at various new skills. reliance, integrity, perseverance; and social traits such as To achieve any sort of satisfying standard, almost cooperation, friendliness, good sportsmanship. (Concluded on pa9e 58) 58 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER From Our Mail Bag A Hike in Puerto Rico By Rosa Maria Fernandez

NoTE: A Girl Scout in Puerto Rico wrote, in her as not to fall, but Oh! Fortune! she had not finished own English words, the delightful letter which follows, explaining when Bam she was sitting in the brookes and and which may well cause some readers to wonder what poor pants. She got up and they continue. Going by they would do if they had to write up a hike in Spanish. this way they found many pigs, when they were a little farther they heard a Plon !-a girl fell down. Plum!­ "A GIRL SCOUT camp in Mameyes, a town of they continue falling. They were such funny falls that Puerto Rico, were having a hike, the Second Class after they got up they had to seat down so as to finish Scouts were the only ones allowed to go. Their destina­ laughing when they got out of there they were much tion was to a hill near by the camp which they called like pigs. 'La Palmita' or 'Palma Sola' because it has a lonely "When passing by a cottage Mary Perrone found a palm in the top of it. At four o'clock everytbing was very strange plant and Rosa Maria went and took it. prepare, the day was cloudy, as soon as they departure Mary explained 'Hey! Rosa thats mine.' So Rosa look it began to rain, but what a rain! the licks were hiting at all the plant and when she finished she exclaimed, 'I them so strongly that they almost fainted. Mrs. Perrone don't see your name written here.' All the girls laugh who was our nurse and l\1iss Sheppard one of our life­ and they continue on. Jan ice Perrone was the first one savers they both po as our leaders. I have not mention to be at the Palm, they has their supper there it was cold. that they have to cross the river but it was so deep that "As day was turning into night they decided to come Lo! there was no pants to come out without being wet. back, it was raining and as it was down a hill it was So on they continue, the way they took was so muddy very difficult to come down without fall. They heard and slippery that everytime Miss Shepard fall, her fa­ many whistle and saw flash lights that come from camp. vorite phrase was 'Watch out girls, these is very slipper,' The river was risen these was the climax of the hike but she has not notise it at time and there she was sitting because they could not walk fast and if they lost a few in the middle of the way. minutes they have to stay at the other side of the river. "Mary Perrone noticed that by calling very loud they So they walk, run, fall down, until they were at last could hear the Echo, so everyone began to call different in the river. Imagine their consternation when they saw names. Guillermo the boy that helps the cook came the Camp Director Miss Sullivan that has a cough running and asked 'Do you need something? What's the all wet in the river and at her side Miss Lucia Harding matter?' They explained him. He come back to camp. one of the life savers with a life-buoy and rope ready to "The hikers continue by the ladder of a hill until swim and giver her life for them. they reached a place that by the many shrubs and bushes "When crossing the river Rosa Maria fall in the river they could not see the 'Palmita' because the leader had our life saver dive ready to take her out. She forgot never go to there so she was only trying to find a way to take her glasses off and she could not see that Rosa but porr girls! they thought they were lost, but they was in the other side, safe. remember that the Girl Scout Motto said Be Prepared, "When they arrived to camp, 'Oh! poor girls,' all the although they don't know the way they come prepared campers went to them. 'Is the way hard? Is the river to brake all the hardships and go to the 'Palmita.' So deep? How many time you fall? Oh! look! your middy Mrs. Perrone had to walk until she saw a place where is tore.' One of the councellors made us hot cocoa. could go down through a small brooke. When going Afterwards we went to bed and the nurse gave us a Scout Mendez was explaining how to place the feet so massage."

Ide a 1 Camp Awards (Continued from page 57) every vocational or avocational interest needs a series of The giving of camp letters or cups to a few boys or concrete steps to measure itself by, but a tangible award, girls is to be discouraged. The elimination of awards, if given, should be only for definite progress in a skill, and of point systems resulting in camp letters, may have and should be considered in the light of a certificate of to be done gradually, through a process of education and achievement and of ability to take added responsibility. substitution of other satisfactions, but it can be done. The American Reel Cross awards are an example. Competition between individuals should not be stressed, The granting of special opportunities like participation but an individual competing against himself, and a group in trips out of camp, water pageants, canoe trips, form a competition, are often satisfactory. In any case no adult sound t'ype of award for development in skill and char­ staff should arbitrarily decide on the best method of acter. These opportunities give the can{pers a reason .for award. The svstem to be used should be worked out measuring up, the responsibility of using their knowledge with the coope;·ation of the campers, who are excellent in a group, and the fun of adventure and new experience judges of the success or failure of any member of their made possible by past effort. group. 59

best guesses." (The leader and the Brownie Helper Around the Toadstool demonstrate a story a little different from the following, Fun for May Days1 make any necessary explanations.) "All ready? I'll begin, then. One day in early spring, I was walking Most Brownies know the bright colors of autumn along a country road, when I came to a grove of trees. leaves-but how many have made pictures of spring Every tree had a hole in it, and under each hole was leaves? While the leaves are fresh and fastened a little bucket. Sap was running from the trees Handicraft new, let each little girl gather as many into the buckets, and from a cabin near by came a deli­ different kinds as take her fancy. Then, laying each cious smell, as if someone was making candy. (Pause, if lea:f face down on a smooth surface, let her cover it necessary, to give them a chance to find the leaves.) with a piece of white paper and hold the paper flat by "The next time I walked along this road, it was later spread·ing her left thumb and middle finger open on the in the spring. Again I smelled a delicious smell; this paper just below and above the place where the leaf lies. time it came from the trees overhead, and I heard a Now with a green crayon she makes a rubbing of the great many bees buzzing. I found that the bees had leaf; under her light, even strokes back and forth, the come· for honey from the trees' sweet white blossoms, shape of the leaf starts out of the paper; by the time that look like small white sweet peas. I began to feel she has covered the whole surface of the leaf, every vein hungry. Presently I came to some saplings which had and contour will show. With a scissors she carefully blackish bark with little light dots all over it, and leaves cuts out each leaf she makes, and mounts her leaves on that looked as if they had been pleated. I picked a few sheets of brown paper. Below each, she writes the name twigs, and after sniffing them to make sure I was right, of the tree which bore it, and something she has noticed I chewed the bark; it tasted like wintergreen candy. I about that kind of tree. was tired by now, and when I came to a farmyard in Brownies who have completed their leaf collections which there was a big tree with gray scaly bark and lots may divide into sixes for a leaf game. The girls in each of leaves, I sat on the fence in the shade to rest. Some six number off and each remembers pigs that belonged to the farmer were rooting happily in Guessing Game her number. The first six go out the leaves under the tree. 'Silly pigs,' I said, 'Don't you while the second six choose a tree. w .hen the first six know that the nuts you are looking for are only little come back, they are told, "We are thinking of a tree." green cups in their saucers now, and will not be good The first girl in the returning six asks some question, to eat until much later in the year?' But the pigs didn't like "Has the tree two-winged seeds?" (meaning, of pay any attention, so I left them and went on until I course, "Are you thinking of a maple?"). If the tree came to a brook. Beside the brook was a tree with long the choosing six is thinking of is not a maple, the first trailing branches tha:t dipped in the stream. The stems girl replies, "It is not a maple." (The chance.s_aLe_ that of t-he-twig were yeHo , and I- cm a thick -one and m s1x nort ern states out of seven the choice will be a made myself a whistle. maple, the first time ! ) When the guess is correct, the "I had come so .far by this time that I was lost. When sixes change places and the guessing six becomes the I saw a tall straight tree that went up and up, and had choosing six. Score is kept on the basis of the number leaves that looked as if the tip had been cut off, I wished of questions each side has to ask before guessing right. I could climb the tree and look for my house from the A game for Brownies who are familiar with some top. But it was too high and too big around. Just characteristics of at least half a dozen leaves and the then I heard the dinner bell my mother used to ring at trees on which they grow: The Nature Story Game Brownie leader gives each girl noon. I went in that direction; and soon reached home." six different leaves-let us say they are oak, black birch, It is obvious that this game may be played in many locust, willow, tulip, and sugar maple (sugar maple ways: with flowers, rocks, and so on. The leader may grows in all states east of the Mississippi). Each child . . make her selection of objects before the Variations meeting, so that she can get her story and has the same six leaves. The sixes sit back-to-hack, in a hollow circle, each child quite a long way from her her demonstration with the helper so clear in her mind neighbor. The leader says something like this : "I am that she will feel easy and gay about it. It is wise to going to tell a story about the trees whose leaves you all write out the story for future reference, and for sharing hold. I shan't say the names, but I think you will guess with others. During the period preceding the game, · she what tree I am talking about when I come to each tree will bring to the Brownies' attention the facts she plans in the story. Our Brownie Helper and I will show to use in her story, so they will be fresh in the children's you, before you begin to play, how this is done. As I minds. If there are new girls in the pack who are un­ tell the story, when I mention a tree, you each will familiar with nature work and guessing games, she could guess what tree it is. You will lay the leaf of that tree appoint them leaf distributors and lea:£ counters the first right down in ·front of you. The next time I mention time the group plays, so that they will feel important a tree, guess which one it is and lay the leaf of that tree . while they are watching how it is done. in front of you, further away than the first leaf. You Public libraries are sure to have reference books on must keep your guess a secret, so that the rest can make natural history subjects. The government bulletins are their own guesses. Just lay your guesses out in leaves, . useful and inexpensive; you may write the in a straight row, beginning near you and stretching away Sources Office of Education, Department of the In­ from you. When you have all six leaves in a row, stand terior, Washington, D. C., for price lists of bulletins pre­ up, and we'll see, at the end, which six has made the pared for elementary and secondary schools.

1 For Brownie T ra ining Courses, see page 53. E. S. C. 60 THE GIRL SCOUT LEADER News and Notes of the N a tiona! Eq ui pmen t Service

Behind the Scenes with Your Order Your next task in the Equipment Service is to cor­ rect prices, check figures, fill in catalog numbers where AY we take you behind the scenes in the Equip­ omitted, type orders difficult to read, copy orders sent M ment Service? It is May, and every order in every on letterheads or small scraps of paper. How pleasant mail (there are four mails each day) is a rush order. it is to find an order which is neatly written on an order "RUSH, must have for Court of Awards," "RUSH, blank with correct prices and catalog numbers-all ready must have for Rally," "RUSH, must have for Girl Scout for immediate shipment. Party," "RUSH, must have by return mail," "RUSH, We shall not ask you to pack the orders but you might must have for graduating exercises," "RUSH, Troop go­ just look in the shipping department and watch the work. ing on a Hike," "RUSH!" Rush seems to permeate the The equipment is selected from bins, shelves, and ra-cks; very air and preparing the hundreds of orders for ship­ counted and checked off on the order blank which vou ment in the too few working hours of the day is fraught prepared. The order is then wrapped, weighed, ·ad­ with as much drama and human interest as getting out dressed, zoned, and stamped. It is off to the field! an extra of a daily newspaper. We hope that you are not too tired and that you have To give you a real feeling of what's going on we sug­ enjoyed being behind the scenes with us. Come again. gest that you work with us, in imagination, for a day: We are always glad to have help or suggestions. Your first task is to go to the Registration Bureau and verify the registration of every person who has signed an order for official 'equipment. So you , hurry away with A-PAT-CO LIFE PRESERVERS, which have the a sheaf of orders to the Registration Bureau, which is a T approval of the Camp Advisory Staff for use in Girl veritable labyrinth of records and files. An alphabetical Scout camps, may be secured through the National Equip­ file, a committee file, an addressograph file ... Could ment Service. As these preservers are filled with Kapok there be so many Girl Scouts in the world! A geograph­ instead of the usual cork they will retain their buoyancy ical file-consisting of cards riddled with perforations for a longer period and outlast usual preservers. The which give the entire history of every troop-in code! style chosen by National Equipment Service is constructed With assistance, you learn how to put these files to like a vest, with the Kapok concentrated in the front, work in verifying your orders. Order 1, from Dorothy under the arms, across the shoulders, and at the back of White who neatly signs herself as Captain of Troop XX, the neck. This arrangement automatically turns the Philadelphia. How easy ... there she is under W in wearer face up in the water, reducing the danger of the captains' file. Order 2, from Eleanor Keefe, Wichita drowning should the person become unconscious. The Falls ... no troop number, no rank. You assume that price of this preserver is $2. she is a captain but no, her name is not to be found in the captains' file. A lieutenant? ... A Tawny Owl? ... no record. Perhaps she is a member of a committee. You T'S KODAK TIME. Of course it is alwavs kodak look in the geographical file and learn from one of the I time, but the spring of the year with the newness of coded holes that in Wichita Falls there is a troop com­ the landscape as it slowly changes from the sharp outlines mittee , .. and sure enough there's Eleanor Keefe in the of winter to softer and more colorful silhouettes seems to committee members' file. Ten minutes lost because Elea­ be particularly inviting to amateur as well as professional nor Keefe gave no information about herself. Order 3 photographers. A good camera, such as the Official Girl is neatly typed on a "Council order blank" and signed by Scout Eastman Kodak ( M801 . . . $6), and several rolls Mrs. Worth, Chairman of the Committee on Badges and of unexposed films, are all the equipment needed for this Awards. You know exactly in what file to find her most satisfying hobby, satisfying because of its indirect name. Order 4 is from "Billie" Brown, Detroit ... as well as direct returns. A good picture of a scene, a no further information. She is not a captain . . . nor person, or an interesting object gives pleasure in itself a lieutenant . . . nor a Brown Owl ... nor a Tawny Owl and the knowledge of composition-that is, of balance, ... nor a council member ... nor a committee member .. . rhythm, and contrast-developed in producing good pic- - you try them all ... you are wasting valuable time ... _ tures, heightens the appreciation of all other types of Here she is ... "Billie" Brown is a troop scribe. "Not graphic art. Developing and printing the films is just 0. K." you write with a scowl. Why didn't "Billie's" as interesting as taking pictures and is well within the Captain tell her how to order equipment? Order 5 is ability of Girl Scouts. How to Take Good Pictures, pub­ from Mrs. Cecile Smith who wants a Brownie uniform lished by the Eastman Kodak Company, mailed upon re­ ... nothing more. You find Smiths in every file but no quest, offers valuable assistance and suggestions to the Mrs. Cecile Smith. Who can she be? ... She must be a amateur photographer. This book is included with the Brownie Mother. If the Brown Owl had only ... but purchase of a Girl Scout Kodak. Girl Scouts working there is no signature. As you mark the order "not_O.K." for the Photographer badge will also find the pamphlet you have a picture of that child's disappointment when How To Win the Photographer Badge a great help in her mother tells her that she will not have a uniform for fulfilling the requirements. Until the present supply the party. - You go on through the entire pile of orders, is exhausted, National Equipment Service will be glad to and find many cases where disappointment is sure to fol­ send any Scout working for this badge a copy of the pam­ low-somebody's carelessness. And there is nothing you phlet free of charge. Additional copies will be charged can do but mark the order "Not 0. K." for at 20 cents each.