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.