OCR Text |
Show Final Star QNE of the most promising signs of the times is the way young folks are banding together and doing things for their community. High school and junior high groups have been organized to learn about keeping natural resources. They have visited dams and taken conservation courses, learning botany, geology and reforestation. Last summer novel assistance 1 programs were carried out at many hospitals. Senior Girl Scouts volunteered service, pushing wheel chairs to X-ray rooms, carrying flowers to patients, checking meal tickets and taking care of phone calls. These Scouts signed up for 56 hours of work and attended preliminary training classes similar simi-lar to those for Red Cross nurses' aids. The Youth Council of Madison, Wis., inaugurated a "Come and See Tour" of service agencies, familiarizing fa-miliarizing young people with social conditions in that city. 1 During the vacation months groups of older girls in many big cities teach new skills to younger . girls in summer camps. "Life's final star is Brotherhood," Brother-hood," wrote Edwin Markham. These young groups, working toward a better understanding of 1 social and civic problems in their f communities are reaching toward that final star. |