Show CAMP FIR FIRE GIRLS GIRLS' HEAD TELLS OF ORGANIZATION Simple Homely Tasks Are Glorified Declares Secretary SEATTLE Juno June 7 Is IB a a. means of oC glorifying simple homely homel tasks In tho eyes ees of ot tho schoolgirl schools Lester F F. FScott Scott national secretary of oC the Campfire Girls thus summed Bummed up the significance of or the tho movement mo em nt which has been spreading over the tho world until there are arc now nosy members in an Interview on the alms alma of ot tho Iho organization ors Mr Scott said s that he has como come to Seattle to Iho ho ho situation to explain to business men and Just what nhat the Campfire mo movement Is Is and to find rind out If It the people of ot Seattle are aro sufficiently ly Interested In making their daughters red-blooded red American women to establish a a. permanent secre tar tary here Ho was preceded by l Il Miss s sEdith Edith M M. Kempthorne national field secre sec sec- re relar tary Mr Scott has been national secretary of the C Campfire Girls two years car Before that he was for Cor eight years cars in charge chargo of ot the lectures at Cooper Union the social welfare center In New York City 1 became Interested It In the problems of girls through helping boys bors of ot ever every nationality to work ork out theirs Mr Nr Scott Bald Id Campfire meets the tho mental and ph physical needs better than any am movement which ever has haa boon boen instituted In my opinion WHOLESOME E PLAY Y The Girls Is s not a n social oCal organization organization-It It la ts more than that that Mr Scott said To be sure it begins with the theor theory that wholesome pIa play is essential essential essential essen essen- and that it should form Corm a a. largo part of or every e girls girl's da day But its pleasures and its tasks The name Campfire signifies sign signi 1 fies tics the hearthstone Belonging to tho the girls means I pledging oneself to achieve e tho the accomplishments accomplishments accomplishments which the organization spon- spon I ors as RS b being ln worthy orthy of or healthy health growing girls Mr Scott cott bald said There are aro five C crafts crans embraced In the Campfire Girls Girl's creed nature- nature craft emU and the craft of ot pa pa- pa Tho The gay aY beads which the Campfire Girls wear WE-ar about their necks and which I tho the casual observer believes to be merely merel a a. form of or decoration are arc signs of or a n girls girl's accomplishments In some gom one or several Ic of ot tho the five crafts Mr Scott explained 1 When a girl wins an honor In an any craft she sho receives a bead he 4 said ald If It she sho I cooks cook for or one ono month in a home she re receives re- re reI I flame colored beads tf It I she sho climbs a mountain her honor will wIH bo be bop bee bov e p v r 7 In hI r rr j ft beads If It she he I makes a garden carden her friends will wIH know it t from her green nl beads and if It f I I she sho ho learns Icarus to build a campfire her beads will bo lIo brown For patriotic honors tho the girls will receive red white and amI striped beads ACCOMPLISHMENTS Thus a l girls girl's beads are arc the symbols of at h her r accomplishments Mr Scott said There are arc abour 1 60 honors honor In all and tho they are arc of ot so varied a nature that no noone noone one ono girl Irl could possibly win half hair of ot them In a word campfire means a womans woman's work cut down to a n girls girl's Irl's size Mr Scott colt continued d. d Each honor may l he be won b by bythe bytho tho the accomplishment of ot ono one little household house house- hold achievement which Is made attractive lc- lc tive Uve through the tho U medium lum of oC the organization organ ors Tho The war record of ot Campfire Girls shows more mor than worth of ot Liberty I j I bonds bends sold during the tho third loan loan- the tho aid Id Idor of or C girls in helping to support French orphans girls who carel cared for tor little children freeing older women for war ork Mork Mr Mr Scott pointed out that these were larger Instances of ot the tho work of ot tho girls in fn tho the or organization The Tho Campfire Girls are or organized 11 usually through the public schools school and hold their meetings nl ni the thA school chool build In Inga ings s or In their homes Mr Ir Scott said Tho The organization now extends through h hf l I most of ot the states In the tho Union Into I Alaska the Philippine Islands the Haw HawaIIan Ha Ha- w allan wallan Islands Island Canada the canal zone Porto Rico South ou th A America n I-n Scotland Africa 4 China J Japan Korea and Australia |