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Show i . "? - . ';,v4vc'-- ' ' ' - ' " $ -' 4 - ' -A . ( ' 4 I , v . " , -i V f . a K , ' fJ ' V r , . ' ' ' " ? , ; ? "', ? 'tt "w . ... . ... ' - ; . .. 4- 4. 4- v " - s'A ' 'V - - '"- - v -' v --J ; iri: 7 -" , f V- . ' v , , tut i ; ' " 'r; rri, -1 . I .--J I tr -; ' "V f I , I jr. - i ' : ' f T ' i - Girl Scout Cookie' Time "We have five varieties this year," Dottie WaJk- er. tells prospective customer, - Mrs... Walter Lea, as her Girl Scout' team-' mate1, Nita Davis, Troop 666, poises to write the order. March 16 through 22 Annual Girl Scout Cookie Soles Begin for Fund Eta Isfng Project Ask the man in the street what the words "Girl Scou" mean to him: he'll probably say "cookies." Go to the back of the class, man in the street! Times have changed! The Girl Scouts still sell cookies to help more girls go camping, but the fresh-faced youngster in the perky green uniform has more on her mind than camping camp-ing these days. She is one of over three million Girl Scouts who have launched a quiet revolution a-gainst a-gainst the indifference, misunderstanding mis-understanding and hatred in poverty areas. The . Girl Scout's weapons are energy, patience, and good will. The Girl Scout revolutiqn started more than 50 years ago, with the basic goal to offer Scouting to all girls between be-tween 7 and 17, regardless of race, color or creed. In 1964, however, came the realization that the offer was being more widely accepted by girls in affluent areas, than by those in poor neighborhoods. neigh-borhoods. A 3-year, nationwide nation-wide project to bring the opportunities op-portunities of Girl Scouting to the nation's ghettos was begun. Recruitment posters went up on walls of laundromats, as well as in windows of downtown department stores: Store-front neighborhood service ser-vice centers became supplementary supple-mentary facilities for Girl Scout council offices. Specially Special-ly trained staff, both volunteer volun-teer and professional, trekked miles of city streets, knocking on hundreds of pre-selected doors, trying to persuade the. women behind those doors that she would be a fine Girl Scout leader. She was given assurance of training, to build her confidence to the is Cookie .Time in Moab. Door to door .. calls will be made to take orders. Funds will be used for camping opportunities. A Troop Camping is. planned at' Warner War-ner Lake 'in early August. r point where she promised to give it a try for the sake of girls in her neighborhood. The long hours have brought results. Girl Scouting has moved into the ghettos of nearly every city where rioting occurred last summer. Girl Scout day camps blossomed blos-somed in empty lots, on the grounds of housing projects; Girl Scout flowers replaced rubbish along city streets. And when there was trouble, a woman in green found that her uniform paved the way for her to "go where others fearfully tred. . Most heartening of all, the determination to bring Scouting Scout-ing to hard-to-reach girls has moved into the hands of the girls themselves. A single Senior Girl Scout conference on "service in the inner city", held last summer, will net over 50 recreational and tutorial tu-torial projects for poor children child-ren this summer. There will be charm schools field trips, day camps and overnight camps. Portable service centers will be estab-lishhed estab-lishhed in the nation's urban ghettos, planned and named by Girl Scouts, in partnership partner-ship with their adult advisors. advis-ors. So this year, man in the street, when you see Girl Scouts taking their cokies orders, or-ders, tune your mind to theirs Buy an extra box, and help them win their own war a-gainst a-gainst poverty. Their quiet revolution just may succeed, where noisier efforts hava failed. |