Show FRIENDS IN HEED NEED AND DEED helpful service Is watchword of 0 camp fire girls program features youth must be served say the oldsters youth serves reply the camp fire girls by spreading a spirit of friendliness by being more neighborly camp fire girls across the country are going forward extending the right hand of friendship to those in need in sherman tex an enviable record of service is be being ing made by camp fire girls who are making four trips a month to the veterans hospital in mckinney tex more than 63 girls have wheeled ambulatory cases to too water pageants picnics baseball games dances and camp shows in this way these young people have accumulated more than service hours each girl pays her own transportation in an army bus to and from the hospital the older girls wheel the patients others provide musical entertainment set up croquet archery dart boards and other sports equipment still other groups prepare picnic lunches and roast over an open fire brighten invalid invalids s life another example of friendly ice Is illustrated in portland ore where camp fire girls are active in the chin uppers an tion composed of people who by reason of physical disability are barred from many activities the Alp hagal horizon club camp fire s senior group has adopted one chin upper as its own special project club members pay her regular visits bringing gifts and flowers thus helping to make her tedious hours of invalidism brighter young members of the reading berks county council pf camp fire girls participate in a project aimed to bring cheer to patients in a reading pa hospital the girls furnish tray favors which gladden mealtimes at the institution aid polio drive during this year s financial cam laign of the silver bow chapter of the national foundation for tile paralysis in butte mont camp fire girls in that city did their bit to combat polio by addressing march of dimes folders when fire completely destroyed the home of a battle creek mich veteran and his wife a few hours after the birth of their child the camp fire girls made a house to house canvass in the community and collected 27 for the home less family during the christmas season santa received a helping hand from tulare calif camp fire girls who made puppets for the chil dren s hospital in san francisco one hundred puppets were made enough for each patient in the hos pital and each gift was accod danied by a personal greeting card from the young puppet maker entertainment for shut ins is on the camp fire agenda too as is shown by a project of a fargo N D group the girls visited the Jamest jamestown oNyn crippled children s home and put on a program of solos dancing readings and songs the group also presented the pa with 63 baskets of candy and a donation of 5 from the group treasury these are all real examples of the third part of the law of the camp fire girls give service anthe results of the overall can canare lre re program which promotes coop parlon coo on understanding and ac cepcany of responsibility among more than girls throughout the country camp fire s membership march which opened in september will con dinue until november 30 and the or gamza tion invites girls of all races and creeds between the ages of 7 and 18 to be friendly make friends join the camp fire girls 1 |