Show SONG OF SAFETY Camp Fire Girl Groups Conduct I Programs on Traffic Education ADMONISHING to sing a song of safety while Camp Fire Girls of the Central Valley Area Council In California launched a campaign In the communities of San West and At meetings of women and men's service church and other the young members of the youth agency distributed cards for drivers to clip on windshield The card pointed out the perils of speeding along the highways and byways at 75 and 85 miles per Not content with this Camp Fire members including Blue Birds to Camp Fire Girls to and Horizon Club groups to saw y LW fit Mr Tb St. Camp Fire members receive a award for their safety campaign from traffic education division of the police that every member of their organization signed pledges promising to obey safety rules while and riding bicycles and The girls also enlisted the aid of their parents in the safety Fathers sent letters to all drivers in the community asking them to please observe safe driving especially while in the vicinity of schools and The importance for teen-agers to learn safe driving practices was so vital to a group of Camp Fire Girls that they held a panel discussion on a Have a Driver's The discussion was held in school as part of their English class The girls did a lot of preparatory research before planning the They sent for information from other committees and explored the laws of different states with regard to licensing young drivers in their The conclusion reached was that a fourteen-year-old could be given a practice license for two should always have an adult in the and at the end of the probationary period could apply for a driver's The initial panel discussion proved so successful that the Parent-Teacher Association requested a repeat Later the panel went on the air over local IN MANY COMMUNITIES across the country Camp Fire members hold as demonstrations climaxing their safety The girls enlisted the cooperation of local police and highway departments and civic pedestrians and skaters all took part in the Snappy placards streaming from vehicles pointed out the of the The police department in St. recognized the good citizenship efforts of the local Camp Fire Girls safety drive by presenting the organization with an Fire for a happy life-safety for a long is one of the themes of Camp Fire Girls current in which more than girls from Maine to California are Skits and radio programs carrying out the safety theme have been given by Camp Fire members In practically every state In the Union and have demonstrated that in making the world a better and a safer place to |