Show it alir 01 YOUTH SERVES the spirit ot of service prevails as loop camp fire girls throughout the country extend a helping hand to those in need deed typical example is the camp fire girls camp at dallas tex where polio cases shown above are taught how to swim FRIENDS IN NEED AND DEED helpful service Is watchword of 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 being made by camp fire girls who are making four trips a month to the veterans hospital in mckinney tex more than 63 nave have wheeled ambulatory cases to water pageants picnics baseball games dances and camp shows in 0 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 SUU still other groups prepare picnic lunches and roast over an open fire brighten invalids life another example of friendly service is illustrated in portland ore where camp fire girls are active in the chin uppers an organization composed of people who by reason of physical disability are barred from many activities the Alp hagal horizon club camp fires senior group has adopted one chin upper as its own special project club members pay her regular visits bringing gilts gifts and flowers thus helping to make her tedious hours of invalidism brighter young members of athe the reading berks county council of 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 meal times at the institution aid polio drive during this years financial campaign of the silver bow chapter of the national foundation for infantile 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 blich 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 for the homeless family during the christmas season santa received a helping hand from tulare calif camp fire girls who made puppets for the childrens hospital in san francisco one hundred puppets were made enough for each patient in the hospital and each gift was accompanied by a personal greeting card from rom the young puppet maker entertainment tor for shut ins is on the camp fire agenda too foo as Is shown by a project of a fargo N D group the girls visited the jamestown ames town crippled childrens home and put on a program of solos dancing readings and songs rhe fhe group also presented the patients with 63 baskets of candy and it 1 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 and the results of the overall camp fire program which promotes cooperation understanding and acceptance tep cep tance of responsibility among more than girls throughout the country camp fires membership march which opened in september will continue until november 30 and the organization invites girls of all races and creeds between the ages of 7 and 18 to be friendly make friends join the camp fire |