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Show TELLS OF 15 OF CM FIRE Miss Edilh Kempthorne Says Organization Stimulates Love for Home Building I The national organi7-ition of Camp ' l'li e i ; Iris is approaching its ninth ; birthday. Representative camps In various pails of the I'niled .states an-I an-I to stage programs In honor of this I occasion on March 1". according o Mi ESdltn Kempthorne, national field secretary, who departed late estfr-das estfr-das from Ogden for points on the coast in the Interest of the orguniza-Ition. orguniza-Ition. With regard t the work of the Camp fire Girls, Hist Kempthorne said yesterday: CON8TANTL1 GROWING. "For nine years the program of the Camp Fire Girls has grown and developed de-veloped and h;iB proven itself to be a most adaptable program for adolescent adoles-cent girls. The membership of the organization has been constantly In-I In-I creasing until there are now over 1 -.".- 000 enrolled in America- In every state, on every continent, in sixteen foreign countries, there are Camp Fire Girls living up to the program of 'give service.' I ' The basis of the Camp Fire organ-llxaUon organ-llxaUon Is the home. The corner stone rf Ihe Structure Of Camp Fire Is the 1 home. The ceremonial costume Which I la modeled on the plan of the Indian 'girls' dress has led to tho general idea j that the Camp Fire Girls represent I tribes of Indians and do nothing but camp outdoors. To believe this is as 'absurd as to believe that the Grc'ek letter societies In college represent Greek cities and that the members do nothing but follow Greek pastime oi that the Masonic orders do nothing Init build walls, or thnt the Knights of Columbus are organized to discover I new world! MAKING HOME? ' The world will. Indeed, be many, years older before the home will cease to le the responsibility of the' women. The tasks in all homes everywhere ev-erywhere fall upon the girls and wo-; men of those homes. These tasks of , making the homes should be kept from becoming chores, and this Camp Fire does for Its girls. The work of the hone. If it be only the washing of dishes or thn making of beds. Is dignified dig-nified and made Interesting by being made worthv pf recognition and praise1 when it is done well The system of awarding the honor beads for doing these tasks well not only keeps them I from becoming humdrum and sordid I but it also clothe them in romance and stimulates new Interests in what .would otherwise he dull and uninteresting. uninter-esting. There is a list of 700 honors in the Cumu Fire Girls' manual. 20U of which pertain to work in or about I the home. There Is no girl in any Community to whom many of the things in this list cannot apply-OF apply-OF INTRINSIC M l I ''Fabric woven on such a warp must ndure, must be of the intrinsic value to the life of the girls, but a fabric must have strong woof as well as I strong warp, and it must have beauty jof design and color before it can satisfy sat-isfy us. The woof of the fabric of iCamn Fire is health, health which comes of the love of living out-of- doors. 1? was a happy idea to express ex-press this love of camping and hiking, hv Indian names and adaptation of Indian In-dian costumes, for there could be nothing more typically American. The crimp fire was the center of Indian 1 1 f the hearth fire has always beer. ithe center of familv life- These girls meet abnul a camp file mi a hilltop .or under the trees making pledges In common rites and songs to the fires in their hearts. "There Is no Camp Fire Girl who I has not learned to love the wholesome pleasures of picnicking or tramping over tho hills or along Ihe open road, lor of sleeping under the stars. Thou-.iinls Thou-.iinls of 'amp Fire Girls go camping each year for one or two weeks, and I I thev come back healthier nnd happier." |