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Show IEM1SF1 1 GIRLS WANTED, Lack of Captains for. Scout Troops Hampers Local Activity Realising the greatest lack In the advancement of Olrl Scout work in; Ogden Is trained leader?, efforts arc j being made to obtain a number of, new captains. Ogden women who are j willlnc lo give their time to the train-j ing of pirls from 10 to 18 years pld.l on a program of Scout work outlined, for them, are asked to volunteer forj troops. Training for Scout work Will be liven liv-en to new captains upon request to! tli.. (IkJoii i, lil S-out oveoutlVe board. Iack of sufficient S out leaders la I retarding the work of the Girl Scout' mOVemn: throughout the Pnlted, States, it Is said Mrs. lit rbert Ilonv-er, Ilonv-er, wife of the secretary of commerce. who was recently elected president of thf National council of Girl Scouts .it the National convention held January Jan-uary 26 at Savannah, Ga., says: l .v nit to bring to the attention of the women of this country the fact 'that we are In serious need of captains cap-tains for our troops. "We want it this moment 10.000 women, wo-men, capable and Intelligent and at least 21 years of ape. who are willing to fit themselves to take charge of troops Rlcht now over 100.000 girls are anxious to Join the Scouts but we rannot take them because of this lack of leaders. In another six months there will bp nerd of another 1ft, 0"0 captains The llff of the Girl Scout I movement has not been long enouch to provide enmijh alumnae for the work. I so we must seek our captains frm new material- "The principles under which this moement has developed are no fairly fair-ly well known, but th propaganda for I procuring captains cannot be too wlde-, wlde-, ly spread or too urgently stressed. It is because I know of my own know-ledpo know-ledpo the preat. Intrinsic worth of the work that I am willing to devote my , time to !t. It la beejiuse of this ln-' ln-' trinslc worth that the movement has gone forward so surely and so rapidly. The tralninp rounds out every side of ! tho girl, as well ns plvlnp her ntnuse-mr-nts of a wholesome. Instructive sort." |