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Show H HOW IS GIRL SCOUT MONEY SPENT, THIS ARTICLE ANSWERS I Kiwanis Statement Shows for What Uses Annual I Fund of Three Thousand Dollars Is Put -I in Ogden Movement I How Is the money spent and what 1s it needed for? These are questions frequently asked those soliciting- funds to keep tho Girl Scouts point' In Opdcn. These questions nnd others nro answered in the following article from the Ogden Kiwanis club: "Today wc are to tell how the money Is spent The telling Is easy for three thousand dollars doesn't go very far when it conies to supporting ,a bisr organization like the "Girl tScouts." In the first place the Girl Scouts like the Boy Scouts must liis e a trained expert leader A leader must have had a great deal of training train-ing nnd must have executive ability. The leader must know a very great deal about girls, nnd must know how to get results. The leader must have the confidence of the executive committee com-mittee and all the officers, the captains, cap-tains, lieutenants, patrol leaders, and all the girls otherwise the thins: will not go. A greater mistake could not possibly be made than for the executive execu-tive committee to select an Incompetent, Incompe-tent, inefficient, unskilled leader. That is the reason WC snld yesterday that tho executive board had been fortunate in their selection of leaders. lead-ers. They have selected the sort of leaders that meet the "requirements of leadership ' A leader of ability )-mands )-mands a fair wage In anv market, and therefore when the board decided that they would expend eighteen hundred hun-dred dollars for a real leader, they made a wise decision But eighteen hundred dollars Is three-fifths of three thousand dollars Therefore, it Is manifest, that three-fifths of the amount required for maintaining a " Girl Scout" orpanlratlon la expend 1 for ono item alone mm sort of leader might be obtained perhaps for lx hundred dollars, but such a loader would wreck the whole concern in a very short lime the work Isn't worth a real leader. It isn t worth having Th? ladies are right pay for a good leader, even though this single item requires three-fifths the budget. During the first fifteen months of the scout work in pgden, the secretary's secre-tary's books show that the money was expended as follows: Leader (supervisor) (1800.00 Expenses of Camp 4 On Dues to Scout Headquarters . ' 10 no Merit Badges 13.70 I i unco ana jeiepiione jvu.hu Incidentals 1130.00 Total 18528 70 "During this firt period the money was first borrowed, and then spent to pay bills Incurred v are told that no funds were ever expended, when the thing that was wanted could be begged or borrowed, Trust the women for that' Which reminds one. that perhaps more Is begged and borrowed bor-rowed than is raised by contribution or otherwise. For example, when the girls go camping why, of course tn tents and camp equipment are borrowed, bor-rowed, When the provisions ir ho be taken to camp some good scout will say, "Uncle John runs a furniture store and I'll get him to send his truck I up." I'ncle John Is Initiated into scout I work. When the girls need trans-; trans-; porting. I nclc Jack. Dad. P.rother j Ren and any other available are requisitioned without expense, and so I it goi-s, the best part of the expense of maintaining scout work is done by I kind-hearted men and women, who are usually thanked but never otherwise other-wise paid The actual money expenditure expen-diture Is probably less than half the natural expi DS6 incurred. The actual money expense af the first fifte"n months was obtained in the following way: Entertainments, donations from Otfdrn women. Kiwanis drive, Mrs. Sophie Reed's Dance Revue, Standard Examiner's "co'qked food sale," ' charges made scouts who attended 'camp, etc. ' All expenditures of money are I made by order nf the local council, I consisting of twenty-one members, n vouchers Issued bv tho secretary and countersigned by tlu trust commissioner. commis-sioner. There Is no leakage, and no extravagance anywhere. Any one who (Wishes may examine the treasurer's I books and find that every cent Is ac-1 ac-1 counted for. "Based upon the expenditure of the first year, the executive board estimated esti-mated that three thousand dollars will be needed for 1S22-23, as follows. Supervisor $1SOO.OO Office Expense 300.00 Office 'Furniture and Supplies 200.00 Camp Equipment 600 00 Incidentals 200.00 Total $3000 00 "The request Is reasonable; the Girl Scout movement is a splendid thing, and is needed as badly In Ogden as anywhere else In the world. It I has demonstrated Its usefulness, and' It seems to the members of the Kiwanis club that we cannot afford to b t The thing slip, we must support it; we must retain it. we must consider con-sider the training and welfare of our girls and therefore we are derelicts to the otent that we refrain from contributing our mite. "The proposition was recently put up to the Club, that 1 he eighty members assess themselves to raise the full amount, but the proposition was not adopted because ll ISri't necessary nor fair thixt eighty men should bear tho burden which might more easily and Justly be borne by a thousand or two. , "As a community enterprise, it Is commendable, so let us support it as a community. Let every one who has civic pride, who has regard for the future womanhood of Ogden. who has. hopes Tor B bigger, bettor city and a brighter, happier world, consider It I an ' opportunity to contribute to a, great national movement. oo |