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Show Pi--Hi-. .. 'v :y NA V YOUTH SERVES . . . The spirit of service prevails as Camp Fire Girls throughout the country extend a helping hand to those In need. 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 WNU Features. "Youth must be served," say the oldsters. "Youth serves," reply the Camp Fire Girls. By spreading a spirit of friendliness, friendli-ness, by being more neighborly, Camp Fire Girls across the country are going forward extending the right hand of friendship friend-ship 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 girls have wheeled ambulatory cases to-water to-water pageants, picnics, baseball games, dances and camp shows. In this way these young people have accumulated more than 947 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. Still other groups prepare picnic lunches and roast weiners over an open fire. Brighten Invalid's Life. Another example of friendly service serv-ice is illustrated in Portland, Ore., where Camp Fire Girls are active in the "Chin-Uppers," an organization organiza-tion composed of people who, by reason of physical disability, are tiarred from many activities. The Alphagal Horizon club (Camp Fire's senior group) has adopted one "Chin-Upper" as its own special project. Club members pay her ' ' Vrisits, bringing gifts I nnrt tlv"i-'i 7 mi nelppg- to T"?Va; her -tedious hours of invalidism brighter. Young members of the Reading-Berks 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 at the institution. Aid Polio Drive. During this year's financial campaign cam-paign of the Silver Bow chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Infan-tile 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 de-stroyed the home of a Battle Creek, Mich., 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 S181.27 for the homeless home-less family. During the Christmas season Santa received a helping hand from Tulare, Calif., Camp Fire Girls, who made puppets for the Children's Chil-dren's hospital in San Francisco. One hundred puppets were made, enough for each patient in the hospital, hos-pital, and each gift was accompanied accom-panied by a personal greeting card from the young puppet maker. Entertainment for shut-ins is on the Camp Fire agenda too, as is shown by project of a Fargo, K. D., group. The girls visited the Jamestown Crippled Children's Home and put on a program of solos, dancing, readings and songs. The group also presented the patients pa-tients with 63 baskets of candy and a 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 ac-ceptance of responsibility among more than 360,000 girls throughout the country. Camp Fire's Membership March, which opened in September, will continue con-tinue until November 30, and the organization or-ganization invites girls of all races and creeds, between the ages of 7 and 18, to "Be Friendly Make Friends Join the Camp Fire Girls!" |