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Show qy,.. .- ........ ..tff , 4-( ; - - ----ti. v.-.-r-'sf-r-.. (- ( -riffn- - wyy . . - , THE WORLD IS THEIR WORKSHOP AND PLAYGROUND Cainp Fire Girls find pen pals all over the globe A A a h FRIENDSHIP UNLIMITED Camp Fire Girls Make World Their Backyard for Good Work Vitamin pills and toys, soap and blankets have been winging their way across the seven seas for several years as gifts of Camp Fire Girls to underprivileged children in almost every land under the sun. Warm long-distance friendships have sprung up between the American girls and young people overseas. Through the interchange of letters and gifts knowledge of the American way of life is being circulated abroad; while impressions impres-sions of quaint folkways and enchanting en-chanting old-world culture are filtering fil-tering back to our shores. Camp Fire Girls in Larchmont (N. Y.), learning of the plight of a 10-year-old tubercular girl in Germany, Ger-many, "adopted" her. Since 1948 they have been sending her monthly month-ly packages of food and clothing. Their "project" is financed from their pin money and by funds earned through their group projects. pro-jects. The desperate straits of Japanese Jap-anese children in St. Agnes Episcopal girls' school in Kyoto Ky-oto stirred Cedar Rapids (Iowa) (Io-wa) Camp Fire members to quick action. They started campaigning among their neighbors; collected blankets and other necessities and shipped them off to the Flowery Flow-ery Kingdom. Two little Irish colleens in Belfast Bel-fast whose short lives had been fenced in by rationing were made happy through the thoughtfulness of a Brainard (Minn.) Camp Fire group. The organization's young members had been saving pennies for a Valentine party. Instead they purchased cake mix, favors, games, toys and a beautiful doll; wrapped the gifts in a gay party box and shipped them overseas. In the same Minnesota city a group of Blue Bir'ds (Camp Fire juniors) became so fond of a little Dutch pen pal, Corry, that they have named their group the "Corry" Blue Birds. Underprivileged children living in a camp in Valencia, France, had a delightful surprise when they opened a box containing a set of rag dolls made by Youngstown (Ohio) Camp Fire Girls. While other young people in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Australia, Greece and Switzerland will always think Reading (Pa.) is "Santa's headquarters." head-quarters." For it was from Camp Fire Girls in that community they received Christmas gifts during the past holiday season. Korea to England Cleburne (Texas) is separated from Korea by oceans and continents conti-nents but it is not too distant for the hand of friendship to extend. In spite of the differences in language lan-guage and customs, Camp Fire Blue Birds (Camp Fire juniors) jun-iors) knit an afghan for overseas over-seas relief. filled with the ingredients of a typical typi-cal American party for their pen pal group in Germany, one of the girls read aloud stories of German folklore sent by the German group. World Friendship A world friendship project on the wholesale scale was inaugurated by Blue Birds, Camp Fire Girls and Horizon Clubbers of the San Gabriel Valley (Calif.) Area Council. Coun-cil. The girls who live in Altadena, Acadia, Pasadena, San Gabriel, Sierra Madre and Temple City shipped over 2,500 sweaters to children in Calais, France. Naming Nam-ing their project "Send a Sweater and Gain a Friend," the young people collected sweaters in good condition, labeled them and enclosed en-closed in the package a self-addressed envelope, pencil and international inter-national stamp so that new pen friendships could be established. In Milan, Ohio, Camp Fire members mem-bers received a heart-warming letter let-ter from boys and girls of the German Ger-man Youth Activities in Starn-berg, Starn-berg, Germany. "We wish to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for everything you have done for us and to assure you that every item is being utilized to the fullest extent ... It is a true picture pic-ture of democracy at work. Thank you each and every one for all you have done. God bless you all and may every day be a happy day." During the past two years Pittsfield, Mass., Camp Fire members have been corresponding corres-ponding with an eight-year-old invalid Welsh girl. At Christmas Christ-mas time the American girls prepared a lovely surprise for their pen pal a gift box containing con-taining candy, small dolls, stuffed animals and other 1-tems. 1-tems. Thousands of Camp Fire Girls across the country have participated partici-pated in the CARE soap campaign. In Seattle, Wash., groups manned CARE booths, collecting soap wrappers to be redeemed for cakes of the product for overseas consumption. con-sumption. Saugerties, N. Y., and Reno, Nev., Camp Fire Girls also were active in the campaign. Earn Own Money In order to purchase food packages pack-ages for friendship groups abroad. Camp Fire Girls have earned money in various ways. One Detroit, De-troit, Mich., group made and sold leather coin purses, while another group in the same city baked and sold $14.60 worth of cookies. From coast to coast more than 300,000 Camp Fire Girls have discovered dis-covered that "neighbor" does not mean only the girl next door or the boy down the road. They have found global neighbors as well new friends unlimited by barriers of race or customs or language. Two Horizon Club (senior Camp Fire group) members pack a party box containing goodies, favors and games for pen pals in Europe. Girls in that Lone Star state community com-munity have been corresponding with pen pals in Seoul. Learning that tots In Purley, England, looked upon pencils, pens and erasers as luxuries, Camp Fire Girls in the North Hollywood, Calif., district, collected col-lected these much- prized Items; packed them along with candy, jcllo, cheeses and handcraft hand-craft materials, and sent them off to the overjoyed English children. As Lewiston, Idaho, Camp Fire Girls were packing party boxes |