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Show Camp Fire Girls Open. Nationwide Membership Drive NEW YORK. With 360,000 members mem-bers participating, the annual membership mem-bership march of camp fire girls is underway throughout the country. The campaign will extend through November 30. "America always has used the past to build for the future; it is a nation that looks to tomorrow." Dr. Berniee Baxter, national president, said in a statement urging local units to extend the benefits of the camp fire program to larger numbers num-bers of girls in the community. "The youth of today, who will carry on the spirit of our nation, must be grounded and trained in those principles which make for better living, for it is youth who will decide whether we continue to build or whether we fall back to the past," Dr. Baxter continued. In connection with the national campaign, local Camp Fire Girls units will hold special activities designed de-signed to interest non-members in aims of the organization. Special emphasis will be placed on events showing the program in action. Backing the campaign, Tom C. Clark, attorney general, declared that Camp Fire Girls and other youth-serving agencies foster health and character-building programs which are "the first line of attack" in combating juvenile delinquency. |