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ployed Girl Scouts as messengers. Hun¬ 
dreds more were used in other Govern¬ 
ment work, as telegraphers, messengers, 
clerks and for special work they were 
fitted to do. When the emergency was 
over, it is typical of the scout spirit that 
all but two, who were eighteen years old 
and self-supporting, gave up their profit- 
aide employment and returned to school. 
Ain to tiie Sick. —Girl Scouts or¬ 
ganized soup kitchens, prepared broths 
and special invalid dishes which were dis¬ 
tributed to fill doctors’ prescriptions to 
over five hundred people daily while the 
influenza epidemic raged in Washington. 
These scouts continue to supply five gal- 
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A wonderful book, this Big Catalog ! It literally spreads 
before you the contents of 47 huge stores, each completely 
stocked with its own line. Are you a farmer, dairyman or 
poultry breeder? 61 pages are given up to modern farm 
implements, including cream separators, incubators, gas 
engines, buggies and harness. 
Do you use tools? 46 pages display a hardware stock com¬ 
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Are you furnishing a home? 95 pages, many picturing 
the goods in their actual colors, show late designs in fur¬ 
niture, carpets and draperies. 
The Dry Goods Store occupies 71 pages, many in color; 
the Sporting Goods Store, including bicycles and auto sup¬ 
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so on through the long list—Paint, Wall Paper, Plumbing, 
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many others. 
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public and private schools, parishes, syna¬ 
gogues, churches, missions, settlement 
houses and community centers and civic 
welfare organizations, wherever girls 
want to be organized for work and play, 
without distinction as to color, creed, 
party or sect. The point of the whole 
Girl Scout movement is that girls join 
because they want to. Tt is difficult to 
find and train leaders fast enough to take 
charge of new groups asking to be en¬ 
rolled as scouts. They like the outdoor 
games, camping and hikes. They take 
pride in striving for the proficiency badges 
which, when won. advance them in rank 
as scouts. They find no sentimentality 
in the Girl Scout movement, but they 
Ions of soup daily to the poor children of 
the public playgrounds. In every other 
city Girl Scouts found war work to do. 
Perhaps Washington was the most crowd¬ 
ed community in the United States and 
there were more big jobs to do, hut the 
noticeable thing about the Girl Scout war 
record is that whatever the need was in 
the community. Girl Scouts were pre¬ 
pared to meet the erne genc.v cheerfully, 
“('lean hands and clean faces” is the 
Girl Scout slogan in Philadelphia, where 
they are teaching by demonstration and 
precept the principles of sanitation and 
hygiene in co-operation with the Anti- 
Tuberculosis League. 
An Intern ation al Movement.—M any 
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portant than that is the largo number of 
Girl Scout troops formed among the chil¬ 
dren of foreign-born parents. They are 
proud to learn to he Americans, to learn 
to salute the flag, to draw the Stars and 
Strpies correctly, to love it for the kind¬ 
ness, courtesy and loyalty of their com¬ 
rade scouts, which means to them the 
kindness and courtesy and loyalty <?f 
America. 
Democratic Order. —The democratic 
mingling of girls in scout troops encour¬ 
ages tolerance of the creeds and opinions 
of others. Troops are formed in both 
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When Girl Scouts Pledge Allegiance to the Flag, They follow it up, with Service 
put a high value on their honor as scouts, 
because they recognize the Girl Scout 
Promise and Laws as a code for clean, 
wholesome living. 
Their War Record. —The Girl Scout 
war record includes the sale and pur¬ 
chase of Liberty Bonds, Thrift Stamps 
and War Savings Stamps; creditable re¬ 
turns in money from their war gardens, 
derived from the sale of fresh and canned 
vegetables, fruits, jams, jellies, pickles, 
etc.; hundreds of thousands of surgical 
dressings made in Red Gross workrooms 
and equally big numbers of garments 
knitted to comply with Red Cross re¬ 
quirements. Girl Scouts also met local 
emergencies. During the war. the Sur¬ 
geon General’s office in Washington em- 
troops have adopted war orphans. They 
give entertainments to raise money for 
the support of their charges. They cut 
and haste and sew big and little garments 
for the refugees suffering in Europe. The 
Girl Scout movement is international. 
Sometimes the name varies, but the essen¬ 
tials are the same in the Girl Scouts, 
the Girl Guides of Great Britain. Les 
Eclaireuses of France, and the similar 
organizations for girls in Holland, Rou- 
mania, Russia, etc. 
Colonel: “You blithering idiot! In¬ 
stead of addressing this letter to ‘The 
Intelligence Officer.’ you’ve written ‘In¬ 
telligent Officer.’ There’s no such person 
in the army !”—Australasian. 
