ready to take on any job in the campaigning line and 
do it well. 
Then too, a woman who can be a good and helpful 
comrade to her brother or husband or son along the 
path of life is really 'i guide to him. 
The name Guide therefore just describes the mem- 
bers of our sisterhood who besides being handy and 
ready for any kind of duty are also a jolly happy 
family and likely to be good, cheery comrades to their 
mankind. 
The coming of the Great War gave the Girl Guides 
their opportunity, and they quickly showed the value 
of their training by undertaking a variety of duties 
which made them valuable to their country in her 
time of need. 
My wife, Lady Baden-Pozvell, was elected by the 
members to be the Chief Guide, and under her the 
movement has gone ahead at an amazing pace, spread- 
ing to most foreign countries. 
It is thanks to Mrs. Juliette Low, of Savannah, that 
the movement was successfully started in America, 
and though the name Girl Scouts has there been used 
it is all part of the same sisterhood, working to the 
same ends and living up to the same Laws and Promise. 
If all the branches continue to work together and 
become better acquainted with each other as they con- 
tinue to become bigger it zvill mean not only a grand 
step for the sisterhood, but what is more important it 
will be a real help toward making the new League of 
Nations a living force . 
How can that be? In this way: 
If the women of the different nations are to a large 
extent members of the same society and therefore in 
close touch and sympathy with each other, although 
belonging to different countries, they will make the 
League a real bond not merely between the Govern- 
ments, but between the Peoples themselves and they 
will see to it that it means Peace and that we have no 
more of War. 
Robert Baden Powell. 
