The Girl Scouts Their History and Practice   By: Girl Scouts of the United States of America

THEIR HISTORY AND PRACTICE

" Be Prepared "

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GIRL SCOUTS Incorporated NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 189 Lexington Avenue New York City

Series No. 6

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MOTTO " Be Prepared "

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SLOGAN " Do A Good Turn Daily "

PROMISE

On My Honor, I Will Try: To do my duty to God and to my Country To help other people at all times To obey the Scout Laws

LAWS

I A Girl Scout's Honor is to be trusted. II A Girl Scout is loyal. III A Girl Scout's Duty is to be useful and to help others. IV A Girl Scout is a friend to all, and a sister to every other Girl Scout. V A Girl Scout is Courteous. VI A Girl Scout is a friend to Animals. VII A Girl Scout obeys Orders. VIII A Girl Scout is Cheerful. IX A Girl Scout is Thrifty. X A Girl Scout is Clean in Thought, Word and Deed.

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History of the American Girl Scouts. When Sir Robert Baden Powell founded the Boy Scout movement in England, it proved too attractive and too well adapted to youth to make it possible to limit its great opportunities to boys alone. The Sister organization, known in England as the Girl Guides, quickly followed it and won equal success.

Mrs. Juliette Low, an American visitor in England, and a personal friend of the father of Scouting, realized the tremendous future of the movement for her country; and with the active and friendly co operation of the Baden Powells, she founded the Girl Guides in America, enrolling the first patrols in Savannah, Georgia, in March, 1912.

In 1913 National Headquarters were established in Washington, D.C., and the name changed to Girl Scouts.

In 1915 the organization was incorporated with the legal title, Girl Scouts, Incorporated.

In 1916 National Headquarters were moved to New York and the methods and standards of what was plainly to be a nation wide organization became established on a broad, practical basis.

The first National Convention was held in 1915, and each succeeding year has shown a larger and more enthusiastic body of delegates and a public more and more interested in this steadily growing army of girls and young women who are learning in the happiest way to combine patriotism, outdoor activities of every kind, skill in every branch of domestic science and high standards of community service.

Every side of the girl's nature is brought out and developed by enthusiastic captains, who join in the games and various forms of training and encourage team work and fair play. For the instruction of the captains, national camps and training schools are being established all over the country; and the schools and churches everywhere are co operating eagerly with this great recreational movement, which they realize adds something to the life of the growing girl that they have been unable to supply.

Colleges are offering fellowships in scouting as a serious course for would be captains, and prominent citizens in every part of the country are identifying themselves with local councils in an advisory and helpful capacity. At the present writing, nearly 60,000 girls and more than 3,000 captains represent the original little troop in Savannah surely a satisfying sight for our Founder and National President, when she realizes what a healthy sprig she has transplanted from the Mother Country!