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BULLETIN, 1921, No. 46
EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE
GIRL SCOUTS
LOUISE STEVENS BRYANT
EDUCATIONAL SECRETARY GIRL SCOUTS
[Advance sheets from the Biennial Survey of Education in
the United States, 1918 1920]
[Illustration: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR]
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1921
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EDUCATIONAL WORK OF THE GIRL SCOUTS. By LOUISE STEVENS BRYANT, Educational Secretary, Girl Scouts.
CONTENTS. History and growth Activities Methods Organization.
Do you believe that girls should like to work at home, to cook and clean
house and mind the baby? Do you believe that a girl should like to take
care of her clothes and be able to make them; that she should know how
to be thrifty and to conserve the family money in buying and using food
and clothing; that she should play a fair game and put the group above
her personal interests? Do you believe that she should value a strong
healthy body above clothes and cosmetics, and rejoice in the hope of
being some day the healthy mother of healthy children? If you do, you believe in the Girl Scouts, for in this organization the
girls learn all these things in such a happy way that they like to do
them, which means that they keep on doing them. The Girl Scouts, a national organization, is open to any girl who
expresses her desire to join, and voluntarily accepts the promise and
the laws. The object of the Girl Scouts is to bring to all girls the
opportunity for group experience, outdoor life, and to learn through
work, but more by play, to serve their community. Patterned after the
Girl Guides of England, the sister organization of the Boy Scouts, the
Girl Scouts have developed a method of self government and a variety of
activities that appear to be well suited to the desires of the girls, as
the 89,864 scouts and the 2,500 new applicants each month testify.
HISTORY AND GROWTH.
Girl Scouts and their leaders, to the number of 89,864, were in 1920
organized in every State, and in Hawaii, Porto Rico, and Alaska. There
are troops in 1,400 cities, and local councils in 162 places. This
represents a tremendous growth since the founding by Mrs. Juliette Low
in March, 1912, of a handful of enthusiastic "Girl Guides" in Savannah,
Ga. In 1915 the growth of the movement warranted its national
incorporation; so headquarters were established in Washington, D. C.,
and the name changed to Girl Scouts, Incorporated. In 1916 the
headquarters were removed to New York, and are now located at 189
Lexington Avenue. From the start the organization has been nonsectarian and open to all
races and nationalities. Through the International Council the Girl
Scouts are affiliated with the Girl Guides of England and all parts of
the British Empire, and similar organizations in other parts of the
world. At the 1920 meeting of the international conference at London, reports
were received from Italy, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Poland, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Portugal, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Brazil,
Argentina, Japan, China, and Siberia, as well as from all parts of the
British Empire, and the United States. From a membership of 9,769 in January, 1918, the girl scouts grew to
89,864 in 1921, at the rate of nearly 10 to 1 in three years. The
greatest relative growth was in 1918, when the membership grew fourfold.
During 1919 the increase over the preceding year was more than
two thirds, while in 1920 the relative increase was one third. The
details are as shown in the accompanying table. This growth is due to a spontaneous demand of community after community
for scouting for girls, and not to deliberate propaganda on the part of
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