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Girl Scouts Have New ,Year's Day Saved for Go&sip The Girl Scouts who go calling ti i New . Year's Day according to the Dlàfasliioned custoni, will have*'plenty of goss ip to exchiange, for no year, it seeins. lias 'ever been 50 prôlific of tidibits.a's that which lbas just diéd. There is niews about fashions and fig9- ures (for Girl Scouts, Ihic..,tiot indi- v iduis!). news'albout headquarters clîanging its iinid on.somne old nioot- cd points.' andl planiIiig aIl sorts of lleastlres for itsfamnily. If the con- versation rail trne to for:îî during the New.Year calîs. and began with-the usual Have you heard," there 'are a' score of ways iniivhlich thre questions imiglit enid. Here are a fev: Have youl heard that- National lias' approveçi shorts aÙcd socks!, for camp wear? They say Ahe' \Vaslîington girls were partl.v respon- sîbe fr. hat Thy just' couldn't %vear the o1l b.omers ini their n110u111 tains. * To~ Visit World Chalet Two girls -ail one leader are' goitig tis summiiier to thie \orld chalet Mrs. 'James J. Storrow of Bostoi.' gave at Adeiboden, . witzerland ? Eighit will go to Irelanid for the Euchiaristic conigress iiiitîne. Th'le Girl Scouits lit Kolbler. WVis.. got a beautiful* neiv home froml Miss Marie C. Kohie r, a leader. It's calied the '*Waelderhauis," and a wvorld- famiousartist worked two ,y'ars oni it. It reproduce s the architecture of Miss .Kohler's father's home province ilà Austria, a nd somne of the. furni.sh-1 ings -are hundreds of years old?1 The re were thiirty-five new"littie biouses" in 1931, which mnakes a total1 niow 'of 256, including cabiins and 1 apartinents.1 -Thé Girl Scouts lincrecased ini nuil- The. camp department has lots of ad- vice to give abouýtth. On March 12, 1932, the Girl Scouts wîll bc twenty years of, age! Miss Schiain says she wants to. ineet 'al the f amily befoe 1933? .She is go- ing to. Chicago .in.Eebruary with Mrs. Edey, who, joins ber in wishing us al a very happy New 'Year. Ez'erv %,Berocie.7s notto is "Iend a 'haiid;"and, as site is too sinall to help dcck the~ big Christ îsas tree. this Brownie lias lut oit the. idea of trin-' ming I9a' small tree ol ber owuu, lit man - v zlYs fthe BrQn'ies arc "lending a 'baid" ta br-iglrtc>: flhe hôlidayv season tlîroit 'uoutt t/he' nat ion. 2 rooŽNes TROOP 1 Thrce Wilmiette.Scouts fromn Troop, 1 went out to*Palospark for Juniper Knoll Camp reunion recently. As Juniper' Knoll is a Chicago camp. miost of the people there were f rom Chicago. On arriving, at Forwa us and sit down. Whatever the. nurn- ber of. times she' blew the whistle, each group should have that. many people in it. Then she gave us an- other chance. This time she blew the whistle five times and eachi group, had people iii it.,,'Miss Grobben said tihat eaich.: group would be 'a patrol.' Then %ve elected our Patrol Leaders. Glencoe. Brownies Give Party for North Shore On 'Mouday, December 21, the- Glencode Brownies entert.aiued al the Brownies .from Wilmette, -W'\iinuetka and Highlànid Park.. Týhe party started mwith gamies; w-e played ."The Toyshop" and eachi Browuie had a chance to. choose a toy and to dra- matize lier choice. . Later al'were Pnnh hbear's and tri..d'the'ir lu 2*a most happil- This was the verse with which thc. Girl Scouts of Troop Il gave the dolis, whicl w-e have made, to MIrs. Fitzgerald.' She gave them to the Cross Lake indian reservation. We had a very etijoyable tine.-Maxine: Schneider. This Brownie, Lends a Hand ... ... 7-7- 7,71 freman'ýs ladder. It was lots of fun. After we had made'some kuots Miss Humphries said, "Now everyone come and sit in front of the fire, and F'il read you, a Christmas story." The sto ry, was a nice one, and 1 thinik e-veryone liked it. After the story we sang a Christmas Carolad then we went homne.-HildjA Voeller, Trroop 5 scribe. *1~ Il' Camping Program Regarded as Part of Education PlIan An' all-year-round, school t er ni, with camp laboratories, as an integ-, ral. part1 of ail education. was an ideal outlined, byý Dr. J. P. Nl-ash, di- rector of physical education at New York university, 'at the first aniual convention of- the camp Directors' association held recently ini New York City. "Orgaiiiz ed, campjing- is America'sý most implortanit contribution to edu- cation,-" Dr. Nasli told the gathering of camping representatives of tîe. Girl Scouts. Boy. Scouts and..other leisure progr am organiz ations. -"'I look, forward to the time when the camp idea wili so motivate our institutional education.that we will sec yýear-.round( school ternis, with camip laboratories!" Dr, Nashi declared that a ne\%- era, comnparable -to thé days i which Gréek culture w-as -at itS heiglit, is ~Iawni tg., "Greece deveolpéd àa.leisur.e class l)ecause tliere were twelIve slaves to each miember of 'the uppçr class," lie sai d. "Today every citizen has .if teQln to twe',tv-five slaves to mnake leisure possible for inii, but t he-s e modern slaves are machines. which performi the work of hurnan hands. In teaching children the proper use of their leisure timie,' the emnphasis on1 games should be de-. creased as they grow older, and their interest should then be directed 'to- wards the natural sciences and arts." Says Tamer Sports Wili Fade Frank S. Hackett, headmaster of the Riverside School for1 Boys in New York, speaking at the samne meetingý, declared that the girls and boys of todayonly thipk that they' want the, movies,. shows and, highly organized sports. "Just give them a chance to camp out, to explore,,to swimi and to paddle, and you will find the tanier sports falling into the background where they. belonýg." lhe 'said. Miss , Josepinie Schaini, national director, Miss Enielia Thoorsell, 011