Hoover

Bice

Hoover

Bice

Hoover

Bice

Hoover

Bice

PHYSICAL EDOVAL iON FOR HEALTH
RaDIO PROGRAM

Januery 19, 1939
"Girl Scouts™
(Miss Ruth Hoover and Mrs. L. E. Bice)

Just why do we have an organization like the Girl Scouts, and is it in-
tended to include all girls?

One of the chief aims of Girl Scouting is to provide wholesome recreat-:
ion for the leisure time of girls. It can easily be reasoned, therefore,
that girls who have no leisure time do not fit into the program. Girl
Scouting recognizes, howovor, that the modern girl has much more loisuro
time than hor forbcars and many more opportunities for spending it in
ways not so wholesome.

What sort of a program does Girl Scouting offer?

It offors a program which is presented as a gamo; which girls play with
others thoir own age, in pleasant surroundings and under guidanco of a
leader whose one essential quality is a sense of comradeship with youth.
Girl Scouts are assisted through a varied program to find out in what
direction their individucl tolents lie and to develop those talents to
the best of their ability. The ten program fields suggest activities in
which she may specializo. Girl Scouting believes that happiness is not
separable from health, it stressos alwcys the necessity for sunshine and
fresh air, plonty of slcep and recreation in congenial company.

How do tho girls enter into this program and whet sort of activitics do
they havo?

The activities of the Girl Scouts are divided into ten program fields.
They are as follows: out-of-door, homomaking, intornational friendship,
arts-crafts, community life, sports-games, naturo, hoalith=safety, litor-
ature=dramatics, and music-dancing. The girl's intorest in these is
arpused by intolligont leadership, by the spirit of cooperation between
members of a troop and by friendly cooperation between troops. Progress
in individual activities is encouraged by a system of proficiency badgos
covéring 50 odd subjects, of which one-fourth are directly related to
work in tho home. Fifty-seven por cent of the badges which Girl Scouts
solected voluntarily last yonr were homomaking badges. To advance in
Scouting girls must know how to cook simple dishes, set 2 table correctly.
make beds noatly, do plain sewing, take caro of a baby, and bandage a cur.t-
Where these tasks are ofton chores to most girls, they are made fun or a
kind of adventure through the Girl Scout method.

Are all Girl Scouts of the same rank?

No. A girl onters a troop as a tenderfoot. This means sho has passed

the following requirements. She must be ten years old or over, and have
attended at least four meetings. She must know the Girl Scout Promise,
Laws, Motto, sign and salute; be able to give tho pledge of allegiance

to the fleg and show how the flag is used. To advanco and become a

second class scout, she must participate satisfactorily in ten activities,
one chosen from each of the ten progrem fiolds. Im each field a choice

of three or more activitics is offcred. Before a Girl Scout attains firs*
class rank sho should: I. Choose one program field in which she wishes