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Camp Fire Girls Inviting All Jills Between 7 and 18 Years f Fun-Filled Program Aims At Development of Abilities And Rounded Personality By MARY E. PENNOCR “So you're a Camp Fire execu tive," people say to me when 1 an swer their "what do you do” query. “Let’s see, aren’t thdy the little girls who light fires with only one match •nd fry eggs on hot rocks?” And I smile indulgently and have to admit that they have been known to do both things, but that those two ex amples hardly typify Camp Fire’s activities. It's like saying that the Rad Cross has "something to do with bandages, doesn't it?” Camp Fire’s field of activity is broad, seeking to give a girl an op portunity to try many things and so to find herself. The philosophy of the program is that girls "learn by doing," and if you were to glance through the "Book of the Camp Fire Girls,” you would notice the long list (1,300) of things that girls may do to earn honors—notice MEMBERSHIP DRU E SEPT. IS TO NOE. 30 Annual membership drive of the Camp Fire Girls extends from Sept. IS to Nov. 30. Slogan this year it ”There’s Fun for Everyone in Camp Fire." A summary of the organization’s aims: "Camp Fire Girls work for World Friendship. Their program i.i based on democratic ideals. It builds for happy home life, community service and better citizenship. Through sev en lively crafts. Camp Fire Girls have fun, make friends, and develop their skills and talents.” the word “do" not “know." These honors are grouped in seven differ ent fields: home craft, health, camp, nature, business, hand craft and citizenship. Exploration Into these fields has meant the discovery of a vocation to many girls. A star study session of her nature group at camp started one Minneapolis girl on a hobby that finally led her to the position of curator at New York's Hayden Planitorium. We have no promises, take no oaths in Camp Fire, because we know that promises are sometimes broken. A girl expresses her desire to follow the Camp Fire Law, which is: Worship God Seek Beauty Give Service Pursue Knowledge Be Trustworthy Hold on to Health Glorify Work Be Happy The Camp Fire Law is really a philosophy of life, and a beautiful one, I think you will agree, A Camp Fire Girl said to me re cently. “Miss Pennock, the Camp Fire Law is so lovely it is almost like poetry." They Join for the Fun. Girls, of course, do not join Camp Fire because it is good for them— a “character - building" agency. They Join because it is fun, because it fills for them a need of belonging to a group. Together with from 6 to 20 other girls, they have an oppor tunity to do things which they can not do alone. They make their own plans, run their own meetings. I have seen more than one president of an adult group who could learn ■omething from a Camp Fire group president about parliamen tary procedure. These days, when we are all thinking so seriously about making democracy work. Camp Fire groups Mi nut % Malt- l/jai ![ By GABRLELLB Roiling your eyes is excellent to strengthen the eye muscles. Look straight ahead. Now lower and raise the upper lids ten times. Then close the eyes and count ten. Then do it all over again. Ledger Syndicate. — WNU Features. Romance of Your Name By Rl'BY HASKINS EIJ.IS BALL This name is of Saxon origin and means “swift.” Another authority gives the meaning “bold.” It had many variations in spelling, such ns Balle, Bale and Bal. Bal is also a Belgian surname. The first head of the Ball family on record is Vice Comes Ba, who is named in the Doomsday book as a landed proprietor of Exon, England. A noted Puritan divine, John Ball, A Camp Fire Girl (left) Is from 10 to 15. Through the seven lively crafts she becomes well equipped to handle varied situations. A Rlue Rird is a Junior member between 7 and 10 years old. Through a program of games, story-telling, simple hand craft and war service. Blue Birds learn to work and play with other children. They become reliable while having fun. Horizon Clubbers (right), are of senior high and junior rellege age. Personality development, vocational study and community service pre pare Horizon Clubbers for adult society. are getting a first hand experience in democracy. "Workshops of Dem ocracy" is a term that has been given to Camp Fire groups. Girls are not dictated to by their leader. They learn to examine suggestions and ideas critically, to think things through sensibly, to make their own decisions. Credit to Volunteer Leaders. We who work professionally In Camp P’ire take little credit for its accomplishments. All credit is due to the tireless and loyal devotion of its thousands of volunteer leaders and the men and women in each community who make up its local councils. They serve the girls of their community through the Camp Fire program because they believe in youth and because they, too, have fun. Do not think that all the bene fits revert to the girls. A Minnesota guardian, telling what grand times she was having working with her group of Camp Fire Girls wrote, "My former classmates, now grown heavy and dull, look at me and say, “My, but you get younger and nicer looking all the time.’ I never have time to wonder about whether or not it is true that 'Life Begins at “40”. ’ Sometimes, the old woman that I really am stands aside and looks at me that is guardian of Camp Fire, and I laugh until ray sides ache to think how Camp Fire has cheated old age.” It sounds like fun, doesn't it? It is fun, and there is a place for you in the Camp Fire picture if you love and understand girls. Youth needs you now, and Camp Fire can give you the tools with which to serve. Your opportunity is as close as your telephone—to call your local Camp Fire office — or your paper and pen, to write National Headquarters at 88 Lexington avenue, New York 16, New York. And about those eggs fried on hot rocks—you can be associated with Camp Fire a long time and never learn that trick. I never have. Common Sense Will Kill Common Cold "It takes a week to cure a cold, but it cures itself in seven days," runs an old saw. Though medical re search is finding effective anti-cold drugs, a cold is self-limiting and un less complications set In, the suf ferer gets well anyway. We know that the cause of the common cold is a flltrable virus, and that the virus is highly contagious Theoretically, the fellow with a cold should Isolate himself during the acute two-day incubation period. But most cold carriers consider themselves too "indispensable" to stay home, and consequently the rest of us are doomed to inherit the virus and catch cold. Specialists say that during the first stage of an acute cold local nasal treatment is of no value and may produce uncomfortable sec ondary reaction. The medical profes sion is anxious to help the luyman choose proper medication; because of the hundreds available, most do more harm than good. It Is unfor tunate that the alkalinity of certain nasal preparations has been so ex tolled over the radio. It is now known that nosedrops should be slightly acid. Of the available liquid nasal preparations, antiseptics and silvers are often more irritating than helpful, while gargles are usually ineffective In killing or even Inhibit ing bacteria, according to an article in Coronet magazine. Sulfa Drugs Useless. While the sulfas have little or no effect on the common cold virus, they are effective against many types of bacteria and consequently may — when sprayed or dropped into the nose—serve a useful pur pose in preventing the spread and shortening the duration of infection after the first acute stage of the cold. But there's danger ns well as miracle in the sulfas and even these preparations should be used by the layman only on the advice of a physician. There are also a great many nasal inhalers on sale. Yet, only three of them contain a therapeutic ingredient which actually shrinks the nasal mucous membrane and promotes ventilation and drainage. Those inhalers which are advertised to the public often claim to make also a member of the English Ball family, lived in the 14th century. Another descendant, Thomas Ball, was a great warrior and defended the castle of Salonica a year against the Turks, and so well did he defend it, that Mohammed II, Emperor of the Turks, said of him that he had seen many heroes in the country of Peloponnesus, but only one man, Thomas Ball. William Ball of Wiltshire, Eng land, was the father of Francis Ball, who was a settler of Spring field, Mass., in 1640. He married the nose feel clear in seconds. Be cause of cooling menthol, they do make the nose feel clearer, but that's all. Actually, they irritate the nasal membrane and are of no medicinal value whatsoever. The common cold must run its course. But its course can be short ened and its potential dangers can be minimized, and here’s how: Make the first sign of a cold a slow down signal. If you can’t spend a day or so in bed, get extra sleep. Keep warm and dry. Don't over-indulge. If the air in your house is too dry, a copious jet of steam flowing from the kitchen kettle will help moisten the dry mucous membrane. Only when the later symptoms are in evidence has the time come for medication. Then it is important to get the right medication. It's easy to telephone your doctor for advice. "GAY GADGETS" Associated Newspapers—WNTJ Features By NANCY PEPPER CASBAH CUISINE What's your favorite dish when you're cutting up at the Casbah— when you re mak ing talk at the marble slab? What we mean is, what do you order at the cor ner soda foun tain? Do you whittle your waistline with a lemon fizz or do you crave these cataclysmic calorics? Triple Threat—Three balls of as sorted ice cream each one dripping with another kind of goo. The com binations are gruesome. Horse's Neck—That’s what you ask for when you want a coke with ice cream. Ever try root beer with ice cream? Lush Mush! Malden’s Delight or Epicure Spe cial—You have two names for this concoction, but we call it "Anything Goes.” Ihe idea is for the soda fountain jerker to use his own imagi nation. Dusty Miller—Chocolate marsh mallow sundae with malt sprinkled on the top. Telephone Special — That’s one name for vanilla cream, ehocolate syrup, marshmallow and peanuts. Forbidden Fruit — Balls of ice cream with different kinds of fruit syrup. * MORNING AFTER When she telephones you early— As soon as it is light— And cannot wait to ask you, "Did you have fun last night?” (SHE DID!) If you try to change the subject With "Oh, it was all right,” And don't even want to know If she had fun last night— (YOU DIDN’T!) SPREADING CHEERS As far as we know this is the only newspaper reportage on high school cheers. If we’d known better, we probably wouldn’t have done it ei ther—but it’s too late now. Our soda fountain FBI Is sending in cheers like mad, and we’re honor bound to report them to you. Sorry—no sound effects! Nice Spirit I’m a raindrop, I'm a raindrop, I’m a raindrop Till I die— But I’d rather be a raindrop Than a drip from Central High. For Blue Mondays Wash ’em out! Wring ’em out! Hang ’em up to dry! Yeh, Central High! Don’t Get Dizzy Now When you’re up, you’re up. When you’re down, you’re down When you’re up against Central You’re upside down. Stand ’em on their heads, Stand ’em on their feet, Central, Central Can’t be beat. TRIXIE TEEN S.4YS— Don’t think you’re the only teen who's been nursing ambitions to be a movie star, a radio actress or a singer with a band. No harm building castles in the air. Rut, just in case those castles never come down to earth, you’d better be dig ging the foundation now for ■ more practical bungalow. Clicking a type writer or selling behind the counter may not be your idea of glamour, but they'll certainly tide you over until the Talent Scout finds you. And—find you, he will—providing, of course, you have the Talent. Redhead Is Much Esteemed by Hunters One of the most widely distributed of American wild ducks is the Redhead. It closely resembles the canvashack, and is distinguished chiefly by Its chestnut red head. It is abundant excepting on the north Atlantic coast. At this season, millions of these handsome birds are moving from Canadian breeding grounds to the southlands, where they spend the winter from Virginia to the Bahamas. Abigail Burt, and all of the Balls of Massachusetts are their descend ant^ EHward Ball of Stamford, Conn., went to New Jersey with a party of New Englanders and assisted in building the town of Newark. The southern Balls of this coun try are well-known. Col. William Ball was the first of them to land in this country, and settled in Lan caster county. Va., 1650. He was a direct descendant of William Ball of England, who was the great grand father of George Washington. Try Atom Power In Locomotive Engineer Says Formula Uses Mercury and Steel To Supply Energy. BELLEVILLE, N. J. — A New York Central railroad locomotive will roll up on a siding here soon and work will begin to convert it to atomic power-drive, says the As sociated Press. Ralph Lucas, chief engineer for the United States Industries and De velopment company, Elmira, N. Y., said the locomotive would be fitted with a mercury turbine employing a formula for disintegration of mer cury and steel atoms. He said "One teacupful of the mercury atoms, exploded, would run a locomotive, pulling 120 freight cars, for 45 round trips between New York and San Francisco.” Formula Patented. Lucas said the locomotive would be run onto a siding of the Belle ville plant of the concern and that he would build his workshop around it. He obtained a patent on the for mula in 1939, he said, to manufac ture electronic power by fusing steel and mercury through intense heat created by electronic disintegration of the mercury and steel atoms. Lucas said the formula produced a controllable disintegration of the atom. The turbine, Lucas said, works this way: "It has a 300 horsepower gasoline driven engine, generating 220 volts alternating current, which is in creased to 1,440 volts direct current by transformer coils. This, in turn, creates an electron discharge be tween two electrodes in an eight inch thick steel casting which will with stand 500,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, although it will use only 350,000 pounds. Generates Great Power. "The horsepower generated from that atomic pressure will be 350 times greater than that created in the ordinary locomotive.” Lucas estimated that a 300 horse power engine, working with a heavy freight load, would use up an aver age of five gallons of gasoline per hour. Lucas said he believed the turbine would be ready for installation in about four months and that experU ments with the locomotive would last for six months to a year. Lucas, now a resident of Newark, is a native of Elmira. He was grad uated from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y., has worked as research and engineering specialist with the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car company, the Watervliet, N. Y., ar senal, and the Curtiss-Wright cor poration at Buffalo, N. Y. Army Setting Up Plan To Breed Dogs for War WASHINGTON—The army is set ting up a peacetime program to breed war dogs as it does horses. The war department announced the plan, at the same time cancel ing its request for donations of dogs. Under the new program, the army will place breeding dogs with civil ian breeders and select the puppies best suited for military needs. The dogs will be used as sentries in oc cupation armies and for experiments in developing new uses for dogs in war. The army now contemplates using six breeds, German shepherd dog, boxer, airedale terrier, dobermann pinscher, rottweiler, and giant schnauzer. The original stock will be selected from the best available in this, coun try, England, Holland, Belgium and Germany. Reveals Japs Made Peace Bids to China in 1944 CHUNGKING, CHINA. - Infor mation Minister K. C. Wu said re cently that Japan had made many peace overtures to China through various channels in the latter part of 1944, but each was quickly re jected. He said this fact demon strated that past criticism that China had no will to fight and might go out of the war had been unfair and unjust. A Tennessean Gives U. S. $50 to Help Pay Debt WASHINGTON.-The treasury re ceived a $50 check from a man in Knoxville, Tenn., with this note: "I choose to celebrate victory in this way in lieu of throwing a big party and getting drunk." He explained it was a "free will donation" for use "in meeting the expense of op eration of the government, or pay ment on thp national debt." Seabeees Hail Marine ‘Conquerors’ of Rota ROTA, MARIANAS ISLANDS —Tlie marines landed on this is land 32 miles north of Guam and found a large sign reading: “The 48th Seabees welcome the marines to Rota." The Seabees had gone ashore on this surrendered Japanese base three days earlier to ex amine the airstrip. Theft of Federal Property Serious FBI Handled Grave Prob• lent With Usual Skill. WASHINGTON.—One of the grav est problems with which the FBI was confronted throughout World War II was the theft of government prop erty. Millions of dollars in irre placeable tools were lost, and it Is to the credit of American industry that this tremendous drain was not allowed to impede our war effort. During the fiscal year 1945, theft of government property convictions showed an increase of 182 per cent over the same 1943 period. In all, there were 1,815 convictions in this category in 1945, compared with 1,143 in 1944 and 643 in 1943—an alarming increase indeed. Three civilians were sentenced at Boston for stealing emergency ra tions and equipment from lifeboats and rafts being outfitted for the United States navy. Their activity, had it not been detected, could have been the direct cause of starvation of shipwrecked men. At Albany, N. Y., a captain in the quartermaster corps was sen tenced for stealing government owned trucks and tires for his own profit. An army sergeant and three civilians were convicted in the same case. Approximately $7,800 in stolen government property was recovered with the arrest of a war worker in the East. In his home the FBI found enough screw drivers, flashlights and other small tools to stock a hardware store. In another instance a war plant employee took home a pocketful of nails each day. The FBI recovered 800 pounds of nails, in small paper sacks, hidden under his porch. Other FBI investigations involved the theft of $15,000 worth of equip ment from a Florida army air force training school and $20,000 worth of brass valves used for emergency repairs of warships in New York. Severe penalties are provided for these offenses. Persons guilty of stealing property belonging to the government or being manufactured by private concerns under army and navy contracts face a maximum of five years’ imprisonment and $5,000 fine. Those receiving stolen prop erty are subject to the same penal ties. Atomic Plane Safeguard On Reverse Propellers CALDWELL, N. J. — Reversible propellers were installed on the B-29 Superfortresses that dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan to equip them to land in less than is required for a single-engine fighter plane, the Curtiss - Wright cor poration, propeller divisions said re cently. Robert L. Earle, vice president and general manager of the propel ler division, said the atom-bomb carrying planes were among the first equipped with reversible pro pellers. The new propellers gave the plane an auxiliary braking system whereby the angle of the propeller blades could be reversed complete ly giving a reverse thrust once the plane was on the ground. Banking Troubles Set Low Record During War WASHINGTON.—There were few er banking difficulties during the war than at any time in the nation’s history and* since May, 1944, no in sured bank has been placed in re ceivership nor has any depositor ex perienced a loss from the closing of an insured bank, it was disclosed recently by Chairman Leo T. Crow ley of the Federal Deposit Insur ance corporation. Preston Delano, comptroller of the currency, announced meanwhile that total assets of national banks on June 30 were nearly 82 billion dollars, an increase of 5.6 billion dol lars since last March 20. Deposits on June 30 were nearly 77 billion dollars, an increase of 8 per cent since March. 2,000 Youngsters Cast Adrift Are Cared For PITTSBURGH. — More than 2,000 children were cared for by the chil dren's service bureau last year — the offspring of "parents who have not grown up themselves." Social workers at the bureau characterized some of their prob lem parents as: 1— Mothers who revolted against being both mother and rather dur ing the war. 2— Fathers who were alcoholics. 3— Mothers who were lonely and wanted to go out for a good time. 4— Mothers "who just did not want their children and never had wanted them." British Plane Makes Fastest Ocean Crossing LONDON — The British air min istry announced recently that the fastest recorded east to west Atlan tic crossing was made by a royal ] air force Mosquito recently when it flew from England to Newfound land, about 2.300 miles, in 7 hours and 2 minutes It was believed to have knocked five hours off the pre vious best time for the east to west crossing The plane averaged 325 miles an hour. Lighter Buses New buses made of aluminum weigh from 1V4 to 2 tons less than previous models. Japs Like Baseball Baseball is more popular in Japan than anywhere else except in the United States and Canada. Lacks Nitrogen The firing of corn during the ex ceptionally wet weather is princi pally due to a lack dl nitrogen. SNAPPY FACTS 1 RUBBER Largest inflatable rubber units ever made (200 ft long and 25 ft. high) were the pneumatic breakwaters used to control the waves on the beaches during the Normandy in vasion. The various raw materials used in the manufacture of tires came from 35 different states. 35.7 pounds of synthetic rubber are used up in driving a car 20,000 miles at 35 m. p h. 61 pounds are used while driving the same num ber of miles at 50 m. p. h. Sponge rubber, a century-old discovery, may become a hun dred-million-dollar industry. BUY I VICTORY BONDS! (1) They are the safest place in all the world for your savings. 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