Girl Scouts: Their Works, Ways and Plays

Be Prepared
GIRL SCOUTS Incorporated NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 189 Lexington Avenue New York City
Series No. 5
MOTTO Be Prepared
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

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 has 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 60,000 registered Scouts and the 5,000 new applicants each month testify.
The activities of the Girl Scouts may be grouped under five headings corresponding to five phases of women's life today: