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Introduction THE layman has apprehended but dimly the movement toward the organization of women and girls into clubs which has been going on during the last few decades. Still less has he apprehended the possibilities for national service in such mobilization. But the work of such organizations all over the country could not be dispensed with without real loss. Big national problems have brought about big community problems with the result that responsibility and opportunity for definite war service are being presented to girls of all ages. Through patriotic leagues and similar societies they are having their hands and minds filled with wholesome, inspiring, helpful activities; they are learning also to serve other girls and their country. Mere school-girls are helping to uphold the standards of womanhood in war-time. They are learning team-work which cannot but develop in them a high state of community consciousness which will grow ultimately into national and world-consciousness. The impulse for the dramatic is very strong in every young girl when the call comes to prove her patriotism: she wants to wear a uniform of some sort, to be a nurse just back of the battle lines, to drive an ambulance. She wants to be in the thick of things the most natural impulse in the world. But there are other less thrilling duties that are just as vital to the future of the nation as these duties just as vital as those performed by the men in the front line trenches. They are harder, perhaps, because their importance is not so evident. Never before has the country so needed to realize to what degree the young women of the nation are mobilized and are capable of mobilization, physically, mentally, morally for the second "line of defense." The Government has appreciated the splendid achievements of the girls' and women's clubs. Mr. Hoover has appealed to the girls to help win the war by conserving; the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense has deemed them worthy to be registered with the woman workers. In these stirring days when the supreme desire of every one is to serve, the message that the Government would give to young girls is to belong to one of these clubs, to be loyal to the ideals which it represents, and thus to serve. The best way to be loyal to your country, as has repeatedly been indicated, is to be loyal to that small part in which you are privileged to take an active part. Miss Ferris in this authoritative work on Girls' and Women's Clubs makes us realize the breadth and depth of the movement; she shows that the club can be a real, constructive, vital force to the individual girl, to the community, nation and society. She points out to the community its opportunity to avail itself of young girl enthusiasm and young girl idealism in furthering its various interests and in furthering the enterprises of the war. She points out suggestively the opportunity before well trained women with a genuine, sympathetic interest in young women and girls as leaders of such dubs. She proves that this is not a mere peace-time movement but that it is an active potent force in England, France, and Russia as well as the United States in war-time. When the war is ended, these new organizations in Europe will not cease to exist, nor will the old ones become inactive rather will they multiply and enjoy a wider life for we shall be thinking in terms of the community's good where formerly we thought in terms of self. The future holds rich possibilities for the clubs and the faithful leaders who early caught the vision of their potentialites for national service. Commissions on Training Camp Activities, Washington, D. C. Contents INTRODUCTION CHAPTER I. THE OPPORTUNITY AND THE TASK CHAPTER II. THE CLUB LEADER CHAPTER III. THE MEMBERS OF THE CLUB CHAPTER IV. THE ORGANIZATION OF THE CLUB CHAPTER V. PLANNING THE YEAR'S PROGRAM OF THE CLUB CHAPTER VI. ACTIVITIES THAT INTEREST GIRLS CHAPTER VII. THE QUESTION OF CLASSES CHAPTER VIII. THE CLUB'S RELATION TO THE COMMUNITY AND COUNTRY CHAPTER IX. THE CLUB IN THE OUT-OF-DOORS CHAPTER X. THE CLUB IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE GIRL CHAPTER XI. LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT CHAPTER XII. KEEPING UP THE INTEREST CHAPTER XIII. THE CLUB IN ACTION CHAPTER XIV. CLUB WORK IN WAR TIME OVER THERE CHAPTER XV. CLUB WORK IN WAR TIME OVER HERE APPENDIX HELPS FOR THE CLUB LEADER INDEX
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