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t\ sion as to "Who‘s Who" because of the change in troop numbers of the Highland Park Girl Scout Trodps. However, all is satisfacâ€" #orily arranged, and the list of troops is as follows: Troop No. 1, High school. Leadâ€" er, Miss Dorothy Clark. f Troop No. 2, Ravinia school. Leaders, Mrs. John Long and Mrs. Arthur Mason. Girl Scout News ‘THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1987 ‘Troop No. 3, Braeside schoolâ€" Leader, Mrs. Edward Harrington. Troop No. 4, Ravinia sichoolâ€" Leader, Mrs. George Lake Jr. _ Troop No. 5, Ravinia schoolâ€" Leaders, Mrs. [William Goodreds and Mrs. H. E. Holt. Troop No. 6, Ridge school. Leadâ€" er, Mrs. William Dunham. Assistâ€" ant, Mrs. H. Mcfadden. Troop No. 7, Elm Place. Leader, Miss Jane McWhinney. s er, Mrs. John K. Davenport Troop No. 8, Lincoln school. Leader, Mrs. George H. Cumming. Troop 9, Lincoln school. Leader, Mrs. James Skidmore. Correct terms for girl scouts of various ages: Brownies, age 7 to 10; Girl Scouts, age 10 to 14; iors, age 14 to 18. ‘Thru the courtesy of Mr. Pearl, owner of the store beside the Alâ€" eyon theater, the Girl Scouts were able to exhibit some of the things which they had made for Christâ€" mas gifts and handicraft projects pertaining especially to Christmas. Mrs. C. H. Luedemann Jr. made the model for the girl scout uniâ€" form thereby assisting Mrs. Curtis McWhinney and Miss Jane, who had charge of the display. Two members of the Girl Scout Council visited Mrs. Frank Shelâ€" ton is in splendid spirits in spite Lincoln school troops. Mrs. Shelâ€" ton is in splendid spirist in spite of illness which has taken much of her strength and patience. . At the last meeting of the year the Braeside Troop No. 3 held an investiture at which the following became Girl, Scouts: â€" Caroline Bulkley, Lillian Dinelli, Suzanne Olmsted, Jacqueline Day, Shirley Ann Spene, Margaret Schmid, Jean Tupper and Janet Larson. Janet had baked a cake and had decorâ€" ated it especially for the occasion with a Girl Scout emblem. Tea was served by the girls to the mothers and friends present. At the November Girl Scout Council meeting, Mrs. Barton Pope enthusiastically declared that there were potential Brownie leaders who would be glad to organize: troops, and she accéepted the reâ€" sponsibility for finding them. Mrs. J. M. Watkins Jr. now has a troop meeting in her home on Thursdays. Mrs. Watkins has a little daughter "Kathie," who was most anxious to be a Brownie. "Kathie" has little playmates who also wished to be Brownies. So "Kathies" â€"mother, who was anxious to please Kathie and her playmates started a Brownie troop with these little girls: Marjorie Fuller, Jane Swiâ€" nea, Jennie Ross, Mary Halsted, Marjorie Dean, Nancy Zipoy, Barâ€" bara â€" Blessing, "Patty Watters, Janet Finch, Barbara Ann ‘Weber, Mary Ann Tremaine, Helen May Dahl, Patricia Pierce, and to be sure "Kathie" Watkins. Other troops are being \organâ€" ized. Watch for further announceâ€" ment. Miss Mary Longley, local direcâ€" tor, and the Highland Park Girl Scout Councif extend to Girl Scout leaders and Troops and to all those helping to make Girl Scouting ‘posâ€" sible, a very Merry Christmas. and Happy New Year Greeting! Troop No. 10, Elm Place. Leadâ€" Antiâ€"Back Ache @ sELF SKIRT MARKER SINGER SEWING MACHINECO. 39 S. 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What they canâ€" not forsee, but what the students and intellectual leaders know is that it means the end of Chinese eulture in the occupied areas and the crushing of those Chinese who aspire to be leaders in any field. So far and no farther may the Chiâ€" nese go. The policies of business will be directed, only a chosen few will be allowed university opportuâ€" mities, and those under Japanese control, wh%o international conâ€" tact will be dictated. Free thought and action are very difficult in such a situation, and it is even ilâ€" legal to own a short wave radio in Japan. Against such a fate China is struggling. Japan says she is fighting Communism, but Communâ€" ism is foreign to Chinese heritage and life. Much of the National efâ€" fort in the past six years has been spent in driving it out, and now the remnants of the Chinese Comâ€" munist army ‘have allied themselves with the National Government. If in looking at Korea or For-‘ mosa, held for years by Japan, one could see evidence that Japan wished to.cooperate with and adâ€" vance the peoples she controls,â€" it would be different, but her efforts are toward domination if not subâ€" jugation. I am not saying that there are not many improvements in a material way, and that the average living standard may not be higher, but there still remains the intellectual domination. We know what China says her attitude will beâ€"that she will not stop fighting nor make treaties which will cost her her independence. What she can accomplish at her present stage of industrialization and techâ€" nical development is hard to say. Certainly there is a determination not to give in now. In the midst of this, what is Yaleâ€"inâ€"China doing? The Middle School is ful} and overflowing, with boys sleeping in the rainy weather gym. There are four Yale graduâ€" ates on two year appointments in the English department, and Mr. Rogers has come back as head of the department after studying at home for three years. Mr. Rugh is head of the religious education and Mrs. Rugh is busy with the music. Mr. Hutchins is active in the school and Mrs. or really Dr. Hutchins is active in her internâ€" ship in the hospital this month: So far the government has made no special demands on the school, but the boys have voted to go withâ€" out coal to save money to send to the soldiers, and the school anniâ€" versary this year is to be spent preparing hospital supplies instead of celebrating carelessly. s And the hospital? Our first problem was the taking in of stuâ€" dents whose schools are closed or destroyed. This has not been as great a task as at first feared, for of those who came, many have since been able to return or their schools have opened temporary quarters in other _ places. Yesterday â€" there were 128 students registered. The staff has remained about as before except for four additions and one replacement. This makes fifteen on the senior staff, seven more in the medical school who do no clinâ€" ical teaching beside an able group of residents and assistant â€" resiâ€" dents. There are twenty in the class of interns, with sixteen in the fifth year who will follow them next year or take their places this year if they are called to service. Nanking has asked to have ready nurses from the second and third year classes as well as the interns. We have been. asked to take in wounded aviators from Nanking and other places. They are most them up and about and are certainâ€" ly much superior to what we might have, but they take up private rooms needed for really ill paâ€" tients. For some time groups of nurses have been going down to the staâ€" tion to dress the wounds of solâ€" diers ghing thru to convalescent hospitals. About a thousand men came in today and the girls stayed till they were so hungry that they hadâ€" to phone for a relief group. One train load is about 400 men and as they come day or night it is a real task in addition to classes and ré@ular work. The most serious demand came this week when the hospital was ordered to open and staff a hospiâ€" tal for 500 wounded. They will be housed in old drafty temples and warehouses in the little town across the river from Siangtan, thirtyr they started out headed iby Dr. Hsiao the superintendent of the hospital and one of the teaching surgeons with Mr. Wang of the School of Nursing faculty as direcâ€" tor of the nursing. Much of the work will have to be done by hasâ€" tily trained workers but they took a nucleus of nine nurses and five or six residents and interns. They are not expecting.the most serious cases, but discipline is hard at the best and dirt floored temples hardly make surgical wards. Medical supplies are an ever pressing problem and we think twite about every bit of cotton, gauze or medicine that we use. In mddition the government appropriâ€" ations have.been cut drastically, leaving .a deficit of $70,000. The wwol w .A d daaonk daiiingg THB PRESS executive committee has reduced this to $30,000 by cutting salaries (40 per cent in the higher brackâ€" ets) and economizing in every way. The hospital pays its own way, but the sshools are a heavy load. Nevâ€" er has the demgnd on the whole institution been so great and never the money so scarce. Dr. H. C. Chang, the new acting head, inâ€" spires loyalty and confidence and the spirit has never been better or more cooperative. I wish you might see the hospiâ€" tal during an air raid warning. Every student, nurse, doctor and servant has his task. Each bed is marked as to whether the paâ€" tient may walk, be carried or not moved, and in the last raid of the 180 patients who were in the hosâ€" pital, the 120 who could be moved were in the basement in seven minâ€" utes. All this was without elevaâ€" tors for ithe three floors. â€" They have had to sit huddled on mats, wrapped in blankets for as long as two hours. Even the new born ‘babies are there in their blue and white blankets. Changsha is becoming more and more an educational center for acâ€" cording to the latest reports, about 23 colleges and higher schools have been more or less destroyed. \Otheis in Shanghai and Peiping are closâ€" ed. Attempts are being made to gather these northern students inâ€" to two centers, Sian and Changsha. We have Tsinghua from Peiping, Nankai from Tientsin and Peiping University. They are combining and about 1,200 students and facâ€" ulties are trying to carry on in the Bible Institute property. Almost all books and equipment had to be left behind when they fled and one physics professor said he was tryâ€" ing to teach his advanced courses without a book or a note! Most of this is probably lost to China for Japan is already occupying Tsingâ€" hbua and Yenching (American) has ‘had to close. I could go on, but this is a hard letter to write, for it is extremely difficult to keep the commandment, "Thou shalt not hear false ~witâ€" ness." What I have written I know from personal experience, talking with the refugee educators from the north or the most reliable news. Living here in Central Chiâ€" na with our shore. wave radios, we feel that we are truly in Chung Kuoâ€"the Middle Kingdom as the Chinese call their country and that momentous things are lnppainz‘ around us. Perhmips this sketch will help you to see something of the heart of this country and its part in the struggle for internaâ€" tional justice. 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