GUIDING IN POLAND.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5394, 1 March 1929, Page 4

GUIDING IN POLAND.

The founder of Polish Guiding I s Madame Olga Malkowska. “Guiding is no spare-time occupation there. It is, not a game, but a vital in their, lives, something to work and to strive for,” says “The Guide.” hi the early days of Polish (Juiding. very young girls did. not. join the movement, as at that time Russia, Germany, and Austria occupied different parts, of Poland and the -conquerors looked upon Guiding ijis “AntiState”—therefore illegal. Meetings were held in. secr.et, and were very irregular, We, who are free in New Zealand, can hardly credit that such a state of things could exist. To think that quite young, people should have been under the ban. of suspicion because they desired to nneet to try and carry oht their Gtfjide law and make good citizens I “Tenderfoots” were not allowed to ta,ke theii- promise until tViey had a clftauoe to realise what being a Guide wouEd mean—the risjc of /physical danger and the importance o f. the vorw. Sometimes a year ha.d to elapse before n vow could bo mdde, and sd, i/n the ijtuietcr days that have followed that stormy time the custom continues, and thus the high standard of the moj/ement is kept up because only fn-qe guides at heart eventually bec.omic enrolled.