For this association follows the theory that "every girl needs help, and every girl can give help." The declaration strikes to the bottom of things psychological in girl-life. Girls need each other. No one can help a girl like a girl. If there is any trouble with any girl or with any pair or group of girls, get a girl--the right kind of girl--to come and redirect the group. If new thoughts, new ideals, new enthusiasms embodied in a new girl can be brought in, the old thoughts will disappear themselves. There are trees on which the old leaves hang withered and dead all winter long: the rains cannot rot them away, the winds cannot whip them off. But when in the spring the new life begins to come coursing up the trunk, runs out through the branches, and presses a new end against the root of the dead stem, it yields at last and makes way for the leaf and flower and fruit that imperatively insist upon having more room. Those who wish to redirect young human life may find a practise lesson in this example of nature. To make faulty habits or low ideals or dangerous inclinations disappear, bring in new life. And experience teaches that new life can be imparted in no way more effectively in the field of girl-life than through good noble girl associates. To associate girls under some noble banner that will assure their enthusiasm and loyalty, will therefore be one of the most direct means of lifting their standard of living. This Association more than any other has taken to heart the problem of the Country Girl. Two of the hand bills of the Association show how they feel about the Country Girl and what she needs and what she may have if she will take the right means. THE GIRL IN THE COUNTRY "_Where the wide earth yields_ _Her beauties of fruit and grain._" If the country is to continue to produce not only the food but the hardiest young men and women, and much of the idealism and best leadership of the nation, Life MUST be made _Less Solitary_ _More Comfortable_ _More Attractive_ _Freer from Drudgery_ _Happier and_ _Fuller of Opportunity_ For the 21,000,000 girls and women on the farms and in the villages! Solving the Rural Problem Through The Country Young Women's Christian Association. It brings to the girls in the country and small towns The opportunity of self-development and self-expression The chance to work and play with other girls Higher social standards Spiritual growth and Christian ideals Contact with a world-wide organization A community consciousness. These girls give back to their community Trained leadership Joyful, rich, vivid lives Improved economic conditions for women Consecrated homes Christian spirit in work and play Cooperation. The Young Women's Christian Association feels that it is its "privilege to reach the Country Girls in terms of their own environment, helping them to help themselves and to become active social forces in their own communities."