Why write a song when you could write an anthem?

The name for JPLS is drawn from the story of our founder, Juliette Gordon Low, parting with an exquisite pearl necklace in the first years after founding Girl Scouts, in order to finance the first national office, in Washington, D.C. She was quoted as saying, "Jewels are not important, but my Girl Scouts are, they need the money more than I need pearls".