Arizona republican., 1913-03-23
'. W. |. A. WORK
 GOES FORWARD
An Anser to the Question What Could Be Done With the Small Amount of 5000 Which is Being Asked FOr?''

W omen CnrlStlOn aSSOclatlOn for the benefit and welfare of the women and girls in Phoenix bids fair to succeed.
 As is already known by those who have followed the movement closely. il was thought best to secure the money necessary to establish the or 6anization before launching it formal ally. Accordingly. during the past month. finance committee has been at work to secure pledges to the amount of $5000. Up to the present time more than half of that sum has been pledged
 The question has been asked re peateuiy what use can be made of such small amount as $5000 toward the establishment of d Young Women's Christian association. The thought of d beautiful building seems tu be identical with an association. in the minds of so many people The committee in charge of this work has no thought of owning property or of having an association building of it's own for probably years to come. The nlan is to live in rented quarters until the association has demonstrated it's service to the com munity and until il has grown sui ficiontly to justify asking for q
 iarGcr equipment.
 IL is estimated that the budget of
 5000 vii be sufficient to establish and equip the association in rented quarters and carry the running cx- penscs for the first year This es
 timate iS based on careful study or what other associations are doing
 in cities of about this size 6 and in
 the same general section Of the country.
 Two activities of the organization
 which seem to be most needed in Phoenix are lunch and rest room located in the down town section where women and girls could get their noon meal or rest and read This would also serve as an employ mcnt bureau and place of general information. There is also needed d boarding home which might he To- catcd near enough in SO that il would not be necessary to use the | street ears.
 Many young girls come to Phoenix ! tp SCtR tIlHloN ineUt hey are i strangers here and some are unused l to city life and ways. They have no one to advise them where to find
 a room or where to look for work. i Temptations, some of. which they do not realize. are all around them. l After hunting all day msucccsefully 1 for work. the girl goes into q l restaurant for d late supper before ! going to her lonely room. The well 1 dressed woman who sits at the same 1 table seems to know she is q l stranger, for she talks with her l sympathctically and soon the girl has 1 told her a good deal, glad to talk 1 with friendly woman after her dis l cOuraging day. As they part. the ! older woman says. Well. meet me 1 in front of the theatre tomorrow l night and tell me what luck you have 1 had" And once more the old. old story is enacted and the innocent 1 girl is known no more among re- ! spectable people And back in hcr
 old home sits her mother. lonely and i, wondering why she hears so seldom from her child.
 1 Or perhaps the girl does not go so far She only gets acquainted with l some girls who frequent the streets 1 at night because they have no where else to go And so they stand around and visit with young men. because | they are all young and sociable by nature. After q time the girl grows
 coarse and careless and by and by 1 if she marrics, she has become toe fond of street life. to want to stay
 at home and so husband and little
 ones are neglected.
 Practically every young girl and
 woman in this country has heard oi
 the Young Womcn's Christian asso-
 citation and what it is for. If there
 were an association here in Phoeni>
 part of it's work would be to lool
 after the girls who come here alone
 and also the ones who live here
 they needed advice or Friendship the, would go to the house mother ant many young lives would be llep
 straight through her influence 1t will not be possible however, {,
 secure the remainder of the none, necessary for this enterprise withou the hearty cooperation and financia backing of the men and women O the city. There remains less thal two weeks of the time allowed fo the campaign and it is necessary fo all concerned in having this organiZa ton to safeguard and protect tn | young women, to lend a hand Tn pledged membership list has alread l passed the 900 mark. The commtte meets every Monday at D. m a the W. c. T. U. If you are interest \ ed now is the time to show it. Sen is your membership or your cOntribu | ton to any member of the committe, Finance committed: Miss Edit Evans, Miss Bertha Knipc Mrs. . l.. E. Alexander. Mrs. Lorraine. Mir T F.. Irvine, Mrs F. M Tafel, Mis- ' Nellie Blount. Mrs w. w. McNe1 ' and Mrs. J. l. Brooks
 Membership committee: Mrs
 x. Phillips, Mrs. \. C. Tuft. Mrs. l
 c. Hayes. Mrs. George Day. Mir II Alice $. Hine. Miss Elizabeth Pink ham, Miss Marie La Chance Mrs
 x. Wise, Mrs. J. Harvey Deere, Mfr ' Robert Fisher, Mrs. Wing, Mrs. F. Van Kirk and Miss Moves.