Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-06-17
Y. ". c. A. WAR COUNCIL
WILL SPEND 100000
Constructive Work Among Women Is
Decided Upon Mt Conference
In New York.
TWO RICHMoNDERs PRESENT
Provision to BE Made for Work In
Vicinity OF Army Camps, Where
buildings VIII BE Constructed for
Wives and Families of Soldiers.

Plans for the outlay OF 81 100000 in
preventive and constructive work
among women were made by the War
Council of the Young Women's Chris
tinn Association. which met in New
York last week. The council Is com
posed or 100 prominent women from all
over the country who have been cali
ed to this service and includes a num-
Der who have never been identified
with the y. w. c. a. before. but who
are glad to work through this power
full organization In the present cmcr-
Sency. Miss Katharine Heath Halves
and Mrs. Il. b. Munford OF this city,
are members Of the council.
All Of the sum appropriated will be
spent in this country, with the cxccp-
ton of $4,000 which will be used to
answer moving appeals from the wo-
men Of France. England, Russia and
Switzerland. Urgent requests for work
among girls In the vicinity OF the big
army camps have come from Joseph
Lee. of the War Department Commits
sion on Training Activities and from
John X. Mott, secretary Of the inter
national committee of the Young Mems
Christian Association. as we'll as from
many individual officers of the army
and Y. NJ. c. A. secretaries. who de-
clare that their work inside the camps
will be seriously handicapped without
the cooperation of the women on the
outside. 1t Is therefore. proposed
to spend $4,000 OF the appropriation
in the vicinity of these camps. where
buildings will promptly be constructed
to accommodate the wives. sisters and
members Of the families OF the men in
training. Already such a call has come
from LieGtenant-Colonel Paul Il. Wolf,
Of Plattsburg, and Miss Blanche Geary.
economic specialist. and Miss Ella
Schooley. finance specialist. arc on the
int I'll ~
a building to cost $4,000 and to be
built within seven days The money
for this building came as a private
gift Just previous to the appropriation
OF the budget and the asssociat:oa
drew at once upon it's files for the plans
for u building which mad previously
met similar need.
RECREATION CENTERs FOR
WOMEN IN MuNIIION PLANTS
Tho sum Of $4,000 will be en-
ployed in forming organizations
among girls and women at the Diff
ferent places where men are being mo-
blized for army and guard duty. and
another $4,000 will be expended in
giving housing facilities, employment
bureaus and recreation centcrs TO the
women who work in Hunition plants
and other factories. II Is estimated
that 100000 unframed women will
ind work in the industrial centcrs OF
ent crisis. The association viii en-
deavor to bring the whole weight Of
its vast resources to bear on these
problems and Will face the unprece-
denied situation in u businesslikc
way entirely free from any hysteria or
sentimentality. The association has
100 national board secretaries and
1890 local secretaries to draw on for
workers and a large additional force
Will be trained as rapidly as possible.
1t is proposed TO raise the great APP
preparation needed for the work by
npportionmcnt among the eleven nelds
into which the country il divided. Jus.
what viii be the amount expected from
the South Atlantic ncld. OF which Rich
mond is the headquarters, and which
, includes Virginia, North Carolina ana
South Carolina. Georgia and Florida
has not yet been decided: but as at
least three OF the proposed camps are
to be located in this leld, there should
TO be located in this neld. there should
sum the Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION has already subscribed $50
600 toward the work among women
and $4,000 was subscribed by the
members Of tho war council them
selves.