The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-05
Big MEETINGS TO
LAUNCH Y. W.C.A.
CAMP AIGN FIXED
FORSUNDAYNIGHT
Abandon Services That AS
sociation Cause May Be
Explained
BUSINESS MEN
HEAR OF NEEDS
Enthusiastic Luncheon On
Tuesday Evening Gives
Opportunity

The cause of the Y. w. CA. will
be presented to the people of Fargo
at two mass meetings on Sunday
evening next.
- Churches on the north side of the
city have, in the main, given up
individual services and will join. in
a union meeting at the First Presby-
terian church, while churches on the
south side will join in union meet
ing at the First Methodist church.
At these two meetings, the speak
ers will be Miss Rice, secretary in
charge of the war work fund cam
paign, and Lieutenant Bracketti OF
Camp Dodge.
Both meetings begin at o'clock.
Sunday forenoon, the Y. w. G. A.
work will be presented at the sew
eral churches by individual workers
representing the local association.
Wants 5000.
The association makes a campaign
in Fargo next week for q total OF So
600. OF that amount. $4,000 will be
used for the local association, and
the Balance of the war work fund.
The association is raising, in the ma
ton, a fund Of $4,000,00O to handle
the tremendous problems that have
dIlSEl DN IEdAHbAA VI NAA~ k3ANtSN
revolution worked by war condl-
tions.
At the luncheon given Tuesday
evening at the association home, the
plan of work outlined by the asso-
citation was told by several speakers.
Miss Anna ". Rice. New York city,
set forth in most graphic style the
problems created out or
the war operations. Great movements
of women are under way, girls from
the country and the small towns
lockinR to the cities. where they
are taking the work that men have
laid down to answer the call to
service.
Into the great cantonment centers,
where Americas million men are
being trained for their part in the
world war. these girls are coming.
Many of them, yes, thousands OF
them, are going into life with
which they are unfamiliar. They are
in new surroundings, in crowded
cities that are unable to give the11-
proper, housing accommodations. ~
where the war spirit predominat@s
by reason of the thousands and thou
sands of soldiers that are at their
gates.
I'VE have recognized in the work
of the Y, M. G. A. a great force for
the maintenance OF the morale of our
army" said Miss Rice. 1--WE have
given of our money that they shall
be protected. What we have done for
the men is not enough. We have not
provided them with protection until
we care for the girls. The girls need
our attention just as much as the
men. The problem is two-fold, ana
must be carGa for Immediately"
Miss Rice told the story Of Army
City. that magic town that sprang
from a corn field opposite Camp
Funston, Kansas. A city Of thou
sands, into which girls have come by
the hundreds, has grown in a few
1t is a city without normal
home life-there is nothing back OF
It but the cantonment of $4,000 SOL
iiers.
s'The association was called in
there" said Miss Rice. I'VE had moth
ing to work from. Everything had to
be sent in from the outside, and we
are accomplishing some things. but
more must be done. The girls, hun
dreds of them, brought to the city as
laundry workers, etc,
must be organized into club aetivi-
ties. They must be given social op-
portunities. Their patriotism must be
directed along wholesome. normal
lines"
The small girls, the girls in the
upper grades, the high school. in the
cantonment cities. were pointed to
by Miss Rice as providing big
problem.
Must BE Directed.
These girls, patriotic, have watch
ed the coming OF the thousands OF
soldiers to their cities" said Miss
Rice. They are patriotic. these girls,
and they want to do something for
these soldiers, 'our boys, as we all
,aIl them. The man in uniform
ooks awfully good TO them, and
here grows a tremendous danger.
These girls are being organized,
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