New Britain herald., 1917-12-03

I11o OICen essential meeting to ar
range the future of wife and children
there are usually many) can be had.
Finding Bureau seeks to locate rel
at1ves and friends in Europe, with
whom communication has been up to
the present impossible.
Emergency Housing.
Every Army center employs num-
bers of girls and women in telephone
offices, in shops and in restaurants,
and as laundresses. In very few in
stances has any provision for adequate
housing of these employees been con-
sidered.
Practically every industry connected
with the furnishing of war supplies
employs large number Of girls. Thou
sands Of girls are filling in the ranks
lett vacant by the men. For these,
as we'll as for the girls employed near
the camps, the Council has begun to
erect houses as all emergency meas
ure and as a demonstration to the en-
ployer and to the otherwise ,unpre-
pared community that girls who are
employed may be cared for simply and
etnciently, to the welfare OF the en-
ployed. the employer and the COM
munity.
Social standards.
Through a Bureau of Social Moral
ity, Quanued women physicians are
enlisted to promote throughout the
country the highest moral standards,
and the promotion of true patriotism.
Lectures to mothers, teachers and girls
are made accessible: to the latter at
ter they have been drawn together
through some club or other bond of
worthwhile interest.
Colored Communities.
A great number OF the camps and
environments are situated in that part
of the United States where the COL
ored population is densest, and special
need for the care OF our colored Wo-
men presents itself. Five colored
workers of the national staff are Civ
ing their time to directing work
among their own people and securing
leaders essential to promoting practl-
cally the same activities among col
ored girls as are under way among the
white girls.
European Women.
Even before the War Work Coun-
Gil was appointed, calls had been re-
ceived from trusted social workers in
Russia and France, both American
and European, for American Y. w. {.
A. workers to assist the women OF
those countries in facing their diff
cult future of reconstruction for
women.
In response to these calls seven
women have been assigned to Russia
to work with the committee of Rus
sian women working to make possible
to the Russian working women suit
able cafeterias where nourishing food
may ben obtained for these women
whose labor is so essential to the well
fare Of Russia.
Twelve women have been sent to
France, part of whom have been
called for to assist a committee Of
French women in equipping and di-
recting foyer-canteens for industrial
women whose hours of labor are long
and on whom the stress Of war bears
SO heavily. Help to provide rest
rooms, recreation and proper food
are among the services
which suffering France is asking of
the American Y. w. c. \,
Tho remainder OF our workers now
in France arc asked to take charge
Of social huts for the splendid Amer
lean nurses now somewhere in
France" These huts are being con-
structed at the hospital base units
and will do for the women when off
duty, as far as may be under war con-
ditions, what our Club for Nurses does
for the two hundred leading mem
bers of the profession in New York
city who share it's hospitality. Our
economic specialist of the national
staff has been loaned to service in
France for a few months to direct
building operations.
The cost of construction at home
is rivaled by it's expense abroad and
in both France and Russia the cree
ton of buildings and the placing and
furnishing of suitable plants for work
involves great expense. But all this
expense is part of the price necessary
to make the world safe for women
as well as for democracy.
Enlarging the Home Base.
Men who enlist go abroad. Women
who enlist come into our commune
ties and add to the responsibility Of
the ASSOCIATION in the United States.
Everywhere the Y. w. C. A. seeks to
strengthen the regular activities
which alone have made its war work
possible and which must be the force
that makes for permanence in all the
spiritual results that follow it's prog
ress, shaped ever in service to woman
kind, inspired by Jesus Christ.
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