The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-16
ny. W." WAR WORK
Kansas Must Raise $4,000 as
Part of Big Fund.
Most of Money viii Be Expend-
ed in United States.

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budget of 1000, 900 for war work
was appropriated by the war work
council of the national board of the
Young Women's Christian association.
or this amount Kansas must raise
SS5,500. The campaign field has been
divided into eleven districts.
The proportion of this fund to be
raised in the west central field, which
includes the states of Colorado, Kan
sas, Utah and Wyoming, is $4,000
part of this fund has already been ex-
pended in the west central field in
connection with the organization of
the Young Women's league at Junction
City. Kan. and a similar organization
that will be formed in Manhattan, the
two towns nearest Fort Riley, Kan.
Fort Riley has been chosen by the
government as one of the biggest con-
centration camp centers. Two secre-
taries whose salaries are being paid
by the national board of the Young
Women's Christian association are al
ready at work at this point.
Most Of the money will be eXpend-
ed in this country, bus 100000 is APP
propriated for France, ENGLAND. Rus
STA. and Switzerland, which countries
have SEM for help in orga nizing work
which they have neither time nor
helpers ID undertake themselves. This
and indirectly for tn" soldiers, re-
quests having como from army off
GERS for the aid which she women can
give. There viii he forty-five camps
in different part of the country, the
women are Informed officially, and IL
Is AROUND these camps that their
work will be lone.
Prominent Women Join.
Women of prominence and repre-
senting large bodies of women in var
ious ways have come. from ali parts
OF the country to Join this war cOun-
Gil Many Of them have not previous
~ been connected with the Young
Women Christian Association but
are glad to join hands and work thru
its powerful organization.
The largest single appropriation
for the work, $3.50 900 will be used in
communities adjoining the big army
camps whore buildings Will be put uD
to accommodate the wives, sisters
ana members of the families Of the
men AMI officers in the camps for
whom here is seldom accornmoda-
tion. Already the war council has
under We. one such buil1ing which
viii be erected at Plattsburg inside
of seven days. This is being done
with $4,000, private gift made just
previous To the appropriation of the
big budget. The request for this
building vas made by lieut. Col. Paul
A. Wolf OF Plattsburg. The next
building OF this kind viii probably
go up 1t Atlanta. Ga.
y sum of $250,00O will be employed
in forming organizations among the
girls and women at the different places
where the men are being modified
for army and guard duty. Another
$4,000 will be used in cities where
there are munition plants and other
factories where women may be en-
ploYed during the war. to give them
housing facilities and to furnish en-
ftln mt
ters.. The remainder of the appropria-
tion will he used for expenses, to carry
ON the work during the continuation of
the war.
a War Bulletin" will be one of the
incidentals of the work. 1t will be
small sheet on the order of The Y.
w G. A. Bulletin for the Billy Sunday
campaign issued Ey the association.
Do Outside Work.
Requests for the work which the
women are undertaking came from
Joseph Lee of the war department
commission on Training activities,
Washington, d. c, on behalf of the
commission, asking for expert workers
among girls in the vicinity of camps
and from John r. Mott secretary of
the international committee of the Y.
NJ. G. A, Also at Washington.
The women, in a statement of what
they consider is demanded of them,
say that the work of the officers of
the army and the \. M Z. A. is IN
side the camps and they must do the
work on the outside. Basing their
estimate on the women working in
Great Britain, they are prepared to
find some 100000 unframed women
who can be turned into centers of in
dustry in this country. These wom-
en- form our army" they say, land
we will look after them" France
has sent . moving appeal to them,
asking for workers to establish foy-
nl1caS n
and refuge for the over worked,
nerve paralyzed" women who have
gone into the French industries.
The officers of the new war work
council are: President, Mrs. James
S. Cushman; vice presidents, Mrs.
John K. Mott and Mrs. John Meigs;
secretary, Miss Martha McCook, and
treasurer, Mrs. Henry p. Davidson.