The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-20
w. c. T. U. ACTIVITIES
"FoR GOD. HOME AND NATIVE LAND"
By MRS. MABEL F. LEAKE


 among soldiers and sailors. through | which much effective total abstinence | and relief work has been accomplished | This work for soldiers. sailors ana marines and for general relief is now to be standardized by Red Cross rules Mrs. Ella Hoover Thacher of Wash ington, D. C., national superintendent, already has. through her state asso- ciates, her special plan of work well in hand. This includes renting cleo tric fans. furnishing fruit and dell cacies for army pase hospitals soclal welfare work at army training camps and mobilization centers, serving cof- Tee and doughnuts or cake and lem onade to soldiers as they entraln ana giving to each a copy of the Soldiers Temperance Songster and a total ab- stinence pledge card.
 Another of the great departments of the national Woman's Christian Temper ance union, the department of flower mission and relief work, Miss Leila M Sewall of Boston, superintendent is ready to extend it's service in this hour 1 Of the nations need. When, if at all, the demand comes for general war relief work in the United States, detailed plans will be issued by Miss Sewall. The work | for soldiers, sailors and marines and for general relief during the war will be re-
 
 tian Temperance union, unit to the Amer
 lean Red Cross, through Mrs. Thacher and Miss Sewall.
 | Already the national Womans Chris | tian Temperance union is pledged to pro- mote the plans of the bureau of immi- | grafton for Americanizing immigrant women through the organization of classes for teaching Americanism and national | loyalty, in cooperation with the depart
 ment of labor, the bureaus of immigra- | tion and naturalization and the Ameri- canization committee of the national | Chamber of Commerce. At this time, when thousands of women are becoming American citizens, and still other thou sands from the allied countries must be l feeling 8 new thrill of sympathy for the | United States, there is such an oppor- 1 tunity for Americanization work among | these women as may never agaln exfst.
 Mrs. Ella B. Black, head of another great | department of the Woman's Christian I Temperance union work among foreign speaking people, is through the state su- perintendents of this department promot- | ing these plans. Mrs Thacher, Miss Sewall and Mrs. Black are all in close touch with the national general officers in the important programme of effort un- der their departments.
 The national Woman's Christian Tenn perance union, in common with the Ma l tional Suffrage assoication, the General | Federation of Women's Clubs and the 1 Congress of Mothers, Is one Of 15 to 27 national organization of women federated ! in the National Council of Women now on record as ready to cooperate with 1 the federal department of labor in secur- l ing work for unemployed women and 1 girls. This co-opraton was agreed upon 1 by the national Womans Christian Tenn perance union at it's convention held in Indianapolis, Ind, last November. When the need for national emergency measures developed telegram was sent by Secre- | tary Wilson of the United States depart ment of labor, to the presidents of the most important national organization in a movement to enlist for service the forces of their great organizations. Under the federal government it proposed l to organize a womans bureau to deal
 with the work and welfare of women. | Under this plan the department of labor is to be represented on an executive | board by Commissioner Caminetti; the
 womans council by Mrs. Philip North Moore, president; and the b organizations | federated in the council, including the national Woman's Christian Temperance
 union, by their respective presidents Other organizations of women will be in- idependently represented on this board. At
 a meeting of the women's organizations