The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-26
CHRISTIAN WOMEN
To DO GREAT WORK
At the Y. w. c. A. Yesterday the
Ladies Planned While
Using Their
Needles.
WORK IN THE WAR ZONE
Miss Laura milford Explained the
Purposes That the Association
Hopes to Accomplish
Among Soldiers.
WORK IN THE WAR ZONE

! The kensington at the Y. w. G. A.
/ Thursday afternoon was well attend.
ed. While the women hemmed tray
cloths for the Red Cross, delight
full program was rendered. Miss
Georgia Schell gave an instrumental
solo. Mrs Frank Brown read "The
Littlest Rebel" which was enjoyed
| by all. Mrs. Henry Schouten sang
Keep the Home Fires Burning
The Y. w. c. A. war work was
explained by Miss Laura milford.
She told of the war council Of the
Y. w. G. A., composed of one hun
dred prominent women from all
parts of the country, who met to
consider the appeals from the war
department and from the Y. M. c.
A., that we help them create zone
of moral safety around the camps to
insure the moral and religious vel
fare of the soldiers. This council
decided that work should be taken
up along four different lines. mainly
the organizing Of girls resident near
camps into clubs for educational,
recreational and social service work,
also to furnish recreation and amuse-
ment for the soldiers near. Men will
seek pleasure and amusement and it
is the aim of the Y. w. G. A., to see
that they are provided with good
wholesome pleasures. 1t makes it
possible for girls to meet their sol
der friends in place other than
on the street corners and in the
parks
Social morality is to be empha.
sized. Physicians have been secured
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facts of sex and sex relations and
set up high ideal womanhood.
Clubs are being formed for girls
in munition factories; boarding
houses are being erected; recreation
provided for the thousands of girls
working and cafeterias established
where the girls may take their
| lunches or secure cheap lunches.
Hostess houses are to be erected
at the various environments where
soldiers may meet their wives, moth
ers and sweethearts, visit with them
and have lunch if desired. Hostess
houses are to be erected both at
Des Moines, Iowa, and Deming, New
Mexico.
Calls for help have been received
from Russia, France and England,
and secretaries have been sent to
help in the social readjustments that
must be made, to provide rest homes
for nurses, recreation for girls in
munition factories, and to help solve
cafeteria problems caused by short
age of food The national board of
Y. w. c. A. has decided upon
budget of $4,000,OOO to cover this
work. The apportionment for our
north central field is 100000.
Mrs. H. W. Huiskamp, president of
Keokuk Y w. C. A., received let
ter from Miss Overs, executive for
the north central field extending an
invitation to the war conference to
be held in Chicago, Oct. 1921. In
this letter Miss Overs says: "If the
field raises it's quota of 100000 we
feel that every association be repre-
scented at the Chicago conference. 1t |
is there that we will catch the vision |
of the work and open the minds Of |
our people to see the Importance Of |
this fund On the program are Miss
Anna Rice, Mrs. James Cushman, |
president Of the national war work |
council, Miss Crafty, Mrs. John Mott,
Miss Overs and others of national
fame Mrs. T. r. Board left for Chi.
cago yesterday to attend this confer
ence as delegate from the local
association Another conference will |
be held in Des Moines the first week
in November. 1t is hoped a great
many women from this city may at
tend.