The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-12-14
AL W(MEh'S CLUBS
N COLUMBIA UNITE
Y. v. c. A. WORK
FIRST ACTIVITY WILL BE MASS
MEETING AT METHODIST
CHURCH SUNDAY.
MT. PLEASANT ANa SP2IaG ELL
All Sections Of County to be Organ
lied for Whiriwind Campaign to
Raise $1,000 for War Work Of Or.
ganization.

All the women's clubs in Columbia
including the Federation of Clubs
have united for the whirlwind cam.
paign to raise $1,000 in Maury county
for the Y. w. C. A. war work. These
clubs are the Students, Music, Cosmo.
politan, Thursday, w. C. T. u. The
Kings Daughters. Womans Suffrage
}, League. and Business Womens
!. League.
The first activity in the Campaign
will be mass meeting to be held
Sunday night at O'clock at the First
Methodist church, when Mrs. Arch
Trawick and other ladies will make
addresses.
Mt. Pleasant, Spring Hill ami
other towns and communities in the
county are organizing for the cam
paign.
: The Young Women's Christian asscA
citation is waging campaign through
. cut America for 100000 with which
to meet the needs OF women and
girls in America and in suffering
Europe, who are facing the unusua
conditions brought about by the war
: Tennessee's share in this great work
:: is 100000 Nashville and Middle Ten
. nessee have already done their part
/ Nashville in two days, raised over
$4,000. West and East Tennessee
are now being called upon to do their
full part in this great work.
The Y. M. C. A. war work council
adopted stupendous war program
not to further any organization but to
meet the opportunities and respons
bilities facing the association in the
present crisis The government has
called upon the Y. w. c. A. to lead in
& this great work OF caring for Ameri,
can women and girls affected by the
4 war
& This war budget of $4,O00,0O0 is 20
) be used to protect American woman
hood in every possible way. OF the
entire budget, 100000 is to be used
in the United States, and the remain
der in France and Russia. Thousands
; of American women and girls have
been called into service in the various
army centers-in telephone offices, in
shops and in restaurants, as clerks
t stenographers, lapndresses. Practi
cally every industry connected with
the furnishing Of war supplies to the
government employe increasingly
g large numbers of girls. Thousands OF
&c girls are filling in the ranks left va
~ cant by the men, The Y. w. C. A
At has set aside 100000 for emergency
r. housing for girls employed in military
n and industrial centers.
IN One OF the greatest needs for this
- war bulge. and one which originated
r. not with the association but with thu
In commandants at the various canton
A. ments is the erection of hostess hou
Ell SEES at the posts where the mothers
D. sisters, wives and sweethealts of tht
's soldiers may meet their boys. Theii
al needs was felt by tae commandants
l" themselves. who requested the Y. w
ae c. A. to meet this need. Already
houses have been or are being con
IL structed at fifty-two of the canton
ments, and the war council has SCI
le aside 100000 for the construction o.
D" these hostess houses.
81 This money is needed to protect the
thousands of young girls around the
III cantonments. Among other. things
the budget provides for the sendin?
U out OF qualified women physicians t.
Il promote throughout the country the
- highest moral standards and the
le meaning of true patriotism. The Jun
lie for War Work Council has taken as d
20 part OF its activities the promotion OF
the Patriotic League, whose member
g ship includes today more than 100,
600 girls from ocean to ocean.
Re Out Of this fund American nurses in
ia France viii be cared for by the Y
~ W. c. A. as the Y. M. c. A. carer
sn for the soldiers themselves Thou
10 sands of American nurses are already
in France. serving in every base hos
a. pital. The Y w. c. A. is erectins
htts at every hospital where they ma!
II go for rest and relaxation after weeks
IL Of terrific strain on duty.
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