The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-21
.W0MEN'S CAMPAIGN
] COMING TO CLOSE
Cards Are Being Collected Today and
VIII be Taken up Tomorrow
When Report VIII Be
Checked Over.
BUSINESS GIRLS GIVE
One Hundred Dollars Is Donated
From This Organization
to the War
Fund.
BUSINESS GIRLS GIVE

The city campaign for the woman's
war council is coming to close. The
cards are to be collected today and
tomorrow and within few days Miss
Elsie Buck, treasurer for the city
work, will be able to make a report
The pledge Of one hundred dollars
from the Business NGirls' league was
very welcome addition to the fund
The work will be presented tomor-
row afternoon before the mothers and
teachers club of the Wells district.
The work outside Of Keokuk under
the leadership of Miss Hornish, dis
trict chairman, is progressing favor
ably. At Cantri1 successful organ
ization was effected with Mrs. John
Saars as chairman, and Mrs. Roberts
as secretary.
Melrose is being organized today
by Mrs. Huiskamp, Mrs. John P. Horn
ish, Mrs. G. w. Hartley, Miss Edna
George and Miss Eta Ayres. Miss
Hornish, district chairman, and Mrs.
IT. r.. Board spoke in Fairfield on
Monday and the following were chos-
EN- as the officers there: Mrs. C. S.
McElhenny. chairman; vice chairman,
Mrs. A. F. MCPHERSON; treasurer,
Mrs. Clara Hague. Miss Hornish
also spoke before the high schools In
both Fairfield and Mt. Pleasant, and
checked up on the city organization
in Mt. Pleasant, which had been made
a week ago.
One Of the strongest endorsements
of the war work of the Y. w. G. A.
for which the north central field OF
the association, including Iowa, Min
nesota, North and South Dakota and
Nebraska, Is being asked to furnish
$3.50 OOG of a national 100000 fund.
is gift of 100000 just made to the
national war work council OF the Y.
w. C. A. by the Rockefeller founda-
ton. This follows their initial gift
of 100000, which was made after
the closest investigation OF the needs
for which the money was asked and
the ability OF the association to meet
them. and Is accompanied by assur-
ances that IL the whole fund Of So
100000 is obtained, another 100000
will be added to 1t.
1--WE are very happy over the gift, =
said Miss Anna Overs, executive
secretary of the north central field.
in comm enting on the news, mot SO
much because OF the money iteslf,
although that Is very much needed.
as because OF the endorsement of our
tism of the Rockefeller foundation is
well known, and we realize that
many people will feel that a project
which their corps of trained investt-
gators have found worthy of support
is one which merits serious consider
alton. That Dr. George e. Vincent,
former president of the University Of
Minnesota, who is now head Of the
Rockefeller foundation, stands behind
our cause is evidenced by this act"
The Carnegie foundation also ap-
propriated 100000 to the national
war work council Of the Y. w. G. A.
when the first appeal OF the associa-
! lion was made for funds to carry on
the work which the government had
requested it to do. Many other in
situations and individuals are back
ing UP the Y. w. G. A. in meeting the
social, Industrial and moral problems
which war brings to the women and
girls of a nation. Hostess houses,
trained workers for girls and enlarg-
ed activities in the manufacturing
and military centers for foreign
speaking women. and "huts" for the
Red Cross nurses on the western
front. are some of the features Of the
association war work program.