The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1917-11-15
LOCAL ORGANIZATION.
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Practlcally every INDUSTRY con-
nected with the furnishing of
war supplies EMPLOYS large num-
bers of girls. Thousands of girls
are filling in the ranks left va
cant by the men. For these, as
we'll as for the girls employed
near the camps, the Council has
begun to erect houses as an en-
ergency measure and as a dem
onstration to the employer and
to the otherwise unprepared COM
munity that girls who are en-
ployed may be cared for simply
and efficiently, to the welfare of
the employed, the employer and
the community.
For the task of housing and
feeding hundreds of women sud-
denly summoned to work in
great industrial cities that have
sprung up over night association
has appropriated half a million
dollars. When the Government
suddenly calls for a score or more
of women to 90 to work at once
in a laundry, on uniforms, in a
munition factory, it is not always
possible to supply them at once
with a place to eat and sleep.
But since eat and sleep they must
Immediately the War Work
Council is plunging into the bus
mess of supplying them with
suitable living quarters and with
food. This has been tremen-
dous problem in England. 1t
promises soon to be equally gi-
gantic here.
Then there is the assistance
which the Council stands ready
to give to foreign women whose
husbands and sons have gone to
war. Many of these women have
lived in America in practical iso-
lation from the American world,
depending upon their men folk
as intermediary between them
and the strange new country
that has remained new. of whose
customs they are ignorant, and
whose language they have never
learned. In this field the Y. w.
C. A. has decided to use $100, 900.
SOCIAL STANDARDS.
Through a Bureau of Social
Morality, qualified women physi-
clans are enlisted to promote
throughout the country the high
est moral standards. and the pro-
motion of true patriotism. Lee.
lures to mothers, teachers and
girls are made accessible; to the
latter after they have been drawn
together through some club or
other bond of worthwhile inter-
est.
CoLORED COMMUNITIES.
A great unmber of the Camps
and cantonments are situated in
that part of the United States
where the colored population is
densest, and special need for the
care of our colored young women
presents Itself. Five colored
workers of the national staff are
giving their time to directing
work among their own people
and securing the leaders essen
tial to promoting practically the
same activities among colored
girls as are under way among
white girls.
EUROPEAN WOMEN. >
Even before the War Work
Council was appointed, calls had
been received from trusted social
workers in Russia and France,
for American Y. W. c. A. work
ers to assist the women of those
countries in facing their difficult
future of reconstruction for
women
Seven women have been as
signed to Russia to work with
the committee of Russian women.
Twelve women have been sent
to France, part of whom have
been called for to assist a COM
mittee of French women in equip
ping and directing foyer-can-
teens for industrial women whose
hours of labor are long and on
whom the stress of war bears SO
heavily. Help to provide rest