Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-08-15

as has everything else. Originally 10000 was
expected tn build and equip q house suitably.
Lumber has gone up. Wages are higher. Furnl-
ture is almost unattainable. Transportation is
difficult. Constant delays occur. Nevertheless
Hostess houses must be built. The approprla'
ton must be sufficient to cover all these din.
culties. Twenty-seven thousand dollars Is not
too much to invest In one Of these hospitality
centers.
Even after the house Is built, alterations at
additions must 20 on. The military sanitary
regulations must be fulfilled, even II they In
crease In severity. With summer comes the
screening necessary. Yet every house IS worm
to the community and to the nation In general
all the money invested In it. OF the S5,VU,Wo
budget appropriated by the war work council OF
the Young Women's Christian association $l,7oo,-
600 IS being devoted to Hostess houses.
Another work of the greatest Importance which
has just been undertaken by the Young Won
ems Christian association Is the housing Of won.
en- workers in connection with our great indus
trial establishments. While this Is not strictly
a new problem created by the war. the calling
Of many women workers to war service makes
the situation Immediately acute. Obviously the
providing of proper housing for these newly
called women workers, since 1t Is a part OF
the war program, must be done by the govern
ment. The Young Women's Christian dssoc!a-
ZION Is now CONSTRUCTING, u u " cApSASS, w
buildings as a demonstration: one at Camp Sher-
man Annex, Chillicothe. and another at Charles
ton, S. C.. for the women employees In the navy
uniform factory. The latter Is being built at
the request Of Secretary Daniels. II the govern
ment shall decide to make provision for the
housing Of its women workers, the Young Won
ems Christian association offers to provide the
needed social and recreational workers.
Based IN its experience In housing girls dur
ing the last so years, the association believes
that younger girls should be grouped where they
can have social life and an opportunity to en-.
tertain their friends, ind still be under some Of
the restrictions Of the home; that older women
want independence Of living. many OF them
objecting to living In large groups because OF
the noise and confusion and ensuing fatigue and
that II Is more successful to house non.English-
speaking foreign girls In small groups. until they
learn English and become used to American Gus
toms.
The type ~" building, the permanent struc.
ture which the association Is building at Charles
ton, Is designed for use In places where only one
building will be erected.
The dining room and recreation hall. severa
parlors, and bedrooms for a girls are on thu
first floor. There is but one entrance for thu
residents. This makes 1t possible for the ma
tron or social head of the house, who Is In the OF
fee near the door, to see everyone who come
In or goes out.
The entrance hall IL attractive and .homelike
Opening out Of It are several parlors separated
from the hall by arches. To the right IL an en-
trance to the wing containing the recreation hal
and dining room. These rooms are 80 arrange
that they can be thrown into one for q larg
social gathering.
There are bedrooms for 81 girls on the sex
ond floor. There 10 also a sitting room sepa
rated from the hall only by pillars. This 70 70
tho use Of the girls only. Next to this -
small sewing room with facilities for sewint
On the third floor are bedrooms for elk GIRL
an innrmary and a private bath.
In industrial communities the buildings ar
intended to be grouped as effectively as possibl
with duo regard to natural advantages. Ther
can, of course. bs a. many units ~ are niece
sary. II 10 also proposed to provide . numbs
Of three and fourfamily houses to accommodat
the elder women and the non.Enslish-speakin
foreign girls. In all Of these buildings an 4
tempt has been made to use 4 style Of arch
lecture which Il distinctly American.