Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-08-26
STATE ORGANIZER OF
Y. ". c. A. COMING
TO ANNE ARUNDEL
War Council Inaugurating a
Campaign At The Request
Of The Government
MARYLAND IS TO
BE ORGANIZED
Women Awake To Fact OF Two
Armies - Army Of Men And
Army Of Women

+ lF'ss Florence Il. WIZ as. who is or
ganizing Maryland for the War Coun-
/ ell of the Young Women's Christian
1 Association, viii shortly visit Anne
I Arundel County in the interest of the
organization. The campaign which
( the War Council is inaugurating is the
result of request from the govern
ment of the United States that the
+ Y. W. C. A. assume the responsibility
for the women of the country whose
positions and conditions have been
radically effected by the war and to
whom the process of re-adjustment
may be somewhat trying 1t is the
desire of the members of the War
Council to bring to every man, woman
and child a knowledge of what the
Y. w. c. A. is doing, both at home and
abroad and. as a result 20 ensure gen.
eral support.
Maryland is to be organized accord
ing to counties and districts, and Miss
Wilbur's coming visit viii be in the
interest of such organization. In re-
ferring to the work of the Association
Miss Wilbur in an interview given the
representative of The Capital in her
office in Baltimore the other day
said:
"In the first place. we must let
people know what a tremendous work
the Y. w. c. A. is doing You know
until the war started the Young Mems
Christian Association was not wide
ly known-most persons thought of
it as a nice quiet sort of organization
with various educational advantages
and a lot of people did not think of it
at ALL
"But think of the difference today
there is not a home from which a sol
der has gone forth that does not
know of the work the Y. NJ. G. A. is
doing-it has become a household
word.
THE sister organization has a SINH
lar work. While the Y. NJ. c. A. is
caring for the boys in the camps, at
home and over there, one of our
principal tasks is looking out for the
girl he left behind him. and the girl
who took his job The first is the
woman in the home-the mother, wife.
sister, sweetheart; the second is the
woman who is going into the indus
tries. Do you realize that of 10,0O0.000
women who are working, there are O.
100000 who are engaged in war work
alone?
"An illustration of one of the many
things that we are trying to do for the
woman who works may be seen in
recent request from Washington. In
this city alone there are 500 girls in
the Chesapeake and Potomac employ
and this number will shortly be in
creased to 1900. The government has
requested us to supply recreation for
these girls-wherever there are large
numbers of girl workers it is neces-
sary for some one to see that they
have good, healthful recreation-and
that is one of our jobs.
Another thing that is being done
is the work among the foreign women
Glasses are being started in the for
eign centers at which speakers, in
/ their own languages, are telling these
women why the war is being fought
and why their husbands and brothers
and sons and sweethearts are sol
diers. Without such training these
/ pun NOAlCh al Only SOtAONlu HSh
4 they know what it is all about it will
/ help them. Then, of course, there
are the hostess houses. of which, per-
haps, little more may be known
than is known about other lines of
work On the other hand, the vast
work being done by the Y. w. G. A. in
France and Russia is very little
known.
at is the knowledge of these-and
various other branches of work
about which we want to speak to
the people of the United States. My
headquarters are in Baltimore, but l
am planning to travel all over the
State telling of the great work being
done and trying to make people see
that it is their work in that it is war
work. In recent report of the sec
rotary of the War Work Council the
statement is made that women are
awake to the fact that we must fol-
low two armies-an army of men and
an army of women Men sometimes
forget that the 'woman's army in war
work is now two million strong This
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