The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-09-04
Y. M. CA. To Get
Help From Y.W.C.A
TWO ASSOCIATIONS UNITE FOR
CAMPAIGN. WOMAN'S ORGAN
IZATION. DOES GOOD WORK

Mrs. Bess NJ Wilson of Redwood
Falls is to serve as chairman of the
4th in Minnesota for the Y. w. C. A.
in the cooperative drive, of the Y. M.
c. A., which is to be made this fall
At this time the two organize lions
will go out for $112,000,0OO that they
may carry on their wartime activities
at home and abroad Of this amount
$15,000,000 will go to the Y. w. C. A.
Min1esota's share in this Y. w. C. A.
total is approximately $2,975 900.
Mrs. J. S. Bell of Minneapolis is to
be the state chairman for the drive,
with Mrs w. J. Dean of ST. Paul and
Mrs. George Lane of Minneapolis as
dise-chairman. Prominent women
throughout the state will assist them.
Minnesota is part of the Central
Department accordig to the division
of the country for the drive. Head
quarters will be in Chicago, although
the North Central Field headquarters
still remain in Minneapolis. Mrs. An
drew McLeish of Chicago is serving
as chairman for the department, with
Mrs. Joseph Stronge of St. Paul as
vice-chairman; Mrs. Charles Mayo of
Rochester is one of the three mem
bers at large on their committee and
Mrs. Marion Leroy Burton of Min
1eapolis is the representative of the
North Central Field. The district
over which Mrs. Wilson will have
charge includes the Counties of Lac
QuiP arle, Yellow Madeleine, Lincoln,
Lyon Redwood, Renville, Sibley, Nc
Leod, and Brown
Since the last drive for which the
Y. M. c. A. asked the public for $4,-
100000 and received 100000 instead
the organization which has taken care
Of the young girls as it's wartime
in tn rorious ca1tonments. It has
established ia white and 13 colored
conters for club and recreation work.
1t has provided the girl workers in S
Industrial centers with emergency
housing. 1t has PROVIDED down town
club for girls in Washington, where
thousands of young women now are
doing war work. 1t has been respon-
sibie 70. securing three vacation lou
ses and country club near Washing
ton for these girls and now has in
course of erection an Emergency
Transient Hotel for women within
sight of Union Station in Washing
ton. 1t has established clubs for col
ored girls in Is colored communities,
Is celters for it's work among foreign
born women, 9 centers in industrial
communities, where from 500 to 10,-
900 girls are employed, and establish
ed formal and informal registry bur-
eaus throughout the country, as we'll
as uniting with the Woman's Ar ny in
land service, and sending broadcast
well-known lecturers on social NOR
atty through whom the girls on the
second line of defense at home, are
learning the Goodness of clean liv-
ing. 1t has sent II workers, most of
them college-trained women, CONVEX
SAINT with the French language, to
Europe, where centers for American
women, now in the war work, have
been provided; 9 centers for French
women in the factories and stores
have been built, and IA Nurses Huts
established near the base hospitals.
Before Russia's disorganization it had
Established 3 centers where club, cafe
eria, recreational, and educational
work for girls is being carried. So
great is the demand for additional
work and workers of this kind that
the Cover ment has Communicated
the Associations equipment and SER
vices, and it is for the expansion of
the war time activities that the fund
of this fall is being sought.