Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1918-10-10
W0MAN'S PART
IN WAR WORK
Safeguarding The Soldiers
Morals In Thirty Diff
ferent States
GIRLS ARE INSTRUCTED

"Woman's greatest part in the war
is the helping to safeguard the morals
OF the soldier" said DR.. Anna L.
Brown, chairman Of the Social Moral
ity Committee, yesterday at National
Headquarters of the Y. W. C. A.. 500
Lexington avenue Safeguarding the
soldiers morals means guarding him
from herself as well as from the dan
gers against which the Government
makes provision to protect him"
Girls all over the United States.
white and black. are being told what
they must do to help the soldiers,
why they must do it, and how they
must do it. The Young Woman's
Christian Association has in its War
Work Council Committee on Social
Morality. with a staff of women phys
icians who are touring the country
giving lectures to girls in cities and
towns. More than $4,000 girls and
young women have already been
reached by these lecturers.
DIR. Brown works with DR.. Kather-
inc Bement Davis who has been ap-
pointed head of this division, the Sec
tfon on Women's Work of the Division
of Social Hygiene. under the War De-
partment's Commission on Training
Camp Activities. DR.. f. r. Butler, a
sister of President Nicholas Murray
Butler of Columbia University, is DR..
Davis assistant.
Thirty different states have been
toured by the physicians lecturing to
ers and themselves. Churches, club
houses and factories have been given
as lecture halls ana the lecturers have
been welcomed in all communities.
In more than one city, department
store owners have given time in work
ing hours for the girls of the store to
hear the lecture, and had il given
under the auspices of the store One
New England factory closed its ma
chinery for the lecture hour, so that
the speaker and her listeners would
not be disturbed.
The lectures are meant for the girls
who live near camp communities, who
have not had sufficient or proper
training in sex matters at home, and
who have tnat impulse to help the
soldiers they meet, which SO often
guides them in the wrong direction.
The speakers talk simply and directly
to the girls and have found them re-
sponsive and eager to cooperate. The
girls whom the Committee is trying
particularly to reach, the lecturers
say, are those who are innocent, emo
tional, and in most cases actually ig-
norant The young girls in their
teens, who have had little social
training. are anxious to please the
soldiers, are carried away emotion
ally by the sight of the uniform and
what it stands for in their minds, and
are unconscious of doing the men
themselves a wrong by the innocent
lures they practice.
Patriotism as the motive is empha-
sized by the lecturers, as we'll as by
the literature which is being circu-
lated by the Committee. ITO help
make the world safe for democracy"
has been offered as a slogan for the
girls who want to do the bit at home
which will count so much for the boys
who are away from home. Sound
ethics, scientific knowledge, high
ideals for womanhood, loyalty to
home, friends and government, faith
fulness to duty and the place of wo-
men in the new democracy" This
is the stuff of which patriotism is
made"