Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1918-10-25
SEVEN AGENCIES
JOIN in DRIVE
Professionals, Catholics and Jews
Will Campaign Together To
Raise Millions For Work in
American Army Abroad.

The great drive to raise $I7O,OOO,
600 for relief work in the American
army will be begun on the llth ol
next month by the Y. Nj. C. A., Y. w
&C. A., National Catholic War Council
of the Knights of Columbus, Jcw:sl
Welfare League, War Camp Commu
nifty Service, American Library Asso.
citation and the Salvation Army.
The drive will be new thing un.
der the sun. For the first time Pro.
testants, Catholics and Jews. forget.
ting all their differences will liuc u,
shoulder to shoulder, welding thci,
individual organizations together in
their common devotion to the boys in
the environments and over there. This
amalgnmation of the seven great
agencies engaged in war work is on,
of the fine developments which have
been brought about by the war and
under the wise guidance OF Prcsi-
dent Wilson.
Together these seven organiza-
tions represent work that is stag
gering in its proportions. They hnve
more than $4,000 uniformed workers,
standing shoulder to shoulder with
the boys every step of the way from,
home TO the front line trenches. They
operate more than $500 buildings
and ship 500 tons of supplies to the
boys in France every week. Fifteen
miles of film set sail for the other
side each week under their direction
and the regular weekly attendance of
soldiers and sailors ut their motion
picture shows is more than $500, 900.
The Bibles furnished to the bows
since the war broke out would, il
piled one on another, make II pile
more than twenty miles high.
Morale" said Napoleon, sis as
other factors in war as three to one"
by which he meant. that one man who
is kept c0ntented and happy is better
than three men who are discouraged
and homesick. 1t is the business of
these seven great agencies to help
maintain morale. They are keeping
up the fine fighting edge of our boys,
and by their ministration, helping to
put added power into our army and
navy and SO to hasten the hour of
victory when they will bring our boys
home again.
WHAT THE Y. w. c. a. DOES.
Never before in warfare have wo
men played so active part in rein
forcing the fighting men and in re .
lieving men from other work that
they might fight. Thus, the field of
the Young Women's Christian Asso.
ciation in war work has been great
one. In America the associations mosr
striking welfare project has been the
establishment of hostess houses in
the camps where the men may receive
Visiting relatives. Army officers have
asserted that these houses do much
to elevate the plane OF n training
camp and to dispcl the inconsistencies
which causes desertons and lowers
morale.
In the war zone the Y. w. C. A. pro-
vides social workers, recreation lead
ers, physical directors and cafeteria
managers for the thousands of Amer
ican women nurses, Signal Corps
girls, telephone operators, and other
English-speaking women employed
with the American forces. The as
socintion also does welfare work for
the girls employed in many of the
French muntion plants. The Y. w.
G. A. maintains centers and restau-
rants for these American women en-
gagged in work in support Of the Gov
crnment.
Our Hello Girls Reign as Queens on
French Lines.
Ninety-nine are in France. Addi-
tional units are on the way. Those
already there are pretty we'll scattered
though there are two or three large
units. The happiest unit-at least
the girls claim they are happiest unit
is stationed in the City of Discon-
tent, so called because it is far be-
hind the battles lines and practical
ly every one there is anxious to get
TO the front.
The girls are the honorcd guests
at all entertainments and many thea
ire parties are given them. Besides,
they have an athletic field of their
own provided by the Y. w. C. A. All
the telephone girls in this town are
quartcred at the Signal Girls Club.
French hotel taken over by the Y.
w. c. a. especially for their use.
Redeem Your w. S. S. Pledge.
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