Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-11-07
Their Aid Sought h United War
Work Campaign
DRIVE BEGINS NOVEMBER II

ly Known Women Issue an Appeal
to Their Sisters.
Dayton, O.-(Special.)-The seven
most widely known women OF Ohio
joined in a call on all women of the
state to push the United War Work
Campaign of Nov. II to 1S "over
the top" The organizations taking
the place of home in the lives of our
Ohio boys over there must be backed
to the limit, they say.
The appeal Is issued by Mrs. James
NJ. Cox of Dayton, Miss Belle Sher-
win of Columbus, head of the wom-
ems committee of the State Council
of National Defense; Mrs. Prentice
y. Rood of Toledo. president of the
Ohio Federation Of Women's Clubs;
Mrs. William Cooper Proctor of Gin
cinnati; Miss Helen Taylor of CiI1-
cinnau, chairman Of the Y. w. G.
A. executive committee for Ohio and
West Virginia; Mrs. F. F. Prentiss
of Cleveland, and Mrs. Frank A.
Seiberling of Akron.
"The people of Ohio are to be con-
graduated that in this state, as in all
looking after the welfare of the SOL
dier abroad and strengthening the
second line of defense at home will
hold a joint money drive. When the
Y. M. c. A., Y. w. c. A., the Ma
tonal Catholic War Council, the War
Camp Community Service, the Jewish
Welfare Board, the American Library
Association and the Salvation Army
came together in united campaign
for s170,50O,OOO they made prac-
tical and patriotic move, heartily en-
dorsed by the women of Ohio, they
declare.
A Woman's Advisory Council, en-
bracing women of all religions and
employments and representative both
of industry and capital, is being
formed under the Craftsmanship of
Mrs. C. A. Grasselli of Cleveland.
Miss Elizabeth Hyatt is director OF
the womens campaign. The Coun-
Gil will put before every woman of
the state the facts of this S170, $780,
900 campaign which is to bring the
good cheer of Ohio homes into the
camps of France and Italy and ST.
IBERIA, where boys, many of them
from the Buckeye state, are fighting
for democracy. Leaders of the cam
paign will point out this fund means
less than a dollar year for enter
tainment of the men of the army and
navy.
The women are going to be prime
factors in the drive" F. w. Ramsey,
state campaign director, said today.
We're counting on mothers and Sis
ters and sweethearts, as we'll as
fathers and brothers and good pals"
The Women's Advisory Council
will take no part In money selicita-
tion. State campaign officials, how
ever, recommend that at least one
womans team be formed in each
community and certain part of the
solicitation campaign turned over to
It. These teams are usually of 10
members, and if the experience of
Liberty Loans follows, the women's
teams will spell pep.
Another job before the woman's
Advisory Committee is to mother
and big-sister the Victory Girlsf'
Girls between IL and 20 years old
will be asked to earn and give to the
campaign. The money must be the
result of their own work and can not
be solicited. The usual gift will be
IS, which, it is reckoned, will supply
soldier over there with all the COM
re nf ,i1o f<>y>
five weeks. The women of the state
will naturally have a responsibility
In what their daughters accomplish.
While the Y. w. G. A. is the only
woman's organization recognized by
the government In war work over
seas, each of the other six organiza-
tons In the drive has women's COM
mittees, and is backed by women's
strength. At meeting of the War
Work Council Of the Y. w. c. A. in
Chicago last month John R. Mott re-
quested an outline for mobilizing the
entire womanhood of the nation in
the drive. Six women from the Jew
ish Welfare Board, three from the
War Camp Community Service, eight
from the National Catholic War
Council, eight from the Salvation
Army and one from the American
Library Association. together with tY,
M. c. A. delegates, determined upon
general enlistment of all women un-
der state advisory committees repre-
senting each of the seven organiza-
tions.
The organization already set up by
the Y. w. c. A. will be used in each
county of the state. and Y. W. c. A.
representatives on county executive
committees will broaden their work
to become representatives of all wom-
en- of the county.
The only woman on the National
Executive Committee, Mrs. Henry p
Dawson. declares that nationally
Jewish. Catholic and Protestant wom-
On are working eagerly together.
and the Same rasult ie rnpidIv h.t..g