The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-10-01
UNITED WAR WORK
CONFERENCES SOON
ABLE SPEAKERS FOR MEETING
IN THIS DISTRICT. WELFARE
WORK FOR SOLDIERS.

ATLANTA, Ga.-Mightier soldiers
with which to shatter Prussianism
and better citizens after the war
these are the giant virtues of the
United War Work campaign, and
these are the principles which will
inspire deep interest on the part of
eevry man, woman and child in a
series of ten United War Work dis
trict conferences in Georgia at early
dates, one of which will be held in
this particular section of the state
towards the end that our patriotic
citizenship may be given the fullest
possible opportunity for cooperation
in the great and worthy movement.
The ten district conferences will be
held in the following cities on the
dates indicated:
Athens Thursday, October "a; At
lanta Friday, October 25; August
Monday, October %; Savannah Tues
day, October 20; Waycross Wednes-
day. October so; Valdosta Thursday,
October 81; Thomasville Friday, Nov
ember l; Albany Monday, November
a; Macon Tuesday, November 5 Co.
lumbus Monday, November 4.
These conferences are to perfect
district organizations already well
under way for handling the United
War Work campaign for funds in
November, when all red-blooded
Georgians will be given an oppor-
tunity to render service to their gal
liant sons and brothers who are form
ing an impenetrable steel bulwark
against German oppression and bru-
tally.
A conspicuous feature of the con-
ference will be addresses by men and
women of much prominence in the
vital affairs of the times. Each con-
ference will be a distinct patriotic
event, worthy of interest proportion
ate with the number of men that dis
trict has given to the nations noble
cause. Programs of the conference
will be announced later.
Georgia's quota for the United
War Work fund of $170, 100000 has
been fixed at $1,592,785. Leaders in
the movement who have felt the
patriotic pulse of the public firmly
believe that the quota will be doubled
easily, inasmuch as it is for seven or
CARNATIONS whose welfare work
among the soldiers is helping to build
up a stronger army with which to
hurl the kaiser in penitence back to
Berlin, and also is cultivating a high
err type of manhood with which to
hold high the ideals of Americanism
and democracy after the war. The
seven organizations united by order
of the war department, with the ap-
prevail Of President Wilson, in this
great campaign are the Young Mems
A
Womens Christian Association, the
War Camp Community Service, the
American Library Association, the
National Catholic War Council, the
Jewish Welfare Board and the Saliva
ton Army, each of which the United
States war department considers of
huge value to the American army.
To Protect American Girls.
To surround the American girl
with the same protection which is be-
ing placed around the soldiers in the
camps and to give Americas great
army of women in war industries
there are two million Of them already
"a chance to maintain the standards
of American womanhood, physical,
mental and moral, that is the biggest
war work of the Young Women's
Christian Association and a part of
the reason why it is included in the
United War Work campaign.
The association aims to meet the
new conditions which war has thrust
upon women with a means to keep
up their old standards of health and
morality.
The United War Work campaign
will finance this plan for the Y. W.
G. A. Their part of the fund viii
m -.~55in recreation centres in the
great communities of women in the
war industries 1t will promote pa
5riotic leagues and other protective
vel foc girls and women in camp
ci-ie-. It will educate women in for
eign speaking communities to Amer
lean ideals and their part in the
wing of the war It will maintain
hOsteg7 houses in nearly one hundred
American camDs. 1t will secure lee
lures on social morality to offset the
decentralization Of war.