The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-09-18
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING

1ME was Wnen the majority Oh people De
lieved the Young Womans Christian Asso
citation was entirely matter of pink tea.
and sermonettes, of enthusiastic women doing un
necessary things, Of creeds and codes and unap
piled religious principles. That was become the
majority Of people were as intensely ignorant or
that topic as they are of most things in which
they do not feel themselves vitality interested.
The Association has done, ever since it's organ
ization, an immense work for the actual and prac-
tical betterment of working girls homeless girls
hopeless girls, and every other kind of girl it
could get in touch with by using one or more of
the countless methods under it's control. The
work of the organization has been great-unbe-
lievably great, until one is given the facts and
figures which prove its scope.
Since the war broke out the opportunities and
duties have increased hundred-fold, and the
calls made on the organization have been num-
berless. It has expended and grown until now it is
an active agent of the government working not
only in the United States, but in England, France
Russia and in- every other war-touched country.
Just few of the marvellous effects of the war
work of the Association are stated in the follow
ing article taken from August Is issue of "The
Field Glass"
"Since the last drive for which the Y. W. c. A.
asekd the public for 100000 and received $5,-
600 900 instead, the organization which has taken
care of the young girls as its wartime measure,
has built 81 Hostess Houses in the various can
tonments? It has established la white and Is
colored centers for club and recreation work. 1t
has provided the girl workers in industrial Gen.
tiers with emergency housing. It has provided
a down town club for girls in Washington where
thousands of Young women now are doing war
work. 1t has been responsible for securign three
vacation houses and a country club near Wash
ington for these girls and now has in course Of
erection an Emergency Transient Hotel for wo-
men within sight Of Union Station in Washington
ct has established clubs for colored girls in
IS colored communities; Is centers for its work
among foreign born women; centers
in industrial communities. where from 500 to TO-
600 girls are employed and established formal and
informal registry bureaus throughout the coun-
try, as well as uniting with the Womans Land
Army in land service, and sending broadcast well
known lecturers on social morality through whom
the girls on the second line Of defense, at home,
are learning the Goodness Of clean living.
ut has sent II workers, most Of them college
trained women, conversant with the French Ian
gmge, to Europe, where centers for American
women, now in war work, have been provided;
9 centers for French women in the factories and
stores have been built, and IA Nurses Huts esta-
blished near the base hospital Before Russia's
disorganization it had established centers where
club, cafeteria, recreationa and educational work
for girls carried. $50 great is the demand for ad-
ditional work and workers of this kind that the
government has commandered the Association
equipment and services.