Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-08-28
WORK ACCOMPLISHED so
FAR BY THE Y. W. G. A.
Mrs. March of Litch6eld is the
Chairman of Y. W. c. A. in
United War Fund Drive.


Mrs. c. H. March of Litchtield is to
serve as chairman Of the 9Th district
in Minnesota for the Y. w. C. A. in the
United War Fund Drive which is to
be held from November 18th to 18th
this fall
Mrs. J. S. Bell of Minneapolis is to
be the state chairman for the drive.
with Mrs. W. J. Dean of St. Paul and
Mrs. George Lane of Minneapolis as
vice chairman. Prominent women
throughout the state will assist them,
Minnesota is part Of the Central
Department according to the division
of the country for the drive. Head
quarters will be in Chicago, although
the North Central Field headquarters
still remain in Minneapolis. Mrs.
Andrew McLeish of Chicago is serv-
ing as chairman for the department,
with Mrs. Joseph Stronge of St. Paul
as vice-chairman; Mrs. Charles Mayo
of Rochester is one of the three mem
bers at large on their committee and
Mrs. Marion Leroy Burton of Minnea.
polls is the representative Of the North
Central Field. The district over which
Mrs March will have charge includes
the Counties of Meeker, Stearns, Kan
diyohi, Chippewa, Swift, Pope, Doug
las, Grant, Stevens, Bigstone, and
Traverse.
Since the last drive for which the
Y. w. c. A. asked the public for 49,
100000 and received s5,-000,000 in
stead, the organization, which has TAX
en- care of the young girls as it's war
time measure, has built 81 Hostess
Houses in the various environments.
1t has established ia white and -
colored centers for club and recrea-
ton work. 1t has provided the girl
workers in 6 industrial centers with
emergency housing It has provided a
down town club for girls in Washing
! ton, where thousands Of young women,
| now are doing war work. 1t has been
| responsible for securing three vaca-
ton houses and a country club near
Washington for these girls and now
has in course of erection an Emerg-
ency Transient Hotel for women with
in sight of Union Station in Wash.
ington. It has. established clubs for
| colored girls in 13 colored commune
| ties, Is centers for it's work among
fOreign-born women, 9 centers in in
dustrial communities, where from 500
to 10000 girls are employed, and estab.
lished formal and informal registry
bureaus throughout the country, as
we'll as uniting with the Woman's
Land Army in land service, and send
ing 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 Ithas sent u workers, most
of them college-trained women, con
versant with the French language, tt
Europe, where 5 centers for American
women, now in war work, have beer
provided; 9 centers for French wome1
in the factories and stores have beer
built, and IA Nurses Huts established
near the base hospitals. Before Rus
sia's disorganization it had establish
ed 3 centers where club, cafeteria
recreational, and educational work 70
girls is being carried. So great is tn
demand for additional work and work
ers of this kind that the Government
has Communicated the Association
equipment and services, and it is TO
the expansion of the wartime activitie
that the fund Of this fall is bein
sought.