The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

the sheep for which she cares and she
says that each night she goes to sleep
thankful that to-day I've kept a Brit
ish man in the trenches"
Mrs. Brown spoke of the different
German propaganda, the very newest
of which is that all women at the head
of the Red Cross work are well paid
by the government for their, work.
THE women's work is the least
thing done by the Red Cross" said
Mrs. Brown. THE Red Cross was
named by the government to help out
in emergency work. The biggest thing
one can do for the Red Cross is to
and work together"
Y X \
Miss Anne B. Sweet entertained the
members of the war work council and
the members of the board of the Y. W.
c. A. at her home in Topeka avenue.
Miss Sweet and Mrs. Paul Walker
told the guests about the meeting of
the national war work council which
they attended recently in New York
City.
Mrs. Walker described in a most en-
tertaininS manner the different wo-
men who appeared on the program at
the meeting the first day. She told
of the impression made on her by
their personal appearances and then
by their talks. Next Sunday Mrs. Wal
ker will repeat her talk at the vesper
services at the Y. w. c. A. and a week
from next Sunday Miss Sweet will
make talk on her trip at the vespers.
MRS. walker gave a report for the
work in the social centers in France
as given at the meeting. These social
centers, which are located at the base
hospitals, are part of the Y. M c. A
hut, are equipped by the Red Cross
and presided over by a Y. w. c. A.
secretary.
Hotel Petrograd in Paris, close to
the Place de La Opera, which is for
American women called abroad for
war service, that they may have a
reasonable and comfortable place in
Whlch to live. is becoming a social
center for all Americans in Paris.
Inc centers open for munition work
are at Lyons and st. Etienne.
Inc Y. w. workers went to Rus
sia last April at the request of the
ness Olga Meinendorf. who has snent
a year IN this country STUDYING Y w
c. A. work. The workers reDorted
that the Russian girls were very re-
sponsive to association work and very
much interested. Even tho just out
where some of the hottest scenes of
the revolution took place the girls
continued to come. After the Boil
shevikf took the government the caf-
eeeIla Hdo 10 De closed because food
supplies were too uncertain
The international information and
service bureau has been created to
help the foreign women understand
the conditions made necessary in the
United States by war. Upon investi-
CATION it was found that there was no
| established method of giving to for
eign people the food regulations, the
draft law and so on. In many of the
foreign communities the women put
on black when their husbands left
for the camps, not understanding
! what their departure was at ALL A
I translator's bureau has been establish
! ed at the national headquarters in
/ New York. Here they are preparing
for foreigners not only what Y. W. c.
A. has to tell women, but translatine
| for other war organizations This
| department has also put foreign
| speaking women in the hostess houses
Miss Sweet reported the national
conference that followed the meeting