The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-11
STORY OF Y. MY. W. C. 4.
Excellent Program at Peoples
Pavilion Last Night.

The peoples pavilion at the Kansas
Free Fair last night was well filled,
in spite of the rain, to hear the story
of the Y. w. c. A. and the Y. M. C. A.
War Work Councils.
The Y. w. C. A. council was repre-
sented on the program by Mrs. Fred
Fassett of New York, who told of the
work the Y. W. c. A. is doing for wo-
men engaged in war industry, nurs-
ing, etc. Mrs. Fassett is secretary of
the National Y. w. c. A. War Work
Council, and her husband is in France
with the Y. M. C. A.
while the whole power of our
government" she said, sis being con-
centrated on the task of winning the
war as fast as it may be done, it is
throwing around the men who are
doing the fighting the best physical,
mental, moral and spiritual condi-
TONS 1t has created the greatest
fighting machine in the world because
it is keeping the men fit. With the
advent of a million and a half men
into the army, the government asked
that an equal number of women go
into war industries. The government
asked the Y. w. C. A. to be respon-
sible for the task of keeping those wo-
men fit, even as the army is kept fit
The task of making munitions re-
qu1reS the minuteSt exactneSS of
work, and the strain upon the nerves
of the women who are doing it. know
ing that their effort means life or
death to our men, is so wea ring that
it is essential to their work to be
! cared for as the Y. w. C. A. cares for
them"
Mrs. Fassett also spoke of the work
before the women in America of see
ing that women and children are not
| overworked and underpaid during war
time. She told of what the Y w. C.
A. Is doing for munitions workers in
France and in other departments of
its war work. Mrs. Fassett is former
in Lawrence and educated at the Kan
sas university. She is now+one of the
well known lecturers for the Y. w.
c. A.
The Rev. Percy Atkins of the Y. M.
c. A. personnel bureau of Kansas.
spoke on behalf of the Y. NJ c. A..
telling his audience many interesting
stories of his life in France as Y. NJ
Z. A. secretary. where he served for
six months with the Rainbow division.
me time has come" he declared.
when there should be no word of
sympathy for the enemy We are not
called upon by any religious principle
to love the type of enemy that Ger
many has proven herself to be. ANY
true American should plant his fist in
soldiers. 1t is a damnable lie that our
soldiers are drinking In the six
months / served in France among
| thousands of Irish troops-and you
know the Irish are supposed to like.
their lemonade saw only two men
drunk"
Mr.. Atkins told of the ways in which
the Y. NJ. c. A. ministered to the SOL
diers right up in the fighting lines
Capt. c. Muir Allan, of the British
army, made an address in which he
told Of German schemes to breed ill
feeling between America and Great
Britain. He served in the British
army in 1914, saw the horrors of the
invasion of Belgium and northern
France, and gave an account of the
British retreat in the early part of
the war, her final stand, and then her
forward movement toward Berlin
Music for the meeting was furnished
| by the Great Lakes Training Station
| band and by quartet of singers from
the Y, NJ. C. A. huts at Camp Funston.