The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1919-03-01
Y, N, c, 4, OPENS
WORK IN ITALY
Tea and Club Rooms Opened for
American Women.
Miss Charlotte N.ven, Director Of ltal.
ian Work, Prepares for influx Of
American Woman Students,

Italy Is now Included In the war.
work. of ne American y, W, c. \.
Miss Mabel Warner ot Sulina Kan,
and Cbicugo lett Paris a few days ago
for Rome, where sine will hc In charge
of Hostess House Tor American girls
employed thrrr hy the American Red
Cross, the Embassy and the new tn
bcrculosis Commissions Miss Warner
has been director of the Y. W. &, \.
Hostess House at Erest, France.
Miss Warner will open ten room
and club rooms where the American
women can gather for social times.
Rome is hurh0ring refuge population
of about 10000 aud accommodations
are difficult 10 find
The work In Rome was started ns q
direct result OF the appeal of Miss
Charlotte Niyou, one of the National
Y. w. c. 4. secretaries Of italy, who is
spending few months In France as
advisor In the French work.
Miss Niycn's dreams of Y. w. c. A.
work in Italy include the maintenance
Of residence for Lon-Italian women.
who. she feels, win come to Italy In
great numbers after the war to study
music and art
II believe at this time such project
is particularly important because wo-
men from other countries should be
encouraged to come to Italy to replace
| the great numbers OF German women
who Hooded Italy in the past many OF
them paid agents of their govern
ment." Miss Niven said in discussing
her plans.
Miss Nivcn has asked the American
Y. w. C. A. to aid the Italian Associn-
ton in establishing a center, perhaps
| Mt Genoa. with two American seCreta-
ries, with physical and recrcational
training to act MS a training school for
italian women. In connection with II
her plan would include Hostess House
for girls passing through the city or
employed there. Such center would
become eventually the center for all
Y. w. c. A. work in Italy, both Italian
and foreign.
In her formal appeal for help for the
Unione Cristlana Dele Giovanni (the
Italian name for Young Womcn's
Christian Association) Miss Niven hns
emphasized two facts, the poverty of
the Italian Association on the one hand
and the need and opportunity on the
other for an American program In
Italy at the present time.
Miss Niven's favorite way Of Illus
trating the friendliness of the Italian
woman to America is by telling the
story of the Italian mother who said
she had taken down the picture Of the
Madonna which had hung for many
years over her bed md was putting In
Its place one Of President Wilson.
"In our work In the Unlone we have
lacked trained leadership as wen as
the material resources to give such
training We have had no means 10
buy modern equipment. Consequently
we have not the visible results ~
American and British work.
"Feeble as our work may be, II Is
not useless. Many girls In all parts Of
Italy have told MS how much the
Unione meant in their lives. Italian
girls are touchingly grateful for the
smallest efforts. They respond eagerly
to friendllness.
"There is no other agency doing In
|, Italy what the association is trying to
do"
Miss Niven has spent the past seven
years In work with the Italian women,
starting as director of a hostel, or
boarding home for italian women stu
dents, at Florence. She is an Ameri-
can from New York, where she was
onetime head of tie Chrstadora Set.
Element House.