Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-12-09

the women of the world. The
| Young Womens Christian Associa-
| ton is the great organization with
Z the machinery and equipment for
! effective service for women and
| girls and the war record of the or
| ganiZation is its best recommends
! tion in considering its plans for the
| future.
Threcfold Program
Our program is threefold one,
/ work in the United States, overseas
and our foreign advance work. In
| this country we have five Special
/ programs that we are StresSing, in
I ADDITION to our regular association
activities. In our work with for
| eign-born women we are working
through foreign language workers
to. establish friendly relations as
the basis of real AmericaniZation
work, because we feel that so long
as the woman in the home is for
eign, the home itself is foreign. IN
our work with colored girls we are
seeking to train and develop
leadership among them because we
believe that the colored woman her
self is the key to the race problem.
Our third important program is our
industrial work and here we are
seeking to find a Christian solution
through standards of responsibility
not only for employers toward the
girls but from the girls toward
their employers. The other two
home efforts, health and social
morality, are closely connected. We
are establishing health centers,
where women physicians and physi-
cal directors can Unite through
h Hriga
gymnastics. and health standards to
develop strong and efficient wom-
anhood. Equally we are striving to
disseminate the principles of social
morality and social hygiene which
were put forward by the great In
ternational Conference of Women
Physicians which was held recently
in New York through the instru-
mentality of the Young Women's
Christian Association.
In Work Overseas
Overseas our work consists of
the follow-up of our war activities
and the establishment of new work
which has become possible in the
hVe devastated countries of Europe
since the armiStice. The women of
Europe have neither the strength
the machinery nor the resources to
carry on effective work for women
and we are constantly being called
on 10 undertake new responsible
ties. We are working in France
training the women there to carry
on the work for themselves, and we
are going into Belgium, Polands Ar
menla, Serbia, Rumania and
CZecko-SloVakia in response to ur-
gent appeals.
"Onr foraiorr
the Orient and South America rem
resents our missionary activities
which we never undertake except AT
the direct request of the mission
aries of the district. There we are
working with two great groups of
women and girls, the students and
the industrial workers in particular
All this work has its international
value, because through our work
with the women we are able to helm
in the establishment of more friend
ly relations with this country.
We believe as the women of the
United States learn of the work we
are doing they will be eager to take
nart IN efforts that mean so much |
for the women of the world.
they VIII wish to assume a share
of the responsibility toward MAX |
ing the accomplishment of this nro-
gram possible"
Talk on BoIshevism
Mrs. John c. Stine, president of |
the College Club, presided, and Miss /
Dorothy Stillman read a paper pre-
pared by Mrs. Paul Johnston on
IS 'Bolshevism." There was a discus
sion afterward, led by Mrs. Jacob
Crane. and attention was called to
the lecture by DR.. Raiguel Thursday
morning, on current events. con-
tinuing his talks on THE Far East"