Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-31
POLISH WOMEN
TO GO OVERSEAS
Trained in This Country to
Continue Child Wei
fare Work

New York, July S1.-Miss Martha
Chickcring. of San Francisco, ac-
companied by twenty Polish young
women specially trained as nurses
aids in this country, will sail next
Wednesday on the Rochambeau en
route to Poland, where they Will
continue, at the request of Pade:-
ewskl and the Polish government,
the child welfare work already be-
gun in Poland by the American re-
lief administration, of which Her
bert Hoover Is director general.
The young women represent the
first unit OF tho Polish Gray Samarl-
tans, trained In this country under
the direction of the Young Wom-
EMS Christian Association, and the
Polish reconstruction COMMITTEE
for this special nfter-the-war work
in Poland. In addition to MISS
Chickering, who Is the leader OF
The group, they will be accompanied
ty four other trained women work
era in the journey TO Poland. These
latter are Miss Emily Graves, OF
baltimore, case worker; MISS
Frances West, OF North Carolina,
recreation director; Stephanie Kos
iowska trained nurse, and q pun
lie health worker yet to be named'
This journey OF the Polish Gray
Samaritana, oil OF whom are from
widely separated parts Of the Unit
cd States, Is tho result OF q plan
worked out nearly two years ago
by the National Board OF the Young
Wemen'h Christian Association IN
New York, It was their idea that
tho most valuable assistance whlch
America could give to Europe after
the Sar would be the trained work
crs of different nat'onalities whicA
she could give to the older Euro
pcan countries to assist in their re
habilitation.
AS a gift from the Young Woln-
ems Christian Association to Po-
land special nurses training courses
were opened to Polish young won-
en-, willing to go later to Poland III
such cities as Milwaukee, RochcS-
ter. New York, Trenton, y. D,
Cleveland. Ohio; st. Louis, Mo- ana
Detroit. Michigan. Three hundred
Young Polish women Joined these
courses about a year and Il half ago
end were given a special three-
month course in their home cities.
At the completion of the prelim-
mary course, ninety out of the orig
iual three hundred girls were Sc
lOcted for further training at the
Polish Gray Samaritan school II
New York Here they have been Tor
nearly a year, studying dietetics, ti.s
principal of case work, family Sc-
habilitation, the care of children
end first aid. The twenty young
women sailing on the Rochamheau
thus represent the first picked unit
10 he sent abroad out of the orig
trail 500 girls who volunteered Tor
Ehs special mission.
The unit will carry clothing ana
cuuipm ent for a year, its expenses
eng shared by the Young Women's
Christian Associat on ond the Polish
construction committee. The \.
W. c. A. supplies the young wom-
cl with transportation to Poland
rrd bacl: e. America, and a salary
ror three or four months. Then 1T
's expected that they will he under
the supervision of the Polish gov
crnment.
From Warsaw the Polish Gray
S"maritans will be sent out into
the towns and villages of the coun-
fry. Their trip NAV he duplicated
rr other units from America, but
t"is has not been definitely de-
C'ded upon.