The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-26

4 and beneficial service would open now
! that the war is over may very easily
MH 4 find the signpost pointing out the road
in the program set for itself by the
d,FETeFff1T's National League for Women's Service.
EAE@QlllH This organization was formed in 1917,
EMR(l1NH and naturally at that time found its
kYSfMkNH particular field in war activities. 1t
URhs9.S now sees before it a broadening of its
activities and Il scope of real helpful
that will go even beyond what it found to do
while the country wagng conflict
1t is the spirit of service learned better than
before in time of national stress that is the watch
word for this nationwide organization of women.
Its purpose, set forth in the constitution and
bylaws, is to provide organized trained groups of
women in every community to meet existing needs
along social and economic lines.
The earnest who make up the motor
division of the league might have thought that the
end of the war would curtai the scope of their
activities Nothing of the sort. The work of trans
porting the sick and wounded and the convalescent
soldiers, sailors and marines will be continued
long the need for this work exists. The motor
division has demonstrated the vital necessity of
continuing its work organized, trained serv-
ice in peace times to meet emergencies. There is
much work to be done in the way of social
welfare and health and industrial hepfulness that
the motor CORPS instead of diminishing, before
it growth and expansion.
Especial attention is being given by the motor
division to the opportunities found in service for
the afflicted. One of the examples of this
is to be in the work being accomplished by
the women of the city of Jamaica who formed
motor corps in that city. These women motorists
have already been of great service to the city in
transporting crippled children to the hospital for
treatment. Not all of these children are per-
manently crippled but many of them have lost the
use of arm or leg after having suffered from
infantie paralysis Sometimes there is only one
living parent, who is away from home all day, so
there is one in the family to take the suffering
little ones to the hospital for treatment. The
workers in the motor corps bring the children from
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back again soon they are fit to be moved
Helping the Helpless
One of the most pathetic cases of this sort is
that of little Gertrude, only three and half years
of age. She taken to the hospital and plas-
ter cast was put on. There are six children in her
family and her father is unable to work owing to
a severe attack of influenza. The oldest child in
the family suffers from epeptic fits. Another
child had broken her arm last November and it
had never been set. The driver of the ambulance
took this child also to the hospital so that her
crippled arm could be rebrOken by the doctor and
properly set So much suffering in one family
relieved and a great deal of future tragedy
averted by the helpfulness of the motor corps
One little boy, whose poor little legs were abso
lutely useless, came to being the cause Of an
Putting his head out of the front of the ambulance
he jerked the of the driver and said: "See
that guy that passed riding that bicycle! Gee I'm
going to be like him soon, and how will ride when
my paddles work again"
a threeyear-Old Italian girl had been very shy
her trips to the hospital and at first had re-
scented being taken by the driver. Finally after
her fourth trip she snuggled up against the lieu
tenant the homeward trip and said something
which the officer could not understand. One OF
the older girls explained.
"She says that her mother is dead and her
father doesn't want her and you keep her if
you want to-
Only three years old and yet that baby realized
that there wasn't soul IN the world who wanted
her.
These children whose cases are duplicated times
without number throughout the country, are In a
dire need of friendly service. The parents have
the greatest struggle in most cases to provide
living for them, and when any of the children
helpless they not wanted.
Such cases are not infreQuent, and although the
work of driving car all day from house to house
in the poorest parts of the city, over broken and
rough roads, is nerve racking, the members of the
motor corps have never thought of stopping. The
vital need of continuing their work is measured by
the amount of good done hundreds of children.
The faith of the children accustomed to walk
and about is much shaken when they are