Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-04-07
VOLUNTEER WORKERS
NEEDED BY v. c. G s.
Secretary Baker Writes Lettei
Praising Work OF Welfare
Organizations
SERVICE AID TO MORALE

thai il being done here By the War
Camp Community Service, under Sec
rotary Roland, there Is no necessity
for easing up on the work of the ser
vice Id Annapolis. and II II expected
the work will 90 right along The
need Of volunteers for the Community
/ Service Is greater than ever since the
lsinging oE the armistice
Secretary of War Newton b Baker
| has sent this letter Of appreciation %
| War Camp Community Services Nat
ional headquarters
War Department March 27s 1919.
War Camp Community Service,
II Madison Avenue,
New York City. ". II
Gentlemen
1t has given me considerable con-
E.cern to learn that numbers Of the
| volunteer workers assisting the War
Camp Community Service and other
organizations engaged Ia welfare
work, are not only relaxing their ef-
forts. but lii some Instances are dis
continuing their work altogether
I'm calling this to your attention,
permit me to express TO you the sim
cere appreciation of the Vy1ar depart
ment of the work Of tho War Camp
Community Service The coInnii iiasion
on training camp activities has made
careful survey Of your activities,
and It's reports are most gratifying a
noteworthy feature connected with
the work of the welfare organizations
and deserving of the highest connen-
dalton is the assistance renared by
thousands OF volunteer workers., both
men and women, who give their scrs-
ices prompted only by the desire 70
serve their country and the men who
gave the service thy wished to give
but could not
"A feeling prevails that there IS
no longer 4 necessity for continuing
this volunteer work and to correct
this impression Is the task am silg-
gesting to you / want you to bring
home the realization that this work Is
not finished and that the War depart
ment desires II to continue with re-
newed efYort and spirit, Il It IS with
in their power to do so without too
great d personal secrifice.
aIt Ii not possible for me to convey
to YOU the great value Of this work
Ito the morals of the man IN and out
of the service Our soldiers will not
forget the generous work OF those
Ewho have met trains at All hours with
smiles, with hot coffee and warm food,
who have opened their homes, clubs.
hotels, provided quarters. and have
done Il thousand other things for the
Ecomfort Of the men III uniform.
Cordially yours,
(signed) NEWTON p. BAKER,
sSecxetary Of War
While working. for the war more
than 900 men and women and, In
many cases, children helped War
Camn Community Service to care for
1.-The men In service In some com
fnunities few 81 these relaxed their
interest when the lighting stopped
but in the vast majority Of cases the
volunteer workers displayed no IN
ltention of dropping their patriotic
work and resuming idle and compar-
ativefy useless lives.
These workers and those Of organ.
izations III active cooperation with
war Camp Community Service have
been trained to usefulness and re-
snonsibiIity. But even their capacity
las haan taxed nv the demands of
after-war service,
The care Of the soldier IS greaser
than ever because il must follow him
through rehabilitation back into
civilian llfe. Already the problem Of
locating employment opportunities
calls for many more volunteers than
are available. Moreover. the cities
are themselves calling for Community
Service and this call must be answer
ed
Ia each city must be met the de-
mand for making the leisure time Nf
/ employees profitable to themselves, to
their employers and their home city.
The community needs of each city are
both varied and important. It is the
volunteer workers alone who can
make naighborhood out Of he CITY
and ..folks out of It's citizens who will
work together 10 make that city =
better place to live IN
Cooperation of volunteers during
war tins viii be still greater and more
lfar reaching during peace q is inl-
possible at ahis time 70 give compre-
| hensive recognition of this co-opara-
/ tion with war Camp Community Ser
vice during the war.