The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-03-23
members
IS GOAL SET FOR
WOMENOF Y.M.C.A.
Workers Display Much En-
thusiasm at Meeting
Last Evening.
" N0W D0ING TuE WORV
Y NOW DOING THE WORK
Women Have Been Much
Benefited Through U.s.
ing Its Facilities.

"one thousand women and girlsl"
That is the slogan of the women's end
Of the $3.50 Y campaign, and Incl
dentally tits the goal, to reach which
a group of Y women workers who were
present at get-together dinner at the
Y last night pledged their time and
their best efforts. Such goal, they
let 1t be known, they regarded as q
definite step towards the goal Of the
future, regular Young Womens
Christian association with an adequate
and up-to-date home an its own.
For the most part the guests at the
dinner were old campaigners and they
knew by experience Just what sort Of
a proposition they are up against, Just
how much OF their time must be de-
voted to the work, how little Of 1t is to
be left to personal interests, and Just
what discouragements they are going
to meet. But there was an air Of de-
termination and putit-over.or-die air
peryadinga the assemblage that augurs
fair for this end of the campaign.
The campaign for $25, 900 for the an.
nual Y budget which also includes the
Young Women's department, is the
largest sum ever asked for Tor this
Larger sums have been
raised at previous campaigns but they
were partially for IND debtedness. That
the budget required exceeds previous
budgets is reasonable proof that the
Y. M. G. A. is on higher plane Of ef.
ficiency than ever before and as Secre-
tary Al. Cash stated last night, -The
Y Is delivering the goods and you are
to ask the people Of Fairmont to pay
for what they are getting,
The women's part Of this. campaign
Is to raise 1000 memberships among
the women and girls OF the city. Their
present membership is around zoo
most of which expire automatically
at this time. The work OF the. cam
paigners therefore is to renew these
old memberships and to secure 500
new ones and as many other new ones
as will be required to run the member
ship roll to 1000 allowing for removals
from the city and SO forth Of other
members.
Mr.. Cash stated last night that
women workers were to solicit for
women members and the men. cam
paigners would also to be held to sex
lines.
AT the dinner last night after the
Service girls from the Business de.
partment had removed the last traces
OF most appetizing dinner and Skin
ner's orchestra had ceased for time
its most inspiring music, Secretary
Cash called for brief addresses from
different members OF the group.
Mrs. Kemble White, a member of the
Women's council, was the first to re.
spond. Mrs. White who was member
OF the little group of suffrage workers
who recently invaded the state capital
In a successful effort to line West Vir.
ginia up with suffrage states, told her
listeners that she had been mingling
so much with men.in the past several
weeks that she had learned a good
many OF their tricks. Most common
among them, she said, was the habit
when called on for speech to dis.
claim any intimation that such an oc.
casion would arise and then calmly
draw from vast pocket a carefully
worded address. Mrs. White, however.
said she was not going to pull this
trick for she had been told before
that she was to be called on for an ad.
dress. She did affirm however her
faith in the Young women's depart.
ment as step toward real Young
Women's Christian Association with
building entirely to itself and her be-,
lief that not too much could be done
for the uplift Of the women Of the
community. Every man who is com.
ing to Fairmont to take part in its
Development she said, would bring
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