Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-05-03
WELFARE WORK IN
RURAL DELAWARE
white Cross" Service TO be Es-
tablished for Coming Sum
mer Season.

The territory embraced in the canning
district of Delaware and neighhoring
States will receive quick benefits from the
budget now being collected by the cam
paiqn of the Interehurch World Move
mcnt. with its 80 denominations IN CO.
operation, which Is seeking 1896. TT ,5T2
this week and next. according TO those IN
charge Of the campaign
II il announced that Miss Lila Bell
Acheson, veteran war time welfare work
or. has been appointed by the lnterchurch
World Movement as head Of what s 70 be
known as the " hite ross welfare servire.
To establish home life in the place Of
hobo" life in the fruit and vegetable
ccnters Of Delaware, New Jersey and
MARYLAND II will reach 10000 seasonal
workers
Miss Achesou, whose home IL in Tacoma,
Wash, will set mp camps Tor vsriolis
church cards IN the most ooDgested
districts IN the fruit and vegetable areas,
where wear after year migrant workers
flock from Il q city TO help in gathering
crops. living in conditions. IN sofne m
stances. which rival New York east side
tenement life several welfare workers
win assist Miss Achoson, and take charge
Of the camps when the summer work be-
gins.
This welfare service has been establish
ed % meet conditions where the number oi
workers IL too large 20 ehare the farmer
home and as u result, the people have
been forced 20 live IN labor camps, where
sanitation. recreation aud general hvinp
| conditions are At a low level
Miss Acheson and her aides VIII INTRO
! duce program OF recreation. caieieria
/ service. an information bureau, lectures
/ on sanitation and hygiene, aud perhaps
! establish day nurseries and schools toi
/ the children Of the foreign women whe
enter this kind Of summer work from VII
mineton. Philadelphia. Baltimore anc
/ other cities near the vegetable producing
4 districts. The workers will be made q
understand that the camps are solely tol
/ their benefit. but the centcrs will not b,
/ imposed upon them.
/ This White Cross service IN the canner,
| districts is an outgrowth of the world
/ wide survey made 10y the interehurct
/ World Movement in preparation for thu
/ great drive now taking place Tor bulge
/ 10 be used by the 30 cooperating de
/ nominations 10 expand their educational
medical, social welfare and evangeiisti'
/ enterprises IN all quarters OF the globe.
Miss Acheson was successful IN a smila
project which she and her three slster
carried out in the berry fields Of Washing
ton, two years ago The four girls obtain
ed the use Of an tmoccupied building, in
! stalled shower baths and a cafeteria ser
vice and reached hundreds of workers ii
the berry fields When the war broke ou
| Miss Aeheson worked in the munitlon
factory at Pompton Lakes, n. j., wher
she had a dozen assistants in welfare worl
among 1000 girls working on three eight
hour shifts each day. Later Miss Acheso
took Up Y w. G. \. work among girls i
the cotton mills and tobacco factories q
the South and set up similar welfar
centers in ten other cities throughout th
Southeast. She is now connected with th
Womans Board of the Presbyteria
J Church