Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-17
REVIEW Of WORK
DONE BY YOUNG
WOMEN ABROAD
War Work Council Of Y. w.
C. A. Reports On Its AC-
tivitieS During and Since
the Great World War.

ship by hundreds of American
girls who are assisting their sisters
in ten European countries, is de-
scribed in the report of the war
work council Of the Young Wom-
ems Christian association to the
people, made public to-
day.
Recreation, education, good
cheer and housing facilities We're
made available for hundreds Of
girls engaged in work for the allied
troops in France and girl workers
in French factories. Glasses have
been opened for girls in Russia and
for former inmates of Turkish har-
ems. Assistance has been given
&,071 war brides Of American SOL
diers, representing six nationalities.
The association has had 348 over
seas workers of whom 265 were
in France. Some of the workers in
France have been transferred to
other countries since the return CT
American troops and the work
among French girls is being taken
over by French leadership.
In nineteen towns or cities Of
France, American girls conducted
foyers for girls in war industries.
Warmth and cheer, comfortable
chairs in which to read and rest
and a cafeteria are provided Tor
French women who took their
places in industry while their mon
folk wcro fighting. Recently this
part Of the service has been bring
Ing new courage to girls returning
to their homes in the liberated ana
devastated regions.
Thirty-Seven clubs were openA1
for army nurses to help relieve the
strain of emotional and physical Ia
tigre and the dullness OF routine.
The RED Cross provided the room
ana the Young Women's Christian
association the worker, the equip
ment and the program.
Eighteen recreation centorS were
conducted for signal corps girls
French army clerks and Egn'lSn
"Waacs.' opportunities for fun,
physical comfort and good food be-
ing provided by vacation camps
and recreation parks. -
Three hotels We're maintained in
Paris for the comfort of ANerlcan
women war workers on leave or on
their arrival in France. Seventeen
hostess houses, with similar tunc-
lions. were maintained at cmharIia-
ton points, leave areas and il the
devastated regions. ..... .....
At present hostess houses are be
ing conducted at four cemeterlea
where American soldiers are buried
-Romagnc, st. quentin, Ferc-en-
Tardeuois and Belleau Wood-tto
provide information and are fol
women who visit the graves OF
brothers, fathers, husbands, sons
or sweethearts. ono Of the hotels
that were opened in Paris is main
tanned as the American Wom@n'S
club and acts as a central hostess
house, furnishing information
guides and interpreters.
The association conduct21 tot2
Of eighty-one American ccntcrs n
France. comprising nineteen nos
tess houses. eighteen clubs for sig
nal corps girls, thirty-saven muses.
clubs two Rritish-AmeIca clubs
one inter-alied club and four Gem
otery centers. 1t has had forty rom
French centers, comprising TWEEN
weight foyers, six recreation cen
four summer camps, four wal
bride camps, one hostel and one
emergency training school.
Assistance was given 10 Russian
girls in PetrOgrad, Moscow and Sa-
mara despite revolution, lack OF
food and personal danger, five sec
retaries being sent from the Unit
ed states. Gymnasium work. Eng
fish. French Russian, bookkeeping,
stenography and music were taught
to $50 girls in petrograd and l62
in Moscow. Canteens were opened
for Russian girls, who would al
most have starved otherwise.
When, late in 1913, the bolshe-
Wiki forced the associations work
ers to leave soviet Russia they
went to Archangel and Vladivostok
and blished hostess houses for
American troops and clubs for Rus
sian girls. The girls clubs at Arch
angel had more than 500 members,
largely girl refugees. 49,.
In italy the associations main
tanned ten centers and fifteen
American secretaries to aid wom-
on war workers and thousands oil
Italian girls.
Twelve secretaries are now serV,
ing in the Near East. Clubs ana
classes have enlisted the interest OF
more than 500 Constantinople girls
other centers are maintained III
Smyrna, Sivas, Harpout and Arab
kir. Girls released from harems are
learning domestic science ana lace
making and gymnastics-"hoW te
live and how to play"
The association has aided the 70
fish Grey Samaritans to undertake
reconstruction work in their couh-
try. has sent q commission te
Czecho- Slovallia and made sur
vev with n view to welfare work
has maintained foyers and hostelS
in ReIgium, Rumania and Serbia
and has received appeals Tor alo
from Greece, Lithuania and Jerusa-
lem.
Assistance was given to wal
brides at passport offices and EN-
barkation points abroad and OF
yoyage to the United States. Inc
aid included lodging and care a
ports abroad, instruction in Englisf
and talks on American customs
currency and geography. On arrlv'
al in the United states the secreta'
ries helped take care of the brides
until they had, joined their nus
bands or their husbands familles
The work was made more difflcul
by the fact that in many cases nus
bands and wives could not recog'