The Topeka state journal., 1922-05-06

| Ivolunteer workers, that together they
can bear the responsibility OF ths
rapid growth of the work ~ Va
voted that some methods OF definite
| training OF volunteers be tormed ano
that an advisory committee OF vofun-
teers be the connecting link between
respectfye localities and the center OF
training, the national training school
in New York City which will be re-
sponsible for the promotion OF de1i-
mite training courses. Some plan OF
training is to be developed Tor the
| new college graduate TO enable her
more quickly and efficiently TO enter
association work.
| Recommendations that all elections
| Of board and committee members,
! both locally and nationally be more
/ democratic, were heartily accepted by
| II vas voted that a Standardization
I Of aSsociation work be urged by re-
/ oufring that If any Y w. C. A wishes
to have the right of afhliation with
| the national Y. w c. A. II shoulQ
maintain an adequate leadership, both
| volunteer and employed. democratic
methods of administration, the carr. I,s =
/ ing on of program suited to the
needs and desires of the community,
proper business methods and s~pporO
Of the national and world program
Local associations that are living up
to these standards will place on their
letter heads "a member OF the young
Women's Christian Associations of the
United States of America.
An Interesting Session.
One OF the most interesting sessions
was the one at which was reported
the experiments in bringing about a
clearer understanding between college
girls and girls who are employed. Ihe
Denver experiment. when fourteen
college girls took positions IN lnous-
try for eight weeks last summer gave
~ mir the
Niavr experiment gave the other sloe-
The latter made possible a summer
course at that college for girls, some
of whom had not had educalon pc
vond the grades. and were given the
iovs of college with a new outlook on
life that has transformed their eX-
istence, according to the story or
young girl who has spent the last ten
years in putting pockets on shirts.
The finance commission after labor
ing every afternoon since opening OF
the convention, reported Tuesday
ApriI 25 Wednesday morning the re
port of the commission was accepted
with the rejection of the cut OF $1ss-
77O for work in the Near East
The budget already included $50
600 not vet secured and the national
board probably thought that the con-
vention was adding $1s,770 to be
raised by faith. But some one on the
floor. moved that the convention raise
some of this $67.770 not subscribed.
In fifteen minutes over S20,OOO nao
been pledged. largely the gifts or Wo-
men and girls who had given largely
in their local associations, many to
their seeming limit at an earlier date
Tie gifts varied from $1,000 TO %
cents. Thus the convention more than
wiped out money they voted above the
re ecommendation Of the finance com
mission.
Financial lieport.
The report of this finance commits
sion called forth one of the most ami
mated discussions OF the convention
stringency in certain sec
tfons of the country where large par
sLnaI gifts have previously been made
to the support Of the national board
made drastic cuts for the last six
months of 1922 necessary.
1t was the sense OF the convention
that the national board must not be so
again. especially in con-
nection with work projected in Tor
eign lands. Therefore the convention
voted TO get behin5 the effort TO in
crease the national endorsement now
S2.TOO, 900 until it is S1O,0O0,0OO. The
great foundations and efficiency ex-
perts who have looked into the work |
Of the national board this last year
have said that the endowment was al
together too small to sustain the pro
gram and sccpc of work carried on |
and recommended a greatly increased |
All over the country the 1
association is expecting to secure gifts |
TO this endowment-direct gifts. in |
surance policies and gifts by will in /
large and small amounts.
To preside at one great national /
gathering so that two years later /
when the convention assemblies again. /
every one feels that no one else can |
do it quite so marvelously is the rec /
ord of Mrs. Frederick NJ. Paist of /
Elected president of |
the national association at Cleveland /
in 1920, il became Mrs. Paist's duty to |
open the convention at Hot Springs /
in 1922 and the convention compelled |
her to continue in this office for an
other two years Her duties are not |
national board, of which Mrs Robert /
Z. Speer is president, acts in the in 1
terim OF conventions. But her con-
vention task is a heavy one. In a
gathering of almost two thousand.
made up of industrial girls. college
business women and women
Of leisure, it requires not only a wise
head but very broad human sym
pathy to keep them all together in
heir thinking
Mrs. Paist, as Theresa Wilbur a ma
.ional student secretary of the Y. ".
= A, endeared herself to the college
girls of this country some time ago.
Now, as the mother of quite a family
y little girls, she finds time to do
arge and constructive work for the
Y. W. c. a.
Guilty of Violating Dry Law.