The Cordova daily times., 1922-04-20
Y.W.C.A.COUNCIL CONFINES AT
 HOT SPRINGS

World Service Council, a national com mittee of the Young Women's Chris tian Association, whose membership includes IA outstanding women from all parts of the United States, is hold ing it's second annual meeting, since it's organization in 1920, here today. This meeting is at the same time as the biennial convention of the Young Women's Christian Association.
 The special work of this committee is in promoting the welfare of girls and women in the United States and throughout the world. Some of the lines of work which they are stress ing at the present time are the Amer icanization program, which begins in Europe, the Orient or in South Amer ica, where secretaries meet the wom- en and girls who are coming to the United States and advise them as to conditions which they will find here, and keep many from coming when their journey would be fruitless be- cause of the strict immigration laws.
 Young Women's Christian Associa- tioon secretaries meet these strang- CTS in five of the ports of entry in the United States-Ellis Island, Boston, Angel Island, Seattle and Honolulu and send word of their coming to the cities of ultimate destination that sec retaries there may call on them imme- diately upon their arrival and offer friendship and advice in helping them to make right contracts in their new environment.
 PROMOTES UNDERSTANDING
 Another line of work which the World Service Council promotes is the bringing about of a better under standing between the different races in this country, working with foreign students in the universities, with col ored girls, with Indians; in Central Europe, where the Association has work in Rumania, Czecho-Slovakia, the Baltic States, the Near East, and also China, Japan, in the Orient, India and the Straits Settlements. An out standing example of this work for diff ferent races is in Constantinople, where there are two centers and camp, which are at present being used by five ionalties-Greeks, Syrians, Armenians and Russians, as well as Turks-who are studying and working and playing together for the first time in history.
 The World Service Council is also directly interested in promoting club and recreation work for moving pie ture actresses at Hollywood, Cali fornia, which includes a residence, where a number of the actresses live, and recreation and educational work under specially trained secretaries. They also further work for American girls in two centers in Panama Canal Zone.
 The Council is intending to do this work with the greatest understanding possible and has instituted the plan of having three trips year in which members will visit the Orient, South America, Constantinople and the Near East in order that they may see the work and be able to interpret it in the United States from first-hand 
 TRIP TO STUDY ORIENT
 The first of these trips is now in Fourteen women left the United States on January "A to visit and the Orient The trip as outfined gives the party twenty-tWo days in Japan, thirty y-eight days--in China, the time there being divided between Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pek- ing, and three days in Korea. They will then spend three days in Manila and will return home some time late in May. The second trip will be to South America some time in the late The first trip sailed under the direction of Miss Harriet Taylor and Miss Edith H. Keely, National Board secretaries, The members or this party are Mrs. Harris Masterson, Houston. Texas; Mrs. F. D. Sprague ,na Miss Esther Sprague of Minne- ,nolis. Minn.; Mrs. J. w. Allan, Spar -anburg, S. G.; Miss Marion E. Clark Denver, Col; Miss Amy Ferris, New York City; Miss Edna Mason, Hart ford. Conn.,: Miss Kate R. Andrews, Koch ester, N. Y.; Mrs. Patty Lee Clark Hartford Conn.,; Mrs. Margaret