Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-04-07
World Service Council Of Y. W. G. A.
Plans Cooperative Uplifting Of Races
Welfare of Girls Through
out World Aim of Prom
inent American
Women.
(By International News ServiceO


Hot Springs, April 6.-The World
Service Council, a national commit
tee 70 the Young Women's Chris
| tion Association, whose membership
includes IA outstanding women
, from all parts of the United States,
will hold its second annual meet
ing, since its organization in 1920,
at Hot Springs, Ark, April 21.
time as the biennial convention of
the Young Women'3 Christian AS
sociation.
The special work of this committee
is in promoting the welfare of girls
md 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
AmericanizatiOn programme, which
begins in Europe, the Orient or in
South America, where secretaries
meet the women and girls who are
coming to the United States and ad-
wise them. as to conditions which
they will find here, and keep many
from coming when their journey
would be fruitless because of the
strict immigration laws.
Young Women's Christian Associa
ton secretaries meet these strangers
in five of the ports of entry in tho
-,,it
Angel Island, Seattle and Honolul,
and send word of their coming to
he cities of ultimate destination
that secretaries there may call or
them Immediately upon their arriva
and offer friendship and advice ir
helping them to make right contacts
in their new environment.
Promotes Understanding.
Another line of work which the
World Service Concil promotes is
the bringing about of better un-
derstanding between the different
races i'll this country, working Will
foreign students in the universities
with colored girls, with Indians; in
Central Europe, where the Associa-
ton has work III Rumania, Czecho.
Slovallia, the Baltic States, the Near
East, and also China, Japan, in the
Orient, India and the Straits Settle
mcnts. An outstanding example of
this work for different races is in
where there are two
eenterS and a camp, which are at
present being used by five nationali-
ties-Greeks, Syrians, Armenans
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 pic
cure actresses at Hollywood, Cali
fornia, which includes a residence.
where number of actresses live.
and recreation and educational work
under specially trained secretaries.
They also further work for Ameri-
AN girls in two centers in the
Panama Canal Zone.
The council is intending to do this
work with the greatest understand
ng 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
rom first-hand knowledge.
Trip to Study Orient.
The first of these trips is now in
progress. Fourteen women left the
United States on January "a to visit
Honolulu and the Orient. The trip
as outlined gives the party twenty
two days i'll Japan. thirty-eight days
in China, the time there being di-
videdo between Hong Kong, Shang-
aai, Peking, and three days in Ko-
rea. They will then spond three
lays in Manila and will return home
some time late in May. The second
trip will be to South America some