Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-01-27
THE OVERSEAS WOMAN
REMEMBERS THRILLS
Daily Letter by Frederic j. Haskin

work carrying out this purpose. Inc
girls cannot work as they ana IN
France or Poland, most Oh
them have positions and interests
mat take up their time, out in q few
hours snatched here and there the
overseas girls are carrying on.
Some units have undertaken TO
keep the soldiers and veterans III an
institution cheerful by supplying
them with books, games, music n
entertainment. The Seattle unit has
opened a service mems lntornlatlon
bureau and reading room Tor tne
men of that city. Summer picnics
for the men in u Pubic Health nos
| pital were another popular project
engineered by this unit last 1all.
Another group has an mploy-
| ment bureau for eX-soldiers. Omaha
girls back from overseas nave given
benefits of various sorts to help a
new vocation school and hospital 1or
ex-service men. The list could be
extended indefinitely. The girls look
about the home town to find SOM
phase of welfare that needs heip,
and then they go quietly to work.
The overseas girl learned to work
efficiently under what would nave
been regarded as impossible condi-
tons in peace time. Every
of an overseas league unit has TINS
background of experience and tradl-
ton, and that Tor tne
amount of work the units are able 10
do in spare time. There are no now
ices at welfare work among them.
Every member is at home in some
line of social service, whether it is
in q library, cantecn, hospital, or
recreation center.
Help Unemployment
Scattered after their war service,
the girls could, have made very lit
tie use of their experience. organ
lied, they are at hand wherever a
call comes. Already, there have
been several requests for their as
sistancc. In the New York employ
ment crisis, the local unit of over
seas women was asked to help the
city find employment for the destl-
tute. Colonel Forbes of the Veter-
ans Bureau also called on the league
to help him in his cleanup campaign
to adjust claims that had not been
decided by the bureau.
The league sApccted to interest it.
self IN several lines of welfare work
| with which no other organization
seems to be concerned. For instance
there are overseas girls themselves
who suffered from their war service.
If their injuries could be shown d.
rectIy due to service some provision
was made for them. But in a rev
cases. women have developed tuber-
~culosis or troubles which
could not be definitely connected
with war experiences, but when
nevertheless were probably brought
on by strain and hardship broad
The league hopes, when possible TO
helm such girls in their rehapllta-
ton difficulties. 80.
Almost all organizations OF TINS
post-war type have worked OUT me-
MORALS of all sorts and degrees OF
Iidealism in honor of their war oeao
THE leagues plan for a tribute TO the
women who lost their lives overseas
is especially fitting. The overseas
women, whatever their line Oh worh
were much concerned over the trou-
HES of the destitute children OF
fFrance. Mrs. Oswald Chew, nationa
president of the league, who has Jus
sailed for Europe, expects to loof
into the possibilities of the league es'
establishing an orphanage in some
French city.
In nine months 1000 of the 24,0o'
women who went overseas from Inn
country have pee organized 1nts
units of the Wonren's Overseas Ser
vice League. Perhaps it should %
explained that this large number
"a, 600. includes nurses. The nurses
who served IN the army, navy an'
marine corps are admitted to tn
American Legion as well as to tn
women's overseas league. Other wo'
men who served in the war, how
ever, were not provided for in tn
!. service organizations; so the leagu'
claims that its organization Is not
duplication of any other project.