The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-20
''Y" WORK IN China
Miss Alice Holmes Tells of
Many Interesting Experiences.
Local Y. w. Association to Con-
tribute $500 to. Fund.

Miss Alice Holmes. Y. w. C. A. sec
retary in China, for whose support this
year the local Y. W. c. A will con-
Jrloete $500. says in a letter to Miss
louise Hersey, secretary, that much
rronance Is associated with the Y. w.
=. A IN Changsha, China.
She is a graduate of Wellesley COL
tese ana was formerly general score
tary Of the Colorado Springs associa-
1915.
Miss Holmes studied language in
Peking and went to the Human prov
inee city of Changsha to learn the Ian
guage OF that province. In co-opera-
tion with her and the Chinese secre-
taries, there are two Swedish and one
American secretaries conducting the
same work.
Until this year Miss Holmes has
been supported by several different
associations The Denver association
is contributing its support of a secre-
tary, Miss Marcia Durham, in Rus
STA and the Topeka association has
promised to make up the share of the,
Denver association.
To Raise Fund of $500.
The assurance policy campaign is
the effort of the local association to
raise this $500 thru its membership
building.
A report to the local association of
the work of the Changsha association
follows:
Because of the fact that education
Is desired mostly for its own sake and
not that the individual may be OF
greater service to her country. the
association can be of greatest help in
encouraging the spirit of service. In
another way, the association can reach
a Tar larger number of women in the
lower classes in Human where there
is a far greater degree of IliteracyI
than in the north There is a wide
spread desire on the part of both men
n Nga-t4 -
association can help the women thru
rs English classes.
Heretofore the budget has been
raised by the efforts of two or three
women, but last autumn sixteen wom-
en- worked in the budget drive and at
the end of three weeks closed their
campaign with a large proportion of
the sum desired in hand. The spirit
OF these women gave splendid promise
for future work.
One hundred and twenty-five of the |
nearly two hundred association MEM
bers are newcomers in the associa- |
ton. This is due to the fact that the |
political situation has been such that
many of the old members have moved |
from the city.
Christianity Young There.
Christianity is comparatively young |
m Human and the secretaries have had |
difficulty in securing Christian help
ers- The few Christian leaders are so |
taken up with their own church work l
for anything else and the association |
is still looking for such workers.
In the student work there has been
satisfactory advance. A student work
members ana Y. NJ. and Y. W. c. A.
representatives, has been working /
thru the fall term There has been a
series of mass meetings for men and
women students to which, for the first
time in Changsha, the women were
invited to attend with the men.
Two meetings were held in October
and one each in November and De-
cember. Student Sunday was observed
on December II and each church in
the city made mention of it and used
as their sermon theme, Christianity
and the Renaissance"
The association student committee
is composed of three Christian and
non-Christian members. tits an out
come of work done with the groups of
government school students. Two of
the Christian members are students
and the third is a teacher. Two of
the non-Christian members are prin-
cipals of industrial schools, the third
is principal of a silk culture school
and is the only woman on their pro-
vincial constitutional committee. Two
English classes have been held for
students ever since last spring and at
the end OF the spring term this newly
organized student committee met and
planned the work for the fall term
which has been substantially carried
out. 1nerG nave Deen TWO English
groups for government school stu
dents, a weekly recreation group for
students in industrial schools to which
of five such schools
came and one school too far away Il
the students to attend have been visit
ed by two of>the association secre-
taries each week.
The association student department
put on the meetings for women stu
dents scheduled under the auspices of
the Human Provincial Educational as
ISOLATION at which DR.. Henry T. Hodg-
kin lectured. There was an atten-
dance of ,275 women from some six or
seven schools. The student secretary
Of the association acted as adviser for
the first conference in Human of
Christian women students. Together
with the student committee chairman
Of the local association there, dele
gates from three student associations,
from three churches and from one
other school met together and dis
cussed Christianity as it affects China.
Iearenworth Contractor Dies
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