, 1923-02-25
H SoUAREST CITY
An Appeal We Cannot Ignore

Its founders realized it or not at the
w time, whether their vision contemplated the
vital needs of the future to the extent that the or
ganizatiOn has been aad is now useful to the world
arc questions we need not pause to consider. The
Young Women's Christian association has more
than indicated it's existence and right to flourish
in a world that has need of it.
Had it been designed for no other purpose than
to direct womankind in the transition from a shell
tered and protected status that had marked her ex.
istence for generations, to an equality with man
with all the constitutional rights, privileges and
responsibilities of citizenship before the law, the
organization has been fully justified. So perfectly
fitted for this need was it that all elso may be
forgotten, if its good works in other directions are
too burdensome to recount
What the Y. NJ. c. A. has done for the manhood
of the nation, the Y. w. G.. A. has done for the
womanhood, only with greater difficulty.
The old sheltered home of peace and security, and
the cramped hall room quarters in the great city
with its dangers and temptations are two very
different places, and two very different situations
for n girl of almost any age. The Y. w. C. A. has
undertaken to supply the home and the insurance
of the home and its moral safeguards, insofar as
it is possible to do so in the situation.
There is no need to ask the father, mother or the
girl herself of her trust and faith in the Y. w. G..
A. Its reputation is too well established. Its rec
ord is too widely known and respected.
We have the organization in Casper. 1t has had
a struggle to exist and a harder struggle to ex,
tend its work to it's greatest usefulness. 1t is
appreciated, of course. More by those coming into
Casper than those whose homes are here. The
things it does and the things it has done are not
much in the public prints. They are useful things
and human things and necessary things and
Christian things over which we would all complain
if they were not done. Details like these are not us,
ually exciting or appealing from a news stand.
point.
In the basement of the Smith.Turner building
the Y. W. has a plant to do only part of its work.
A headquarters, a cafeteria, reading, music and
sitting rooms. There is no dormitory but there is
n list of rooming and boarding houses carefully in
T~estigated and that fills the needs
of applicants. 1t would be much nicer and the work
could he much more thorough If the Y had a
complete plant of it's own. This however is in the
future. Present need is operating expenses for the
work it is undertaking to accomplish. There is
no other source than the general public. Last
years contributions fell short of the estimate by
a thousand dollars. Still the work was carried on.
This year the budget to be provided requires at
least seven thousand dollars, and this amount is
asked in the form of donations and subscriptions
of Casper citizens. A drive for which will be in.
stituted Tuesday.
No difference how hard you have been rubbed
heretofore by subscriptions for public benefit this
is a cause that cannot be neglected nor disregarded.
1t is a Christian cause that has an appeal of every
father and mother in the city. The good work can,
not %languish for lack of money. 1t must be cared
for even at the cost of personal sacrifice. 1t must
be sustained, because it is good.