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Show English War Worker Visits City S$ $ ' JP Confers W ith Y. W C. A. Leaders MISS HELEN DAVIS, left, national executive secretary of the Young , Women's Christian association of New York, and Mrs. Philip R.Warren of London, prominent in English Y. W. 0. A. circles. Mrs. Warren is tour-ing tour-ing the west in the interest of the Young Women's Christian association in connection with the work now heing done by women abroad. Miss Davis ! is accompanying her on the trip. Are Making a Tour of Inspection In-spection in W ester n States. - KS. I'HII.IP Ft W AJUUEX, a N noted w tu-t lit the cttiee of ttic I 1 I English Voting W en'e Chrla- -1 rjciat ion. :i i:a I i e and resilient of Indon. was In Salt : Lake yesterday for a conference with lo-cal lo-cal V. W. C. A. executives in connection With a united war work campaign. In which all allied nations are to partici-pate. partici-pate. Mrs. Warren came to the United States . about a month ago with a COOS of Kn- ; giish and Proud) war worth women. There were ten members of the party, which Landed In New York, all of whom have I scattered to various sections of the coun-Dry coun-Dry doing missionary work for the Y. W. ( A. Mrs. Warren was assigned t the western end of the United States. I making her first official stop In Denver, where Hhe spent a day in conference with Official! nf the association. She Is nc-f nc-f ro n i j a n 1 ed o n the western tour by Mi ss Helen 1 avls. national executive secretary secre-tary of the Young Women's Christian association as-sociation of New York. They will go to Seattle. Port land. San Francisco and Ls Angeles before returning east. No attempt was made to hold a general meeting with Mrs. Warren and Mrss Ia-vls Ia-vls by local association executives yesterday, yester-day, but several Of those VfORlOll whose Interests lie In the development of the work In Salt Lake and environs ivere told of the work the women of Kngland are j doing toward bringing about a victorious conclusion of the war and In filling the' caps mad- In the Industrial forces by the i enlistment of .Englishmen for war scr- vice, "Unless you sec England as it is today. ! you can have no conception of the splendidly splen-didly heroic and magnificent things the women of our lit 1 1- count ry havp done, are doing and propose lo do BOr! and more. CO he end of the war." The statement was made to one who nt j one time was a resident ot Knirland and I who saw that country only from the ret- j roHpcctive view of years ago, "We have I few amusement! OVOr there now; we are too much concentrated in flu's business of winning the war for i 'hrislltinlty nnd administering f proper beating to those who are raaponolbj! for the world In- Diction." She stated. In connection with the elimination Of a m u semen t s and many recreai Ion:, she mentioned the fact that she bad not been able to take an automobile ride in a pc-rled pc-rled of thirty - month. "We have eschewed all those ploagUTO! for the period pe-riod of the war. We are saving gasoline and devoting the time we would upend riding to doing something really useful." Mvh. Wgrren and KIm Waal were t he guest! tester da y afternoon of Mrs. Qeorge v. I ani y on an auto rldo to Bingham and other points of rntsreal nol far front Salt Lake city. The party returned re-turned yesterday evening and met some ' of the (adlee at Westmlnetsr college for I a brief visit. i miss Davis spoke 'r Um Operation or the Arrfcrtcan Voting Wbmen'! ChrUttan I association, as h function! In connection 'with cantonment! of the United states army. She explained that In the past .ear and a half the association hits been the mean! or erecting 107 hostess bouses in connection with tn! aonoontrstlon of army force Through t hose host ess I house! the question of how to bring men and women together in wholosohie looigj 1 reu i ion is definitely sofVtd. |