| Show N a io r al nie WI 9 jo J 9 b Pau on j pc I iu OJ 1 fl r. r r y P Purpose To rD se provide pro C. C organized trained women to meet meet social and economic needs 4 women who have been wondering wondering wonder wonder- ing where the path pathway n M constructive and beneficial service beneficial service would open now v D' D that the war is b over may very easily find the signpost pointing out the road In jQ the program set for fOl Itself by the R. R National League for Women's Service This organization was was formed in 1917 and na naturally at at that time found Its e particular field In war activities It now sees before it a broadening of Its activities and o u scope of r real a helpfulness helpful helpful- ness that will go even en what it found to do while the country was wa'S waiting waging ng conflict It Tt is s the spirit of f service sen learned better than ever before in time tine of national stress tress that Is the watchword watch watch- word for this nation wid organization of women Its purpose as set forth in the tile constitution and laws by-laws IS to provide organized trained groups of i V women omen in n e every y ei-y community to meet existing needs along social and economic lines I IThe t VS V S The earnest women who make malte up up the motor division of the league might have thought that thet the f t end nd of the war would curtail the scope of their IUs Nothing of the sort The work of transporting trans trans- porting the sick and wounded and the Ute convalescent V soldiers sa sailors tors and marines will wiil be continued as V long the need for this work exists The rhe motor dl division J has demonstrated the vital vila I necessity of continuing its Its' work as an org organized trained servIce service T ice in peace times to meet emergencies There Is mu mue work want to fcc done done In the way of social t welfare e an n h and industrial helpfulness that nV the motor corps Instead of diminishing sees before it growth and expansion l Especial attention is being given g by the motor division slon to the opportunities found in service forthe for forthe forthe the afflicted One of tile the concrete examples of at this Is to be seen in the work being accomplished by bythe bythe MS the women omen of the city of Jamaica who formed a motor corps in that that city These women motorists have hae already been of great service to the city In transporting crippled children to the hospital for tre treatment Not all of these children are permanently permanently pert per per- t V crippled but but many ot off of them have lost the use of an arm ann or a a leg after having suffered from infantile paral paralysis Sometimes there Is I'S only oner one r V living parent who Is away from home all day so there Is Is' no one In hI the family to take the suffering little ones to the hospital for treatment The he workers in the motor corps bring the children from tc their homes for treatment and then titan take them back again as soon as they are fit to be moved moed Helping the Helpless r On One of the most pathetic cases of this sort Is la that of JIt little le Gertrude only three and a half years Of If age She was taken to the hospital and a plaster plas- plas ter tel cast was put on There are six children in her family y and her father is unable to work owing to toa ton ton n a severe attack of influenza The oldest child Inthe Inthe in inthe the family suffers from epileptic fits Another child h had d broken her arm last November and It had never been set et The driver of the ambulance took this child also to the hospital so that herc her c crippled arm could be by the doctor and e properly set So much suffering in to one family was relieved and a great deal of future tragedy 4 was averted by the helpfulness of the motor corps One little boy whose poor little legs were absolutely absolutely 3 lately us useless less came near to being the cause ause of an accident on one of the tle Journeys journeys' t tb the hospital y Putting tutting his head out of the front of the ambulance he Jerked the arm of the tho driver and anal said See that guy that passed riding that bicycle I Gee Im I'm g going to be like him soon and how I will ride when m my paddles work again A year three Italian girl had been very shy on her trips trips- to the hospital and at first lint had reV resented re re- y V d being bel g taken by the driver Finally after her hor ur fourth trip she snuggled up against the lieutenant lieu lieutenant lieu lieu- tenant on the homeward trip and said something the which the officer could not understand Otie Oue One otI of ot the I older Iller girls explained ed s She e says that tier her mother Is dead rind and her father doesn't want her and you can keep klep her If cu u want t to tV V Only throe three e ye years rs old and yet that baby realized r 1 that there wasn't a soul In the world who wanted her 1111 hers I l These rhese children whose oases eases are duplicated times St without number throughout the country are in n a adire aI ar I r dire need of friendly service The parents have havethe havethe I the greatest struggle In most cases to provide pro a S. S living Jiving for them and when any of the children are ace are helpless s they are not wanted S Such ch cases are not Infrequent and although the work of driving a n cur car all day from house to house houseIn In the poorest parts of the over o broken and rough roads Is nerve Delve racking the members of the motor corps have never thought of stopping The vital need of continuing their work Is measured bythe by bythe bythe the amount of good done dome hundreds of child m n. n The faith of the children accustomed to walk and run about Is much shaken when they aref are y yV f V If bp J c P VAS ty F d. d y J s fr K d rs ri l i f w crippled by the tragedy of infantile paralysis That faith is fast coming to the top again after they have been given the needed much-needed attention The women motor corps feel that If there Is anything they can do to make these tese children w whole lOle again the they are going to do it A large percentage percentage percentage per per- of the tile treatments gl given m the children Is successful as most of ot the children are young oung ft Another form of service rendered by the women of the motor corps still using Jamaica as an Illus Illus- Illustration Illustration takes the district nurse all over o the city This This- nurse follows fellows up the cases of the children who have hare been treated at the hospital a and d does good work In finding out what hat the other needs of ot the children are arc In some cases it is nourishing food in others shoes in others clothes There is only one district nurse in Jamaica and her salary Is paid out GUt of the proceeds of a fl secondhand secondhand secondhand second second- hand clothing shop which is run b by the well well-to-do women women of th the community This shop Is s patronized by the poorer people of Jamaica a and d has proved a n source of great grent help to them One da day a shabbily dressed woman walked Into the shop and looked around She saw faw two Holland shades on file counter and paid three cents apiece for them The woman who waited wafted on her was very Interested and could not imagine what she wanted the shades for when she was evidently e in greater need of other things A few days das later Inter the woman reappeared at atthe the store and proudly displayed displayed displayed dis dis- played a white waist and a pair of white pants her little boy was wearing I bleached the shades shade s she said because we have have ha an opportunity to go away to the country for fora a week We were told that we we must have a chan change e of clothes so I was wa able to make n change by doing this We Ve are going away tomorrow The giver of the shades would feel glad If she could know what goo good had been accomplished by her act Jamaica is not the only city where the people have realized what the tike word service sel stands for In New York state alone there are two ninety-two brunches branches of the National League for Women's Service Service- and the league has a national enrollment of three hundred thousand members and is established established established in thirty eight states Plenty of Opportunity There is s plenty of work for all these members members- and more more today today An Americanization conference of f the department of the Interior was vas held at Washington the other day Americanization seems to include many mony activities The Tile Americanization V movement is the first great activity of p peace ace times in which everyone can unite regardless of any uny ny other affiliations de de- declared declared Glared C. C H II H. Paull of ot Harvard university A community community community com com- about to Interest Itself in Americanization should bring Its resources together under a single purpose with a willingness to pool their Interests for tor the common good Dr Peter Roberts of ot the International Y Y M. M C. C A A. A described the tIle work of the association to help Immigrants get settled In new homes Agents of ot the association a lJ prewar days were stationed In fifteen ports In Europe he said and here ten secretaries s were employed at ports min min- I r 5 to the immigrants Ina ina in ina a hundred ways At points of distribution such as Detroit Chicago St. St Louis Lotus San Francisco Fran Francisco Fran Fran- cisco there were other men to glue ghe advice to the thc bewildered foreigners and protest protect them from exploitation The war var demoralized our work in Europe but opened new fields for service among foreign-born foreign soldiers In can The w work of Americanization Amer Amer- In n the development development develop develop- ment battalions was wholly to the association SInco Since the armistice was signed the association Is again ready to extend its aid to the Immigrant immigrant- Factory schools schools' organized by the Council of Jewish Women to reach to-reach reach girls unable to attend outer other classes were described by Miss Helen Winkler She told also of how the coup council lii had representatives representatives representatives meet unprotected girls at Oat Immigrant stations Interpret the rules lo to them and enable them em to reach rele relatives rel rel- ati e safely T. T A A. Levy of Syracuse N. N Y said said his city enco encouraged raged constant meetings of foreigners foreign foreign- ers with native citizens and supplied rooms at the chamber chamber chamber cham cham- ber of commerce where racial groups could gather Mrs Frederick Setoff of of Philadelphia president of th the j National Congress of Mothers and Teachers' Teachers Associations Associations asked the conference for aid In bringing out the for born eign mother She said the mother too often was left at nt home hurne IgnOrant Ignorant of all things concerning her Iler new land while the father and children became Americans AmerIcan Widowed fathers are arc a new problem since the influenza epidemic robbed thousands of homes of the mother and homemaker Almost any woman can make a home for her children given the dollars and cents to buy bread and butter and shoes shoe's but it takes so much more than titan dollars and cents to enable a father to make administering mothers mothers' mothers mothers mothers' moth moth- a home Women engaged In ers' ers pensions funds and other forms of welfare totally Inadequate inadequate work have found that funds were quate to so solve ve the problem of the father left a widower with several small children Many l men whose wives s were during the epidemic are hardworking home lin home loving ing fathers fathers fathers fa fa- who cling to the children with a tenderness that Is heartbreaking It is our mission to find homes for the children near enough so that the father can see them every day and keep closely In touch with their little affairs The father can often otten pay for the childrens children's board It Is the extra things that women must do for the children that make It Impossible for far him to keep them at home The Tile milk problem alone is large enough and complex enough to keep thousands of women busy bury Y It is stated that for every American n man who fell on the battlefields of Europe nine of our babies baliles Ies have died ThC These Theme e are lire the startling figures of ot the bureau of child hygiene The war period total was a against 1 our casualty list of ot 53 Of every three deaths one ne Is of a child chilli under three years Dr S S. S Josephine Baker Balcer director of ot the bureau of hygiene of the New Kew York city board of health frankly brands us as a n nation careless of human l life fe and figures fasten her charge on us ul But the experience of the New York Diet Kitchen association and no do doubt bt of other kindred groups has hns been that t when these facts are really brought to our consciousness ness helpful response Is Immediate That this response falls so far short of the need can only mean that the full weight of or such figures is not visualized as it should be If the horror of ot a huge cit ful of little slaughtered slaughtered baby bodies were really brought home to the nation It would parent heart of our hearted great quicken to one mighty mIght effort the determination that such things should no longer be Dr Jl y Wiley long head hend of ot the national bureau bureau bu bu- reau rean of or health says of the workers for child conservation con that they are In the very front line n cf humanity on duty without rest fighting fishtIne fighting fight fight- ing Ine against terrific odds tut int as ns certain of ultimate victory as the tine forces of the allies alUes were against the devastating de Hun Can it be possible that our charity must havethe have havethe havethe the perspective of distance It would seem so for forno forno forno no unusual difficulty was found in financing with Amerl American an money five milk stations In London re re- Gently Yet figures showed that t while the percentage per per- of of malnutrition among London babies was 12 per cent that of New York babies during the same period was 21 per cent A sp speaker aker lately remarked remarked re ree marked that New York needs to be three to five thousand miles from itself In order to be aroused to a n sense of Its crying needs I |
