Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-07-25 | Page 14 | Mrs George M Bacon who has Returned Home after Attending Y . M . C . A. and Y . W . C . a . Conference

MRS. GEORGE M-IVi M-IVi BACON, Mho has re-tumed re-tumed home after attending I Y. M. C A. and Y. C. A. conferences. M'- , i i. jS';';-1 '.''vs:' " j If ' 8 - ' IL---J IpI societies pur active year Mrs. George M. Bacon Returns Re-turns From Conference of Two War Services. Although in the past year the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. organizations have done meritorious welfare work among the young women in cities and soldiers in army concentration camps throughout the country, plans for the coming year contemplate con-template a wider scope of operations, according ac-cording to a report brought by Mrs. George M. Bacon, who is back in Salt Lake after attending the western city conference held in Hollister, Mo., recently. re-cently. The conference was called by the war work councils of the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. and was conducted jointly by those organizations. Its primary purpose pur-pose was a discussion of all matters that have to do with the prosecution of welfare wel-fare work projected by both organizations. organiza-tions. One of the chief features was the planning of the budget for the coming year and arranging to set in motion at an early dale the machinery through which the financing of the welfare work is to be carried through. Mrs. Bacon was called as a delegate by the New York war council of the Y. W. C. A., as a community worker and not as a representative of the local Y. W. C. A. Her duty will be to make a complete report of the proceedings of the conference to the executives of the Salt Lake Y. W. C. A. With this statement as a basis, the local welfare executives will lay plans for operations of the year to come. The war work council came into existence exist-ence in June. 1917, and at present has 130 members. These are chosen from every section of the United States. The work done by the council covers not only this country, but all the countries allied with the United States in the present war. The Y. M. C. A. has established and now maintains welfare institutions in all army camps and cantonments where American soldiers are assembled for the benefit and safeguarding of these soldiers. sol-diers. The Y. W. C. A. is doing its work principally in cities and is looking after the interests, protecting and watching over the young women who have come to the cities to take positions vacated by men who have gone into some department depart-ment of war service. Scores of "hostess" houses .and homes are being instituted and operated in cities all over the country, coun-try, especially along 1 he Atlantic seaboard. sea-board. In these homes thousands of young women are housed and cared for. Across seas the Y. W. C. A. is devoting its attention principally to the care of women employed in hospitals and similar institutions. Mrs. Bacon stopped off at Camp Fun-ston, Fun-ston, Kansas, on her way home for a visit. She met there a number of young men of the Twentieth infantry, formerly stationed at Fort Douglas. Mrs. Bacon found the soldiers going through hard exercising ex-ercising and apparently being fitted for early service. Many of the v-nvs sent words of greeting to friends in Salt Lake.