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Show y. i c, a. puis TO WIDEN FIELD Needs of Women in Other Countries Outlined by 'Mrs. Arch Trawick. "The arousing of American womeu to a sense of their responsibility toward their less fortunate sisters In other countries coun-tries Is the paramount need of the present," pres-ent," said Mrs. Arch Trawick in her address ad-dress before members of the iSalt Lake Y0UU Women's Christian association at the Fvfet Presbyterian church j esterday afternoon. Mrs. Trawick is general secretary of the Young Women's Christian association associa-tion and also Is a representative of tnc national board of the association. She is in Sail lakc to aid In increasing the scop3 of tho work being undertaken in this section Ity the association. She has been active not only in Utah) but throughout the central field, which includes Kansas. Colorado. Idaho and Utah. The topic of her speech yesterday was "Meeting Our Kcspousi blllties" "The Young Women's Christian association associa-tion has received appeals directly and Indirectly from the women o: almost every country in Europe for aid in bettering bet-tering their conditions,' said Mrs. Trawick. Tra-wick. "Almost as soon as the Bolshevik government gov-ernment obtained control of Russia help was asked of the Y. W. C. A. In teaching I the Uusslan women how to use their new freedom. Through the most strenuous stren-uous periods of Bolshevik control workers of the association have been present, organizing or-ganizing schools and clubs to supplement the forces 6f home, church and educational educa-tional Institutions in helping women to maintain a check on radical tendencies by level-headed thinking. "The greatest field of endeavor for such work at present appears to be In China, Japan and Jndia. where women have more freedom than ever before and know less of how to use It. Conditions in co-oducational Institutions, which are practically new In China, are as bad as those i:i large industrial plants, where from 500 to 5000 women are under contract con-tract for two years, they working for I cent a day, living within the tnelosure of the plant, with but two days of rest I each month. They are on duty from fourteen to sixteen hours each day. Under Un-der sucii conditions it is estimated that in China. Japan and India 350,000 women die each year. "The women of these countries are entirely en-tirely without precedent in regard to their new-found freedom. It is the duty of the American woman, who has passed through all the stages which He before tho women of those three countries, to help bring out tho leadership necessary among their own women to sec them through the crisis. "In doing thia work the opportunity which lies before Y. W. C. A. organizations organiza-tions In their own territory must not be overlooked." Miss Ruth Saylea. girls' work secretary secre-tary of the Salt Lake Y. W. C. A., described de-scribed work which has been accomplished accom-plished and which vls proposed in the rural districts by tho organization. She stated that many rural secretaries have been selected and have been organizing various otuba which offer girls in these districts an opportunity to escape from seclusion. The program was completed by Mrs. Allen C. Keith, general secretary of the Salt Lake organization, who outlined the work being carried on by this branch. She told of the efforts of the organization to supply girls away from home with the refining homo Influence and at the same time offering them pleasures they seek in the form of clubs, night schools and the Open forum, which discusses tonics of the dav. |