Show WOMEN AND THE WA WABy WARBy WAR By MRS HENRY P. P DAVISON T Treasurer War Val V Work ark Council N. N National Nl Board Y V W. W C. C C A. A In an Illinois ui 1 ic town lives i it widow who launders m seven n as Lets 1 of t wt sll pf p a f week and every night thanks God Goc for tor having I p put u U 1 1 pit pity 1 t y into th thet the t 1 hearts of women To her came one day a letter from from her only son He f was th then n at Camp Funston Kansas l learning arning to be a a. a soldier The letter letter let let- ter ter- begged her to come and see him before he was w a s sent to France The mot mother her opened the tin Un Mrs Davison bank Jn In which she he had been hoarding her her dImes dimes anti ana quarters against against- this day The money was scarcely enough c ough Nevertheless she fhe started She walked the first I eighteen miles mlles 1 Then jhen hen her strength I gave out and she leok a train I She did not know that visitors to tor r Camp Funston stay star ta 1 in Junction City Cay I eleven miles aW away J. J So she got off I the train at Fort Riley An officer set her right mid and she rea reached hed June June- lion City after da dak k Somehow she 1 found a rooming Some on ou on t there stole five lve dollars from her her her- five of the precious dollars dollars' sh she had bad earned over the wash tub and saved J jy ay walking Te Terror stricken she I crept out of Jf the house bose when no o one I was looking I Later in the time night a sot soldier err found i heiA hel trembling in the street an and tco her ber to the rooms of Young the thc Young ens en's Christian Christia Association roomI room rooms which the War Work Council had I opened as a house clearing e for troa- troa trout bles The poor poor frightened woman woman wom was put to bed bcd but she was too miserable to sleep The matron got up lIP at nt daybreak built a fire rid rd corny I forted her hel The sons son's commanding officer was reached by telephoned telephone early in the time morning and the boil bo came to his mother on the time first car ley-car he could catch The two spent long long voiced low-voiced hours together perhaps the las last hours bours they will have this side or of heaven Ever Every moment was as pre pre- precious precious precious cious as a month had bad been last year The old lady had still one present WOrl wormy y The boys boy's bad cold might turn Into pneumonia if it she left him D But t sho she bad had not money enough to stay another night and buy a ticket et home When the matron told her that her bed was free she sho broke down and arid cried and cried I did there was so much pity left in the world she sobbed i She Slie stayed till her boys boy's cold w was s better Then she she went back to b her r seventeen washings and her memo memo memo- ries rice Because of oL the certainty of just jus such Buch cases as this was Governmental I sanction given to the activities of the I War Work Vork Council of tb the Y Y YV V W. C C. C A A. f From the the Pacific to the time Alantic Its I field Held extends Every state in time the thoI Union has its ls Urgent ap appals I I pals for help are ale its cause and audits nd Its inspiration omen of every e e r tact race c and Creed are it its its- wards v. The task of or the time War Work Council is trel tremendous en ous When the United ll States State s entered nt r d the great war the Young Women's rt Christian hristian n Ass Asso i U always working among women omen With Ith the call to new duties its members did not abandon their old responsibilities The War Var Work Vork Council was formed as an arm emergency measure to tal take e care of ot the women who were caught In some of the mazes of war Just as the parent organization has tal taken en ca care cae e of them through many years of peace The Time varied activities decided shoo apon by the War Val Work Worl Council follow follow fol fol- low closel closely the needs l of the different different differ differ- ent of the country Secretaries Sec Sec- rotaries notaries trained in iii the methods of or the t organization were ere sent out out broadcast They were ere iere instructed to repot t to the National Board of Jor the Young Women's Christian Associations Associations in New York the lines of or work which could be best followed in the various arious localities These secretaries Or c In close cooperation with v min min- women's clubs chambers of or commerce churches military officials mud and charitable societies The record record rec rec- ord oni a of a days day's doings of a n secretary reads like mee a novel an economic trea treatise ise and a a a. psychological essay all aU compressed Into a line day entry A secretary sent out by the War Var Work Vork must be equal to any emergency emergency emergency- Miss Lillian Hull at Chil- Chil Heathe close by br Camp Sherman hui- hui rIng al along n the street at nightfall came cairo upon mon a forlorn couple A Finnish Finnish Fin Fin- nish soldier had found a job for hi 1111 hie wife so that sib s1 b. b might come on from Cleveland When she arrived the die che was refused th the place because I she spoke no English Eni l Their money had been all all spent on the railroad fare rare and the time sol soldier ler was due back at Camp The situation was bad Thanks to Miss Hull a housewife now has hns an industrious amid aird gr grateful dOln domestic SUC a soldier is happy and and nd a soldiers soldier's w wife re is safe Arm Army folks oft often n benefit eV even 1 1 r directly from the secretaries secretaries' wor work In n Bremerton Washington a secre secretary tary was accosted on the street by a sailor She was a slender woman and amI he had mistaken her for a girl May I walk along with you he asked Surely she replied with mature understanding and antI intuition What Is the matter Are you ou homesick The lads lad's story came out with a aI I ush mush Yes he lie was vas homesick so hopelessly despairingly heartsick that he was on the time the verge of deserting But this woman gave him genuine sympathy and encouragement She Sho saved him to his country From FraIn north south east cast and west these pioneer secretaries secretaries' sent in their reports The appalling size of or orthe the undertaking was revealed to the War Var V Work lk- lk Council Systematization of af the work was the first step stell Out af of the multitudinous phases certain lines ines of r work worl were revealed ri Continued Continued J |