Show WOMEN AND THE WAR A 1 by MRS HENRY P D DAVISON 1 0 treasurer war work council cou acil national board Y W C A ithan six months after the untra states entered the war the Y W C A war work council had established establIsh ea girls clubs cluba near more than of the canton ments barracks and liay nay yards yarda A trained tion leader was placed in charge of each club these T h e a e workers supplement t the h e efforts of the local associations it if t those be ose a already ex eblet I 1 st where the idea la is new tho the workers form club centers or mra davison gaetze the girls and arouse them thein to a sense conga of 0 their responsibility ln this time of great excitement and lon on fusion no scolding of girls for unwise at ac eions and no solemn finger shaking oe oc curs in the clubs instead of dwelling dwell inZ on what A hat not to do these wise leaders urge rw real all sorts of pro ejects are suggested that are more in ili te resting than the dubious and danger ous pleasures which appeal to the Is ig borant and the thoughtless at parties for instance these wily chaper ones whom no one ever thinks of as supervisors arrange that there shall alaa ain a a be twice as many soldiers as girls TA taoshing osing Is utterly impossible whole there are not enough girls to go around I 1 club leaders do not attempt to ban Is ish h the gallamb soldier entirely from the girls world they wish only to bring him down from glorified heights of glar glamour nour to take his place as an every day hero subject to the same scrutiny as other men instruction and relief work are not neglected among the activities of tire are dressmaking cooking knit ting french athletics dancing sing ing red choss ork belgian bellef and work hork tor for the fatherless children of france the world orld contains a num her ber of things besides soldiers tor a girls girl s imagination to dwell upon hundreds ot clubs tor for school and business girls all over the country are offering pleasanter plea santer recreation that than the gaily lighted streets and the sha ha dewy parks parka I 1 I 1 have a place now to spend my e evenings said bald ft a telephone girl in wauregan waukegan kegan illinois to the club leader I 1 I 1 was so 0 o lonely before you came 11 emergency housing tor for employed girls la is closely connected with the more general welfare work centers selected elected on the basis of immediate need have been chosen as del bonstra demon atra tion flounda iio unda to show employers bow I 1 orl employees should be housein these centers are near the canton ments the bureau of social morality to la in an important feature ot of the war work councils program under the present abnormal conditions that ignorance to la no shield to a girl Is in well known to its ita members instead it Is her gravest peril any situation abrou shrouded ded in mystery Is dangerous women can deal only with what they understand A true social morality must be be built on a foundation ot of knowledge and be b inspired by high alms alma fourteen women physicians ire are talking to groups of parents schoolgirls and industrial women these lecturers bend their best efforts to spreading information on social ideals colored women at this time must meet all the problems pro bems confronting white hits women their situation Is tur fur her complicated by industrial and social conditions special clubs are being formed among colored girls in the neighborhood of cantonments canton cauton ments workers are being placed in Inaus industrial trial enters like louisville kentucky and hopewell virginia immigrant men who formerly lao it bored in mines on farms and in tao fac lories and now serve in our army aro hem benise selNes hea in need of assistance foreign men marry young and many even of the young ones have bays large families dependent upon them de cause ause of these helpless families the war work council has translators nho ho go into the tha camps the activities of the war work council could not be confined to our own country our american nurses nurse in prance france need the Y W C A social workers even the most self reliant women must have help at the front where welfare Is a matter ot of ninor importance A central club lu in paris gives hard worked courageous nurses a home in a strange land branch clubs at all of the base hospitals provide relaxation and recreation tor for hours off when the french women cabled to the war work council pleading ding tor for experts to advise them in establishing foyer canteens for women workers in munitions and other war industries experts were sent over to have sight of the building and equipping of some of the canteens and act as adviser to french committees A professionally solemn faced butler in one of the beautiful homes where a drawing room meeting was waa being held stood where he be heard the stories of the war work Cow council alcile a plans plana and accomplishments after the gueits bad gone he approached the speaker with two one dollar bills I 1 glye give them for my daughter he said mid I 1 am subject to the next draft when I 1 am gone someone must look after my girl r I 1 feel the war work mork council c 11 will do iv it |