Show WOMEN OMEN AND THE WAR by MRS AIRS HENRY P DAVISON treasurer Treasur tr WAT war work council national board V W C A j within six tx months after the unita states entered the he war the Y W 0 A war work council had bad established girl girls cluba clubs near more than forty of the canton ments barracks az and anvy avy yarda yards A trained deerea tion leader w was a I 1 placed lu in charge of each club those worker supplement upp lement the efforts ot of the local locut it those these already exist dullere the idea ides Is I 1 13 new bew tho JL workers torn form club centers or mra mrs davison danlie the girl girls and arouse them to it sense of at their in this time of great excitement and con fulon no scolding of kirli girls for ulvi annlee so ae se alons alon and no solemn finder helling oc cur curs la in the clubs instead of dwelling on OU what hat not to do these wise badri la dri urge urse real all sorts ot of pro ejects are ar suggested that are more iti it tor eating than the dubious and danger oua ous pleasured plen pleas uret urea which appeal to the ix ig borant and uie thoughtless at parties pArt lea for instance hita oct these wily chapor one ones whom DO no one ever thinks of at as a supervisors arronge that there saab always be twice aa as ninny many solders as a girl girls Tw la Is utterly impossible here there are not noush enough girls to kb around club leader leaders do not attempt to ban lib ish the gallant soldier idler entirely from the kitia world they with only to brine him down from roni glorified height heights of glamour jo take his hl place as A an very avery day hero bero subject to the th same scrutiny ai las other ruen instruction and relief work are r cot not neglected the activities ot at fared are dressmaking cooking knit ting PIr french athletic athletics dancing faint ini inc ing eted 1 cioci work relief t and nd work tor for the fatherless erks children ot biance the world contains a num nam of thing belde besides soldiers for or a garls imagination to dwell upon hundreds ot of club clubs tor for chool school and aril kustas 1 gals all over the th count r arc are offering ferins ot klinler ler recreation than the gally treta streets and the aha sha dewy parka 1 I hare have a place now to my ening aid said a telephone sirl in WAnk esan illinois to tho the club ladr leader 1 I 1 ai as ito 10 lonely before you conme getcy housing for employed girls la Is closely connected with the more irti orts gentral general welfare work contort centers elected oa on the basis of immella lm lat ft teed hate bave been ensen a as n apton ground grounds to bow ent bew il houm should bg b bousted hiu cd T 1 1 I V these cent cendre rs are near the tho canton menta the dureau of social Wora morality lity Is an n important Impo nant feature of the aar nr inora ork councils council a pr program under the present abnot abnormal mal condition conditions that ignorance ignorante ie Is no shield to a girl 1 ta Is ell known to its members instead it la Is her gravest peril any situation shrouded in mys tery Is dangerous can deal only with alth hat they understand A true social morality mast be built on foundation of knowledge and be inspired by high alms aims fourteen omen physician are talking to groups of parents school iris and industrial women these lecturers beld their beet best efforts to spreading information on social ideals colored women at fit this time must meet all the problem problems confronting white women their situation ie Is ta fur hor her complicated by industrial and octal condition conditions special clubs are tire betas being formed among colored girls in tho neighborhood of cantonment cantonments workers ork erv are being placed in al enter enters like louisville Kin tucky nd hopewell llop ewell V immigrant men ho formerly Is U bored ored in anines on ke artas ms and in fac ortee cries and nor nov serve in our army are them Tea in need of assistance men marry young and many oven of the young ones have large 1 deren dependent dent upon then be de ause of these helpless families the war work has t eulator iu lator who go into be the camps the act littles of ho the aar ar borit council could not tation ti nned to our own country our kmer berkan itan nurses in crance nd the Y W 0 A social kero even the most aalf reliant women must have holp at the front whore where foments fare Is a matter ot alaor 1 A centre I 1 club iti ii carls alyea hafl harl worked courageous nurse nurses a homo in it strange land clubs at all of the lissis hospi tat tala provide relaxation and recreation for or hour hours oft off N hen the french women cabled to be anar at nork ork council for or diperta to addiso adal them in ing ng boer canteen for bonien workers in munitions and other ver Indu stiles vere kere tnt sent over to have orr of the building and quipping of one ome of the cant nj and act ac as ad jiser 1 to french es A clemn fared but lor tor in one of the beuyuk beu yul home homes nerre a drawing room we geeting eting ai wing being heh held jihor her be heard the stories of the wr work council III plans iab aad and accomplishments after the fauct had cone gone he be approached the speaker with two one dollar bill bills 1 I give thera far for ay my he be sahl I 1 am kubja b to the next draft aben when I 1 11 am eleone must look after nay my antle ort I 1 ft fi ho the war bork ork chaa dl dijt do IV u aaa 4 v |