Show WOMEN AND THE WAR WARBy By MRS HENRY P. P DAViSON 4 Treasurer War Work Council National Board Boar Y W. W C. C A. A Within six months months after the United States entered the war the Y W. W C. C A. A War Work Council had established girls' girls clu clubs s near nears s OJ more than forty l I of the c can a n to n nh n- n h a ments barracks y 4 and nav navy yards A trained tion leader w was a 3 W Jt placed In charge o 0 of f each c club 1 u b d The These s e workers S1 k supplement t the h e efforts of the local lo to V off It i-It cal Associations i h If those already 1 1 exist Where Whore the Z h d lb i idea Iden Is now new the v Sl w workers o 0 r l' k ie e l' l ls l's s form cl club centers organize or or- Mrs Davison the girls and arouse them to a sense of their responsibility Inthis in inthis inthis this time of or great excitement and aId cono con con- fusion No scolding of or girls for unwise unwise ac actions Hons and no solemn shaking finger occurs occurs occurs oc oc- oc- oc curs In the clubs Instead of dwelling on chat lat not to do these wise leaders leader tinge uise III ge real patriotism All sorts of or pros pro pro- j are suggested that are more In IlI lel esting than the dubious and dangerous danger Otis OilS pleasures which appeal to the ignorant Ignorant Ig Ig- and the thoughtless At parties for instance these wily wU chaperones chaperones chaper chaper- ones whom no ono one ever thinks think of as supervisors arrange that there shall shah always alwa's be twice as many soldiers as tS girls is utterly impossible where there are not enough girls to togo togo togo go around Club leaders do not attempt to banIsh banish ban ban- Ish the gallant soldier entirely from the girls' girls world they wish only to bring him down from glorified heights of glamour to take his place as an everyday every h hero ro subject to the same I I scrutiny as other men Instruction and relief work are ate are not not neglected Among the activities of- of are dr dressmaking cooking knitting knitting knit knit- It- It ting Ung French athletics dancing singing sing sins ing Red Cross work Belgian relief and work for the fatherless children of France The world contains a number number number num num- ber of things besides soldiers for a girls girl's imagination to dwell upon lIpon Hundreds of clubs for school and business girls all over the country are offering pleasanter recreation than the gaily lighted streets and the shadowy sha sha- shadowy parks parIes I have a place now to spend my evenings said a telephone girl in Waukegan Illinois to the club leader I III was so lonely before you came Emergency housing for employed girls U la closely connected with themore themore the themore more general welfare work Centers I on selected selected- on the basis of immediate I need have been chosen as demonstration demonstration I tion Uon grounds to show employers how howl l zirl rl employees should be be housed These centers centers are near the canton canton- ments The Bureau of Social Morality Is an Important feature of the War Work Councils Council's program under the present abnormal conditions That ignorance Is s no shield to a girl Is well known to tots Its ts members Instead It is 13 her gravest peril Any situation shrouded in mys mys- tery ery is dangerous Women can d deal only with what they understand A Atrue Atrue Atrue true social morality must be built on ona ona ona a foundation of or knowledge and be inspired by high alms aims Fourteen women omen physicians are talking to groups ups of parents schoolgirls schoolgirls schoolgirls school school- girls and industrial women These lecturers bend their best efforts to spreading Information on social octal ideals Colored women at this time must meet all an the problems confronting white women Their situation Is further fur ther complicated by industrial and social conditions Special clubs are i being formed among colored girls inthe InI in inthe I the neighborhood of ot cantonments Workers are being placed in Industrial centers like Louisville Kentucky and and Hopewell Virginia f Immigrant men who formerly labored labored labored la la- bored in mines on farms and in factories factories factories fac fac- tories and now serve in our army are themselves in need of assistance Foreign men marry marn young and many even of the young youn ones have large families dependent upon them Because Because Be Be- cause of or these these helpless helpless families the War Council has translators who go into the camps Tho The activities of the War Work Vork Council could not be confined to our own country Our American nurses In n France need the Y W. 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A social workers Even the tho moat most self reliant women must have hel help at the front where women's welfare Is a matter of minor tance A central club iu lu luParis Paris gives worked hard-worked courageous nurses a home In a strange land Branch Dranch clubs at all of ot the base hospitals hospitals hospitals hospi hospi- provide relaxation and recreation I for fOl hours off When the French women cabled to the War Work Council plodding pleading for tor experts to advise them in establishing establish establish- ing foyer canteens for lor women workers In munitions and other war industries experts were sent over to have over oversight oversight sight of the building and equipping of ot some of the canteens and act as adviser adviser adviser ad ad- to French committees A professionally solemn faced butler butler but but- ler leI in one of the beautiful homes where a n drawing room drawing room meeting wa was waa being held stood where he heard the stories of he e War Work Councils Council's plans and accomplishments ACte 1 I the guests had gone he approached t U speaker with two one dollar bills give them for tor my daughter he sal sai salI I am subject to the next draft Wh Wb I am gone someone must look after r l' little girl I feel teel toe the WM Win Work Co Coell ell cil will do IL lt |