What America did : $b A record of achievement in the prosecution of the warKelly, Florence Finch
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What America did : $b A record of achievement in the prosecution of the war
Kelly, Florence Finch
World War, 1914-1918 -- United States
The National League for Woman’s Service, by which one of these corps
was recruited and directed, was organized for patriotic purposes two
months before America entered the war and upon that event was ready
to begin active work in the coördinating of women’s organizations and
the enlisting and directing of all manner of women’s resources and
abilities that would aid the nation in the prosecution of the war. Its
organization spread into almost every state of the Union and numbered
300,000 members. Its Motor Corps Service, which was recognized by the
Surgeon General of the Army, had throughout the country seventy-eight
chapters with a membership of about five hundred women car owners. Its
social and welfare division established many soldiers’ and sailors’
club rooms and club houses, with reading and lounging rooms, billiard
and pool tables, dances and entertainments, and classes in French and
English. It also conducted classes for the instruction of women in
occupational therapy and handicraft who worked in hospitals and camps,
recruited and trained women to serve as nurses’ aids, and coöperated
with the War Camp Community Service in many ways. Its members worked
in canteens and clubs, gave their services in workrooms where clothing
and supplies were made for hospitals and for soldiers and sailors,
distributed the thousands upon thousands of flower donations made
to hospitals by florists, worked with the Food Administration by
distributing food pledges, establishing emergency and community
kitchens and providing experts in home economics who gave instruction
in food conservation. The League collected books, magazines, games and
tobacco for the fighting forces, recruited a Woman’s Reserve Camouflage
Corps which gave some important services, enlisted the aid of authors
and artists for the publicity needs of one or another department of
the Government, and served, in general, as a means of mustering and
directing the resources and abilities of women for war work.
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