War camps boost morale with YMCA and hostess house facilities
The article outlines the U S War and Navy departments training camp commissions leveraging YMCA, Knights of Columbus, Jewish Welfare Board and others to provide libraries, post exchanges, auditoriums, Hostess Houses for women visitors, and large cantonment theaters. It details library sizes, theater capacities, building types and the spread of 400 plus YMCA structures across camps, funded in part by Carnegie and other sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War and Navy Departments
Raymond B. Fosdick
Young Men's Christian Association
Knights of Columbus
Jewish Welfare Board
American Library Association
Young Women's Christian Association
Post Exchange
Soldier's Co-Operative
Club Hfe
Caregie Corporation
Thebrary
National Army
National Guard
Y. M
Army
Iyhole Yarted Army Y. M
Washington Delights Women Chauffeurs In War Service
The civil service commission appointed women to drive army buses for government offices. Esther Treger and Louise Torbert, both Washington residents, join the women's motor corps to shuttle between the quartermaster and war department, making about 80 miles daily. Torbert says she loves the work. Treger notes no lunch breaks and frequent stops every 20 minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Torbert
Uncle Sam
Red Cross
Blind War Helpers Keep Time With God and War Effort
At the Home for the Blind in Northwest Washington the 18 residents unite in wartime service. While women knit and sew, men cane chairs and all stay busy to aid victory. The one clock not moved remains a symbol of one resident’s faith as they adopt Hoover era rationing and conserve bread and sugar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaiser
Louise Wickert
Washington
Wickert
Ruble Nowlin
Are Savings
Josephine Jacobs
Ald Association For the Blind of
District of Columbia
Conductor Draws Line Over Unusable Fare Tickets
A Washington street car conductor lightens the ride with humor while enforcing fare rules. A passenger offers various nonstandard tickets including an ice cream soda check and a rain check to a baseball game, but the conductor refuses a Chinese laundry ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashington
Millionaire Nelson Morris Serves as Camp Kitchen Policeman
Nelson Morris a Chicago multimillionaire packer of Nelson Morris & Co. serves as a kitchen policeman at Camp Meigs. Drafted after being named refrigeration expert in the quartermaster department, he reports at 6 am to peel potatoes and prepare meals while performing guard duties and wood cutting in off hours, earning admiration from fellow soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson Morris
Chicago
Camp Meigs
Nelson Morris & Co
Morris
Washington
Quartermaster Department
Camp Grant
Rockford
Illinois
Perlor
Gay
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Regular Army
Interior OF Libracy
Liberty Thentereatip Tholor
Louisville
Hostess House
Capa
Lewis, Washington
Wavy Ymca
Phuladelehla
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