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Women Motor Corps in Jamaica Lead War Service Forward
The National League for Women's Service expands beyond war work into peace time, organizing trained women to meet social and economic needs. In Jamaica the motor corps transports crippled children to hospitals, aids district nurses, and supports families with clothing and food. The piece highlights Americanization, immigrant aid, and the broader duty of women to serve in peacetime, stressing urgent child welfare funds and absent mothers post influenza.
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National League For Women’s Service
League
Motor Division
Motor Corps
Jamaica
Gertrude
le Jamaica
New York State
National League For Women's Service
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
San Francisco
Europe
Council of Jewish Women
Iss Helen Winkler
A. Levy
Syracuse
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Frederick Schoff
Philadelphia
National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers’ Associations
Amartoona
Bureau of Child Hygiene
Josephine Baker
Bureau of Hygiene
New York City Board of Health
New York Diet Kitchen Association
Herr , Wiley
National Bureau of Health
Workers For Child Conservation
Dutya
Amprican Mionéy Five
Statiéie
London
New York