. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. Y. W. C. because of the war was that of the foreign-bornwoman who spoke no English and had no under-standing of the draft or of what the governmentwould do for her and her family. Many womenwho went to training camps to see their husbandsand sons could not make known their mission, andhad difficulty in finding their men. The Y. W. C. of foreign-speaking women did much to lessenthe bewilderment. At one camp the secretary found the captaindistraught with his problem. There were onehundred and thirty non-English speaking
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. Y. W. C. because of the war was that of the foreign-bornwoman who spoke no English and had no under-standing of the draft or of what the governmentwould do for her and her family. Many womenwho went to training camps to see their husbandsand sons could not make known their mission, andhad difficulty in finding their men. The Y. W. C. of foreign-speaking women did much to lessenthe bewilderment. At one camp the secretary found the captaindistraught with his problem. There were onehundred and thirty non-English speaking men,var^ang from a university graduate from Persia,who objected to being a cook, to Poles and Hun-garians from the heart of Chicagos foreign Fort Riley, an Irish lieutenant had demandedthe school room for his non-English speaking sol-diers. These included Armenians, Poles, Bo-hemians, Serbians, Greeks, Syrians, Hungarians,Russians, Belgians and Italians. At one school ina Y. W. C. A. hut at Camp Dodge was a thriving classof volunteers, who were Greeks, Swedes
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