Early this month the autumn and winter programmes of activities for both young people and adult groups was resumed at the Foreign YM.C.A. thus bringing to an end the programme of activities carried out during the summer months, Results of the work which has been carried out at the centre show that it occupied the leisure or free hours of more than 500 boysiand 126 girls under 18 years of age.
The activities also provided instruction for both boys and girls in all forms of sports during the summer holidays, the attendances numbering more than 18,500 for that period.
A /total of 104 boys and 27 girls on standard swimming test certificates and of this number 17 boys won Boys' Junior Life Saving and Boys Junior Masters Life Saving Swimming certificates, In.a reportiof the work published by the Secretary of the Association it is pointed out (that no work that the Foreign "Y" has undertaken has had the far-reaching -effect in the community that the programme had during the summer. The number of boys participating was more than double the number of any previous year, including the camp at Tsingtao.
For the autumn and winter pro-
The Liason Committee, which hass! been established in Geneva in the last ten years, is an effective instrument for international. work on women's needs, as such work to be effective must be ce-ordinated and unified. The Joint Committee, set ur in Geneva in 1920 to deal with social questions of the League of Nations brought to the attention of the League the fact that there were women qualified to serve on world commis. sions, og. slavery? trafic in wom and children, child labour, ete. Their services were made available throus Women's committees. The old idea! of the feminist movement that a woman should be on every committee has yielded to a more practical one—a woman should be on every committee because there are women experts, fully qualified to serve.
Madam Curie accepted an invitation to serve on the Intellectual Co-operation Committee because she thought that it required the best intellectual effort of the whole world. An increasing number of women are chosen to work on this committee.
A special problem in Shanghai and the Far East is the traffic in women and children and after the Java Conference it was recommended that a bureau be set up in the Far East to ce-ordinate this work. Present conditions make this impossible but the Liason Committee will bring the question forward periodically until times are more propitious. This same committee brought to the General Assembly of the League the need there is to study the status of women, and, the League having recognized that this is a world question, a committee of experts has been set up to make a world study of the subject. The committee is a mixed committee but four women lawyers have been appointed to study the legal status of women, one French, one Swedish, one Yugo-Slavian and an American. Women from other countries will later be ce-opted.
Miss Woodsmall stressed the value of personal contact for better international understanding. International action is hard to put into motion and only comes as public opinion demands it. Action is the recognition of the nations of their international responiliti
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