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The proposed building of the Highland Park
branch of the Y. W. C. A., which will serve
the girls and women of Highland Park and
Northern Detroit. An old residence, re-
modeled, is the inadequate present home of
this Y. W. C. A. branch.
The Tau Beta Community House to be
erected in Hamtramck. Tau Beta holds
baby and mother clinics that save many
lives. It maintains classes that make for bet-
ter citizens and American homes. Their im-
portant work demands enlarged quarters.
Proposed building for the colored branch of
the Y. W. C. A., to provide wholesome social
and recreational facilities for the colored por-
tion of our community. This is one of the
most urgent needs of the Y. W. C. A. this
year.
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Projected home of the Florence Crittenton
Mission. Present quarters, wretched as they
are, are crowded far beyond their legal ca-
pacity. This new building will make it un-
necessary to turn away unfortunate women
in need, and make the required medical or
surgical care available.
The central Y. W. C. A. building which is to
be erected at Montcalm and Witherell. It
will provide residential, social and recrea-
tional facilities which Detroit's girls could
get in no other way. A building that will
help in the upbuilding of Detroit's woman-
hood.
New Woman's Hospital building. Statistics
show that mortality of mothers at childbirth
is 25% higher where they do not have hos-
pital care. Detroit's womanhood urgently
needs the additional hospital space and fa-
cilities which this building will provide.
The Least we must build for
the Womanhood of Detroit
It is but natural for us to glow with pride at the description
of cur city as Dynamic Detroit. But the descriptive title—
complimentary as it seems—conceals another picture. Cor
template for a moment this other picture—the picture that
since the world began accompanies gigantic community growth
and industrial expansion.
Our care and development of the individual—often the un-
fortunate individual—has lagged behind our magnificent
industrial leadership. In our tremendously interesting task
of "making things" for the wide world, we have neglected our
most precious asset through the neglect of those great humani-
tarian institutions that care for the bruised and the wounded
ill life's race, and those other equally fine institutions that
mould character and open up those spiritual realms that round
out and make life complete. This means something very real
to Detroit. A community like the men who comprise it, "does
not live by bread alone!"
It has been particularly unfortunate that character building
and charitable work among girls and women of Metropolitan
Detroit has of necessity lagged through outworn and inade-
quate facilities, for such work is most fundamental. The
results and influence ripple out in ever-increasing, ever-widen-
ing circles through the guiding moral and spiritual influence
of womankind in family life.
The four great institutions doing such work here—the Y. W.
C. A., the Woman's Hospital, the Florence Crittenton Mission
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and the Tau Beta Community House—require $4,000,000 for
six new buildings reproduced above. Not a cent of this money
will go toward operating expense. The Detroit Community
Fund supplies the greater part of the maintenance and operat-
ing expenditures. These proposed buildings constitute the
minimum that must be supplied for the immediate present
and the immediate future.
Consider the actual building needs. The Florence Crittenton
Home affords full medical and surgical care and a home for
unfortunate women, single or married, among its many other
general hospital and surgical services. Its primary function
is to rehabilitate women for society. A new building is re-
quired to take the place of the 80-year-old building abandoned
by Providence Hospital—to take the place of a former stable
now used for quarantine babies and dormitory for workers—
an old dwelling now used for mothers afflicted with specific
ailments.
The Woman's Hospital needs a new 300-bed unit to replace
the inadequately equipped and small 37-year-old building. This
institution specializes in maternity service at a minimum cost
—conducts the Detroit Bureau of Wet Nurses—and through
its social service department, gives hospital and surgical
maternity care to unmarried and married mothers.
While these two great charitable institutions afford care to
unfortunate or financially dependent women and children in
their hours of need, the two other great institutions serve fully
as useful though slightly less dramatic function.
The Tau Beta Community Mission in Hamtramck needs a
new building for its Americanization, social service and clinic
work. The opening of additional clinics for the ear, eye, nose,
throat and teeth are contemplated. The day nursery, the baby
clinics, the cooking, sewing and other classes absolutely re-
quire larger quarters.
The work of the Y. W. C. A. is probably well known to the
community. Thirty thousand girls and women of all nationali-
ties and creeds received constructive service last year through
the 10 buildings around which its activities are centered. Yet
not one of the structures is adequate for even the present activi-
ties— the business girls clubs, the industrial department clubs,
the health and general educational departments, the homes for
girls and the summer camps.
Four new Y. W. buildings are imperatively needed—a new
administration building, a building for work in Highland Park,
a building for work among colored girls and a residence with
200 beds for permanent girls.
Someone will call on you. Give generously. Bear in mind
you are rebuilding the foundation for this great work and that
the result of your contribution will continue through the years
—bearing fruit in a finer womanhood for a finer Detroit. The
campaign ends May 19.
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BUILD FOR THE
WOMANHOOD OF DETROIT
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WOMAN'S BUILDING.CAMPAIGN..MAY
9th TO 19th
COMMUNITY HOUSE