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GFW Cs Involvement Program B y M ary D u sh n yck The General Federation of Women’s Clubs’ current “Indi vidual Involvem ent” them e and its projects for improvement of community life have brought a trem endous response from its 16,000 federated clubs. Everyone is talking about the great and urgent need for volun. teers in our land today. “Volun teer work is as much an A m eri can tradition as politics and ap ple pie.” W hy do busy women get involved in volunteer work? As- cording to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, a recent study has shown th a t 38% of women volunteers wanted to help peo ple, an organization or commun ity ; 29% expressed a sense of duty to th eir communities, and 36% simply enjoyed doing volun teer work and gained self-satis faction from it. Today, as in the past, the GF’s m em bership of volunteers is m eeting its greatest challenge w ith the national crises in the breakdown of m orality, drug ad diction, campus disturbances, crime, poverty and other prob lems. One of the m ost pressing of these problems in the U. S. today is the decline in m orality, which the GFWC has tackled forcefully w ith its Crusade for Morality. Almost all GF clubs have pledged their support and signed the Statem ent of Commitment to the crusade which expresses concern over the glam orization of illicit sex in films, the surfeit of crime and violence on TV and radio, and indecent sex m aga zines at bookstores, drugstores and on new sstands where they are available to youngsters. The GF recommends the adop tion of the Statem ent of Com m itm ent by all clubs. L etters should be w ritten to motion pic ture and TV executives as well as program sponsors and adver tisers ; a Crusade for M orality in Mass Media Committee should be form ed in clubs to call upon local th eater m anagers and pro test against lewd films and the present ratin g sy stem ; wide spread community support is needed to contact other civic groups and the clergy. Citizens Committees, should be form ed to promote local laws banning ob jectionable sex and violence in m ass media and a united com m unity effort is needed to elim i nate pornographic publications from newsstands. Similarly, movie theaters should be pres sured to stop the showing of ob jectionable films, and TV sta tions reduce the showing of ex cessive crime and violence. E n forcem ent of obscenity laws should be sought. As Mrs. W alter V. Magee, GFWC’s President, stated, “When the m orality of a nation breaks down, communism can play upon this weakness, espe cially among young people.” Volunteers interested in the m orality area of activity may contact M orality in Media, 1256 Lexington Ave., New York, N.Y. 10028 for inform ation. An equally critical problem facing our nation is drug addic tion and the m isuse of drugs. The GF urges a vigorous educa tional approach by clubs schools and churches, w ith qualified speakers, guest panelists and/or topical films dealing w ith this dangerous th re a t to our youth. A wide spectrum of projects is being carried out by the G F WC’s clubs, dealing w ith beauti fication, air and w ater pollution, libraries, recreation, food pro duction, highway lighting, fash ion designs for the handicapped, clothing closet projects, com m unity improvement, and crime and m ass media crusades. In ad dition, the Junior Clubs are ac tively involved in the HOPE, N a tional Association for Retarded Children, Project Concern, and Operation H ealthy Babies pro gram s. The direction of an organiza tion’s work and its progress are indicated by its resolutions, which are the basis of its policy. A t the last GFWC Convention a L o r e tta Y o u n g , T V an d f ilm star, w h o c o n d e m n e d p o r n o g r a p h ic m a g a z in e s an d o b je c tio n a b le m o v ie s a n d T V a t th e G FW C c o n v e n tio n in C le v e la n d , a p p e a r e d u n d e r th e sp o n s o r sh ip o f A m e r ic a n Y o u th H o s te ls o f w h ic h sh e is N a tio n a l C h a irm a n . T h e A Y H p r o g r a m p r o v id e s g h e tto c h ild r e n w it h v a c a tio n s i n t h e co u n tr y . M iss Y o u n g is s h o w n a t th e A Y H e x h ib it b o o th a t t h e c o n v e n tio n w it h M rs. M a ry D u sh n y c k , P u b lic R e la tio n s C h a irm a n an d d e le g a t e o f U N W L A , a m e m b e r o f th e GFW C НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ — ГРУДЕНЬ, 1969 w
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