LAND AND WATER 
August 14, 19 1 5 
Great National Effort to Increase the Munition Output. 
H.M.The King 
gives 8 Y.M.C.A. Sleeping Rooms 
for the Munition Workers. 
The need /or these Build- 
ings is very urgent. Every 
day is vital to secure the 
maximum output 0/ Muni- 
tions /or our brave troops. 
Will you fill in and post 
the form to-day ? 
1/ you cannot give a 
complete Building or Set 
of Bedrooms, will you 
maintain one/or a month, 
a week, or a day? -VO 
SUBSCRIPTION IS 
TOO SMALL to be 0/ use 
in this truly national 
work. Donitions should 
be addressed to Lord Kin- 
naird, Y.M.C.A. National 
Council Offices, 13, Russell 
Square, London, W.C. 
Ill IS MAJESTY THE KING, recognising the 
urgency and value of the work undertaken by 
the National Council of the Y.M.C.A., has sent a 
cheque for ;^ioo to be devoted to the special 
development in the Munition Afeas. 
This timely and gracious gift comes just at a 
moment when new and pressing calls for Y.M.C.A. 
camps are reaching the Council, and it is being 
used for the immediate erection of two sets of 
Y.M.C.A. Sleeping Rooms for Munition workers 
in an irilportant area. 
Who will follow His Majesty's lead, and help in 
this great national eflbrt to increase the Munition 
output ? 
How Everyone can Help. 
Y.M.G.A. 
BUILDINGS. 
By special permission of the authori- 
ties, in the very heart of the Munition 
Areas, large Y.M.C.A. Buildings are 
being erected (similar to those supplied 
to the troops). Here the men turn in 
for bre kfast, dinner and supper, for 
light, healthy refreshments during the 
day, and for much-needed rest and 
quiet in the intervals between long 
spells of exhausting labour. Only those 
acquainted with the unprecedented 
conditions prevailing in the Munition 
Centres know how imperative the 
need for such a Building is. One 
Building will serve a war factory 
employing thousands of Muoition 
Workers. 
Think what it will mean to have youro^in Building 
serving thousands of Mimition Workers in the heart 
of one of these vast centres ! With what pride you 
will recall the service it will have rendered to the 
men fighting at the Front, and through them to our 
beloved country in the hour of her supreme peril. 
will erect a •troiK Y.M.C.A. Build- 
ing serving hundreds of workers 
in one of the Munition Centres. 
£450 will provide a larger one. 
SLEEPING 
ROOMS. 
Owiag to the f normous development 
of the Munition industry, an increas- 
ing number of men and boys are 
being drawn from lighter and less 
exacting trades. In many cases their 
homes are in distant towns. It is not 
always easy to find desirable sleeping 
accommo<lation in districts already 
congested by a large influx of new 
workers. To meet this need the 
National Council of the Y.M.C.A. are 
erecting Sets of Bedrooms, in which, 
at reasonable cost, the men can obtain 
the necessary rest close to the works. 
At least 200 of these bedrooms are 
needed at once. 
THE WOMEN'S 
GAMPS. 
A new and, to a large extent, unfore 
seen problem has presented itself in 
some of the Munition Areas. A 
very large number of women and girls 
have volunteered for Munition Work. 
To meet the needs of these, and to 
guard against possible social dangers, 
the Y.W.C.A. have joined forces with 
the National Council of the Y.M.C.A. 
to provide WOMEN'S CAMPS in 
many centres. The work calls for the 
tactful and sympathetic service of the 
trained workers which the Y.W.C.A. 
are able to supply. Gifts of Buildings 
or any smaller sums may be specially 
set aside for this purpose. 
Who will give the First new 
Building To-day ? 
But the days are quickly passing, and to be of 
the fullest use it must be given at once. Already 
work has been commenced in over 20 areas. But 
there are hundreds of others without provision of 
any kind. V/ill you make one of these centres 
your own? 
Donations should be addressed to Lord 
Kinnaird, Y.M.C.A. National Council Offices, 
13, Russell Square, London, W.C. 
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