The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-14

they were almost Always able to get to some point swherethe were Amer jeans, andausuaIly' to some city of inn portance where Americans were or soon became numerous.
 New Friends Act Together.
 There were fortunately available among this assemblage of new-found friends 6or all Americans involved in a common misfortune become friends instantly by virtue of their citizenship men of experience in bus mess affairs-bankers, lawyers, ex- ecutives of great corporations, so- ciaI workers men and women. Out of such groups committees were formed, or. to speak more precisely, formed themselves by some process of natural selection.
 Where American representatives had executive ability and were re- ssourcefuI, such committees placed themselves under the leadership of the American representative. When they were not, the committee was accorded the lead and the American represent atiye co-operated, orr at least fell in to line Indeed, they could have done nothing else. I know of no instance in which the help ofS such commit tees was not warmly welcomed. Fix cept for their organization our Elm bassies and Consu1ates would have been sWamped. Their organization supplemented the official force by a large body of men and women of the highest eficieney, and there was no lack of Nolunte nteers-everyone was not only ready and Willing, but anxious to help. Mere suggestion that funds were needed, produced them No one was ashamed to do anything. In London we Joked about our clerical force, who drew salaries of. $25,O 1000 apiece, but the humor of the situa- tion was that~it was true, though our committee paid nothing
 My generaiz ization as to the forma- ton of such committees and their eff fectiveness in all important cities may be too broad. My own personal knowledge relates to London. Paris, Brussels and The Hague. believe myself to, be thoroughly informed with regard to Berlin, Munich, and Swiss cities which had their head quarters at Berne, but I have suff1- cient confidence in my fellow ountry- men to. believe that they acted in the same spirit and with substantially the same effectiveness elsewhere. The 1iopdon committee was presumably the. most highly, organized naturally, foreit had to deal with the largest nunberaof people. It was upon Lon don that almost everyone centered their devious and various routes from the afflicted-continent
 System of Work.
 
 The London committee had an ex- 7eellent card index system. It had special committees on finance, trans portation,' hotel accomrnodatfon and rehef--relief for men, relief for wo- men-lost baggage, exchange of steamship tickets, etc; published daily. bulletin, which gave each success i've days registration as well as gen eraf informa tion,s The Munich com m1ttee did the same. Its daily was entitled "Ameriean Notess I have no doubt organization was carried to this point of efficiency elsewhere. [ name no names, because if I did the list would be too long for the columns Of the Survey. I wish to pay my tribute of praise to my own country men, and I can do it no better than by applying the closing editorial of our London bulletin to all the Amer jeans who helped, wherever their place of activity:
 s'When the bomb of war broke, ev- cry mainstay of our civilization seemed for the moment to perish for those Americans abroad Inter communication ceased, the family re- lation was often sundered, necessities were denied. money lost its value, homes were unobtainable by even the i'll and aged, and .8O,0 Americans were fshelpIess and appalled-the 1 foundation of their normal life had been wrenched away, and help, direc- sse eeA ->'-ess----as sz~e== ,@4@A.a1s 1aeA Ar~A