Norwich bulletin., 1918-01-09
FOOD FOR FRANCE FUND,
 STATES ANNUAL REPORT

STATES ANNUAL REPORT Patriotism of Connecticut Women
 Shown in Total Collections of s. |
 51e-our Own County Raised s.,
 os5.s1.
 The state report of the Food For France Fund Connecticut Division, has been issued by. the state com mittee, Mrs T. Belknap Beach, state deputy, Hartford, Mrs. George Keller Representing the Red Cross). Mrs. James J. Grace, Mrs. Thomas B. Chapman, Mrs. James P. Andrews, | Chairman Hartford relief commit | tee, France and her allies), Mrs. P. | W. W. Hayward and Miss Mary Bull kelley; county deputies, Mrs. Thomas B. Chapman, Hartford, Hartford coun- | ty: Mrs John A. Buckingham, Wa I tertown, Litchfield county; Mrs. F. s. Chase, Waterbury Waterbury divis- L. Johnson, Norwich, New London county; Miss Margaret Bottomly, Rockville. Holland county. The treas urer is William P. Green, Broad 1 Brook
 The Food for France Fund has it's national headquarters at 10 East 5Sth street, New York city. The national 1 chairman is Miss .Carita Spencer, who was appointed general foreign dele | gate" by Minister Godart of France, who is under secretary of state, and head of the Service de Sante.
 The national treasurer is Alexander J. Hemphill of the Guaranty Trust Company, 40 Broadway, New York.
 The Connecticut division of the Food for France Fund was formed Tues day, July 31, 1917, when Miss Spencer appointed Mrs. T. Belknap Beach, state deputy, and made the Hartford com mittee the state committee. D.
 The state deputy has appoitned five county deputies, who in turn have ap- pointed town deputies.
 The treasurer for Connecticut is William F. Green. secretary and as- Company; his address is: care of 1 Beach 6 Company, 2os State street, Hartford.
 Miss Carita Spencer says of this work:
 The Food for France Fund makes } its appeal for a single definite pur- i: pose-money to buy food for the } wounded soldiers in the military hos pitfalls of France, which are controlled | The distribution to these hospitals is through the Service de Sante of the French government.
 This work does not conflict with, or duplicate, that of the Red Cross, or any other American War Relief Com mittee sending foods, because its gifts are presented to the French govern ment itself, for distribution to hospi- tals directly under the military.
 No one can know better than Min ister Godart, who is chief of the Ser vice de Sante, what the military hos- pitals lack, and which one, each day, has the most urgent needs.
 War. makes government poorer not richer. and the appropriation al- lowed by the French government for each wounded man cannot be in- creased. Meantime, food prices rise and food supplies diminish.
 The most exaggerated imaginings cannot picture the condition of need for everything in France today Oul Red Cross, big and wonderful as il
 is, cannot do it all. The Food fol
 France Fund may be thought of as its
 ally in one definite department of need-the military hospitals of France
 through tho French government.
 Generous Responses.
 |
 was first started, not only was money
 asked for, but housewives were asked
 10 give part of their canning and pre-.
 serving, to be sent by New Yorl | headquarters to the French military c hospitals. The response in the vari V ous counties was very generous, ant s many boxes were sent to New Yorl n aid shipped to France. In Hartford d the Housewives Army booth at. Sage y Allen & Co.'S store was the headquar = ters to which food stuffs were sent II
 booth in Reid & Hughes for thi = work. Holland county, New Londol = county. Fairfield country, all. had <; | splendid response to the appeal fo
 preserves,
 As the war progressed and trans
 portation got more and more congest
 ed, it became necessary to ship onl. concentrated food stuffs: that is. tn C greatest amount of nourishment il l. the least possible bulk
 V In war times conditions change. no :, only from day to day. but from hou II to- hour, and it was necessary to sel
 the preserves and New York head
 quarters used the money for tn e wholesale purchase of concentrate n food at less than wholesale prices. 'f Patriotic Connecticut Women. n The money that has been raised i
 Connecticut since Aug. for the Foo 'e for France Fund, Is a monument t le the patriotism of the women. Whe -o the Connecticut treasurer William I
 Green, closed his books for 1917, tn C; sum total from Connecticut was s8 ,u 516, as follows:
 a Hartford city and county. .. .$1, ,s70C m l4itchfield county ............ 693.S d New Haven county (Water- co bury division) ........ 3,s60s m New London county ........ 2,0s5.s
 Holland county ... g.: m When one stops and thinks of a r. the other war work everyone has bee a. doing-Red Cross, Council of Defens d food pledge card campaigns, Librar nt Loan campaigns, Red Cross member in ship drives. etc, one realizes what pa 1- triotism can accomplish.
 l5 Visits Hospital.
 Se The first week in December, Mi.
 Spencer sailed for France to visit ont i more the French military hospital ie When she went before she was rt le ceived by the queen of Belgium, Ju! IL serand, etc, was taken to the frol
 and walked through miles and nrilt
 of wards in the French military ho,
 pitals. The agony she saw there car
 not be put into words nor the sublin f. spirit of the wounded soldiers. A
 they ask is for strength to get bac to the front again and yet again es answer to Miss Spencer's appeal j,f
 before sailing, several county deputi
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