The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-04
MOTOR CORPS OF CONNECTICUT IS
 MOST EFFICIENT
Gov. Holcomb Spoke in Highest Terms of the Or ganization Which Has Done Much to Facilitate Transportation During the War; It's Use in War Work Campaigns is Most Marked.

and women are now actively identi- fled with the Connecticut Motor Corps, according to a statement by Mrs. Samuel Russell, Jr.. of Middle town, colonel of the corps, and Mrs. F. S. Strong of New Haven, lieuten- ant-colonel. This number does not include automobile owners who, in response to Governor Holcomb's auto mobile census of 1917, volunteered their cars in case of need.
 Governor Holcomb said he hoped for a generous response to invitations to join it's ranks. NO phase of Con necticut's 100 per cent. loyal and et- f1cient support of the federal govern ment during the greatest crisis in our national history has been more en- thusiastic than the work of the Con- necticut Motor Corps" said the gov ernor. And few of the states agen- cies of defense have been more Valua- ble and efficient.
 "Incorporated as a division of the Department of Transportation, Con necticut State Council of Defense, with the express purpose of co-ordinatlnS individual efforts into one effective movement, the corps has, independ- ently, given for long period services as varied as they were valuable. Au- +onobile owners extended the use Of their cars for Liberty Loan meetings and for war rallies. During the re- cent influenza epidemic there were cars in abundance for the transpor- tation of doctors and nurses. Again, the transportation of the French army hand when it toured Connecticut for seven days in September, was fur nished by the same patriotic men and women.
 Now the Motor Corps stands ready to serve United War Work campaign CTS, Liberty Loan, Red Cross and War Savings workers. It will also extend assistance to war bureaus. When the American troops come home 1t will have a still broader field of useful ness. personally hope, therefore that responses to invitations to join It's ranks will continue to be prompt and generous"
 During the months following the entry of the United States into the war, according to Mrs. Russell's state ment, patriotic Connecticut women offered to drive the cars wherever voluntary transportation would be of assistance to defense agencies ana similar organizations engaged in war activities. In IA Connecticut cities the women formed local units designated in general as Motor Messenger Corps. Through the organization of the local Nlnits the members continued to con- i tfSbute the use of their motor cars for transformation required and requested by war workers campaigning for sucE activities as the Liberty Loan, War i Savings, United War Work and Red ] Cross drives.
 : Sto great was the demand for some 1 form of patriotic and volunteer trans portation that the Motor Messenger / Corps received an enthusiastic recep- ton by all defense and charitable or , ganizatbons, and the members re- sponded to all requests.
 To maintain a more flexible organ izatiou and to provide sufficient trans portation facilities to meet the in : creased number of requests, some recognition was desirable from the State Council of Defense which would tend to combine the individual worl of the units into one effective effort With this object in view the Motol Service was incorporated into the De partment of Transportation, Statt Council of Defense, under the title O the Connecticut Motor Corps, witl Mrs. Russell and Mrs. Strong respec lively as Colonel and Meutenant-Col onel
 The Connecticut Motor Corps wa
 organized territorially into six divis ions conforming to the districts of tn,
 State Guard. Each division is com
 manded by a major. In the fourtl
 division, Mrs. Charles G. Sanford O Bridgeport is major.
 Following the association of tn
 Motor Corps with the Connection
 Council of Defense, the latter directe,
 certain War Bureaus to co-operat
 with the divisional major in organiz
 ing local units of the Motor Corps At present several additional units ar
 in the process of formation
 The automobile owners who voIun
 teered their cars following Governo
 Holcombs automobile census renewe the offer of these cars to the depart
 ment of transportation of the Stat Council, and the cars were added t
 the auxiliary section of the Moto Corps especially prepared to handI Transportation of speakers and othe
 transportation work.