The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-11-28
ASK CITY FOR FUNDS
FOR STRICKEN FRANCE
81 Own A Chicken In France" But
tons To Be Sold BY Local Women
For Aid OF Wrecked Districts

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ties of life to the people of that
country.
A button day to aid the movement
will be held in Lynden early next
month. under the auspices of the
National League For Women's Ser
vice. An organization to sell but
tons is now being perfected through
out the district by the League.
In contributing to the work it is
explained that:
10 cents buys Matching egg.
rs cents buys fruit tree.
$3.50 buys a COW.
81 rabbit.
$3.50 a chicken.
81 a camp bed.
SIS sheep.
$40 a goat.
$25 a double bed.
$25 stove.
$25 educates a child one year in
manual training.
5000 rehabilitates family Of five.
$4OO establishes a poultry farm.
All money collected here will be
sent to Mrs. Richard A. Ballinger.
state treasurer.
All volunteers work for nothing
and the officers pay their own ex-
penses, SO that the public may be as
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vitality necessary work of aiding the
unfortunate people of France. Each
and every person donating dime to
this work will receive a button with
the above slogan on 1t, and 1t is be-
lieved they will become popular as
we'll as q most desirable button to
wear, but 1t is hoped. of course. that
those who can will give far more than
q "thin dime" to the work.
The American Committee for De-
vastated France has as its president
Hon. Myron T. Herrick. Of Cleveland.
former ambassador to France. Miss
Anne Morgan, of New York. is first
vice president. Other equally promi-
nent men and women are on the
directorate. Mrs. Anne M. Dyke is
commissioner In France. To give
an idea of the conditions and the
needs of the devastated country, the
following is quoted from letter just
received from Mrs. Dyke:
..r,.a .ora,t,ou, ora poro torri7c
and appalling than ever. Civilians
are being allowed to return. but the
government has apparently no plan
of relief organized and is evidently
more or less helpless, owing to lack
of transportation. to afford any i'm
mediate relief to these people. With
our personnel and our cars In the
Aisne they have naturally turned to
us to do tremendous piece of work
to aid in feeding these reconquered
villages.
I'VE have group of about twelve
at Chatea u-Thierry. with five cars.
These cars are supplied with coffee
rice, hominy. timed vegetables. can
dies, soap, macaroni and minor ne
cessities for housekeeping, such as
the essential kitchen utensils. warm
clothing and boots. Our understand
ing with the prefecture is that we
shall regularly visit the reconquered
villages in a certain territory and
sell these supplies at very reasonable
prices, in this way experimenting
the alimentation of these villages by
the army up to September Is.
I'VE will, SO far as we are able,
insure these villages certain staple
articles Of which they are desperately
" in need. until relief depots have
been put into operation. This has
meant enormous outlay on our part
to meet this emergency. Food is sold
at constantly increasing prices. there
is the greatest difficulty in obtain
ing large quantities of food or ma
terials - such as bed ticking - to
make mattresses. boots, and nat ma
terials - such as flannel or cotton =
for clothing and sheets. II we can
not supply these demands 1t may
oblige us to abandon the territory
which the prefecture has asked US to
protect.
"Our region is that part OF the
devastated area of the Aisne to the
west of eau-Thierry-Soisson
line. in all about one hundred and
twenty-six villages. and following
this line north we will naturally re
turn TO our own first sector Of Bier
ancourt. All this territory is undel
military control. The villages there
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