The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-18
FIVE DAYS LEFT
 FOR VOTING IN
 GOOD WILL ELECTION
(Continued From Page One.) Election NearS Close.


 elected in the Good Will Election un- der the auspices of the American Committee for Devastated France.
 vii H 5 Pg da1 and a5 bo@4 W 5Rf 24th 1oar candidate be elected? In after years can you say that you did your part | in sending one or more women in the Good Will Delegation, which sails for France next Spring. carrying a message of good will to the peasants of France?
 Here Are Candidates. Will you help give this honor to some one in your town? You have many to choose from. There is Mrs.
 Ellen Coyle. the Gold Star mother;
 candidate; Evelyn Mathieson, the Singer Manufacturing company can didate; Isabel Rogan, Bridgeport Mat tress company; Sophie Stokes, of the First National Bank, and Mrs. Nellie
 McMellen Eck1und, the Salts Textile candidate.
 Don't worry because you are not high up in the election. folks It is never too lats, and often, those who are Hast may be first" The last day, the last hour and the last minute is what determines the lucky ones in these Good Will Elections. Just keep on working and before the end the city is bound to be kind and come across and help.
 The candidateE who are active have been fine and also their helpers, and be assured the folks of Bridgeport will at the end boost the votes and surprise all those doubting that the Park City would be represented in the Good Will Delegation.
 Successful Card Party.
 The card party for Mrs Cov1e at the American Legion rooms was well sum was realized for the Gold Star Mother candidate. Mrs. Gray and her assistants on the committee were as busy as bees counting the money.
 This afternoon at the Busniness and Professional Women's club Mrs. Frank B. Gray and Mrs. Benjamin Fields will engineer a big card party, also for Mrs. Coyle, and it is to be hoped the place will be filled. There will be prizes and as the room has been donated by the club the re- ceipts will be all clear to buy votes for her. will be sold for Mrs. Coyle and Miss Rogan. Any women or girls who are friends of these ladies or of their helpers, and are willing to sell tags to boost their votes, are earnestly re- quested to communicate with Mrs. Coyle at 968 Noble and to Miss Rogan 502 Noble Help along the candf- dates in any and every way possible.
 Miss Farrell. Miss Math1eson and Miss Stokes are each planning some doings for the week. We have not as yet received the details. but we know they are working on different affairs. l
  France in August were greatly in terested to find that the people of | the devastated areas enjoyed more | library facilities than the people of | Normandy, or Brittany, or indeed | avn other part of France, not ex- l cepting Paris |
 The explanation for this seeming 1 anomaly is found in the accomplish 1 nents of the American Committee for | Devastated France Since 1917 the committee has been at work in four | cantons, or counties, of the depart | ment of the Aisne.
 Homes Prepared.
 When the necessity for immediate | relief was over, the committee sought | to supply some of the normal needs | Of life. to people from whom every | thing had been taken. Not only were | houses in ruins but roads and rail- roads telegraph and telephone wires, were out of commission. The people camo back with characteristic cour- age and commenced to restore their shattered lives. Cellars abandoned 1 dusouts. caves, undestroyed corners Of buildings became their habitation, 1 while with one accord they lab0red | to bring the ground back to produc- Asked what could be done to ane- vIate their misery, what they would III Llke, the workers were astounded to we read the valiant tales of our for bears, it gives us courage" explained l more than one, and not a few added II II plea Tor the older classics and TO- evidently seeking momentary oblivion from their surroundings.
 In answer to this came the travel Lhg nbra1les, with selections of fifty books sent out with the camionettes l 10 villages far from the centers, and 2he installation of small libraries in the centers Because of the effective American Library Association. and the evident popularity iof the modern type | 0f Lb1StfF,' modern American library 2 methods will become permanent in French women established.
 The delegates were particularly in serested in the baraque library in So1ssons where, in the very heart of the destroyed area. they found a happy library group as sem moled-persons of all ages and each nnd1ng that which pleased him most even to chairs and tables of graded sizes. This baraque was built on ground given by the town of Sois- sons and equipped with furniture made made from Amercian library specifi- cations in the committees workshop 1t Blerancourt. It is easily the most l popular spot in Soissons
 similar building is shortly to be opened in a crowded section of Paris this in cooperation with the Biblio- -heque Nationals. Scholarships have 1 been arranged in such a way as to give American Library training to a limited HuHlDeT or young Ffench WO- men who will then be qualified to fur -her develop the library work, not only in the devastated areas but wherever it may be needed in France. This is in line with the established | policy of the American Committee to train French people to carry on the work which the American Committee 1as begun. Several O. these students who are now in America will be in France in time to greet the next Good will Delegates.
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