The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-25
Votes Start For
 American Legion s Gold
 Star Mother, Mrs. Coyle
(Continued from Page One.) Election Closes Oct. 16.


 Oct. 18th. Three weeks to work. Get busy at once. Start your friends and workers out to work with you. Plan to reach your friends in all of in touch with your neighbors in the district where you live. Folks will be proud to send "a. delegates from their neighborhood. Keep busy, keep your friends busy, are two good rules to follow.
 The Qpota.
 One hundred thousand votes is the minimum to be raised during the campaign to send one delegates; 1S0,- 900 votes will send two and 230,000 votes will send three delegates.
 Each candidate in the list is eapa- 'b1e of taking her place in the dele gation and of refecting credit upon her home community.
 Three weeks of baIloting will fly.
 Candidates are urged to perfect working organizations for themselves. the membership of these. The inn portant thing is to have ones support well organized and so lined up that the goal constantly is in the minds Of candidates and workers alike.
 Candidates have been informed that there will not be a great deal or personal effort necessary on their parts. This is true. There is not a woman n in the list of nominees who cannot count on getting earnest sup port which will express itself in terms of unselfSh work by many support CTS.
 Must Be Accounted for.
 Candidates can send their ballot books anywhere to responsible per sons. When they send books out Of town, they should be sure to impress on persons to whom the blanks are sent that votes and money must be mailed back in time to be accounted for Oct. 18th.
 Candidates should impress on their each TRCQiDt form IS good for as many votes as donors may care to give. It is not necessary to have a receipt form for every vote cast.
 Nominees may get results from jul dicious use of the telegraph. In oth- CT cities, women have gained many votes for themselves by wiring, in day letter form, the story of their can didacies to friends, weli known per sons and others in outside com munl- ties A telegram was sent to Ha- vana, Cuba, by a candidate in one Ohio city. A man she expected sup told him the story. He wired back donation.
 There's no way by which a candl- date or a representative o1 tle Bridgeport Sponsoring Committee, or the sponsoring newspapers, or or the American Committee for Devastated France. can figure now who will be Tn the lead at the end.
 The story is never known untIt the last minute of the last day. 1ra-+ern
 A woman in one Middle Westelu citv Good Will election said most votes she ever could get together 1T in her home city would be about 4'ooo' Her final total was 50, ,l9o-
 Every candidate in the Good VIII election here has fine background' with a wonderful appeal to her lei low townSmen- ,.. f workers it will be found convenient to ha$ a few of them named as mem bers of a so-caned clearing committee to take votes and funds to the First National Bank taking turns in dis charging this duty. You do not have to wait until book is full Let Good will Teller take number Of book then pull out filled ballots from 1t- and he will transfer amount to yellow and the book back When the book is finished leave it at the bank
 Simplicity .is the keynote in the Good will Election Campaign. Busi- nesslike working arrangements, cou- pied with intelligent contact work Tn following up leads, are the means Of victory. for granted either in the way of sup port for herself or for another noml- nee The best thing to do is to keep working with the goal constantly Tn mind The runner who looks back to see who is following is apt to stumble
 The women of a church in one city gave a series of suppers for the can local Good Will elections. The pro- ceeds bought votes
 A motion picture manager in one city advertised that he would give .a nercentage of his proceeds on a cer- tain day to forward the cause of one nominee. He did.
 = She Would Have Won.
 A candidate who withdrew in one election would have been a leader in the race, had she stayed in. After it was too late, she learned that sew eraI groups without informing her, had decided to support her.
 It is a mistake to count the support of any group or organization in terms of it's membership only
 War Nurse Among Candidates.
 Anna C. Smith, R. N, who is the only nurse in the list of candidates in the Good Will Election" is a grad uate of the Draper Memorial Hospital and is a member of the Alumni and