The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-02
Paterson Girl Describes
 Good Will Trip Abroad
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 make the world better for democracy. As they were escorted through the devastated districts and witnessed the ravages of the conflict, a silence that could be felt reigned. It was a happy party of young women ana there were gay spirits among them. but even these felt the importance of taking to the French people the mes sage of encouragement and friendship with which they were ,harged by
 Everywhere Miss willett declares. they were greeted as American sis ters on the other side to help, and they were regarded as royal visitors wherever they went. Not only did Miss Willett declare the trip won derfuT', but this was the word fre- quently heard as one delegate after another met her friends and tried to say som methinS to them about France. Mrs. Abey, one of the Gold Star Mothers, greeted The Press-Guardian representative with the same kind of a story, all seeming most anxious to fell Am mericans how worth while was +Ho trin and the help they sent over had been
 In speaking of the battlefield scenes, Miss Willett says:
 We realized there " a war when
 we visited the devastated districts. I till you were silenced when we went over the areas. It was especially
 sad when we considered there were
 delegates with us who had lost loved
 ones in the war. We covered miles of trench fields with barbed wires everywhere, which they are making an effort to remove. Crumpled houses were noticed, and sometimes one saw only the sign posts left to mark tho sites of once prosperous town, bare | hills where there Were forests. and sights that made the tears come to all eyes. It made one wonder from | whence came the courage back or | the smiling welcome the French peo- | FTII- lantly against many odds, and are a wonderful people. The mile after mile of devastated land made a deep impression upon our hearts that will give us a better understanding of the q faculties of France.
 And the cemeteries of France! 1 We'll, many of felt that if we had relatives lying over there we would be perfectly contented to let their bodies remain, for the graves are cer- tafnly kept in a wonderful manner. l When We wre out riding we were | deeply impressed with the respect
 the Frech people show when they come to the places where our AmerI- can boys sleep. The chaureurs ar- ways stopped the cars, took off their hats and kept a solemn silence TOT few minutes. The American soldier Is greatly respected over there. The cemetery of the Argonne is a monu- | ment ideal and ndestructible-epi- | taph of those who died.
 We felt the real. zation of war
 when, accompanied by Major Lespin- asse, the commandant of Verdun, we l passed Mort-Homme, known as Dead Mans Hill BOA. and other we'll known military points. How gallantly did | the commandant pay tribute to t'our boys. We felt that no effort was too | great to fulfill the pledge for which | they gave their lives, so rather SOL emnIy we entered the Citadel. Shortly after the entire party assembled in TTSl lT~G fn commanding and his escort
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 We visited the wonderful home o1 Miss Annie Morgan in Versailles and had tea and dinner there. Indeed, she opened her mansion to the Good Will Delegation. Her old garden are perfectly entrancing. We en- joyed that visit immensely and could easily imagine how it would seem to be real court ladies in the old gar den. We visited the American hos p1t9l and saw the quarters where the children of the French are being trained for usefulness. We saw the wonderful fountains at Versailles and were so pleased that they were in action. A privilege tourists do not Of money to keep them going. It was one continual round of interest Ing, impressive things that will never he forgotten, I am sure.
 We had the pleasure of attend ing military wedding, one of Mar shal Foch's men being the bridegroom and we also. had the joy of meeting Hilda Roosevelt, who is a singer. We were going to the opera that night and when she heard it she asked that that she might sing for us, and she did. She gave each of the Dele gates her autographed picture. We occupied the boxes at the Paris thea tre and all the opera glasses in the audience were turned upon on.
 T took the time to call on Consul Toe h NTa(N Dy-ic- I1a very much pleased to see me. He is a Paterson man. and I had a letter of introduction to him from Mayor Van Noort. I also was with the party at President Miilerands cha teau at Rambou1dt and had my pie ture taken with the President. The camera, was turned upon us at every turn we made. We certainly at tracte l attention over there and ev- erybody knew we were Americans"
 Miss Willett brought back with her an engraved certificate of acknowl- edgemeflt from the French govern nlent for the gift of the city. One was sent to The Press Guardian in ap- preciation of it's untiring efforts to secure the. fund and for opening the way for the Good Will contest, and the other Miss Willett delivered to Mayor Van Noort for the City of Paterson. They will both be appre- ciated as souvenirs of a splendid piece of work in behalf of France.
 Miss Wiuett, as were all the mem bers of the Good Will Delegation, was made a member of the American Women's Club of Paris. an organiza- tion that has 900 members, many of them being the most prominent women of the world. The card of membership opened the way to many additional privileges the club mem- bers enjoyed
 Miss Morgan Their Pal.
 Miss Willett had fer her travelling companion Miss Cecelia M. Greene of Philadelphia, your girl a trif1e older than herself, and they were chums on the entire trip. 10th speak in the highest terms of the comradeship of Miss Anne Morgan. the executive head of the American Committee. Both de- clare that she was one of the finest pals girls would desire. She watched over us and palled with us like an old friend or relative, they stated.
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