Bundles for Britain has grown in fifteert months from a few socks knitted from bits of wool dispatched from one sparsely furnished office, to an organization of 900,000 persons, which has realized nearly $2,000,000 in goods #nd money for British subjects. states the Nev York "Times." The inspiration and business management have come from its founder and national president, Mrs. Wales Latham, who has captivated her associates with an effervescent enthusiasm and who speaks of her accom-pushment as gaily as if it were an exciting new sport.
Down a long corridor in the Squibb Building (New York) with doors marked variously Medical Supplies, Wool and Clothing, and from the one marked President a portly gentleman was saying with satisfaction as he left, "I'm glad you like my little idea and now I know how it is you have every one hypnotized."
Within the office from which one of the most contagious war benefit efforts in the country is guided, a slim young woman with primly coiffed ight-brown hair immediately explained the ife idea." It was a pin displaying crossed American and British flags with the inscription "There'll always be an England and a U.S.A."
"Isn't it wonderful!" she exclaimed. "Just what we needed!"
"Every one is so grand about ideas," she continued, seating herself in a businesslike swivel chair, which, but for the precarious tilt it immediately assumed, seemed not to suit her. "We get hundreds of them every day from all over the country."
Pressed for an account of how this relief agency, Which has spread to every State in the Union, and to the frosty shores of Alaska, started, she began:
"When the war started, I was terribly excited end worried. For a time I was glad to work om the things which were launched for other coun-ries, until it seemed something should be dare for England. i've always had a very warm feeling for England, although I've never spt a great deal of time there."
Once decided, Mrs. Latam lost no time. Within the next two weeks she talked with the British Consul-General and officials in Washini ion. She then cabled Mrs. Winston Churchill. "I didn't know her, but we had mutual friends," she explained.
She talked the president of the Metropolitan Insurance Ca. into giving her an office, then ent to Brooklyn for the first load of wool, which she brought back on the subway and distributed. The reply from Mrs. Churchill expressed her gratitude and willingness to ce-operate by sending lists of needs as they arose. The first request was for knitted clothing for men on mine sweepers and trawlers keeping the Channel clear.
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