AFTER THE LAST WAR

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1944, Page 8

AFTER THE LAST WAR

POLAND'S GREAT PROGRESS

Overcoming the great handicap of illiteracy among the greater part of her population by building thousands of schools, after 1918, Poland had, in twenty years, become a great and powerful, but peace-loving, nation, stated the Countess Wodzicka at the July meeting of the Brooklyn League of Mothers. An interesting fact was that the population increased so rapidly that schools could not be built fast enough, said the speaker. Poland inaugurated social security in 1919. The advent of the war called a halt to Poland's progress, but when victory came it was to be hoped that she would go forward and become a mighty nation, strengthened by the wider knowledge gained by her people and representatives all over the world of other peoples in other countries.

Representatives of the Federation of Women, Towns women's Guild, and the Kelburn branch of the league were welcomed by the president, Mrs. A. E. Gittings. Solos were sung by Mrs. Stark, accompanied by Mrs. Chapman, both of Kelburn. Lovely cyclamen were presented to the Countess, who looked very attractive in her Polish Red Cross uniform.