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'Help Holland' Campaign
Under Way; Farewell Fetes
Circling the Countryside
By Dolores Phillips
The "Help Holland" campaign
is part of the social program out
here this week. The rural areas
of Loudoun and Fauquier Coun
ties have taken to heart the
plight of the Dutch. Not as one
nation to another but as one
farmer to another, Holland's loss
of stock and fertile farmland
conjures a picture that is empty
ing pockets.
Started by Mrs. Floris van der
Does of Middleburg, the drive
has spread from Middleburg to
Upperville, to Warrenton and
over to Leesburg. Committees
have been formed in each area
to collect funds, boxes have been
placed in stores and banks,
churches have announced the
local drive and the press out
here has backed them up.
Mrs. Fletcher Harper, wife of
the master of Orange County
Hunt, is heading the committee
for The Plains; Mrs. Newell
Ward, jr., wife of the master
of the Middleburg Hunt, is work
ing for Middleburg; Mrs. George
Robert Slater for Upperville, Mrs.
William Murry Black for War
renton and Mrs. Warner Snider
for Leesburg.
Warrenton has a particular
feeling for the Dutch sirjce Am
bassador J. H. van Roijen and
his brother, Robert van Roi.ien
both have places there. Col.
Murry Black, Warrenton artist,
has done the posters for the drive
as his personal contribution.
Mrs. Joseph Mulford, who was
married to the late Jonkheer
Richard Wergold van Schuylen-
burch of Holland, former attache
of the Netherlands Embassy in
Washington, has spurred the
drive around The Plains. Floris
van der Does, a Jonkheer but
now an American citizen, has a
mother and several sisters in
Holland. His son, Johnnie, posed
for the drive's pictures in a
Dutch boyscout uniform that he
brought back last year after his
family returned to the United
States from Holland.
Johnnie, particularly, has a
deep feeling for the tragedy and
broke his bank open for the first
time in his life. Contributions,
along with Johnnie's are being
sent to the committee heads in
each area, with checks made
payable to the Netherlands Flood
Relief. The funds will be for
warded immediately to the
Netherlands Embassy in Wash
ington.
The parties for Mrs. Norman
Toerge are still going strong be
fore she leaves for Europe. There
have been so many that Kathy's
trip has taken a back seat. On
Friday, the Herbert Shaws en
tertained for her and on Satur
day night the Joseph Mulfords
had a dinner party at High-
meadows in her honor. Brig.
Gen. and Mrs. Richard Cutts
gave a dinner at Dondoric Farm
on Monday night to bid her bon
voyage and Lucy Linn enter
tained for her at the Colonial
Inn in Middleburg. There has
been hunting, of a sort, between
these parties as most of the
guests are members, or "cap,"
with Orange County.
Countess Henri de Mauduit
and Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Benoit
arrived on Monday to visit the
Guy de la Fregonnierres at
Huntlands, their Middleburg
estate. The difficulty of gather
ing enough people together who
speak FrenchMr. Benoit knows
no Englishhas posed a prob
lem. However, the common de
nominator of all nations will
probably solve it at the James
McCormicks tomorrow afternoon
when they will have a cocktail
party at Dover for the Fregon
nierres' guests.
