Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-04-30
1000 CTTIZEN-POLICE
WAITING FOR ARMS
Work of Equipping Them
Will Begin This Week,
Says George w. Carr
MEN TO DRILL AT ONCE

The armlng and equipping of the 1000
local business men, members Of the Ctti-
zens' Auxiliary Police, will start this week
according to an announcement made by
George Wentworth Carr, secretary OF the
home defense committee. The men are to
start drilling almost Immediately. Rooms
in various police stations will he used for
that purpose
Plans are being made which would assure
mobilization of the force within thirty MIN
utes in the different police stations. They
are to be used in case OF emergency.
IT is said that the force will be gathered
for the first time when the municipal re-
ception is rendered to the French war en-
voys this week.
The first public meeting Of Mayor Smiths
home defense committee to explain the food
conservation plans of the Philadelphia
schools mobilization committee will be held
this week
WILL NAME SUCCESSOR TO HEINZ
The executive committee of the Commit.
tee of Public Safety probably will select a
successor this week to II. j. Heinz, who has
| resigned as director of the division on food
supply. Several prominent men have been
geen suggested for the post Whether Ed
| win +. Sparks, president of state College.
| will be added to the committee in charge
| some part of agricultural work also will be
| decided.
The Board Of Educatons joint commit
| tees on elementary and higher schools Will
| meet this afternoon at o'clock to act on
! the Tustin plan, which the committee an
nounced last week.
Superintendent CARRIER already has in
| dorsed the plan and. If the committees act
| favoraby upon it. the call fer boys more
! than sixteen years old will go out imme-
| dately. Following that will be issued a
| call for pupils between fourteen and sixteen
| years old and later another call will be is
| sued for girl pupils who aid in the
| work.
| on Wednesday evening at the city Club
| the first public meeting to explain the work.
| ing plans of the school mobilization COM
mittee will be held In addition to placing
| the older boys on farms the local commit
tee intends to place the younger boys on
vacant lots in the immediate vicinity of the
| city. Other boys will be organized into
| camps and live i'll tents or barracks at con-
| veniently situated places In the adjacent
! counties, where, under competent instruc-
| tors, they will be engaged in agricultural
| pursuits.
In Delaware and Montgomery Counties
! many suburban residents with expansive
| lawns have made application to the school
! mobilization committee for farmhands. In
| each instance the holders of land have sig
| niied their intention of converting their
| landscape gardens into vegetable patches,
| and as fast the applications are re-
ceived they will be listed and provided with
student farmers.
movement has been started by the
| Bryn Mawr division Of the yard and garden
contest of the Main Line Citizens Associa
ton to establish plant and seed exchanges
in order to make the war garden plan more
effective.
In an appeal to gardeners and owners OF
gardens, Mrs. Henry S. Williams. chairman
of the local committee. asks that seedlings
and plants be sent to the home of Mrs. Mil
ton II. Herkes. Sl2 Old Lancaster road, Bryn
| Mawr on Wednesday mornings.
| liaverford township. through a commit
tee headed by Horatio Gates Lloyd has oh
tained virtually every available piece OF
land for war gardens and has distributed
lots among hundreds of applicants.
The committee also bought tractor, and
1t is in operation on the land of the Haver.
ford Development Company. In addition
the committee has obtained the co-opera
tion of Herbert G. Parker, manager of the
liaverford College farm. Mr.. Barker Is q
graduate of Cornell Agricultural School.