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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30

says yes. and admits that tho amount
should be doubled. A few OF the teams Will
be organized tonight but by Friday tho
stage will be set for the big drive.
Women are playing an important part IN
the work Of the general committee and de-
spite its failure 20 perfect woman's or
ganization they have sold bulk Of bonds.
The women connected with the big banks
and trust companies have been taking
Liberty Bond subscriptions for more than
week and have been pushing the trained
bond statesmen for honors. one young
woman employed as a filing clerk In
downtown trust company obtained twelve
subscriptions yesterday.
Although today is a holiday the cam
paign failed to be affected, and hundreds
OF small subscriptions were recorded dur
ing the early hours. First In the list were
the subscriptions from the police Of the
Front and York streets station. Lieutenant
John Keith acted as bond salesman and got
every ono OF the eighty-seven men to sub
scribe. Sergeant Thomas Burke took ten
$50 bonds and many OF the patrolmen took
from two TO FIVE Bluecoats in other sta
tons were active. too, and asserted that
before the campaign ends every patrolman
in the city will possess Liberty Bond.
Although official figures concerning the
results Of the campaign are not available,
members of the general committee estimate
the subscriptions total more than $90,000.-
600 This includes paid subscriptions and
pledges from banks outside the city. one
hundred and sixty million dollars must be
subscribed before June is II the campaign is
to be successful.
This huge sum, according TO the general
committee, must come from the people in
the form of small subscriptions. for II IL
pointed out that the banks must conserve
their resources for future loans.
The Liberty Loan and other war finance
measures compel the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, in Washington, these days
to do twenty-four hours a day and employ
1900 extra workmen and clerks to produce
the 100000 impressions which now are
turned out daily.
Director Ralph estimated that the bu-
reau this year would make $4,000. .000. 900
notes and certificates of various kinds, COM
pared with 5000. 900, 900 last year
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
WOMEN DRAFTED
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
Thousand Canvassers Will
Seek Investments From
10000 Housewives
WOULD PRODUCE MILLION
Money Pours in to Raise Amount
to $16O,0OO,0OO, Though It's
Holiday
Ladies, attention !

Ladies, attention!
At o'clock tomorrow morning you will
be conscripted for duty in the Liberty
Bond campaign and must serve the colors
until June is. when Uncle Sam drops the
curtain on his first big war loan campaign
for $4,000, 600.
Your share in this work constitutes n
small part Of the total for without going
into details. you must raise the tidy sum
OF $1,000, 900.
This amount toward the loan that is to he
used to crush the Kaiser ought TO be quite
easy to raise in patriotic Philadelphia and
the Retail Merchants Liberty Bond Com
mittce asserts that you are equal to the
task. Today the committee reached a de-
cision concerning the role femininity is to
play In its campaign, and without fuss or
feathers decided that obtaining Sl,O00,oO0
in Liberty Bond subscriptions ought to be
an easy problem for you 70 solve.
Every woman in Philadelphia Is con-
scripted. but approximately 1000 will act
as an auxiliary to the Liberty Bond sales
force.
These women will make up the teams
from the scores Of business mems associa-
tions and improvement leagues affiliated
with the retail merchants committee Each
organization will appoint team of fifteen
women as an auxiliary. Every home in the
city is to be Canvassed by the women so.
UCltOTS, anu Il Slt'Cldl appear VIII De lldue
to the housewives.
1t is for the purpose Of impreSslng house
wives with the Importance of the Liberty
Loan that the women solicitors are being
conscripted. Women, according to home
statistics spend nearly 90 per cent of Phila-
delphia's money 1t is up to the fair sex
to manage home budgets and as a rule they
manage savings accounts. The Retail Mer.
chants Association believes that with a little
effort the average housewife can buy a $50
bond on the easy payment plan and feel nc
pinch concerning funds
Getting down to practical things. or get.
ting back to the Liberty Loan. the Mer.
| chants Committee plans to enlist O,OOC
housewives and has figured that If every
woman I'm that army buys a $50 bond tn,
81 100000 goal will be reached. with 1OOC
women solicitors in the field It will b,
| necessary for each one to garner twent,
| customers. Is it possible?
Every man on the Merchants Committe
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
CITY HELD POWERLESS
TOFIX TAXICAB RATES
Superior Courts Ruling Nulli-
fies Move to Establish
Maximum Fare %7

BY deciding public motor vehicles are
common carriers the State Superior Court
has raised a bar against the validity OF a
bill pending in Councils to regulate taxi
cabs in this city.
The decision, handed down recently In
Scranton, in the case or Scranton Railway
Company against Fiorneci, appellant, af-
firmed an order issued upon the latter by
the Public Service Commission, to compel
him to apply for a certificate or public con-
venience for the jitneys he operates. The
ruling means that the commission. and not
municipal authorities, can prescribe the
rates of fare to be charged for motor Vehicie
service
In the Philadelphia councilmanic meas
ure, over which a subcommittee OF the
Committee on Law has been haggling Tor
long time, an attempt is made to NIX the
minimum taxicab rates here at not more
than fifty cents for the first mile anu
ten cents for each additional quarter mile
The attorney for a large taxicab company
opposed to that feature has been awaiting
the Superior Court decision TO give that
section Of the bill its final quietus.
The public service act OF July 20 1915
defines common carriers as amy ana al
corporations or persons engaged ior pronl
In the conveyance of passengers or properly
between points in this Commonwealth. A
subsequent act of assembly June l, 1870
gives cities power to regulate ana license
certain motor vehicles"
Fironeci. in hisAappeal from the commits
sion's order, contended that the act OF 1910
was an implied repeal of sections OF tne
public service act relating toe motor
vehicles. He also raised the technical
question that the words between points
in the earlier act meant between two
municipalities, and not between points
within the same city. Both contentious
were dismissed, and Judge Trexler' VINO
wrote the opinion. further said;
'The authority given cities does not apro-
gate the rights of the Public Service COM
mission requiring certificates Of public con-
venience. The two powers do not intrench
on each other. The commission and CITY
Councils can both exercise their powers CO.
ordinately"
While Councils may go ahead and pass an
ordinance 70 make the taxi men pay license
fees and file bonds, legal authorizes pc
lsVe, the rates Of fare teeth, In which the
public Is most interested. must be drawn
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
CHARGE NEGRO MURDERED
AND ROBBED OLD VETERAN
Man Jailed at West Chester and Po-
lice Hunt Alleged Companion
in Crime

WEST CHESTER, May S0.-Edward
Trusty, a negro, twenty-five years old was
brought here today charged with the muir
der Of william Kirk, a negro Civil War
veteran, who was killed and robbed of $500
two weeks ago. The police are seeking
"Bil" Warren, alleged to have been inn
plicated with Trusty.
According to two children who witnessed
the killing, Trusty beat the old man with
an az and then shot him three times The
scene OF the crime was a lonely cabin near
Kennett Square, and the body was hidden
in the cellar for several days, after which
II was taken 70 a quarry with the head en-
cased in burlap bag and the feet tied to-
gether. An attempt had been mide to
throw the body into a deep pool IN the
quarry, but IL lodged upon a ledge. where il
was found on Saturday by some boys
s posn men a.a oohcelneu heu, pus tIusty was
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
GETS POST OF MAJOR
in AMBULANCE CORPS
Paul Borda Kurtz, of German
town, in New Section
in France
ON DANGEROUS MISSION

Paul Borda Kurtz, of 5O7 West Mannheim
street, Germantown, son of William b,
Kurtz, banker. of 1921 Chestnut street, has
been appointed adjutant major in the new
Section No IS of the American ambulance
corps in France according to dispatches
received here today.
The young American at last is to get into
action, or at least into the thick Of the
fight. Section No. is has been permitted
by the French Government to go on
particularly dangerous mission Each man.
including young Kurtz volunteered
Instead Of driving ambuances back of
the lines, Kurtz and twenty-five other young
Americans have been selected to drive
heavy ammunition trucks to the extreme
front lines at the -- front
The roads over whicn they travel are con.
stantly under fire. Judging from all re-
ports the Germans, through arplane eyes,
know the munition trucks by sight, and every
effort Is made to blow them to atoms. ON.
GERS said that casualties among the number
virtually would be u certainty. on this
mission. at least Kurtz will serve as a reg
ular French soldier.
Kurtz is only twenty-three years old. Hs
is a member of the Germantown Cricket
Club, the Harvard Club of the Hasty Pud-
ding Club of Harvard and several other
clubs.
Kurtz attended the Friends School in
Germantown, graduated from the De Lancey
| School and then went to Harvard. He left
| Harvard in 1915 and Joined the American
| ambulance corps in France. He returned
| after several months and finished his course
| at Harvard last year. He then made
| straight for the battlefelds in France once
| more. % R,g,la a IJT m RTEEH
Z The young American recently wrote TO
| his parents and asked their consent to join
| the aviation corps. He wrote at the time
| that owing TO safety appliances and per-
| fected machines aviation these days over
| here is as safe as driving a motorcar on
| the Chester pike"
| 81 feel that we owe a debt of gratitude
| to France which mere unlimited credit can
| never repay / have done lot of thinking
| and have resolved that IL the chance ever
| came ! would show them that there are
| some Americans who could give their lives
| IL necessary as long as they knew they
| were doing what was right,
"And the only right thing TO do is to get
| into the fight and do the duty we have been
| shirking long.
| II have seen so much death and suffer-
| ing l really feel that II / could get into
| action once l would not care what hap
| pened TO me-"
The young soldiers wish evidently has
| been granted. In recent letters he ex-
pressed the hope Of joining the first Ameri-
| can forces to reach France as a Lieutenant
William B, Kurtz, the boys father, is one
| of nearly 100 members of the Germantown
| Cricket Club who are drilling on the club
| grounds three times week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
MAN AND GIRL KILLED
BY TRAIN NEAR ELKTON
Young Couple Meet Death While Re-
turning Home From "Movie"
in Auto
ELKTON. Md-. Ma al

ElIhlONt Mut May 81.
Another fatal accident occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad crossing at
Singerly station last night, when east
bound passenger train No. 10, bound for
philadelphia, struck an automobile contain
ing Cecil Patchell, twenty-five years old,
of Providence, Md, and Miss Rhoda Logan,
seventeen years old, daughter of Samuel
Logan, of Pleasant Hill.
Patchell was killed instantly and Miss
Logan was so badly injured that she died
while being taken to a Wilmington hos
pltal. The automobile was carried long
distance by the train and demolished
The young couple had been to n moving
picture show in Elkton and were returning
home about 10 o'clock, when they met their
death.
The crossing is not protected at night by
a watchman, and is considered a very
dangerous one, the view of travellers over
the tracks at that point being obstructed by
numerous buildings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
SUES CREDITORS COMMITTEE
Graves Paint Company Head Asks
Court to Order Accounting

Suit has been started by n. q. Graves
president and chief stockholder of the ~ a.
Graves Company, manufacturers Of paint
varnish and lead, which has been in the
hands of a receiver since May, 1915. TO COM
pei the creditors committee to render an
accounting. The suit was started in Com
mon Pleas Court No s,
Besides the individual members of the
committee, he names as defendants the
N. a. Graves Corporation and the Mutual
Liquidatlng Company. The members OF the
committee are William T. Elliott. Paul Clay
ton Ralph Van Vechten, Howland Davib
william A. Law and Gates W. McGarrah
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
Bethlehem Students Married

SOUTH BETHLEHEM. Pa. May 30--
Robert T.. Mccarthy. a Lehigh University
athlete and a senior. and Miss Helah
Reedcr, a former student at the Moravian
College for Women, in Bethlehem, were
married in New York by the Rev w. f.
Ottarson Miss Marjorie Seaman, OF New
York, a classmate of the bride, was brides
maid. and "Ty" Halstead. of Brooklyn, cap
tain Of the 1917 Lchigh football team. was
best man. The couple will reside here.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
New Potato Prices Soaring

New potatoes. according to the predic-
,,on Of Charles ]. Brand, chief officer Of
markets OF the Department of Agriculture.
SrilI continue 10 advance in spite Of the fact
that the supply win steadily increase from
now on. The present price ranges from 70
90 "a a bushel This is twice as much as
tha nriee this time last year Strawberries
are about three cents. a quart higher than
iris time last year. and the shipments are
ahout Ss4 cars behind last year Florida
topnatoes are sbout 81 carrier lower In
price this year than isst
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
Stores TO Sell Bonds

READING. Pa. May 3O.--Every depart
ment store here will be selling Liberty Loan
bonds over the counters in a few days, as
well as the banks. At meeting of the
merchants Of the city with various bankers,
presided over by George S. Pomeroy. Jr.,
j. *. Trimble, George *. Reilly and A. B.
Mcllor. of Philadelphia, explained the plan
Of sale. Henry u, Hagy, local chairman for
the American Bankers Association, said the
subscriptions here are nearing the 81, ,000, 900
mark,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30

ARMY DRAFT FOES
WARNED BY NATION
Chief Registrar Here Says U.
S. Will Brook No Inter-
10 ference
POWER CLOTHES BOARDS
Have Authority to Command All
Citizens to Prevent Treason
able Actions
POWER CLOTHES BOARDS
Registration Day Hours

Under penalty of Imprisonment,
u every male from twenty -one TO
thirty years old, inclusive, must reg
lister at the voting place of his d.
vision next Tuesday, June 5.
These registration places will be
open from 7 o'clock in the morning
to 9 o'clock at night.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30

Paul Borda Kurtz, OF 507 West
Mannheim street, Germantown, and
son of William B. Kurtz, Philadel-
phia banker, has been appointed
adjutant major in the new Section
18 of the American Ambulance
Corps in France. Another view
shows him standing beside his am
bulance. Both photographs were
taken Somewhere in France"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
REGISTRATION EXEMPTION ANSWER
WILL NOT BE BAR TO LATER CLAIM
By GENERAL ENoCH CRowDER,
Provost Marshal General u. S. A.

F man does not claim
HIS hrst answer to Is later
military service
the
their answers question H. question
Washington, May 80. ~ ~ F"' ~
statement: " e" P' "a"O"0 SeS'eiN"S NiS
exists question IL
reads claim exemption
provost
of
be obtained
answer to this question
making
All desire exemption
irrespective OF the answers made by them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-30
N,vAI. COAST DEFENsE RESERVE

Robert Alexander pssyis ~ asSs Cloud ST.
asGTss asnTy oliver tiSs % RsS. 81. sswicidey Pa,
Alan Harry mIissi nnsshsn ~ 81 SSifordviiie Pa. Pa.
Wallace ysSIlS Bartrsm Hsndrieks 2is WoHan. Pa
Nviliiam THOMAS Conwell, a. g2O spruce ST.
}ohn }Iohn fFrSneis psrren. II. ]46T .Lelper st.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-01
The Spirit Of the Marines.

Tony Waller, a major then is a
briead ier- general now and highly rev.
cred In the United States Marine
Corps. And it was he who command
ed the 1S0-odd Marines of the Allied
Relief column which paused one day
for breath on the banks Of the Peiho
River. They had encountered over
whellning numbers of Chinese troops
and had been driven backward. The
railroad ahead Of them had been torn
up; Picking was in a state of seige,
defended by handful of Marines 1t
would be no easy task to transport
the Allied column with its necessary
supplies through an unknown and
hostile country. So the leaders sat
in conclave and they sat long, for it
was hard nut. indeed, to crack. At
last "Tory" Waller became impatient
of delay and he rose to remark that
on the route ahead of him were sew
enty-fve Marines whom he had orders
to relieve. The Allied commanders
were tolerant. They, too, had men In
the beseiged city whom they intended
to relieve. But it was a question OF
ways and means as Major Waller
must know. Once more they went at
their discussions.
well, gentlemen Salu 1olly
Waller, at that making for the" door,
my orders are to proceed to Tien
Tsin, and the United States Marines
shove off tomorrow morning at six
o'clock
And he went out.
Next morning the handful of Ma
rines "shoved off, at the time ap-
pointed And. inasmuch as it was
plainly to be seen that "Tony" Waller
was possessed of a devil that would
not let him discuss ways and means
but forced him to follow his nose to
Picking. the Allies went along
'.Nayy and Merchant Marine"
New Britain herald., 1917-08-01
HOW TO GROW THIN.

More interest is aiken in eating and
drinking at this season Of the year
than any other. Hot weather invari-
ably causes a secession in the habit Of
over eating as it conversely brings
about (. seige of over-drinking- For
those who over-eat there is little if
any chance to lose weight. For those
who over-drtnk, providing the bever-
ages used contain protein in any guam
tity, there is also little hope of cast
ing off weight.
The question of how to grow thin.
then, resolves itself into a very sim
pie formula: Eat less, drink less.
Pointing out that among curious pop
ular fallacies is the idea that an indi-
vidual may become obese without eat
ing too much and may remain obese
even when very little food is taken,
Dr. Graham Lusk sets forth in
Worlds Work some enlightening in
formation for the American reading
public.
eats a butter ball weighing only d
third of an ounce in excess of the
food actually needed, it seems trif1ing,
insignificant; but continued over a
year it would involve a gain in weight
of nine pounds of fatty tissue or in
ten years ninety pounds. An ounce of
bread or half a glass of milk, moro
than the food requirement for the day
will bring about the same result
Conversely. If the quantity of food
taken be only slightly below the needs
of the body, some of the body's own
fat is used and the body weight falls,
a process which may be extended over
a long period of time.
How to grow thin. after this ex-
planation seems an easy task. Eat
only as much food as the body actual
" REQUIRES favoring the short ration
system. Coupled with the hot wealth
err. which in itself is one good reason
for restraint in eating. there is the
nationwide appeal for food conserva-
ton. Those who are desirious of
growing thin now need only answer
the patriotic appeal of Herbert Hoov-
er, the national food dictator.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-01

authorized to warn persons who claim
discharge on the ground of marriages
contracted since the date of the act.
that both parties are liable to prose-
c,tion under this provision if. in
fact, the marriage was contracted
solely with the intent to evade the
performance of military duty"
Larger Quotas Ordered.
Gen Crowder also notified district
boards that about 10 per cent. Of the
men passed by them would be dis
charged at mobilization camps, and he
directed them to continue to call up
men until they had filled their quota
with TO per cent additional
There is no provision under the law
by which medical students can be ex-
empted or discharged and service In
Red Cross ambulance organizations is
not a valid claim for exemption, be-
cause such service is not military. Lo-
cal boards are ordered to keep a COM
plete docket of oil cases coming before
them. and the resignation of members
from local boards is forbidden except
under circumstances approved by
State Governors.
Methods of reaching aliens under
the craft We're DEBATED briefly in the
Senate but the discussion got no.
where.
When Senator McCumber called up
his resolution authorizing negotiations
with the allies to legali7e drafting of
their nationals, Senator Chamberlain
sought unsuccessfully to attach pro-
vision for proceeding with alien draft
ing at once, insisting that IF some
thing is not done we are going to
have trouble between the Americas
youths and Aliens
Senators Stone and Lodge reao
precedonts to show congress could not
legally draft aliens without special
negotiations. Sc, ator Pittr1an insist
ed such compulsion would be morally
right, anyway.
The house foreign affairs committee
reported favorably the Rogers resolu-
t1on. which would authorize Secretary
Lansing to begin discussions with the
allied nations on the alien question.
The military affairs committee dis
cussed a bill introduced by Represent
tative Rainey Of Illinois that aliens
except alien enemies, be drafted into
the military service.
New Britain herald., 1917-08-01
\ DamDCr on DiScinline.

where's that child?' 1 said, an went
An cut a long beech CAD, an trum
Branches off, an really meant
~ tan his jacket when he come
Tan it right-an' learn him not
T. gall1Vant through all outdoors,
Specially when he knows he's got
T. get the cows an do the chores.
'Where's that boy" T says, an asst
The naybor's folks. a-thinkin' they
Might O. seen him goin' past,
An hailed him when he run away;
Nary hide ner hair they'd seen
No moren me! an law, 1 stretched
Flyers round that timber green
Beech CAD O mine untwel they
etched.
"Where's that ?" I asst, an got
A leetle tremby, I expeck,
Thinl1in mebbe like as not,
He'd fell some'eres an bruk his
neck.
Hunted through the loft an out
Behind the barn an down the run.
Places young 'uns think about
An head for when they look for fun.
"Where's my boy?" I whined, an then
AS Al la answer Chefe ne come
Down the pastcher lane again
An headin' straight for us an home
Steppin' high an straight an sta'nch
An, proud as Grant, as like as not
An dragGin' from a willer branch
The first horndays he ever caught!
"Where you been?' + says, an looks
Right in his eyes an there I saw
Pitchers Of the fields an brooks
An things a young 'un loves! My
law
All my temper left my head,
I throwed the beech CAD good an
Strongi-
Stead O. what I'd planned, I said:
why don't v take your pa. along?'
JOHN D. WELLS
in Woman'S World
New Britain herald., 1917-08-01
Exchange Of Prisoners.

London, July DISCRIMINATING on
the meeting Of British and German
delegates At the Hagus. to consider re-
1ating to prisoners, the Law Journal
says:-
lit has always been understood
hitherto that the state of war oper-
ates a complete severance of all re-
lations between this belligercnts ex-
cept that of pure force. This is the
explanation Of the common practice,
followed universally in the present
war, whereby the belligerents deal
with each other through the inter-
vention of neutral powers. The pres
ent meeting is, it is suggested. with
out precedent in the history Of inter-
national law. Its Importance does not
end there. 1t almost seems as II we
are at Last becoming emancipated
from the chains Of the old fashioned
diplomacy. which almost deliberately
made it impossible for belligerents
fairly and squarely to talk out their
causes Of friction face to face. The
new departure Is one from which
much may. be hoped In other direc-
tions.