Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-02
By M'LISS

BY MLlSS
gigantic paper-saving campaign, en-
bracng every household in Philadelphia
where there are men, women and children
anxious to do their part in the war is in
the process of organization by the South
eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the Red
Cross. cooperating with the EVENING
LEDGER.
Not person who buys magazines and
newspapers or who receives letters will
have. when the plan is in full swing, the
excuse that there is nothing he can do
to help his country.
1t is given to everybody to be able to
save the scraps of paper that come his
way; 1t is, therefore, given to everybody to
be unit in a city-wide movement that
will turn hundreds of dollars weekly over
to the Red Cross in the furtherance of it's
benign work
Experts have estimated that the news
papers alone which are delivered into the
homes of Philadelphia every morning and
AFTERNOON aggregate two hundred tons.
Newspapers in bulk sell for $40 a ton. and
que TO the very serious paper shortage,
there is a ready market
Many private agencies, realizing this
have taken advantage of the demand and
are reapng rich haryests from the wanton
paper waste
The Red Cross needs money II it can
collect but one-tenth of the paper that
daily goes into the homes of Philadelphia,
IL
its Golfers. The day has come TO forget
private agencies and remember opiy public
good.
CHANCE FOR EVERYBODY
In time when the subject of rigid
economy is on the lips of every patriotic
citizen, this is a golden opportunity for
those who have deplored the fact that there
was little for them to do
You may be a man unable to shoulder
q musket; you may be n woman without
a bank account, and seemingly nothing
tangible to gve-your manifold household
duties may even have absorbed all your
time; you may be school child To one
and all the Red Cross says:
Save your paper. Hoard it relgiously
and conscientiously. every scrap, every
bag, every letter, every old newspaper
Put 1t in bag designed especially for
that purpose and give us permission
TO come for it once week.
Already base hospital from Phlladel- |
phia has been ordered to the French front
The equpping and maintenance of these |
hospitals are part of the Red Cross work |
Whoever gives a dollar to the Red Cross |
or puts the Red Cross in the way of making |
a dollar gives material assistance to the |
country and its allies
You can do this by getting the habit OF |
contributing regularly TO the Red Cross bag |
one OF which the organization hopes in time |
TO have hanging in every home in Phila-
delphia.
PLAN OUTLINED
Briefly the plans are these:
Every woman who has the welfare Of
her country and the magnificent work
of the Red Cross at heart will make a
bag of coarse unbeached muslin easily
laundered, measuring four feet in
length and two and one-half feet in
width
This bag will replace in the home the
rag bag of n bygone age.
Every member of every patriotic
womans family will be taught to Step
UP to the Red Cross bag and deposit
his waste paper therein with the ardor
with which he would approach a shrine
One day week the Red Cross will
send aroupd a fotlla of automobiles
and trucks, to be donated by patriotic
owners to collect the bags. which later
} will be returned.
Should every household In Phiadelphia
donate its waste paper to the Red Cross
many thousand dollars would he reaned
u only one-tenth of the citizens respond.
however, the enterprise will be a highly
one
Seldom has an opportunity for a demon
stration OF real patriotism with so little
effort been offered
The officials who have the organization
lnder way do not expect the entire city to |
pring to arms, bag in hand, at once, but |
lope by the establishment of neighborhood
enters, starting intenSively, to create an |
pdemic of paper-saving for the Red Cross
he contagion of which will spread ulti-
nately to every home.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
In order to handle the situation ade.
Iuately 1t will be necessary for auto and
ruck owners to give over their vehicles for |
n hour or two week, the Emergency Aid |
dotor Service of Miss Letitia McKim not |
,eing available for this purpose
Every day hundreds of persons walk into !
Red Cross headquarters and PROFOUND the
|uery:
What can We do to help at time like
hist"
The answer is easy:
First, you can make a bag.
Second. you can put all your waste
paper in 1t.
Third, you can lend a machine, IL
you have one. for an almost negligible :
time.
II you are looking for chance to do your
art and want to be one of the first to get
n ON the Red Cross paper-saving campaign |
vrits to the Red Cross Department, care
& the EVENING LEDGER, Philadelphia.