Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-03
EVENING LEDGER what you are willing to

EVENING LEDGER what you are willing L
do
n you cannot do anything else-if yoi
cannot enlist or give time, money or service
you can save your paper.
lndorsed by Doctor CARRIER and drafted
by Richard Il. Wilson. executive secretar!
OF the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapte
of the Red Cross, the following appeal ma
been sent to the principal Of each publi'
school
An opportunity for instant patrtotlc
service to the nation on the part OF the
school childyen of Philadelphia mas
been opened 'up, it is believed. by
plan to collect all waste paper I'm Phila.
dephia and to sell Il for the beneht OF
the Red Cross.
The Red Cross Is as fully an arm
Of the national service as Is either the
army or navy Red Cross surgeons,
physicians and nurses are already being
sent abroad to assist our allies even
before any American troops are sent
The Red Cross needs money to carry
on its work, Each citizen can do MS
biz" by helping 1t raise the needed
funds.
Phiadelpha's schools, working with
the local Red Cross chapter. the SOUTH
eastern Pennsylvania chapter, can be
of great service If the pupils of your
school have not already entered other
patriotic service which demands their
entire time the chapter earnestly re-
quests that you confer with IT as to
the possibility Of aiding in the collec-
tion Of the city'e waste paper. which
is to be sold for the benefit Of the Rcd
cross. The chapter acknowledges with
gratitude the assistance which has al
ready been given II by the schools and
believes that you will recognize the inn
portance of the aid which they can give
IN this new movement
If you have already organized, or
should organize, a papcr-saving cam
paign in your school, Superintendent
CARRIER has assured us of his willing
ness TO indorSc requests sent to him
for turning over to us a whole or a
part of the funds so collected. provided.
OF course. that II does not violate any
clearly stated purposes for which you
have been making such collections.
THE NATION FIRST"
In commenting on the campaign Docto,
iarbcr said:
Many of the schools have already com
ylCtcd the equipment Of their playground.
through the funds raised by the paper col
ection campaigns which they began some
imc ago and such schools should be ready
% aid Immediately in the collection wori
'or the Red Cross Their collection or
,CtiVe operation at once.
collection of waste paper for the bcnen
,f private individuals should not for one in
;tant be allowed to interfere with "A cam
Jagn which means assistance to the natior
n this crisis. The nation comes first
"'The recruiting of Red Cross units in tn,
nigh schools of the city iS to be begun a
Jnce permission having been accorded yes
erday by the educational committee of th,
Board of Education. 1t was suggested e
he Joa.d by Mr.. Wilson recently that tn,
Red Cross auNliaries so formed could b,
utilized in making supplies of surgica
dressings. handages, base hospltal equip
nent, and so on.
Doctor Fra2ec. head of the vocatoua
raining schools made the supplemental
suggestion that vocational training pupil
might volunteer their services in maxim,
metal and wooden supplies needed by tn
Red Cross However. since the conception
lf the papcr-Saving campaign the Re,
,ross points out that the services of schoo
children could result in even greater ef
rcctivcness If they could be led into tn
collection This would re
1uire no preliminary instruction. such a
would he necessary before the Surgica
dressings aud other Red Cross supple
could be made
"rhe school children have already con
Quoted successful papcr-saving campaign
and they are equipped to enter Instant,
into patriotic service in this way