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

Have YOU bagged tie paper that you are
saving for the Red Cross?
MANY enthusiasts In the city y-wide paper
saving campaign have written that their
unbleached muslin bags measuring four
feet by two and one-half, have not only
been made but are already stuffed to the
bursting point with the waste paper that
has been crammed into them. Others, how.
ever who are anxious TO get in on the
good work have been nonplussed about the
bags.
Through the generosity of two contrbu.
, tors j. G. Collins ard A. Taylor, of Bryn
I Athyn S125 has been donated to the paper
saving campaign which the Red Cross is
organizing with the cooperation of the
EVENING LEDGER
This money will be used to purchase ma
terial for bags.
If you have no material for a bag in
which to save your paper call at the Red
Cross headquarters. 221 South Eighteenth
street, or at JAZZ Walnut street, and the
material for the bags will be given you.
Through the liberality of the contributors,
material for nearly 900 bags has been pur.
chased by the Miscellaneous Supplies Com.
mttee of which Colonel Samuel Lit is
chairman, and will be ready for distribution
before Tuesday morning, it is hoped.
BAGS READY MADE
II YOU feel incompetent to make bag.
you can get one made and ready for the
paper by waiting several days. Scores of
women are constantly calling at the Red
Cross workrooms at 1a17 Walnut street and
offering their services as volunteer needle.
women. Hitherto it has been impossible
to give them any work. Now Mrs. Thomas
Potter Jr.. vice chairman of the work.
loom committee. and her assistants, will as
sign them to the making of bags. A quick
er way, however. IL you have not already
loor Nt,il he, fr,n fp,. tl,a
rial on Tuesday and make it yourself 1t
Is the simplest sort cf\sewing and almost
any woman who car run seam ought
10 be able to make a bag.
In the meantime interest in the cam
paign has been displayed in every neighbor-
hood. The major economy of turning the
tons of paper that daily go to waste in
Philadelphia into money for the Red Cross,
TO be used for hospital supplies and equip
ment and anesthetics in the great war that
has become our war is evident to every one
Hundreds OF people have already ex-
pressed the desire TO be ma jor economists.
Superintendent of Schools John p CARRIER
has appealed to the school children to save
their waste paper for the Red Cross. House.
wives, many of whom have sons training to
take part in the war, have grasped this op-
portunity to be of service to their coun-
try. To save your paper religously, bag
gng it for collection once a week. is an
paper that goes into Philadelphia homes
daily is turned over to the Red Cross sew
eral thousand dollars week will be real
lied on the sale of it.
VOLUNTEER MOTORS
volunteer motor service for the col
lection of the paper has been planned
Motors and trucks will be needed. Have
you one? If you have the Red Cross wants
1t for several hours one day week Don't
be stingy. It's matter of patriotism.
Notify the Red Cross Department, care of
the EVENING LEDGER, that you will en-
roll your car in the motor service You
may not be- able to enlist yourself. Enlist
your car, then.
The Red Cross doctors. nurses and ambu-
lance drivers go right into the thick of bat
Tie to take care of the men who are fighting
our war
Seriously hampered by lack of funds. it
nevertheless does its duty You do yours.
save paper Lend a machine or truck.