Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-09
ALBRIGHT ASSAILS
PEPPERS STAND
Secretary of Bourse Calls
Public Safety Committee
Marrow" and Selfish"
INCONSISTENCY ALLEGED

The Pennsylvania Public Safety Commit.
tee has no authority to issue funds to the
farm bureau of the Philadelphia Bourse,
or any other oTgar ization. according to n
statement today by an official of the COM
mittec
He said further that the Pennsylvania
Commission Of Public Safety and Defense
has entire control of the purse strings OF
the s2,O00,000 war fund appropriated BY the
state and that the application Of the Farm
Bureau for financial assistance for con-
timing its work should be made TO the
commission.
This statement Of the official of the COM
mttee was issued in reply TO charges by
Emil p. Albrecht. secretary Of the Phila-
delphia Bourse. that the committee ia i'm
consistent selfish and narrow minded be-
cause II has refused to lend any support
whatever to the farm cooperation plan
which has been instituted by the farm bu-
reau OF the Bourse.
When informed today of the statement
OF the official of the committee. Mr. AL
brecht said:
That was not the reason given us for
refusing to support the work of the farm
bureau. II the committee had informed
us that the Commission twas in charge Of
the disbursement Of funds. we would have
communicated with the commission at once.
It is my purpose to get In touch with the
affairs.
When asked the committee for aid
was told that the committee would not pay
the expenses OF any bureau that was not
under the control Of the said committee.
offered to place the bureau under the super
vision Of the committee, and then was told
that our work would only be a duplication
OF the farm work the committee was pre-
pairing.
ut would be deplorable IL the work of the
Bourse Farm Bureau was allowed to die
from the lack Of proper support. l have no
idea OF the kind of work the committee IL
doing, but SO far the public has no concrete
evidence that 1t Is doing anything beside
sending out lot of poetry and literature, ="
The representative OF the committee in
his statement, said
THE Pennsylvania Commission of Pub
lie Safety, known as the War Board has
complete charge of the disbursing Of the
S2,0o0,00O fund appropriated by the State
This commission is composed Of the Gov
ernor, the Lieutenant Governor, the Adju-
tant General the Auditor General and the
State Treasurer.
The commission gives US money for
R scihc purposes, and if we have any money
LETT over after expenditures we are obliged
to turn that money back into the fund.
We have no authority to dish out money to
the farm bureau OF the Bourse or any
other organization The place for Mr. Al.
brecht TO make his complaint is the COM
mission"
Angered by the refusal Of the Pennsyl-
Nania Public Safety Committee to lend it's
support, either moral or financial to the
Cooperative Farm Work Station, located
on the Bourse floor officials of the Phila-
delphia Bourse yesterday bitterly arraigned
the organization. OF which George Wharton
Pepper Is the chairman, by declaring that
II is not eXamnlifyiDp that g., ,I
practical patriotism needed at the present
time.
AS one of the organizations of Penn
sylvania endeayoring to assist in the efforts
Tor Increased food production, the Bourse,
out OF patriotic motives, created the CO.
operative Farm Work Station. and has
thereby placed hundreds of laborers on
nearby farms. Recently, however, its work
became so widened in scope that the Bourse
found itself unable to bear the additional
financial burdens. 1t appealed to the Public
SAFETY Committee to take over the station
1t refused and yesterdays break was the
result.
According to the Bourse. the State COM
mittee which was to be a public body
created to foster and encourage such move
ments as those represented by the CO.
operative Farm Station, has refused TO de-
vote any funds to any work over which IL
did not have direct supervision. Repre-
sentatiVes or the state committee contended
that the station was duplicating other ef
forts to supply farm labor and was there
fore unnecessary and that the committee
had plans Of comprehensive system of
supplying farm and other labor.
Replying to these contentious the Bourse
through Emil p. Albrecht its secretary
disclosed how 1t had placed 600 hands, so
per cent OF them experienced, on adjacent
farms, and how distant farmers in search
of additional help were CONSTANTLY appeal.
ing to the station for More help The
Bourse also revealed how 1t had offered to
turn the station over to the public safety
committee and permit It to receive its en-.
tire credit and have full supervision over
the expenditures Of all moneys Appropriated
for the upkeep OF the station.
Meanwhile he work of the farm station
Is TO continue. the Bourse announcing tha,
rather than permit its necessary publis
service to cease through lack Of funds 4,
had received contributions from a numhe,
Of patriotic private individuals who bad
voluntarily pledged themselves to maintsir
its operation.