Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-20

their confidence in this nation may not be
shaken.
Not all the wholesale and retail mer.
chants Of America are cooperating with
the Governments war program, Henry S.
Dennison, OF the war economy board of the
Council of National Defense, told a group
meeting
Plans to bring these business slackers"
into line and to effect further war economies
among retailers to the public are being
the chambers final program to be adopted
today.
Il. Among the more radical proposals af-
fecting the buying public, particularly the
women, were these:
Give buyer who carries purchases home
lower price than the woman who has
them delivered.
Give the buyer who pays cash a lower
price than the one who has the goods
charged.
| To eliminate the practice of the woman
who buys a spool Of thread, has it
| charged and delivered miles away and
| does something OF this sort several times
day charge ten cents or more for
all deliveries up to 81, and provide a free
delivery once day for supplies aggregat-
ing more than 81.
ADMIRAL BOWLES ON SHIPPING
Unqualified praise for the services of the
| Federal Employment Bureaus in meeting
| laDOT neeuS OCCdSlOne0 Dy the war WAS
given. A message from Admiral BowleS,
| speaking for the Emergency Fleet Corpora
| tion, was read by Meyer Bloomfield, of
| Boston, which told Of the far-reaching aid
given by the Department of Labor and its
| employment agencies to the labor problems
| in the shipbuilding field. Without this aid
| said Admiral Bowles, the expenditure of
| millions would have been necessary.
Mr. Bloomfield cited the case Of one ship
| yard called upon last May to increase its
working force From 1000 to 5000 men, which
was enabled through the assistance of Fed
| eral and State employment agencies thus to
| double its force between May and August
| without the expenditure of single dollar
to private employment agencies or in ad'
vertsing
NEED THOUSANDS OF MEN
"The shipbuilding Industry may need
| 100, 900 new workers and other war indus
| tries other hundreds Of thousands of men,"
| said he. "And to secure them American
| business must establish closer relations
with public agencies than ever before. The
governmental employment offices have
| hitherto not received the support that is
due them.
zone OF the greatest producers of hObOes,
tramps and criminals has been the private
| employment agency" said Lincoln Filene,
of the Boston Chamber OF Commerce.
THE private agencies have sent men
| ACROSS the country at ldTNeSl tunes only 10
| find that no jobs are to be had when they
| re lched their destination. Five and ten
men have been sent where a job was to be
had for only one"
| An exciting moment in the meeting came
| when Alfred Koch. of Toledo, declared that
| 90 per cent OF the retail merchants of the
| country do not realize that the country is
| at war.
The storm which followed was epitomized
| by Mr.. Neffs reply that to his personal
| knowledge at least 40 per cent of the re-
| tailers of the country do realize the country
is at war and have proved 1t by giving their
! sons for battle"
VIEWS OF BIG EXPORTER
| A definite program which big business
| would like to see adopted to meet some of
| the difficulties arising from governmental
| control of foreign trade was recommended
| to the administration at washington today
| by E. H. Huxley, president Of the United
! states Rubber Company, speaking before
| the conference.
''The exporter admits to the Government"
| said Mr. Huxley the entire injustice Of
controlling foreign trade by means Of IL
| censes. Export control must not react to
| stop the inward flow of those raw materials
necessary for our welfare and the success
full prosecution Of this war"
| Admitting that there be no serious diff
| ference OF opinion as to the fundamental
necessity Of controlling by means of Gov