Evening star., 1918-10-22
Fares to Aid Funds

been made as to the financial arrange
ments involved. Some of the cars are
usually spent for car rides can be
placed for the benefit of the Red
Cross and other war agencies.
Miss Harriet Winslow, chairman of
the local branch of the Fatherless
Children of France, today pointed out
that the small sum of 10 cents q day,
what an Office worker usually spends
for the privilege of hanging to a
strap. is exactly the sum needed to
maintain for one day in his or her
own home. with the chance to go to
school instead of to work, boy or
girl whose father has given his life
for France.
Wha. better way to ad lust the diff
ference of opinion between the invol-
untary PEDESTRIAN who feels uncom-
Portable through saving the usual
half-dime and the car owner who nat
urally would refuse TO- accept it, asks
Miss Winslow, than to put in a re-
ceptacie with a. sign announcing that
the price of two welcame rides will
keep a French child safe, warm.
clothea and under the mothers eye
for that day?
She further announces that her So
ciety will furnish the needed boxes
and StickerS. for windshie1dS' telling the
purpose for which they have been put
In place. She can be reached at I'LL
18th street northwest. telephone North
5365.
= Workers Are Bashful.
Washington war workers are still
bashful about availi1g themselves of
the privilege, 1t was noted this. morn
ing. Some of them looked longingiy
enough at cars going by equipped
with the hospitable signs. but appar-
emily couldn't make up their minds to
accept. Several cars SO labeled went
all the way downtown without any
passengers. On the other hand, driv-
ers should realize that the sign means
nothing II they drive at high speed
and look neither to the right nor left.
Out Georgia avenue way this morning
labeled cars were whizzfng into town
at rate that made it impossible for
any foot passenger to hail one.
the emergency committee held last
night and presided over by Edwin b.
Eafkef priorities commissioner of the
War Industries Board, it's chairman.
The superintendent of police esti-
mated that several thousand men and
and that street car congestion was
already materially lessened. He said
the demand for posters had been in
cessant yesterday and that results
ought to be decidedly noticeable by
this afternoon.
"Toting' Not Mandatory.
Chairman Parker took particular
pains to emphasize the fact that the
plan of having private automobile
owners assist in the transportation
of war workers depended absolute
ly for success on the Willingness Of
the owners to cooperate. and that
request put forth for this co-opera-
1T has never heretofore been, and
1t is not believed that it is now,
necessary to do more than to state
the facts to the public to insure its
by them as signifying their will
ingness to help may well be regard
ed as a badge Of honor. It is their
pledge Of help to their government
in serious emergency" said Mr..
Parker
A misunderstanding seems to have
arisen over the Interpretation Of the
committees announcement that "the
police will cooperate" It develops
that the cooperation of the police
will be to the extent Of distributing
placards at the precinct stations. as
and garages.
War workers residing within walk
ing distance of their places of busi-
ness are urged in fine weather. as
n HOdlIH H1CdSuIS, 10 Wdlhs I10dlIny.
husky people, especially men, ought
to remember that every ride they
refrain from taking releases a space
either in a private vehicle or a street
car for some one who is delicate, or
lame, or elderly, or who lives too far
away to get down In season on foot.
One Concrete Example.
A concrete example is the follow
ing: A Southwest Washington citi-
zen. who is slender and who runs a
one-seated roadster. decided this
morning he could accommodate two
extra people. Two. seeing his sign,
hailed him at the same moment. One
was q slender, delicate girl, who ad-
mitted that up to the time he came
along she saw no prospect of reach
ing her job in time. The other was
picture of health. who looked as If
he could have hoofed it to Chevy
Chase and back az breakfast zap
petizer," and who, by mention of
the ONCE in which he worked, gave
away the fact that he had all sorts
of time.
Both passengers were. Of course.
welcome; both expressed appreciA-
tion for the lift: but the driver
wished he'd happened on two who
were in: the situation Of the first one.
"A. A. A. Men Told Request