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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
FIGHT
GERMS In ITALY
tuberculosis Experts Sent by
Red Cross viii Use Lat
est Methods.

Included in the unit of medical and
.ay workers which the American Red
Cross has Sent to Italy are a number
Of the leading anti-tuberculosis work
ers of the country, sponsored by the
National tuberculosis Association.
DR.. William Charles White, who heads
the unit, is medical director of the
tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh,
and DR.. Robert II. Bishop, the assist
ant director, is secretary of the Anti
tuberculosis League of Cleveland as
well as health commissioner of that
city. DR.. John II. Lowman of Cleve-
land, a former president of the Ma
tional Association, is another promi-
nent member of the unit. Others are
DR.. Robert G. Patterson, secretary of
the Ohio tuberculosis Association ;
Seymour II. Stone, until recently sec
rotary of the Massachusetts Anti-Tu-
%berculosis League; DIR. Gertrude Stur-
gis, secretary of the New York City
Association of tuberculosis Clinics,
and N. A. Nelson, superintendent of the
CINCINNATI EAIA1-4 uDStA ulOSlS 1CuSuG.
These men and women, at the re-
quest of the Italian government, will
cooperate with that country in apply
ing the latest approved American
methods for combating the spread of
tuberculosis. Some of them will be
charged with the establishment of
clinics where people of all ages may
be examined and treated others will
devote their attention particularly to
preventing tuberculosis among chill
dren, and a third group will develop
health publicity and education.
1t is to the credit of the anti-tuber-
culosis campaign in America that 1t
has produced specialists of such inter-
national standing that Italy wishes to
call them into her service temporarily.
But the campaign will be continued
unremittingly here at home. Its sup
port during the ensuing year will be
derived not as heretofore from the
sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals, but
by a special appropriation made by the
Red Cross to the National Tuberculo-
sis Association. tuberculosis workers
on their side will line up with the Red
Cross in its Christmas Roll Call for
universal membership.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
EASING The CARES
or SOLDIERS FAMILIES

The ten thousand Home Service Sec.
tons of the American Red Cross, in
their work of looking after the fami.
lies of the enlisted men, are doing Won
ders for the morale of the army. Our
fighters are not men who are going to
worry about themselves, but if they do
not get cheerful letters from home, or
If anything goes wrong there, they are
going to worry, and that delicate thing
the army men call morale is going to
be disturbed. 1t is to safeguard
against this and also to prevent need
less suffering and to promote that spir-
it of neighborliness and kindly aid that
binds each community into an organic
whole that the Home Service was Or
ganized.
Over $4,000 workers are serving on
these ten thousand committees, which
reach into every corner of the country,
however remote Not a town or viii
Iage or crossroads that is not within
reach of the Red Cross not q wife or
child or mother of a man in service
who cannot claim the ready aid of the
Red Cross workers.
More than 100000 families of'Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors have been re-
lieved of money troubles, legal difficult
ties and worries of all sorts by the
protecting arm of the Red Cross. If
the allowances of allotments under the
War Risk Insurance law do not come
the matter Is at ace referred to Red
Cross Headquarters, taken up with the
proper government bureau and prompt
ly Strengthened out. If, through the
delay, the family finds itself in need
of money sums are advanced to tide it
over until the allotment arrives. Dur
ing July over sixty thousand inquiries
of this kind were received, and more
than a third of these were taken clear
through to headquarters before they
could be Strengthened out.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
Guarantee Trust Co.
North Carolina and Atlantic Avenues
ATLANTIC CITY.

Daniel S. White. President; Henry
w. Leeds and Clarence L. Cole, Vice
Presidents; Herman NJ. Sypherd, Vice
President and Trust officer; Harry T,
Sickler, Treasurer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
CARGO or SUPPLIES
Goes TO ARCHANGEL
Red CrUSs Sends Relief Ships for
Allied Soldiers and Civilians
in Starving Russia.

A relief ship was recently sent from
this country to Archangel by the
American Red Cross with 1900 tons
of drugs, food, soap and other sup
plies for the use of the Allied soldiers
and needy civilians in hat part of
Russia. The vessels cargo was val
ued at S1,511,233.
Later, another ship was dispatched
carrying 0 tons of similar supplies
furnished by the American Red Cross,
the total expenditure for the two ship
ments amounting to over SIC 900.
Major G. 7. Williams of Baltimore
was In charge of the party of thirteen
which accompanied the shipment from
this country. He was formerly a MEM
Der of the Red Cross Commission for
Roumania. Major Kirkpatrick, at one
time a member of the latter commits
sion, but recently attached to the
Army Medical Corps, heads the medi-
cal end of the Archangel e%xpendition.
Drugs and general hospital supplies
constituted the greater part of the
cargo sent from America.
While the chief concern of the ex-
petition was providing comforts for
American and Allied fighting men in
that part of the world, all efforts were
diers who were returned from Ger
man prison camps at the rate of about
$1,000 a week. The condition of these
men was pitiable. 1t has been estf-
mated that 90 per cent. of them were
tubercular.
In addition to drugs and food, al
most every imaginable article on the
list of supplies sent over was for the
comfort, convenience and pleasure Of
the Allied soldiers. Just a few of
these articles were playing cards,
razor blades, jewsharps, mandolins,
accordeons, ukaleles, monographs,
cameras, skates, wigs, whiskers,
grease paints, footballs, s~nowshoes,
slippers, hockey outfits, indoor base
balls, moving picture outfits, Bibles,
prayer books, boxing gloves, games.
music, books, cigarettes, candy and
dried fruits.
The need of prompt relief for the
inhabitants of towns along the coast
of the White Sea and IN the Kola
peninsula, many of whom were facing
starvation, was found to be impera-
tive. Scuryy had broken out among
the people at these places, adding to
the general distress.
The towns to which the relief ex-
pendition was sent are virtually iso-
lated from the outside world because
of the t~reacherous coast line, shifting
sand bars and uncharted waters. An
exceptionally early frost, ever for that
part of the world, ruined the h%arvests,
which were expected to improve con-
ditions. Statements, printed in Rus
sian, explaining the work of the Red
Cross, were distributed among the in
habitants.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
WHAT WOMEN ARE DOING
FOR SOLDIERS IN FRANCE
Fight in the Ranks of the Ped Cross Against
Pain, Disease and Death.

Through three takings of Belgrade,
first when the city was taken by the
A~ustrians, again when it was retaken
by the Serbians, and still again when
1t was taken back by the Germans and
Austrians together, an American Red
Cross nurse, Mary Gladwin, worked
In the operating room. In that first
capture, when nine thousand wounded
crowded the wards and halls and yard
of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and doctor
and nurse worked together for day
and night without stopping, giving to
each operation an average of six min
utes, and employing emergencies in
spired by the desperate need of the
moment, they did not know that the
city had been taken until all the
stretchers brought Austrian wounded,
and Austrian doctors came to their
relief.
Several hundred women are work
ing over there in the American Red
Cross c%anteens. There are about two
hundred of these canteens along the
French and American lines of COM
munication, and the women are work
ing under great pressure, feeding
thousands of soldiers. The Red Cross
is also establishing canteens by mill
tary request at a number of Aviation
Camps. American women conduct
these stations, comprising canteen and
club and reading room. Everyone Of
these c%anteens has something of the
genius of home about it; and 1t is
because of this, no less than the ia
cilities for cleanliness and rest and
refreshment, that the French govern
ment has given the responsibility for
maintaining canteens for both armies
to the hands of the American Red Cross.
In large numbers women are going
abroad as hospital hut workers, also,
and as social workers for trained
service among the refugees and the
r~epatriated. AT each base hospital the
Red Cross is equipping, as fast as they
can be built, recreation huts for con
valescent soldiers.
Clerical workers have steadily in
creased in number for the admins
trative offices. From that original
group of eighteen, which as the first
American Red Cross Commission to
France sailed about June 1st, 1917,
the organization has grown to a work.
ing force of more than 5000 men and
women.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14

They nave known very well the risks
they were taking-the two thousand
and more women who have gone to
France for varied services under the
American Red Cross, and the more
than nine thousand nurses whom the
American Red Cross has assigned to
foreign duty under the United States
Army and Navy Nurse Corps.
They went under orders, as soldiers
do; prepared for any emegencies, as
soldiers do; they assumed many
strange and unforeseen tasks, as sol
diers do. Literally, they went as
fighters, against pain, disease and
death.
A mobile surgical unit of nurses
those words don't mean very much,
perhaps, the first time we hear them.
But see such an unit follow an army
up to an advanced post see how the
nurses work with steady hands beside
the surgeons as the stretchers with the
newly wounded are brought in. See
thousands of them In evacuation hos
pitfalls, base hospitals, convalescent
hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals some
of them In French military hospitals
where sometimes our men are sent
see them with their specialized skill
In head surgery, or fracture work, or
psychiatry all these women who
keep head and hand cool and steady,
when the ambulances unload great
harvests of wounded. Then we say
the words "Our Nurses" as We say
Our Soldiers" "Our Sailors" "Our
Marines"
On the night of March 25th, when
the Germans were fast advancing, and
already within six kilometers of
Annel, an outpost of Compiegne, two
American doctors remained, who un-
der order of the French government,
had sent the patients and personnel
of their hospital farther back the
night before. The artillery was deaf
ening, but the American Ambulance
sections kept bringing their wounded
to Annel. These doctors said that as
long as the American boys brought
them wounded they would operate.
Two nurses volunteered from Com
piegne, and so In the deserted chateau
the two surgeons, the two nurses and
the ten drivers worked calmly on,
while the buzz of aeroplanes shook
the air, and the blasting guns shook
the earth.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
FOR lTALY'S BABIES.

Motherhood in Italy just now is no
the Joy that it might be, for the pool
women are at their wits ends to clotht
the children already in the family, no
to mention the preparation for the lit
tie newcomers. Perhaps the most ap
preeiated gifts of the American Rec
Cross at this tiVe are the layette,
which are being given to the mother:
of Italy. Each layette consists o.
twenty-four pieces and includes foul
bright colored swathing bands, so deal
to the heart of the Italian woman
Twenty layettes a week are needed a
Chioggia alone.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
CONTEST FOR THE JUNIORS.

A special feature during the Red
Cross Christmas Roll Call will be a
Junior Red Cross Four-Minute Men
Contest on "Why You Should Join the
Red Cross" The contest will be sim
liar to those previously conducted by
the Division of Four Minute Men of
the Committee on Public Information.
1t will be held on Friday, December
both, in all Of the School Auxiliarles,
and friends and parents of the pupils
will be urged to attend.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-12-14
Replacing the Orchards.

The American Red Cross has given
10000 to assist in the replanting of
rees in the orchards laid bare by the
Germans. With this sun 10000 fruit
rees will be replaced in the deyas-
ated orchards of Belgium and north
I'm France.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
SIX PENN TEAMS
in ACTION TODAY
Baseball. Lacrosse. Tennis.
Golf and Two Crew Events
on Schedule
STRAW HATS IN VOGUE

Athletes or the University Of rruusyi-
,uuia will be exceedingly busy young
men today. Tor no fewer than sis ath-
Ietic competitions are ON the program.
The big noise Of the day, Of course, is
the opening Of the straw hat season.
which will take place at Franklin Field
this afternoon when the Quaker and Co
lumbla mines cross bats ar O'Clock.
Immediately after the baseball game
the RED and Blue lacrosse twelve will
engage the highly touted team from
Johns Hopkins at Franklin Field, and
about the time the old Indian game will
be i'm progress the freshman crew Will
stack up against the Princeton and CO.
Iumbia vearling corruinations over the
miIe-and seven -ciEhths course on Lake
Carnegie, at Princeton. After the fresh
man race the Quaker varsity viii test
it's speed and strength and courage
against the Tiger and Columbia first
eights I'm the Childs cup contest over
the same course.
Two minor sports teams VIII SWING
into action on foreign soil The tennis
team will play columbia ON New York
courts and the golf players Of the Ben
Franklin institution will meet the Morn
ingsidc Heights link artists at staten
Island.
The Penn authorities also viii act as
hosts 70 the schoolboys in the annual
Middle states track and field champion
ships this morning at Franklin Field.
The bet prep and high school athletes
i'm the Fast are in the city for the games
MerCershurR. with such stars as Allen
Swedc. the famous miller; Allen Wood
ring, the intercollegiate furloug cham
pion, aud others, ts the fsvorite.
Coach Thomas viii depend on the
Quaker ironman. Walter Bernhard to
do the hurting against the Morningsde
Heights combination. Bernhardt has
twirled only two games this year for
Penn, and both have been victories. He
beat Swarthmore in the opening en-
gagement in fourteen innings, and then
trimmed Holy Cross at Worcester over
the regulation route.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04

be closely Fought, II is on the oue-niIe
race that the chief interest is centerefs
In this event will be two of the btat
milers in scholastic ranks the country
over--Bob Crawford, OF Flushing High.
New York, and Allen Swede, OF Mtia
cersburg. The last meeting betwepR
these two stars was in the american In
terscholastic cross-country Championship
two years ago, which resulted In vic
tory for Crawford. Both have irnprovez
greatly and are capable of turning a
mile IN ABS.
Southern Cancels Dual Meets
Due to the number OF frst-class. men
declared Ineligible by the school faculty.
last week. Manager Cowdry, of Soufi
Philadelphia High school, has been
forced TO call of all the scheduled duaf
track and field meets
No less than six first-class perforinea1e
Pcrdue, Nissillio, Byran, Morris, Read
ana Rainey were lost by the recent
ruling of the faculty. srhese men. q.
pecially Reed, Byran and Rainey. weld
good for many points in dual meets. ~
Cowdry, Tempone and Thomas, tha
nalnstays of the team, in fact the only
remaining members Of the squad. hok2
ever, VIII compete in the majority or
the scholastic meets and also viii run
in the outdoor "Quads"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
FRED KNIGHT AND RISLEY
ARE FAVORITES TO MEET
IN ATLANTIC CITY FINAL
Local Golfer TO Play Frank Barton, While Shore Entry
Meets Wallace in Semifnal Round
This Morning
BY WILLIAM II. EVANS

mcnts have been started ana ended i'm
transforms with more rain sandw wiChcd
in for good measure. But greatly to the
delight Of J. Iiaines LppnCott, presi-
dent Of the club Harry McSwecncy, the
very able chairman OF the green cCm-
mittoe, and Fred Sherman. who runs
these affairs with rare judgment and
skin. there have been two perfect days
Of golf and the weather indications for
today are fair and warmer AS a result
every one i'm the tournament has had
two delightful days OF goif
It is estimated that nearly twenty
thpusa nd persons play yearly over the
Atlantic city course. They come from
every FcctiOn of the country and while
many of them are good players there
are more who are either bad or in
different golfers. one of the marvellous
things about the Atlantic city course
is that IL is u as excellent condition
as 10 Is. ON Thursday. for instance,
there were fully fif.y players who quail
fled i'm one hundred strokes or over.
This mems a lot Of missed shots i'm
the fairways and in spots the fairways
look as if tractor had gone over
them.
AZ ON" OF the committee expressed il.
golfers who will pat back diyots on
their home course think /. g. perft,lly
proper tD let them lie down here. lr
they only realized hOH hard /, Is to grow
good turf here and + they only knew
how much mon. 3 uc spend uu the course
every year they would bn a little more
considcrat" iu the trcatmcn. of our
turf"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
DEMPSEY GETS DECISION
OVER MISkE AT ST. PAUL
Both Fighters Weigh in at l8j Billy
Rocked by Uppcrcui in
Sayeutb

~. Paul. May 4.-Juull Dempsey had
showed himself a little closer To- bout
for the heavyweight boxing crown today
with newspaper decision over Billy
Miske Of St Paul In ten rounds to his
credit here. Zone pride credited Miskc
with a draw.
With the exception OF the seventh
round. @hcu Miske was WabbliuE with
an upporcut 10 the jaw, there was no
hint OF a knOckdowu or blood spiIlug
Miske found the western heavy more
nearly in his own class than the fighters
he has met recently. Each weighed in
around lS5. Accustomed to tantali2iug
bigger and slower men. Miskc faced an
opponent quite as Shifty as himself
Billy wasn't permitted 10 aet himself
TO deliver his favOritc punches.
The first three rounds were SLOW with
Miske car'i0us. Dcmpscys dancing and
rocking bsttled the St Paul boy. There
after until the eighth. which was SLOW
the mixing was viD.cnt In the seventh
Miske rushed Jack but Dempsey came
back with an UpparCut to the Jaw that
forced Bill to hang ON.
The faNurite division of hOuUrs today
was:
First, even; second and third, Demp-
sey; fourth, Nisk": fifth. even; sixth
Misle; seventh ana eighth. Dempsey :
ninth, even. and tenth. Dempsey
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
Schedule for Today
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CITY TWIRLER
REPORTS TO MACK TO-DAY

BIZ Piersou, the star slab artist Of the
Atlantic city High School baseball team.
will report to Connie Mack today to re-
ceive a tryout Connie last night ordered
PiersOu TO report today.
Scouts have carried many tales Of the
prowcss Of the lad. lie will be nineteen
years old next June and is well built.
Last year Piersou struck out a total Of
Seventy-fOur bHtsmen in five games. OPP
posing Kennett square High School, La
Sale College. Williamson Trade School,
Roman Catholic High School and Peddic
institute. He was the sensation Of the
scholastic season.
This year he again started out i'm Won
derful form. He retired fourteen men on
strikes in opening the Blue and White
season against HammuntOn High School
Pierson struck out eleven men against
Brown Prep in seven innings and seven
teen against West Philadelphia High
School in thirteen innings last SATURDAY,
While playing with Pieasautville last
summer, PieTSOn beat Logan Square, /
to O. and held the McNichol squad TO
three hits.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
MEADE TO MEET
AS TOMORROW
Mackmen First of Series Of
American League Teamst
to Entertain Soldiers

Camp Meade. Nd, MAY
'ile OF the busiest weeks in the historr
OF the seventy-ninth division closed ftiA
morning and 20 per cent of the men WA
VIII remain in camp turned their atfar,
t'oi' IRON war games to athletics.
\ dozen baseball games will be staged
touay' Tomorrow a picked team N
soldiers meets the Athletics. Sunda~sf
game will probably draw a crowd or tan
thousand visitors to Little Penn The
military police, however have made nft4
vision TO handle the throng. ana natx
everybody feel at home.
Major league baseball is to be a hir
feature in the life of the camp. for
Ban Johnson, boss Of the Amoricsf
League, in a letter TO owen Harfssx
athletic director Of the knights OF col.
umbus. promises to have every team
in the league stage a game L this cani6
Next to the announcement that IN
Allies are holding the boche on The
western front. the news that major
league baseball is on the boards as a
regular feature did more to please The
men in olive drab than any event for
weeks N
week from sunday, the Washjnk
ton team will play here. and the follow
ing week. one OF the western teams wH
make it's appearance
Little Penn has an abundance Of clay
4 material. from which a cantonmepf
team can be constructed. and nnajof
league teams will find the task OF beat
ing the soldier bunch anything but easX.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
ToddyS Baseball Games
in Independent Leagues
WOOD
pLATT-

philadplphia suburban League -- Lin.
dley ut LuutOni Fern Rock at OinPS;
Barrett at Franklin,
Manufacturers Leagur-NionotApe at
Lewis; Link BELT at Wheeler; butter
wOrth at Sellers; Becker, Smith a Page
at stokes a smith.
Philadelphia Manufacturers League
Elliott Lewis ut Quaker CITY; Tabor
MHnufuCturlng Company ut Philndelnhin
TeNtilPi PHILADELPHIA Roll and Machine
at american Pulley; STANDARD Pressed
steel vt IiOOpr~ a Townsend.
Northwest Church AsSOcint on --IIeth-
any ". Calvary; llarper. ys Covenant;
OliNPt uVenunt " Sclwprkfe'der; North
west Memorial " First Dutch.
Other games = Ordnance Denartment.
Camp Meade. NJ DiSstOn. Hess Bright ut
StetsOn; Cost and accounts at Phiiahel-
phln Giants; TOwRnda IT Logan 4. Al
Warwick nt AutOcar. Of ArdmOre; Wy
Petroleum \. 4. Lrugue--G rev -Ieyick
vs. Gulf. pt Cynwyd; TPNhs W Union. al
Twenty ninth and Somerset streets;
Vacuum ~ Pure. at ThirtN second street
and PRSsyunk avenue.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
MANY LEAGUES
OPEN HERE TODAY
Independent Clubs and Or
ganizalions to Usher I'm
Baseball Season
LONG LIST or CANES

Weather of course, permitting this
will b. opening day bon a number of
baseball Leagues and several prominent
independent clubs viii also usher in the
season. The leagues include the Phtla-
dclphia suburban League, Manufac-
turcrs League, Philadelphia Manufac-
turer- League. Petroleum \. A. and
Northwest Church Association Many
more get uudor way next Saturday. and
this contingent includes the Motive
Power League. Northeast Manufacture
crs League, Montgomery County League
and Delaware River Shipbuilders'
League. the latter containing eight %
the best clubs heroabout. The Straw
bridge & Clothier nine viii also get
started next saturday. meeting Cost and
Accounts. johnny ogden will hurl the
opening game for the store boys
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-04
LEFTY" WIENER PITCHES
WEST PHILA. TO VICTORY

The West Philadelphia High School
baseball team defeated the Frankford
High school nine yesterday afternoon
by the score of TO = at kirkbride' S
field.
Lefty" Weiner. the westerners' star
pitcher. struck out fourteen batters and
allowed only six hits, He issued only
one free pass,
Captain Davis. Of West Philadelphia
drove the ball to deep center in the
third inning with two men on base and
scored enough runs TO win.