Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-19
GIRLS FIND LOAN WORK
FULL OF ODD INCIDENTS
Something Always Happening, So
No One Has Chance to
Be Bored

II think every one OF us Is a. little moro
human, little more understanding and a
good deal better for having sold bonds for
this Liberty Loan"
i was Miss Gretchen Clay, major OF the
Emergency Aid aides and director of the
work of the aides under Mrs Norman Mac
Leod during the loan, who thus summed up
the result of hundreds of interesting expert
ences.
For three weeks these young women many
of them descendants Of Philadelphia's Oldest
families, have worked steadily in the booths
and in the business sections of the city,
rubbing against m'llionaires and paupers
making lasting friends of all the raga-
muiins on the street, the police. the soldiers
ana sailors and the thousands of laymen
that loiter few minutes each day to talk
to the pretty workers.
The ragamufin lMls fall over themselve,
10 tack posters UP and run errands for the
blue uniformed maidens. The police have
aided them in every way possible Per-
shings heroes find 1t mighty inspiring to
help sell bonds In front of the booths
manned by such femninity. And the mass
OF people pour out their troubles and their
joys and expect these young women to know
everything thats going on IN the universe.
we are weather vanes, general infornla-
tioh bureaus, father confessors and bond
sellers all in one,,' declared Miss Victoria
Davis in charge Of the American trench
asked everything from what the weather is
to be to where baby sister who died of
influenza may be buried.
Yesterday a poorly dressed old man came
10 tne oooth and said he wanted to buy u
bond Tor his daughter. He was SO disrepu-
table-looking I wanted to make certain. so
asked II he had his daughters consent,
That isn't the question at ALL he in
sisted Shes my daughter. and she'll do as
l say
He was so insistent that I let him sion
a subscription for a $50 bond Another la
boring man who stopped to subscribe told
me ne MADE 500 month. and there were
lnree IN his family besides himself He Is
paying sS month on Liberty Bonds"
, Buy bond 90 exclaimed one man m
costed by pretty woman worker We'll I
over?"' =
1t took several precious minutes to con-
vince him of his mistake, but he was con-
Ninced. At least he subscribed for a 500
bond. 'N
I've had dozens of people ask me where
they can get an undertaken. doctor, nurse,
influenza preventive or cure" said Misa
Margaret Hart, one of the National .ae e,,s
Tor Womens Service juniors who has been
working every day In booths on Chestnut
and Market streets
Mrs. Heckscher Wetherill. Of 1880 South
Rittenhouse Square. who has been on dutv
at the Statue of Liberty booth from earIy
morning till IL o'clock each evening thesa
three weeks tells the story of one woman
subscriber. '
There were perhaps a dozen pers6rs
about the booth early one evening when a
woman In deep mourning, with gold star
on her left arm. entered quietly and filled
out subscription for $500. She was so
sweet-looking l wanted TO talk TO her hut
had hesitancy about mentioning the star
30 kept quiet. She started out. Then and
denly she turned TO those standing In front
OF the booth and, in simple straightforward
appeal she said:
i've just pledged my last cent to Idb-
erty Loan. And. pointing to the star on her
arm, I've given the only son 1 had Uavs
you given all YOU cam
she didn't wait for than to ansver but
went on her way. The answer was mighty
interesting to us. for most of those who
heard her came In TO subscribe"
Parents who subscribe are pA,ne to ston
ana tell the sympathetic bond-sellers ali
about their sons In service. and many n,
them bring out kodak pictures of the bovs
III KHAKI. One man even gave the addresse.
oI ms Two sons overseas and asked the young
women 10. let him know il they ever saw
the names among the casualties.
negro woman who was asked In hu,, &,
bond rather insolently answered mo 90 And
as she passed the booth the workers hoard
her explain TO her companion tha, .,rhan,
girls gets dollar apiece for every bond t,,aa
sells I'm going to buy from bank" s'