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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
BUSINESS SCIENCE CLUB
SPEAKERS FOR FREE ION

Prominent speakers at the dinner of
the Business Science Club. at the Belle
Vue-Stratford last night, strongly urged
the cstabl shmcnt of a free zone at this
port in order that Philadelphia may
take advantage of the creation OF five
million gross tonnage of American ship
ping and the coming transfer or the
money market to tbs country
Other advantages of the free port
dwelt on were the necessity for revision
of the United States navigation laws,
the creation of favorable financial con-
ditions for establishing new shipping.
and the extenson of pier, railroad and
warehouse facilities here.
1t was shown by George +. Sproulc,
secretary of the Commissioners of Navi-
gat on, that this country has been pay
Ing foreign shipping one thousand mill
lions of dollars every year to carry its
exports and imports, He also laid
stress on the need for financing rcpu-
table citizens who wished to build ships
TO take care of this trade. lie said that
in Europe banks did this exclusively.
taking mortgages on the ship itself and
that one bank in England never failed
to pay its stockholders less than 20 per
cent dividends.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
CITY TO REGISTER
10000 MALE ALIENS
Recording of Finger Prints, Photo
graphs and Histories Will
Begin Monday

Registration of male German aliens
will begin in Philadelphia Monday morn
ing and it is expected tina $4,000 Ger
mans in this city will be required to
register. Under the law women are not
required to register.
n complete system of identification il
included in the registration plan. Finger,
prints, photographs and histories of the
lives of all those involved are required
Superintendent of Police Robinson is H.
charge as superior registration officer
for Philadelphia, and lieutenants have
been appointed to have charge of the
work in helvarious precincts. Every
police statish will be IA registration
center and Ayill be open for this pur.
pose from o'clock in the morning to
s o'clock in the evening Federal agents
have "A complete list Of those required
to register, and will take action against
those who do not comply with the law
next week.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
City NelUs in Brief

The old Broad street marllcthousc
property. at l7lS to 1874 North Broad
street, has been sod by Lionel Fried
mann to John -. DcaVer at a price
believed to be cons iderably in excess Of
100000.
4 more elaborate use of moving pic
ture films and lantern slides as an aid
to text books in the public schools has
been advocated by Dr. John l.. CARRIER
superintendent of the public schools of
Philadelphia.
The correspondent in the Philadelphia
Bourse Of the Paris Chamber of Com
merce has received Il communication
from that body expressing the gratitude
of the French people for the narticipa-
tion of the United States in the war
and the activity of the American Red
Cross in Europe.
Patriotic rallies were again held in
many of the public schools of Philadel-
phia last night in the continuation of
the campaign to stamp out seditiUn and
disloyalty and inculcate II spirit of loyal
ty in the young people of the city,
Applications We're made at the Office
of the Bureau of Compulsory Educa-
tion yesterday by $50 children to enter
Industrial plants in order to support sick
and dependent parents.
News has been received here of the
death in action on the French front of
Dr. Robert H. Heath thirty-nine years
old "A graduate of the Dental School OF
the University of Pennsylvania in the
class of 1910.
Lieutenant Colonel Horatio B, Hack
cit, son of the former political leader by
the same name, has been promoted to
be colonel of the 124th Field Artillery
The election for president of the Phil
adelphia Medical Club to settle the con-
troversy over the alleged technical de-
fects in the election of DR.. Albert =
Brubaker has been ordered for Feb.
ruary 10.
The Delaware Bay-Brown Shoal gas
and bell buoy No. 7, which was dam
| aged by ice and removed for repairs
will be replaced as soon as practicable
| and in the meantime the station will b'
temporarily marked by an unlighted
| second class tall can buoy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
FLIGHTS or MOSQUITOES
DIPHTHERIA IN NORRISTOWN
Montgomery County House of De-
tention Placed Under Quarantine

NORRISTOWN. Feb 2.7-Diphtheria
broke out in the MONTGOMERY County
House of detention at Norrstown today
and the Board of Health has quar-
antincd the institution. The victim Is
George Bundy, Il colored boy. one of a
family of four mentally deficient chill
drcn who were brought to the attention
of the Juvenile Court and were being
prepared TO be admitted to the lnstitu-
ton for Feeble Minded at Spring city.
Treatment was given the other children
in the institution. four boys and Il girl
to prevent a further spread of the dis
ease, as all the children had mingled in
the plaNrOOm.
Tie Bundy children were admitted to
thc House of detention nearly two
months ago from the Willow Grove sec
ton.
How the disease got into the institu-
ton is q mystery
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
LACK OF EMPTY CARS +,
CLOSES II w. VA. MINES
Fuel Controller Reports to Railrosd
Administrator 1907 Men Idle,
Causing Loss of $4,000 Tons ~ 7

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. - Complete
shutdown Of seventy-one West virginia
co n mines In the Fairmount and Clarks-
burg regions was reported today by
Fuel Administrator Lawson. of West
Virginia, TO the railroad administration.
This means loss of about $4,000 tons
for the day. Lack OF empty coal cars
at the mines was given % the cause.
Only 121 mines were heard from because
of wire conditions, but the seventy-one
closed means 1907 miners are idle. 10
Mining of bituminous coal depends
entirely on the supply Of empty cara at
the mines coal experts pointed out, and
unles cars are at the mouth of the mines
to receive the coal as it is brought up
out Of the shaft mining must stop. b,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
THIEVES TAKE BEST SILK
Get Into Factory With Keys and
Steal $1,000 Worth

The Barney Sacks Company. manu-
featuring silk shirtwaists on the iifth
floor of l22S Cherry street, has six big
closets in which the silk is kept. TIN"
best silk is kept in one closet, the next
best in another, and 80 on.
Some thieves who believe in business
as usual" and n maximum of efficiency
drove up behind the building with an
automobile truck last night, let them
selves in with keys, opened the closets
with keys aud went off with the four
best grades of silk
The gross proceeds of their nights s
work were $1,000 worth Of silk. but. of
course, the cost Of gasoline. deprecia-
tion of the Nlotortruck and a few other
overhead items must come out of that.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
US. BEGINS TO SEE
DREGS OF ITS BOOZE
Two Years of War'WOuld Out
last Nations Supply of
Liquor by Six Months
WASHINGTON, Feb. =.

If the war lasts couple OF years
moro America is likely to run out or
hard Iiauor before 1t runs into national
nrohibition. statistics showed. There's
only enough left now TO keep up toddies
and elbow blenders for eighteen months.
Forbidden to distill any more until
war ends, the liquor men fear that thou
sands of swinging doors will close as
carly as January |, 1919. and that even
before then booze may go so high that
nobody can afford to get full but IL mill
lionairc,
Already hundreds of saloons have
closed because of high booze prices and
the heavy tax. But records show that
the nations sincere drinkers are going
it as strong as ever.
According to records compiled at the
office of the Internal Revenue Commits
sioner today there were approximately
5O.OCO,OO0 gallons Of distilled liquor
held in bonded warehouses near the end
of January.
The daily drain on those stocks is at
a rate which will aggregate more than
100. .O00, 900 gallons annually.
The threatened exhaustion has not yet
caused a decrease in the Withdrawals
from the warehouses, officials said
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
MOSQUITOES FLY.
60 MILES FOR BITE
SO Expert on the Critters"
Tells New Jersey Extermi-
nation Association
GORGAS URGES WORK
Surgeon General Points Necessity Of
Safeguarding Health of Sol
diers in Camp
ATLANTIC CITY. Feb. .

-
william {. Gorgas. surgeon general,
T-pitcd state. prr,,. ,,.ircd g., tb, Now
'"'s' W ''''
jersey Mosquito determination Asso-
ciatiou in animal ,ouvcuti,, b,rc nm
Nv
earnest plea for aggressive warfare 10
make Jersey moSqui'"IeSs common
"caI'll'
General Gorre.'s message created q
S'lr III the convention because OF I'-
norris that Can,n Ncrritt pt Icnuny in
EcfGen county where thoNSandS "t
fighting mon ar, assembled Is sur.
,,,,,,,I,,i t,,. ,,, I,,,lir,. r,,s for
''"""V '' TT, - w '"S
1T. ,,,.,..,.., T., con. ,or,,
consider. nrtiyity of most urgent neccs-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
HABITAT OF JERSEY HUNS"

Tuited States troops
are called upon to
face the Hun not only
in France. but are
threatened with a
fight 10 make this
mart of the world
"safe for democracy"
down I'm Jersey. vii.
liam e. C;orpas. sur.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
FINED FOR SHORT WEIGHT
Palmyra Coal Dealer Says Driver
Put Up Load

BURLINGTON, y. j., Feb, @.--Magis-
trate Smith, on prosecution bv the state
Attorney General, gave hearing
to l.. a. Weikman, a Palmyra dealer.
charged with selling short-weieht coal.
II was testified that there was a sixty
fve-pound shortage i'll u quarter-ton
load.
Weikman entered a plea of non vult
ana paid a $50 fine. but declared he
was not In the office when the load
was made up. and that the driver had
undertaken 10 MeigE the coal.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
ON STATE MEDICAL BOARD
DR.. w. NJ. Hillegas Named to Sue
ceed Late DR.. ID. p. MadduX

DR. William NJ. Hiliegas, a prominent
physician of Philadelphia. has been
named to succeed the late Dr u. p,
MadduX as member of the state Mcdi-
cal Board.
Dr. HillegaS Is "A graduate Of the
Hahnemann Medical College, of philadel-
phia; Il member of the board of trustees
Of the Homeopathic state Medical So
ciety: on the staff of the West Phila-
delphia Homeopathic Hospital; Il mem-
ber of the State and National Homco.
pathic Societies. the Philadelphia Ath-
letic Club and stands high in his pro-
fcssion in this city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
PICKING POCKETS CHARGED
Cop Declares Youth Was Caught
Operating at Lobster Ball

Paul Grayo of 11th and Mexican
streets, attended the Lobster Ball at
New Auditorium Hall, Seventh street
and Snyder avenue, last night
This morning he attended the police
court of Magistrate lmber at the Thirty
fourth district station, Fifteenth and
SNYDER avenue, where he was charged
by Policeman owen, of the Thirty
seventh district station with picking
pockets while at the ball, owen swore
that he saw the youth putting his hand
into a dancers pocket and arrested
him.
At court this morning Grayo pleaded
not guilty, but II was soon found that
he has quite an extensive police record,
so he was held in $500 bail until Mon
day morning. when he will be given q
trial. a. tfG
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
Lingelbach Talks on Russia

DR.. William T.. Lingelbach. professor
of modern European history at the
University of Pennsylvania, will give a
public lecture in Houston Hall this after
noon on Russia and the Revolution" #"
Doctor Lingelbach has Travelled extern
sively in Russia and has made a
speciality of the study of Russia and her
institutions.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
FORTY NEW POLICEMEN
Thirteen Firemen Also Added to
City's Payroll Today

Municipal appointments today inelud-
ed the addition of forty patrolmen to
the city forces and thirteen firemen. This
does not quite bring the police force up
to the needed quota, but they are being
appointed as fast as suitable men can
be found, it was said today.
Mrs. b. b, Raedon, of l2O Soutli
Thirty-fourth street, was appointed first
assistant in the ahtitoXin laboratory
of the Bureau of Health at salary of
$1,000 a year. while George Peters, of
2514 East York street, was appointed a
machinist's helper in the Bureau Of
Water. at $3.50 "A day.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
Mother Seeks Lost Baby

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The search for
Lillian Rosner, the three-year-old child
who disappeared from in front of her
home four days ago, is being continued
Mrs. Ellen a. O'Grady Fifth Dep
uty Police Commissioner, made per-
sonal visit TO the basement home of the
Rosner family, where she asked many
questions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
ADOPTS DAUGHTER, FORTY
Fargo, at "a, Rewards Housekeeper
for Faithful Service

NEW YORK. Feb. 2.-Miss Jane Fliz-
tbeth Geraty. forty years old. is today
the adopted daughter of wealthy Morti-
mer Fargo. formerly connected win the
Wells-Fargo Express Company.
Legal adoption OF Miss Geraty is
Fargo's idea of recompensing faithful
housekeeper who has served him for
years. He is seventy-four years old,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
CHARGE OF ASSAULT ON COP
Policeman Arrests Six-Footer After
Rough and Tumble Argument

Policeman Schweitzer began to think
he would qualify as JOB successor
as the worlds champion patient man.
but he lost whatever chance he had to-
day when he waded into Michael Tourtal
six-footer weighing something above
225 pounds,
Schweitzer, who says that Tourtal has
been "pestering" him for days. locked
the man up this morning at the Fourth
and York streets station after a rough
and-tumble fight at Mascher and
Dauphin streets. Tourtal. VINO will
have a hearing tomorrow on a charge
of assault and battery, lives at 22l1
Orianna street
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
SLIGHT DECREASE SHOWN
IN WEEKS DEATH LIST
Total Of 756, Against 768 for Pre-
vious Week, and No Conta-
gious Outbreaks

The weekly report of the Bureau of
Health today showed total of 756
deaths for the week, as compared to Gs9
Tor the corresponding week of last wear.
The deaths for last week were 7GS.
No cases Of outbreak of contagiou,
dlseaseS are reported. There was a
slight decrease in deaths from pneu-
monia, the total for the week being 1l5
The causes of death this week were
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
FOOD 80 P. E. HIGHER
THAN in AUGUST, 1914
Farm Products Jump % Per
Cent-Clothing More Than
Doubles
WASHINGTON. Feb. ..

II Is costing the American people to-
day lust 80 per cent more to cat than
it did IN August, l9li, when the great
war broke out.
Retail prices on foodstuns mos, Scu-
orally consumed III this country show
the following increases on December ST.
1917. over August l, 1914, according to
the United states Bureau Of Labor sta
tistiCr
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02

NoRRISTowN. Pa. Feb. e.-one of
mobile supply store at Harleysville
was wounded by shot from citi-
zens who were watching. but he escaped
by being carried to an automobile, In
which the burglars came, and was hur-
ried away. A..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
General Wood Leaves Hospital

PARIS, Feb. Mia jor-Gcneral Wood,
who was wounded in the right arm by
Il she'll splinter while visiting the Amer
lean front recently, left the hospital
here today.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02
ADVERTISING MAN

Retail store experience, forceful
copy writer, producing adds with
punch, seeks immediate connee-
tion with good house; medium
and better class trade. Specialist
in women's wear copy. Box A 5,
Ledger Office.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-02

Situation Still Uncertain
Jams Back Up Water
in Ohio River
FLOES IN MISSISSIPH1
Surface Covered for 800 MINI
Much Property and Shipping
in Peril
CINCINNATI, Feb. 4


Cincinnati has no definite hope Of n1oo,
relief today Weather officials declaSod
the situation uncertain. ~
The big ice gorges at Medoc bar. stk-,
teen miles below here. and at sugar
Creek, just beyond that. are solid and
It will take additional water pressUre.
or thaw to break them. ~
Additional pressure will mean higher
water in Cincinnati. a drop of tap-
tenths Of an inch was noticed in ithc
river stage last night. This, howevtr,
does not improve conditions, as a tail
Of several feet will be needed to let Ahe
water run out of the streets and houses
in the flood zone In Cincinnati and sni-
urbs. w h
There seem TO be enough openingsln
the gorges to permit seepage equal'4o
tho inflow OF the river. and this ke6bs
the water virtually at a standstill. ~
Shipping worth millions Is endangered
by ice in the Mississippi. according to
adviCes received from Memphis. Tenn.
For distance of 800 miles. extending
from Cairo, Ill, TO Natchez Miss, the
river IS cover with ice.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, Feb. THE Mis-
sissipp River from Cairo, ILL.,, to
Natchez, Miss, a distance of 800 miles.
is filled with ice foes and river man
today are battling against one Of the
most threatening situations in the hss-
tory of the river. wit2.
Great damage to shipping has already
been done and millions of dollars worth
Of property, 1t is estimated, is In dam
ger. More than score of big steam
boats and large numoer Of smaller
craft already have gone 70 the bottom.
At Richardson's Landing. fifty midas
up the river from Memphis. the most
serious situation exists.e a new tee
gorge replacing the one that broke
Thursday night is forming and river
men are making a fight to keep the
stream clear. ~
Many steamboats, and barges are Qp-
cased in this gorge and it is feared tiny
will be lost. s-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06
HYLANS SUIT

Mayor Hylan's suit against
The World has been abandon
ed. The mayor asked for $751;
loco damages. The World asks
him for $4,000 extra compen-
sation for preparing the cases,
alleging that twice the usual
care and preparation was nee
essary, in view of the fact that
the plaintiff is mayor of New
York.
Libel suits as a rule are a
failure. The newspaper usual
Ily is printing in good faith the
facts it believes will be help
full to the public. Juries sell
dom give damages. Often the
man who brings the suit, finds
the cost and bother of doing it,
more than the value Of any
compensation he is likely to
obtain. Occasionally plain
tiffs do not care to exhibit
publicly the facts that libe,
suits exhibit.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06
HIGH FINANCE

Robert Hupp, who used to
work for Henry Ford, got the
notion he would like to COM
pete with his boss. Hupp asso-
.ciated himself with two others.
They entered a room ana
emerged with estimates for a
car to be sold at 1895. They
decided that about $3,OOO,OOO
would be necessary to do bus
mess with and started a stock
selling campaign. The meas
ures for the sale of stock were
so dramatic that Hupp and his
associates have been indicted.
Ford designed a car, and began
to manufacture it with a small
capital. He acquired his wealth
and prestige by knowing how
Organizations that start from
the top, heavily over capitaliz-
ad, have a hard row to hoe.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06

direction. The attempt to stop
the manufacture Of beer and
wines by a rider on the agricul-
t1ral bill is a mistake. If beer
and wines should not be made,
if it is necessary to conserve
the grains and other food stuffs
used in beer and wines, make a
statute to cover the case. Do
not reqeuire the president to
do something he may not be-
lieve in, in order not to des-
troy something else that he
may believe in.
Prohibition is a question big
enough to be handled by it
self.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06
MAKING INSTITUTIONS
STRONG

All activity has an emotion
al basis. Patriotism is an emo
ton. Courage is an emotion.
That thing in man which
makes him die rather than run
has an emotional foundation.
But the progress of the
world which has been so mark
ed during the last hundred
years rests upon the unemo-
tional side of man. Modern
progress is founded upon a
careful consideration of facts
and phenomena, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining what &C
tually happens.
The emotional side of Amer
lea brings men to the colors,
makes them fight the Prussian
with zeal. They hate his bar
barities and his barbarous prac-
tice Of making war as horrible
as possible. Those feelings by
which men love country, hate
oppression and stand and figh+
are fundamental and beyond
price.
They are not the considera-
tons that make the difference
between defeat and victory in
this war. Consider a tribe oil
savages armed with bows anc
arrows, opposed by modern
soldiers armed with machine
guns. Conceivably the savage.
might be actuated by patrio-
tism, might be brave and nigh
hate the invader. But they
would all be slaughtered. The!
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06
A SOUND DECISION

The Mount Vernon alderman
who passed an ordinance for
bidding the sale Of Hearst
newspapers did something
outside Of their jurisdiction.
Judge Giegerich has so decid-
ed. The Hearst newspapers
are responsible to the govern
ment of the country was in
ample for all cases. If the
Hearst papers are guilty of Sc
dition the government will pun
ish them. The officials OF
Mount Vernon attempted lynch
law. If the Hearst newspapers
are not subject to government
punishment they are subject
to public opinion. Those who
read them need not unless they
wish to.
No mans life or property
would be safe if the govern
ment of the country was il
the hands of officials like those
in Mount Vernon.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06
mzOl CO

could not resist. The cold and
accurate intellect embodied in
the machine gun, its absolute
adjustment of forces to the end
of taking life could not be over
come by men armed with bows
and arrows.
America goes to war equip
ped upon the emotional side,
but vastly thoughtful upon the
intellectual side. What as
semblage Of reasoned things
makes Germany so strong? By
what assemblage of closely
reasoned things can Americans
become now and remain
stronger than Germany.
Germany personified at the
opening Of the war the science
of intensive production, man
aged by a population highly
trained in mechanics, physics,
chemistry and agriculture. Her
institutions are correlated, so
that they might operate as a
whole, and so that a war might
be fought with a minimum dis,
turbance Of the industrial IA
brio.
America now is arranging
her institutions, not according
to the German order, but &C
cording to an order of her own,
calculating how to obtain the
maximum coordination of
parts and the greatest effici-
ency from each part.
Production is the keynote of
victory. Production consists
in putting everybody who can
work at some useful employ
ment, it consists in making
each person as skilled as pos
sible in his part, anG in OBJ
tanning from each person anc
each machine the greatest pro-
duction obtainable.
In this connection there
should be mechanical and agri-
cultural training camps, where
intelligent men could be inten.
sively instructed, much as Of
ficers are instructed in the Of
, ficers training camps.
The method is simple, but i
o would multiply skill almost i'm
mediately, increase spirit, anc
! promote early victory.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-06-06
POLITE PIRACY

Captains of torpedoed ships
are uniform in rehearsing the
courtesy Of German submarine
officers. But the crews of these
ships were nevertheless COM
mitted to boats on the open sea,
sometimes forty or fifty miles
from the nearest coast. One of
the boats leaving the Carolina
capsized and sixteen of the oc-
cupants died.
This by the law of nations is
murder, and so will remain.
Any doubt in any quarter re-
garding the nature of the
transaction will be removed
with the defeat of the Prussiar
monarchy and the substitution
of democracy among the Cen
trail powers.