Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-16
WIDOW TEACHER
WOULDAIDLOAN
Offers Rings to John Wan
amaker for Cash to
Buy Bonds
SACRIFICE is ACCEPTED
Merchant Agrees to Dispose of
Jewels Periodically Given
by Woman

the Liberty Loan campaign was DIOuBuN
70 light this morning in the headquarters
cf the women's Liberty Loan Committee
In the Lincoln Building The incident
deals with a widow with two children,
aged three and six years, respectively
To provide n livelihood for herself and
these two children the woman is teach
ing in one Of the public schools in this
city.
Going to the office Of John Wana-
maker today she told hi mhow anxious
she was to purchase Liberty Bonds.
I've never met you" she said. but
Im sure, as "A member of the Board Of
Education, you viii help me buy some
bonds"
SO saying she took several rings from
her fingers and laying them in front of
Mr. Wanamaker said:
These rings cost me $500 several
years ago and | want you TO dispose of
them for me that l may use the money
for bonds. Unless | can sell these
rings / won't be able TO do my bit for
my country"
Mr. Wanamaker was deeply touched
by the teachers appealh and told her
he would sell the rings for as large a
price as possible.
The Naval auxiliary 70 the Red Cross
had received subscriptions totaling $Si-
$50 for the Liberty Loan, IT was AN
nounced today by Mrs. T.. r. Stotesbury,
national chairman Of the Naval Aux
Hilary to the Red Cross.
Construction of Naval Auxiliary
booths on the north City Hall Plaza is
going aehaG rapidly and the booths arc
to be opened later this week for the sale
Of Liberty Bonds and as a recruiting
station.
yrbIs oN.ori,,.r 81. ,Lo ,,t,,..L n 49,
Mother of Consolation, Chestnut Hin.
several prominent speakers will address
Liberty Loan meeting. They will in
clude William Potter, state fuel admin
istrator; John II. Mason. Percy Heating
and Thomas ). Gates. The Great Lakes
Band will be present and render apprO-
PIRATE music.
Rivalry between the womens Liberty
Loan house-to-house Canvassers and the
men who are engaged in the same work
has resulted in steady gains for Lib
erty Bonds of the third loan, and so
far supremacy in this line of endeavor
rests with the women
But Ihe men have not yet been van
qpsh I'd and they have promised to come
back with a vim. First results Of the
campaign, begun Saturday, were an
nounced today and show a not alto
Rether one-sided battle between the rival
sections, with excellent results for both.
The total realization from this fea-
ture of the campaign is $i9l, 900 to date.
of which the women secured $3.50, 500
and the men S231,200. The men work.
ers, however, outstripped the women i'm
the number of subscribers secured-23g7
1pg hot
credit against 937 for the women.
II is planned TO cover the entire ter
ritory within ten days, and no house,
holder will escape the Liberty Loan
dragnet set by the 5000 or more earn-
est workers Of the citizens committee.
Two thousand members of the homo
reserves have also been brought into
the drive.
Indicative of the fine worl, being done
by the women, and the attraction tbc
Statue of Liberty in front of CITY Han
has for bond buyers, is the sale of moro
than S45O,0O0 worth Of bonds to 33G uer
sons up to o'clock in the afternoon.
One OF the outstanding features of the
campaign has been the work of the Girl
Scouts, under the direction Of Miss FL en-
Mary Cassatt. Up to yesterday the 1000
girls participating in the drive have OBJ
tanned subscriptions totaling more than
S175,0OO
Miss Cassatt said that tn girls have
redoubled their efforts to get 100000
subscriptions 10 obtain an honor flag.
The Scouts have been doing rushing
business at their three booths in the
central section of the city. Miss Kohn.
in charge at the Bourse. reported that
she and her aides sold $3S, 900 worth last
week
Mrs. James *. Campbell. of over
brook, chairman Of the booth at the Ho-
tel Adelphia, reported sales totaling
$52,350 for the first week.
The booth at the Franklin National
Bank. in charge of the National League
for Women's Service, reported $4,000
sales Saturday. Mrs. John Andrews
\ Harris, Jr., chairman, said that the re-
ceipts from the booths of the league Tor
the first week totaled Sj5,9OO, the total
subscribers being 3O9.
Three subscriptions previously report
cd as anonymous by the stores COM
inittee, under Mrs. Thomas j. Dolan,
we're listed as follows: East Broad Top
Railroad Company, $4,000; Union Inn
provement Company, 100000; Cranberry
Improvement Company, 100000, all 10
be credited TO team NO. 5, Mrs. Gerald
Holsman, leader. Two more anonymous
subscriptions, one Of 100000 and an
other Of S25, 900, were obtained by team
No g. Mrs. Harry w. Harrison, leader
Girls at the Strawbridge & ClOthier
booth have reached S2OO,sOO. The En-
ergency Aid aides, under Mrs Norman
Macleod turned in S9S,2OO, according
10 Miss Gretchen Clay.
The women's district chairmen re-
ported that $l,5OO,O0O had been taken
in on Saturday. outside Of central city
the most gratifying surprise came in
the results from Germantown, Mrs. w
Il Gurley, chairman, where the women
workers collected $347,150 and brought
their weeks total up To $750,O0O, leav-
ing but quarter OF a million dollars
10 go 10 complete the allotment.
Central city Mrs. Paul Denckla Mis-
reported $6O1 800. The other totals are; 4;
North Philadelphia, Mrs. Wilmer Krus-
en-. St31,750; Chestnut Hill, S5S,O5O :
north rural. Mrs Charles S, Wurts, s59,-
500 South Philadelphia, Mrs. Walter j..
Freeman, 100000 northeast, Mrs. John
W. Meyer, $4,000 Kensington, Mrs.
Il. Il. j.. Bradford. S23,650; West Phlla-
delphia, Mrs. b. +. Richardson, $l6G 200.
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