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Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
SIXTEEN DOLLARS

Living costs are climbing. House
wives know this. Men and women,
living alone in the big industrial
centers, daily experience the bitter
hardships which it entails. The mini
mum standard of living is getting
higher,-just how much higher, re-
cent investigation by the Minimum
Wage Board of the District Of Column
bia reveals.
The Board is composed Of repre-
sentatives Of the employers, the en-
ployees and the general public.
Under its jurisdiction there are ap-
proXimately 15,600 women employed
in industrial establishments. The
Board selected the printing and pub
fishing industry as the first to be
dealt with and made a preliminary
survey of its conditions. The indus
try in the District employs 700 women
'of whom At per cent were receiving
less than S11 a week, while 76 per
cent received less than SIS per week"
A committee of nine, consisting Of
persons representing the employers,
employees and the general public, was
directed to determine the minimum
wage in this industry. After a num-
Der of budgets showing income and
expenditure Of working girls in the
District had been collected and
studied, the Board announced that
1916 a week is the minimum cost of
living for a woman in the District" "
The committee of nine then set
about recommending the minimum
wage it should propose Each Of the
three groups conferred separately.
The representatives Of the public de
cided on $17.50; the representatives
of the employees fixed SIT; the repre-
Of the employers were sat
isfed with a minimum of $14 per
week. The conference finally report
ed in favor of budget of $3.50. OIL
this amount 50 covers board and
room; $3.35 were for clothing and
the remaining amount covers laun-
dry, health, amusements, savings, etc.
Sixteen dollars a week will buy a |
minimum standard of living for an
woman in the District |
Of Columbia. In one industry (print-
ing and publishing) more than three
fOurths of the women were working
for less than that amount when the
Board made its investigation. These
laid bare in the National
Capital are paralleled in every large
center Of the United States where
women by the tens of thousands are
for wage upon which they
,annot maintain health and decency.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08

& Company, bond brokers, is just
now floating some 6 per cent gold
bonds issued by one of the big
packers.
TO show how gilt-edged are these
bonds Salomon & Company make
known the profits of these packers
for the last years. The brokers
say in writing and send the state
ment through the mails-a peniten-
tiary offense if the statement is false
that from 1915 to 1918 the volume
of sales Of this company increased
from 122 million dollars to 400 mil
lion dollars, an increase of 227 per
cent.
During this time, says the state
ment, this company's net profits in
creased 209 per cent from $2,463, 1872
in 1915 to $7631 ,535 in 1918. This
was after paying all interest and
taxes.
At the same time that this pack
ing company was making this tidy
net profit, say these brokers, they
increased working capital 389 per
cent from $8,846,1 151 in 1915 to $43,-
1925 in 1918.
During these four years, according
to this statement, the earnings on the
common stock Of the company in
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
THE POWER OF THE LABEL

No member Of organized labor can
afford to treat the union label light
ly. The continuous demand for the
label is not only a force in further
ance of organization, the keeping Of
a sacred promise, and rendering the
assistance to the union which makes
the goods which bear the label. 1t
may become such an expression of
organized strength as to prevent
strikes in some instances by quietly
impressing employers with the power
and solidarity of, labor. The en-
ployer who is made aware that a
body of organized workers are strict
ly living up to their promise to pur-
chase only label goods, will see in
such workers a body Of men who in
a strike would fight to the finish for
industrial justice, and will be more
inclined to talk things over and reach
an amicable settlement than to pre-
cipitate a strike.
The demand for union label goods
is an expression Of existing and
growing power of organized labor.
Employers are quick to note these
things.
You help yourself and the whole
labor movement when you demand
the label. You injure yourself and
the whole movement if you fail to
do 50.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
PACKERS PROFITS AND CAPI-
tai SHOWS HUGE INCREASES

For months the packers have been
buying space in newspapers to
prove" their records are an open
book, that they cannot tell lie, that
the profits they are exacting from the
consumer are such a mere fraction
that it, in the language of the cloth
ing salesman, eff they did not sell so
many" they would go broke.
Somehow their statements never
square up with the facts learned in
Investigations and from other sources
even nearer the truth. 1t seems the
Wall Street firm Of William Salomon
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
LEADER OFFICE OPEN SATUR.
DAY EVENINGS

In order to accommodate many OF
our subscribers who are unable to call
during the day, the office of the New
ark Leader will be open on Saturday
evenings from 1880 to $3.50 o'clock
until further notice. Drop in and get
acquainted.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08

LET'S WIN THE VICTORY sHAFT-BUY W. s. 8.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
LOCAL FEDERATION ENDORSE!
LEADER

At the regular meeting of the Local
Federation B. & o. Shop Crafts held
Wednesday evening, the Newark
Leader received the unanimous Of
fetal endorsement of the body, and
its consistent steady efforts for the
advancement of labor's cause was
highly complimented.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1919-08-08
Telephone
Service.
BORROWED SERVICE.

Do you loan the use OF your telephone?
OF course you do everybody does
There two classes of people who borrow the use of
the eephOne made up of those who subscribe for
telephone service IN place and the telephone of an
other the second made up those who are not subscribers
Tor telephone service nor have the rights of subscriber
More than 500 messages day or more than per cent
OF the total carried by this company for this second
claS-the SpOngerS of telephone service Not only is this
company put to an expense OF operation for which at no
time gets any compensation but the subscriber whose tee
phone used deprived OF all telephone while said
Sponger using his instrument and line: and in case of
ourpary line three other subscribers deprived of their
service at the same time although they parties to the
Spongng operation.
More than 1000 messages are carried by this company
daily tor borrowers of the first class While there is an
element of justice in such far as this company is con-
cemed, it is an imposition telephone subscribers whose
instruments and lines are used,
Mr.. should go into the grocery store of Mr.. and
ask tor the OF his delivery truck for an hour in the busy
part OF the day. Mr. would once see that such loan on
his part would be material loss his grocery delivery SER
vice as we'll as financial loss to himself Loaning his ee-
phone by Mr. has the effect His telephone is one of
the doorways into his business When he loans his telephone
he IS simply closing of his doors to his grocery business
Loanng ones telephone is an imposition:
I. On the person whose telephone is used
l. III tne case OF party lines, on all those whose ele-
phones are connected to the line used.
;. On this company, when the telephone borrower is a
non-SubSCriber.
The net result of telephone borrowing to increase the
cost of telephone service.
THE NEWARK TELEPHONE COMPANY
Charles E. Holander
General Manager
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
MEDICAL MEN TO ENTERTAIN
Eminent Physicians to BE Guests at
Function Next Wednesday

Governor Sproul, Senator Robert L.
Owen and Colonel Sir Shirley Murphy
and Sir st. Clair Thomson will be the
speakers at the meeting of the Philadel-
phia Medical Club, which will be held
at the Bellevue Stratford next We'd
needay evening.
Guests of honor are the allied dele
gates of foreign governments who are
now attending the congress of physi
clans and surgeons at Atlantic City.
Governor Sproul will welcome the
guests for the state and DR.. G. Dram
Ring, president of the Philadelphia
Medical Club, will give them the well
come of the club.
The chief address will be made by
Senator Owen as the representative of
the national government.
England will be represented by Sir
st. Clair Thomson, who is noted
authority on diseases of the nose and
throat, and General Melis and Professor
Antoine DePage are expected to speak
for Belgium.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
TWO MEN SHOT IN SALOON
Man Refused Admittance to Camden
Place LIS Arrested

Two men were shot and seriously in
jured in Camden saloon at Second and
Clinton streets. last night, it is alleged
by a man who had been refused admit
tance to the place more than year
ago.
The injured are Bernard Heltz
hauser. forty years old, of 71S South
Second street. shot in the spine and
paralyzed from the waist down; Harry
Cramer, twenty six years old, of 1885,
HaGdon avenue, shot in right shoulder
and through the lung. Both were taken
to Cooper Hospital. y
The man who it is alleged did the
shooting, Pasquale Roman, of 13(
Clinton street, was arrested by Police
Sergeant Garrison and taken to City
Hall. Genelo Petteler, the proprietor
of the saloon, said that he had refused
Roman admittance to his place yeaI
ago and he attributes the alleged shoot
ing to revenge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
GIRL SCOUT FIELD DAY
TODAY; 5000 MARCH
Leading Troops in Eight Dis
tricts Compete for Thom-
son and FIeisher Cups

The leading Girl Scout troop of each
of eight districts competed for the
cups offered by Miss Anne Thomson and
Miss Helen Fleisher, of the Girl Scout
Council. at the annual field day this
afternoon at Forty fourth street and
Parkside avenue.
About 5000 Girl Scouts from all parts
of the city marched to Athletic Park.
where events are scheduled. Scout
Blanche Morris blew ''call to col
ors' and lead the pledge to the flag.
Events, which were interspersed
with songs aud yells led by Captain
Margaret Schaller, Girl Scout song
leader. include inspection. semaphore.
signaling, first aid, knot tying and
drilling for second class scouts and o
sack race for the tenderfeet.
Judges, who are officials of the Girl
Scout organization, were Miss r..
Gwen Martin, commissioner Mrs. Vic
tor Lavell, director; Miss Cecily Barnes
and Miss Elizabeth n, Fox,i of the
executive committee; DR.. John b. Car
son and Lieutenant Alexander b. Var
nall, of the advisory board. Miss Kath
arine G. Hutchinson. chairman of the
council. will award ribbons and cups.
A grand march led by Miss Helen
B. Rebmann. field director of German
town, closed the program. Many of
the troops will have picnic supper.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
SCHOOL RIPPER BILL
COMES UP TUESDAY
Vote Scheduled on Measuro ~
Gust Philadelphia and
Pittsburgh Boards
SOME AMENDMENTS MADE

Representative Philip Sterling's bill
to rip out the school boards in Phila
delphia and Pittsburgh and succeed
them with boards of seven members each
comes up for final action in the Houeel
Tuesday.
1t is a special order of business for
II 80 o'clock Tuesday morning.
The bill provides that the present
boards of fifteen members each auto
matically go out of Office within sixty
days after the passage of the act
The judges of the court of common
pleas are to appoint the members Of
the proposed boards of seven.
These members are to be appointed
within thirty days after the passage Of
the act as follows: One whose term In
to expire the first Monday in November.
1920; one to serve until the first Mon
day in November, 1921; one to serve
until the first Monday in November, !,
1922; one to serve until the first Mon
day in November, 1923 one to serve
until the first Monday in November,
1924 one to serve until the first Mon
day in November, 1925, and one to
serve until the first Monday in Mo-
vember, 1926.
Within thirty days after they are ap
pointed the new directors are to or
ganize.
In October, 1920. and in October
every year thereafter the judges are to
appoint one director to serve for term
of seven years.
Several amendments have been made
to the measure, but it retains the orig
inal principle. ~
The clause that mo person shall BE-
eligible to the Office of school director
who is more than sixty five years of age
at the time of his appointment" has
been eliminated.
In its place is a clause limiting the
tenure of service to two consecutive
terms and the age clause specifies that
ION and after the first day Of Sep
tember. 1919, no person shall be eligi
BILE to appointment to the Office OF school
director who is more than sixty Ave
years of age at the time of his ap-
pointment.'
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
WEST POINT APPOINTMENTS
Congressman Ware Announces That
Two Southern High Boys Win

Two Philadelphia boys have been ap-
pointed to West Point by Congressman
William S. Ware on the recommendation
Of the principal and faculty of the
Southern High School.
Abraham w. Levin, 1858 South
street, one of the boys appointed, has
entered the military academy. The
other appointee is Jeremiah Tempone,
1913 Snyder avenue.
Levin was born in Russia and was
brought to this country when one year
old. He is a graduate of the Stanton
Grammar School and the Southern
High School and has been attending
engineering classes in the University OF
Pennsylvania.
Tempone, who is the youngest of q
family of ten, was graduated from the
Welsh Calhoun Elementary School, and
was an honor graduate of the Southern
High School.
William II. Hamilton, 2O33 South
Bouvier street. and S. William Kurtz
2639 South Hutchinson street. who
have been appointed by Congressman
Ware to Annapolis, will enter the naya'
academy this month.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
JINX HIT HIM LATE
Friday the 18th Almost Over Before
That Brick Got Busy

All day long he waited for something
to happen.
And 1t did, at two minutes of twelve
o'clock last night, just before Friday,
the 18th, ended. .
1T came floating through the air
and walloped me- William ONeill,
thirty eight years old, who boards at
4415 Main street, Manayunk, told
Magistrate Price today.
A half brick, produced as evidence,
was placed before the man.
THAT looks like it," he said. II
felt something was going to happen yes =
terday, but when it got late I-began to
smoker about Friday the 18th. Then it
hit me. AS they were taking me to the
hospital I asked what the time was. 1t
was just two minutes of twelve
O'Neill was struck by the brick while
walking at Main and jamestown streets.
He was taken to st. Timothy's Hos :
pital, where cut on his head was
treated, and he was then removed to the
police station for safe keeping. Today
8 he was discharged.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
EDM0NDS LEADS CLUB VOTE
A. 1. Aeker Second In Referen endum
on Mayoralty choIce

Latest returns in the City Club refer
endum on the choice of 10000 rep
resentative citizens for Mayor show
Franklin Spencer Edmonds, attorney
and overseas worker for the Y. M. G.
A., leading former Sheriff A. Lincoln
Acker by small majority. Fifty pos
sibilities have been suggested by bal
lots SO far received, according to Joseph
8. Hagedorn, who is in charge of the
vote.
Slow delivery of second class mail,
Mr.. Hagedorn said, Justified refusal
to make public the number of ballots re
turned at this time, but it is not thought
that the results can be completed be-
fore next week. The candidates" in
clude Alba b. Johnson, Il. T. Stotes-
bury, John Wanamaker, w. Freeland
Kendrick and William Potter.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
DESTROYER SETS
RECORD IN TEST
Cole, Constructed for U. s. by
Cramps, Makes Nearly
Fifty Miles an Hour
BETTER THAN REQUIRED

The torpedoboat destroyer Cole, jus
completed at Cramps shipyard, ha
smashed records for boats in its class by
attaining speed of All knots, or At:
statute miles, on its trial trip in tn,
Delaware river.
In making such remarkable speed tn,
Cole more than lived up to government
specifications. The contract called fol
thirty five knots an hour.
j. Harry Null, president of the CramI
Company, issued statement to tn,
effect that the record OF the latest
product of the .Cramp yard was mad,
with an extemporized crew.
And with that crew." he said. "tht
Cole, the twentieth ship of its class We
have built, has developed into the speed
lest boat of its class in the world"
Lieutenant Commander I. s. Dortct
commanded the Cole on its record
breaking trip yesterday afternoon.
Another worlds record for boats oi
this class was made by the Cole wher
| 1t developed. under the most careful OF
torsion meter tests, 30.375 horsepower
as compared to the 26,000 required
This great power is more than sufficient
to drive large sized ocean steamships al
a fair rate of speed.
| The test was made over a carefully
surveyed five-mile course and there is
apparently no chance of an error In
the record The course is perhaps more
difficult than the standard measured
mile" course off the coast of Rockland
Me. The recent feat of torpedoboat
destroyer of the Coles class in making
| 3S5 knots over that course was rcceiv
ed with great interest by naval authori
ties both here and abroad.
We've been doing that right along,
said Mr.. Null. "It has been nothing
unusual for ,our boats here to de
velop speeds close to forty knots al
hour, with favorable wind and tide con
ditions. And this has not been done
once. but half dozen times with
the twenty odd boats we already have
turned over to the United States Gov
ernment.
"Other Philadelphia built boats made
fine records during the war. - they did
before it. The Northern Pacific, sis
ter ship of the Great Northern. beat
the Leviathan across by three hours
Yet she was only 500 foot ship. No
where in the history of marine archi
lecture have ships Of this size ap-
preached their records.
'This leaves out of the question
the long succession of battleships We
have built at the Cramp yards. Since
entering the war we laid al keels
launched 3S ships and delivered 30
Every vessel we delivered either to the
Navy or to the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration exceeded its required speed
We have gone along quietly, turning
out what the government wanted. and
considering it all in the days work
But yesterdays performance we have
a right to be proud Of
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
HAVE A CARE! HE'S
Fl. 6 IN. TALL
PatroIman StiegIer, 21, Breaks
Altitude Record Formerly Held
by Wilbur J. Hall

If there are any Davids among tn,
lawbreakers whose habitat is Phiadel :
phia they had better drag the sling
shots out of the attic and begin to
practice for accuracy, for yesterday the
modern Goliath joined the ranks of the
police forces in this city in the person
of Michael J. Stiegler, twenty one
years old. 2s44 West Harold street.
How. is the weather UP, there?' is
not foolish question to ask Stiegler.
for he can contemptuously look down
upon his fellow man from the dizzy
altitude of six feet six and one half
inches. Pretty soft for him when or
binary people are sweltering in the
heat of the earth! ,. ,.a
Reserve Patrolman Wilbur J. Hall,
former holder of the altitude record
for the police force of this city, was
moody today for he had been toppleG
erto invincible six feet five he must now
look up to some one else.
Joseph Gerlach, WHO has been serving
ice at the City Hall for a number OF
years, was the first to greet Stiegler
today. He stands five feet four inches
Hello" said Gerlach, reaching out
his hand.
"Some one call me?" asked Stiegler
looking around. A tug at his coat and
he finally discovered Gerlach, far be-
low. and responded to his greeting.
The recruit said that people had been
afraid of him everywhere because of his
size, and he was glad to have chance
now to utilize that quality against law =
breakers. He will be stationed on traf- =
fic duty.
"If he grows any taller" said one
man, 'he will be able to swap con =
fidences with Billy Penn"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
Northeastern Hospital Eete

A victory fete for the benefit of the
Northeastern Hospital, Tulip street and
Allegheny avenue, opened on the grounds
of the institution last night. The fett
continues today. Homemade bread
cakes, candy, soft drinks and ice cream
were sold. Supper will be served on
the lawn from to o'clock today. The
fete is being conducted under the aus
pices of the women's auxiliary of the
hospital.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
PURVIS HAHNEMANN HEAD
New Superintendent Was in Hospi'
tai Work In France

Joseph Purvis has been appointed su =
perintendent of Hahnemann Hospital
He has just been discharged from mill
tary service. He was chief of the sec
tion of hospital administration of the
south intermediate zone in France.
Mr. Purvis was an administrator fol
Cook County Hospital, Chicago, for ter
years and later was superintendent Of
the Madison General Hospital as wei
as of the Chicago Baptist Hospital
which is connected with the University
OF Chicago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
JUST ANOTHER BOMB SCARE
West. PhIIa. Residents Believe Fire.
works to Be Work Of TerrorIsts

Fireworks that were set off at IL
o'clock last night to end two celebrations
in West Philadelphia gave rise 10 a
''bomb scare" In that section of the
city. Numerous telephone calls were
received at the police stations and EIec-
trical Bureau in City Hall after the
mufiled reports had been heard, and an
Investigation started.
II was determined that the explo-
sions came from -Woodside Park and
from Perna Park, where various Ital-
han societies Of the city were celebrating
t6e Feast Of st. Anthony Of Padua, one
a pstson saints q It>'y
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
GIRLS PUT EN- OVER PLATE,
DINNER PLATE? NO. BASEBALL
Romance and Poetry, to Say Nothing of Running the Bases
Included in HessBright Women's Athletic Activities

Duganitz, of 100 West Ontario street
in center field, never let's the sun
get in her eyes IL she sees it first.
There are three subs, Mary Cooper,
140 Union avenue, Ashburn, Pa, and
Marie Clifford. of 4431 Germantown
avenue, and Marion Marvin, of 1909
North Reese street.
There you have the Hess Bright
bloomer girls.
Attaboy, Cupid, shoot
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
NEGRO BISHOP TO PREACH
Ten Churches to Unite to Hear the
Rt. Rev. Delaney, Of North Carolina

A united service of the ten negro con
gregations attached to the Episcopal
church in the Pennsylvania diocese will
take place tomorrow afternoon at 4
o'clock in the Diocesan Church of st.
Mary. The sermon will be delivered by
the Rt. Rev. DIR. Henry b. Delaney,
bishop suffragan Nof North Carolina.
This is the first service of the kind,
but it is intended to make It an annual
occasion. Bishop Delaney is one Of two
colored Episcopalian bishops in the
United States, and has attained promi-
nence in the Carolinas and Georgia by
his work among his race.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
DEATHS DECREASE IN CITY
Drop From 5o2 to 400 for Last Sever
Days Shown In Report

A material reduction in the city's
death rate is attributed by health off
cials to general causes. The drop is
from 502 last week to 400 for the past
seven days. The deaths were divided
as follows: Men, 21O; women, 199 /;
boys, 50 and girls, 40.
The causes were.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
City Appointments Today

City appointments today included
Louis Goldblatt, 1907 South Sixtb
street, assistant teacher, board of
recreation, salary 5000, and Maurice
1ulsman, 735 South Fifth street, assist :
ant teacher, board of recreation. 5000