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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
TO WORK IN WAR ZONE
Four PhiladeIphians Included |
Friends Unit on Way Overseas

Four Philadelphians are in unit of
relief workers on their way to France,
under the auspices of the Friends serv-
ice committee, 20 South Twelfth street.
The unit left yesterday.
Miss Louise Baker. who for twelve
years was museum artist of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. and during the
last year the instructor of art in George
School, will be assigned to the work
of teaching French children art and
designing. Miss Emma Roberts, a
graduate of Westtown, in 1910. and of
Bryn Mawr in 1915, was before her
appointment to foreign service in =
structor in French at Guilford College,
n. G. Miss Mabel D'Olier, graduate
of Swarthmore College, in 1907, has
been in Washington, ID. c.; as a mem
ber of the social hygiene board. Her
work in France will be in the Verduu
district, along the same lines as that
Of the hygiene board in Washington
Mrs. Maria Scattergood will spend three
months co operating with her daugh
ter, who is in France doing special re
lief work.
The Friends Service committee is alst
planning a Serbian unit, which will b.
. completed and ready to sail in tive
months. 1t will be comprised of tel
or fifteen women. The personnel o
this unit has not been selected. Th
unit will be assigned to small terri
tory around Nish.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
NAVY RELIEF PLANNED
Yard viii Be Opened to Public for
Exercises June %


For the first time since the declara-
tion of war with Germany the Philadel-
phia Navy Yard will be open to the gen
eral public at noon June IS. The event
will be Navy Relief Day" and a
varied program of naval fcats, field
sports and competitive games is being
planned.
The program will be under the au-
spices of the Pennsylvania Auxiliary of
the Navy Relief Society, of which Mrs.
G. A. Carr is president. Among the
members of the committee in charge are
Mrs. L. w. Il. Waller. wife of Major
General Waller, L. s. NJ. c.; Mrs. e.
7. Stotesbury, Mayor Thomas B.
Smith and John s. Lynch. chairman OF
the navy yard employees committee.
Rear Admiral G. F. Hughes. U. S. n.
is chairman of the executive committee
According to the program. airplane
flights and a demonstration of subma
rine diving will be among the features
Of the day. There also will be a series
of boat races. in which the crews from
the different ships at the yard will par
tfcipate. The marines, many of whom
only recently have returned from over
seas. have arranged for a special exhi
bition drill.
In addition to the Navy Relief So
ciety the Y. NJ. G. A.. Knights of Co
lumbus, numerous lodges and represen
tatives of the Red Cross and the Sal
walton Army have promised their sup
port to assure the days success.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
DISMISSED TEACHER
GRANTED REHEARING
lnsubordination Charge at ELL
wood School Ordered to Be
Investigated Again

Russell Hancock Miles, dismissed
teacher of the Ellwood School, Twelfth
street and Oak Lane avenue, was given
the privilege Of rehearing on the in =
subordination charge which caused his
dismissal by the Board Of Education s
committee on elementary schools, at a
meeting YESTERDAY.
Mr.. Miles requested the rehearing on
the ground that at the preceding hear
ing the inquiry had not been conducted
according to the forms and regula :
tions provided for such actions in the
bylaws Of the Board Of Education
Simon Gratz moved that the appeal -bt
granted.
But Mr.. Miles has had all the hear
ing he is entitled to-" objected Edwin
Wolf, president of the Board of Edu :
cation.
Mr.. Grats replied that the Board OF
Education was bound to respect the
provisions it had made for its pro
cedure in the conduct of its business.
The vote on Mr.. GRATIS motion was
three to one, only four members of tn,
committee being present. The negative
vote was that of Mr.. Wolf.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
BIDS OPENED TODAY
FOR $35O,OOO WORK
Cost Of Construction Of Bridges
and Street Improvements
+. Sought by Datesman
WOOD BLOCKS TO BE LAID

Director Datesman will open bids
today for contracts totalinE S350.0OO
for bridges and street improvements.
The bridges to be constructed will be
located in Holme avenue over the Penn
sylvania Railroad and Holme avenue
over Longford avenue. Six of the
city bridges are to be repaired and
painted. They are the bridges on Bal
timore avenue over Cobbs' creek; City
avenue, over the Schuylkill river; Erie
avenue over the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railway: Penrose avenue over
Eagle creek; bridge at Broad and CO.
lumbia avenue and bridge at Broad and
Noble streets.
The street improvements include many
new streets and reconstruction of old
ones covering about four miles. 1t is
the purpose of both Director Datesman
and Chief Dunlap to get all the work
under way within the next month.
There will be new wood block streets.
These are Carpenter street from Sixth
to Seventh Carpenter from Ninth to
Tenth; Marlborough from Richmond to
Allen, and Richmond street from Marl-
borough to a point $50 feet north. As
phalt is to be used in the repaving of
some of the streets to be reconstructed.
They are Clementine street from Ken :
sington avenue to Jasper street; Fair
mount avenue from Eighth to Broad,
excluding the block between Twelfth and
Thirteenth streets; Lippincott street
from kensington avenue to Jasper, and
Lippincott street from Amber to the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The new streets include Lindley ave
nue. from Fifth to Ninth streets; Vau1
street from Bowman to Indian Queer
lane: Sixth street, Chew to Grange
street; and Sixty eighth street from
Greenway avenue to Upland street.
More than mile of new streets ar,
to be graded. These streets are Claridg'
street from Cottpan to st. Vincen
street: Northumberland street from
Cottman to st. Vincent street; st. Vim
cent street from Montour to Whitake
street; Tabor from Cottman to poin
$50 feet southwest of Cottman; Green
street from south of Hortter to Carpen
ter street: Ramona street from tn
Boulevard to Adams street Windso
street from Fifty sixth to Fifty sew
enth.. and Seventy fourth avenue fror
Aslop to Washington lane.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
KINDERGARTNERS GRADUATE
CONNIE ncement to Be Held Today In
New Jerusalem Parish House

Commencement exercises of the
Training School for Kindergartners will
be held this afternoon in the parish
house of the Church of the New Jeru :
salem. 2129 Chestnut street. The pro-
gram begins at o'clock.
The program opens with prayer by
the Rev. DR.. George l.. Richardson.
Mrs. Joseph P. Mumford will make an
address and Mrs. William Carter Dick =
erman will award the diplomas.
The graduates are Marion Helen Ar
cher, Aida Ritzena Buehler, kath =
crime Elizabeth Calvert, Mary Butler
Castle. Jean Elizabeth Chalfant. Jane
Hamlin Everett, Sarah Felix Fretz
Helen Mae Jobes, Evelyn Hatton Leigh
Mary Elizabeth Ligget. Katherine
IIongeway, Mary Fisher Miller, Ange
line Vanderslice Oberholtzer, Marion q
Park. Isabel Ryder, Ruth Baird Sha"
and Helen White.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05

while booze is going out the back
door, loads and loads Of milk ought to
be brought into the 'front.'" said John
NJ. Kelley, breeder of Holstein Friesian
milch cattle, from Chicago. He is at
tending the convention at the Bellevue
Stratford.
But folks won't use milk any more
than they have in the past, unless the
value of milk as refreshing drink and
food has been insistently and con 1.
sistently advertised. With the proper
education Of the public, pure ice cold
milk, unmixed with flavor, will displace
any drink on the market.
Only there must be a great adver-
tising campaign. Manufacturers of
other beverages. soft drinks, and near
beers, have already anticipated the
coming of July 1, early and diligently
advertising the virtue of their drinks.
But the dairymen have not stirred.
And look at the dairymen's won
derful opportunity. Every manufac-
turer of any kind of substitute for beer
| is advertising the fact that his peculiar
beverage has. besides the virtue of re-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
REALTY DEALER BANKRUPT
Willow Grove Man Has Lab biIities Of
$4,000 and Few Assets

William P. Albrecht, real estate
broken, of Willow Grove, was adjudged
"A bankrupt in the federal court yes
terday. He had debts Of $129, ,491, with
only $112.50 to pay them.
Albrecht himself filed the bankruptcy
petition. The liabilities consist of Sc
cured claims amounting to $93 ,OSS and
unsecured claims of $36, ,403. He said
that the only assets he has are S1OC
in cash and building and loan shares
worth $3.50.
Some of the larger claims are those
of Henry w. Hallowell, of Jenkintown
for $34 900; Catherine Mohler, Willow
Grove, $12, 900; Eliza P. Albrecht
Santa Monica, Cal. individually fol
SS257 and as an assignee of j. Henry
Williams for SIS 200.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
FINISHING OF ~" URGED
Real Estate Board Calls for Action
on Erankford Line

A report of the Frankford Elevated
Railway was made yesterday by the
transit committee of the Real Estate
Board. 1t was submitted by Horace
Groskin, chairman, and after it had
been accepted the following resolution
was unanimously passed by the board
of directors:
Resolved, That il is the sense of
the Philadelphia Real Estate Board,
in accordance with the report of its
transit committee. that the board de
mands the immediate completion and
operation of the Frankford elevated
system at the earliest possible time,
and that the city officials take prompt
measures to negotiate lease on a fair
and equitable basis with the Philadel-
phia Rapid Transit Company, SO that
the Frankford elevated system may be
operated in conjunction with the Mar
ket Street subway elevated railway"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
TWAS A NICE LITTLE GIFT
Ignorance May Be Bliss, But Oh

YOU y. >. e.!
The soldier took seat in the trolley
beside the talkdtive fellow.
The latter began to speak at once.
cit to France?'
The soldier nodded, pointing to two
gold bars.
What outft?'
"Savante nine" was the reply.
Kill any Germans?"
"Nota many" BROAD Italian grin
of satisfaction). "Justa seeks. Fighta
like hell. all tn time"
whats them there bar ribbons you
got?" asks the talkative one, pointing
| toward soldiers breast.
"Here?' (pointing). "Oh, justa. sou
veneer. Captain he give me this an
say it from Red Cross. Fine souveneer
Red Cross all right
The talkative one moved with 80
long glad your back L guess" and the
Italian American heaved sigh and re.
lapsed into silence.
The inquisitive one, however, in thu
rear seat, couldn't resist the temptation
to see what the Red Cross was giving
so he went out Of his way slightly tt
take look at the bars on the soldier
breast as he left the car.
1t was D. s. G..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
BLOOD ASKED TO SAVE LIFE
Healthy Man Needed to Help SUI
ferer With Anemia

Physicians at the Presbyterian Hos
pital are looking for healthy young
man who is willing to give some OF his
blood to save the life of a sick man
who has wife and three children.
Benjamin Calm. twenty five years
old. 1925 North Thirtieth street, is
diving Of pernicious anemia, and blood
TRANSMISSION is his only hope of recovery,
DR.. William E. Hughes, his physician,
says. :.
Any red -booded young man who is
willing to give some of his blood to
save the life of a fellow man is re-
ouested to present himself to the Pres
byterian Hospital at once.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
ENDS LIFE WITH GAS
Woman Found Unconscious In Bath
room on North Nineteenth Street

Illuminating gas caused the death of
Mrs. Emily Bonner. twenty eight years
old. of J00S North Nineteenth street.
who. taken from her home unconscious
last night. died in the Jewish Hospital
Her husband. Charles Bohncr. heard
her leave her room about o'clock.
When she failed to return, he called
her brother. William II. Cramer. who
boarded with them. The two men in :
vestigated and found Mrs. ,ohner on
the floor of the bathroom with gas
flowing from an open jet. Tie Branch
town police station was notified. No
motive for suicide was known to her
husband or to her brother.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
STUDENTS TO SEE CAPITAL
Northeast High School Boys leav
cJty for Washington

Forty boys of the Northeast High
School left Broad Street Station at 3 30
o'clock this morning for a three day
tour of the national capital.
The boys will be shown every point
of interest in Washington, and it is
understood they will have an oppor
tunity to see Congress in session.
The trip is for the purpose of develop
ing in the students a keener sense OF
n;t;venship. They were in charge OF
Professors Sands and Hilton. They will
return Saturday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Jurors Get Pay Increase

Acting under recent law passed by
the Legislature, the county commits
sioners have submitted an order to the
Courts of Quarter Sessions allowing an
increase in the pay for jurors and wit
nesses for the commonwealth to go into
effect July 1. Under the new legisla
tion the jurors will be paid $3 asday
instead of $3.50 and the fee for wit :
nesses will be increased to 50 per day.
Heretofore the latter received 81 so.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
SALVATION GOAL IN SIGHT
lodsemen Contribute Literally II
Drive Here to Get Million

Fraternal organizations in this city
are contributing literally to the Sal
yation Army home service drive.
Campaign managers today are totaling
the donations received from hundreds of
individuals. firms and associations. The
million dollar goal will be reached by
Saturday night, it is predicted.
Homes and offices are being visited
by twenty five canvassing teams. The
teams of the women's committee are
headed by Mrs. Barclay H. Warbur
ton.
Among those assisting in the drive
are Colonel Samuel d. Lit. George
Wharton Pepper, Morgan Churchman,
John H. Mason and Gordon Fl. Cilley
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
ST. ALOYSIUS'S BIRTHDAY
Catholic Church to Celebrate IL
TWenty.fifth AnnIyarsarx

The stwenty fifth anniversary of the
openin of st. Aloysius's Catholic
Church, Twenty sixth and Tasker
streets, will be celebrated during the
week beginning June 20. ArchbshoI
Dougherty will. usher in the week by
administering communion to more thar
200 children of the parish on Sunda,
June 20.
The church was organized twenty
five years ago in sparsely settled and
unattractive section of the city.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
Rust Threatens Nebraska Wheat

Lincoln, Neb., June 5.-Orange leaf
rust. unusually prevalent in Nebraska
may reduce production of the state s
winter wheat crop. according to state =
ment by A. f. Anderson. of the United
States Bureau of Crop Estimates.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-05
KRUSEN WILL ASK
SANITATION FUND
Health Director to Ask Councils
for $4,000 Cleanup
Money Today
MAY REGULATE DANCING

A bill providing $50, 900 for the abate-
ment Of nuisances will be introduced in
Councils this afternoon at the request
of Director Krusen. of the Department
of Health and Charities. The measure
results from protests by the Church
womens Housing Association against
insanitary conditions.
The appropriation will be referred to
the finance committee so that It can be
acted upon and reported out in time
for passage before the summer recess.
Director Krusen will use the funds in
repaving alleyways and in otherwise i'm =
proving the rears of properties com
planned of by the women.
Dance Hall Legislation
Councils bill drawn by City Solicitor
Connolly authorizing him to draw ur
dancing regulations and rules controlling
public dance halls in hotels and other
public buildings.
The city solicitor has assured the
Mayor that under his police powers he
has the authority to carry out recent
act of the Legislature calling upon him
to regulate dance halls, but in order tc
set any possible question at rest ar
enabling bill may be introduced
Mayor Smith has not been at City
Hall during the present hot spell anG
should he fail to appear or telephone
any directions to his secretary the bill
may lie over indefinitely. In that even
regulations now being drawn up by
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

would put the excess interest and the
excess insurance rate into fund to be
used for meeting deficits in the cost of
operation of the ships on new routes.
This fund he estimates would amount to
S15,000,00O year
In brief, he proposes sort of sub
sidy out of fund contributed by the
purchasers of the ships. He assumes
that some of the ships operated under
our flag would be profitable from the
start and that others would not pay ex-
penses. The latter would be protected
by the subsidy fund.- which he calls
Merchant Marine Development Fund.
Whether the plan would work as he
thinks it would only experts can decide.
But it has the merit of being a carefully
thought out suggestion intended to keep
the American flag on the seas and to
retain under our control the great fleet
now building.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
IT MIGHT WORK

MR.. HURLEY'S proposal for trans
NA ferring the government-owned ships
to private owners and for assisting tho
private owners to operate them profit
ably deserves the serious attention of
shipping men. ....
1t is the first definite proposition made
for the disposal of the great merchant
feet under construction that really does
merit attention.
Mr.. Hurley would sell the ships To
private citizens or corporations az the
market price. regardless of what thew
cost. He would have the government
accept mortgage for threfsourths of
the purchase price at s per Ainterest,
and he would have the q hent in
sure the ships at the d Nv rates
charged by private comp} Ehe rate
Of interest would be hif lan the
government usually gets al igovern-
unent insurance would cost less tnan the
private companies charge. Mr.. Hurley
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
TAKE THOUGHT, SAVE MONEY

THE attempt the postoffice is making
to bring butter and eggs direct from
the farms to the consumers in town
ought to succeed. 1t will eliminate the
middleman's profit and reduce the cost
of living for the families in town.
The announcement has been made
that the prices of farm products will be
announced at the postoffice daily. where
a list of farmers from whom thew NAV
be obtained will be kept. The postoffice
is interested primarily in developing
business for its motortruck parcel svs-
TEN. The purchaser must communicate
directly with the farmers and order what
he wants. The postal trucks will do the
rest, even to the extent of delivering the
goods at the door of the purchaser.
Theoretically this plan will succeed,
1t has been the dream of social econo-
mists for years to bring the producer and
the consumer into direct touch and to do
away with the present expensive system
of distribution. The habits of the neonIe
however, have brought previous experi
ments to disaster. The housewife de-
cides in the morning that she must have
some eggs, and she buys them at the
corner grocery. She cannot take advan-
tage of the facilities offered by the post
Office unless she decides two or three
days in advance that she must have eggs
or butter or what not, and sends in her
order for what she wants. If people can
be taught to plan ahead for few davs
J the plan will succeed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29

| changing the covenant is in itself con-
vincing proof of how deep is their in
terest in the league. Men like Mr.. Taft
are superbly among its bulwarks, but
his attitude needs justification. 1t is
apart from the political "game," and as
such truly exceptional in American his
tory.
As to the Democrats, selfish or ideal
stic, it was plainly their part to conduct
the campaign as they have. Keen poll
tics and round ethics have seldom coin
cided more effectively.
The first act in the piece is nearly
over. As so frequently happens in the
life of this land the peoples will is being
registered. When this happens, political
maneuvers become respectful. Therein
lies the true virtue of republican govern
ment The strategy of the parties may
be dramatic, as was the round robin in
cident in the Senate; it may be lavish of
sensations, but in the end it heeds the
popular voice. Measured by the results,
all the snowy artifces become tolerable.
Such as are now in evidence are espe-
cially harmless in that they imply, and
more and more significantly each day,
that Congress will accept the league
pact. The discussion is shifting into
competitive claims for glory. IF Mr..
Lodge votes for the league under the i'm
preston that he has been responsible for
its good points, no harm will be done if
all the Republican party applauds his
consistency.
OF relatively minor Importance will be
Democratic iublation because Mr..
Wilson has put it over" II wouldn't
make a particle of difference, so far as
the destiny of civilization is concerned,
if Britain should single out Lord Robert
Cecil, General SHUTS or Arthur Balfour
as world saviors or France should ac-
claim the erudite Leon Bourgeois. Such
rival Communications will chiefly serve to
enliven life; but what will really make it
so that man may feel that he has not
traduced that gift is the substitution of
cooperative endeavor for the utterly dis
credited order of things that developed
the most appalling catastrophe in the
annals of the planet.
1t is altogether inconceivable now that
the nations of the world will not be
united in pact Of peace. The infalible
augury of its adoption is the scramble
for credit in its making.