Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-01
|IuBIlMERS TO AID
NEW LOAN DRIVE
South Philadelphia Clubs
10 Parade at Victory
Statue dwelling
1900 WILL BE in LINE
War Tanks. Entertainments
and Other Big Features
Planned

When the statue of Victory is un-
lied In Penn Square on the afternoon
April j 2, New Year clubs of South
hiladelphis. 500 strong, will parade in
rgeous costumes. The parade will set
new precedent for the ffth Liberty
0an and for themselves.
Assurance that the mummers will
irn out full strength for The parade
pening the Victory Liberty Loan was
hade by Councilmen John Bailey and
II. Bart McHugh at meeting of the
south Philadelphia Liberty Loan COM
mittee, in the courtroom of Judge John
~. Patterson. at City Hall, last night.
The announcement that 1900 New
Year Shooters" will parade for the sake
OF the Ioan--and will also campaign for
bond sales--was the signal for "A DEM
cnstration on the part of the committee.
Time and again the speakers outlining
the n,ummers' parade were interrupted
by prolonged applause. The mummers
according to their spokesmen. already
have begun arrangements for the big
parade and have planned that IT will
equal anything they have staged during
New Year days of the past.
Besides this parade the big victory
statue will be the scene of an entertain
inent TO be given by the Liberty Loan
4 workers every afternoon ard night. SOL
diers, sailors. a mess kitchen in opera
ticn. a signal corps drill, community
singing, band concerts and dancing are
among the entertainments planned
The committee.is also looking around
for any old buildings which the owners
want razed.
Wsnt Tank Demonstration
George F. Goldsmith stated that the
committee will probably have two war
tanks at its disposal during the drive.
This brought the immediate suggestion
3 that demonstration of what these ma
chimes can do be given II a number of
old buildings could be found which were
TO be razed.
Congressman William s. Ware. repre-
senting the Twenty-sixth Ward, warned
cthAH lnembers OF the committee against
becorX ing discouraged at the beginning
" OF thI drive. He is confident that the
Z succe bful as have the other calls for
prece Ing loans.
William e. Finley announced that
bond booths have been arranged for in
the Thirty-ninth Ward and require only
the statesmen TO make them complete.
p Mrs. Walter Freeman Jackson, chair
man of the women's committee, an
nounced that they were ready to do
whatever might be needed by the mum
ners TO help the latters big demonstra-
tion on April 10
Mrs David Phillips. Mrs. owen J.
Roberts and Mrs. Frank p. Stockley
were among the other speakers. The
3 latter in a humorous talk told her hear
ers that more pep" was needed in the
coming campaign than ever before, and
Z she urged the committee members to
be "on the lookout" for community lead
ers In the South Philadelphia district.
Judge Patterson in summing up. the
: work OF the committee said that plans
for the coming drive now are in definite
M shape and the continued cooperation
Y or the men and women of the committee
is the principal thing needfGl to insure
the drive being success.
An invitation was extended to al
Y male members of the committee TO use
the women's Offices in the Pennsylvania
garage On Broad street
Plans for a pageant on the green in
|. front of the Ridgway Library were an
Naunced by Judge Patterson Detailed
pKns of the pageant, he said, will he
ready within the next two weeks.