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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
ASK U. S. FOR S29,OOO,OOO
Appeal for Appropriation Made by
N. Y. Shipbuildins Corporation

An appeal for appropriations aggrc-
eating $2S, 200, 900 to complete the ship
building program Of the New York
Shipbuilding Corporation at Camden il
made in letter addressed to Chairman
James W. Good of the House appropria-
tons committee in Washington. by Rep
rcsentativc +. +. Patterson, Jr., of
New Jersey. The request is accom-
panied by warning that failure to
grant the appropriations necessary to
complete the contracts will result in in
creased costs to the government and
necessitatc laying off n large number of
employees.
Representative Ware. n member Of the
appropriations committee. made similar
representations today.
To complete the contracts awarded in
August. 1918. So, ZOO, 900 is asked in
the urgent deficiency bill. for work to
be done between now and June 30. 1921
and 5000, 900 for work remaining un-
finished on that date.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
ALTER APPROVES
WOMEN IN OFFICE
State Attorney Generals opin-
ion Says Suffrage Amend
ment Removes All Bars
WIFE SUCCEEDS HUSBAND
Philadelphia women. please note.

Philadelphia women. please note.
Yor have an equal right with men
to hold office. according TO the decision
given by Attorney General Alter TO
Governor Srroul yesterday.
There Is no constitutional or legal
reason why women. in view Of tho
adoption Of the nineteenth amendment.
are not as voters equal to men
The opinion followed IN the matter Of
the recent death of George Wagner.
clerk of courts In LuzcrnT county. and
the application by Mrs. Wagner. his
widow. for appointment to the place.
Her appointment will now follow
within n few days. the first appoint
ment by Governor Sproul of woman
to I'll a county Office. The salary is
$1,000 year.
In giving his opinion. Attorney Cen
cral Alter raises the general question
Of eligibility of women to hold public
Office, cites their qualifications to hold
| Office under the school laws, and then
continues:
Once Disqualified
"tnder the common law women were
disqualified from holding public office.
| and pursuant thereto this department
from time to time had held them to be
| ineligible for certain Offices. The rea
sons upon which the common law dis 4.
! qualifications were based disappeared
when women were vested with the right
to take part in me government az
voters"
/ General satisfaction over Attorney
General Alters decision that women
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
XMAS TREE FOR KlDDlES
Salvation Army Branch Also to Pro
vide Dinners to Deserving

The Salvation Army branch Office et
2555 Germantown avenue will have n
real Christmas tree for the "kiddies'
this year. and Santa Claus will be there
10 distribute presents.
Fifty baskets containing potatoes.
beans peas. fruit, coffee. tea and sugar
will be given out To needy families who
obta In tickets from the Salvation Army
headquarters. Broad street and Fair
mount avenue. Nearly three times that
many baskets are needed to furnish
those persons who have been unable to
get employment since many mills have
who have not received their bonuses
,,E yet will be dependent on the las
tics' to furnish them their Christmas
dinner.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
YORK MAN WROTE OBITUARY
Edward 5lausser Died After s4th
Birthday

York. Pa, Dec. %. - Data o be
used aS part of his obituary had been
compiled ,irDg by Edward Blsusser} re- re:
here He had been i'll for more than
two years.
Mr.. Blausser celebrated his eighty
fourth birthday anniversary on October
., and on that day he wrote a part OF
MS obituary, recording that he had
msI, ossn married sixty one years. was a
years and served as foreman for fif-
Teen years. He was a member of the
T. A. r., Of Malta twenty eight years.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
GIRLS, CLUB TO DINE KlpolEs

Members Of the Community Club Of
Girls of st. Georges Episcopal Church,
Indiana avenue and Livingston street.
will give Christmas party TO th"
needy children Of the ncighborhood in
the parish house this evening. The
principal Of the beginners department Of
st. Georges Sunday School will give
n Christmas party to the pupils, shout
4 ~ Of them. next Wednesday afternoon.
a general parish meeting will be con
Quoted the same evening
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
Deaths Of a Day
Mrs. James Russell Lowell

Mrs James Russell Lowell, of Bos-
,,Gn, died yesterday at the Chestnut
iiIll Hospital after an operation. She
was Miss Mary Wharton Churchmnn.
H this city, and had come here to visit
C IsF cousin, Mrs. benjamin Allen. in
LneStnut Hill. Mrs. Lowell was q
laughter Of the late Mr.. and Mrs.
I,nar'es W. Churchman, of this city.
Ger nt mother was Miss Ancie Wharton
sue Is survived by her husband. a son
.% .%u her three brothers, Charles W.
.Uurchman, Clark Wharton Church
'Ian and Vain Morgan Churchman, all
lhiS city. The funeral will take
pace In Boston on Friday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
Reading sIeuths Nab Man Here

While in Philadelphia to attend @
court hearing of drug cases yesterday
Detectives Huber and Britton, Of Road
ing. arrested man wanted in Reading
for larceny. He is Earl Turner. ac,
cused of a jewelry robbery. The de.
tectives noticed him at Ninth and Race
streets. Turner saw them and ran. Hc
was caught after q race of severa
blocks. 1t was charged that he dropped
in sewer q quantity of drugs which
ho intended bringing to Reading. IIc
was taken back to Reading.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
1900 Glass Workers Laid OF

Toledo, o.. Dec. 23.-(By A. P.)-
More than 1900 men were thrown out
of work until February l. when the
Edward Ford Plate Glass Co. plant
at Rossford. closed down today. Of
iCials of the company declared that
there is no contemplated reduction in
wages when operations are resumed.
The reason given for the shutdown was
for 'readjustment of financial
affairs -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
William Etson BrIaos, Jr.

c,Mn, william Etson Briggs, Jr., son of
dioGs iIG'nlh and Mrs. William Il. Briggs,
ESu Fc Yesterday at his home, 912 South
,sa. ,s"r.S'SIth street. He was twenty
Tho s's oId' His father, a captain in
hon. merchant marine. is on his way
nO.Is OHs from Porto Rico. He has been
Thn TTSh.'ned by wireless Of his sons death.
ma, young man was assistant scout
wss US.'er IN Troop 90, BOY Scouts, and
soS, S 10 his first year in the engineering
y,nio yS%pol OF the University of Pennsyl-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
sovie. Protests Sales by wranosI

tonstantinOple, Dec. 23-CBy A.
p.l-G"org" Tchitchprin, the Russian
Soviet foreign minister, has sent a wire
less message dated December 20, to the
nr'mierS of Greece, Rumania and Jugo.
Slavia protesting against the alleged
Salc ny Baron Wrangrl of property. In
Guiding merchant vessels, "hcionging 70
the Russian people"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
WiIkes-Barre Woman
Gets First appointment

Governor Sproul today appointed
Mrs. Snllip Wagner, Of Wilkes
I,nrrc, to be- clerk of the Court Of
Quarter Sessions Of Luzcrnc county.
Mrs. Wagner succeeds her husband.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
Pilgrim Stamps Appear

In celebration of the Booth ami
vcrsary of the landing IF the Pilgrims
the government has just issued n now
set of postage stamps of three values.
one. two and five cents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
j. Percy keatjno

osioo. fercy Keating, an attorney with
ins i'S IN the Commercial Trust Build
s, nas. u'ed Yesterday after a brief i'll
pon Mr.. Keating was in his sixty.
:, MN year. His home was at 5000
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23
74.Year.oId Man ls Some Kicker

Lancaster, Calf. Dec. 23.--CBy A.
PIT. w. Edwards, realty operator
celebrated his seventy fourth anniver
sary of his birth here today by kicking a
hat from the head of man six feet
two inches tall without losing his bal :
onCp
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23

Hold Christmas Party for Employees
McIlvaine Brothers held Christmas
party for the members of their organ-
zation at the Undine Barge Club Friday
night. A dinner. vaudeville show and
dance featured the evenings entertain
ment
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-12-23

"for feel that they can be- very use
full particularly in work with. which
their own interests are connected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
ONE of the first, If not the
" first, of the famous
"GlbS0n Girls"

once they become recognized. ANY,
way, he was there next day with
the armful of masterpieces. Also,
he walked away with them shortly
afterward, with the words of Mr..
Mitchell ringing in his ears:
"Not so good as your first, my
lad; not so good as your first. I'm
afraid we can't use them"
Now that was dark moment in
the life of Charles Dana Gibson.
But it was not without it's ray Of
hope.
eff owned publication like that
they couldn't turn down my pict-
ures," he thought. "And I'm going
to own one" It was at this time that
he was turning on his heel, looking
backward over his shoulder at the
editorial rooms high above Broad
way, and it was at this time that he
made his VOW.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
His Joke ON Mason

Mr.. Thomas Mason, managing
editor, for example, who for more
than thirty years has been asso-
ciated with the artist, remembers
once upon time when Mr.. Gibson
came rushing into the editorial
rooms of the publication one day
several hours late with drawing
for joke which MIR. Mason had
written. AS matter Of fact, it de-
veloped later that Mr.. Gibson's
drawing had been finished and on
his desk for some time, but as he
came rushing into the editors
Office he exclaim16:
&c, swear, sir, I am sorry about
the delay In this drawing. I've
worked hard on it. Put in more
time on it than I have devoted to q
drawing for many months"
"Buc," returned the editor, "why
is this? ! don't understand"
"Well, it's simply that like Tom
Mason 80 we'll, and I can't see a
thing in the world that's funny
about this joke and I've been trying
to make the drawing funny enough
to do for both Of u.s."
Mr.. Gibson's sense Of humo1
"sticks OUT" as they say in the art
department, in every piece Of light
work he completes. And as he is
at his work so is he in personal life.
He is always ready with a quick pun
or "snappy" joke and, after ALL
hasn't it been rather decided ad-
vantage to him?
A Fling at Critics
He chad his fling" at all Of the
art editors in existence not 80 long
ago while speaking before an artists
association that held a dinner the
guests Of which consisted largely OF
those gentlemen whose shakes Of the
head indicate the poor artists work
is not at all acceptable. Mr.. Gibson
was one Of the speakers. Among
other things he said:
"There was time when they
drubbed us and grubbed US and
made all manner of fun Of US, anG
very few of them 1.-THE editorsl evel
would condescend to lend US a dol
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Live Gibson Girls

And, 10! Real, live, walking and
talking "Gibson Girls" came into ex-
istence. You saw them on the side
walks, in the theaters, at the clubs
and in the parks. Hair done the
same as his latest panels showed
them. Nose tilted at just the proper
"Gibson" angle. Threats barred after
his latest poses. And then came
frocks and gowns Of all sorts and
face powders and vanishing creams
and what not. There were "Gibson
Girls" and "Gibson Girl" trim
mings" on the East Side, on the
West Side, and all around the town
There were "Gibson Girls" before
the lions in Trafalgar Square and
"Gibson Girls" in faraway Seattle,
They we're everywhereI
And while Broadway talked Of
the splendid types" and the master
ly style Of that Mr.. Gibson who
draws for Life" this artist was
doing just what he will be doing TO-
morrow-sitting before his picture
working out more details, improv-
ing, ever improving, and not salts.
fed to sit down and say:
"Well, I've arrivedw 1t wasn't
in him. That's why he owns "Life. y
It was only a short time after he
had achieved wide fame as the man
who set the minds Of the fashion.
able colonies of the world awhir
with "Gibson Girls" that he was
married. 1t has been said that be
was the most proposed to man ir
the world just before he married
Miss Irene Langhorne, Of Rich
mond. And then when those who
sought to win him saw his bride they
fell back, slowly and uniformly, ad
hitting that they really stood ne
chance and that they would retreat
in the same manner in which they
advanced.
TIL, Doo1 C.I I'LL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
IHARLES DANA GLIB
~ SON as he is today, IN
an etching By Waiter little

Was she the inspiration for all these
glorious girlies? Had he only
found himself" when he met her?
Many persons declared that was the
case and many newspapers came out
openly declaring that at last the
secret was out. The original Glib
son Girl" was none other than his
fancee!
Further than to admit very frank
ly that she Influenced his work a
great deal and to explain that he
had been drawing American young
women long before he was married,
MI. Gibson never has been known
to commit himself.
And considering all this turmoil
that arose-and it really was tur-
MOL, or something very closely akin
you wonder just for the curiosity
Of the thing how much money Mr..
Gibson has earned through the
drawing Of these striking young
ladies. That is another secret. But
one has only to draw upon his i'm
agination to decide for himself that
the artist has no cause for worry.
A Big Contract
He wouldn't mind telling you
that the management Of "Collier's
Magazine" just prior to his trip
abroad to Spain and France Eyes,
he had go at Europe, too, but only
to study a while and view the seen
cry and return), signed contract
with him agreeing to pay him
100000 for a few pictures from
time to time.
A pretty far cry from 81 a pic.
ture to thousands upon thousands
for another. But it harks back to
the foundation upon which his house
of success is built. There has never
been one day in his life that
he has not been busy. Busy al
work or busy at play. He consid
ers one just as necessary as the
other. No, he doesn't play golf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
q "GIBSON GIRL" of the
a present day, from a
recent issue of life"
-9xEE PUG CO

He works around the house up
North. And he walks quite a lot.
He's rather ashamed he doesn't play
golf, and thinks he may learn one
of these days.
1t goes without saying, seeing
that he now is at the head Of the
great humorous weekly which he
has just bought, that Mr.. Gibson
has that one essential to success
a sense of humor. Indeed he has.
If you want best proof Of that ask
any Of the editors in the "Life"
offices.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Rejected the Twelve

Well, he got his wish. because
Mr.. Gibson" was on hand shortly
after luncheon time next day with
inc twelve drawings that he had had
a'oden away somewhere in a clothes
closet at home. No doubt he had
heard that great artists and authors
sfe able to dispose Of their rubbish
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
A BOVE-"The Moon and
IA l." the first Drawing Mr..
Gibson ever sold. BeloaU-
Mrs. Charles Dana Gibson,
called By her husband the
most beautiful qOomaa7a IN the
2U0rJd

like to believe to be his very level
best"
This man, whose portrayal of
pretty girls has made him the idol
of art lovers everywhere, has a
strange philosophy concerning the
achievement of success. A fellow
just simply trundles along, doing
his best all the while, and after
awhile he finds he is doing nicely
later he feels he's doing better, and
after awhile he seems to be just
flying along at breakneck speed
when of sudden something comes
along, he feels a little unfit" and
he gets a terrible setback.
And what does he do then7
If you asked Mr.. Gibson he would
cover his own case by saying tina,
he walks home through Central
Park, gets some fresh air, and if
his case is too perplexing he takes
a run up to his summer home at
Penobscot' Bay and works around
the house a while until he feels fit
again.
Never Say Die
But he believes that no man ever
reaches what he actually believes to
be his highest point Of efficiency,
And he believes this is as it should
be. He believes the minute a man
throws down his work and quits he
is doomed. Salvation lies alone in
never showing the while feather.
Mr.. Gibson just trundled along
drawing pretty girls, and then he
drew others, and after a while he
drew more. 1t was not so unusual
he thought. But those who were
watching his work thought different
~. They called his pretty faces the
"Gibson Girls" He received hun.
dreds Of letters, following the pic.
turization Of one very striking young
miss back in 1893, saying all manner
Of things about his ability. He sci
to thinking maybe he really ought
to specialize a bit. And he did
Girls, girls, girls. He drew then
in their Sunday dresses and in thei1
walking suits. He drew Them OF
horseback and at the theater. "Gib
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
1HARLES DANA GIB-
~ SON IN the late '9Os,
a0hem his DRAWINGS had be-
g7l1a to bring him fame

ter. There was no cross dismissal
nor gruff intolerance. There was, on
the contrary, the exact opposite.
There was the smile Of faith and
the tone of voice that meant more
than money or the acceptance Of
his little drawings to the young
artist.
Mr.. Gibson would tell you that
the mastery fashion in which Mr..
Mitchell disposed of him and sent
him home to "dig, dig, dig" was to
him much the same as the sunshine
is to a fading rose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
lhlrty-four Years in the Life of Charles Dana Gibs
How Boy Who Sold
a Picture Bought
a Magazine
By Quinn L. Martin

\
NNE gray afternoon thirty
four years ago an eighteen
- year-old lad, perspiring
and weary, climbed several
fights Of stairs to the editorial
rooms of "Life" and placed a draw
ing on the desk Of the editor.
The next day he returned, was
told the drawing would be call
right" and received 81 in cash. It
was his first sale. He beamed. And
he hurried back to his home in Flush
ing and "dug up" twelve moro.
The following day he was back in
the "Life" office. The editor looked
at his offerings and shook his head.
The boy faltered, gathered up his
pictures, smiled weakly and took
his cap and walked away. On the
street below he hesitated, looked
back at the building over his shout
der and made vow.
On April 1 "Life," the most wide
" circulated humorous weekly pub
lication in America, becomes the
property Of that boy, now a man,
Charles Dana Gibson, the premier
portrayer Of American feminine
beauty in the world.
'Life" will refuse no more Of his
drawings, because he made good his
VOW. He kept everlastingly at it,
through sunshine and through rain,
never looking backward, never &C
cepting himself as one who had Tar
rived" and he proved beyond the
chance of a doubt that the old wag
about "where there's a will, there's
a way" may be old-fashioned, but
Is brimful of truth. His achievement
stands out as beacon to doubters.
An Artist at Eight
Charles Dana Gibson was an ar
fist when eight years old. 1t was at
that age that he was found one day
lying fiat on his stomach in his
little home in Flushing, L. L.,
cutting silhouettes from white paper
with scissors. His father, Charles
De Wolf Gibson, found him. The
neighbors became interested. And
through his early childhood days he
grew more and more attached to art
and to drawing. At eighteen he had
entered the New York Art Students
League, and labored days and days
before he had completed anything
worth showing to even his closest
friends.
It was about this time that
he finally gained courage to at
tempt to draw something for pub
lication.
1.-THE Mikado," in which the young
artist was deeply interested, was
playing in New York. He saw it
from a balcony seat It impressed
him. And as he sat there watching
one part Of 1t, a most serious and
expressing scene depicting a silver
moon with members of the cast sing
ing up to it from the depths Of their
hearts, he almost giggled aloud as
the thought came to him that on to-
morrow he would draw a picture
showing what he thought really
should be used as scenery in the
singing Of that enchanting song,
"The Moon and l."
A few days passed, and without
telling anybody in his household
about his mission he struck out for
New York and raced up the many
flights Of stairs aforementioned. In
his hand, with thumbmarks on its
edges, was "The Moon and l." 1t
was, If you please, drawing Of a
little black dog sitting beside his
kennel at midnight, or whereabouts,
his ragged nose pointed directly
toward the silvery moon that rose
Just above the horizon, baying as
1t appeared and singing as it bayed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
and Europ,

son Girls" were copied from his
work throughout the United States
and Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Encouraging Words

If you were to ask him he would
tell you that words spoken by ones
elders give most help to the young
man or woman starting out in the
world. He would say that the very
actions Of John A. Mitchell, the art
editor of Life" when the boy artist
heard the words that for the mo-
ment spelled failure, caused him to
resolve that trifing failure for tho
moment does not necessarily mean
permanent defeat. The fatherly
way in which that splendid gentle
man handed back to eighteen-year-
old Charles Dana Gibson his pictures
that "were not so good as your first,
my lad" filled him with confidence
and purpose to go home and do bet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
Never His Best

"Mr. Gibson, when did you hit
your stride'?" he would reply:
"Well, now, I just don't know
don't know If I've ever done that.
Don't know that any man ever
reaches just the place that he would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28
A Boyllood Ambition

'I'm going to own one," he said to
himself, "and it shall be earned by
my drawing pictures SO good that
they'll have to use them"
And so it was that he drew pict-
ures "they had to use," until finally
the editor of "Life" called him in one
day and told him Life" would like
to have a drawing a week through
out the year, and at q. rate of pay
that looked particularly enticing to
him. On the income from those
pictures largely he has been enabled
to purchase the paper itself, and,
may it be added, to stow away a
fortune besides.
You should hear him tell of one Of
the chief reasons why he never lost
faithfully, in times when things
looked black and prospects were not
so fair as they might have been, he
could look forward into better day
always looking ahead, forever see
ing into the future far enough to
forget his troubles for the moment
and realize that with patience and
hard work there were reward and
hope.