Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-11-14
WELFARE PLANE
OFF FOR CAPITAL
Carries Message Which Presi-
dent Harding Is Expected
to lndorse
4,O00,000 DRIVE IS ON

with the opening this morning Of the
drive for $4,000,000 by the Welfare
Federation, a message was sent to
President Harding by airplane. The
message will explain to the President
Philadelphia purpose in trying to
raise funds to aid the 12J federated
agencies II Is expected when the
plane returns this afternoon it will
bear message from the President in
dorsing the drive.
The plane chopped Off Mt Belmont
Plateau at 9:40 o'clock. More than a
score of the officials Of the federation
we're present. At n ceremony Just be-
fore the departure, Postmaster John
Thornton commissioned Bert Devorc. q
special messenger, and gave him the
letter which he will hand TO President
Harding.
The plane is expected 10 return TO the
| city late this afternoon.
4 war nurse, Miss Grace Walker.
was to have made the trip also but
there was not room enough ip the plane
plane was Silotcd by Lieutenant Will
liam Stryker. Miss Walker is secre.
;aty to Campaign DIRECTOR Benjamin
Ludlow.
Other officials who saw the .,!ane de-
part for Washington included II. Il.
Norton. manager of the publicity COM
mittce; John Mason, president of the
Commercial Trust Company: Sherman
kingsley. executive secretary Of the
Federation. and Trustees J. W. Wilcox,
W. Hinkle Smith and Horatio G..
Lloyd.
First MONDAY Luncheon
The first luncheon rally took place
today in the Bellevue -Stratford and re-
ports of the 1900 volunteer workers
were given.
Covers were laid in the ballroom
for $50, with accommodations for an
overflow gathering in the Glover Room
Zach guest. including team captains
and workers, officials of the federation
and others. paid 81. thus relieving
the fcderation's central organization Of
upward Of $1,000 daily overhead OK
penSc. by this method does the fed
Grafton expect to keep its campaign
expenses down to the minimum in order
70 be able to devote every possible dol
lar raised 10 the object for which it
was intcndcd-welfare.
I Searcblights to Beam
/ AZ dark tonight four battleship
searchlights. mounted on the four sides
! OF City Hall tower just below the clock.
will shoot their twelve mile beams to
the four corners OF the metropolitan
city. the angle of each beam to be
elevated from the horizontal to the
Perpendicular each night as the feder-
alton fund mounts higher and higher!
These huge lamps also will wink
Morse messages, by manipulation OF
! the reflector shutters, so that Boy
Scouts and any other familiar with
the international telegraph code may
be able to read the last-minutc news
Of the progress OF the campaign from
! points as far distant as League Island
or Willow Grove. Paoli or Ridley
| Park.
As a test Of their proficiency. Boy
Scouts throughout the city are invited
to watch for the City Hall searchligh'
messages as they arc flashed night
after night and send their trans lation'
the first thing the next morning tc
Boy Scout headquarters. there to b'
listed and mcrited according to thciI
correctness.
! A Welware Federation meeting will
bc held at S o'clock tonight in the Ger
nantown High School. GcnmantcSl