Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-13
THE MEN WHO DO THINGS
Or. krauskopf and Edwin x. shu'ts'
Who Gave TIL II Hurt for sdu'
eation--What Philadelphia
Loses by Waste-4o,ooo
Shoes Cobbled Daily
BY GEORGE NOX Mccain

-, by GEORGE NOX Mccain
THE Rev. DR.. Joseph Krauskopf is what
i Editor jacket, of the Doylestowr Daily
phia idealist."
1t is n we'll deserved euogy descriptive
Of the work of the National Farm School
In Bucks County. whose twenty NTH ami
versary was celebrated few days ago.
Dr.. Krauskopf is the founder OF the
school.
so great has been its success ms a prac-
teal back to- the SOIL movement for
Jewish boys that 1t has commanded national
attention.
From a very modest beginning in the
suburbs Of DOylestOwn the schoo, has grown
until It includes five farms, embracing, oil
told. 800 acres.
The. farms are worked by the students Of
the school.
TN ADDITION to general education
along liberal lines. the students are trained
in hrsbnndry, dairying and collateral lines
of farm work.
The farms are self supporting.
MOI. Not long gs,ogo ogo one of them reported a
In one year $25, coo worth of produce was
sold.
The crop Of last year showed figures that
are illuminating.
On 100 acres there were produced $50
:, When the wheat from forty six acres on
the School Farm was thrcshed it sacked
up 04O bushels.
For the dairy and stock barns 841 tons
OF silage were produced on eighty one acres
of land. a.. ~ .. u. =
In addition. 7112 bundles Of corn fodder
and 3l3O bushels of corn were grown.
Out OF the wood lots enough wood was
taken to supply the institution with fuel
EDWIN X. SCHULTZ, of Boyertown, is
~ unique as philanthropst.
For thirty years. or since 1t was founded,
he has been treasurer Of the Board Of Trus-
tees Of Perkiomen School. at Pennsburg.
His family for generations. for it is one
OF the Oldest in the Pennsylvania German
section Of Lower Berks and Upper Mont
gomery Counties have been members Of the
Schwenkfelder Church
Perkiomen School was established by the
Schwenkfelders. and although undenomina-
tional in teaching. has been under their
auspices ever since.
Edwin X. Schultz has been the largest
he has never been asked to give a cent.
All OF his gifts have been voluntary.
WHEN the new main building was in
w course Of erection at a cost of over
$50, 600 the board found that 1t could raise
Without solicitation Mr.. Schultz under
the debt at great personal sacrifice without
interest until it was liquidated in the course
Of years.
The World War. to which Perkiomen
school with deficit. Under its system 1t
offers sclf-help and certain advantages to
promising and deserving boys. This largely"
increases its financial burden.
Mr.. Schultz. unsolicited, started sub
scription list with $4,000 to clear off the
deficit. in addition to his other benefactions.
Dr. Krauskopf, at a testimonial dinner to
him ut the Bellevue Stratford. told that 1t
was necessary for him to invest his personal
fortune to start the National Farm School:
His story Of self sacrifice recalled that Of
Edwin X. Schultz in the struggle of the
perkiOmen School.
Each institution has won triumph.
The National Farm School graduates have
operate their own farms successfully, but
to assume positions on large estates as farm
superintendents, dairymen. herdsmen and
specialists.
Nearly 1900 graduates is the monument
to the work Of Principal DIR. .. s. Kriebel
and his friends like Edwin X. Schultz, of
Perkiomcn School.
THERE are 10000 pairs of shoes resoled
L and heeled in Philadelphia every day.
This work Is carried OH, according to
statistics prepared by Il leather manufac-
turer. in $500 repair shops
This means that 5000, 200 pairs of shoes
are mended in Philadelphia every year.
1t is only one phase of reclamation that
is growing by leaps in this country.
The most remarkable results of this are
shown in the Pennsylvania Railroads fig.
ures of the income from the sale of Office
waste paper.
The company realized about $1,000 a week
from this source last year.
1t Is but drop in the bucket compared
to the amount of wastage going on daily in
Philadelphia in the processes of ordinary
life.
The greatest waste is in food.
Tons of kitchen and table scraps are daily
thrown away that could be utilized again for
human consumption.
1t is much less now than it was prior
to the. World War. and the operations of
the Food Administration.
The curtailment and restrictions of that
period taught wasteful Americans a lesson
In economy.
THE Function Shops that Aourished
twenty years ago have disappeared.
They were little cubby holes where the
poor could buy meat scraps. bread. cooked
cold vegetables. and often fruit with the de-
cayed parts cut out that had been discarded
by Dock street merchants.
The meat and other foods were the left
overs from hotel tables.
Today the second hand shoe trade of
Philadelphia ls maintained entirely by the
repair of salvaged footwear, partly worn
shoes.
They are cobbled and polished up and
realize fine profit.
The immense sums, aggregating millions
of dollars, that were saved by the French,
American and British armies by reclaiming
accouterments shoes and uniforms was in
reality inspired by the success Of the Sec
ond hand trade in the great cities of the
world.
CENATOR GEORGE WOODWARD is
- greatly interested in the matter of keep
ing employed the cOnvicts In our peniten.
tiaries.
1t Is the most difficult problem of solu-
ton in the entire range Of penology.
1t is just as true in prison as in out
side life that Satan always finds some
work for idle hands to do
AS the State is its own printer, the ques.
tio, bos heen raised Whv cannot tba ,,onJ