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BOND
'SLACKERS' PUT'
ON THE GRILL
rmy of Salesmen United in
& Them
, SUBSCRIPTION OF $1,000,000
Week's Canvass Opened in Im
pressive Fashion Determined
Move to Win 'Little Fellows'
Route of Big Parade
on Liberty Bond Day1
HEADQUARTERS for the parade
tomorrow will be the southeast
comer of Independence Square,
where a detail of orderlies from
Troop A will report.
All orRanizations will bo in desig
nated places at 8:30 a. m.
Lino of march from Fifth and
Wa'nut "r-ctt .p Market, to City
Hall, around City Hall, Broad street
to Spruce street.
First Division
Marines and sailors, headquarters
detail and band First Pennsylvania
Infantry, N. G. U. S.
Second Division
Mayor and Central Liberty Loan
Committee in automobiles; Police
Band, executive manager and Gen
eral Liberty Loan Committee; bond
salesmen in lines of six with banners
and flags; insurance agents' sulcs
mon; Home Defense Committee;
Business Men's Associations with
bands; Camden delegation with
bands.
Third Division
State Fcnciblcs.
Fourth Division
Four thousand Boy. Scouts.
I.MERTY LOAN rilOGIUISS
',Plilladflplila' allotment $330,000,000
; Bobicrlptton rrcnrdrd 110.000,000
'j Bob.crlptlon. required 140,000,000
"Campaign day. left ,... It
Oct after tpe slacken).
This was the new order Issued this morn
lnfc" by the Philadelphia Liberty Loan com
mittee.
It was Issued to the army of bond sales
men before they ocean the last lap In the
race to complete the city's allotment of
1250.000,0000.
That the order will lie executed goes
Without saying-, for the salesmen Inoiv the
',, slackers and will bombard them with Mtera-
ture and personal visits until they enter the
'cmmpalcn.
The campaign opened Its third week with
characteristic ;'iep" this mornlnp and be
fore 10130 several big subscriptions were
recorded. The biggest, one for $1,000,000.
came from the Viscose Company at Marcus
Hook, and the second for 1300.000 came
from the Alan Wood Company. The latter
announced that besides Its Individual sub
scription more than 200 workers In the plant
, . Jiave subscribed,
Division 10, Ancient Order of Hibernians
expressed a willingness to "do Its bit" by
subscribe for $500. Scores of smaller
subscriptions wero received and will be
.tabulated later In tht day.
.' STIMULATING "L1TTLK FKLLOWS"
Included In today's activities will bo the
' work of the various "Liberty Dond Clubs"
In the commercial houses and Industrial
plants. Appreciating that tho "little fel-'
Iowa," as the small Investors are styled,
tnust enter the campaign in large numbers
In order to make tho Liberty Loan a suc
cess, unusual preparations have been made
by the general committee to stimulate and
develop the organizations.
Tonight the employes of Olmbel Brothers'
.-.store will hold a mass-meeting. Lewis II.
Parsons, chairman of the Liberty Loan
Ycommlttee. will make the nrlnrln.il n!lr
-and urge the clerks to get behind their or
rahixation and keep It moving until the end
ct the campaign.
l A similar meeting will be held at the
Lit Brothers' store. This establishment has
already subscribed for 1100,000 and has
, sent out to Its customers more than 50,000
subscription blanks.
To enlist the aid of trade unionists, er
Senator Itlchard V. .Farley, Patrick Con
;ray and Dr flcorge Muller visited the
.Btetaon plant this noon. A trade union auto
will mako dally trips tn Industrial plants
dming the remaining days of tho cam-
palgn.
THEATJIES LEND VALIANT AIP
Theatres throughout the city tiro extend
ing yeoman service to the campaign. Many
of them ore permitting Liberty Uond ora
tor to address the audiences, and a ma
jority have Inserted the "Buy a Bond" ap.
peal Into the.'r programs. This afternoon
Judge Eugene C. Bonnlwell will address tho
audience In Keith's Theatre and Judge
Joseph P. Rogers will speak In that play
house during the evening.
Stanley V. Mastbaum. managing director
of the Stanley Booking Corporation, has
Issued orders to the theatres In that c-ircult
to co-operate In every way possible. Mr
Maitbaum also subscribed for $.20,000
Mrs. Barclay Warburton presided at a
meeting held this morning at nm,n.,m.,.
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Aid headquarters. H28 Walnut street, and
urged women to participate In the
campaign.
It Is the Intention of the committee
to ralae $50,000,000 In this city through
the efforts of 20.000 agents, among whom
are 4000 Boy Scouts, 10,000 school children
and (000 trained bond salesmen, heads of
Industrial plants, business committees and
women. Most of the money Is to be sub
scribed In amounts of $50, $100 and $500
through the medium of bond clubs, an idea
, which Is fast gaining favor with the large
. corporations, based on the success of the
(.Vina iu nciana.
IJBEUTT BOND PAItADE
As an adjunct to the work r n.. ..
tain a great public demonstration will be
etfaed tomorrow (n . .. -. .
raLB1 Para(l9 a Part of the draft-day
WKOtram to show the city how well this
t?i'Py '" Idln s financial resources with
? !'.iH:in8,n of " m"-ry arm. A parade
7 ' i W.. P'f0011. representing every class
i mt oMcial and busmen life, will assemble
i C of "The Star Spangled Banner," they
I will move out Market street to Broad.
sksnee south to Spruce street
Mayer Smith, with detachments of ma-
wniw - .twiwt uuruamcn, will lead
tb. parade, followed by member, of ..
"general Liberty Bond coramlt.ee, business
HKiuHuoiu, civic ciuds, uoy Hcouts and
i t-of -town organizations. The marchers
WHI meet at S.I0, and within an hour the
avalcade will be In motion. The Boy
routs received their mobilisation orders
rwwraay, ravin previously Deen excused
from attendance at schcol by Superintend,
eot John P. (larber, The Scouts are plan.
.VHT to put 4000 members: in line.
fupt tlW for Soles.
ripre4 paer with
J?:&n
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TAX
TO GO IN WAR BILL
Two Per Cent Levy Tenta
tively Agreed on by Sen
ate Committee
MANY CHANGES MADE
WASHINGTON. June 4.
The war revenue bill, hacked to pieces
and put together again In a manner little
resembling the form In which it passed the
House several weeks ago, will be tuken
up by the Benate before tho end of the
week. Tho Senate Finance Committee Is
giving tho bill a final retouching today and
expects to lay It before tho Senate Wed
nesday or Thursday.
Today the committee tentatively agreed
to Impose a 2 per rent tax on all advertising
In newspapers and periodicals.
f reshaped by the Finance Committee
the bill is shorn of some of the features
llkel) to prove exatlous tn th tiiiimnm
cotuuiner. Against the Administration's
wishes, provisions calculated to raise more
limn $300,000,000 annually have been
stricken out Some of this will be taken
from the poor man's share, but most of It
will come out of the rich mans burden.
When the bill gets Into the Senate, ef
forts will be madn to transfer more of the
poor man's load to, the rich man's shoulders'
The bill will be recommended to tho Sen
ate by a irtually unanimous vote of the
Finance Commlttep. Many of tho llepub
llcon members are opposed to tho principle
of direct taxation npplled In the bill, but,
appreciating the Immediate need of funds,
they are going to burv their differences of
opinion temporarily and give their Hupport
wholeheartedly to the measure.
SENATE COMMITTEE'S WOKK
Here arc some of the ways In which tlm
Finance Committee has redrufted the bill:
Beginning with the Income tax, tho com
mittee cut out the Lenroot amendment
placing an additional surtax on big In
comes, calculated to yield $00,000,000 an
nually, and the retroactive tax on 191B In
comes, estimated to yield $108,000,000 year
ly. By changing the basis of the excess
profits tax, the committee has boosted the
estimated revenue from this source from
$200,000,000 to $350,000,000 annually, in ad
dltlon to the revenues from excess profits
under the existing law.
No change has been mado In tho House
taxes on liquor, and although tho commltteo
has cut down the levy on tobacco, no ma
terial reduction In the revpnno fmm ihi
source Is expected.
The committee has left the 3 per cent
freight tax, certain to bo passed on to tho
ultimate consumer, untouched, but It has
reduced thi- 10 per cent tax on passenger
.u. iu u per rem. mereiiy taking an an
nual Increased load of $35,000,000 from the
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.....,,,,, ,uunr. me nuraensome 5 per
I .7. ee''iric ngnt, gas and tele
phone bills, calculate, to produce $30,000,
000 annually, has been cut from the bill
but the 5-cent tux on nil long-dlstanco or
telegraph messages over 16 cents has been
left In.
The committee has been slightly more
lenient with simple pleasures, cutting out
the tax on chewing gum and movies Stamp
taxes of various kinds nre to be substituted
ror the manufacturers' tax on such things
as candy, sporting goods, perfumes, cos
metics, talking machines and records, and
proprietary medicines, while automobile
owners will be required to pay taxes rung
Ing from $7.50 to $20 annually.
TAUIFF BOOST CL'T Ol'T
The horizontal Increase of 10 per rent In
tariff rates has been knocked out. but the
plain citizen Is going to pay his share In
this connection by an excise tax of half u
cent n pound on sugar, two cents on coffee
and live cents on tea, which Is expected
to produce $80,000,000 annually.
The committee has cut tho proposed In
created Inheritance tax. expected to raise
$30.00,00() annually. An effort probab y
will be made In the Senate to restore this
tax along with the Lenroot Iey on big
Incomes.
13,039 IN N. G. P.
Latest Figures Show C35 Officers and
12,504 Men in Service
HARRIsnimc. June . Pennsylvania
National Uuard regiments, exclusive of
those alrcndy In the Federal bervlce. con
tained 535 officers and 12,504 enlisted men
on May 31, according to figures compiled
nt the Adjutant (lenera'.'s Department to
day. The last compilation, made on .May
20, showed 531 officers and ll.CL'5 enlisted
men.
Factions to Elect Committeemen
New Republic city committeemen will he
elected by the Forty-eighth Ward exemit'vps
committees tonight. Hundreds of political,
workers In more than 1300 election invisions
with their chiefs are lined up'for tho fray.
It Is said the light between the Vare and
McNIcho factions will be unusually bitter
lp several wards. Senator Vare hopes to
Increase his power In the city through the
election, while Senator McNIchol said he
ow not expect much change.
Stetson Hospital to Continue
The Stetson Hospital will not bo closed.
The board of directors of the Institution
has decided to keep tho hospital open fol
lowing many pleas which have been re
ceived. Tho hospital waa scheduled to close
next Saturday, but the hoard has with
drawn notices to that effect sent to the
police department and others. The hospital
was founded by the late John 11. Stetson.
It waB his gift to the people of Kensington
and was started In 1887.
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A Laxative u4 Nutrition Feed
Relieve
Constipation
Contains No Medicine
Recommended by Phyrie-
iana
CHILDREN LOVE THEM
Wilt prevent ' well as
illmlnit constipation.
Btrenfthon ontlre dlcostlve
jrattm. Promote food htslth.
Try a Box Today, 25c
ror salt by II. C, Illalr,
Oeo. I). Bum, Flnley Acker
Co., Ilroad St. Station Draff
Store, Bhotrell, fryer Co..
Mitchell, Fletch.r, B. Urad
ford Clarke Co., and otbr
drag nnd arorr stores or
direct front
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ARROW MARKS PROGRESS
SO 60 70 80 90 fOO
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B'NAI BRITII ORDER
P h i 1 n d e I p h i a n s in Session
Aligned With "Insurgents" at
Grand Lodge Convention
ATLANTIC CITY. June 4.
Phlladelphlans ntnoti-; tho 1300 delegates
to
the nnnual convention of the 1 nlted
States Orand Lodge, Independent Order of
B'nol B'rlth. today lined up with Insur
gents who nominated Solomon Schellnsky,
of New York, to light Judgo Leon Sanders
of the same city, for the olllce of grand
master. Sanders has held the place for
eight years at a salary of $4000. Adminis
tration leaders said the Insurgents would
be overwhelmed In the election on Wednes
day. The convention cheered for five minutes
this morning after adopting a resolution
offered by Judge Asher, of New York, con
gratulating tho provisional government of
Ilussla upon the overthrow of autocracy In
that country and extending the heartfelt
appreciation of the Jews In America for the
extension of liberty and equal rights to'
their brethren In tho Itusslan Empire An
other resolution pledged renewed allegiance
of the Jews In the United Slutes to tho
movement for the creotlon of a Jewish
nation In Palestine, to bo recognized by nil
the great Powers of earth after tho war.
The convention ordered tho Immediate
dispatch to President Wilson of a protest
against the un-American nnd Inhuman" Iso
lation of Jewish refugees at Ellis Island
without means of communicating with their
relatives or Jewish nld societies willing tn
take charge of I hem.
Doylestown Boosts School Tax
IOYI.i:STOV.V. Pa.. June I Tile school
In at Dnylestinvn 1ms lieen advanced from
elftht to ten mills. This Is the highest inte
In the history of the school. The board
of education says tho ndvnnre Is nercssary
bt-causo of increased expenses ; that there
is already n deficit of 14000.
Special
Notice!
Wc arc giving away today 100
square piaims taken in exchange for
our famous I.esttr Player-Piano.
They arc of good tnc and splendid
for beginners. Xo charge whatever
is mado, except for delivery and the
actual cost of whatever repairs are
nectssary to put the pianos in good
condition. Mail applications will he
Idled in order of their receipt after
all those who apply in person have
been supplied.
THIS
BEAUTIFUL
PLAYER
PIANO
Full-size piano, with full 88-note,
up-to-date action. Well made and
handsomely finished. Bench, scarf,
year's .tuning and 12 rolls of music
free.
F. A. North Co.
1306 Chestnut Street
Please send me a complete descrlo
ln of your W6 Player-l'lano. also
details of easy-payment plan, without
Interest or extras.
Name
Address . ,.,i.
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Branch Stores
WEST riULA.t 301 S. Std St.
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WEEDING OUT PROCESS
NOW NIAGARA PROBLEM
Much Speculation on Who
Among Rookie Officers Will
Be Sent Home
FOItT NIAGARA. N. Y . June 4.
Thero Is much speculation In camp today
following tho medical examinations Satur
day and yesterday as to the Identity of
the men who will be dismissed from further
service, because of physical defects found
by the surgeons. But 15 per cent of the
men hao been examined and now that It
has been shown that there are some men
here who nro unable to stand the rigorous
life of a poldler all want to know whether
they are physically able to continue.
1'nder the provisions of the schedule
these examinations can only be made on
Saturday nfternoons nnd Sunday. It re
quires about twenty minutes for the sur
geons tn pass on a man.
There are flvp surgeons in camp, which
means but fifteen men an hour can be
examined nnd there are 2377 men In camp.
Therefore It will take the present staff
128 hours to completo the examinations.
it is probable that this staff will be
augmented during the present week and
a large number will bo passed upon next
Saturday and Sunday.
The ronlldentlnl board, too. Is busily
engaged In compiling Its list nf the men
tally unfit, those slow to learn and these
How Your Mone
Will Win
Buy your Liberty Bonds
now, so Uncle Sam can
have soldiers and supplies
now. The sooner you put
your money in, the sooner
the war will be over.
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men will be weeded out os quickly ns
possible.
Written examinations are being held In
the several companies, the men being
quizzed In Infantry drill and guard mount
work.
Some twenty or more men have already
left camp for various reasons and will not
return. Others are expected to leave during
tho present week. Today the men were
given some hard work In musketry practice,
but It will bo seeral weeks befoie they
get any actual target practice.
EX-CAI'TAIN EDGAR'S FUNERAL
Many Attend Services for Veteran
Attend Services
Policeman
Many policemen, city oftlclals and busi
ness men nttended the funeral services for
ex-Police Captain Charles II. Edgar this
afternoon at his home, 1019 Callowhllt
street.
For forty-one years Edgar was attached
to the Philadelphia police force, and for
years was known as the "Terror of the Ten
dcrloln." He retired from active duty thir
teen years ago and contfnued to live In the
Callnwhlll street home, where he was born
elKMy-tlirec years ago.
Edgar was u typo of the old school ot
policemen and gained nn enviable reputa
tion for physical courage and honesty. He
Is survived by two nieces, Misses Hattle
and Pauline Illdgcwny, with whom he
lived. The funeral services were conducted
by the ltev. J. O Clault. of Chester. Jacob
W. Neff, Charles Reynolds. Arthur Cham
bers and James I! Dickson nrted ns bearers
You can buy your bond, easily and
quickly, for cash or on installments,
from any Bank, Banker or Trust Com
pany. Or ask your employer how you
can subscribe your share, paying a
little down and a little every week.
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$388,000 BLOCKLEY ITEM
APPROVED BY COMMITTEE
Bill AuthorizinB Erection of Power
House and Outbuilding Acted
Upon Quickly
An Important step In tho plan to create
a new Blockley was taken this morning
when Councils' Finance Committee ap
proved a bill which provides for the ex
penditure of $388,000 for the erection of
a power house and other outbuildings.
In the fall of 101R the people voted to
expend $1,000,000 on Blockley Improve
ments. Tho power house and other out
buildings, according to Director Krusen.
must be erected Immediately nnd to make
that possible Councils' Finance Committee
acted quickly on the bill Introduced by the
Health Director.
The committee also approved a bill which
provides that heads of city departments
must cither nifept or eject contrniW.
vvltihn sixty days after receiving estimates
Recreation Rooms Wanted
Will a property ownr of Dwrllinir nr Store
on Broad street. Spruce. Walnut or Chestnut.
DONATK for duration or war uie of property
for purpose of establishing Ilf-rn-attnn ttoomn
for NAVY flOVS while they are at liberty In
our city? To aMure proper rare ami welfare
of the bulldlnir and boys. I ncree personally to
devote entire time and attention to supervision
.".mediately. AmMtMJ ,;,,..,.
."oclul Mtl'nre Lecturer.
Thone Walnut 22t.
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LIBERTY LOAN COMMITTEE
Third Federal Di.tr.Vf
108 So. Fourth St.
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