K V. EW a it: VS. tfV. if. 1 . ftt ? r j P I f 1,1 fe m La fv w I 4 I' l. -- Ee' i.5U fr rwm ', ' vS V' V UL EXPRESS ROUTES PLANNED HERE ,First Will Bo From City Through West Chester to Newtown Square tmii TO START WITHIN 30 DAYS Others to Bo Established Shortly by Assistant Postmaster General Blakcslee By a NlnfT Correspondent WASHINGTON. Nov SI. The Postomeo Deportment will within tho next thirty dajs establish a motor malt express route between Philadelphia and West Chester nnd Newtown Square, which will be the forerunner of a number of routes that will Introduce n rnpld system of par cel pots radiating from Philadelphia to points within a radius of sixty or seventy miles tr more. These motor mnll cpiess routes will be of crcat benefit to the entire community, as they will establish a quick and cheap sys tem of delivery of merchandise from tho city merchants to the people In the cutly Injr districts and furnteh tho producers of electable, fruits, poultry, ckbs, butter and ether country products "villi a medium of BettlnR them tn tho city buyers In a few hours at low transportation expense Under direction r.f Assistant Postmaster General James 1;. Ulahcslee, an Inspector l. now Investigating tho roads, postott1t.es and farms In Chester County with a view to laying out a route to run from Philadel phia, through Wen Chester to Newtown Square and several smaller towns where country produco can be picked up for tl.o city buyers. Mr. Blakcslee Is most onthuslnstla over the motor mall express system and Iiopis within the next three months to have rcuto. established between Philadelphia and Head ing. Atlantic City, Lancaster. Vlncland, Norrlstown. Allentown and numerous other points on hlRhways that can be reached on a one-day's motor run from Philadelphia. Nine of these routes havo been put In operation within the past few months and have already proved of prcat benelU to the communities between which they ply, because of the great savlnff effected In time and expense of delivery and their demon strated ability to reduce the hlsh cost of living-. CAN SKUVi: MANY" COMMUN.TIKS 'There are about ISO. 000 miles nf highly Improved, hard surface roads In the I'nltcd States over which these routes cm bo operated at pood speed, and 'i l.irco part of theso roads radlnto from Philadelphia," said Mr. Iilakcfleo to the l'.vr.Ntvi l.KrOEn correspondent today. "IAr that reason wc want to Ret the people if Philadelphia, Heading, Chester, West Che hi. Mlrntmvn and other points Interested in our plan of putting the people In the rlt r ami towns and those In the rural dlstilr In closer communication through the ineiiM and rapid medium ( ffered by the motor mall express. "The facilities of the imstiil e-i v re In this direction have not been developed to any considerable extent, but In future we Intend to utilize the motor rir over these roads, transporting practically everything that tha farms produce "We shall begin with the route from Philadelphia to West Chester and estab lish others as the business grows. InV esti Gard Bunting Flags Nothing Better Made You Can't Beat Them fT.XT COLOR 1'romvtlu JJailtd fU ?3 Me 1 va SS2.. " 2Ws4 . S5 VM?Z&. wm 4lB fSfe .on nxtz I.1.(I0 . 1015 1, 1 &. 3 ntnr- Included. Kxtru stars, over 3, be eacn. U. S. FLAGS Renew Yours Our Own Auto Delivery llringa Us Xcjt Itoor to You SEWKII STAIIS AND WTRlrKS 3lS. 2 4H. M BxS. t.25l AxlU. If): Svi2. M.BOI 10x15. 13i Uxio. SIP. Phone ami tnutl oruer iiroinptl) attended to. iw have our rrtirrrnt.itlvr rnll. Hell l'linnrx p P plllr(ln.r Kri.tan, Locui,t 4ssfl r varaner Ku B3 404 PAKKWAY Ill.DO. Kt'eru American Should Flu a Flaa Nou w&flm Quality Mann's Blank Books 1IOUN1J AND LOOhK LEAF ilik: THE STANDARD TOR 69 YEARS Your hjjkeeper knows tho advantagene." value of a well made Blank Hook. Phone Market 160 for our representative to call WILLIAM MJW COMMIT B1J !! Liim Leaf BUHrnmrr rrtattac and XJikmUo( 529 Mjirket St. Perfect Balance Kins Eight power lies in a perfected en gine, a fine balance of weight against horse power, for which quick grades, deep sands and difficult detours have no terrors. V FarkerMottrSalesCo. 518. N. Br oti St. rf ; ''! 1&L -"-i' - -v A' cation are belnr mde now over other routes to determine tha amount of produco obtalnabla for shipment, (he most conveni ent hours for tho schedule and other par ticulars." Assistant Postmasteral General Blakcs lee proposed to Congress last session that $100,000 be appropriated to experiment with Mich a system as Is now being organized. Congress failed to pass the bill. It was pro posed, had that bill passed,, to put the sys tem In effect on a parcel post rato basis of one-half cent a pound. The rata for carrying merchandise over the routes now amounts to one cent a pound under tho parcel post rates, but tho depart, ment hopes to reduco It to one-half cent a pound If Congress will npprnprlnte tho funds directly to operate the proposed system nnd give authority for the reduction of tho car rying rate, V "Are these motor mall routes now being operated costing tho Government much money or aro they proving profitable?" Mr, Blakeslcn was asked by tho Uve.vino Lr.DOEn correspondent. "They havo proved very profitable right from tha outset," replied Mr. Blakesleo. "Now take the route from Washington to X.eonardtown, Mil , tho first route estab lished, as an example. Wo offered that routo for contract and the lowest bid wo could get was $7500 a year. Wo decided to buy a motortruck nnd operate It our selves. Counting the total cost of equip ment, depreciation, salaries and all expenses under a cost-accounting system, that route costs $3600 a year to operate. It carries out from tho Washington merchants to the rural communities nn average of 4000 pounds a day, which at the parcel-post rate of one cent a pound, Is $40 a day. On tho return trip It Is carrying about H00 pounds of farm produco back to Washington, a total earning of $48 a day, which Is an Im mense profit compared to other rural mall routes. Wo expect to build up tho ship ments from the country Into Washington so ns to give tho motorcar a full load each way and make the route even more profit able. So you seo It can be run on a half-cent-a-pound rato If Congress will give au thority. 'This Is Just the beginning of a system that I expect to see develop Into one of the most Important functions of tho Post office Department." Mr. Blakesleo went on. "Wo now have routes from Washington to T.eonardtown, two between Washington and d Tirt fir Entry Km J tfPritt aJ Uti tKtth"CAain"Uia' 'RyatCtrS 'Plain' Alio Tift for Motor Cyclti, Bicycle; and "! .-rs, rl EVEINQ IEDGERPHIL'ABEliPH Baltlmoro, ona from Annapolis to Solomons Point, Md. ono from Waldorf to Itock Point, Md. J ono from Baltimore to West minster, and ono from Savannah to States boro, On., nnd all are developing rapidly nnd operating with great benefit to tho communities and with profit to tho Gov ernment. BUNKFIT OF FARMUKS "Tho farmers of Lehigh County, Pa., produced this year 4,000,000 bushels of po tatoea moro than they normally consume," ho continued, "Potntocs on tho farm In I.ehlgh County vvero bringing $1,75 a bushel, nnd In Now York city they wero worth $2 75 to $3.25 n bushel. A bushel of potatoes weighs sixty-two pounds nnd could bo carried to Now York on a one-day run over tho motor-mall route at sixty-two cents a bushel, leaving tho farmer n profit of over $1 a bushel on his potatoes and a transaction completed nil In one day. Tho parcel-post laws conflno shipments to fifty pounds In each parcel. A bushel of potatoes weighs sixty-two pounds. Wo shall ask Congress during the next session to rcvlso tho weights so that tho standard measures can bo shipped by parcel post nnd prevent the necessity of splitting meas ures up Into fifty-pound lota as must now be done " Mr. Blakesleo was questioned In regard to the claim that when farm products are sent to tho city by parcel post, city prices and not country prices nre demanded. "This system will undoubtedly Introduce lively competition In prices for farm prod ucts," said Mr. Blakesleo. "Supposo tho price of eggs In Philadelphia today Is sixty cents a dozen nnd at u little place on tho proposed routo to West Chester It Is forty five cents. Tho farmer will not send his eggs Into the city at forty-llvo cents a dozen, but perhaps at llfty-fho or fifty six rents It is not expected to tear down In a day a system of compctltlvo prices that has been in existence for vcars, but tho city merchant must meet tho country prlco little by little and greater competition nnd steady reduction In tho cost of living is bound to result "Tho motor routo we expect to establish out of Philadelphia within thirty days will be the first direct avenuo of communication between the citizens of Phlladelplil i and tho farmers In the outl.vlng communities, for tfxlay thcro Is not a single rural mall route running out of Philadelphia." A utomobiles Keep Men and Merchandise Moving Railroads are strained to their limit today to supply transportation for man and merchandise. The automobile has stepped into the breach, and is the second greatest factor in meeting the national need for more more more transportation. You must keep your car fulfilling its part of the need, keep it ready day or .night to do its part in your transportation service,' keep its "feet" well shod, give it the tires that have stood, and are continuing to stand, the test of mileage, the tires that give low mileage cost and high anti-skid service. Put United States 'Royal. Cord Tires on your car make compar isons for yourself. United StatesTires Truck; Motor Aeroplanei Are In:! BrTlBMiL'lJTlBHiHLWii'll , I '"" i , ' i. 1" DREAMS FORECAST JOY FOR FIRM BELIEVERS Happiness Coming, With Your Help, for Sunshine Homo Folks Farm Is Objective Do you bcllevo In dreams? Don't sniff, please I It's n serious question. Because even If you person illy happen to say "Pooh, pooh !" or Tush, tush I'1 nnd wave tho Dream Proposition away becauso It never pans out and doesn't yield 0 per cent, there's a group of Firm Believers In our midst. It's an ensy matter to pass tho house o' dreams which Is concealed under the prac tical exterior of two red brick buildings at 2C0D-11 North Sixth street and I3 known by day ns tho "Sunshine Home." A terso signboard sums up the home's purpose ; It Is "Christian and undenominational" and "offers shelter for working girls, mothers nnd children " But what tho sign neglects to say Is that tho biggest group of dream boosters In Phil adelphia and vicinity Is working with dynamlo force behind tho wnlls Tho greatest vision of all Is cherished by' the superintendent, Mrs William 11 Kenler and concerns a certain farm at Davlsvllle, near Willow Grove, which will become a Joyous fact In tho lives of the "mothers and chil dren nnd working girls" It $50,000 tan bo raised somewhere. When "Mother" Keeler looks over thn whlto faces of her charges and notes how llfo has swept the Joyousncss from lip nnd e.vo nnd bowed bhoulders that should be erect and triumphant! when sho sees how poverty has mado checks sag Inward where they should bloom, sho gets that detfrmlned look In her eyes which has mado tho Sun shine Homo the success that It Is today. "Mother" Keeler Iiiih a way of sending tip hasty little prayers vihen her dreams seem so far away that sho gets lonesome, nnd nowadays she Is holding fast to a certain line about bring "led Into green pastures " "And, l.oid," says "Mother" Keeler, "give 'em the farm somehow the poor dears need It so bad While "Mother'' Keeler's gray eses nre Good Tires tri ""f nniiiii' tuihh WElJyE-SDiy OEMBEB V2J, seeing visions of sun-dappled fields whore tired mothers can rest and brooks where wading and kindred delights make summer days ono long song, the group of minor dreamers In tho Bunshlno Homo arc husy also. The leading members aro ten, twelve and Ofteon years old. It Is rcgrottablo that their faces nra smudged usually with sughr'n'molasscs and they havo tho Ameri can faults of exaggeration nnd optimism which tho great war haB revealed so ruth lexsly. But joti should hear them nt tho hed hour, when ovcry ono Is near the brink of dreams, and It la easier to bcllevo than to know. "When spring comes " says tho slim girl who. keeps crowding back n persistent cough that never gets better. "When wo are out on the farm ", snvs thn freckled youngling whoso personal knowledge of vegetables Is limited to the huckster's rart. "When tho war Is over " elghs Betty, who Is the baby of tlie "home," "What'll happen then?" three or four voices demand to know. "My dnddy'll como bark," sajs Betty con fidently, for "rnstialty lists" mean nothing w lien you tiro eight, It's not tho least of the lionie'M merits that It has shouldered heroically the lidded burdens of tho war. Women nnd children vi ho vi ere left homeless or in want when the call to aims took breadwinners have come to tho Sunshine Home "Mother" Keeler takes them all in These haptens ones nre taking theli places In tho ordered, busy llfo of the home beside unfortunate women whoso marriages proved failures; hesld" working girls who lnvo found tho plaro n liivcn In a strange rountrj , beside $25 Quartered Oak Top Ilns r e n t r e drawer, autonitit le lock, etr, , 1 ft long .1 HO In wide. Shoemaker's Annex 92a. 927 and 929 Filbert St. r.stablislird IfcHI. Itoth 'Phones Pi RH United Statu Tube and Tire Acceuorit Have all the Sterling Worth and Wear that Make United Statu Tirei Supreme mmm uni I U VIMUfl : 1917 children who havo been rescued from un believable degradation. "Mother" Keeler ministers to them all. It Is characteristic of the homo that oneo you become an Inmate there your troubles nre cut In two. "Mother" Keeler shoulders the other halt of tho load, and It was char acteristic when sho nssumed tho care of three children whose father was recently called to service. "Vou go and do what you should for your country," said "Mother" Keeler, "and I'll do- what I can for jour children." Such generosity makes "Mother" Keeler's arithmetic very complicated nt times, nnd there Is a deficit amounting to something less than 1500 on the books ror 1916. It Is noted that this was paid by "W H. Keeler and wife," but "Mother" Keeler asserts that, like sentimental Tommy, "ehe'll find a wny," But the farm? That's another question. "Do r bcllevo In dreams?" echoes Mother Keeler 'Sure. If viu only had $50,000" Can jou help her mnko It come truo? Military JVrist Watches The increasing demand for these timepieces finds us pre pared with a stock of service able watches at moderate prices. Good value is one with a Waltham movement, radium dial, unbreakable crystal and moisture-proof khaki wrist band. Silver, $20 I4kt. Gold, $35 S. Kind & SotlS, 1U0 Chestnut St DIAMOND .MUnCHANTS J'EWULIHIS SIUVUnsMlTHs SPSS iSjMrttTViAvVBfl "Use your car, passenger or com' mercial, more and more to relieve the transportation pressure on the Nation's railroads and merchants' delivery service." SAMUEL P. COLT Noo. 12. 1917 IB Mil iittttiMl gsxnw imiw $" y. i : '"! GETS J60,000,0fa faj Standard Cor Comnanv India EmployJOjOOOMer, IW CHICAGO. Nov. 21,-Kxten.. ment of the plant of the m!Le "r. T'' "UH1 r munition, 1 11 'un ri pltyes 2000 men. it rn "." tZ several new buildings uRffll,N J 'MOO additional nwgcUj New Red Crow Seal Out The new Tied Cross seal h. v Thousands of the stickers r. ,'V,,l at Christmas time and the J, J MM In the light agalnet tubercul, H peeled that tho proceeds . ,?.' ' tt. $3,000,000. "tat "Hi t,, I ' H M b u X v t H 151 m itlNI fl M.I -11 irM it t nt 1 1 V" -r , - V .I. HinVHtlt tf ?;&JUVi:
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