' iW!WSP ':'JVf! .. t zsmr F; ,...', ru k .v y- i, j- Av' i W , l"- Vk' Ri li AV '! 'V ; '&' H 1 HERE Sa'yg Trust Independent iters of City ' 3E TO BUTCHERS FOR FAMILIES tF ARTISTS IN WAR WORK jr.- in th "mt trust" Inves- conducted by Francis J. I e representative of the Fd- Commission will begin In next Wednesday,' and will r A personal direction ot Haney, it (Miner Governor Fort, of New ferding to a statement made i by'Henej-. In Philadelphia, the Invcs h c4rs, are bad. Independent M-iers have been forced to come the trait and have been badly Only one concern. Shoemaker aTtfjl-M stood out for a fight. K. 4m, Information on which the pres rtpiMlUiitlon Is being conducted was ,liy that company. 'alleged that 'the "tnut," oper- l(W American Agricultural Cor thd under the name ot Drown WMch they bought In. has com. Ffctajependent collectors of revise IWimings in pnnaaeiphla to nay h trust a. percentage of the business i rtnem. peter Bradley Is alleged i;beeii ono of tho principal stock i of the "trust." which Is Raid to (10(000,000 organization. 0 nay declares mat jne "trust" man. 'to bring about conditions which It to pay reduced prices to i for their refuse and trimming. weeks ago, ho says, u special tor wnil sent to Philadelphia G,? result of Information given by Maker & Co , and for a short tk prices paid tho butchers were l. Later tne prices to the butchers . reduced again, and these prices unalntalned until two weeks ago, tbe Federal Inquiry Into ptcklng- control In 1'hlladelphla and other kwaa begun. Prices, he declares. i tJen given another boost. wr Unsatisfactory." Is the descrln- it conditions In Philadelphia given ney, who added that he expected arlhcs In this city to substantiate SO charges that havo been made. k' SOLDIER BOYS FROM CAMP DIX Philadelphia Committee Named to Look After Needy Wives and Dependents The needy wives and dependents of artists who have been called to the col. ora are to be looked after by a Fhllndel phla committee of the American Art. Ists' War Emergency Club, which or. ganlied yesterday and established held quarters In tho Art Alliances Building. 1KJ5 Walnut street. Many rases of Illness and destitution l,a. already been reported as the reau't of tho disastrous effect of tho wat on art and the committee will endeavor to rale a fund of sumclei.t amount li care for those alfcrted, The National Arts Club uf New V'otk has Isiued a "service together" stamp, ccstn r one cent, the proceeds from the sale of which will be contliuuted to Ihi fund, The Philadelphia committee, with Paul King, of the Art Alliance, as chair man, Is composed of John Frederick Lewis, Dr. George Woodwnrd. I5r. Thomas II, Fenton, Leslie W. Miller, Mrs. W, Yorlte Stevenson, Samuel Flelsher, Leopold Slokowskl, Professor Warren P. Laird. John P. B. Slnkler, Professor W F. Oray, George Walter Dawson, riilllp Oocpp, Miss Lmlly Bar. tain, Joseph T. Pearson, Jr., (Icorge Harding, Miss Beatrice Fox, Home) Sellers, Mil's Mury Ilutler, Thaddous Itlcti and Thomas a'Beckct. SAM TA1E, 89, QUITS PRISON FOR HOME MAN KILLED BENEATH MOTORTRUCK ON PARKWAY Feeble, Friendless, Partially Crippled, Ho Wants to Earn His Way JAIL LIFE IS HIS HABIT ECONOMISTS REVIEW PRICE RISE CAUSES il Train Brings Big Con pingeht on New Year's vC Furlough Sammee comes marching home i New Year furlough. In an atmos- i close to zero, there's usually trou- 56r tho railroad that carries him, .'warm reception at tho station. : ,WU so today when more than 1000 i khakl-clad lads pulled In an hour Ltne Camden Terminal or mo west Sy and Seashore Itallroad from Camp tWWthtstown. MM were fifteen cars to the special ;'u of which were literally -A...'. f ' ... llin -An.- ... a M . III itttl, UiQ 1UMU ,.0 EV at with tne Blippery raus ana king," biting breeze, a second was provided to pun tne ottgh. 'chilli- blasts and the delay eWropen the warm reception thnt them at tho terminal, w-nen. tof mothers. Bisters, brldea and SITS lOOK COnipiClfl iniKMiini . errlora and led them to tho se- i of the amlly fireside. L half thcr contonment Is Included I f v-day furlough for New Year's LSjrlll end Thursday. These men did . home for Christmas. . of the boys In the batch that the ferries to this city aro from rlYork, Massachusetts and borne rj far us Nebraska. ,'M explained by one of the sol I that because of tho many transfers I 'to till up the ranks of the Fed- cuards and In some instances. alar army, a gap was left which gjtlled by men from New England western States. Ono regiment of ctv at Camp Dlx. nccordlng to ;ldler'. Is composed of men from traln bearing tho boys, to this city hVlsltown at 7:30 and arrived ki'.Cnmden terminal a few minutes ill unlock, spociai trains are Ming run to Trenton and New t.. IYT0WN THRIFT SALE BOOSTED il Reserve Bank Clerk it-- x. ft J unergevic tampaiK" ind. Make's Record iwn was captured today by Savlnr Committee through the t4 Benjamin Kooperman. a clerk rcderal Reserve Bank. Kooper- is a veteran of tne Philippine Incidentally holds the record ale ot war saving stamps Individual effort Just a week farted out through Brewery K nis pocaeu nnca wiui stamps more than 14000 worth In small He also established twelve Jkgencles In the district. .(W. Kendrlck. 3d, has col. n voluntary saies sza.uuu in County. .'sales received a big boost the Electric storage Bat y. through Its president. d. organized a stamp sell in all its branches. Reserve Bank reports its as follows: stamp sold, 470,800.64; Ion consignment to agents of 'isi.iiif.ff ; tnrirt stamps I ; thrift stamps on consign or second class, 60,- tto mall postofflce the fol .were made Wis morning: ! atarops,. iJ3S?,j; : thrift ' I H. Fitter Company and the Llthographtag Company i we list or selling agencies r - WfNHs AITBvB 9m 0vH t'Mked by1 seven 1-51 South I his oo,,JehQ rsmee , a wMle,to to 1M' &. .to and wbo:dJd,t lUcnarI4 Credit Inflation, Quantity of Money and Redeemable Value Cited by Prof. Fisher WAR MONETARY LESSON Tho Importance of credit Inflation In raising the price level Is ono ot the threo lessons In monetary theories that the world wnr Is teaching, according to Prof Irving Fisher, addressing the innual meeting of the American Economics As soclatlon, at Huerford College, today Tho meeting was held In conjunction Noted Counterfeiter Has Passed Most of Ills Years Behind Cell Bars After ."pending the greater part of his elghty-nlno years In prisons, principally far, counterfeiting, Sam Tate today came out of tho tTnlled .States central prison at Atlanta, otd, feeble, partially para lyzed, homeless, without kin, glad to "cccpt a home which has. been found for him, but willing to work to pay the cost of hla keep. Many tlmn he his come from prison, usually back to Philadelphia, with the "ner ngaln" ns hln parting words with the prl.-on gnteketper. Invariably he Ins found his v.-ny back to the sariie prison, or some other. In a few months or years. Ho always has been a model prisoner, accepting hln fate like a stole and gladly doing any prlcon task set for him to do Now he swears he has passed prison doors on the outward voyaga for the last time, for, weighed down with his elght.nlne years, he Is to tnko up his life In th Home for Dl'Chnrged l'rls oners, nt 8e only-third street and Pas rliall 'avenue, as soon na ho reaches I'hllade'phla. He owes his new home to the man who sent hlni to prison In lbl4, United States ) District Attorney Krnnclo Fl"her Kane, Hut as he rpeeds toward Philadelphia he does not know tint a homo awaits him. When Tate was sent to prison In 11114, on the charge of counterfeiting, for a term of flvo years. It was net expected that he would survive tho term, even If short ened, as It has been, for good behavior His arrest was on Fehruary 10. 1014, when ho was taken by Captain Matthew Orlllln, of the local Secret Serlco force, who had arrested him before for similar offenses His arrtMt occurred In a dingy court on North Second street. Arrested wltli him at tho tlmo was bis fevent- yeir-old pal, llelllv, who had Uvea, ', , . ' .lHHHHr H'fw; U. S. AGENTS HUNT RED CROSS FOES :?. District Attorney Takes' Steps to Run Down German Prop aganda's Stories DIRECTED AT CAMPAIGN Vngnencss Hampers ElTotta to Fix Responsibility for Defamatory Rumors A motortruck whirh was uvei turned in a collision with another uuti.malillo this morning at Twenty first street and the Parkway fatally injured Thomas P. McCulloujrh, flfty-soven years old, 1D41 South Twenty-ninth Btrcct. Ho was crushed beneath tho truck when it was overturned and died shortly nfterward nt tho Garrctson Hospital. .,.,. .,,, .i , ..- . . IwnrltMl nml Mred tlmo with lllm ci.,in.ii i( ,.-,.i .i, .-.,.!. ..-, Tate has bfen known ns the 'king of J Association to- Labor legislation, ntll" TOUn,erfelt",',1,forlmn.,.,y,yB"i.In which war problems nffecting their I apparently never aspired t"'""1-'" !,.,., ,., .o,...,- ,..-.. .i........i i,.J paper money, which Is considered tho ,....vo . ..,..... ,..v. ...ura.-u .., ; .im.,l experts. "This war, I bellevo, will bo viewed by economists as having emphasized nt least three Important point" In nionetarv theory," said l'rofcsbor Fisher, "l'lrst, it lll have afforded Important evidence that credit Inflation Is n real fnctor In raining the price Ieel nnd tlmt ar loans, when pushed beyond the limit of new savings, aro of hulixtantlally tho imiut illflleult kind of counterfeiting, but his loln.maklng was not equaled, and many times eftV.rtH wero made to hae him enter a ctrnlght llfo as a maker of dies and medal stamps When Attorney (lencral (Sitgory was Informed, at his oltlco in Washington, of the approaching discharge of Tato he began making Inquiries to secure a suitable homo for the nged prisoner. Ho new savings, aro ,r hunsmnt ui y tne - .. , , d ,lnIlUy A, same nature as the so-cilled 'forced JRK - ..Secretary of tho Fcnnsjl- loans' of previous wars, and for that '.ana Prln Society, offered to have 'tf' ;' i'T."1 ..r ?'r' am.1K lilt, put in tho home at Seventy-thlr.l PHILADELPHIA DEATHS SHOW SLIGHT DECREASE O .. .--, -" I t.l l 41,a t.rM-riA nt S!i.V(-nt.'.tliiril .-. .. ... t I1III1 11L1L 111 III! lrilll -. -,--. j ....-- European nations, in mo lorm or lr-i "--- - ., ,,,, .. ,.,. it -,,! redeemnblo paper money ally will bo left there until spring, "hecond. It Indicates dearly that nn 0UI , , kc(1 ,ho authorUks to Increase In the quantity of money is the wn " ' , ' , bccurnB a homo In tho cause of a rise In prices rather than u'n,ry horo ho can help to dig his vice versa, for tho reason that a time- ' ,,..'"' ,),i' ii lag of two or three months can. appar- , mlnc out of the soil. miiHii nrifl nrl,pH us thn effpnt. T 1iva 1 called attention to this npp-irent rela tionship In tho United States. I'rof. J. Shield Nicholson has called attention to It in Kng'and, nnd It la Inferable from tho data of Professor Ca&sell for Itussla. "Third, It affords evidence which ic futeu the claim of the 'metalllst' school that the only ciuse giving valuo to paper money Is tho value of the metal In which It Is redeemed ; for Cassell has called attention to tho fact that In Sweden foKonlng her Wrtual demonetlzatluii of gold (to protect herself firm tho (lood f gold uhlch has Inundited neutral countries during tho war) tho value of Swedish paper money has been enhanced In the foreign exchanges above the value of the gold It supposedly represents " NEARLY 400 KILLED IN CITY BY VEHICLES DEATH TO DRIVER !MAY0R SEEKS FIRMER IN MOTOR CRASH H0LD 0N C0UNCILS Active steps aro being taken today by tho United States District Attorney's I olllco to run down the stories that hnv I been circulated In Philadelphia, believed lo bo part of tho Herman propnginda 'ntended to discrfdrt and hurt the lied Cross Christmas membership campaign Assistant District Attorney Slerrltt said today that efforts were being made lo fix the responsibility for theso stories, but that nnlng to tho agucness sur rounding thrm nnd tho fact thnt ui oar cm be found who would lo willing to g on the witness stand and testify 'to what ind beer, heard and said, It Is extremely illlTlcult to secure tho cldenco necessary to warrant a prosecution of Individuals Agent Oarharlno, of tho Department of Justice, Is giving the mattor his altcn tlon nnd prompt action will be taken In case any well-defined offenses lire brought to his attention. A mass-meeting to Una up new mem bers for the lied Croxs nny auxllliirv In the Christmas membership csmpilgn will be held tonight 1420 Chestnut ttreet lovlets back of the dr!c, HISTORIANS DENY HISTORY'S TRUTH French Alone Know How to Write Unbiased, De clares Prof. Johnson "ALL GOOD MEN IN PAST" Tho truth about history Is that few histories tell the truth. This point was daolopcd by Prof. Henry John'On. of the Teachers' College, Columbia Unl verslly. spe'iklng nt tho Bellevue-Strat-ford at the last day'n session of the throe-day congress of tho American His orlcal Association. Tho Vrench. rrofeesjr Johnion ns rrted. nro the only historians who know! how tj write nn unbiased history nnd( the French sclioolii tho only schools "he-c history Is taught In the way that t should he tnuglit "Tho way history Is taught In tho lower grades of tho schools In tho United States." Doctor Johnson said emphatically, "Is r. constant sfn ngalnrt tho verities. "Our children are mado to bellevo that alt the good men lhed In tho past. Washington nnd Lincoln, It Is true, were great men; but what Is the mat- nt Crozer Hall, I ter w.lli Woodrow Allon nnd Thro- with Hidusiri.il , flora l:ootoelt? "Tho leglsUtoii Year's Death Toll of Auto, Trolley, Steam Trains, Wag- ons and Motorcycles BIG INCREASE SHOWN Thomas P. McCullough Killed When Truck and Automobile Collide Nearly 4oo persons wero killed by mo tercars. trolley cms, steam trains, li'irsc drawn wagons and motorcvcles In Phila delphia during tho year now end ng. nc cordlng to tho Coi oner's records up to today. An Increase of M.t-slx deaths from such accidents was shown, 303 limine been killed this year as against 327 last ear. An Increase of twenty automobile killings and a hudden nnd mysterious Jump of forty deaths from trolloy ac cidents fenturo tho record, which gives as follows the tno.jt.jr death toll of accidents on street nml track CRUSHED BENEATH CAR 11)17 1IP1I1 Autnmohllrg .... liln 111 Ilalironil train-.. H't Ml Trolley cars ,.K. ." t" WnKuns M il Molorcicl-s .... s lo SUJ 3.7 Increane Oil Thomas 1". McCullough, fifty-seven j-ears old, 151 1 South Twcntj'-nlnth street, was Injured so fcrloulj" today when a big motortruck ho wns drllng collided with an automobile ut Twenty fifth street and tho Parkway that ho died threo hours afterward In the (larrctsnn Hospital from a fractured skull. Law renco Wallace, of 5130 Westminster ave nue, drler of tho automobile, was held without ball for a further hearing bj Magistrate Collins at the Twentieth und Iluttonwood streets pollen station. The necUlent occurred at 0-4C o'clock In tho blinding hnou mid wind st nn ill lcitly In front of tin lilt.ii bill of the old reservoir, whero there Is an open'ppaco of teveral deles When the tiuck ord automobile cnino together McCullough was tin own from his scat. Tho auto Changes in Make-Up of Com mittees Brought About by Fear of Overthrow Scatteied returns for tho riilnlmlKli. 'which wns extended from Christmas i Congresses of tho live to New Year's Ke to allow a thor-' weui Intelligent ough rniivnsfl of tho Ir.dustrles ahow re- markablo results, nccordlng to Dr. Charles D. Hnrt, chairman of tho cam pa'gn committee, toduj". Postmaster John A. Thornton reported virtually every cmploj-o of tho Phlla- , ; delphla Postofllce and Its branches as SENATOR VARE ASSISTS1 ?nr"!1",J"H "lollar" members. Morris 1. Clolhler sent a $21.10 cheek, repre- . sontlng tho 2850 emplojes of Straw- hrldgo & Clothier. Agnew T Tlce president of tho Philadelphia and Head ing Hallway, accounted for H'Sfi rail road employe. William A. Price, tcretarj- of tho Stato Council of the Order of Indepen dent Americans, reported that virtually l-'aclng a posslblo recrsal of all finan cial mocs during the closing J'cars of his administration, Mayor Smith, with the uislstanco of Senator Kdwln II. Vatc Is gltlnit much time nnd careful thought to the make-up of rouncllmanlc rnmnilttee4 nml tn thn selection of faith. ful chairmen In guldo admlnlstrntnn , every memner nau joineu ino urn irosb. m.i-nreu in iiielr eirlv stnaes. A num. loseph K. Wlrlcner, the tlnancbr, In n ber of Impel tnnt changes In the make-up of tho all-powerful finance Committee are expected ns tho result ot confer ences now under waj. Willi the barest kind of n working Varo majority In Select Council nnd lacking tho customary two-thirds ma jority In Common Council, tho now I Councils that convene on January lste canvass nf his estate n Hlklns Puk nnd of tho ltltz-Carlton Hotel and I.and Tltlo Ilulldlng, unexpectedly turned In 550 memberships todaj- as a "New Year surprise." Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter headquarters todaj received the follow ing mcHfngp from Miss Gertrude Austin, chief of tho surgical dressings service Tolals . . DerreRse. Hcckless and Include nt chaurfeurs, nn 'or.cindrXness-0 , V"L .7 la,V?'" '"' pedestrians wero blamed by Coroner Knight In commenting on the Increase In Diseases of Heart and Kidneys Prin cipal Causes of Mortality During Week Deaths throughout the city during tho week numbered 508. as compared with 620 last week and 651 during tho cone rpondlng week last year. They were dlv'ded as follows: .Males, Sit ; females, 287 ; boys, 78, and glr's, 70. Causes of death wero: Kesrlet feer Dlphtherln and croup influenza JUDGE'S RULING AIDS HARRISON NUPTIALS Court Advances Hearing Order Not to Conflict With Wedding . in Magl-trate Williams, of Ablngton, rather than permit nn alleged robber's hearing to conflict with the wedding of Mrs. Catherine N. Harrison, 2028 Locust street, the socially prominent widow of the late Charles Inland Harrison, which took place at noon todaj", advanced tho time of tho trial twenty-four bourn. On the eve of the ceremonj-, Mrs. Har rison appeared against the alleged bur glar, Charles II. Itea, who, she declared, forced his way Into her country homo at Ablngton. and lived there a fortnight before he was nrrested. He was held without ball. Mrs. Harrison was married today to Frank C. I'atterson. a retired busi ness man, in Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Before her flirt marriage she was Miss Catherine Yates N'orrts, daugh ter of ono of the founders of the Uald win Locomotive Works. Sha has four daughters. Her first husband died sev eral j ears ago, Mr. Patterson Is a bachelor, CO years old. He has only recently returned from an extensive hunting and fishing trip through tho South. DRIVES MOTHER INTO STORM Parent Ejected From Home to Make Room for Son's Affinity A man put his mother and sister out of the house Into the blinding snow storm early today to make room for his afllnlty, according to the police Both the prisoner. Rllvy Andrews, twenty-nine years old, Goodman street, near Ontario, and his companion, Vir ginia aenero, a Philadelphia Hospital domestic, were arrested by Policeman Winning, of the Uermantown nvenuo and Lycoming street station. Magis trate Wrlgley held Andrews In J800 ball for a further hearing on a charge of stealing his sister's watch and dia mond ring, and sent the woman to the county prison f-T ten days for disor derly conduct Mrs. Andrews and her daughter testl. fled that Andrews brought the woman home With him at I o'clock this morn ing and that, when they objected, he ordered them out In their nlghtclothes. Thanks Donors for $3000 Gift Appreciation of the f000 contribu tion frcm more than 1200 cltltens of Germantown and Chestnut Hill to pur chase refrigerating machinery and ac cessories for Base Hospital No. 31 Is xpressed In a letter from Major W. M. L. Copltn, director of the unit. The letter Is directed to Colonel Sheldon Potter and William H. Emhordt, prtnl. tents,, repectlvely, of tbe Business Men's Association of Oermantown and .the Ger mantown and CJiestnut Hill Improve miH Association, and their members. IfaJoriCoDlln Pledges the unit to "merit your, approbation and to show by the Mltroc our wor inat tne cltltens SbSSS either erMemle illeea-.s 1 Tuberculosis of the lunes 0--' Tuhrcunl. meningitis , a other lorm of tuberculo-ls C Concer . 3' S'niple meningitis i-.--: .i Apoplexy nntl Foftenlnir 01 brain 17 Ortf-nle aiHe.i-es ot heart 7a Aeute hronrhltls 1- e-hronle bronthltts 1 Pneumonia 71 Uronehopneumonta 41 IHaea-es of reenlratory Mjatrm Ilt-'aac-. of tlnmarh Diarrhea and enterltlf AtwnJtcllu ana typhlitis Hernia ,. . e'lrrhofcls ef IKer Arute nephritis and Ilrlsht's ell-rase Neneanerrnus tumors Puerperal septicemia . Puerperal aeeldentn I'cn-.nltul debility H-nilltv HnmlrMn ... Ml other violent dtaihs Suicide II ether fllaeasa Ccroner'a cases pending: Total motorcar deaths, "Tho class of operators largelj- Is responsible," ho hald. "Doj's of seven teen and eighteen years and men of n lower order of Intelligence aio driving cats now, especially trucks. The only way to remedy It Is to enforce drastic regulations for drivers. I have been fighting for this nnd will contlnuo to fight for this until tho safety of the public Is assured" The Coroner's records from 190C, when automobiles kllleel twelvo persons, show tho gradual Increase In fatalities grows with tho Increasing number of motorcars until 1315, when from sov-enty-elght deaths the total suddenly leaped to HO for 131C, e,r nearly 100 per cent Increase The monthly totals of deaths by automobiles In 1 917 are ns follows: Jnnuarj', 15; Kebruarj-, 1C; March, 10; April, 0: May, ; Juno, 5; July, 13; August, 14: September, 15; October, 13; November, lit; December. 19, From these it was inferred that Ice and i-now cause an Increase, though In tho cold season fewer motorcars arc In use. Nearly 100 per cent Increase In the number of deaths by trolley cars was unexplained In most of theso cases, tho Coroner salel, tho pedestrian w-as to blame. The other divisions of motoicar and vehicular fatalities show no decided -hange oer last j-car. and cruMilng his sltull. William Itelter, twenty ono jenrs old, eif 1549 South Twentj'-nlnth stri'ct, was tilting bevsldo McCullough. Neither he. Wallace nor Wallaco's father, Joseph C. Wallace, who was In the automobile, was seri ously Injured. Wallace was nrrested Im mediately after the uccldcr.t. His hear ing ended before McCullough died In tho hospital. WOMAN HELD FOR THEFT ....... ...... ' nf l,n It.m.lnnn l,n ,-ca.k, 1 t , t b , piesent a dark outiooic to ino ponticni "- MU "- ...u -.. . ,"-, ,....,-. leaders who have bad everything their "We have Just opened your eases Nos. own wny during two years of tho most US0, 1336. 1020, 1190. 1162, 1204, 1135 extravagant ependlturos ever author- U94, 1220, 250, nnd live other cases of Ized by n governing body In thin city , miscellaneous dressings, and want to Conferences participated In by Sena- thlr.k you most heartily for your gener tnr Vuro, Select Councilman t'linrlos ' oils contributions. Could jou seo the Scger, Major Smith and othciii have ; normoUH eiuantlty of dressings that we resulted, It Is said, tn tho determlna- ship dallj to hospltnls all over France tlon to retain In their present pos'tlons i and to our army you would realize how nil, or nearly all, ut the present e.flleers , much we count on nnd appreciate jour of both brandies 01 councils. una eui,,m;a. ,uiu now iimi our own men would leave In plnco a number of Pen-, nro In the hospitals we know that j'ou roHo-McNIchol followtis. who are will continue jour Invaluable aid." counted upon to "bo good" out of gratl- ,U(,e- . . , . This agreement loaves ut tho head or, Common Council Dr. lldward 11. Olca- son, who 1ms always been classed as a -, , ... ............ ll.nrM.A nt.ri rt til. lato Senator James P. McNIchoI. In i I' atlier, Motlier FIRE DRIVES FAMILY FROM HOME IN COLD Accused of Stealing $220 Diamond as I thin branch tho Vara majority eontrol Christmas Gift for Friend A charge of stealing a 220 diamond ftud to provide, a Christmas gift for a friend resulted today In l.vu Mctzler, of Columbus road, Burlington, N. .!., being held in J500 ball for court. Tho accuser before Magistrate Wrlg ley, at tho Germantown nvenuo and I.STomlng street Htitlou. was Arthur Healej-, SOI West Lehigh avenue, by whom tho joutig woman was employed as a domestic until her depnrtuio last Sunduj-. Her friend, Patilck Crcmer, Jr., 224 West Ontario street, admitted that she had glveMi him tho stone, vihlch he had had sit In a ling not knowing how' she had obtained tho gem. Dis trict Dotectlvo Lyons mado tho arrest. and Two Babies Forced From House in Night Clothes, Barefooted Will Move to McNIchol's Offices William 1'. Horl.e, Assistant City So- n t. est... ui . c- .,i , llcltcr, will lemovo his law oiiiccs Jan Barber Shop Hoats bemee Hai? uary i to tho suite formerly occupied MHI.T.KKONT!.. Pa., Dec 29 In front by tho late Senator James P. Mc.Vlchol, of Harry Buhl's barber shop Is n servlco 704-707 Lincoln Building. Mr. Borko 'lag with slxtj'-nlno htars on It. Slxtj'- Is a candidate for tho offlco of Stato Sen nine of the barber's customers have gone ator mado vacant by the death of Sen to war. ator McNIchoI. Is uniiuestloncd nnd the retention of ' President Glenson Is llttlo better than a comnl.mentarj" concession to a minoruj ,. . rt ..... , , , whlcl must be counted on to stand back H' ,"'' 0 this morning diovo ...... '.....,:...; in ,,f i.-i,iaiinnMf' nrt Mrs. Thomas Mlnton and their 7.. ..:.Y.' .V"r,rr..r.,i ohlldren. four months and eghteen -. ,.."i" . ..,..! .1,.. i, v i.n. months old, from their home nt l IB 1HOU l.tV. ...fc V...I..U ... .... non, u downtown Varo lieutenant, shall be retained as tho head of Select Council. This post la llkelj- to prove most Im portant during tho next two years, as tho Varo faction claims n majority and nothing more In this bodj-. Independents and followers of Senator Penrose claim twenty-four of the l'ortj'-clght members making up Select, but tho division Is much nioro likely to bo twentj'-flvo to tvvcntj'-three. Such close figuring means overy man In his seat cverj session. Joseph 1". (laffnej-, of Congressman Varo's homo ward, tho Twenty-sixth, nnd a law partner ot Attornoy General 1929 Huttonwood street In their night cloth ing and barefooted. Tho thermometer stood at 12 degrees at tho tlmo and a flue suuw gave tho driving wind a cutting edge. They found shelter In the home of Mrs. Nellie ICirk ncarbj but the children nro suffering from exposure. Tho lire who compo&ed the lletolutlonurj' elajs men, doubtless, of stout hcait and couinge; but I am con vinced our legislators at Washington todaj-, desplto tho muss we seem always to bo In, nro of equal, If not greater. In telligence." Whllo several hundred teachers of. the Middle States Teachers' Association took notes, lector Johnson reviewed the principles on which the teaching f history has been based slnto tho seven teenth centurj-, nnd was emphatic In his denunciation ot the provincial alti tude that most nations have nsstimed III their conception of tho trend of human events. "Germany has tnuglit tho glorification nf Germany alone." he wild, "and thero Is evidence nlreadj- that German his torians aie beginning to reallzo that tho great tragedy of Germany's Isolation todaj Is the result of the way her his tory has been conceived nnd taught." Tho Kaiser, Doctor Johnson prophe sied, would In future histories to bo written, even In German ones, bo for ever linked with tho epltthct of "Tho Hun." "In view of the events of this wnr. I don't see how ho can shake that title " Patriotic hhdorj', tho savant con tinued, wbh thought bj most nations to mean u history glorifying their own deeds. "No nation, however, has proved moro I ntrlollc than Franco," ho said, "and jet tho French hlfctorlans have been the onlj" ones who havo viewed the world as a whole lather than of glorifying France and forgetting the rent " Some American and British histori ans, Doctor Johnson said, In u mis guided senso of patriotism were even considering tho revision of the storj" of tho Amcilcnn Itevolutlon In oreler to do awaj- with tho antl-Urltlsh sentl 1 ment It created on this side of the water. 'The argumentj' and language heard I In tho United Slates todaj'," he said, "recall at once, tho experience of Ger many In the conflict with Napoleon. Tho German arguments for patriotic ' hlstorj' won. Shall we repeat the Ger ! man expeiiment? Strong arguments are urging us in that ellicct'ou. "Thcio are, however, e-ounteractlng Influences One of them Is the convic tion of profound Iguornnco which has fallen upon us In tho enforced study of the war. Some of us have actually dis covered that tho United States and west cm Kurope have, after all, certain his 'orloal connections with the rest of tho waB In tho cellar, but traveled nn ,, human race Wc ale feeling as vvc never the llrst lloor and did about MOO dam- age. COKE PRICES TO CONTINUE felt before tho need of understanding other peoples. Wo Hatter ourselves that o havo ulre.ul learned to understand tliu Gtrmuns, mid in the process wo havo had the pleasant experience of un derstanding ourcclvca better. We have nsons for understanding tliu nnd n law partner ot Attornoy General , TRn m T.'!vo,l W I-.,.-',!t iu:ii w . na-clal lea Francis Shunk Brown, Is ngaln sched- ' , ' , . ' ! .Miles better and wo aro making progi ess mum curing iyio n tliat direction. .... ,,.. n,-. "Wo havo reached u ci lU in tho shap. AVASHINGTO.N, Dec. 29. l'ho baso ,- of history for school.-. Wo must price ui e-oKo uxcu uy rrcsmeni vvuson i g0 forward or backward.' ar.u promulgate! oy Ktiel Administrator ,t the -.losing bessl uled for tho leadership of the Finance Committee, whllo Bobert Smith, of tho Thlrtj'-slxth ward, another downtown Vnro lieutenant, will guldn tho destinies of tho Important Highway Committee. Vaie workers and Iciders will be select ed to head other Important committees. MUCH LOOT RECOVERED IN ARREST OF NEGROES Three Men, Accused of SevJ eral Robberies, Caught at i Home of Minister SURVIVOR OF ALCEDO BLOCK HOLDS RECORD MR. FISH HAS GONE REACHES HOME HERE FOR MEN IN SERVICE TO KILL THE KAISER Ensign Harrison, Who Sound-. Small West Philadelphia Area ed U-Boat Alarm, Bears Has Thirteen Fighters One Scar as Memento Only Fifteen Years Old His Customers Need Not Ex pect Him Back Until Job Is Finished Magistrate Watson, In Central Station todaj', held without ball three negroes who were caught attempting to rob tho homo of tho Bev. E. H. Humeston, CS04 North Kleventh street, tho police cap lured the perpetrators of several other robberies and rccoveed seveal hundred dollas' worth of stolen propertj-. The negroes are Maco Copeland, elghtten j'enrs old, of 65 Hast Sharp pack street: Harry Johnson, twenty j-ears old, of the same address, and Asbury Johnson, nineteen j'ears old. of 122 East Sharpnack street. They were caught by Tollceman Hyers, of tho Brnnchtown station. In tha Humeston houre while the family was away. Cope land was arrested, but the two John sons made their escape. They were later arrested, however, by Policeman Dough erty and Graham. v The three men aro uald to havo con fessed to being the robbers who at tempted to hold up the station agent at tho Queen Lane station of the Pennsyl vania Railroad In Germantown last Thursday night and fired a shot through the window at the agent. They are also said to have confessed to having robbed the home of B. Wllmsen. 710 Sixty fourth avenue, last week, and to have committed another robbery on Sixty, sixth avenue. At the house at 56 East Sharpnack street the police found Jewelry valued at 300, said to have been stolen from Wllmsen, burled In a tin box In the cellar. Omit President's Reception Owing to war conditions, the u-mal New Year's reception to the president of the Pennsylvania Ballroad will be- omitted this year. By custom of long standing, these receptions were held nn the ast business day of the old year and were atended by the directors and officer of the railroad. President Bam uel Bea probably will be in Washington an thj last day of the present year. and In any event many of the officers their ta'af oM,.aM patriot. -Hatlaned at. points distant from. Phil Mtow-tevla ""I -L-WsM wotiMJunbi to leave their Enlgn William Krazier Harrison, ono I of the survivors of the American armed j'acht Alcedo, which was torpedoed by a German submarlno off the coast of France several weeks ago, Is at his homo at Klourtown road and Gravers lane. Chestnut Hill, A senr at the corner of his loft eye is the only mark that he bears of his strenuous experiences. Ensign Harrison was ono of five Phlla. delphlans on the converted jncht. He Is paying a short visit to his wifo and two children and declares that he will remain at home only long enough to get In shape to go back. He was on duty on the Alcedo at 1:45 o'clock on the morning last November when tho ship was sunk. Ensign Harrison described the ap pearance of the torpedo, which ho saw approaching the Bhlp, apparently a few feet below tho surfaco of tho water, but said he could tell nothing more, as he was knocked unconscious when the ship was struck. It Is known from the ofll clal records, however, that It was he who sounded the alarm to general quarters as soon as tho U-boat was discovered and that this aroused the men from their quarters and was responsible for sav ing manj lives. JEWELRY TAKEN FROM STORE The block on North Sixty-first btreet between Arch and Bace streets claims the distinction of having sent more re-' crulta to the fccrvico of Uncle Sam than any other block In Philadelphia. ' Thirteen men from this block nro now ' In cither the army or tho navy of i tho United States. Tho youngest recruit In the service, It la declared, also comes out of this block. He Is John McEIweo, fifteen jears old, whose parents Hvo nt No, 169 ' and vvhoTran away from home nnd en listed In tho navy, giving his age nt nineteen. Later, when the lad's father sought to secure his discharge tho boy pleaded so hard that permission was given him to remnln In tho service. Vincent Charles Mabonev. ntr.et, j'ears old, of l!3 North Slxty.flrst street I an honor graduate of the West Phlla-' eieipum iiign ocnooi, was selected out of several men to be sent to tho radio school attached to Harvard University When Albert A, Fish, who conducta an electrical supply btoro ut 118 North Tenth street, recently read il dispatch from "over there" that an American sol dier had been "gassed," ho closed his store and hung up n sign bearing tho following words: "Gone to kill Ktiser Bill and will not return until the Job Is finished." Flf.fi has enlisted In tho United States Infantrj. He Is now at a military post. Fish's partner, Charles Blchman, 1127 North Sloan street, said today that elnco Fish went away ho has folt lonely and that he also would enlist Auto Hits Baltimore Mayor BALTIMOBE. Dec. 2D. An auto knocked down Maj'or James II. Preston, of this city, at Lexington and North streets j-esterdaj'. He was picked up In a dazod condition and hurried to his home in tho machine which struck lilm. Physlcltns. after an examination, said ho Was not badly hurt Thieves Get $800 Worth From North Fifth Street House Eight hundred dollars worth of Jewelry was stolon fro mthe store of Peter Schmltt, 1208 North Fifth street, last night by thieves who broko open the tore window nnd took out the Jewels. A gang ot thieves who aro specialising tn express wagons, stole about 1150 worth of merchandise from a wtgon be long'ng to Clough Falls, 418 Market street, this morning. City Appointments City appointment today Include) Charles H. Meti, 2708 East 'Indiana avenue, meat and cattle Inspector, Bu reau of Health, salary 11000, and Emms B. Judge, I8SI Frankford avenue, clerk.. ,ur.uo. water, !,,,. . i."" w- veaf ' i It will be to the advantage of the well , dressed man who assisted another man in picking up pearls outside the Lincoln Building. Broad Street above Chestnut. Tuesday, the 18th, if he will communicate with Messrs. J. E. Caldwell & Co. .Chestnut and Juniper StreeU. 8a! .1 V. ' jV?.j S .!., 1 .ifV-J,. it-sie' ,j';saPL'.'.ji - . ...-.sh. Garneld on November 9, 17 nnd i4, will bo continued In force during Iff 18. the fuel administration announced this after noon. A few exceptions from the bfandard of prices may be allowed In order to avoid shutting down operations In pldces whore production Is small. stem of tho American Farm Management Association meeting nt tho Adelphla Motel, the following of flceiN were elected' G A. Billings, of tho United States Department of Agri culture, president; J. It Fain, of tho X'ulveislty of Georgia, vice president: B. C. Llvennorc, of Cornell University, secretarj' and Measurer. HHf yHWk MiW.aarBaaaaaaaaaaaaM Jfc-x v fJr U ..BbbbbbbbbbbV HtBeiPi5.i iQjsQ: jo. 7'i&w-BBBBBBK BsHyfsMBiiiiiiiHKKBiH i ! 1 l n 1 J.aiHBSSQssiiiiiiiiiiiiiVJWlaiBaBiiHBiiM bJStC htS -IKflrnrRsKieBlllllllllilllllllllllflHH r TT i int.-- ---JMSW-- lJMMBMBMSMSMSMiasMM Passenger Train Service Annulled To conserve FucJL Motive Power and Men, and to facili tate tho handling of Government Material and Troops, a great number, of Passenuer Trains on the entire System of the rnuaaeipma Rnd ltcadinp Knilway will be nnnujled, effective ut once, ims Deinpr a war measurp, rasmnKers .Inding it necessary to travel over the New Year will be given details throuj-h Ticket Agents just as early as it is feasible to do so. u !PMWIWMBnfMHnnNMlRMM t; .tka
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