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EVENING PUBLIP . LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, THUESDAY, AP1UL 17, 1919
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Fire started recently in the garage
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REGISmiON BILL
Easfer for njsy Man to Vote
Unci Projected
Legislation
ATTACKS BEFOG ISSUE
u.!i:v.ij1vam:i;M,',r.-iavj.-s
CHARGE MISSIONARIES
ARE GERMAN AGENTS
Charges of Political Activity
Abroad Probably Justified,
Says Baptist Head
ClinrRos ot pro -German activity
which have been mndc against Amer
ican missionaries in Bulgaria nu'd
Persia "arc probably justified," ac
cording to E. M. Stephenson, director
of religious education in (ho Rtatc of
Pennsylvania, for the American Baptist
Foreign Mission Society.
The State Department, neting
through Assistant Secretary of State
Phillips, has sent the result of its in
vestigations of pro-German propaganda
by American missionaries in these two
countries to the. American Hoard of
Foreign Missions with the request that
it inquire into the charges.
According to Mr. Stephenson, the
situation of American missionaries iu j daily in C:
foreign fields is n peculiar one. registration
"Funds nre tent by the American
missions for the relief of the poor people
suffering grievously from the vrnr who,
in many cases, arc friends of Germany,"
lie said. "In their sympathy for these
people American missionaries will some
times allow rtoncy sent purely for relief
to be used for' political purposes.
"One of the specific charges brought
against the missionaries whose conduct
is under Investigation by the State De
partment is that they have used funds
intended to nid war sufferers to further
the cause of Bulgaria, and indirectly the
cause of its allies, Germany and Austria-Hungary.
"In northern Persia the United Stntes
Government lias been greatly embar
rassed by tlie.se political activities of
American missionaries. Unofficial re
ports from the headquarters of the
American Board of Foreign Missions in
Washington intimated thut severe dis
ciplinary measures would be taken if in
vestigation confirms these charges, in
cluding the ousting of several missionaries.
WANTS WOOD AS PRESIDENT
J. Levering Jones Favors Him in
Politico-Economic Review
General Leonard Wood is suggested
for the Republican presidential nomina
tion by J. Levering Jones, an attorney,
in a recent issue of the Politico-Economic
Review, published by Chandler
Brothers & Co.
"A strong man, simple, upright, vig
orous," of the Roosevelt type, is the
description given General Wood and the
declaration is added thut such a man
is needed to fill the presidential chair
during the next term.
"The whole country could ndvan
tageously turn to General Leonard
Wood without distinction of party, rec
ognizing him as a strong man, simple,
upright, vigorous qualities the nation
could turn to with confidence," says
Mr. Tones. "
"He rose from the ranks by his in
herent force like the great President
whoso memory still fills the heart of
.every American, and like that great
political nnd civic character, was treat
ed with contumely when the wealth of
his experience should have been recqg
nlzcd and utilized. Wood and Roose
velt were inseparably connected. As
they were identified in the past, they
will bo identified iu future history."
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No Food Price Decrease Seen
Reduction of food prices will not
come with the signing of the peace
treaty, Joseph S. MncLaughlin, director
of the Department of Supplies, told the
alumni of the Philadelphia Dejitnl Col
lege at their dinner last night in the
Adelphlii Hotel.
Director MncLaughlin said lie judged
this from conditions as he sees them ns
the city's purchasing agent. He said
that there lire no decreases in sight fori
many months to come. .
Attacks on the new registration bill
before the Legislature brought n state
ment of the purpose of the bill from the
bureau of municipal research today.
This bill, which revises the registra
tion laws, will remove the present com
mission, .nnd nttacks made on it have in
the opinion of the bureau clouded the
ical value of the bill in making it easier
for busy citizens to register for elec
tion. The statement will allow n man who
fails to register on the regular days
because of personal or business reasons
to get his name on the list up to
within ten dajs before election.
Explanation of the bill ns given out
today is ns follows :
"Thousands ot our citizens are so
busy earning their living that they
altogether overlook their political
duties. The registration bill now he
fore the Legislature will make it easier
for such busy men to register, nnd so
to vote.
"A bill (II. II. Xo. 71S) has been
introduced into the Legislature, the
purpose of which is thoroughly to re
vise Philadelphia's registration laws.
Because ot the fact that this bill re
moves the present registration commis
sioners from office, it has been attacked
as a factional measure. It will, how
ever, be unfortunate if this prevents its
enactment, for the bill proposes some
far-reaching nnd much needed reforms
in our city's registration laws.
Must Have Reasons
"Perhaps the most important of the
provisions of the bill nnd the only one
that space will permit us to discuss
here N that contained in Section J).
This section provides that the board
of registration commissioners slinll sit
City Hall after the regular
days and up to and in
cluding the second Saturday preceding
the Xovembcr election for the purpose
of personally registering citizens, 'who
on account of illness, absence from the
city, business or personnl reasons did
not find it convenient to nppcar at
their polling plnces' and register on
the regular registration dajs.
"They practical effect of this section
is to give the citizen, who for any
reason has failed to register on the
regular days, another chnuce to get his
nalnc on the voters' list This is a
change in the law that is very much
worth while..
The Present Situation
"At present, unless n citizen is ill
or nbscntfrom tiie city 011 all three
registration days, he must register on
one of those dajs and cannot register
later, and the registration days come
so far ahead of the election always
more than a month and in municipal
election jenrs nearly two months that
popular interest in the election seldom
arises until registration is over.
"It happens thnt many thousands of
good citizens, engrossed in their dally
duties, do not realize thnt election time
i is coming on until weeks after the
registration days are past, and then
when they do become interested they
find tiicir suffrage rights foreclosed
they are not registered.
"The way to help the situntion is not
merely to chide our fellow citizens for
failing to do their duty, but to make
the doing of it easier and more con
enient. This the new registration bill
will do."
The Short Ballot Bulletin of the
bureau for February says of Philadel
phia :
"A volunteer charter revision com-
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I PROTEST SHIFTING ' 'architects hold meeting
OF GIRLS IN STRIKE
Councils Act Today and Ap
proval by Mayor Is
Assured
, Bell Telephone Company Asked
1 Not to Send Operators
Here to New England
Philadelphia Chapter Chooses Dele
gates to American Institute
Convention
At n meeting ot the Philadelphia'
Chapter ot the American Institute ot
Architects, delegates nnd nlternntes
were elected to attend the fifty-second
annual convention of the institute in
TRANSFER SEWER
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SHOEMAKER'S, 926 Arch St.
DESKS
D OTH of us should hot
- worry about the
same thing. We can as
sume your merchandising I
and advertising worries as
we have successfully for
others.
HERBERT M. MORRIS
Advertising Agency
Every Phase of Sale Promotion
400 Chestnut Street Philadelphia'
ALAN F. M'DOUGALL
Ho left high school in January,
1018, and enlisted in tho Black
Wntcli ilhlsion of tho Canadian
army at tho ago of eighteen, lln
returned to his home, 414 Coo
road, Merrhanhllle. X. J re
cently. An accident caused his
transfer to a motor transport and
later to a motor machine-gun. Ho
was gassed and wounded while in
nrtion
mittce of leading citizens is planning
some charter changes. Philadelphia
still has a 'two -house municipal legisla
ture there arc only n dozen other such
fumblc-foot devices left in America and
they are small pluces in New Enginnd.
Philadelphia also has that
quaint device, ineligibility for re-election,
which any Fcnnsylvnnian will
solemnly tell you, gives independence of
spirit to officeholders.
"But Jhc new plan proposes a single
smn council of large powers. nnd a
budget system.
"The strength of the reform move
ment rests largely on the fact thnt Pen
rose has graciously deigned to smile
upon it. Its weakness is the fact that
the Varcs frown upon it. Philadelphia
awaits the results of the conflict of its
autocrats."
DEAF CLUBWOMEN MEET
Interpretation of Mother Goose
Rhymes to Be Feature
Members of the Speech -Reading
Club of Philadelphia will hold their
monthly meeting at the eluh, 1000 Lo
cust street, at .'! :.'I0 this uftcrnoon.
Mrs. Albanus L. Smith, of German
town, is in charge of the entertainment
program and the afternoon. A new
interpretation of Mother Goose rhymes
will be the feature.
Ten states nre now represented in
the membership of the club, compo'sctr
only of hard of hearing and deaf men
nnd women.
Frank McKosker. national or..!,, i Nn-hville. Tenn.. April .".0.
of the Aniericnn lVderntion of Labor, ''''1P delegates are: ('. 1,. Boric. Jr..
I now in this city, has been naked to I " KnlckerbacKor Bod. John I.
Cfjn 'prevent the sending of Philadelphia tel- Bright. Arthur Biockic, Albert Kelsey,
rUPJU ' rnhonc nhnr.'ilnt'a in W. i'n.,1 i ... Onirics Klimiler. .Inlm II. Itnnkin. B.
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act as strikebreakers. V. Sclcr, Fiank R. AVntson.
A hill nrnrlilltiD' Sinn lull) n , fml I Miss Jullit S. O'Connor. nrei,1n,,t nf The alternates arc: (J. H. Blckler,
for an ndequnte pence celebration and1""" telephone operators' department of''I'son P. Blssell, AVilson Bjre. Bd
1 for pnjing expenses incident to the, "lp International Brotherhood of Flee- mil ml B. Gilchrist, John McA. Harris,
i welcoming homo of the troops of the',ri'"1 Workers, w,o Is leading the Xcw Leicester 11. Holland, George 1. Lowitt.
Twenty-eighth Division is expected to I I.i'Rlntul strike, made the appeal, he- 'Robert R. MrGoodwiii, Thomas Nolan,
'pass both branches of Councils today. I cause, slip n,, f i f t oon operators from George Page, C. C. Kaiityingor.
. It will be signed, on passage, by Mayor ; n,rP h" already been sent to Boston i The pilncipnl matters before the con
' Smith. i and thnt the Bell Telephone Compnny , volition this jeor will lie the reports
A hill will be amended In Common I plans to linve many other local oprrn'- j from the various post-wnr iommittecs
Council by Chairman Gaffney, of Conn-1 tr' make the trip. throughout the country affecting the
oils finance committee, transferring) A national oto is being taken by tel- , profession, the building industries and
$00,000 from items to the Department I ephone operators throughout the conn- ! the public in general ns n consequence
of Public Works toward rebuilding n
sewer in York street between Bmer
nld street and Kensington nenue. The
sewer is in bad condition nnd n menace
to the neighborhood. Among the items
thnt will be transferred 'to meet this
emergency is S2,".000 appropriated for
the removnl of snow, which was not
needed during the past winter.
Among the ordinances scheduled to
try to decide whether they want to call of the war.
o general strike. Hurry Henderson,
president of the Telephone Operators'
I'nlon, of Louisville, Ky., lias an
nounced. Officials of the Bell Telephone Com
pnny in Philadelphia sni, today that
they know nothing of such a canvass be
ing taken here.
Acting on the nppenl of Miss O'Con
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!.. mini ciuimocrs ire: wireciing tlie nor. Mr. McKoskev ais he will call
Department of Pubic Safety tn Imvot i .., ... , . - , . ""' rn"
all nwnines and nwnlnir nnlns ,i iT"." . icinis o ,nc company to
turcs on the sidewalks on t! Irani ave
nue, from West College iicnuo to
Thirty-third street, removed: author
izing the opening of an additional ten
feet on the northwest side of tluit part
of Penrose nveuue, from Magazine to
Gallows avenues; and regulating the
projection of walls, piers or columns
beyond the huildine line.
Common Council will nKo concur
in the passage of the resolution dis
charging the committee on street rail
ways from tho further consideration of
an ordinance rcguinting the running
of street railway cars in Philadelphia.
in,- -ii., Miiiriiur iiuviiik given an opui-
uuy k ir.v to persuade them against
sending nnv more local operators to
the scene of the strike in New- England,
where, according to Miss O'tVinnor. the
phone senice in four states is com
pletely tied up.
Salem, Mass., April 17. Miss F.lea
nor Grnntoul, n niece of William It.
Driver. Jr.. genernl inhnnger of the
Xew Bngland Telephone and Telegraph
Company, and Mrs. New ton .Smith,
both prominent in social nctiitios here,
worked without pnj :il the local ev
I'hnnge of the telephone company yester
day. They said they were not iriinc to
COMFORT
WITH STYLE-
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Cigarette Causes Blaze
A lighted cigarette, dropped on the
fourth floor of the lodging house owned
by Louis Rubin, 200 South Second
street, caused a fire in the house this
morning. A milkman saw the smoke
nnd rang nn alarm. The damage was
slight.
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The city property committee will
meet prior to the session of Councils
to consider nn ordinance nutlinriring
the city solicitor to institute proceed
ings looking to tho ncouirine hv the
city bv condemnation of nil the section
lvjng between Twentieth, Twenty -first. '
Vine and Summer streets, ns a site for
the proposed municipal court building. '
An sordlnnuce appropriating $400,000
of loan funds toward the construction
of this building, which it is estimated
will cost upwards of S2.000.000. was
approved by the Mayor two weeks ago. i
Constance Vauclaln Buys Mare
Tho mare "Ma Sunday," winner of
twelve prizes nt horse-shows in two
yenrs, was yesterday purchased by'Miss
Constnnce Vnucfnin, nt nn auction sale '
in New York, for the record price of
SH.'iOO. "Ma Sunday" and other horses
sold formerly belonged to the stable
of Charles II. Jones, of Boston.
in tho interests of the people of the city
lo ini.e care oi emergency calls.
that s what eery man wants
or a hat That's wliy I am
handling the Balch Price hat
f-olld comfort nnd snappy style.
And more of both than 1 a
found In nnv other lints.
1'rlces begin at $5.00. You 11
need mch a hat to top off the
new r.iFter suit and furnishings.
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Must have lake front, at leust 5 bed
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Dinner cTco Sets
andfi at Table Silver
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Reproductions eOIdEnplish,
French ond Colonial Silver
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dend-paying" asset.
Naturally the reverse of this is true if you
waste your dollars in clothing" which will not give
service and satisfaction, you not only lose those
dividends, but your principal will soon vanish.
Buy Good Clothes for Easter,, and then you
will have them to wear afterward.
Jacob Reed'5 Sons
1424.1426 .CHESTNUT STREET
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HURRY UP !
We are all cocked and primed 7i
and ready with the Goods
and with the Service for the
Last-Minute Man who wants
to wear his New Clothes in the
Greatest of 'all Easter Promenades!
New Spring Suits
and Spring Top Coats
that have the bulge on anything we have
ever shown in the way of unexpected
Newness and of unlooked-for developments
on the score of Lines and Style!
I This is a Store for read;, -made 'vjlothea.
It's also a Store for ready-and-able-to-please-you
Service. The other day a re
turned young sailor on his way to New
York came in here fifteen minutes before
closing time to out-fit himself in civilians,
then take the night train home and sur
prise the folks by dropping in on them all
dolled up as they last saw him only a
good bit better! We sold him his clothes
and stayed with him long enough after
closing time to put the finishing touches '
where they were needed, then sent him on
his way, with the suit on his back and took
charge of his "navvies" and things, send
ing them at our expense to his home next
morning.
And such things are all in the
day's work in this Man's Store!
J So, if you still have your Easter Suit on
your mind instead of in your wardrobe,
come in! Apart from everything else, we
have the newest, freshest, finest fabrics of
the Armistice era made up into Spring
Suits that ring the bell for Fashion and
Style!
New Flannels in blue, in gray, in
brown, in Oxfords, in VICTORY
STRIPES; new woolens and worsteds in
new designs and patterns with the blush
of their youth still upon them ! New waist
seam Suits touched with the wand of
. "N. B. T." tailoring; new double breasters
and new single breasters, both in the one
breath for trimness and a smooth front
and each of them either with welt - waist
seams, or smooth of line from collar and
armholes to hem ! New pocket slants and
curves; new lapels! new bell sleeves
NEW SPRING CLOTMES!
And Bargains in Remainders of
Spring Overcoats
from the last few seasons that were $20 to
$30, and now are
closing out at
15 and $20
Bargains in Odds and Ends
of Light-Weight Suits!
Save $5 to $10 on one of them!
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