.r u- vi , .'v u- n &j" 'Sfc 2 1 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGEKPHILADELPHIA, WEBNESLUY, MAY 28, mm helps f fH OPEN DOOR VICTORY CLASS OF H. H. FURNESS SCHOOL l Hll.V.ntii In:n4lnn 14 no Dnern. miroui.jr inouimmii nu" w&. r,,ar Follow-Up System for tf ;., Wi'HC" r jVf Those It Aids POLICY A SUCCESS .t TTnonnvontlnnnl mlnlnn work Which 14' looks out for the email points that rvCv Bigger organizations leave untouched Is s, l tne Kcvnoto 01 a. new man i raui iu authorised by the Eighth Street Rescue . 'Mission. Since May 10, this mission, located nt 242 North Eighth street, has been the scene of religious activity on a scale never before seen. This Is the direct result of an open-door policy on the part of the Rev. T. W. Mo Kenty, superintendent of the mission, who has worked out 'many Interesting I experiments there. It is one of his policies not to cease to take nn Interest in a nmn as soon as he has become converted nt one of the evening services. Generally, Mr McKcnty claims, n man goes out from the mission that night v itli good inten ltons, but a change comes with the cold light of morning, no job in prospect or no breakfast in sight H is slitibb and Usreputnble looking from a cheap all nlstht lodcinz hoiw. so he jicltls (o Efc w R Tlio Victory Class of the II. II. I'urness School, Third nnd Mifflin streets, collected 920,050 for the Victory Liberty Loan. The total number of bonds subscribed Mas 153, ranging from $30 bonds to $10,000. Milton IlerMliman, twelve jears old, Mas the Victory I'upil. He .secured forty-four bonds, amounting to $22,000. The children were enthusiastic workers during the campaign. In the Victory Class are Milton Ilersclunan, Alex Schambau, Lawrence Delfleln, George London, Israel Nullman, Ilciijaiiiin "DulTlne, Harry Goldstine. Solomon Chuken, Frank Period, Morris Smith, Joseph Welsman, Henry Kpstein, Joseph DaIs, Jacob Less, Fcntoii Doolan, Fred Kemp, Germ Stein, John Ulilanls, Samuel Will (man, Bertha SIhlnity, Uurnetta Brat ton, Helen Enslamlrr, Mollle Lutilu, Anna Nadlcr, Selm.i Sockctt, Violet Leslinpr. Anna Huttcr, prances Saltz, Anna Segal, Margaret Tesch, Susie Her man, li.i Aptchman, Florence MrFnrland, Mary Allen, Lillian Conro, Goldle Glldeif, Kdna Goldstein, Marie Gustason, Esther Kernlsh, Anna Ocrgel FOOD LACK BLAMED- ASPHALT PAVEMENTS STOP FOR MARINE DEATHS DRIVE OF 17-YEAR LOCUSTS temptation 'that will" undo all the good i Chaplain Here Declares Short-1 Entomologists Here Say Millions of Pests Will Die Hard This work of the mission Accordingly, a "follow up" principle ' has been adopted bj the mission. It docs not tloc its doors with the cud of the evening services, but keeps the man in sight until he gets a position It feeds him for several days and gncs him refuge and lodging at the niKsion In the windows the want nds of news; i papers are displajed and the men tome in to examine them age of Surgical Dressings Also Proved Costly Hardships nnd sufferings of the ma lines were related last night by the Kc. James J. Bingham, pastor of the Orthodox Street Methodist Church, to n large audience in AVitherspoon Hall. 1 ear Trying to Reach Earth's Surface BILLIONS of might be scjfteon- ear lo usts todn are making n fight for life in or under Philadelphia nnd icinitj. compared with which the for mer kaiser's prospects to dine in l'nris were gloriouslv hopeful. Whnt the locusts arc up ngninst in Philadelphia is progiess. They arc up A club called the Haven's Club has j Ling on stretchers, Drenthiug tlicir ngainpt pavements nnd brick walls, and been formed with this purpose in wew last. thc spoke onH of "going baik They began with clghty-ntc cents audmto the light," he said, 'lhe Mr have grown to nn extent where scores . Wngli.iin was acting chaplain of tlv of positions arc supplied dnil. main 'Sivth "Marine ItngHde from Jul, l'.HT. "down-and-outs" cared for and otheis . until Jauuarjof this yeai. .I . , Of the ninrities baptism of nie am, given such small necessities ns stamps. t"1 u$"at Chateau -Thierry, he paper and envelopes, telephone service gnil . and the like. AVheu the mnjoritj of "On the night of July 17. nnd we wit' never forcer it. wc nnu to niahp on- 1&' the men get positions they unmcdiatclj send in n fractional part of their wages tq the Eighth Street llescile Mission According to Mr. McKeutj, his scheme has worked out wonderfully "There has not been u single betraval of confidence," he said toda.v. "Xot a man has abused the privilege of per fect freedom and many men have beeu redeemed during this one week who v have .been conspicuous figures in the Tenderloin for years." The Eighth Street Itcscue' Mission sees to it that the men who respond to the invitation to embrace salvation aud profess it do not forget it ns soon as Ihey get outside the door. R-4 J. Vs. E&J SPEECH CLUB ELECTS wn to the front along u dark road. It was choked with eludes of nil sorts nnd the order camp to proceed m h'uigh hie You took hold of the pack of tln I man ahead of you vou couldn't se him and followed the lender A truck stalled across the road and it was no e Mirv to detour about it. One walked to it. felt the man ahead turn ninl wheeled behind him Wir head almo-st wns lerked loose, but vou kept on. "One ofhrer lost the man in fiont. Up groped about and. thinking he had him, closed his arms in n lovous grasp about the working end of n niulcl II" let go in a hum." METHODIST FUND Philadelphia Has Subscribed $3, 038,371 for Centenary Fund The Philadelphia Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church has sub scribed s.i,o.is.r.7i of its sa.Goo.ooo quota to the Methodist ceutcuarj fund, according to reports submitted by tin Kcv. Dr. George II. Bicklej , executive secrctarj of Hip campaign. These subscriptions, for the most part, me only partial reports of 220 of the churches in the district aud ninety-eight churches have foiled to report. (.'hurdics of the Philadelphia area, which includes Philadelphia, New Jcr sev. "vVvomimr and Delaware Confcr- include Miss Lottie McKee, Mrs. Joseph ences, have subscribed SO.000,000 to D. Wilson, Mrs. AW B. Saunders, Miss ward their 57,800.000 quota. Itena Wolf, Miss Marie Eisenlohr, Sirs. The Dcluwarc Conference, which is a D. Ellis Lit, Mrs. Horace V. Weeks, negro conference, is the first of the four Mrs. Edward B. Gctze and Mrs. Charles I to go over the top in the drive. Dr. H. Wilt. Miss Cora Elsie Kinzio is 1 II. Butler, campaign manager for director of the club. I Delaware, reported to Kobcrt II. htrinc, This week closes most of the nctivi- the niea enmpnign mrecior, umc suu rs. Albanus Smith Named Preal dent Help to Deaf Planned Mrs. Albanus L. Smith has been named president of the (Speech Beading Club, of . Philadelphia, for the ensuing year. Samuel Wagner was again named honorary president. Mrs. A. S. Logan is the new ice president: Miss Rose Kinzie, treasurer; Miss Alice Smith, secretary, and Miss Bcbecca Xevvhall, assistant secretarj. Members of the executive committee that is too much for the toughest locust slug that evei slept in a mole's den. In 1!K)2. according to Doctor Ilenr.v Rkinnei,' of tin Academj 'of Natural Silences, the seventeen -venr-locusts had a fine time foraging I'nli mount Park, grassj vacant lots, and fashionable sub urbs They nvept th countryside in millions, he said, nncUmanv were the proud (ountiy gentleincjii who went to bid gloating over his prosperous gar dens, oulv to rise amid n desert waste of guawed-off stubs. Up nnd down ave nues nnd stieets, along bottle, n Is that were ns jet golden dreams in the minds of Philadelphia's contractus, the lo c ists marched and munched. The reproduced, which is the fntally inescapable part of their program. Pa tientl the she-locusts laid thdr eggs, and those eggs hatched into larvae, whicli have now become full grown, and nie readv to make their debut in this iv oi Id of bugs. Billions Ready to Hatch Billions en billions of them ! And n large majoritv of the would-be locusts lu this vicinit nie franticnllv butting their brnius out ngaiust asphalt pave merits that mark the cit's spreading out. The citv is lnrgely paved now uud in that lies the tragedy of these industrious insects. Their parents started them on their seventeen- car journe.v to birth all according to Ilojle; but man, pnrticularl the real estate ,a riet, has cast the shadow of race sui cide over their meandering clan. "If the don't get out the will die," says Doctor Skinner, "and. it stnnds to reason the) can t cat their wnythroiigh asphalt. I in self dug some up just under the surface of my garden the other day. The will be coming along thickl before many weeks. But auy number of them will never get out to pass from the larvae stage ami become adnlt locusts. The hare subsisted all these years on roots nnd vegetable matter under ground, but now they must either get to the light or die. They will die." Seed stores here say that to stop the locust is about like tr.ving to pin n rose on the tail of a fling Navy-Curtiss seaplane. Should one want to be sure of getting some of the marauders. he should put arsenate of lead on the like liest looking vegetation, and then wait fin the insects to come out for their biealfast. Tr.ving to get nt them uu dergiouud. although they arc now close to its surface, is virtually out of the question. "ion could put Paris green a foot deep on the ground nnd thc.v'd get through," said one entomologist today. "ou'vc got to give them somethinir with their food. And while jou're giv i t.- a few the quietus, n million more mn.v be doing a flank movenicut over the Mi din wall Ik W P m; ties of the club for the summer. It will open again October G with each de partment enlarged. It is expected the social service department will be thor oughly organized nnd ready to care for hundreds of deaf person seeking cmploj -meut. The exchange of articles made by deaf persons will be kept open during the summer, and there w ill also be some free instruction in lip reading. ft. IS WAR SEEM AS CHURCH AID All Factions Brought Into Closer Harmony, Says. Monslgnor Kleran Action against the ignorance and 'nreludiee with which other relicions t'-Jilook upon the Catholic Church was Kitr urgeu oy jiuuaisuv. "iu ic uigui Lfek. C.f lftA mnmhoro nf fttn Trnttvlifci nt Columbus. It was the occasion of a testimonial dinner to the Rev. Joseph L. N. Wolfe, a Catholic chaplain of the Twenty eighth Division, who was assistant rec tor of St. Patrick's Church before he entered the army. "We must try to have them forget their bigotry," Monsignor Kieran said, "and we, in turn, must not be preju diced against them. We are not capa , " ble of judging others', God is the only ' one that looks into a man's heart and tells whether he is doing the right thing. j-fJThe war has done a great deal toward bringing" all churches into closer har- M I'monr- vcriptious totaling S4lM,:u have uicu obtained. Their quota was $420,000. The West district, of which the Rev. Dr (5. Biikley Bums is district super intendent, has subscribed its full quota of $0011,104. Doctor uurns n-pun pledges tor uu,iuv. DOCTOR COMMITS SUICIDE Swedesboro Physician, Despondent, Swallows Poison Despondency caused by the recent death of his wife, it is said, caused Dr. Oliver Grimshaw, of Swedesboro, N. J., to commit suicide at his home by taking poison. lie was found unconscious in his bed 100m last night by his daughter Edith, who is a nurse at the Hahnemann Hos pital. She recently went home to at tend her father, whose health had been crnduall.v failing. Doctor Grimshavv's w ifc died several w ceks ago. The phys ic-ian had practiced in Gloucester coun ts fnr the last thirty years. He was a graduate of Hahnemann Hospital and was lift -eight years of age. More Willys-Overland Men Strike Eljrla, O., May 28. Employes of the Willys-Overland plant here went on strike yesterday in sympathy with work men out at the main plant iu Toledo. Union leaders claim that at least G50 men quit work, while the plant officials declare only 330 arc out. Picketing wns begun in the afternoon m u' 11 Buy Now E!SI Insist That Youp Dealer Gives You c mm& Heat and Steam Without Smoke j t TOR DOHTESTIO USE Er, StOT. Chutnat and I'M. FOB hTEAH BSE Bucliwhiat. Bit. nd Barley. The Philadelphia and Reading to go to the city Saturday night nnd see motion pictures of how it nil hap pened." There wns n vague rumor about the city yesterday that Ilarrisburg had railed upon the Emergency Aid forces, the Home Guards and the Hog Island fiiefightlng demons to combine forces aud man n cit-wide drive in defense nt ninst the enemy 'within our gates. A ,r'c "ins linriage ot arsenate or lean, distributed in spray form, and cmplo- iiig i'eithing trom a water-wagon to a cologue sringc is said to have been the plan. However, this is not con lb. uird. Up to date, it is believed that 1 Citizen will do his best against 'cm, ami let it go nt that. To Bury L'Estrange In England Now York, May 2S. It was an nounced here that the body of Julian IEstrnuge, "prominent netor, was sent lirtt Friday on the Orduna to London for burial there. Constance Collier, his widow, is in England and has arranged for n public funeral there. Mr. IEstrangc wns so-star iu "An Ideal Husband" when stricken with influenza, which caused his death. Although a public funeral was announced to be held nt the Kuneial Church, Miss Collier GETMEWTEACHERS Services of All Department Heads Retained One In- structor Killed in War THREE WOMEN RESIGN Many changes in the' personnel of the teaching staff nt Swarthmore Col lege aro announced for next year The college Is fortunate, however, in retaining the services of nil the various departmental hends. Dr. Thomas K. Uhrdahl, professor of economics, nt Swarthmore, on leave of absence from the University of Wisconsin, will re main as the ljcad of thcdcpatmcnt. rhlllp M. Hicks will return. Jo the college in time for the next term, and give his attention to the duties of as sistant professor of public speaking. Paul M. Pearson has resigned as pro fessor of public speaking, but remains as a lecturqr on that subject. Dr. Winthrop It. Wright succeeds Dr. Mason E. Hufford in charge of the laboratory, poctor Hufford was loaned by the University of Indiana, and re turns to the fnculty of that institution. Doctor Wright comes with nn enviable iccord of teaching and accomplish ment. E C. White has been appointed as sistant p'rotcssor iu civil engineering. Ho has had much practical experience. Dr. Edgar White Burrill, who has been giving half-time to the English de partment, will be on full time, succeed ing Professor II. B. Pace, who was killed in France. Dr. Maud Basset Gorham, a mem bor"bf the English department for seven years, has lesigned her position. Sho will be succeeded by Miss Bculah Mac- Mlllan. Ilaymond Morse Hcrrick, who formerly did jvork in the same depart ment, but who left Inst jcar because of illness, will return. Florence M. Hose, hssi.stnnt tn rthvsi- cal education, of the women, has re-' signed and will be succeeded by Eliza beth Lttnnngt FOUNTaTn FOR VETERANS Gloucester Discards Idea of $100,000 Memorial Building Gloucester City wilt erect a drinking fountain and tablet In front of City .Hall bearing the nnmes pf its 400 boys who served in the war. This wns decided upon nt a meeting of the memorial comtnlttee. The fi nance committee recommended that n $100,000 memorial building be erected instead, but after going over the matter in detail the committee decided it would be a hard matter nt this time to inisc this amount ot money. FRATERNITY PLAY TONIGHT " ' ' "Awl That's ruthln,l' Written and Played by Members A piny wllj be presented by the Beta Sigma Phi of thk city nt Al. White's dancing academy louight, in conjunc tion with n 3Iny hop to be given by the junior clubs of the Big Sisters. The play Is the result o" the com bined efforts of members of the fra ternity. The score is by Arthur Iloscn. The book. "Awl That's Nuthln!" wns written by A. Blakcr And A. ltosen, of the Betn Sigma Phi. The entire est nnd orchestra is comprised of members of the Beta Sigma Phi fraternity ROCKINCHAIR .Athletic Underwear for Men & Boys V t .,.. 4 tf t A. .. 4. ,L. ..r. C A 3K1Ht.td 1VUS5CQ U1C D&ll DUt not U1C WUIIUI lUtH iUUMIUlHU Union Suit! Get a couple yourself. You're bound to be property fitted because every size is made in threo models Regular, Slim, and Stout. And the blouse effect in back, the sanitary closed ' seat and crotch, and the side leg opening, will provide you, too, with extraordinary comfort. i Henderson & Ervin, Norvraik.conn. iiiiimiinwMiHii)aHi PiiiiiiiraiHiM i hanged the plans nt the last moment aud the bodv was interred temporarily and the best ou can do is nt Kcnisco Cemetery. piiMinioiin I George Allen, inc. I 1214-ChestnufSt. 1214 B . 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