"tn-Xoys", ' 4' tf i ,V'"rt'V-' -i'r' 16 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUABY'iS, 191: "."V M t i.i T'r,, U A 1 V ; f, lip Mr wtfah x ? t J !, ''1 ..'- 5 Aft I Rl'-M ' w i , WJ ", .. BUS 4 " R8R III ' f I ft f '' i f,V NEW VALLEY FORGE QwrnrnRvcnniiTc (Evidences of tho World's Ad vance Seen in Washington's Birthday Celebration Chnpfl, with Its groined nrelies nnd 1 poftlj colored staincd-glnM windows, automobiles, not even no much on im agined In Washington's day, were parked while their owners attended the special services. White flnlcei that eddied down in I 'millions early in the morning yielded to the drift or wind anil the strength of the sun before 10 o'clock, nnd when ramp flreH finall) were crackling on the liillniurs opposite the Waterman monu ment the figures in khaki that crouched about them were but faint reminders of the miser that waited on the Colonials In that white, ghastly winter of to long ago Asslcinnt Scoutmaster Krncst Sennit flliTne tdauic tm ounic made this unusual celebration accessible AUlUb, IKAINo AND bmUKt to tho public. Autos were provided in plenty Executive Kilunrcl A. Carlson What once had been and what was fo be seen jesterdnv In nnd about the (mow piled lanes and billowing hills of i Valley Forge were brought harpl into rontrast In the ninth nnmml celfbrn tion bv the Noj Somits of Oelaware and Montgnmen counties, roinmem- crating the blrthclin of Oeorge Wash ington Tour hundred voungsters in khaki and sweaters, members of neiirH two fcore different scout troops, observed with fitting ceremonies, as well as with exubernnt juvenile t-rslons of soldier life In the open the natal daj of the great Virginian who with n I'russinn I general as his right-hand man. wrested the tlnal uctorj from limit Britain. Yesterda st ird lads gathered there , In hundreds. 1, train and trolle . a Htudy In what the centuries hne done, for America mcc 17"" The valley of the Schuvlkill, then so often bleak, smiled in n warm glow of uniersal sun shine. Fartor chimmes down l'ort Kennedy wn brnk the open white of the fields with their frequent columns of smoke. Railroad trains awoke the echoes b the ilcr green river, where Once the pioneers of IVnnsyhnnin jpatriotism bod stumbled n few hard ' fcllcs at n time from bliouac to bivouac had his troubles with field maneuvrca, and tho numerous details of rollcalls and reports, but the program wa run off without a hitch, even to the sham bottle in which the IlcdH and Wucs shored honors. Even the candled apples that the good wife of Sexton Samuel Olcnn purveyed to hungry boys by tcorcs, ought to be mentioned In the storj of a real day at Vullei 1'orge where Young America and Old Man Tradition tramped side by side along historic paths. Ceri Iflcates Presented Certificates of excellence at inspection were presented jeslerdoy to the follow ing different troops assembled: Col lingdale No -, Conshohoeken No. 1, llryn Mawr No. 1, Norrlstown Nos. 1. 8 anil 0, l'enn Square No. 1, Jeffersonvllle No. 1, I'cnnsburgh o. 1, Urookllnc No. 1, Narbcrth No. 1, llrtdgcport No, 1. Incidentally, there's a title story to be told of how Sunflower Troop 1, Olrl Scouts, of Dridgeport, made their way to the chapel to see their heroes per form. It is said that It won't be let happen any more. I'crhaps because, while they may do very well as scouts In uniform, miles apart, when brought to gether, the lore of neoutcrnft Is lost sight of in a game at which een General Washington is said to have been pur.sled I to win every time he tried to play it. Boy Hurt by Exploding Torch Uobert Cannon, thirteen years old. of l!!rn Mifflin street, was seriously In ljured yesterday when he accidental! kicked over a gasoline torch which n plumber was using in repairing some I pipes In tho cellar of the Cannon home, ' The torch exploded and a piece of metal entered the boy's head. Ho was taken to Mount Slnal Hospital, where it was found he had a fractured skull, ! Autos Ktldenre of Xdvanro T5 the wi'iare . granite Memorial COFFEE tnd Sun-Lite Food Product Set J by All Goad Dmtrm John Scott Si Co., Inc. tmtrtcsn anH Diamond ! , I-tills. tun Mil 55! Special Sale, Ending Feb . 28th Our Entire Stock of Oriental Rugs at 33Vs to 50 From Regular Prices In extent ahd quality this is the largest and finest stock of Oriental Rugs in the city. And this sale affords discrimi nating householders an exceptional opportunity to secure Rugs of the most exclusive character and artistic excellence at extreme savings. Newspaper advertisements are so extravagant nowadays your only protection is an inspection and comparison, which wc cordially invite. You will find here values unequaled anywhere. Note Fine Mosul Rugs Average Size 3 ft. x 6 ft., $37.50 to $66.50 ' 7 FRITZ & LARUE, Inc. Importers Oriental Rugs 3615 CHESTNUT STREET Eua y The Company OF the People, FOR the People made BY the People The Greatest Life Insurance Company in the World. P , , In Assets p In Business Placed p , , , In Service to the Public UrCdtCSt In Income UTCdtCSl In Business Gained UTC3lCSt -iln Reduction of Mortality iln Gain of Each In Business In Force In Health and Welfare Work Metropolitan Life Insurance Company IXCORrORATKD D THE --TATE OP :"EW YORK) HALEY FISKE, President FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-President Business Statement, December 31, 1920 - $980,913,087.17 Assets Larga tnan ir.cse cf an- ctner Company in the odd. Increase in Assets during 1920 - ' - rrcr ikjit that of any c'her Company in the World. Liabilities --- - $116,091,262.62 - $947,465,234.24 - $33,447,852.93 $6,380,012,514 23,899,997 2,129,326 Surplus .-. Ordinary annual premium) Life Insurance paid for in 1920 ------- $1,062,389,920 Mae '.-a:. has ncr been placed i ot.e year t; gh; Cot,' f any in the World. Industrial weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1920 $589,560,231 foe tlum has a.er bent placed m one year ov air Company in the World. Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1920 - $1,651,950,151 The largest amount placed m one year by cw Company in the World. Gain in Insurance in Force in 1920 - $1,036,360,080 yrc ilicv his eur been gained tit one cjr b- en, i.ompan" in tlus World The Company GAINED more insurance in force both in 1919 and in 1920 than any other Company WROTE. Total Amount of Outstanding; Insurance liger tnan ttiat ol any oti'v tympany in the eric. Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1920 Ijirgcr titan that of any oilier i ompany in A tnenea Gain in Number of Outstanding Policies More than atr Compar.- m tlie World Itas ever rained in one year. Number of Claims paid in 1920 - - - 312,689 Aivragtng one claim paid for every ZS c:yrds of each business day o) S liour. Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1920 - - $81,257,393.70 Payments to policy holders axraged $556 S6 a minute of each business day of S hours. Reduction in general mortality at ages 1 to 74 in 9 years, 22.7 per cent 7 ; phend reduction, 72 per cent ; Tuberculosis, 40 per cent ; Heart disease o:cr J 9 per cent.; Bright' s disease, nearly 27 per cent ;ln(ectuus diseases ol children, oxer 2S per cent. In general reduction and for each principal cause of death this is far greater than that shown by statistics of the Registration Area of the United States. Death Rate for 1920 on the Industrial business lowest in history ut Company. Dividends declared payable in 1921, nearly - $11,000,000 Metropolitan Nurses made 1,625,271 visits in 1920, free of charge to sick Industrial Policy-holders, including 14,667 visits to persons insured under Group policies. Metropolitan men distributed over Eighteen Millions of pieces of literature on health-- Bringing the total distribution to over 212,000,000 cxcIumc of Company's health magazine, of xihich over 18,000,000 are annually distributed. PHILADELPHIA OFFICES J. V. Harrington, Supt.. 1342 W. Columbia Ave. Raphael Goldstein, Supt.. 1342 W. Columbia Ave F. J. Lynch, Supt., 3247 Kensington Ave. C. K. Sterline, Supt., 3247 Kensington Ave J. F. Smithies, Supt., 4386 Main St H. C. Parris, Supt, 917 Lehigh Ave Alexander Norden, Supt., 4416 Germantown Ave C. J. Moran, Supt., 70 W. Chelten Ave. C. E. Wyatt, Supt., 5000-5002 Baltimore Ave. Hermann Rosenberger, Supt., 1001-3-5 Market St. C. F. Rohlfing, Supt., 900 Chestnut St. Arthur Saxon, Supt., 41-47 South 60th St. araffmyffiffiffe'm BAUME ANALGESIQUE , BENGUE Si I ft 8 Write or call for our imo ' nnd Interesting llooklet , ' J,ooktng Inth Your dm I I'm" A Scries of Eye Talks :,; My Joseph C. Ferguson, Jr. jj Our ct Tnlk Wed., Mar. 0 ttell-lctioun iihyniclun In writing of ejcstraln Bajs It "mar bo Indicated by dis comfort In thn buck of tho heai by twitching of tho ejelldn or Htckneps at tho 8tomiu.li Thu tymitomN may bo local oontinod to tho eji3 or may affect i-omo runote part of the bod " Afnln, a. disease In somf ' remote'' part of tho body miy affect tho cjej, caimlng HUplclon of a local eje trouble. Who, but an oculist a physician eyo Kpeolallst Is qualified to dlasnose and prescribe for such cases? If your cyci need atten tion fro to an oculUt. If they need Rlnsses talio his prescription to a prescription uptlUan rrcnrriplton Optician 6. 8 & 10 South 15th St. nr Do OT HxamlAC r.ws T i "Talk from il rnmrluh ?; nnri A I rlnhtfl roftrtd. WHITE White Trucks have a sustained earning power, their working ability unimpaired by years of service. Depreciation is slow and superficial. There are innumerable White records of 100,000 miles and over, by trucks as active today as when they started. Business needs that kind of machinery now more than ever. THE WHITE COMPANY, Cleveland Philadelphia: 112 North Broad Street Wilmington: 802 French Street TRUCKS 7 SWIFT .,- Sveet-Pure-Clcan SWIFT STZi I Swiffe I J a- REFRiGERATort i j Swiffe Premium refrigerator v 7 Premiumh' 1 PORTLAND ' U I . f'S v V V l NsnT'v! r" ' sioux ci ' j-r j h r""losToN l WoilAHA-' CHfeotT" JS2 v V- J.CUVELANO OTJZerSEY CITY r.PMj I? SO.STJOSmii UT A , NaHARBlS6uRc7NEWAR N37N o IaZ V - , KANSAiCITT. -E.ST.Ij0UIS.ILU i X 1 KtT Tht"".! . THE meat peddler of the old days, who killed his own live stock and then sold the meat from the tail of a cart) is gone from our larger towns and cities. He was a pioneer and did good service but he couldn't keep up with his job. Crude meth ods had to give way to new ideas in sanita tion and distribution. Concentration of population drove the peddler ahd his wagon out and brought the modern packing industry and the neighbor hood retailer in his place. And the modern packing business means this: That near the farms and ranches, the centers of live stock production, are packing plants that assemble and manufacture the meat products you use. then and now That swift and sanitary refrigerator cars carry your meat from these packing plants to every part of the country. Dealers in towns and villages are supplied directly and regularly from these refrigerator cars. And in cities the refrigerator car is unloaded into branch houses, chilled and sanitary, from which deliveries are made to your meat shop. And all the time the meat is kept so chilled that deterioration is prevented. Swift & Company's plants and branches are co-ordinated, interchanging supply and supporting each other, when necessary, so that no section of the country may ever lack its daily meat. Swift & Company, U. S. A. Seven Wholebale Distributing Markets Central Office, 9th St. and Girard Ave P. M. Hall, Disttict Manager re ETF r U .. y i ). W r sJ wVttflU J & & , w iff L.'"! f . ,.t pVt--
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