Reading Times from Reading, Pennsylvania • Page 9

HOUSEWIVES ALONE IN CLEANING UP Youngsters Are 1 Late From School While Hubby Attends Meetings Keeping abreast with Its sister cities In the annual Clean up Week campaign Reading housewives mobilized the lyarlous members of the household Monday' an! began an offensive against rubbish, dirt, etc. Youngsters, learning of the proposed attack before, leaving for school in the morning, took good, care that would keep them In after school hour. Equally unscrupulous husbands had no difficulty in attending lodge meetings, while various, other excuses left the remaining members of the out while the lady of the house scattered the dust in an effort to make Reading cleaner, As Monday was wash day, there were not many persons who did much cleaning and the work was begun 'on Tuesday. Those old cans that have lain In the back yard since early last winter should be removed. That rubbish dump In the alley outside your home ought to be removed.

Green vegetables should do a lot more good instead of those weeds in your garden. This Is a war saving suggestion. Look about you, It isn't hard to find some place that needs improv ing. THREE RECRUITS SENT TO COLUMBUS Three men were sent from the local army recruiting station, 624 Penn Street, to Columbus barracks on Tuesday! Edward R. Homan, 32, 124 South Eleventh street, and David B.

S. Brusch, 18, 1040 North Eleventh street, enter the medical department, and William H. Bitting, 19, 420 Chestnut street, enters the field artillery service. Corporal Davish, the recruiting staff artist, will arrive from Harris burg for the final drive in the organizing of a cavalry unit in Reading to be sent away on May 15th. It Pays to Trade With Us" Paint is as Important as Fire Insurance UISEfOS Paint Glass Co.

Wholesale Retail 944 Penn Street paint that LET US MAKE READING CLEANEST IN THE WORLD The cleanest town In the world is, the best town to live in. Best because it is the healthiest Best because it has the, fewest fires. Best because.it is the most beautiful. This Clean Up, Paint Up campaign reduces lire. insurance rates and fire loss; it increases property values) makes gardens of vacant lots; removes unsafe buildings; swats the fly; develops school and home gardens; makes cleaner alleys, yards and homes; educates children in fire prevention an'd clean up measures; plants removes rubbish; makes more atractive and safer homes and places 6f business It develops a community spirit that permanently ensures a cleaner, safer, healthier and more beautiful city.

Willing co operation In this work will accomplish wonders a magic transformation of our city will be the result. It will will you? Cleanlines Is the best life insurance It is the best fire insurance. CZECHS ANGERED BY HUN PREMIER Provincial Administration Given Only to Bohemia is Contention LONDON, May 7 The latest de velopments In the Austrian situation apparently can be summarized as "conceTssion in the Germans and threats to the 3cuthern says a despatch from The Hague to the Daily Mall. "At least" continues the cor respondent, "that is how the Czochs and the, southern Slavs regard the decision of premier von Seydler to re introduce for Bohemia alone the rearrangement of the provincial administration which was promised for all Austria. "The Austrian Germans are pressing for a number of administrative changes which would give them in fluence over the machinery of the government greatly )n excess of their numerical proportions.

"Von Seydler's announcement has infuriated the Czechs. The southern Slavs are furious over the proclama tion that stern measures will be taken to repress disturbances In the south. The German reactionary press Is urging the government to quash the rebellious tendencies of the Czechs iand the southern Slavs by force and to use the military to com mandeer foodstuffs in the agricul tural PLEASURE AUTO OUTPUT MUST BE CURTAILED Government Prepared to Enforce Restriction if Manufacturers Do Not Consent WASHINGTON, May 7 Leading passenger automobile manufacturers met with war industries board today to discuss further curtailment of their Industry to release steel and other materials needed for war work. The gbvernment Is prepared to en foce restriction if the manufacturers do not consent to curtailment. Th Bethlehem Steel which owns th American Iron and Steel plant In this city, has joined an association of 65 bolt and nut manufacturers to aid In filling the government's requirements along this line.

Much of the Reading bolt and nut output goes to the Federal shipyards. has life and snap color books will If paint that is milled to the finest texture colors that are clear in tone a finish that creates admiration. It increases the 'living value" of your home as well as the market value by both beautifying and protecting. Sixty years of Know How back of the making assure you of dependable paint service at moderate cost. One of our assist you in selecting Bright 8th and Elm, Reading.

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TIMES, READING, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1 9 1 8 BAKER AND PERSHING ON This photograph shows General Pershing (left) and. next to him, Secretary Baker, seated on top Of a flat car with other American officers, CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP A WAR NECESSITY The National Clean Up and Paint Up Campaign Bureau is doing all it can to promote clean up and paint up campaigns and it is in keeping with the trend of the times that just such campaigns be promoted. Calling attention to the desirability of a certain thing does a lot of good; where attention can be called to It through an organization, it has more effect more wide epread publicity is obtained than where an individual takes up the Work. Nobody has to be told the ad vantages of such work. Yet along about this time of the year the newspapers find It necessary to call attention to the matter and civic organizations spend a lot of time and money Inducing people to do these things that are so essential to personal comfort and to community prosperity.

There are a let of things to be discussed this spring a lot of big news coming over the Wires, a lot of big news "happening" locally. The newspapers are loaded down with records of tremendously important affairs. But neither wars nor fam ines, nor the overthrow of governments are so Important matters of discussion as are these supposedly smaller things of cleaning up and painting up and getting the com munity into sanitary shape and into pleasing appearance for the coming seasons. Dayton, News. OUR FUTURE CITIZENS The boys and girls of today are the men' and women of tomorrow.

Boys and girls live In a very real world. It is a world of present activity, not future activity. The boy may be "president" or the girl may be "a great lady" some day but the work and play of every day is the serious "business" at hand. It is serious business to the young people talk with one of them for a minute and see. And it may be serious business In fact, just as worth while in human progress as the larger party of the daily activity of the grownup.

All that is neceesary is that adults give the boys and girls real business to do, something worth whilethat they consider the Brighten Up After the Clean' 1 WITH COMFORTABLE AND LASTING NEW FURNITURE and RUGS ON EASY CASH or GflTELY 040 PENN FLAT CAR i if ii ilium mwi'iUfcii xjt fi. i studying the map of an engineering project at an American transportation center In Fhance. The PAINT UP GOES HAND IN HAND WITH CLEAN UP 'lBeeause a clean up without a palht up is useless and absurd. Houses thai are unpainted eyesores are made uglier and more conspicuous when ouly streets and grounds are cleaned up. 2 'Because the painted surface, inside and outside, Is washable and therefore can be kept clean and sanitary.

"Paint paint your walls, floors and ceilings often," says Dr. Leonard Keene Hirshbery, A. tl. M. D.

(Johns Hopkins University), in his "Why It's Cheaper to Keep Well Prevention the Way." 3 Because, as Prof. H. King, of the Kansas State Agricultural College declares, after several years experience in conducting painting tests for that state; "The annual loss through lack of painting is greater than the annual loss by fire." Many cities In Europe and South America require regular painting, in prescribed colors, by city ordinance. Augusta, Herald. young people "Junior citizens" rather than "future citizens." "Clean Up and Paint Up" effort, wisely directed, gives the boys and gtrls something important and definite to do for themselves and the community.

Their part In the local campaign should be important. San Luis Obispo Telegram. CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP NEW YORK A movement to give the city an extra thorough spring cleaning should have the co operation and support of all New Yorkers. We want ho epidemics this summer either of infantile paralysis, typhoid, diphtheria or any otherl dread scourge. Cleanliness may not pe an absolute preventive of disease.

But we know with certainty that dirt invites disease. The Ahti Lltter League, the Charity Organization Society and the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor are all ready Your Home Up Campaign PAYMENTS CREDIT BRENNAN STREET 3. STUDYING MAP A tt' tsAf picture Was snapped during Baker's recent Inspection of tie America! forces abroad. to join with the Health Department and the Street Cleaning Deartment in declaring the biggest war eve against dirt. Every citizen who does not enlist for this war should be drafted.

Now is the time to clean, out that cellar, cart away that pile of rub pish, put a coat of paint on that dirty wall. Soap and Water, Paint and White, wash are powerful allies. They annihilate disease germs by the billions. Let every New Yorker look over his premises and plan a clean up campaign. It will do much for the health of the city and every American city is going to need good health.r New York World.

CLEAN UPS Clean up and Paint ap days Are coming. Don't stop at cleaning tip your lawns and cellars. Get the rubbish out 6f your minds ajnd the hatred 6ut of you hearts, These are serious days and they require effective thinking and ef foctlve faith. Hinds full of hatred can't feel straight Give them a good airing and Inspect them for the things you can better do without. Clean Up and Paint Upl 'Burlington (Iowa) Gazette WILSON PRAISES LABOR'S PART IN WAR WASHINGTON, May 7.

An appreciation of labor's part in the war was expressed by President Wilsdn today in a telegram to the New Jersey council of defense, approving a plan t6 hold a conference pi war workers at Trenton today. "In our fight for the rights of fre'e men, the world over," the President telegraphed, "your effdrts and the efforts of your fellowcltizens are a vital factof. You determination to perform the necessary labor and accept the necessary sacrifice and the like spirit which has now become manifest throughout our nation, reassures a stricken world that our ideals of Justice and humanity and liberty shall In the end prevail." Similar telegrams have been tent to State councils of defense in all states holding war conferences this mbhth. $1,000 DAMAGE BUTT Through his attorney, Lee Friday, Martin Seifert (Sifen) and his wife, Helen, brought suit for damages against Hyman Bloom, trading as the Bloom Furniture Co. The plaintiffs live on Rambo alley and they allege in their statement that the defendant entered the home without permission and carried away a cook stove after removing the pots and pans and pcattering them about the kitchen, and allege that the defendant also committed an assault and battery on the wife by throwing her against the wall while removing the stove and injured her.

COMMUNITIES CLEAN UP It's a matter of ciVlo pride to observe "Clean Up Week." Last year this week waa observed by more than 7,000 towns throughout the United States. Look out beautiful WybmissMg way and see how your home and property could be improved. West Reading is doing it this week and many other communities around Reading. It is a necessity. Public health demands, It at least Once, a year.

BETTERMENT OF SOUL Many a life needs cleaning up and painting up. A life may get very dirty and shabby. Just as a house or city will, and herein is the spiritual Value, says Doctor Rhodes, of the Clean Up and Paint Up movement. FtOm the outward adornment of the countryside and the city we may be led to consider the inward betterment of the soul. SPRINKLING MAY RESUMED But Some Fir Companies Are No Longer Equipped For the Purpose Aft early reply will be given by Wty council to the nremen, who are anttdus, Binds there is to be no street oiling this summer, to start the sprinkling wagons again.

In fact, council may take up the question at the regular meeting today. The trustee of the Marion Fire Company, Howard Heminig, John Hunter and O. B. Dorward, called on Councilman Stauffer, who, as superintendent of the department of parks and public property, is the head of 'the water department, on Tuesday with reference to the sprinkling question. It, was stated by this committee that the Marlon Fire Company had In its district In tne northeast section of the city 42 squares of streets to be sprinkled.

For once over these streets 10,600 gallons of water is required, and If they are sprinkled twice dally, It will, require Just double that amount, Councilman McConneil, who has the sprinkling unless the spray from charge of the street, will not permit the sprinklers is made smaller so that the wearing on the streets will hot be so great. It is said that at the present time there are only a few.bf the fire companies equipped for sprinkling. These include the Riversides, Schuylkill, Union and Marions. It Is agreed by the officials at city hall that the dust situation, without Oiling this summer, will be quite unbearable, although at the same time it is necessary to conserve the water supply a fafag possible. There have been many, citizens who have learned that there can be no oil obtained for street oiling this year, and they are making requests to the Ore companies to start sprinkling.

Council will discuss the subject and give the firemen as early an answer aa possible. Contracts will be let at the council meeting on Wednesday for street cleaning and for the various supplies for the highway department. SEVENTEEN GIVEN DIYORCES TUESDAY Court Is Busy These Days Separating Mismated Couples Thi ilvore court 1 kept buy ths flayi, when on Taeeday exactly eeventeen mated couple were Separated from ttte bonds of matrimonjr ag follows: Alice B. Devine, West Green atreet, from John D. ferine, desertion.

Robert t. Seltzer, Wleaer street, froni Eva. May Seltr, Windsor street. Huth N. Werti, Hyde Park, from Charles L.

Wertx, residence unknown, desertion. Lester it. Bradford, North; 81xlh street, from Edythe B. Bradford, residence unknown, desertion. Hannah Hawin, Oley atreet.

from James R. Hawk, residence unknown, cruel treatment feHsaoetni M. Htnea, BlrdsBoro. from Harry F. HI nee, Gordon street, infidelity.

Laura. 91. Winter, Wyomlssing from Walter W. Winter, llt4 Penn, desertion, Ada Brown, Hamburg, from Hamilton Brown, Oak street, desertion. Robert H.

Kline, Locust street, front Lillian Kline, North Eleventh street. Infidelity. I Llllle Bppef Tulpehoeken, from Paul Miller, Bern street, desertion. Frank Link, Robeson street, from Ella, M. Link, Philadelphia, infidelity.

Clara May Yessler, Jefferson atreet. from Charles M. Yessler, residence unknown, desertion, Alms, C. Becker, North Ninth street, from Henry A. Becker, North Eleventh street, desertion.

Jennie Border, Korth Tenth street, from Robert E. Border, North Ninth street. Irvln E. Lovelt, South Fifth street, from Louise t). Lovelt, Savannah, desertion.

Howara itiew, west Keaamg, from Elda Klein, Centre avenue, desertion, Carrt O. Allen. North Front street, from Harry L. Allen, Dover, N. desertion.

DENIES POPE'S INFLUENCE IN IRISH ISSUE DUBLIN, May 7. Denial that the Irish episcopate Is influenced by the Vatican in opposing: conscription waa made in a speech at Thurles Monday by the Most Rev. John Harty, archibishop of Cashel. All talk about any action by the pope, he said, arose in the imagination of some English bigots who had attempted by a cry of "no popery" to intimidate the Irish bishops. The English Catholio union, he added, talked Of appealing to the Holy See, but It did not represent ail the Cathdllcs in England.

Arch blshbp Harty continued: "If they appeal to the Holy See it is not the Irish bishops who will suffer." The Irish bishops had interfered id the conscription issue, he declared1 because conscription raised moral and religious questions. KU KLUX KLAN IS GETTING BUSY BIRMINGHAM, May 7. One hundred and fifty white robed men, in ku klui klan uhlform carrying an American flS and a fiery cf psS at the head of the precession, rode througfh the streets of Birmingham last night, warning idlers to find Work to do. The riders distributed cards saying the United States Is at war; that every man Is needed except those Whose attitude is hostile to the gov ernmentand that the kian intends to see that there is no idleness. CLEAN UP JESTS.

Couldn't the' Clean Up part of the Clean Up and Faint Up cani' Paign go splendidly if all the tin cans, rags and other Junk could be camouflaged to look like the Kaiser, and the weeds like the Crown Priaee or Hindenburg? Well, Jn their way they're Just as destructive, Go after them! Clean Up and Paint Up! Tour nation needs you in good health. A baby germ poked Out his head, Said: "Pa, I see the light!" And Pa responded: "Gee, we're done! My, how them Clean Ups fight." PLANNING STAMP DRIYE DETAILS Ward Organizations to Hold Meetings and Work Out Methods of Campaign A busy meeting of the general War Savings Stamp committee was held at the new headquarters, BOS Penn Square, on Monday afternoon, at which there was a very full at tendance The entire time was occupied in planning out the details of the pledge drive to begin next Monday, the 13th, and to continue through the week until the 18th. It was reported that the organization was being well perfected in the county outside of the city and that the various organizations in the wards of the city, which had ha 5 charge of the Liberty Loan campaign, were being enlarged and making preparations to put It with the same vigor as had characterized their work In the loan. Meetings of the ward organizations are being arranged for this week to work out the methods of the drive. Headquarters will be maintained in each ward as in the recent campaign and clerical forces will volunteer clerical forces will be employed in tabulating returns and making correct reports.

The War Workers' Council of the Fifteenth held a meeting Tuesday evening. A meeting of the Tenth ward workers was called for the same evening at Tenth and Spruce by the chairman, George S. Pomeroy, and all the workers of the Ninth ward and their friends are invited by the chairman, Landes T. Miller, to attend a Savings, Stamp rally at 8 o'clock Thursday evening in Red Men's Ninth and This meeting will be addressed by Judge Schaeffer, of the Orphans Court. The reports of the Third Federal District show that Berks now stands 26th on the list of Pennsylvania county in the district.

Following is a comparative statement of Berks and her boundary counties: Amount County Subscribed Per Capita Berks $380,730. $1.90 Lancaster 716,605 4.15 Lebanon 105,610 1.65 Lehigh 186,005 1.36 Montgomery 311,340 1.62 Chester 119,365 1.00 Schuylkill 434,175 1.86 Union county still leads the dis trict with a per capita of $10.20, or more than half her auota. while TClk. Columbia, Lancaster and Carbon eacn have over $4 per capita. Berks stands almost exactly in the middle of the list of 48 counties in the dis trlc there being 24 ahead and 23 behind her.

When the drive takes place it is expected to make this look very much different and greatly more favorable to Berks. XL Nine GERMANS SHELLED RER CROSS TRAIN American! Mission Had a Dangfarous Journey From Rumania IX5NDOTgMay T. Hta fcnievehtful nlghjt from Jossy, the RumanSan capital, the American Red Cross mis sian: to Romania, which hasf nOw arrived in London, escapeid from Odessa 36i.houra before the (Germans entered itri fitly to be ftred upon by a German; battery in the Ukraine 200 miles 4north of the Sea port The German shells did no damage to the Retf Cross train, falling about a half mile from It, but seeral members of tfre mission breatled a sigh of relief' when the bombardment came to 'an end after five minutes which had seemed like hours. When the. mission left, Jassy it was known that "the Journey likely "would be a dangerous one.

Repjofts In Jassy as to the whereabouts of the Germans varied greatly, but it was fairly clear that the Germane were within 80 or 60 mies of Odessa and that their stdvance parties might be encountered along the line. The memfcers of the American Red Cross mission left on the third of six trains which carried the allied mission, from Jassy. The first train left at noon on March. 9 and the other trains followed at Intervals of two or three hours. Each train was provided with food for a month.

There was no dining car and the food was cooked in two military food kitchens abandoned Russian troops and which W6re carried on a freilght ear on the end of the train. An Ancient Train The train an which the Americans traveled was tone of the most extraordinary combinations of railway rolling stock ever seen. Arhedlcan doctors and officers had a third class sleeping car while the nurses had a second class sleeper. Both cars were of ancient Russian vintage and without water supply or heating ffaelli tles. The engine which pulled thetrain' dated back to 1876 and on3yburned wood which'was picked up along the way.

The engineer matcher! the engine. He was an elderly Russian of Bolshevik opinion and had tto be fed with rubles and cognac almost as frequently as the enginet required wood. He carried his family along with him In a box car niext to the engine and whenever or other domestic affalrsi required, his attention, he stopped the train and went to his box car. Just outside Odessa 'the engineer became dissatisfied wltti the flow of rubles and ognac and went on a strike and dtepartetd 'wlth the engine and the box car. He had chosen rather a critical time for reports were current! that the Gel mans were likely to reach the, railway at any moment.

After some delay the French succeeded in finding another engineer and engine and the train proceeded. As a matter of fact German bat taliohs entered Odessa only 36 hours after the Americans passed through the city and it is probable that some of their advance parties already in the suburbs at the time the engineer went on strike. MINISTER GOING TO FRONT HARRISBURG, May 7. Dr. Robert Bagnell, a prominent Methodist churchman, will go to France to study conditions in the front line trenches and back of the lines.

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