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mm-v "wj jfji, wnaav- "oqmffi J3Vj32ffliSfd PUBLIC! Lr)aER-1lHTLADELllHlA, MONDAY, tf OVftMBEB 3 101!) 9l 'iWHtFl i SmiSTEXBRS THE WRgATTHB START When does a fire start? Most big fires start while tho aro unoccupied. GLOBE Sprinklers aro always on the qui vive day and night, 365 days a year. If a tiro starts GLOBE Sprinklers put it out and give an instant automatic alarm, GLOBE AUTOMATIC SPRINKLER CO. 2033 Washington Ave. Dickinson 331 The (Wiery chwirtr Motor Cr to I'hlUdflphU, Mi Instilled GLOUHbDrinklfrt.

IgaiaMiUaUJJhMlMAMkJWjJ-: SLANG? CUT IT OUY, KID American Speech Week In Schools Is Here, I'll Say It Is Hellcvi' nic, Mil, jnu xurc net my goat vith nil (lint slmiR. You Rottn t'tlt it Ollt this vrok nr fhr tioml inv What because jnnr tciicliin' dump will cnn you. Thi he-re Is what thov call Speech Week in tlic schools. You gotta put the Mitt pcilnl on the hum nun mm iciu lingo like the swells. You sure sny mouthful men time Jou open jour head.

Ilovv do jou set that nnyhovv Are jour folks small town stuff or just plain nuts? Qr, maybe jou got bats in jour belfry. You Know me, Al, I'm dippy on Jingo. Itut tbert'h of tlirm kids that don't know brims'. Oot untiling 'Above the ears. I'll say so.

Itut tlicie's a Jane in my class that can sliiminj the HurIIsIi language to beat the baud. I'leel like boob when she, tamps me. JBut believe- inc. I'm gonna pick up some jn tiiese kiick pmaK's and i 11 kiiock tier fcold some day with mj Kuow ledge. lust don't spill the beans on me ami, say, I'll be picsldcut or sometuin bc- lorc, I kiik the bucket.

HORSE BREAKS UP GAME But Sunday Ball Players Have No Interference From Sabbatarians Inteirupted by a lPorse, but bj no agent the Philadelphia Sabbath As sociation, two imscoall teams, one the ylilbcrty team ami the cither the Victors tram, plajed a game of baseball es- iicreiuy on mc vucicie'i'ii ciiuiiiuiiu, i mr-jmount Park near l'iftj -hcculul sticet fnrfel Parksidc uvenue. Tbu game was staged by the Btitutiounl Liberty League to force a test case of the ISluc law off 1791 Uhroiigh tluv courts. Oliicials of that fjorganizatlejii e.peet an nucst todaj. jhaving notified the Sabbatarians that '(tho game was plajed. The horse almost broke up the game in the mtli luuiugo.

nut was liuallj i chafed nivny by the plujers and the 'game was resumed. The score was," to 2 in favor of the Liberty team. Not much of a crowd was present. HEADS VINCENTIANS HERE 'The Very Rev. Fred J.

Maune, C. Appointed Provincial Visitor The Very Uev. I'red Maune. lins beqnappointed lijtor for the east- uru ijiojiii.u oi mu umsiisiuum in uiv Mission, a Catholic older known as the inccntian or Loranst I atheis. Hie visitor is the udmiuistiator of the prov ince.

Pather Maune, who was ice-isitor. puccccds the Veij Itev. Patiick .1. Mr-Hale, recent I elected assistant sunerior ceneiul of the older tin ouch out the world Die election was held I'mlier Mcllnle Innl In Paris when cone to attend a geueial coiifeience. Tim new visitor, who-e lieadquuiteis are at St.

Vlnceut'd Seminary, Last avenue, (icrnianlovvn, was boiu in Urookljn, but wns oiciaincd in this rity by the lute Aichbishop Itjan In 3SW. I Deaths of a Day MISS FRANCES PEIRCE Founded Hospital for Women Led Active Philanthropic Life Frances It. I'eirce died icsterdaj at her home. Powelton avenue, in her ninety-third jedr AIIlu lnl. n.li.

1.. thropic work all her life Her eiirlv eitorts were directect against shueij and idie was un abolitionist at a time when abolition was movement that ran counter to public opinion. She was interested in all matteis concerning the advancement of women. She was one of the founders ofJhe West Philadelphia "Hospital for AVaflTcn and was a manager' of. that Institution at her death.

Tor jflany years she was also a manager of the Woman's Hospital, North College nvenuo nml Twenty-second street. Miss I'eirce had lived nt Powel- iijfnn avenue for tliiity-four yearn. She Is Mirvived Dv her sister, Hutu i'eirce Do Cou, of the same nddiess. Mrs. Martha C.

Morris After an illness of" live dajs, Mis. Mnrtha Canity Moirls, widow of l.llis- fon Perot Morris, died late on Saturday at her home, (icimaiitowu avenue, where she nail lived lor moie than halt a century, 'I lie House was known as one ot the most historic mansions in (iciiiiantovvu, having vat one time been the residence of fien- feral Washington, was taken Biek soon ntter ner tetuin iiom tai-r summer homo at Sea flirt. X. ,7. She is survived by two children, Mar- fc'Intt CI.

Morris and Miss lllunbeth C. (Morris, both of whom weie with her ivhen she mi-cd nway. Her husband. Amc of (icrmantown's most prominent eitkens, died live years ago, her hi other. Yllllani Mairiott Canby, In 1SIIH, and her sister, Miss Antin T.

Canby, in lOlT. nivvajs cook particular pride in keeping the iuteiior of her house as ucuny us iiussiuie iikc ii Was in Coloninl times, when the antique furniture, painting and bric-a-brac 'served as a background fur General Wathlngton. David G. Duffleld Aitnaientl.v well nftcr he enjnjed hearty dinner jestcrdaj-, David (1. Dnf.

field, scYentv-four jeai.s old, a retired druggist, "of Wilmington, was taken suddenly ill and died befoic medical aid could bo summoned to the home; nt his son, 10 Locust Wcstmont. Coroner Pratt, of Cnindeu, issued a certificate of death from acute indigestion, Mrs. Samuel Miller, forty-five sears rildi'of 221 I 'en street, died jesterday 1 11111.. Pi HPOlliVJ. 14tlV III Itmden tiom vvasnington oniy two veeus ago, Walter Dixon Weaver Charlottes Mo, Nov.

Walter ixon Weaver, electrical cnclnccr and nembcr of the first Cirocly relief exnedl- toiuulcd bitciueniy ycsiemay at nis nonie mm. Tin was horn nt (Irceusburir. 1R57. was nvErnduato of the Naval rademy and formerly was editor of -MP U8sfiM Electrical ivorm. TEMPLE WINDOW GVEN ROOSEVELT Memorial in Konosetli Israel, Portraying Life of Elijah, Dedicated With Ceremony COLONEL CALLED PROPHETi Temple Keneseth Isiail, llronil stiett above Columbia nvrnue.

Is attrneting interest today berause of the new Theodore lloosewlt memorliil window which was dedicated yesterdaj with an impressive ceremony, in whhh a number of men of national pioinliiencc took part. Colonel Hoospxclt was deeribed as a man who had become one of the "immortals." The window, a superb pioductlon of Kngllsh antique glass, reminiscent of the finest windows In thiiteenth century I.URlish anil rem li calliulials, por trajs outstanding events In the life of r.lljah. the hero-piophet of Isiael, as it was nousideicd that the Teailessness and coinage to asail evil in high places of the prophet of old stamped him as the protorjpe of Itoo-cu'lt, "the gicat leader of the American 'icople. "Had Elijah been bom In our ilaj he would have beenn Hooeelt; had lloosovclt been horn, in Ahab dny he would hae been nn Elijah," It.ibbi Joseph Kratiskopf in his address of consecration told the huge eongieg.i-tion., "Immottiil," S.ijs Stiaus In similar vein, Oseir Stitiui, of New Yoik, wlio was a incinber of lloosewlt'N c.lbinet, told the audience that "Hooscelt has taken his pluee among the inmiortnls." Captain Kerinil lloosevcll. son of the (former Picsldent.

spoke brielh nt the conclusion of the pingram, thnuklng llnbbl Kiauskopf and the Temple congregation In behalf of his fninil. The Itonscvclt window was designed by I'elith Uicrsoii, a pupil of Miss Violet Oakley, and was cteciitcil by the aitist and tho D'Asceno stm'Jos', using many small pieces of glass, a jewel -like effect has been obtained, which makes the window a notable cein-tiibiitiim to the citj's nit possessions. (Jeorge Wharton Pepper delieied brief iiitrniliirtorv statement preceding the tun citing. "We call it a memniinl," Mr. Pepper said, "but in stiietness his memoiiai is the light that will shine tin ouch this window into our heaits.

It will sjmbolize his energy, his ycal, his'passionate love of justice, his defiance of eil and his tttist in (rod Pepper recited a passage tiom Ilunj an's "Pilgrim's Progress," (e-scriplic of the leception with ti limpets of "Vnliaut-for-Truth" in the woild bejond. "Mj fiiends," he continued, "jou and I cm hear those trumpets of jo -fill welcome to Theodore ItooM'clt. To jou and me thej should be call to opportunity, and toinpelling summons to unsellish Let the Hag be dinpped and the window disclosed." Whereupon large American banner which (ouceuled the memorial window in the north wait of the synagogue slowly descended, while a bugle sounded "taps" in the silent auditorium. Likened to Klljab "In the widening breach between mil political deinocuici and our social life, Theodoie Itoosevelt became the leader of the movement to check these evil tendencies and establish a linger measure of social justice," Oscar Stiaus told the audience. "He said again and again that this countrj will not be a good place or nnj of us to live in unless it i a B30" P'uce lor all ot us to live in.

He contended that opeitj lights be i long io niiin, ami nut man to piopeitj. Hi' was alwajs the fiiend of orgnuiul labor, but the lirst to lebuke it when or-gauied labor overstepped its lights He was the most fundamentally bioiul, tuleiaut, catholic-spiiited man it has been niv privilege to meet." In his consec uition acldicss Itabbi Krauskopf told of Ins delight at eliwcov-eiing that the aitist, without any pioiuptiiig fiom him. had hosen "Lli-jah" ns the subject ot the Itoosevelt indow "One could almost In- tempted to believe that" the deathless piophet of isinel of old had suffered himself to bo reincarnated in our own dnvs in the foini of Theodoie Itoosevelt," he said. "How muuj times in our own claj's was not itoosevelt called hy the i oiiscienc "ists and combines as Llijah had been cnlled bj the uiisci minions kin; of his cLi.v, 'tlic troubler of his only to tliug back, as the prophet had done, the coiiiitcichaige, 'It is jc who trouble the piople, it is je who ale theii enemj It is je who denj them justice, who violate their lights, who lob them of theii Kiibstanie, who make slaves and vassals of them Like Lli-jah. he knew no fear.

"Had he lived hi ancient dujs be would have been included among the gods. Had he lived lu medieval times lie would have been included among the saints of heaveu. Having lived in our dujs we may keep him with us hcie on earth, where we have need of him, especially at the present time." TELL EPIDEMIC'S TOLL One Per Cent of World's Population Died of "Flu" The iiitlueura epidemic last )cnr killed one per Cent of the woild's pop illation, or prisons. This statement is made in a paper presented to the Amer.lcaii Public Health Association, in New Oilcans, prepaied from estimates of Doctors I'rankel and Dublin, of the Life Insiiiiince Coiupunj The authors of the paper asseited that the epidemic wns a gicnter disease than the world war, mid that no peison.cau estimate its futiue effects icguriliug dc-i leased Mi th rate, lowered vitality nud decreased numbers ot workers, A ic-turn of the epidemic this )ear is not anticipated, Cut Off Four Fingers When he plunged his right hand against the edge of a big butcher knife in the kitchen of hisbome last night, (leorge It. Stocks, 2917 Oakdale stieet, cut four fingers off as nicely as though the job had been clone by a suigcon.

"Like a dip in the Fountain of Youth," said a member of the Collins Institute after his first experience of our system. Let us give you a personal 'demonstration. COLLINS INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CULTUItE W. COHNl'Il Or ANI WAUU-'T ACTIVE WORKERS IN REll CROSS ROLLCALL DRIVE JKl NS' 1 JJPY' Leer a-stf M'Jk Mr' HENRY Mrs. GEOEGE Mrs THONA'S iftS C.

DOYE B. EVANS-. POTTED dr; WTlF. OS' DEMOCRATS TO SAVE CITY, SAYS WESCOTT Party's Mayoralty. Candidate Declares It Will Repeat National Record in Phila.

Thut the Diniociatic parH cciituall. be called on to soltc will th destinies of Philadelphia was the pie diction made In llauj U. Wescott, Demociatic lamlidiitc for jes teidaj nfteinoon at mi Ming in the rooms of the Thomas A. Itjan cintion, Spiutc street. "Our p.utj will jet save eflile.

inr-inpt and contented Philadelphia," abseiled the caiidiihiti He said that, as it solwd the na tinnal pioblems and shouhlciccl national bin ileus, so will it icscue this citj. polillcillr. from the liepublie.in Itefeiilug to l'lankliu A. Smith, his puitj's iiimlldiite tor sherift. Mr.

Wescott leiternted stntenienls thai he hail lcipiesti'd hJmith to get off the Chnitel pmtj ticket, on which he is also a candidate for slim iff. William Moonej pie-ided al the inciting, whiih was an enthusiastic one. Other spc.ikcis weie IMgar W. Lank, for cmrntv lommivsiouei. and II.

Iiioiide, candidate, for let older of deeds ACCUSES SPEAKER i might after a i hiise of social sipi.tres, "You're a Grafter," Armenian Callsisuin mleLing after polii had liml live at Lecture in West Branch llim Mis. ltiiiui ciniaico told detectives liLiiig exception to Mntcimnts of llr. I as nMt iKlt William I LUis. who lcctuied on 1 'i loc 1, In the tvv en unilei in "This Tiniibled Win Id of Ouis" nt theliest Thev i.illed linn out to the pouli. West P.ianch Y.

A 1'iftv-sic- said, nml an inguinuit ovci iiTmum ond and S.iiisoin stieels. vestcid.iv aft-einonii, nil Aliuenuiu in the iiudieme jelled, "You'ic a gi.ittei "Take that back called Dm tin Litis and matteis looked serious lor a moment. Puither aigunicnt was avoided bj the mlei ventiou of Dr. .1. licit), who piesiihil Later a note using Doctor LUis of being "pm-Turk" foiiild its wav to the stage it wnsj signed bj A 1) llaropian un meniaii.

r. PROTEST NEAR-BEER 1 Say Business Is Hindered by Dealers Who Pay No License I Liquor dealeis in Hie eitv ale eon I sideling piotesling against the sale of i.cni-bier, containing less than one-half I of one per cent alcohol, bv pel sons other than hohleis of liquor license's under the ltiooks high license law. Thcii own sales now icstriited to this sort ot bevtiage. liquor dealers aie complaining of tin competition. Theie will be a meeting of Ihe exeintlve committee of the Philadelphia Itetnil Liquor Ih'alers' Assiiciatlou tliis afteiiuliiu, but the matter of a piotest will not be discussed at this nn etuig.

Salvationists Hold Revival Luvo) William T. Williams, the Salvation Ann) evangelist fiom the ticnehes, who jolnid the ami) to go to rinnie with tin Anieiicaii Ktpe-dlliouai) fitiics. will conduct revival services this vvnk at Kensington avenue HBlBHC3K3HCaEICaE3'a3E3D Save $2 to $4 on Your Next 0 Pair of Shoes! 0 Each Pair -Is Priced $2.00 lo 0 $1.00 Below Other Stores. No catch to it! HeieV why Downstairs location 0 liip saving in rent! 89 Low overhead an- other big saving; Our low prices are the flJoMJiKVfaOi Store "Our Ace" Dark Ton or Black Calf, $7l 18 1FIM (Owl' KM HIM 31 DM 33 MM EH HP mmrwmgm Mrs. HENRY BR1NTON COXE i "al WIFE SEES SLAYERS SLASH MAN'S THROAT Alleged Murderers of North Fair-hill Street Resident Caught After Chase While his wife watched, too flight iid to aid him.

fatal injuries weie inllieted last night on Nlihohis P.ianil-oniaiiii. North Pairhill street. Tlie man's tluo.it was slashed as he stoml on the pouli of his home. The police incuse IIiuiv Hanks, lteese sliest near liutlei, and Dominic I)e Leiio, Oiknev stieet ne.ii Cleiulield I of killing ISiiiuiloiilarco. Itinks vves iiniiii'is organ The wife chin ceil that I Lei io sfld ileuh giasped In hiislnnils anus ami Hanks slnsliiil his tin nut Willi knife.

Mis. Ihiiiidoiii.iiici's sen ains ntdiii ted Patrolineu and Lckeit. of tlic lmautowu avenue and LMoiiiiug sticet station The) taught Ii.iuks Lighlh stieet and Due avenue De Lerin was nirestiil later at his home. The" wounded until was tnkui to the Samaiitan llnspitiil while he dinl 11 o'clock last nighl His alleged sni)iis win he ait.iigui-ii tocl.iv in len- Four Stowawas Arrive 1'oiir stownwavs, tjnu ilnluiing lo lie Aiiieiiian citi.cus nml the fnuitli an i em lied this pint vistinlii) fiom Livernool on the i nn ship -iialudii. The stovviivva)svveie found a few cl.ivs aim the vessel lelt poit.

Italeigh Dunn and I Jti-cll Me-Ardle esmjied as mhui as tile vessel leached the dock, but llelficd Ilnnsen. the ulleii, and Soiilnis Ilnnsen. who claimed to) he a citi.eu wiie pi evented fiom leaving the ns-i I Thev held at the imniigi.itiou -tation at (lloucester. THE ROSEWBACM GALLERIES 1320 Walnut Street NEW ENGLAND EOOK RUGS Quaint Conventional and Floral Designs, Made Without a Loom By Pulling the Fabrics Thru the Warp With a Hooh Just as in Colonial Days, These Are Made in the Homes in New Enjjlaiulr Many Rugs More Than One Hundred Years Old JTT UWMs CKwtu'Amtoatlnekp i3 IMi-Wiit ignffl-j'fc I Nee cJ. KEA.ESLEY MITCHELL, 3rd K.

OF C. OPEN DRIVE FOR CLUBHOUSE FUND All Local Councils in Thirty-Day Campaign' for Central Headquarters Kinglits of Columbus toihi) lUinpuign with a ccn-liilihoilsi" as the goal All the loiiuiiis in p.ntii ipatiug in the lor funds. An athletic carnival and smoker will be In hi tonight lit flic National Athletic Club Llevcnlh mid (iithnrin. stiiets Other enteitninments me being aiianccil and inembeis of the or-dei aic being cnnvassid tor suhsinp tinns the ieiitr.il minimise liioieet was planned mine than thiee vents ago, but the war pievchtcd a campaign leu fluids The letlUll of niiliu rttlls un in -hem win' weie in seiviic and tlie'ex- p.instnti iiiusi'ii dj new ineiiiijeisiiip iniiipilgii leadeis saj now uiiikt" cililinl In it Iqiiartem liup uitive hile no cletinite nuioiiiit set fni the cnnili.ligii. it I has been I evpec teil that s.o.-,n (Km will be iiiised All knighls ate expected to lontiibute a in 1 1 i urn of Ilunilinls or mem be is have pl'slged that sum mouth!) ful one teal II is hilieviil that vvoik mi the new clubhouse i an be stalled befoic Chiist- ma-vet A site has not been deiiiled upon RENEW CONSTRUCTION Work on Electric Company's Waterside Station Stopped During War A lone ol workmen this morning stinted wolk mi the Inundations the Delawinc vvateN side' station of the Philadelphia Llccliu- Co, i mi stiiution of which was disioiitiuiitd dm lug Ihe war Plans for the plant spieif) thai it must generate 2I0.IKIU lioisepnvver.

The pl.ilil will siiijj i in lent to Kcn-singlon iii.iiiut.iMiuliig planls iind will be loiiileil on an cight-ticie plot be tween I'enn Tieiitv Park mid Pnlnier sticet, iilong the Dilawme livei. FRENCH WOMAN TO SPEAK Mile. d'Aublgne to Lecture at College Club Tea Mile luliii Mcile d'Aublgne. daugh-U lei of the I'n uili liistni in ii will spiak, nt the College Club ti.i Ibis ufteiiioon nt o'i loi d'Aubigli" who did a gnat deal of leliel woil. dining Ihe war, will (ell in Lugllsh of isit to tin Lib- i enited Itegions.

Le Caiubie-ds and Sl (Jiienlln." The hostesses al the let aic Mis i Allan Calveit. l.aiitu (i, Ilibbs, Mis I'rnnk V. Melvin and Mm. Kuli eit Clothiel I i i.n; i thi ia tmiwiE dmc ANNUALREDCROSS ROLLCALL BEGINS Thousands of Workers Canvass City for Funds for Relief Society HOME SERVICE FEATURES Itnl Ciosn lollcall is on and thou-i smiiN of winkers al- todin starling the 1 cm oilmen! of members for the South I'listi'in Chnpter. The ciU is bilehtelieil 1p lted Cinss uiiifolins.

plmaids. liosl-eis mid banners telling thnt "service in pence anil war oi, in, nnu or Ameiiian tieople Is Itie purpose of the AiimP'iin lied I One of the most liupoiiiinr nepaii tneiils of Kid Cross woil, toilitv Is tne home service section. Walnut sticet There has been no clccicisc" in lis wink siine the war and it has nnsweied the calls foi aid from more than '-'HI pel sous ilnil). The home set vice section." said Mis. Milton Stein, one of the leadeis.

"Is not it Inn liable organisation It is as much an ngiiie.v of Ameiiian p.t-ttiotisin as the government itself In itiutiuuiuK its wink fl is simph cni ciiig out Us wiiitiine obligiitions and its pioginni of being an elder biother to nil seivue men. It obtains for them evi'iv possible advantage and helps tlirn'i liml their families in tune of sufferings." Infoi mat ion. casual and psjihbitiic ileiiaitinenls ate the busiisl these dajs. The casual, who Is the homeless mall without datives or friends, is into of the gienti'st pioblems There sue men who ask for fiaiispmtatiun to cities where jobs nri' awaiting tlii'in. or while some one will befiienil them, and theie me others who want then government compensation.

Theie ni the' psjehlntrie i uses, men whose nerves me all uiistiung anil whose mental condition i unsettled; tliete hip mothers in wives still seeking infoi motion nboiil their seiviee nu'ii and there aie otheis left without menus of siippml who aie given niel ltv home servie e. "Tlieic is I'veij ljp' iniaginab'e." said Mis, Kteiu "Theie was one man. peihnps thill) one jcirs old. who iiskcd I us for tiiiiispoitiitiiin to Coal Vallev. Pa where he sulci he could get a i'ih as coal minei.

He hud enlisted in San liaucisio in veiled two and his discharge pnpcis wiie ni.iiked 'plljsirul ilis.lbilltj He was le tin Mill to tell what the ilNnliilitv was but insisted, and learnnl he was tubeiculiii lie viiiil the ginei niui lit didn't owe him aiijtliing he ilnlu waul nut riimpeiisiitioii. He ns wanted a lob. He said lie was all light now. iinvwii). Itut we ncisnntli'il hiiu 111 Io he cMiiiiincd.

was still tubniu I Ions knew mining would be tin wen thing he could do so we obfinu gmiiiuniiit conipensiitnm for him amr I lie is now taking vocation tl tiaiuiiig anil i iniglit) luippj The home sei s( Unn has pioviibd Intiiin fin thoiis.iuils of men and women, sumMi'iiei long distances, most ottiu mil) it slnn av. And two-thuds of tlie moiiev loaned his bun THIS IS ALL SOULS' DAY I Masses Will De Offered for Those Who Have Died All Souls' Ihl. inioii whiih tin Catholic Chilli icuieuibeis the pinph who have died, will be nb seiveil tnilav 'I his teast falls on vemhei 2. but on count of its tiling on Sunihiv Ibis tlic fmst luis been tiaiisfciieil to todnv Lneh pliest is allowed bv spuial ills pensntioii of the pope to otlci up thiee masses to'lav, the onlv other feiist on whiih thill cm be done being 1st mas. $0- cvotci Sllvci'sniillia Bracelet Wat JlxcJusi'vo SjaJCs yen-vec ivili Di'ainojcs' of Superb Qucditj' dressed is merely a matter of knowing where to buy your Clothes.

if Tlic Liistomaiv. perplexities incident to selection of desirable fabric, proper "style, and an appiopriatc model aic recl'iccd t.t a minimum 'f wuir choke of a i loll-'-r is based on good judgment. Fall and ll'iufci- Suits are priced $30 to $hO Full-weight Overcoats, $30 lo $60 IJ'infer Overcoats. $.10 to $80 JACOB REED'S SONS M24-I426 CfresttmuiItSlhrcelc Sends Message of Praise to Yard President as He Loaves for Home MR. BRUSH REPLIES Matthew (' Itinsh, picsldent of the Ameiii'iiu International Shipbuilding Corporation, has recelied a letter front Albert king of the expiessini: ttie rojal admiration of the splendid work done nt Hog Island, whiih he was iililo to olicne at tirst-liaml iluring Ills xsjt Philadelphia While at the Hoc Island shipjaid where he chiistened the iirmv turns port Caiitignj.

the king was iimayed with activities of the world's largest shipbuilding plant and commented especially iipnn Hie I'velli'iit esprit de coips of the einplnves of the shipbuilding loiupanv When his tour eatiied linn to Washington nftcr bis lojnl ie-ci'ptioil III Phi'nilelphlii. the king dill in. I foigel his visit to the shipjind and when the tinnspoit (lectlge Wnsliingtiiti was about to sail fiom Poitsmoutli, Vn he instituted his suietarv. L. Cii'iard, to tin wind the following lues-uige to Mi lliush "llefole leaving I lie Clllted States the king of the Ilelgiinis directed me to cpiess once iimifTUi his In half to jon.

voiir otneinls and workmen his nilnilra tlon fin the splendid wink done at the ling Island shipjind Tin instt in linns to bis ccictni) to send the message weie given onlv a few minutes belore the (ieoige Wushington strittd on its vovnge To Centralize War Work field "Ihees of the I'm can of War Uisk liisurilii the IVdeinl P.oard foi Vointlomil IMuiiition. Ihe Public Hi alth Seiviie and the lted Cross in this city nil' to lie liiought under one loot, in -lording to nn announcement jesteidav li the liiiieni of Wtir-K'sl: liisiiiunie I.iMwit I Ulnnite tuit JlnUts II nl KooN dooil uml (iuoiI Itoof-i (trr NO REPAIRS NO RE-PA1NTING 1'ii'kpil hi 5-(tillfln A No 10, nml Co 4illm Dnim TPsAD t'tAK Uniilil (licniltal Ccnirctf llardenrr rrnlonffH tlie Ufp of Cimcrete lloor rrnrnW Dtiistlne n.ich Mmlilncri, MerlitiiLHe. Men Ch Dlstribiilurs and Pendant ches Well- KINGO A OS HOG Absolute Poof ProieeiicM -HI 1 Don't Buy in a Hurry! I Better look at other stores before you buy your Suit or Overcoat from us. You may think this strange advice, but we mean it. $1 We like to have our customers feel sure they are doing the best possible thing when they deal with us.

Then they can talk about us to their friends. We believe we sell more clothes through personal recommendation than we do through the newspapers. I Every day people tell us they don't see any Clothes like ours. 1 $35 good-looking brown flannel Suits with smartness in every line. $35 Oxford gray two button le breasted sack Suits that certainly are in the money.

$40 a wide selection of browns, grays, blues in fashionable and conservative models. At $25, oxford gray Overcoats, button through fronts, loose comfortable 1 i p-o warm without weight, that we couldn't replace today to sell for a third more. CJ Overcoats, single breasted and double breasted, velvet collars and cloth collars; big roomy Ulsters, smart Ulsterettes conservative Chesterfields $35, $40, $45 to $85. Time you had yours! Perry Co. B.

16th Chestnut Sts. a a f.n v. Tl Jj-S, i.

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