Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-24
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S LETTER
Director Websters Services to the Port-Corporal Smith, Of the Columbia
Club, Satisfied With His Tihe-Thomas DeuHnis Sons in the War.
Colonel SCOTS Christmas Greetings to the Boys IN France

quent over the dark and stormy night"
succeeding the battle, when he dragged his
weary limbs into a rude log cabin on the
mountain side and threw himself down on
the rough pine floor for a four hours rest
before the battle was renewed at dawn.
ITS all true, fellow citizens" said Allen.
opening his speech in reply. Every word
my opponent has said about that dark and
stormy night is true as gospel. The gen.
eral did crawl into that rude log cabin, but
he didn't tell you that it was Private John
Allen, who now stands before you as a can
didate for Congress, who stood on guard
in the sleet and the rain and protected him
from the enemy during that precious four
hours. The general is entitled to credit for
all he suffered on that historic night. The
generals and the colonels ought to vote for
him, but you, my fellow soldiers, you brave
boys who trudged in the rain and kept
guard while the general slept-you will
vote for Private John Allen"
THOMAS DEVLIN, of the Manufacture
l. ers' Club. whose big malleable iron
factory Is at Burlington, on the upper Del
aware. had three sons to enter the service.
One of them, DR.. Raymond A. Devlin, went
over in August and is now somewhere in
Germany. He has the rank of a second
lieutenant. Another son, who is also a
physician, is at the base hospital at Camp
Gordon. A third son, Clarence, the young
est of the Devlin boys, was a mechanical
| engineer. He entered the army along with
the others, but contracted the influenza
and died. With all his business cares,
Thomas Devlin has taken his war sacrifices
| stoically and philosophically. He is one of
those solid Philadelphia types who are will.
ing ito give and take" ito live and let
live; but If he had the run of the army
as he has Of the Thomas Devlin Manufac-
turing Company, 1t is probable some pri-
yate soldiers who nave the power to COM
mand would be wearing shoulder straps.
AND now, after Congressman.at-Large
n Joe Mclaughlin introduces his resolu-
ton to free ireland and George barrow
starts the fires burning under the Kaiser
comes the Philadelphia Protestant Fedora
ton, headed by Samuel A. Wilson, Harry Il,
Macdonald, Frederick w. Crosta, Eugene
Kraft and Frederick T. Roberts, with a
protest TO Washington against the injecT
ton into the discussions of the Peace Con
ference " " of any reference to home
rule, elf-government or political freedom
for Ireland" Truly, the way of the con-
gresslonal reformer is hard. And the Con
gressman-at.L.arge had won over to the
Irish cause a large number Of his col
leagues, including Miss Jeanette Rankin
and was being backed up by the advocates
Of a Boer republic headed by Genera
Samuel Pearson, of Scranton! The Phila'
delphia protest, however, did not arrive In
time to impede the hearings which were
held by the Foreign Affairs Committee fol
the benefit of the President and the peace
DELEGATES abroad.
COLONEL WILLIAM II. SCOTT, Of thu
" j. w. c. l., which, being interpreted
means the John Wanamaker Commercial
Institute, has added TO the burdens OF Bur
Lesson by devising and mailing christmaI
greetings from their old cronIos in Phila
delphia 10 the boys Of the institute who ar
now IN France or IN the army camps. Tn