Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-24
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEdRs
Senceeky Letter Touching the Washington Doings OF Persona
Familiar o Philndelphians
By ]. Hampton Moore
Of the Franco.American drive ct ~
Kaiser should be erected there.

Of the Franco.American drive Ct sho1
Kaiser should be erected there. Jsa
TAMES r. MANN, the Republican H0uSog
- leader. conceded by his coileaKut3 ~
be the best parliamentarian of his tifla,
broke down because he tried to do t6os
much. He did not encourage the diBtlE
button of the work. but assumed charge;
personally of the smallest details. For this /
devotion to what he believed to be hi6 4
duty, he was sometimes called The Great
Comma Hunter" He is now recuperAk. Z
ing at his Chicago farm" for "Jimsa
Mann is a horticulturist as well as les1S.
lator, and reports are favorable to his early
return to Washington.
Secretary McAdoo is another glutton f6r
hard work. He has more responsibility
just now than any one man ought 70 ~
called upon to sustain. When he undegs
took the management of the railroads, In
addition to his many other duties, the W1te@
acres predicted that he would break down.
The Secretary, unlike Mann, replied that
he did not do all the work himself; that
he selected able men to help him. and
relied largely upon them. On April 8 the
Secretary started the Third Liberty Loan
drive with three speeches at philadelphia.
Before midnight he jumped the Baltimofe
and Ohio train for Richmond and q toar
of the South and West. Under the strain
of constant speaking the Secretary's voice
gave way. and he has not been seen of.
icialy about the Capitol since. The work
of the departments, of course. has been
going on, but Mr.. Loffingwell, Of New
York. has been in immediate charge As
the Treasury. and the railroad chiefs have
been in direct charge of the railroads.
Another big man who promises to do
too much If he doesn't distribute his work,
is Claude kitchin the Democratic House
leader, who has charge of the $S, ,000, ,000. 900
tax bill. AS a floor leader Kitchin. like
Oscar Underwood, is wise in letting "the
boys do the work." but up to date Kitchin
has kept the details of the revenue bill
pretty much under his own hat. The t6b
is a big one-the biggest of its kind In
the history of the world-and Kitchin ~
alizes it and feels the responsibility. The
fierce criticism to which he has been sub.
jected has driven him to read nearly evefy.
thing that has been printed on the sub
Iecl OF taNatlOn, ana 10 prepare nlI04Ul6
like an eight.day clock for any antakonifk
that comes his way. In the test of ~
durance he has youth. dash and gooG
health on his side. and being pronouneo
Baptist, with large and inter6H14
family. burns his midnight oil at lone
DOSTMASTER-GEN BURLE.
L SON does not take all the credit N0r
the stoppage of the pneumatic tube Servte6.
He feels it would be grossly unfair to the
honorable chairman of the Committee N
Postoffices and Post Roads, Judge M66A,
of Tennessee IL his name were not II
cuded in the roll of fame.
In letter made public by Mr. Ayers
the Kansas member of the PostcAI06
Committee. the Postmaster General co..
graduates Judge Moon upon the nn1ll
outcome Of the test with the pneuniatic
tube incubus" He then proceeds TO divide
the honors by telling the chairman that
to him, more than any other persc1.
the postal establishment is indebted for
the fact that we are al last, and for al
time, free from this unnecessary and ia
justifable burden"
So there you have the Texas-Tennesaee
Kansas giant standing triumphant ovek
the PROSTATE tubes that undertook to ~
lieve our traffic congestion and carry IN.
derground the first-class mail Of grods
cities like New York, Philadelphia Chioa6A
Boston and st. Louis. "a