Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-27
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES 4
cky Letter Touching The ahngfon Dongs OF PcOralit
Familiar y PhiIadeLphians 5M
BY !. Hampton Moore

and France rs familarly as II he were Y
norm of the nobility, was empha sized ~ h
the recent appearance here Of c. Oscar
BeasleN as "A spokesman for the Unitodt$
Business Mems Association in the COM
troversy between the Philadelphia RAPID A
Transit Company and its subsidiaries.
Beasey and Beck in their earlier days
were students of Alexander and Caesar.A<
and were star performers at various liter
AIRY society meetings where they debated
such momcntous questions as "Resolved
That Shakespeare greater poet
than Homer" or Resolved. That VA "a
poleons military genius exceeded that Of (,
Hannibal"
Becks rise since those early debating
society days has been exceptional and
rumor has it that his removal to New
York. where he has enjoyed extensive
| corporation practice, has been extremely
lucrative Beasley's success has been con.
fined to his Philadelphia practice, but like
Beck he still spouts Shakespeare and the
major poets.
One cannot very we'll contemplate Beck's
graduation from the routine of the Phila-
dclpha courts without recalling the name
Of William +. IIarrity. with whom he was
| associated before the public began to recoe. B
nize him orator. Harrity was
booster for Beck. as was the late John Hag.
gard, who probably never had a prouder
moment than when he learned that Beck
was to appear upon the same platform with
W. Bourke Cochran.
DENNSYLNANIA historians may take
Il ID.
of Lcwisburg. is on the job. The hayseeds
who seek to dstort the fact about the Key.
tone State do not get away with 1t IL the
| Union Snyder Fulton Franklin Perry
Juniata Mifflin Huntingdon statesman
| knows himself. M
II want to correct some mistatements
| made in another body about James
| Buchanan" said Focht recently in a short
| address to the House.
you can't do it," said Speaker Clark
| Its against the rules to quote a Sefa-
| tor, or to refer to the Senate
| Then | won't do it," retorted the Com
gresham, " | will simply state that what
somebody said about James Buchanan Is
not So
Focht has been in Washington long n
keeps close tabs on the Seventeenth Dis
| trict at the same time. a compilation Of
the primary vote up there shows that
Focht won in 1918 by majority of 1852.
| whereas in 1916 he had only 946. "a
| \ line or two about couple of lumber-
| men. They are typical of other lines and
| other lumbermen who are looking to Wash
| ingtou for relief Edward J.. Henson. OF
| North Delaware avenue, is one Of the big.
| ecst operators in the East. Recently he
| has extended his plant to the riverfront 1t
Hog Island. In answer to "a questionnaire
Of the National Federation of Building In
! dustries, he talked plainly about the tranr-
| portalion hold-up on lumber shipments. cs-
| pecially from the South. and advocdred
! the immediate utilization of the inside
waterways. improved widened and deep
,ned to moe: nodefn demands.
W. G.. Perce, of Bristol, is another ac.
| tive lumberman who has been studying the
! transportation problem at close range. asr,
| Pefcc produces correspondence from
southern dealers proclamine the situation
as to shipments the worst they have
| been up against for years" ''Of course
the situation must he relieved some time"
says one Of the writer's. "as the Govern-
mcnt cannot collect taxes from firms that
cannot operate their business in q normal
way" And the Ways and Means Com
uuttoc n"M looking for unusual sums in
taxes realizes that there is something in
that statement.