Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-21
WHAT 4 CONGRESSMAN SEES
Semiueeky Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalities
Familiar to PhiiadeLphians
BY J. Hampton Moore

tor, being serious-minded, did not feel that
lie had made so great a hit, He has a
good war record, with sons in the service,
and this adds to his serious turn of mind
a logged determination to win. Like
other Republicans i'm Washington, he feels
that a Republican House would not only
help the President to facilitate his war
programs, but that it would tend to put a
check upon waste and extravaganza
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l. comes to the Capitol occasionally, as
most of the big postmasters are required
to do in these pressing times, and, as all
good postmasters do, he avoids the dis.
cussion of politics in any form. He might
have furnished some very interesting in
formation about the Palmer Mccormick
Bonniwell imbroglio. but was careful to
refrain. Neither did he get in in time
to hear the fierce discussion over his chief,
the Postmaster General, as the alleged
arch politician" Of the Administration
1t probably would nave done him no good
to hear what was said on that line.
The Philadelphia postmaster is up
against a good many practical problems.
The elimination of the pneumatic tubes
is one of them, and it is presumed that
what is left of the tube service in the
Philadelphia postofice will soon be re-
moved to save valuable space. Other prob.
lens include the Government oversight of
the telegraph and telephone systems. Big
city postmasters will have much of the
organization of the new management
thrust upon them.
Speaking of pneumatic tubes, it may
be of interest to Philadelphians to know
tina the ."ost Office and Post Roads Com
mittee, which is strongly Burleson, is likely
to give consideration, if it has not already
lone so, to an enlarged Government
owned tube service. 1t is said that plans
for the induction of tubes of sufficient di.
ameter to enable a man to stand upright
in them are being considered for the city
of New York, and may be attempted else.
where. London has such a tube, and it is
believed to be in the mind of the Postmas-
ter General to introduce them here. They
are to be of sufficient size to carry all
classes of mail matter, including those
which the old pneumatic tubes could not
accommodate. Meanwhile, the department
is adding to the congestion in all the large
cities by an increase in the motortruck
service.
MAR subordinates many worthy move
w ments Of public-spirited men and
women and makes more difficult the hui
maaitarian work they do. A visit from
DIR. Franklin Brady and A. C. Harmer
Virdin, both of Philadelphia, seeking
Washington aid for the $500 900 fund-rais-
ing campaign of the new Roosevelt Hos
pital, illustrates this point. These gentle
men found Washington a veritable beehive,
with everybody busy and few able to
make the trip to Philadelphia to join in
the good work they are doing. Atten-
| ton might also be called to the very impor-
tant work of the Philadelphia section of
the Council of Jewish Women, of which
Mrs. Evelyn A. Margolis is president.
These ladies represent about 1900 members
who are seeking Federal aid for the educa-
ton and DIFFERENTIATION of non-English
| speaking people. Perhaps no civic work
IL more to be encouraged Just now than
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