Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-06

being student Of public affairs, will
undoubtedly liberalize the campaign in
Massachusetts. While here he mingled
with that brilliant group which in
cluded Payne, of New York; Dalzell, of
Pennsylvania. and Boutelle. of Illinois.
Weeks was also a member of Congress
during the later years of McCall's long
service. BY far the closest friend
amongst the Governors colleagues. how
ever, was the late Marlin T. Olmsted,
of Harrisburg. Mccall and Omsted
were cronies. They dined together. vis
tied each other and made trips together.
Their literary and legislative tasks and
inclinations were very much alike. When
! Omsted planted a pin-oak on the Cap
itol grounds in February, 1919 Mccall
helped to make up the little group of
Pennsylvanians who were asked to wit
ness the incident. One of these was
Congressman Griest. of Lancaster the
home Of Thaddeus Stevens. Mccall was
a student of Stevens. the author, in fact.
of the biography of that great Penn
| sylvanian in the American Statesmen
! Series.
! INCREASE of shipping OH the Pacific
| i coast. while the submarine menace
! tends to halt our commercial transac-
tions along the Atlantic seaboard, serves
to draw attention to the steady hold
which foreign countries like Great Brit
ain are maintaining on their, commercial
business during the war. Robert Hope
we'll Hepburn, a Philadelphian, who is
interested in the development OF tung
stem ore in Bolivia tells the war boards
of the great handicap United States citi-
zens suffer in South America in the mat
ter of shipping and finance. The chem
ical interests are also concerned over
the situation II. X. Mulford. who fig
ures in the Philadelphia Drug Exchange
and the Chamber of Commerce and who
Is one of our .best-posted men on for
eign trade, makes i known to the
shipping board that unless we increase
our activities in South America The re-
suit may be unfavorable to this country.
Shipments to South America, it Is sug-
gested. are going forward regularly from
England and France, while shipments
from this country are being held up.
, This problem of export trade. especially
with South America, has been smolder-
ing since the commencement of opera
tions on the Panama Canal Evidently
, some of our Philadelphia business men
,, believe we have not yet made such in
i roads upon the South American trade
, as our enterprise in the construction OF
: the isthman canal would warrant
HNHE women of THE Lighthouse a
I l. community enterprise at Front street
and Lehigh avenue. see good deal OF
life and help to make it better The
recreation work that Is done under the
auspices of the board of directors. head
ed by Mrs. Robert r. P Bradford. is
well understood in Kensington. In the
earlier stages of the work when Presi'
, dent Wilson was Governor of New Jer'
sey. the Wilson girls occasionally len
hand. The soldiers wife and mothcl
=, as we'll as the soldier himself, now come
, in for large share of Lighthouse at
y tention This starts inquiries in Wash
ington which find lodgment in the Wa,
:, Risk Insurance Bureau. where the bene
. fetal affairs of the soldiers and their de
pendents are being ironed out. To thu
. War Risk Bureau. as with the old Pen
sion Bureau, the interests of the soldier:
> and sailors directly appeal. The ro
mances and tragedies Of human life arr
s. necessarily interviewer with its work
= Case No. |: A mother in Philadelphia
l. lost a son in an explosion upon wa
8 vessel. Does her allowance stop becaus
T. she is tied up in marriage to a WORTHLESS
: husband who deserted her years ago
l. War Risk says. No. Case No. 2: Is tn
IS mother. in Ireland, of an American sold
n dier in France, receiving remittance
t from Washington? War Risk looks vi
r. the records, finds the mails have mis-
n carried and now answers. Yes. Case NJ
/ 3: Can a soldier in the trenches b
e married by proxy to his fiancee in Phil
e adelphia? Decision pending These ar
samples of inquiries put up to the Ris
Bureau by the thousand,
is DR. CHARLES b. PENROSE. pres
IS u dent of the board OF game commits
II hioners of Pennsylvania, Is one of thos
y. backing up the scheme to widen tn
d scope of the National Museum. Th
II doctor speaks of the Royal College G
Ia Surgeons in London. with which he
II familiar, and also brings to bear tn
It public value of the Geological Garde
= in Philadelphia. where a museum of con
n parative pathology was started som
l. years ago. DR.. w. w. Keen. who wa
n. major in the Civil War. regards tn
id medical library of the surgeon gener;
& of the army which Is stored in tn
is museum, as a veritable treasure hou
n of information" Martha Tracy. dea
A. of the Womens Medical College
is Philadelphia DIR. I. Minis Hays, d
t Austin OMalley. DR.. Charles s. Pot
re and DIR. John B. Roberts are among
~ Otner HnllauelpnianS DdCkliiB UP u
ID surgeon generals program.
The present Museum is always of II
:. terest to Philadelphians visiting Wasl
~ ington. If 1t shall be enlarged
:. proposed a vast number of specimen
w. and exhibits incident to the develop
ao ment of medicine and surgery in moder
~ ~ warfare will be brought under its roo
I'd
- GENERAL SHERWOOD, OF Obi
n " chairman of the Pensions Commit
d. tee and the oldest man in the Hous
he whose stories of The Civil War new
AT fail to stir the interest of his cloa
AZ room listeners, has been exchangiI
nd horse speeches with Theodore Justice,
: the Philadelphia Park Commission.
of to a short time ago. when he had ia
be General Sherwood, who spurns the aut
o. mobile. could be seen driving his pair
a. high steppers about the streets of Was
hit ington, just as Mr. Justice might
ng observed on horseback in Fairmou
Park. The speeches of these two love
OF horsenesh deal with the history
that animal from the time of the
tai cients Both are incluined to poetic OF
-, bursts and furnish rich material I
rs Charles r.. Hamilton, of Dreka's; Jo
I'M r. Windrim, the architect, and othe
~ OF artistic temperament. who still thi
In the horse is mans best friend. And
ly passing 1t may be observed that the
,iy are two Philadelphia Congressman W
he now have their string-John r. X. SEQ
ly, who is a hunter, and Joseph McLaughi
L., 10.