Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-02
WHAT A CONGRESSMAN SEES
Semiueehy Letter Touching on the Washington Doings of Personalte.
Familiar to PhHadelphians
By J. Hampton Moore

very little the propagandists have said
against liquor that is not now said by the
Anti-Tobacco League against tobacco. Con.
gress is called upon to arise and smite the
tobacco evil. The hackers of this new
crusade are not conspicuous by name or
locality. They are sufficiently well forti-
fled with funds, however, to print circulars
and pay postage.
s.TNHE Crown-Prince" talk that was
l. tackled on to Secretary McAdoo for
quite a while in the earlier stages of his
official career has almost completely sub
sided, The Secretary of the Treasury has
proved himself to be so well able to stand
on his own feet and is admittedly so re.
sourceful and industrious that few men,
even in political life, care to underestimate
him. While Mr.. McAdoo declares that he
is out Of politics and attending strictly to
the great public services intrusted to his
care. politicians who do not agree with
him assume to see in many of his public
moves the work of a master hand. They
say II he was inclined to play politics or
had an eye to the succession at the White
House, he would be dangerous to reckon
with. There is another man in Wash.
ingtpn who has been obliged to endure &C.
casional references to his father-in-law
but, like Mr.. McAdoo, he has got along
fairly well in public esteemy and among
those with whom he comes directly in con-
tact. If Nicholas Longworth, of Ohio, who
married Alice Roosevelt, had been suscepti-
hJn a., aattarxy ~, loJ hna,, 1oaJ;.- A.. a..
manly qualities, he would not occupy the
high position in the House Of Representa-
tives that he does today. Like McAdoo,
the son-in-law of the President, Longworth,
the sonin-law of Theodore Roosevelt, has
so conducted himself in public life as to
command respect. Longworth is well liked
on both sides OF the House, and receives
marked attention whenever he speaks. As
a member of the Ways and Means Com.
mittee he stands for big things in a broad.
minded way and generally knows what he
is talking about. The Secretary and the
Congressman are good friends, and do not
permit politics to interfere with their mu.
tual desire to win the war.
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l. an all.the-year affair for many of the
members, is made more exacting because
of the war. When the department began
to offer places to clerks and stenographers
at war prices. the congressional offices
suffered heavy losses. Then the draft came
along and lots OF the congressional Office
assistants were taken for war service. Sen.
ators and Congressman felt the drain, and
scurried around for help. Some of them
drew upon members of their own families
to fill the breach. Now comes the second
draft and with it further inroads upon the
clerical forces in the Senate and House
office buildings. Senator Penrose was among
those hit. His secretary, Leighton C. Tay.
lor, successor to the late Colonel Wesley
r. Andrews, has gone into the service at
the point of embarkation. So has +. III.
Blackford, secretary to Congressman Nc.
Fadden. Congressman Vare's secretary,
Lee Ellmaker. went into the radio school.
naval reserve, some time ago,