Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-01
Washington. June 1.

washington. They are in all the de-
partments and they are crowding the
boarding houses. We have the s1-a-
year magnates, clerks and messengers
too. Every now and then Some old-time
Philadelphia newspaper man bobs up
in Government capacity. MFR. Nc
Adoo's activities have given a fine show
for publicity work. The Liberty Loan
and thrift-stamp campaigns and boost
ing Government railroad control have
engaged the services of tcever writers
and cartoonists, Just as Mr.. Hoover's
food conservation and Mr.. Davison's
Red Cross have But the engagement
of skilled newspaper men Is not con-
| fined to the departments over In Sena-
tor Frelinghuysen's office Frank Willing
Leach, of Philadelphia, more recently Of
Tuckerton, N. j., may be found up to
his ears" in secretarial work of a high
literary order. Those who remember
Frank as the right bower of that astute
Pennsylvania leader Matthew Stanley
Quay will readily understand the sig
nificance Of his attachment to the
Frelinghuysen outfit. In Senator David
Baird's Office the newspaper man Is
| again in evidence. The sturdy South
Jersey leader preferred to have one of
his old cronies here with him and finally
pitched on Upton S. Jeffreys, of Camden,
who knows the newspaper game from
start to finish, having covered New Jer-
sey happenings for the Philadelphia
| newspapers for many years. Incl
dentally 1t may be observed that Morris
Liewellyn Cooke, the Blankenburg Di-
rector of Public Works. who figures con-
siderably in the work of the council Of
national defense, is also former Phila-
delphia newspaper boy
| CRAMPS' shipyard has produced come
~ of the best lighting craft of the
| navy. But 1t can also boast of having
sent forth men who have made good
outside of Philadelphia. Harry Null.
whose school days were spent In Cam
den, and who for many years has been
| the practical directing head of the yard,
could point out n number of these.
| A few years ago, when the Cincinnati
election returns showed that Nicholas
Longworti son-in-law of Theodore
Roosevelt. had teen defeated for Con-
gress by Stanley Bowdle, it developed
| that Bowdle was a product of Cramps.
| He had gone West, studied law and made
| good at the bar. He frequently boasted
! in Congress of his shipyard origin. He
! was something of a merrymaker and
Dragged that he mad taken Longworth s
scalp. which was one way of account
| ing for the latter's brilliant pate. Long
worth tackled Bowdie for the next term.
however and succeeded. hguratvely. in
recapturing his scalp.
Now that concrete steamship con-
stsuction is beginning to figure in the
worlds affairs pd the shipping boara
is issuing orders for new ships of con-
crete hulls. another Cramps shipyard
| boy. Joseph ]. lyman. has come to the
front lyman is general manager Of
the Bethlehem Steel interests on the
! Pacific coast II was he who super!n-
tended the construction Of the steam
ship Faith, a concrete vessel. which was
successfully launched a few weeks ago
at San Francisco. lyman is said to have
won some money betting on the speed
the Faith would make. She Is credited
with having attained thirteen miles an
hour on her trial trip.
CyOME criticism of an alleged execu-
y tive order transferring a wealthy
Young newspaper man named Scripps
from Glass | to Glass as contrary to
the spirit of the draft law. which con-
templated no exemptions of the rich or
poor, recalls the incident of Kingdom
Gould, who entered the service as a
private at Camp Dix and who has be.
come a sergeant. The folks arouno
Toms River and Lakewood were watch
ing this case closely to see II any ia
yoritism was shown and we're gratified
at the spirit displayed by young Gould,
who yielded up the delightful surround
ings Of Georgian Court at Lakewood to
do his bit" in soldiers tent. It illus
trates the true spirit OF the American
bow SUCH for instance, as was displayed
by Anthony J. Drexel Biddie. who put
aside the trappings Of the millionaire TO,
chance to serve his country in the
marine corps.
Not long since Tony Biddle. news
pc per reporter publisher amateur pu-
gilist society leader and founder of the
Biddle Bible classes. now advanced to
| the rank of captain was coming home
from Port Royal fresh from a meeting
of marines who had elected one Edwin
Denby, of Detroit, a sergeant in his
company And who was Denby' In
| the Sixty-hre. Congress Edwin DENLY,
son Of Charles DENLY. former minister to
| China, was an active member, Even Uncle
Joe" Cannon said Of him there was
presidential timber In the statcsmanlike
| Detroiter When war was declared
Denby, no longer a member Of Con-
gress, but the president of one or two
automobile companies end reputed a
millionaire, said good-by to his family.
took a lingering glance at his handsome
home in Detroit. walked down the street
to the first recruiting station he could
find and enlisted as a marine.
DENLY was big bodied and past forty,
| fve, but that made no difference. He
went along with the remainder OF the
boys and served as private In the
various camps to which he was assigned
until the boys. with whom he had be-
come a favorite. moved him up a peg
or two. There are lots of poor men in
the service. but the Could Biddle- e-Denby
combination speaks we'll for the patriot
ism Of those whose walks In life have
been more prosperous and agreeable
A LOT OF big names have been grouped
"A together in the general administra-
tive council of what is known as the Amer
lean Association for Labor Legislation.
This body, arguing for the vocational re-
habilitation of crippled war veterans
| and suggesting that there are 100 900
crippled industrial workers in the United
States in need of suitable skilled occu-
hpations. includes among It's Phila-
delphia members William Draper Lewis,
j. Byron Deacon. John A. voil and
Simon N. Patten. 1t Is the same kind
of work for which a number of Phila-
deiphia women. including Mrs. John c.
Groome and Mrs. Francis d. Lewis, have
enlisted. and which is now receiving the
sttention of Congress. 1t is known that
many Of our soldiers are coming from
the camps to the hospitals, and that
more than we like to tell about are
coming back from Europe sick or