Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-05-18
Washington, May IS.

NhsUingIOn MdN 10.
ALL the world knows that the third
"A Liberty Loan drive was a success.
That the drive should have started in
tho city of Philadelphia must he crafty
ing 10 all who participated in the va
rious receptions accorded to tho Score
tary Of the Treasury on that evCntful
sixth of April. when tn" bands played
and the patriotic men and women OF
Philadelphia marched and Cheercd in
token Of their loyalty. When Murdoch
kondriCk. president of the Five O'Clock
. club presented Mr.. MCNdoo to the big
finanCiers. manufacturers railroad man
ayers and business mon at the Bellevue
/ Stratford It was the beginning Of the
end Of n perfect day in Government
! financial strategy Taken to the Balti-
more and Ohio Station in the car Of
| John n. Mason. of the Commercial Trust
! Company, Secretary McAdoo departed
! from the city of Rrothcrly Love with
! the Liberty Bell as his inspiration. and
! proceeded on the long tour which en-
| CtrClCd the United States
! He returned to Washington q little
/ the worse for wear. and so throat sore
as to he room-ti"d for n spell. But
/ the active brain Of President Wilson's
I "Premicr' has since been stirring up
! Congress with new requirements for the
! national defense. The Secretary will
get his $3,oO0.0OO 1000 third Liberty
Loan. but the war demands arc grow
| ing aud new loans. or new taxes are
! now inevitable. In view of the dis
3 CllSgiDI that h1s nv IN
! r"tary'S now demands. il will he re-
! called hN hIS auditors at the Five
+ O'clock club dinner that Mr. MCAdoo
! then and there, and for tho first time
! II now appears. threw out the Sugges.
, tion that, even after the third Liberty
! Loan was sold. new sacrifices would
| Save to be made including an inCrea Sc
! of taxes. The Secretary threw his "an-
| Chor to the windward" that night. and
his predictions are now being fulfilled
| THARLES NJ. SCHWAB was taken
~ into the shphuilding business by
the Governments and he in turn took the
Emergency Fleet Corporation to Phila-
dClrhia. They were a long time getting
Schwah. but tho consensus Of opinion Is
. that the President finally found the
right man for the right place Schwah's
methods may he spectacular. but they
are generally direct. lie seeks results
There are folks here from Easton and
I Bethlehem who recall the services
SChwab rendered to Lord Kitchener when
the latter--man Of sound Judgment that
he was-realized what many of his con-
tcmporarcs failed to see. that he was
up against a real fight. If SChwab
would tell the story of his sudden land
/ ing in England and his interview with
Kitchener on tn" subject of submarine
parts made in Pennsylvania and shipped
to England. before the United States
entered the war. it would make an inter
esting chapter. Give Schwab credit for
one more sensible aChievement--he cut
tho CirCumloCution aud red-tape at
| Washington by lifting his whole organi-
zation to Philadelphia. Official Wash
ingtOn stood aghast at that strategic
move. but now likens 1t to the cutting
of the cables before the fight in Manila
Bay. 1t looks like real business.
THE canal fever is spreading. The
L Delaware River advocates of con.
Meeting channels to New York and Bal,
timore will have to keep busy. Their
western brethren ara on the move and
have actually stirred up the hitherto
moribund Committee on Railways anG
Canals to hear their plea in favor OF
connecting Lake Erie and the Ohio River
with points south. They propose to use
the line of the famous old Miami and
Erie Canal from Toledo to cincinnati
and from point near Defiance to the
sI..., ,n1s. Mt.l,fF
: George F.. Sproulc. Emil F. Albrecht and
= Wilfred II. SChoff. who 50 well under
= stand our eastern necessities. will look
, up the map Of Ohio they will see exactly
what this project means. The desire Is
to connect the Great Lakes with the val,
/ Ieys OF Ohio and the Mississippi. Tr
: passing we observe that the chairman o
the Committee on Railways and Canals
n is Clement Brumbaugh. Of Ohio. Unlike
his cousin. Governor Brumbaugh. O
PENNSYLVANIA. he is a Democrat, but. lik,
. the Governor he was teacher before