Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-29

lluluS lOI Jnt UTtSluGuCy OF IOT II Iuli, DuJ
that did not worry the secretary. To be
candidate for President under existing
| conditions would be unthinkable, he you'd
| say. Then came rumors that the White
House was little envous of the son in
law, or that the financial responsibilities haG
piled so high as to make a continuance in
Office uubearablc. The White House rumors
were denied and SO were the others, but
eventually the secretary resigned and the
big job was put on the shoulders of Carter
Glass, OF. Virginia, who has since been
promised relief to become United States
senator.
ENOR moment we may pause to contem-
plate the vigorous secretary in his
various poses since quitting the treasury
resuming the practice of the law for in
stance, or championing the movies and
figuring as attorney for the Mary Pickfords
and the Charlie Chaplins. All good stuff
and sufficient to keep ones mind employed
while overlooking the presidential situation.
But-and here's suggestion for the wide
awake movie sketchist--enter Mitchell
Palmer! NIoGestly at first as the alien
property custodian, collecting 81 600, ,000,-
600 worth of German holdings. which in
cidentally connected him with the banks
and bankers throughout the United States,
to say nothing of the myriad attorneys,
agents and directors appointed by him
second, little more conspicuous as attor-
ncy general Of the United States, champion
ing the cause of law and order; putting down
Bolshcvists and the like, and becoming
household word on the excellent politco-
economic topic of the high cost of sugar
and so forth; and third. in consequence of
the foregoing, insidious reports that the
sage OF Stroudsburg might become the ad-
minstration choice for the Democratic
nomination to succeed Mr.. Wilson.
Is it any wonder Mr. McAdoo's facile
mind reverts to those internal revenue
reports which he had well in hand before
leaving the treasury? Is Palmer to get
away with the trick on sugar when coal is
so high? What does Palmer know about
the profits of the coal barons, and if he does
know, being a Pennsylvania, where some
OF those 200 to 1000 per cent profits referred
TO by Mr.. McAdoo were supposed to have
been made, would he care to use the in
formation as campaign material?
Having thus introduced the plot and the
star performers, may we not" suggest as a
title for the play Sugar or Coal?
TNHERE is nothing mean about Miss Mary
L b. Peirce, the businesslike daughter of
the late Thomas May Peirce. AS the head
of a large Philadelphia educational estab-
lishment she goes after the biggest men in
the country when commencement day rolls
around, and these commencements come along
with such studied regularity that Miss
Peirce has become quite figure in Wash
ngton, where the big orators are supposed
to abound Her latest excursion led her to
Massachusetts, in quest of the governor who
is now being talked about for President
Miss Peirce usually fortifes herself with
letters of introduction and then argues it
out at first hand with the senator or gov
ernor, or whoever it may be. She has had
Presidents come to Philadelphia and to that
extent is real city boomer.
DATRONS Of the stage are generally
l. touched in more ways than one when the
cry goes up for funds for the destitute actor.
They know the actor is not a saving man.
and being an artist and highly tempera-
mental, does not know much about money.
Therefore, appeals for help for the disabled
and for the aged and infrm are generally
responded to literally. Daniel Frohman is
the president of the national Memorial Day
to collect for the Actors Fund Of America.
buI WYNN thc Suii 10 Souuutu III CITY ike
Philadelphia, it is generally up to men like
Il. II. Stotesbu.y to put it into operation.
Mr.. Stotesbury has taken up the work this
year and around him has gathered one or
| the strongest committees that could he
named. Governor Sprouts is the first name
on it and of course it includes Edward w
| Box, Colonel j. Howell Cummings, Alba B.
Johnson, Arthur H. Lea, Joseph q. Wild
ener and men of that type.
| DILLY ROPER, one of the new Council
- of twenty one who has been giving close
attention to Princeton football for the last
| few weeks, has reached Boston. The new
councilman is studying conditions in other
cities. He says we are living in an ogc
| charged with dynamics and that most apv.
| thing can be expected, but that the hest
| thing to do in city like Philadelpbio 10
to save money by eliminating waste. The
| councilman was once in the customs service
| where he tried to put this idea into execu.
| ton. He will have fine chance to helm ont
when the new Council gets under way.
WHAT is IT all aboutH Governor sproul
| w is already on the hustings doing doubls
| time as a speechmaker and he gets bottor
as he goes along. Some people suspect the
| Governor has something in his mind
| although the Governor states frankly tbat
he considers it a duty not only to get in
touch with the people, but to keep posted
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