Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-10
MAYoR-ELECT MOoRE'S
LETTER
When Secretary Glass criticlzes.
Revenue Bill intrleaeies His AMI
madVersIons Are Indirectly Aimed
at the Administration
Washington. Dec. 10.

~ Department, in his final report to Congress
gives littl" hope of relief from heavy national
taxation for many years to come. He vcri-
fics what Claude Kitchin, of North Carolina
frequently contcnded during the considcra-
tlon of the great war revenue bill, that it
would require Mt least $1,000. 600, 900 per
annum to meet our expenses, and that the
deb. incurred would ncccSsitatc annual in
crcSt charges Of moro than 81 900. 900 900
and 81 900 900, 900 interest in these times
I IL equal TO all the annual expenses of the
government prior to the war. Tho outlook,
therefore is not promising, and Republican
Lender Mondcll and Chairman Good. Of the
appropriations committee. are taking ~thc
wise course in admonishng Congress and
the people that economy must be practitrd.
But there is something in Secretary
Glass's report with reference to them.
tricacics Of the revenue bill and its invoked
processes of reaching income and excess
profits taxes that might, if one cared to. do
so, be interpreted ns q reflection upon the
Democratic administration. OF course, &c.
rotary Glass, who was regarded
, reasonably sane legislator, had no Intent to
involve the administration. But in fairness
TO the Republicans who helped to framc-thc
evcnue bill, and who in conference included
Senator PcnrOse, Senator Lodge, Mr.. Ford
ney, of Michigan and the Mayor cecF of
Philadelphia, it should be recalled that they
pointed out the embarrassment that was
likely to arise from treasury interpretations
of SCIENTIFIC paragraphs of the bill.
In fairness even to the leading Democrats
in conference, including Senator Simmons
and Mr.. Kitchin, it should be said that. .the
TrGdsury Department itself, at the instance
| Of@lts experts, was responsible for the form
as well as the substance of many of the
| troublesome features of the measure. Sec
| retary McAdoo surrounded himself with able
men, some OF them pretty strong in the Use
of language and mighty clever at calculation,
| who said the proposals emanating from the
| Treasury Department would work out. so
! it is not surprising to members of the
finance committee Of the Senate, the ways
| and means committee of the House, that
| they all did not work out as expected.
NONGRESS may be obliged ultimately to
~ take II hand in the Delaware river bridge
| question. The War Department certainly
will as the proposed structure may affect
navigation. The bridge planners, however,
| seem to have the national situation fairly
well in hand and when GovCrnOS Sproul and
| his cOnfrcres get into action it is more
| than likely the government, barring the
| question of expense, may lend its aid.
Meanwhile, the matter of locating the ap-
| proachcs to the bridge is under discussions
The outgoing Mayor of Philadelphia,
! Thomas I}. Smith, and Architect John It.
Windrim, in a report to Governor l}rum-
baugh favored a southern terminal, the en-
| trance to which would be somewhere in the
vicinity of Washington Square. Alfred
| +. Burk president of the Manufacturers
| Club one of the commissioners nlOng with
Mayor Smith and Mr.. Wndrim, favored
| Race street for several reasons, one of which
| involved the question of expense. Other
| bridge promoters have been talking Spring
! Garden street with the suggestion that that
thoroughfarc could be maGe fine approach
to the Park. The Eli X Price suggestions
have been made public and former State
| Treasurer John o. Sheath comes along With
! plans proposing to save the heavy cost of
condemnation all the way back to Fifth az
/ Sixth street by an approach extending no
| further west than Second street on Market.
| so constructed as to enable traffic 20 pass
over Market street to the bridge level on
| three rising turns graded as to accom-
modatc vehicular traffic. Governor Sproul
| has called a meeting of the PENNSYLVANIA
commissioners, when some of these questions
| will be considered
nANIEL CRAWFORD, Jr.. who is fa1rly
II. representative of the operative builders
Philadelphia and who has been comforting
with others equally interested in the housing
pr6blem. insists that Philadelphia increas-
ing population could be accommodated If the
city could bring its sewage and other facii-
ties up to date. q,
MIR. Crawford thinks the Legislature
should provide for some method by which
necessary improvements could proceed in
! untf ri or oh thp hui1
selves offering indemnity =
Meanwhile, Secretary John Ihlder. Of the
Philadelphia Housing Association, boils sthie
housing problem down to two phases iHgt
| a lack of dwellings to accommodate ourYfti-
creased population and to replace worhont
buildings, and second, deterioration of exist
ing dwellings. Apparently there is work
ahead for those who desire to meet the needs
of our increasing population
CLENN C. MEAD, the eloquent and
VI ancient Rotarian-Glenn stuck to it until
he got to the top of the heap-is some
traveller. Like Theodore Justice George
Wentworth Carr, DR.. w. w. Keen, Thdinas
Raeburn White. DIR. Judson Daland and n
few other Philadciphians who go on tours
for health, recreation. business, or What
not. the assistant city solicitor was far far
away when registration time came. Like
a good citizen he made the jump-30Q0 miles
from California-to get in his vote
And one vote sometimes determines great
tssrcs these days. 1t was a majority of
QUE vote that threw the mayoralty of the
city of Charleston into the Supreme Court
of the state-anothcr iluStration of the
Importance of the individual in any contest
II the individual will only realize how i'm
portant factor he Is.
T,HE president of the Business Mems As
l. sociation of Germantown this year is
Colonel Sheldon Potter. once director oi
public safety, now president of the Cheten
Trust Go. And its special representative in
Washington for all festive occasions /,
Congressman George Potter Darrow, who /,
a director of the trust company of which
the colonel is president. Neither the rplo
mel nor the congressman has any apologize.
to make for Germantown the Busines,