Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-14
CONGRESSMAN MooRE's
LETTER
When the Belgian King oined With
the Five O'Clock club-John
lowry's Interest In the
Indians
Mashinptnn. .Inne Ia.

supreme Oourt reporter-a place until re-
Gently held by Attorney General viii.
liam F. Schafer-is doing very well. The
recent conference upon him by King Albert
of Belgium of a commandership in the
Order of the Crown, an order founded by the
late King Leopold. is in line with the action
of other potentialities who recognized the
war services of the Philadelphia lawyer,
translated to New York II was in Phladcl-
pha that Beck first met King Albert The
occasion was dinner of the Five O'clock
Club, over which Mayor Charles F. War
wick presided. Albert, who was then a
prince-his uncle Leopold being upon the
throne at Brussels-was touring the country
much as the Prince of Wales. the late King
Edward father Of King George. and Prince
Henry, the brother of the Kaiser, had
previously done. He was entertained here
for a time by the Belgian consul, NJ. Berg
ner, and through the latter accepted the
Five O'clock Club invitation After the
German assault upon Belgium, Beck's book
accusing the Germans of instgating the
war found its way into King Albert's hands.
He acknowledged it to Beck with pleas
ant reference to the dinner of the club,
which he had not forgotten.
TNHEG are telling good one on Senator
l. Kenyon. the Iowa uplifter, who hcsi-
tates to associate with Penrosc. No mat
ter what his private virtues may be, Kenyon
publicly has come to be regarded in Io3A,
as about as pure as the. purest. 1t is~Ra1
hard reputation to maintain. but the Iowa
senator has earned his way ~ refusing to
use senatorial bathtubs, or to participate
in so called congressional junkets, or to be-
lieve that any good comes out of "the fetid
atmosphere of the East" When it comes
to pleading for the down trodden farmer
Kenyon is about the best little pleader Iowa
has ever produced. With a heart throbbing
sympathetically for the farmers wife, who
had to content herself with calico dresses
the eloquent Iowan plunged into the reve-
nue. bill debate. In the closing hours of the
session he discovered mares nest Under
the o-called luxury tax provision mems
clothing and ''women's dresses were to
be taxed. Here was another ravishment Of
the poor by the plutocrats of New York and
Philadelphia The senator rebelled he re-
beled to high heaven. When the other
senators were asleep he moved to strike
out the provision. He succeeded. MEMS
clothing over $50 per suit and "women's
dresses over $50 per dress went out caus-
ing all the subsequent parliamentary trouble
that ensued over the repeal of the luxury
taxes. In the House debate on the tax
repeater. it developed that the senator's
successful assault upon the ''robber
barons' had given complete immunity to
gentlemen evening clothes and tailor made
suits, for which the wealthy could pay in
excess of $50, and that he had earned the
everlasting gratitude Of the rich ladies who
buy Partisan gowns at $4,000 per- Some of
the Kansas delegation in the House were
actually compelled to acknowledge that the
senator had miscucd little.
A ND John Lowry pleads for the
"A Indians-John G. Lowry, of the Union
League. John should know that the Indian
has the heartfelt sympathy of Congress 1t
helps the Indian to education, to citizen
ship and to cash. The Indian comes in on
irrigation and reclamation schemes and is
generally pretty well cared for as ward
of the nation Moreover. there are sew
eral Indians holding seats in the Senate and
House who don't permit Poor Lo" to be
overlooked But John Lowry believes in
Herbert Welsh's Indian Rights Association
and thinks the agitation for increased ed,i-
cational advantages and citizenship for the
red man a good thing. r." 3" -'~0
A DEMOCRATIC member of the House,
n who would prefer. for obvious reasons,
to go unnamed, tells this pretty little tale
which, in the interest of economy, is passed
on to the tax paying reader of the EVENING
PUBLIC LEDGER: A youth from the
country was visiting the great War De-
partment layout on Sixth street, He was
impressed by the magnitude of the plant and
so expressed himself to the guide. Later
on, in conversation with one of the door
keepers. he observed This is certainly
darned big establishment. Sure" said
the door man, ''this is Uncle Sans war
Office Finding himself tired and on the
sidewalk as the grand army of clerks poured
a uniting time tho nod
American approached Capitol policeman.
Say, officer" he ventured show many
people work in that building?" And with
out a twinge the policeman replied, About
a quarter of EN-"
TT WAS rather rough on Senator Freling-
huysen, of New Jersey. that on the very
day he was holding up in the Senate the
confirmation of A. Mitchell Palmer's ap-
pointment as attorney general, an anarchist
should win for the attorney general the
cordial sympathy of the whole nation. No
body loves a bomb thrower, but in this in
stance the Pennsylvania national commit
teeman was in for drubbing in the secret
counsels of the Senate at the very moment
the bad man with the suitcase blew him
self into eternity and exalted the very man
he intended to eliminate. Since he stood up
in the Baltimore convention for Wilson
against great ouus, no one mas disputed
Mitchell Palmer's courage, but in some
respects it will not be denied that he has
been deucedly lucky. OF course, seeing
what happened, the attorney general could
challenge Frelinghuysen to do his worst
60 EDGAR RAYMOND KIESS has gone
~ and done it. Stayed out with Senator
Penrose, ex Governor Stuart, Joseph r.
Grundy, Samuel p. Rotan, William J. Ost-
heimer and the rest of them, until Miss
Mary Roemer Clarke came along. The Will
Transport congressman, who is now chair
man Of the committee on printing, had for
some time past given evidence to his col
leagues Of a certain mental perturbation
bordering on delight. Prospects for bright
and cheerful summer at Eagles Mere are
predicted by the entire delegation.
BY the addition of japan the Big Four
has apparently been superseded by a straight
pSb