Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-01
coNoREssMAN MooRE's
LETTER
fPerPlexltes Of Mayoralty Candidate.
When the Five O'Clock Club Gave
Dinner to Albert Of Belgium
ONLY a imam who bias gone Through a

| ONLY a man who has gone through a
~ mayoralty campaign in great city can
understand how circumspcct he must be with
| regard to his public uttcrances to avoid mis-
| representation by those who are after his
scalp 1t is because of the inclination of n
candidate to be frank with the public that
| the serviceabiity of n manager or directing
committee becomes apparent Ordinarily the
candidate would like to tackle every criti-
cism that is honestly dishonesty hurled
against him, but here manager steps in
with the suggestion that the public IL not
always headed one way, and that anything
the candidate may say to provoke a quarrel
may lead on to Others The don't talk
advice which Quay gave Beaver is well re-
mcmbered by the older generation of poll
ticians. The way pennypacker was LAM
basted for trying to be frank with the public
and take everybody into his confidence. is
also easily recalled. Theodore Roosevelt was
one of the very few men who could do all the
talking and get away with it. Perhaps he
succeeded because early in the game he
formed an "Ananias Club of his own and
promptly put into it every critic whom he
deemed unfair or making too much headway.
But nevertheless the candidate who listens to
his campaign manager may be wise after all,
particularly when the campaign is short and
sharp and there is no time for recriminations
OT HDtl hUllS. IL Is HIHHEluE now QulpklN Tile
lies told about candidate, when everything
in the campaign is critical are forgotten
after his election, and sometimes it is ques.
tionable whether during the campaign the
lie does as much harm as the blundcr.
For instance, in recent speech the
mayoralty candidate declared that his would
be n "nonfactional" administration. The
types in the morning soemnly declared the
candidate had said that his would be new
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occasion when the candidate observed that
work in the congested districts was to be
commended on nonsectarian lines. the report
in the morning promptly declared that he
commended every rabbi, priest and preacher
IF the Protestant denomination The alb
surdity of it is patent to the priest, the
preacher or the rabbi. but there are those
who will misunderstand matter what ex-
plantations may be offered. Even the man
ager who checks up the candidate cannot
checkNup our human frailties nor make to
understand the little minds who know the
things that are not so. And it has been said
by one of our local philosophers that there
are some in our midst who express amaze
ment without provocation, and raise their
voices in holy horror at terrible things which
never happen.
NLD SWEDES CHURCH continues to be
" an attractive landmark in the lower
tion of the city. The rector, the Rev. Percy
r. Stockman, has been giving special atten-
tion to work among the seamen, there be-
ing only two or three institutions now left
along the river front which attempt in an
organized way to give Jack" word of
cheer and a helping hand. There is some
talk of the establishment downtown of an
institute which will include building equip
ped with rooms, baths and restaurant facili-
ties where sailors may find q clean and COM
Portable haven while in port. The idea is to
provide for the mariner some such accommo-
dations as are afforded travelling men in the
buildings of the Y. NJ. c. A.
THE recent visit to Philadelphia of King
Albert of Belgium recalls the dinner given
in his honor by the Five O'clock Club at the
old Bellevue Hotel when Charles +. War
wick was Mayor. Mr.. Bergner, who after
ward sold his beautiful home at Amber to
Senator Ware, was Belgian consul at the time
and had general direction of details pertain
ing to the visit of the then prince. 1t hap
pens also that many Phiadelphians are still
interested in the foreign friends made during
the twelfth convention of the International
Navigation Congress held here in 1912. The
headquarters of that congress is in Brussels
where the king has his palace, and during
the war tnOSe headquarters were III
hands. General William II. Bixby, late
chief of the United States army engineers,
who was in Philadelphia recently tells us
that the Belgians got the Navigation Con-
gress funds away from Brussels leaving the
Germans an empty safe. They are now pre-
pairing to bring the various elements together
for the thirteenth convention, which it was
arranged should be held in Stockholm, when
the war intervened.
Philadelphians who met the French dele
CATION to the 1912 convention will be grieved
to learn of the death of NJ. Georges de Jolly,
one of the leading French delegates
to Congress and close associate of NJ.
Andre Chargueraud, the French road builder,
who is now president of the French section
of the International Congress.
THE women who helped so generously with
war work do not intend to be behind the
men in preserving their memories of war and
in sustaining their mutual interests. Here
comes Post No. 80 of the American Legion
headed by Margaret c. Thomas, of the Naval
Home, with sort of ''get together girls" at
the First Regiment armory, November 3. We
recall the splendid work done by the women
in uniform, and cannot fail to appreciate the
camp fire feeling that swels up in their
hearts. Leonore NJ. Lawson advises us that
Post No 80 is the only womans post of the
American Legion in the state of Pennsyl-
vania.
rTNHE advocates of daylight saving are not
permitting the matter to drop because
Congress was overruled by the farmers. A
national daylight saving association has been
formed in New York and is now taking the
matter up with various state legislatures and
municipal bodies. An ordinance introduced
IL.
trates what is being done. There is a wide
difference between the men on the farm and
the men in the city about daylight saving. At
first the western man was as enthusiastically
in favor Of daylight saving as the man in the
factory and the workshop, but an agitation
started six months or more ago induced the
farmer to change his mind, largely on the