Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-03-29
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Philadelphia Bankers WHl Help
the Victory Loan-The Late
Frank Dumont and the
Local EIks
Washington, ID. c., March 20.

Washington, ID. C.. March 20.
CECRETARY GLASS takes the ground
~ that the American people will buy the
new issue of notes because they will not
permit the honorable obligations of the
government to be repudiated This was
about the situation when the expiring
Ways and Means Committee was called
upon to authorize this new loan. The long
and short of it was that the Treasury
| needed the money to meet obligations au-
! thorized and incurred. There is no ques
| tlon in the minds of those who understand
! the revenue situation in Washington that
the banks in the Federal Reserve sys-
| TEN will assist in the placing of the notes.
| The loan did not take the form of Liberty
| or victory bonds because the enthusiasm
incident to war sales had passed away and
| the new Secretary was faced with the stern
| necessity Of meeting the debts incident to
ana following up the close of hostilities.
| 1t is a cheerful sign that L. Pusey Pass
more, of the Philadelphia district, and other
L bankers at home accept the plans Of Sec
7 retary Glass and talk of giving him their
| best assistance. The Secretary is placing
| reliance upon the Philadelphia machinery
which was used for disposing of Liberty
Loans and which is ready for service in
connection with the note issue.
CERUMS and toxins which are con-
~ stantly discussed in government med-
cal circles bring to the fore that energetic
Philadelphian with Jersey antecedents, the
head Of the Fl. K. Mulford Company, whose
place at Glenolden is generally commented
upon by Pennsylvania Railroad passengers
on their way to Washington. H. X. Null
nr1 hna had "A lon1 1@ ,,,,tl
departments during the war and has been
of more than little service to the Allies.
He is one of the active spirits in the
Chamber Of Commerce agitation to secure
big man" for Mayor of Philadelphia.
There are signs that the business men pro-
pose to take an exceptional interest in this
question this year.
TT IS easily within the recollection Of up
L town politicians when David II. Schuy-
ler Of the Thirty second Ward was the
president of the AntiCobden Club over in
the Nineteenth Ward. But David has been
very successful in business and, feeling
young as ever. fits through Washington
occasionally on his way to and from Flor
ida, for David has a reputation as a fisher
man. Politics is no longer so attractive
to him as it was. but he does not hesi-
tate to speak kindly of the Ware boys"
The Schuylers and the Armstrong; and
the Ashbridges-they were pretty active
uptown a quarter of a century ago.
JOSEPH L. KUN is to succeed the late
- Louis Edward Levy president Of the
Jewish Community. This will bring the
former Deputy Attorney General in touch
with legislative life at the capital, espe-
cally if he follows in the footsteps OF his
predecessor. Levy was we'll known here
for ifrorr
His sympathes for the Jewish people, who
were sometimes turned back at the ports
under the old laws because of their in
ability to read and write, was strong. It
was seldom that any hearing on immigra-
tion bills took place that Levy was not
present. On one occasion he told the story
of his early life leading up to the point
where he had become an inventor and, in
the matter of the graphic arts, a very use
full and effective pioneer, and it made a
profound impression on a hostile committee.
He was arranging certain immigration
matters in Washington on the day prior
to his sudden death.
PHILADELPHIA LODGE, No. 2, B. P.
l. o. E., according to Exalted Ruler New
ton, Charles II. Grakelow, John c. Brewin
and some of the stand-bys, not to mention
George L. Phillips, secretary, is doing big
".
Philadelphia lodge suffered big loss when
Frank Dumont went out" and that re-
minds us that DumOnt was Philadelphia
minstrel whose reputation extended far be-
yond the city lines. Like John L. Carn-
cross, Edwin F. Dixey and Bob Simpson,
Dumont stood high in the world of min
strelsy He was clever writer a versatile
actor and one Of the bestlked managers in
the business. Like all good fellows, the
thair yuif
Philadelphia Lodge still has Frank Glading
and other old timers to call upon.
FNHE National Catholic War Council
L keeps steadily on the job in Washing
ton. The president of this influential or
ganization is His Eminence, Cardinal Glib.
bons. One of the state organizers Is John
Fl. C'Gorman, of West Philadelphia. The
war council and the Knights of Columbus
have been in close touch during the war
period and have been extremely watchful
of the welfare of the fraternity. This re-
minds us Of the services of James A.
Flaherty, supreme knight of the Knights
of Columbus, a Philadelphia lawyer, whose
headquarters are now at New Haven, Conn.
Jim Flaherty belongs to that group of
lawyers who were young fellows in the
days Of Lewis g. Cassidy, which included
William F. Harrity who became a Demo
cratic national chairman and subsequently,
Postmaster General under Grover Cleve-
land; Maxwell Stevenson who in his day
was one of the leading criminal lawyers
Colonel Edmund Randall. who served in
the Civil War along with General ST. Clair
A. Mulholland, and James Gay Gordon, who
subsequently went upon the bench and
then retired TO become legal thorn in the
side of almost any one who dared to an
tagonize him. Just as a matter of history,
it might be recorded that the supreme
knight also had the honor of teaching
young Joe" Rogers, now a Common Pleas
Judge and orator in the same class
with John NJ. Garman, how to keep
docket.
TT SENATOR PATToN's schoolshp bill