Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-02
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
How Judge Bartlett Gets His Eggs.
Mann WW Help Miss Paul Put
Suffrage Through-Why
Hays is Like Tdre
Washington, ID. G., April 2.

Washington, ID. G., April 2,
fTNHE big gold seal of the commonwealth
L of Pennsylvania is frequently in evil
dence in the Senate and House of Repre-
SentatiVes. When ii comes it is accom-
panied by the signatures OF Cyrus Il.
Woods, Secretary of the Commonwealth;
w. p. Gallagher chief clerk of the Senate,
and Thomas II. Garvin the same being
Tom" Garvin, of Sharon HID, chief clerk
or the House of Representatives and
statlstcian of no mean order. Recently,
during the interim, the big seal appeared
with all the hieroglyphcs, indorsing over
to Congress two propositions approved by
the Legislative body at Harrisburg. One of
these favored a vote of thanks to the local
and district draft boards throughout the
United States. not forgetting those in Phil.
adelphia and Pennsylvania, and the other
was in support of the old-time proposition
faVoring an Increased pension to the
MANNED soldiers of the Civil War. And
incidentally it may be observed that the
Secretary Of the Commonwealth Of Penn
sylvania, who is holding the office down as
cleverly under Governor Sproul he did
under Governor Brumbaugh, has some
views on that interesting topic, the league
or nations, that might induce the Hon.
William II. Taft to respond in a few
brief lines.
7NlIE price of eggs is coming down, and
L one of the reasons for it is that the
hens are beginning to lay. They place
great store by the American hen in the
Department Of Agriculture. and contend
that she is worth more to the country than
all the iron and steel interests put together
There is something about the American
egg that does appeal to the breakfast table
The Postmaster General argues that lie
gets the egg there cheaper by parcels post
than it could go through the commission
house. Charles r. Bartlett, the new Mu-
nicipal Court judge, who was a philoso-
pher before his old chum. Bob" Won
Moschzisker went upon the Supreme
Court bench. has not so much faith in the
parcels post he has in his two strong
arms and pedal cXtremities. The judge
knows "A Bucks County farmer vino has Il
successful chicken yard, and he goes after
the eggs in person. The late county COM
missioner, Bob" Moore used to resort to
the same plan. He said it beat the storage
warehouse and the profiteer. There are
more ways than the parcels post for get
ting the fresh egg on the table but the
fear Of being seen carrying a market
basket helps to keep up the price.
IT'S dollars to doughnuts that James II.
L Mann, the defeated candidate for
Speaker, will figure big in the next Con-
gress In behalf of woman suffrage Mann
knows the cause is unpopular in certain
eastern districts but he believes in it and
expects to make a Republican issue of it,
This ought to be good news to Miss Alice
Paul, Miss Mary Ingham, Mrs. Lewis and
the other militantS from Philadelphia and
vicinity who have been blaming President
Wilson for their troubles. 1t is worth
noting also that Mondell. of Wyoming who
succeeds Mann as Republican leader, was
perhaps the foremost suffragist on the Re
publican side long before Nj mn came into
camp On the other hand. Giett, the new
Republican Speaker, has not been favor
able to suffrage heretofore.
NATIONAL CHAIRMAN. HAYS has
~ some of the traits of the Philadelphia
Organization leader. The Wares used to
contend that organization for national
campaigns which remains dormant the
rest of the four-year period is not of much
value Hays is not necessarily a Ware
man, but he is trying to be a harmonizer,
and believes in keeping organization going
all the time. He is the first national chair
man in recent years to prod Congressman
and others as to their sense of political
responsibility. The latest move of the
national chairman is to get the new Re-
publican House leaders together, with a
view of promoting publicity. He is trying
to work out similar plan on the Senate
side. The national chairman is as much
a detail worker as Dick Brely, Harry
Wittig or Charlie Voorhees, used to be in
the city committee or as William Finley
is now.
nIRECTOR WEBSTER tells us he is
L. going ahead encouraging steamship
lines at Philadelphia regardless Of the ac-
tion of the joint committees or "resoluters'
who resolute sometimes more than they
perform. There is delay in the establish.
ment of purely American lines as there is
also in the setting up Of drydocks at Phil
adelphta, but the Cunard and other foreign
lines have recently come in, and the direc.
tor is arranging to accommodate them
The Cunard Line, the Anchor Line and the
Anchor-Donaldson Line propose to get
busy in American ports. no matter how
sluggish is the American disposition to
look out for its own interests Joint offices
for these lines have recently been set up
here in Washington. We are informed
that 1t is their purpose to extend the serv-
ice along the coast.
FTHAT Burleson and the Postal Tele-
i graph and Cable Company officials
should clash has been a foregone conclu.
sion ever since the astute Postmaster Cen
eral, reaching out for control of the tele-
graph and telephone lines under the war
power, first induced the President and
Congress to go along with him on his
federal operation plan. And it was to be
expected that the Postmaster General
would sit tight He is tenacious official.
and the independence Of the Postal people
under Clarence II. Mackey was calculated
to rile him. The Mackey interests wanted
to get the company back in their own
hands. They were behind a movement
which gained great headway before Con-
gress adjourned to rescind the Postmaster