Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-08
CONGRESSMAN MOOREyS LETTER
Hicks of Oyster Bay a Clussnatc of "OM'BM Sprour' a,
Suarthmorc-Deire of the Draft Boards for Permanent Social
Observation-Disclosures Aces

as TO the trend toward Federal Centraliza-
ton and control. In this Mr.. Reeves does
not differ from many other prominent
Philadelphians. who nave the notion that
private incentive and enterprise should be
encouraged without too much Federal in.
reference. Mr.. Reeves, although his long
Philadelphia associations might occasion
surprise at the statement, is Jersey born.
lie came from B~ridgeton so far back that
we need not mention the date: but the
remarkable thing about him Is that he
spent sixty years helping to build up the
Girard National Bank. Having entered
that institution as a clerk. he continued
on until he became it's honored president.
At the end of sixty years he turned the
presidency over to Joseph Wayne, Jr, in
ample time to enable that bright young
hnancier to wrestle with the Federal Re-
serve and the McAdoo Liberty Loans. Mr..
Reeves laments the departure of Rudolph
Blankenburg. whom he recently charac.
terized as one of Philadelphia's greatest
citizens.
CHIPPING promises to be one of the
~ big problems of the immediate future.
but the difficulty is as much in obtaining
seamen to man the ships as 10 is to obtain
the ships. The work of such organizations
as the Seamen and Landsmen's Aid So.
clety or Philadelphia cannot, therefore, be
overestimated at this time. DIR. Howard
preston Mcfienry, the superintendent of
the society, which has been caring for the
wants of seamen at Front and De Lancey
streets since 1878. tells US that the Phila-
delphia Chamber of Commerce approves
this work. Doctor McHenly, who is also
pastor of the Mariners Church, has been
laboring among seamen and ongshoremen
for many years. He finds It paws to give
attention to this class of workers, who are
SO often overlooked in our good citizen
organizations. The doctor, by the way.
has a son in France. who threw down his
books at tho university and went in as a
private. He is now Corporal II. Scott
McHenry, Battery d. 3OSth Field Artillery,
Seventy-eighth Division, which has seen
some very severe fighting.
TT HAS been but a few years since Joel
= Cook, formerly financial editor of the
Public Ledger and American correspon.
dent of the London Times, died in WASH
ington, where he had been sent as mem
Der of Congress- from the Second District.
His son, George w. Childs Cook, an
amiable young fellow. who had worked
with his father and afterward for tho
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, came TO
the capital to close up the Congressman's
affairs. George was a careful boy, with
no wasteful habits and no fads In partic.
ular, except to watch fires and see the fire
engines run. But in a few years, after
the young man had become a member of
the Union League and In his own right
and by inheritance had accumulated n
fortune, he also passed away. His per.
sonal estate alone was recently inventoried
at approximately $500. 900. Much of this
doubtless was the result of Joel COOKS
early investment In ship shares-back in
the days when sailing vessels were proat-
able to their Philadelphia owners. The
departure of young George Cook removed
the last vestige of the old Sailer-Cool,-
Johann coterie that gathered the Public
Ledger's financial news along Third sire, I
and up to the time Drexels located AZ
! Fifth and Chestnut streets. Although not