Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-13
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
The United States senatorshlp In
Volved In the Mayoralty Contest.
George Hoffman as Dave Lanes
Rival as a Philosopher


| The impression prevails in Washington
that the stakes arc larger than the mayor
! atty itself: that they involve the ultimate
control of the United States senatorship.
IF the Wares should elect their candidate
for Mayor there is little doubt in the minds
| OF the political wiScaCrcs that they will
] reach out for the state leadership control.
| fight is now raging in Pittsburgh which
| seems to give encouragement to this idea,
| and the state representatives are all keenly
| alive to the significance of what is going
| on in the Quaker City. 1t is not so
| thoroughly understood in Washington as In
! Philadelphia that the contest is really for
! clean government under Republican direc-
ton. although the notOricty which Phil
adelphia received from the Fifth ward out
rnges has not been forgotten
CORRESPONDENCE is riling up with
~ regard to the high cost of living. Some
complaints received in Washington from
Philadelphia, especially from saaried men.
are most exaspcratnG. While retailers
and Jobbers are coming in for large share
of the blame. certain employers of labor
like Nathan T. Folwcl and Thomas r.
Brown are inclined to think that shorter
hours of labor have n great deal to do with
1t. The question of extravaganza also
enters largely into the discussion. Fortu
nate is he who can be satisfied in these days
of reckless expenditure with last sum-
mer's suit, or a pair Of shoes run down at
the heels. Charles II. Hassert, Of the
Bulletin Building, has an idea that the
packers have an understanding which e1-
tends to the leather dealers, and that an
investigation on that line might be profit
able-and this enters into the shoe ques-
ton.
Many Philadelphia business men are
putting in protests against the Kendrick
and Keynon bills. which propose to regu-
late the distribution of foodstufs. These
men are largely distributors and they con-
tend that the high cost of living is due as
much to the farmer and to restrictive
legislative measures as to anything else.
Evidently strong move is to be made to
put the packers under closer supervision.
= ]. CANTWEI.L is sending out notices
h' for the twenty second national con-
vention Of the National Association of Let
ter Carriers which is to take place in
Moose Hall, Philadelphia, the first week
of September. The. letter carriers will be
welcome in the Quaker City. They have
their own troubles with the postmaster
general, but they can do a. real service IL
they will tell how the Burleson system can
be improved. George S. Cox, the Phil
adephia manufacturer, writes from the
Fairhill district that the mail delivery is
getting more troublesome every day. Down
town seems to talk the same way If En-
manuel Kline, of Fifth and Ellsworth
streets, can be accepted as authority.
D l.. P. REIFSNEIDER, who used to
~. do Norristown in newspaper way.
is now actively connected with the National
Association of Hosiery and Underwear
Manufacturers which is beginning to loom
up in tariff matters. The hosiery and
underwear men have recorded their oppo-
stion to licensing system which some of
the dyestuffs men have been agitating with
much earnestness. Year by year the scope
of the hosiery mill is widened geographic
cally. The president of the National Asso-
citation this year comes from Knoxville,
Tenn. Members of the association are also
spreading rapidly over other southern
states. The headquarters. however. remains
in Philadelphia, where c.. D. Carter is
general secretary. w. Parke Moore, Joseph
Feden. Robert G.. Blood and Edward
Blood. Sr.. of Philadelphia. are live mem
bCrs of the national board.
nAVID II. LANE is not the only phi.
~ losophcr in Philadelphia George F..
Hoffman. the cotton factor. who mixes it
up at the Manufacturers Club with
Chcvalier G. c. A. Baldi. Louis II. Eisen-
lohr and some other good fellows, is run.
ming the Republican sage,a close race. Just
listen to George: There is no use trying
to please every one. 1t cant be done Tint
. is glarnsly before us in the journey from
the manger to Calvary Hil-betrayed by
one and at the crucial moment deserted by
all. Putting over things Is as old ns time
the first deal on record is in the famous
meeting at the Garden of Eden" George
thinks the cotton producers should NOT he
permitted to charge the weight of the cot
ton ties in with the cotton. He saws the
foreigners won't stand for it, but we do.
CAPTAIN AL BROWN, James J. Nc
~ Nally, William G. Bernard, Howard
Sacger. and other Philadelphia barge men
who have fought long and earnestly for the
widening and deepening of the Chesapeake
and Delawar" Canal in order to facilitate
communication with the Chesapeake Bay
and points South. will be glad to know that
General Black, chief of the army engineers.
and General Harry Taylor, his chief as
sistant are as eager as they are to begin
work. of Improvement. General TAYLOR
states that the engineers intend to pro-
coed with the work Immediately on being
! notified that the proceedings in court where
| the government money has been denos;ted
| have reached stage where possession of
the property can be taken. This ought not
| to be very far ahead. The army engineers
announce that they intend to proceed with
| the removal of the locks at very earIv
day, but that the plans contemplate the use
of the canal at the present nine foot denth
for commercial purposes until the new
twelve foot depth has been attained.
Chester. Wilmington, and other points
along the Delaware are waking up to the
opportunity which the new free canal will
afford. William f. Headley, of the Chester
Shipping Company, and William Martin, of
the Philadelphia Quartz Company, are
| enthusiastic about it,
| presumably Mr.. Strang Is hoping that