Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-16
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
War Record Of Charles w. Neeld's
Sons-Frank Feeney a Familiar
Figure in Washington.
Gossip About Well
Known People
TT PHILADELPHIANs could be induced

TF PHlLADELpHlANSC could be induced
L to take their minds away from the mayor
atty situation for n brief spell they would
observe big things going on in the nations
capital. The Lodge speech on the league
of nations has helped to vindiCate the Sen
nte's attitude in Its controversy with the
President and has stiffcncd the backbones
of those who have been contending that the
President was playing n dangerous lone hand.
The railroad situation. of course, is another
one of the big problems with which the
senators and representatives. have been CON
tending, and that fight is on for some time
to come Labor gets into the controversy
through the high cost of living, problem
which Congress finally seems ready to take
hold of vigorously There is sentiment in
Washington that with the attorney generals
department finally aroused to action and
with the Federal Trade Commission given
increased financial support the proftcer will
ultimately be brought to book.
CHARLES W. NEELD. of the Forty
~ second Ward, has taken a new interest
in Philadelphia politics since the mayoralty
contest started. Charles was always active
in the young mems Republican committees
and particularly with the old young Rcpub-
lcans. Like Jim Eckerslcy, of German
town; David LAWS. of the Thirty eighth
NuIu, anu w lllldn W. -hOl gum Nh"l liN
retains his youthful appearance. His
proudest boast just now, however, is
the war record made by the younger
Needs. Charles w, Jr., was second lieu
tenant of the 314th Infantry. J. Noble
Necld was second lieutenant, Quartcrmas-
ter's corps, and Percy l. Neeld. sergeant
in the medical corps, gas defense.
SNTATESMEN in Washington longing for a
~ vacation with no bright prospects in sight
are yearning for the seashore Those who
not tied up in political campaigns have
about all they can do to sleep O'nigkts after
continuous days in the departments and on
the hill Senator Penrose is said to reach
his yacht at Atlantic City occasionally, and
Congressman Ware, who is something of a
yachtsman, is getting an occasional dash
of the cold zone. But these two worthless
have their minds fully occupied with mat
ters not wholly pertinent to Washington.
Some relief when one hears that Colonel
James EIverson, Jr.. has just returned from
n pleasant cruise along the New England
coast and that Commodore Louis Eisenlohr
is making an occasional spurt through the
New Jersey breakers.
GOSSIP reaching Washington admonishcs
" US that Colonel Louis T. White and a
south recently as the Charlestown Club on
one of the arms of the Chesapeake Bay. The
Philadelphia jewelers. generally tie up with
the WashingtOnians making Charestown
half way house for the consideration of
business of great Importance. By the
same token it may be expected. in due
course. that Mayor Frederick w. Donnelly,
of Trenton. will have to set up meeting
place for those who fish, in this wet and
Il ippt iDt ha
tween New York and Philadelphia.
TNIlEY have live chamber of commerce
l. over in Camden with f. Morse Archer
at the head of it and David Baird, Jr.,
high on the list of directkrs. This chamber
of commerce. like the Philadelphia cham
bcr the Boursc the Board of Trade and
other bodies. is keyed up over the railroad
situation and is petitioning Washington to
see that government ownership of railroads
is not put over. The trade bodies generally
take the stand that the railroad men made
mistake in threatening Congress to strike if
they did not obtain their demands, and some
of them are mildly critical of the President
for having encouraged this unusual situa
ton.
MAJOR A. ]. DREXEL BIDDLE has a
AV1 warm spot in his heart for Major Gen
eral George Barnett head of the marine
corps, under whom he served during the
war. He has opened Camp Barnett at
Lansdownp and with the assistance of the
Philadelphia military training corps, of
which William X. Nicholson is president,
intends to set up military training institu-
ton worth while. When TONY" Biddle
was reporter with an inclination to put
on the boxing gloves, there we're members
of the Bdde and Drexel families who had
their doubts about the future of the young
man. But Tony" has been pretty well
over the world since then and has done
some big things, not the least of which is
the organization of the Drexel Biddle Bible
classes which have become international.
ERANK FEENEY, the Philadelphia la.
i Dor leader, gets over to Washington
quite frequently. He keeps in touch with
Gompers, Morrison and the other big leaders
in the American Federation of Labor. The
federation now has a handsome home III
Washington and has established itself so
firmly that the farmers organizations are
thinking of doing the same thing. 1t used
to be the custom to send legislative agents
to Washington during the sessions of Con-
Rress but now most of the big organizations
have representatives there throughout the
year. 1t is notably the case with the rail
road brotherhOods.
Upton S. JEFFERYS, sometime cor
y poral Company B. Sixth Regiment, ~
G. n. j., who helped Uncle David Baird
out as secretary when the latter was at the
Capitol, is heard from in Washington oc-
casionaly through. his clever work on the
Camden Post Telegram. In Corporal JEFF
feryss absence, however, we have Quay's
old lieutenant, Frank Willing Leech, who
is a big ace with Senator Frelinghuysen,
of New Jersey Frank has been working
with his usual vigor, but gets an occasional
look in upon his home at Tuckerton, New
Jersey. Frank knows much about New
Jersey politics now he did about those of
the Keystone state when big things were
being done.