Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-11
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Serving the Government on a Dol
lor-u-Yeur Basis-Champions
OF Philadelphia Port in
the Capital
Washington, Feb. II.

Washington, Feb II.
THAT busy group of American mothers,
headed by Mrs. Frederic Schoff, of Phil.
adelphia, has been represented In Wash.
ington recently in an effort to obtain con-
gressional sanction for what is known as
the Home Education Division of the Bu-
reau of Education. These women consti-
tute the National Congress Of Mothers
and Parent-Teacher Associations having
| headquarters here on Massachusetts ave.
nue.. some of them have been serving the
| government on the dolar.a-year basis
| They have distributed vast quantities of
| literature on the care of the home and
| particularly on child welfare, and have the
| friendly interest of the Commissioner of
! Education, especially for the work done in
remote states, where the encouragement
of home life is an important factor in
citizenship. Apart from Mrs. Schoff, who
is president'of the national congress, Phila.
delphia Is represented on the board of Off
GERS by Mrs. A. II. Reeve, of Chestnut Hill;
Mrs. George X. johnson and Mrs. Il. r.
Stotesbury. DIR. William p. Wilson. of the
Commercial Museum, is on the advisory
council
THE Websters, the Bernards the IIass-
- karls and the Sproules are known to us
here as the practical fellows in the port
boosting business In Philadelphia. They
boost at home and they back 1t UP in
Washington by putting in an appearance
before the departments and Congress com.
mittees. They come with the support and
encouragement of the Holtons, the Crafts,
the Albrechts. the Triggs and the fuckers
all good maritime names-and sometimes
~ b. Kelley comes too The had Bob Haight,
Of the Pennsylvania State Chamber of Com
merce, with him on the last trip, and
Captain John Virdin, of the Pilots Asso-
citation. And now that Elmer Schichter,
Of the Department Of Wharves Docks and
Ferries, Is improved in health and back
on the job 1t is to be assumed that that
live and timely publication, THE Port of
Philadelphia" will duly chronicle all the
Capitol doings of the parties in interest
AS the Arizona Bugle might say. The way
to keep your town alive, Elmer, is to
agtate, by heck"
WHEN james G. Blaine's oratory was
w yielding to the requirements of official
life, and men like George Graham and
Charley Warwick were depended upon to
thrill Republican audiences, new oppon.
ent Of the tariff appeared in the upper
reaches of Philadelphia in the person of
Michael J. O'Callaghan. m. j." as the
tn ioi;,
rates" and schedules" and Compensatory
duties And when he twisted the lions
tail, or twirled the workers dinner pail
there were mighty few who dared dispute
his arguments. David Martin and the
late William j. Roney encouraged Michael,
and after he located in the Twentieth
Ward he drifted naturally into the camp of
David II. Lane. M. j." has not given up
his interest in politics, but there's boy
over in France whose career just now is,
for the moment, taking the parental mind
away from the problems of protection
and free trade. The young fellow is Mau.
rice ]. O'Calaghan, a member of Machine
Gun Battalion 105, Twentyseventh Divi.
sion, u. S. A. Like his father the boy
studied law. He was graduated from
Fordham University law school in New
York and proceeded to practice over there
When the war broke out he was doing
well. and the day before he enlisted an i'm
portant case he had argued against the
Attorney General of New York was decided
in his favor. What the father would like
to know is Will that bright boy have a
chance to come back and resume his prac.
hafnra n ic io
same question thousands of fathers and
mothers are asking about their brave sons
abroad. The answer rests with those to
whom Congress has delegated the power.
Young O'Callaghan was a classmate at ST.
Joseph's College of former Congressman
Logue's son, who died in the service.
TT PEOPLE would know why revenue
L bills are necessary under this admins.
tration they have only to keep track of
the great appropriation bills that have
been coming along recently with studied
regularity. Although the rivers and har.
bors bill is the most fiercely assailed of any
of them, 1t is so close 20 the foot of the
list as to be insignificant. Even the agri-
cultural bill this year, carries $31 900, ,OOO
That is an increase of $4,000 900 over last
year, and the additional $4,000, 900 is almost
exclusively for additional experts and
clerks. The bureau of markets, for in
stance, which is opposed by the Philadel-
phia Produce Exchange and a number of
other organizations as being a hindrance
rather than help to business, jumped its
demands for salaries In the main office
alone from s3SO,S5O last year to s671.SlO
this year. New clerks were added and
salaries increased to such an extent that
the Republicans succeeded in putting a
Limitation on the power Of the Secretary
of Agriculture 10 divert lImn-sum annro-