Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-18
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
How the Five O'Clock Club Doomed
delphla-controller WaIton's
Military Record-Ursinus Col.
lege and the Clark Me.
mortal Organ


Washington. June IS.
WHILE the Five O'clock Club has n mem.
w bcrship limited to thirty five and is only
a dining organization. it has been doing
important things for Philadelphia during the
last month that count here in Washington.
First, its members made an up-rivcr tour
to inspect the shipyards in the vicinity of
Bristol. 1t is pleasaner in warm weather
to have an al frcsco affair than to put on
evening clothes, so while enjoying them
selves on their up river jaunt the members
OF tn" club, who are very substantial Phil
adephians, were able to inform themselves
and their guests upon public affairs. The
taking over to Philadelphia of the new
speaker of the House. Mr.. GHlctt, to wit
ness launching at Hog Island, however,
proved that the festive Five o'Clockcrs were
able to do turn. for the city and the Della
ware river which might we'll have been
intrHStcd to some commercially organized
promotion society. And the way they did it
is what pleased the Washngtonians, for it
left i'll the minds of the latter decidedly
pleasant impression of 'thc real thing in
the life of the Quaker City. On his return
to Washington the speaker. who is a
Massachusetts man. admitted that his eyes
had been opened with regard to the Della
ware river and the industrial and COM
mcrca possibilities of the Philadelphia
environment Mr.. 1.ongworth. an Ohio
man. spoke in a similar strain. He said
il was good to know Philadelphia and Phil
adcIphians better. This same thought was
expressed by Mr.. Dunn, of New York, who
was once state treasurer over there; Mr..
WnSlOw. of Massachusetts, a big manu-
ia"turcr. who recently warmed up to Penn
syIvnnia while attending the Bach Festival
at B"thehem; Mr.. Campbell of Kansas.
whose constituents are too busy farming
know mIlph Dbout what ig going along
til" Delaware river, and Mr.. Green, of
Iowa, from which state occasional COM
pant is heard with regard to the so called
big interests of the East. All in all,
what the Five o'Clockrrs did was ex-
trcmcy helpful in warming up the leaders
at tn" capital to the big men and the big
things in Philadelphia. Few of us realize
how much we have to show to the visitor
when we go about doing it in the right way
CAPTAIN JOHN NJ. WALTON. city
" controller. has a moro intimate knowl
edge Of big men in Washington than many
of his confreres about the City Hall. His
old military record stands him in good stead
in this regard. In the ''sixtcs," following
the civil war. the captain was an Indian
fighter under General Graham, a Virginian
with II fine military record from whom the
captain derived much of that military pre-
riSion which characteriZcs his direction of
affairs in the controllers office. The method
of his appointment to the army is inter
csing. George W. Chds had something
to do with it, SO had General George &.
Meade, who was frequent visitor at the
Childs office. If the captain told the story
of the letter written in his behalf by Gen
cral Meade to General Grant it would de-
light the younger soldier accustomed to
modern military discipline. That letter was
to be delivered ''pcrsonally' to General
Grant and the essence of the story is in the
way the young PENNSYLVANIA who wanted
to fight finally got it into the hands of the
great soldier. And it is noteworthy that
Prothonotary Henry F. Walton. a brother
OF the captain, wears two service stars, an
indication that the military spirit has not
yet gone out of the Walton family.
TUNE, the month of brides, roses and
y commcncements. has given the Penn
sylvana schools and colleges fine oppor-
tunity to display their work of the year.
Nicholas Larzelerc, of Norristown. and
Congressman Henry W. Watson, of the
Bucks Montgomery district, are both very
much pleased with the outcome at Ursinus,
Cocgeville. Under the efficient direction
of Dr. George Leslie Omwake, this institu-
tion seems to have borne up exceptionally
we'll during the war In fact. it stood very
close to the head of the list for war service
Cyrus II. X. Curtis, John Wanamaker and
Alba B. .Johnson--whO need no introduction
to a Philadelphia audcnce-have interested
themselves in CrSinuS and constitute the
advisory council. 1t would have done Rich
ard tampon's heart good to listen at the
commencement to the tones of the Clark
organ, since that instrument was set up as
a memorial to his personal friend, the author
and tariff expert, Charles Heber Clark, of
Norristown.
John SINNOTT, Joseph G. Trainer, Carl
y F. LAUDER and other Philadelphia dis
tillers are looking to the White House for
some relief measure to enable distillers and
others to dispose of from &C, 200, 900 to
50, 600 600 gallons of whiskies of various
ages that are now stored in United States
bonded warehouses throughout the country.
1t is a serious problem which the President
has not indicated a purpose to alleviate
except as he suggested in his message to
Congress that there might be a lifting of the
ban on beer and wine. National prohibition
takes effect at the end of the year, but it is
the period between June 30 and December
80 that gives concern to the distillers with
regard to stock on hand. The revenue
Office has been discussing the possibility of
extracting the alcohol from the whisky in
bond, but that has not relieved those who
have so much money invested in warehouse
stock. The revenue loss is going to be heavy,
but that Is not all. Soda water, ice cream
and the like asked to be relieved of taxes.
though they are largely used as substitutes
for the harder stuff. Meanwhile, enforce
ment of the law in prohibition states is
costing the Federal Government large sum.
THERE are two men in Congress who are
l. entitled to wear five service stars. One
of them is Florian Lampert, of Wisconsin,
who sent five sons across the water, and the
other is our Pennsylvania veteran, General
Willis J. Hulings, who contributed like
number of boys to the European war. The