Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-09
CONGRESSMAN MoORE'S
LETTER
How Congressman Ware Secured the
Fourth Of July orator-"Tony"
Biddle's Interest In Athletics.
John w. Wescott as Orator
at Boxing Match
Washington. JGy o.


picion, that the insstence upon con
timing many of tbe war oct;r;t;os Z, Wash
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N"' sun. ,''"'ion W '"e
campaign OF l92o. Careful political man
| ayers like A. Mitchell Palmer, Joseph p.
Tumulty and Vance NcCorr,iok ,ra lnked
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SITUATION IL IS not difficult even for the
uninitiated to see that the longer the power
of the administration 10 noruitted to thrive
r,o, .ho ool.. 49,, .-..I
'p0N 'D' A'"' "'"o'' WHICH 'ne "'' i'' ecu
Mr. isoh iol'o"ers when the next presi-
dental battle comes along. 1t is by no
| means certain that Mr.. Wilson'S foreign
negotiations have made n hit with tho conn
try so far as presidential aspirations are
concerned but IL is certainlv fart tbat
no President has ever had so much money
or so many men at his d;sposal as President
Wilson. No other President was ever given
500. 600 900 and more TO spend as he saw
fit nor did any other Chief Executive have
the power to create and employ so many
bureaus, agencies and commissions TO do his
bidding.
Congress is not altogether free from re-
sponsibility for the tremendous powers con
ferred upon the President, but since the
armistce and the more recent ppace nego-
tiatiOns it has been making n heroic effort
to get back to earth The administration
managers have watched this tendency with
some concern. and finding that Congress
meant business, have already covered in"
by executive order some Of the war agencies
that were marked for slaughter A battle
of the administrative and legislative wits
to determine the fate of many supposedly
they involve thousands of Offices held by
deserving Democrats or designing incum
bents--is undoubtedly pending.
CCORE one for Congressmor yoro The
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Ill., .nc i'".l' fi, 'ahl.s w. .oou' OIL iowa hdrr
'"Np' opie a"sp,''s enters 1o"h II.
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nu,S ,o''''.h.'ee. RON 'ihle inhTlnorlal IL
in, has or',n tr Tue prerosatiVe o, Mr. halHey TO
.'"u 'ne Processlon oi SPEAKERS 10 the pat
@ loi Il. a. ihuepenuehre nun on 'ne nation
s.'u' "oi,a!. WI nahies "anueu ,r, spenh
VI 10 u',on". ~, pton'in.nce' C iHe question tr,
was put up 10 1onslessnlan t a,a 'h!e' , me
tons committee. and so Philadclphia Sc
cured its Liberty Bell orator for the Fourth
of July
MATTHEW G. BRUSH gets big salary
1Vl for being president of the American
international Shipbuilding Corporation.
which controls Hog Island. but good mapv
Washingtonians are beginning to believe he
is worth it. The secret seems to be in the
newfangled trade term efficiency. Mat
thew-he calls himself Matt" and induces
others to do it on short acouaintance-is n
hustler, or rather a hustling engineer with
very broad views. Given pIentv of money
Brush would probably take n contract for
tunnelinp the Atlantic or nontooninp if
such is his faith in the power Of organization
directed by the ''knowing' human animal
The Hog Island president believes in tbe
systematic application of human energy.
lie has appeared before congressional com
mittees and surprised those appoipted to
ipterrogate him by his breadth of vision.
He SURPRISES the hoys Mt the island bv his
ability 70 get in with them on the nracticaI
side of s6ipbuilding. And as a speech
maker-weU, Speaker Gillett. Earl Red
ding Samuel Gompers and others nrettv
we'll IN in the game can testify as 70 his
adantabilitv in that regard.
w ,tton+;on of tbo bistorion, Thoro is
Jobn w Jordan. librarian of the Histori-
caI Society Of Pennsylvania. for instance
,er;tabla comnendium of literary thought
I'D information Rut who wonId tb;nk of
LIZ d;ggino info the nrosaic tonic of water-
wavs and TRANSFORMATION? And vet Mr.,
Jordan has inst pneartbed the "Proceedinps
~ tho Canal Convention. assembled at
T.rre Haute Nav % 1S45 for the mr.
700 ~ considering tbe hest mode of annlv
ing the proceeds of the liberal grant of land
hr ne tba General Government toward ertend-
;no +be Wabash and Erie canal to the Ohio
- e - Erons,,;Ilo ,, A, oouo,ly ;,tarost