Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-30
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
Mitchell Palmer on the Lecture Plat.
form-Johr q. MaeAfee's Fond.
ness for lordon-Aetivities OF
Mrs. William Ward, Jr.,
OF Chester


tory is being reduced IN commercial
nicely The lecture bureaus. thai have hith
crtN confined themselves TO Sunday schools
and teachers institutes and like gatherings
where the people were willing 10 pay the
price Of admission and take chances on the
Kind Of wit or wisdom they were about to
receive. are offering pubic men, including
cabinet officers. senators. members OF Con
sress and warriors bold. for banQuets or
meetings. terms to be quoted Secretaries
Wilson and Redfeld are said to be available
on certain occasions. and new prospectus
Just out" submits the name of the new
attorney general. A. Mitchell Palmer. who
will talk on German Industrial Army on
American Soil and SO forth. Other Penn
sylvann names include James NJ. Beck, the
Rev. Russell Fl. Conwell. d. d.. and DIR.
Thomas +. Green. Vice President Marshall
is not averse to the lecture platform and
Champ Clark has been at it for years.
30 WHERE you will nowadays you are
" likely to find Philadcphan. They are
thick as feas in Washington. They are
over in Paris and London and along the
banks Of the Rhine. John Blair MacAfee. a
Philadelphia lawyer. whose name still ap-
pears on an Office door in the Grocer Build
ing. has turned up in London not as a Wis
''l' puI as Ont VINO mas DtCullt u'lh'utu w
dear old Lunnon'' and does business there.
Ma"Afce was n good looking fellow with
raven black mustache like Samuel A. Boyle.
the former assistant district attorney, used
to wear. He dressed we'll and had pen
chant for promoting trolley lines. Before
going abroad he was active in advancing
trolley interests in and around Norfolk. and
that work frequently brought him to Wash
ington. He holds some official relation now
to the group of Americans who have cham
Der of commerce ''Over there"
EVIDENTLY the Thomas D. Fnletter
IL Republican Club. which attained more
nooricty than it desired during the Fifth
Ward election troubles. is not going out of
business. Jimmie Carey. the mercantile ap-
praiser. is president of this club and Myer
Michael. a live wire in Fifth Ward politics.
is the secretary. We hear good deal in
Washington about what other clubs are doing
in the northeast. in West Philadelphia and
downtown. but the Fifth Wardcrs are also
represented. and We gather that Jim Fealy,
Andrew J. Ebert. Jim Baker and Edward
+. Hackctt intend to keep the Finletter
standard waving. Magistrate John J. Har-
rigan. who used to be in Select Council. is
the treasurer of this organization. Speak
ing of the Fifth Ward docs any one remem-
bcr when Second and Spruce was u. great
trade center and Jacob Reed had his East
End clothing store down there?
A LADY in California, who is evidently
1 \ impressed by the success of the prohibi-
ton amendment, sends us the following
about tobacco:
We are in need of legislation
To StamD tobacco from our nation
Brain. energy, health it will impair;
These nature never can repair.
1t is a poison sure, though slow:
Men should not have it, no-no--no.
Possibly the poetic impulse of Godfrey
Main may form suitable response to the
delicate suggestion that me mon should quit
smoking and chewing. 1t is submitted as a
sample of modern propaganda.
THE ladies of Philadelphia and vicinity
l. who are interested in waterways and
who have been adding to the attraction of
conventions up and down the coast have been
twittcd little as to their high regard for
water since the women of Chicago voted with
''the vets almost two for one TD to date
however. the sessions of these ladies, whose
president is Mrs. William Ward. Jr., of
Chester. have tended slightly more to the
discussion of woman suffrage than to the
question of prohibition. Mrs. Ward whose
husband was formerly mayor of Chester has
a Washington record on suffrage but that
is neither here nor there when it comes to
talking Chesapeake and Delaware Canal or
the upper Hudson proposition. The vice
president of the Ladies' Auxiliary is Mrs.
Froret. who was formerly Miss Addic Ed
muuds: the second vice president is Mrs
Charles Elmer Smts and the third Mrs.
Moffitt. The ladies have three energetic
officers in Mrs. James Civilian. secretary,
who makes mighty good speech Mrs. C.. F..
Stannard, treasurer. who knows how to get
the funds. and Mrs. f. G. Vessels, chairman
of the entertainment committee who is an
effective organizer when things are to be
done.
WITH Oscar Nol in the hospital. big
w hearted Tom Cunningham. clerk of
| Quarter Sessions and erstwhile chum of the
| late James p. McNichol, has been reported
as Il little lonely. Big Toms loneliness.
| however, is more of personal than Il polit :
| ical nature. He has all he cares to do in
| connection with the Republican Alliance. but
| there is spot in his heart that beats sym-
| pathetcally for the memory Of Sunny Jim''
| and those who were generally in the senator's
| confidence. 1t is said that "poItics makes
strange bed fellows. but it is certainly true
that while many of the old time leaders are