Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-06
DR.. KRlEBEL DOES HIS BIT
Educator Who Is Also Good Executive.
Convention Of the Great Unterri-
fled at Which Pat Foley HIt
>the Blq Drum
BY GEORGE NOx MCCAIN
pLUMMER z. JEFFERIs, Of Che,


l do not know any one who is more de
serving of release from public care than
Plummer Jefferis. He has grown gray in the
service of the people. And he has left be-
hind him an excellent record
a Republican. but an independent, he first
came into prominence at the legislative ses e
sion of 1897. His constituents thought so
well of him that they returned him to the
session of 1899.
1t was at the latter session that DR.. John
B. Kendall, the eminent educator and pres
ident of Lincoln University at Oxford was
his colleague. Both were interested in the
anti Quay movement of that period.
In the years that have elapsed since, Mr..
Jctferis has filled a number of Offices in
Chester county, the last being that of mayor
of West Chester.
He has been particularly interested in
education and was for years one of the
trustees of the State Normal School at
West Chester. He has been active as g
contractor, and though still on the sunny
side of seventy has decided that bis remain
ing years shall be years of rest.
nR. o. s. kR1EBEL belongs to that
~ class Of educators who are business cN-
ecutives as we'll as directing heads of edu-
cational institutions.
lie is principal of the Perkomcn School
for Boys at Pennsburg. 1t began years ago
as a modest preparatory school under the
auspices of that rare but militant sect, the
Schwenkfelders. In the course of half
century it has grown to have hundreds of
students, commodious buildings, acres of
campus and all the requirements of an ad
vanced preparatory school.
Doctor kriebel has been responsible for
this.
There is not week in nine months Of the
year, l think, that his big high power car
cannot be seen on the streets of Philadel-
phia, Reading, Harrisburg or Allentown.
And he is always intent Oh business per-
tanning to the institution.
There arc students this year in attendance
from seven foreign countries.
Every returned soldier who applies is
given a scholarship. 1t is expensive for the
school, perhaps, but Doctor Kriebe believes
that doing your bit' does not end with
hostilities.
The war has done wonders for the ad
vanccment of education is the opinion of the
doctor. 1t is due to a stimulated desire for
higher education. Deferred desires" play
a big part, he says. The opportunity to
realize the aspirations of young men for a
higher education is now made possible.
TTOUS DUNN. after summer spent
IL with his family in the heart of the Adj
rondacks, is back home.
He is one of the few insurance engineers
in this country.
1t is a profession that combines architec-
ture, construction and Typographical cngi-
neering. 1t has to do particularly with
manufacturing plants, where fire prevention
is the first essential.
In this class are oil refineries chemical
works, paint and dye plants and similar in
dustries usually turned down in cold blood
by old line insurance companies. The en-
gineering part has to do with the proper
location of buildings. their contiguity to
units of danger and everything that pertains
to the elimination of danger from fire or
explosion
MIR. DUNN was one of the two members
A'1 of the Pennsylvania food administration
who owed their appointment to Herbert
Hoover. He wrote to the national food ad
ministrator, whom he had never met, in
September, 1917, offering suggestions for
campaign of instruction among farmers in
the production and economic distribution of
food The idea came to him on one of his
numerous automobile trips over the state.
A month later he received request to
call at the headquarters of the food admin
istration. Hoover had forwarded his letter
of suggestions with the following laconic
comment:
This man has an idea. 1t looks good.
Better see him."
The Pennsylvania administration adopted
the Dunn idea and Dunn himself. 1t set
him to working it out
1t was Houston Dunn who. in the critical
period in the summer of 1918, arranged for
-
Philadelphia where food could be sold with
out profit should such necessity arise.
Fortunately the crisis passed without
having to resort to this extreme measure.
CHARLES P. DONNELLY, titular head
" of the unterrified Democracy in Phila-
delphia, real estate dealer and political
gets from his Chestnut Hill
home to Broad and Chestnut every day. The
time for his appearance is between 10 and
u o'clock. He mixes up business with his
politics during his daily rounds of banks and
brokers' Offices.
Charlie Donnelly mas lost a perceptible
amount of bis partisan bellgerency of twen-
five years ago. He and the late Patrick
Foley, of Pittsburgh, divided militant honors
then at Democratic state conventions.
In those days, when A. Mitchell Palmer
was yeI al uLuci db p"dtIuuiOI6
and dreams of Democratic empire had not
begun to fit through his sophomore brain
when Vance Mccormick was an inchoate
politician, to whom Ben Myers, of Dauphin,
was a sage to be revered, James NJ. Guffey
was the undisputed czar of the Jacksonian
host. William II. Snowden, William Uhler
Hense, John Ancona, Victor Piolette and
Congressman Tom Mutchler were state lead
ers of proves and renowp.
Pattison's two terms as Governor was
a recurrent inspiration of hope that some
day some other Democrat might grace the
gubernatorial chair.
They had real Democratic conventions
then.
Charlie Donnelly was not always as dig
nifed and suave as he is today. He is mel
lowing with the years. No Democratic
state convention was complete in that era
without shindy. No make believe, either.
1t was red letter day in Reading when
the embattled hosts of Democracy let their