Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-04-19
CONGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
Maurice q. Saul as John G. Johnson's
Sueeessor-PopuIarlty Of x.Ray
Dentistry-conditions at
Camp Lee
Washington. Anril 10.

VINO lived his profession passed away, and
| we now read of Maurice Bower Saul. his
'Mccessor.' The Office Of John G.. johnson
was one worth tying to. 1t did not turn
out great number of students like that of
Frederick Carroll Brewster, but it was
busy office. doing big business dependent
largely upon the wonderful industry and
wisdom of the big man who controlled it.
For many years Frank =. Prichard was Mr..
Johnson right bower. He was man of
ability and public spirit. thoroughly trusted
by all the johnson clients, but he. too, soon
passed away. And now comes Maurice Saul,
the next in line ito succeed" John G. John
son. 1t is highly creditable to an Industrious
young lawyer and ought to be satisfactory
to j. E. NJ. Keller and Charley Thomson,
who used to work in cahoots with the father.
Charles G. Saul, and Professor Lawrence in
negotiating Republican procedure in the
eighteenth division of the Thirty second
Ward.
WASHINGTON dentists, like those of
w Philadelphia and other large cities. have
had good season, due largely to dental
photography. The application of the y ray
to the upper and lower jays has brought on
IAN epidemic of abscesses>' at the roots of
offending molars. and extractions and treat
ment have been the regular order. Congress-
man Peter E. Costello is among the states
men sroup who were given the choice be-
tween years of misery and an operation.
Senator Penrose, who is little touchy about
his anatomy, also submitted to an cxamina-
tion Stuart Reed, West Virginia mem
Der of the House, has been carrying around
photograph of his bicuspids, with an alb
scess under one of them, that so remind him
of winter scene on the banks of the Ohio
NhnN1 Al, l.
part with it. DR.. George F. Root, of the
Union League; DR.. A. II. Macpherson, who
belongs to the old Doctor Street family; DIR.
Earle Rice. who HES himself to his Toms
River bungalow on occasional week ends, and
DIR. w. {. Il. Bauere, who grew up in the
office Of Senator David Martin, are among
the Philadelphians now operating along the
new lines. Members of the Ocean City Fish,
ing Club are beginning to complain that
Bauerle's researches are causing him to neg
lcct his duties to the club. Fish, they say,
also have teeth.
DECENT complaints about the apparent
~ excess of officers and men to look after
the patients at the base hospital. Camp
Lee. Virginia. have been answered by Col
onel Il. B. Miller, indicating that most of
the overseas cases have now arrived in this
country and that the department feels safe in
reducing the capacity of the base hospital at
that point. The hospital has been considered
as having capacity of 214O beds, many of
them held in anticipation of sick and
wounded coming from the other side The
commanding officer. however, has been di-
rected to reduce his personnel to what is
considered sufficient to care for 1900 pa
tients. A number of Philadelphians who have
been held up at Camp Lee will be interested
in iu IL Al..l
pita service brings to mind the fact that
DR.. Walter A. Wood of Philadelphia, until
recently a captain in the medical corps who
was formerly with Base Hospital No. 6S in
France, is now in charge of Evacuation Hos
pital No. IA at Coblenz on the Rhine. Cap
tain Wood was advanced to the grade of
jor in February last.
uENRY r. EDMUNDS, who for so many
L years has been active in educational
matters in Philadelphia, was a brother in
law of Joel Cook, former congressman from
the Second district. He has survived
the Philadelphia editor congressman, who
during the life of the late George W. Childs
was American correspondent of the London
Times, and his son, George w. Chlds Cook,
whose death occurred more recently. The
Edmunds family has kept in touch with the
surviving member of the Cook family. Mrs.
Edmund H. Kase, wife of a former Philadel-
phia physician who is now in active prac-
tice in Los Angeles, Calf Doctor Kase mar
ried Miss Cook when the family resided on
Broad street near Poplar, across from the
Metropolitan Opera House. He is making
good out West.
GENERAL LOUIS WAGNER, who had
Y
that one of his boys should become an army
officer. Brother Louis went into the insur-
ance business, but another son-Harry S.
Wagner-concuded to make a try out for
the army. He did so early enough to be
commissioned for service in our colonial DOS
sessions, and since then has been rising
gradually in the military field. 1t would
do the general good if he were living to know
that his boy Harry is now full fedged
colonel of infantry in the United States army
and has become one of the experts in the
tactical use of modern weapons of warfare.
Colonel Harry is on duty at the Infantry
School of Arms, Camp Benning Georgia,
where he is assistant comma ndant and di-
rectos of training. The members of the
Lincoln Club will recall that Harry Wagner
and Charles c. Allen. now also n regular
army colonel, went into the service about
the same time and have both attained dis
tinction.
TT is the opinion of many knowing ones
1 in Washington that the "solid South is
not SO strong under the Wilson administra-
ton as it has been. Northern members who
70 South come back with stories of apathy
that are almost unbelievable. The truth is
that many southern business men are be-
coming skeptical about the Presidents world
plans and are particularly critical of the
modern tendency toward government owner
shin The taking over of the railroads by
Mr.. McAdoo and Mr.. Burleson's actions on
assuming control of the telegraph and tele-
phone lines cannot be said to have met
unanimous approval in the South. Many
Phiadelphians now at southern hotels note
this change of sentiment in the editorial col
umns of southern newspapers. Witness our
own congressman, George S. Graham, and
Charles j. Harrah. formerly president of
the Midvale Steel Company, who connected