Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-28
CONGRESSMAN MooRE's
LETTER
How Frank M. Ritter and Charles r.
Warwick Came to Blows-Albs q.
Johnson's New Activities.
David kirschbaum as a
Prophet
Washington, May 2S.

safety. and that when the great Peace
Jubilee celebration took place the director
had big hand in putting the show in order.
Ritter had become very friendly with War
, wick in the city solicitors Office. where he
had served as an assistant Of the latter, and
the two worked well in harness at City Hall.
| But there was ono little episode growing
out of the excitement of the Peace Jdbiee
that proved the mettle Of the men under try
ing circumstances. IT was all about the dis
tributon of grand stand tickets. the most
perplexing of problems. MS Joseph =. Gaf-
ney and Isaac ID. lIctzcll. of the council
! manic committee on the recent demonstra-
tion in honor of the Twenty eighth Division
will attest The row was on and the Mayor.
who was pretty handy with his fists, con.
! cludcd to sit with the committee on dis
tribution and help keep the crowd at bay
until the job was done. A guard was put
on the door of the committee room and told
to admit no one under any circumstances
The guard was doing his best when along
came the director of public safety and de
manded admittancc. The guard had been
turning down millionares. military heroes
and councilmcn alike. and in the presence
of the others he rejected the director.
1hcreupon those on the inside, where the
Mayor with his coat off was struggling with
the tickets. heard loud voices and crash
which meant that the director had backed
up against the door and knocked in the
panel with his heel. Although on his re-
cent birthday the placidity of his handsome
fn,, ,I,oIl ~. 4. -
betokcn peace and amablity, the director
was perspirngly animated to say the least.
when he found himself facing the Mayor
for his honor had rushed TO the door in an
attitude that would have delighted "Phila-
dclphia Jack O'Brcn to know who had
dared TO violate his orders. AS the few sur
vivors who witnessed the incident might
say, 1T was lively scrap The Mayor
led and the director "countered, but
both soon cooled down that the worri-
some process ~ ticket adjustment might pro
coed. And when the great event was over.
the President and the heroes gone, no two
men were happier. none more deserving of
the compliments bestowed upon them by
those who had enjoyed the city's hospitality.
than Charley Warwick and his friend and
director, Frank NJ. Ritter.
DHILADELPIIIA law firms have had
adjustment
income tax matters since the new revenue
law went into effect. 1t has been highly
important for many big concerns to consult
their lawyers with regard to the intricate
questions that have arisen In the old days
much OF this business 'drfted to concerns
like those headed by the late John G. Bullitt,
Richard c. Dale and Samuel Dickson Such
concerns represented the railroads and the
large financial institutions. Judge a. NJ.
Beitler left the bench to join Samuel Dick
son. the last survivor of this group. 1t is
not so certain that the political faith of
Democrats like Samuel Dickson would have
remained unshaken during the strange finan-
cial conditions that have since come upon
US. The late John G.. johnson was also one
| of those big legal minds who viewed with
| concern the tendency toward government
ownership.
| THE activities of Alba r. johnson are cyi-
| l. IDENTIFY not to cease with his retirement
from the presidency of the Baldwin I.ocomo-
tive Works. Mr.. Johnson is president of
the Railway Business Association and as
| such is helping to draw the attention of
| Congress to the matter of railway main
! tenance during government control II is
| claimed by some of the railway men that
the government maintenance of railroads has
| not been adequate during this paternal over
| sight. and as to this they contend that if
| the government is not maintaining the roads
up to standard then it is keeping out of en-
| ployment vast army of men who would
otherwise be producing materials for up-
keep and replacement. Associated with Mr..
johnson in the work referred to are a num-
| Der of distinguished business men from nil
parts of the country, the Pennsylvanians
being s, NJ. Curwen, of Philadelphia, and
A. j.. Humphrey, Frank J. Lanahan and
Stephen c. Mason, of the Smoky City.
| IVES. Congress is in session again and the
Washington newspapers are happy. The
| peace negotiations. the tremendous govern
mcnt expenditures, investigations incident to
| the war. all these may have modest mention
in the columns of the capital press. but Dis
trict appropriations, clerks retirement bills.
| increase of nay for everybody in--1Iblic life
get the headlines on the front page Wash
ington is the biggest little government en-
| ployment bureau in the country and the
newspapers here are always ready to give
| encouragement to the demands Of the of
fetal force. Enough bills for salary in
creases are already under consideration to
make some congressman from the interior
think that the chiefest business of the
nation is to indulge those who are for
tunate enough to be in its employ.
IF DAVID KIRsCHBAUM, the big cloth
ing factor in Philadelphia should be in
vited by the Manufacturers Club to rede
liver the speech he made to n convention of
the National Association of Clothiers in
New York in February. 1916 it would sound
| like prophecy. In that speech Mr.. Kirsch-
baum referred to weak men in high places. l."
and without mentioning names he did not
spare certain important individuals in
Washington and elsewhere: but the big cues
ton put to his audience by this clear headed
| business man was his rejection Of the notion
that substantial men who represent the
practical thought of this country could
successfully match their wits against the
wits of the world" There was too much of
| the enthusiastically theoretical in that sup