Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-05
CONGRESSMAN MooRE'S
LETTER
knox's Friendship With crisp-How
Or. r. o. Patterson Helped In Pre-
venting Congressional Inter
ference with Pennsyl.
vanla Mines
Washington. July 3.

| cral excellent presiding officers one of whom
| Congressman Charles r.. Crisp. Of Georgia.
was once parliamentary clerk of the House.
| Judge Crisp is son of the late Speaker
| Crisp. who used to wrestle on the floor with
| the rcdoubtable Tom Reed, of Maine. There
is trait in the character of the Georgia
| representative which everybody in Washing
| ton appreciates and respects-his affcctionate
| reverence for the memory of his father. In
| stnctively his mind goes back to Father"
| and it is touching to observe how that dis
| tinguishcd Statesman's life and character
| continue to influence the son. When some
one recently criticized Senator Knox for his
league of nations speeches, the Georgia rep
rescntatvc perked up and surprised his
hearers by saying, II have high regard for
Senator Knox Then followed this inter
| csting story:
| Speaker Crisp had begun to break down in
| health and he and "Charley" determined to
take sea voyage. They were like boys on
the boat until, being placed at the captains S
table, they fell in with Philander C. Knox, of
Pittsburgh. who was not then u senator
trisps fine conversational abilities soon ap-
peaIcd TO Knox and they became fast friends.
Knox invited the speaker and his son to be
his guests for week while in England The
invitation was accepted and OH reaching
London the knoxcs and the Crisps started
out in yho from London to Oxford
They came back by launch on the Thames to
Windsor. 1t was a great week for both of
them and established good will which con
tinuCd until the elder Crisp died nor has il
ceased as between the Junior senator from
Pennsylvania and the brilliant Georgia par
Humanitarian.
TNfiE work which DIR. Martin W. Barr and
- his assistants at the Pennsylvania Train
ing School for Feeble minded Children are
dong at Eiwyn, Delaware county, the gov
crnmcnt finds it must do in another degree
for many unfortnnates who have been turned
back from service in the army and navy
Vocational training for wounded and disabled
soldiers. who came back from France denied
the opportunities which their physique and
fine mentality promised them before the war,
is one thing which the government is trying
to do now and which it seems to have started
out to do satisfactorily, but the care of those
whose minds are not normal is another big
problem which the government must face pa
tiontIy. AS Doctor Barr has helped to solve
the problem in Pennsylvania. so the govern
mcnt is trying to solve it for the thousands
who have been bcreft of reason since they
entered the service. The old Civil War vet
Grams. who love the surroundings at Hampton
Roads and who are anxious to get back to
their southern homes. really gave way. ac-
cording to the War Department. in order
that thousand or more of these mentally
disabled veterans might be cared for.
COLONEL WILLIAM X. SCOTT, OF the
" John Wanamaker Commercial Institute
who is lining up the boys for their annual
outing on the old camp grounds at Island
Heights. n. j.. does not permit to slip by
many opportunities for boosting his active
organization. The colonel. having made up
records of the boys of the institute who en-
listed for the European war, is now after a
memorial tablet from the wreck O. the battle
ship Maine. on which he desires to place the
names of the Wanamaker Spanish American
War veterans. Many relics of the Maine
have been distributed by the secretary of the
navy in accordance with the law. Major
William Mckinley Camp No. 10, United
Spanish War Veterans. has one. and the
adjutant. James l.. Meredith, is mighty
proud of it,
A PPARENTLY there are no flies on Pitts
burgh. That city is awake and doing
things. A few days ago, through Congress
man Campbell. Democrat who was sup
ported by Republican votes in the last cleo
ton a bill was introduced in Congress ask
ing for $500 zoo. 900 to build a chain of
waterways throughout the United States. the
principal thought being to connect the Pitts
burgh waterways with the Great Lakes and
the Mississippi river and the gulf. Such
system. backed as it is by the Mississippi
valley interests. would put Pittsburgh on the
map for sure. Meanwhile the Atlantic coastal
waterways. which are to be heard at the
Charleston convention in November, would
probably come along somewhere in the push,
not too far in the lead. The scheme is so
.l,a1 La,,. 20 ipn fttI
consideration. Another Pittsburgh lead,
which has the Endorsement of Mayor Bah
cock and the Council. is the establishment of
an aerial postal service station in or about
the Smoky City The postmaster general
and Congress have been memorialized to see
this project through.
DR. FRANCIS D. PATTERSON, of the
~ Philadelphia Club. who is attached to
the Department of Labor and Industry at
Harrisburg. rushed to Washington at the
instance of Governor SprOul the other day
in an effort to destroy rider gring addi
tiOnal powers to the federal bureau of mines,
which had been sneaked in on the Senate side
without notice to the House. The doctor was
hot under the collar, We're a number of
other state officials, who complainedsthey had
been taken by surprise. The purpose of the
rider was to give the bureau of mines fifteen
new inspectors at fat salaries, and the states
representatives contended that they would
only interfere with efficient state regulations
and harass business men. A quick fight was
made against the rider and it went out, the
| House for once standing unanimous against
| the invasion of the Senate.
TNLIJAH c. HUTCHINSON, who repre-
IL sents the Trenton district plods along
| in Washington just the same as If he did not
| know that Senator James Hammond has de-
| cided to become a candidate for Congress in
| 1920. Elijah has been in Congress now for
| two terms, during most of which he has been
| on the agricultural committee, where it has
developed that he knows a good deal about
| potash and fertilizer in which the southern
farmer is interested, and about grain, in
! which the western farmer places his reliance.
! IKE former Congressman J. Davis Brod
| II head j. Washington Logue, Joseph f.