Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-03
MAYOR-ELECT MOORE'S
LETTER
A Significant Framing Of the Issue
Involved in the Council.
manic Line.Up


/ manic Line.Up
CONCERN over the councilmanic situa
" tion is settling down to "watchful
waiting" basis. Messrs. Burch, Conncll,
Develin, Cans, Roper, Won Tagen, Lime
burner, Montgomery. Wegein, Horn and
Patton. who were elected on the same ticket
with the Mayor elect. have justified the
public confidence by standing true to their
guns regardless of the rumors Of pressure
being brought upon some of them, and have
designated Richard Weglein as their choice
for president. Ii is altogether possible under
this arrangement that Mr.. Burch will be-
come chairman of the important finance
committee and that Council will be organ
lied by those who have unhesitatingly pro-
claimed their faith in the new administra.
ton The other ten membcrs-Nlessrs. Cox,
Finley, Gaffney. Hall, McCoach, Hetzcll,
Frankentield. Buchholg, Walter and McKin
ley-have preferred, while processing their
readiness to support the new administration,
to stand alone in the matter Of organization
and with respect to the selection of civil
service commissioners. who, If unfriendly to
the Mayor, would be in a position to ham
string his administration No one disputes
the right of each individual member of Coun
ell to think for himself, except as the ma
jority were elected on platform which they
accepted and which embodied the principles
upon which the Mayor was elected. Fault,
therefore, cannot be found with the eleven
for standing with the Mayor; neither can it
be found with the ten for holding contrary
views if they wish to stand out Independently
of the Mayor in order that they may fairly
criticize his administration. The issue is,
DO any of these councilmcn prefer to stand
with some of the old line members who re-
fuse to go along with the Mayor, and thus
take their chances of finding comfort in the
society of those whom the Mayor may ulti-
mately regard as unfriendly to his admins
tration?
D DEGISTRATION COMMISSIONER e.
1S LAWRENCE FELL belongs to that in
teresting Swarthmore group of which Gov
ernor Sproul, Attorney General Palmer, Fed
cral Reserve Director Il. Pusey Passmore,
Morris l.. Clothier and other prominent
Philadelphians are members. Two other
members of the group are former Congress
man w. w. Cocks, of the Long Island dis
trict, who was succeeded by his brother
Frederick G. Hicks, who changed his name
in order to carry out the Hicks line of the
family. which was becoming extinct. For
mer Congressman Cocks, who is now in
Clearwater, Fla, keeps in close touch with
Philadelphia politics, since he and his
brother Fred are so familiar with some of
its active figures.
DRESIDENT CALWELL, Of the Corn
Exchange Bank, has started an agitation
along the line of the Atlantic deeper water
ways project for increased canal facilities.
He pictures "the return of the towboat'
and predicts that 100000 tons of freight
Nrin hn ;nI 81, IL
Philadelphia and New York when our con-
templated canal improvements between New
York and Baltimore are in full swing. There
is reason TO believe that many of the railroad
managers arc now coming to realize that
barge service between New York and Phila-
delphia will be of distinct advantage to the
railroads because it will create new business
that could not but assist the railroads, which
have been overdone in certain of our con-
gested industrial districts.
CAPTAIN JACQUES NJ. SwAAB, the
~ Philadelphia Singerly School boy who
became an ace in the European war, having
brought down ten German airplanes. the
cost of which was estimated at $3.50 900, has
become a member Of the board of governors
of the American Flying Club, recently formed
by American aviators who few over enemy
lines during the war. This new organization
has in its membership a great many of the
pilots in the United States, number of
airplanc manufacturers and few civilian
workers of the war. 1t contemplatcs a ma
tional charter if one can be obtained.
Upton S. JEFFERYS and Frank +.
~ Patterson are big boosters for the New
Jersey Pennsylvania bridge In fact all
Camdenites are strong for this proposition.
Mayor Ellis is frank enough to say it would
help to build up his city and add to the i'm
portance of Philadelphia. There are many
Philadelphians who feel the same way about
it. One thing is certain, the ferryboats are
becoming so crowded as to be almost n
menace to health if not to life. During fush
hours passengers arc crowded in the cabins
like sardines in box. No one wants to
check the ferry business, but every one should
feel friendly to the introduction of new facili-
ties for giving public comfort and convent
ence. The bridge seems to be the alternative
Governor Sproul wants it. so does the gov.
crnor of New Jersey. Philadelphians and
Peunsylvanians have interests all over the
state of New Jersey, particularly at the sea
shore. and we now discover that New York
and the upper reaches of New Jersey would
like to have the bridge as a relief measure
for those who do business with the upper
.IcdcheS OF thc state across the way,
HERE is an acrostic which Judge Will
L. liam Fl. Stake, of Common Pleas No
>, once presented to the Five O'clock Club :
Faithful
Loving and Loyal
Obedient
Watchful
Earnest and Energetic
Right minded and Righteous
Servant"
lie revives it for men who 20 into the
public service determined to do right. The
judge is thinking of the bouquets that come
the way of those whom the public approves.
DRINGING the dredge Corazal up the At
- lantic coast by Cape Hatteras. for work
in the Delaware river. is said TO have been
more hazardous than sending the vessels from
the Pacific entrance TO the Panama canal
oround Irann Horn oil tbo ,,.