Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-12-06
THEY NEVER REPEAT
One Conviction Ends Election Crimes
In That Dlstrlet-Precious Stones
Found Near PhiIadeIphia-one OF
the Latest Tragedies Of the
World War
BY GEORGE NOX Mccain

I'D l.. ID. ROACH. secretary of the Com
- mittcc of Seventy. despite the fact that
his official business is to ferret out, chase
down and prosecute ballot box crooks. is an
optimist.
He thinks elections in Philadelphia are
growing cleaner and less tainted with crime.
If anybody knows Mr.. Roach does out of
the abundance of his experience with repeat
ers, ballot box suffers, election board crimi-
nails and the general riff f-raff of the political
underworld.
Its a fact. but it's susceptible to proof,
that in no election division in Philadelphia
where We have once secured a conviction for
crime against the ballot has the offcnse been
repeated he said.
That's not saying that the city is free
from criminal acts Of this character. but
they are growing fewer every year.
Election crooks and the men behind them
have learned that once the Committee of
Seventy starts after a man it never lets up
till he is brought TO trial.
ITS the policy pursued by the Canadian
Northwest Mounted Police and our own
state Police. Get your man " is the order;
and we usually get him
'JNHEY arc digging out semi precious stones
Il within thirty five miles of City Hall.
Up in Montgomery County they run across
garnets every once in a while.
In Chester and Delaware Counties they
find moonstones. which when cut and pol.
ished and mounted in gold or platinum grace
the showcases Of leading Chestnut street
jcwclry shops.
The finest mOonstones come from Ccylon.
Just as the finest emeralds come from the
Republic of Colombia. South America, and
from our own South Carolina.
It's only in Chester and Delaware COun'
ties that mOOnStOncs are found in this state.
The Geological Survey, which keeps the
fingers of science on all such interesting
things, has been tOtting up on mOOnstOnes,
sunstones and Amazon stones.
They all are minerals: the finest grade Of
teldspars. OF the commercial fcldSparS there
were produced last year something over
SSl 900 worth, all from Southeastern Penn
sylvania.
In fact there are feldspars. and perhaps
moonstones, in vein under part of Phila-
delphia in a line running from West Phla-
delphia to FrankfOrd and from Germantown
to the SChuylkill.
1t wouldn't be safe bet though. that any
of these stones will be found that would be
worth cutting for jcwCry.
Feldspars are used in emery wheels as
the abrading medium, also in the making of
china, porcelain and glass.
Gem moOnstOnes occur in pebbles and
irregular masses of the COarsCr feldspar.
| haven't heard of any rare finds of the
stone hcreabOuts. though the possibilities
are if any such luck should befall the con-
tractors and miners 1t wouldn't be blaaOncd
forth in the newspapers.
TIIARLIE UNGER was buried the other
~ day in the little cemetery on the hill
beyond PCnnypacker'S Mills.
His burial service was read by tho light
of an electrical hushlight. 1t was only 80
in the afternoon, a dark overcast day.
Several hundred friends and neighbors
hraved the wind and storm to stand around
his grave.
In the forefront with its firing squad was
the Roy $ Leidy Post Of the American
Legion. He had been one Of them.
1t was my great privilege to know Charles
S. Unger years before he enlisted for cover
there"
Young, progressive. college man. quiet
of voice, Christian and gentleman, his
death closed another tragedy that has black.
enNd the name Of the Hun.
lie Ind boon shOckcd and gnSsed