Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-05-05
! As ONE WOMAN 'sEfs Il
The Young Person In Politics. Usually
Hard to Find, Has Turned Out
In Full Force FOR Or. George
Woodward
BY SARAH ID. LOWRlE

find myself these days look about and find
no person under thirty five and the majority
on @ Where sss EVEN %yss sre the co%ears se
lively yOunE?'
| Once one youngish married woman strayed
into an organization meeting where l oc-
hoarse excited whisper whether she liked
NO she hisscd. 81 hate them and
cannot make head or tail Of them"
land trying to find any young person who
was enthusiastic about voting or about
elections or about candidates: and have
only found counterparts Of that first one,
opposed. but one and all were unhepful
POLITICALLY until today, when ! ran into
group Of fiery young enthusiasts. young
chaps who spend their evenings electioneer-
snps srosmG snGh or ss III :sSn ounx tina, ave !:
ment' covers the wards out BY Roxboroush.
Germantown. Tiosa and Oak Lane. And
the candidate whose cause they have. made
present state Senator. who is running TO
succeed himself as Independent Republican
candidate.
7 HAVE been curious to know why ne.
L Of all the candidates. has reused this
working enthusiasm In the young, and I
discover that they like him because they
believe in him.
They think that he has from the first
stood for saving the peoples money, that
his urgence for State budget. his work on
the commission for reorganizing the State
departments and his whole influence with
regard 10 state welfare institutions have
been to cconomze in luxurics and deal lib
orally with necessities The oncoming gen.
Grafton hates what it calls "a mess" and
prefers simplicity to show. 1t is sharp over
bargain and is disgusted with bribe.
takers and has a mighty contempt for prof.
teerlnR COuntry'S fho
soldiers saw Of the waste Of the war sick.
ened them perhaps unduly with the whole
IDEA or the Government as n spender and
prGvider' s11 .v.n,. !. i. ~. ,,,n,.. ......,.
who are helping Senator Woodward keep
his seat up at Harrisburg. They say
frankly that they like his record and prefer
who is running t against him as the regular nn
lfp lHfepublican , for that part Of town. "The
Dentzel, who manufactures carrousels and
is the particular friend of Councilman Cans.
who rules the Thirty eighth Ward with a
nrm thumb.
7 DO not know the ms and outs of Cans
l. and his friend hut T do L,o, .h,t O..
years Senator Woodward bos haen m NO, anan. ~.
minded and Intelligent fr;onI - noeI ''n.
up i'm unrrishmra and IN this o;tu ~ s'ou CAUSES
Il once asked him how he vof ;rvo,vod IN
noi,tics and ha saiJ INV .bM. ne got lnvoVed IN
md ~ 1AAtAl
while serving on that hoard j. str"cL h,n,
one dov ~ IooI ;nto H'a,u ,a. =. % stIuck MN
ton of the city's supnlv. liz tool q hnat
and photographer and went up the river.
details to scare even The C,;tv CoSnoii NJ
scare grew. and every t;mse thoro wos A"r on
outbreak Of typhoid those nhotoororh wor. %s
so many nightmares. EyentualIv the
filtration was The result. '"'
From then on the whole matter of c,tv
welfare became m absorh,n~ $780,. ty
Woodward. He could occompi,sh nn,,ah ~
private means. for he and his wife nre r,cS
spot h nn IN tne center & OF the town. was bought
oroot ioi,imr ho''.n w w n'oney ana Y
acreage Esbihits - "uha had OF ms cleared
droinsoe hoJ nitr n,."n,,, "u nousnk, pau
of chiid weIfare wera snt M uE"G,anI , Il. nee,ect
Hail Snuare for the nnbIic ~ - ~ road .ne III. y
and !rhn mend; %io,. n,,..ou =. ~. ,,,v
and the teochers seior rios 'ne hed puo1G ~; SCHOOLS
treIess nha'nn;o sa'"r,es TIES nad IN woodward
So much his enthusiasm tbot !, ,,"nt r. was
name. The woodward real estate settle.
Lincoln Drive wos ona ~ tha "S &C.. a'ons tne
mains ono ~ tha host "' vol, oa 'ne nrst ana re-
tions in The comntrw 'e"' estate orsan'za-
It is a model for beoutv ond for oor,.,..
Landlord md ten"nt Thar. aea'ins ana oetweeh
tif"i mrivate "e "n"os ohnmt % are many beau.
on the gates Of most is Tho notina pHe
Mh,roursfaro - m"t ,ne hotlce, NO
nnv,Is ns .t u. 10 lohg Vlstas OF the
Saou ,ra,on a Tue ,o ooawaroS the public has
otsn. Toie thinos n, io[ years. hese and many
o;ded Nv tho nnhio '' ~ aoun uUuu accomplish un-
nassnre ~ Good Laws nnd suetn.' fa bue 1or the
nma ,anso,e, M"S % meeTvI thah private wealth
Senator and why he has been urged to RIM
again and why the younger generation. his
sons friends and little groups of young men
from hoxporough to the York road. have
sprung up 10 see MIN back for another term.
r DARE sov IN in Horr,sh,u
49,. 49, .''I ''oufs there are
- other men more popular than he is be.