Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-09-11
AS ONE WOMAN SEES 1T
Mayor Moore Has Grown With His
Job and, Among Other Things,
Has Learned How to Talk
Tersely
BY SARAH ID. LOWRIE
r WOULD have liked mighty we'll

VI ulI polltiCal parties tnat tne Mayor ueiu
IN his reception room at City Hall at Mrs.
George Lorimer's suggestion on September
u. But l had to be elsewhere that day.
This Is the second notable meeting which
MIR. Moore has held for Philadelphia women.
The first was at the beginning of his admin
istration and was called at the request of
Mrs. Dunning and under the auspices of the
Philadelphia League of Women Voters. 1t
was notable and instructive affair.
The Mayors Cabinet members were pre-.
his responsibilities and of his plans TO meet
those responsibilities. l amused myself
while listened in drawing outlines OF their
heads as each was discoursing, from the
Mayor down. Later / showed the outlines
without giving any names to a phrenologist.
| remember four of his verdicts on their
bumps or lack Of bumps He said one
OF them was an egotist with a conscience.
one of them saw details somewhat to the
detriment of his accomplishment, another
the fourth was plausible and had imasina-
ton but was without fighting qualities.
T THINK when the present Mayor and his
L Cabinet become part of the history of
the town we shall be able to gauge better
how they have counteracted their bumps
as we'll as how they have lived up to their
ideals outlined on that occasion. But even
now the most carping of us must acknowl.
is better city because of its Mayor and his
advisers and fellow executives.
To us women the two men who were there
that day to promise us better things. who
have accomplished most that we can see and
feel for the good, have becn-besides the
Mayor himself-Dircctor Caven and Dircc-
tor Furbush.
The streets are cleaner. the garbage and
ashes are better collected and the snow is re-
moved will more celebrity and common sense,
nd ho dan nnrt,, ho, pbnI frnu
being an employment agency of Il contractor
boss to city business organization with
no outward friction or delay that counted
to the ordinary householder.
In fact. huge business has changed
hands, and changed hands to the advantage
of the taxpayer, with only good things to be
said of it from housekpepers point of view,
as compared with what went before
A S FOR the changes for the better under
"A the Director of Public Health, for one
can testify that they are thorough and last
ing. If the policy. so we'll and soldy begun
and carried out in this administration. can
be continued for another three years along
the foundations already laid down. ph!la-
delphia will stand we'll in the front III its
care of the sick and the helpless and the
unfortunate. the young and the old among
its dependent and partially dependent Citi-
zens. and it will have n hospital at the scrv
ice of all it's citizens in the Philadelphia
General that other municipalities may well
COPY.
There Is much to be done before that end
is reached, but everything that is being done
is n step nearer that end under the wise
and careful and anXiously calculated plan
ming of DIR. Furbush.
The other departments have most of them
changed hands since that original meeting
Department of Public Welfare it is to be
presumed that Mr.. TuStin's death must
have put an end to certain of his plans
while Mr.. Warburton's changes have not
yet had time to make themselves broadly
felt throughout the community.
That is department in which the women
citizens have n first interest. however, and
the Director should receive n hearty back
ing for his practical changes in methods and
in institutions, no matter how drastic they
may be-
"A LII in good time is good motto, but
n il is often an excuse for doing moth
ing. "No sooner said than done Is another
good motto. | think. and better in the end
than the more lazily safe one.
do not remember what the Mayors own
plans as chief executive were on that oc-
caSion, though he gave them at some length
too great length perhaps. for any of us
TO quite take in. for His Honor certainly
WAS "long speaker in those days. He is
almost tclPgraphic now compared to his for
mcr Use or tlnc ana attention ana II is
greatly to his credit that he has bowed to
the fact that you can say in ten words what
you cannot say in an hour. 1t looked at
one time as though his conspicuous part in
the administration was going to be a talk
fest. but he has certainly surprised US by
conserving his great energy for a more con-
structive output. He not only chose most
Of his Cabinet well. but he has backed them
very finely in their work for the city's good
And he has fought for the city's interest
without regard to his own. and he has lent
a ready ear to progressive measures, no
matter from what quarter.
AN frank to say that he has surprised
i me all along the line. for I had put him
down some years ago as q narrow gauge,
single track. no switch line Of communicn-
tinn between himself and the manufacturers
of his congressional district l got that idea
of him from an interview he somewhat re-
luctantly gave some of us in the suffrage
days when his belief of woman on pedestal
in the back parlor Of the home was his only
reaction TO the proposed equal franchise
amendment.
That interview and the curious way he
had later of seeming 'obStaCle struck" to
say the wrong thing when he spoke to
women publicly gave me wrong idea Of
his stiffness on the 'uptake.'
was much too sweeping in my Judgment
Of his real power TO do the right thing be-
cause it is right rather than because he Is
stubborn. And / think other women besides
myself have changed in our better compre-
hension of him and are solid in our genuine
gratitude to him for having done ''the grand
swallowing act' to his prejudces and been
as fair to the women who voted as he felt
he was being to the women who stood on
pedeStals in that sanctuary of the kitchen
hearth and sewing room and family dinner
table which to Congressman Moore of the
old days seemed to comprise the whole lcgti-
mate horizon of the other sex.
WE WOMEN have genuine desire to do
w nothing to impede his plans and all in
our power to back him up in his real fight
for better Philadolphia--or. rather for
the best Philadelphia
For with the new regime Of politics
coming on and with the Sesqui Centennial
impending, half measures for Philadelphia
must be scrapped. We must have the best.
And what Mayor Moore has done by way
Of beginning for the best, we. its citizens,
men and women. must see to 1t that his
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