Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-01-03
WHY WYATT WOULDN'T GO
Venerable Negro Gives Congressman Glass Some Reasons Why He
Can't Be Fired

Cannon has rounded out n similar period
From now on Mr.. Cannon is trav-
ehng out into virgin field, is lengthcning
a congressional record which no man has
ever ,equaled is making il harder each day
,or tnoSe who come after him to wrcSt from
him his laurels
Out in Danvile. Illinois. there are men
who have cast their ballots for half century
VINO have never voted for any other candidate
for Congress but Uncle Joe. He has been
the nominee of his party in twenty five con.
secu9ve campaigns Twice he has been do
feated, twenty-five times elected, and begins
a new term on March 4 next.
Through the fifty years Of his association
with various law firms. Elihu Root has held
TO one principle. Whoever in these firms
prepared brief, be he the most obscure in
dividual in the whole organization, his name
always appeared upon that brief
Richard NJ. Whitney, ncwspapcrman and
Latin American expert, was telling Of his
cGIIow youth back in the middle ninctics
when he was sophomore at Harvard.
>, lie was sort OF protcgr of DR.. Edward
Everett Hale, who wrote The Man With.
out n Country So. when he got what he
thought was large idea he went TO DR..
Hale with it. He proposed that right then,
nj thc close of the nineteenth century, he
write complete history of TINT century TO
be ready for distribution as it came to an
end. "''
DIR. Hale listened nttcntiycly. lie was
sympathetic. He suggested that the two of
them go over and discuss. the matter with
John Fiskc, the historian
Inns they did, and young Whitney poured
tortA his complete vision in burst of cnthu-
Siasm which could not be- throttlrd down
until he had talked an hour.
These two distinguished gentlemen listened
dctcrentially. Then John FiSkc said:
II am afraid YOU have not sutfir ont time"
Why, there is four years" said htncy
u AIN writing a history Of the Province
Of Catalonia. in Snain," said Johu Fsie.
for the year IJ23 have been working
on 1t for fourteen years"
Charlie Moran was the coach for "tho
praying CoIonels, that football team from
Centre College, Kentucky, which prOIcd the
sensation of the recent season.
When he was Il boy down in Tennessee
he wIS built exceedingly storiy and 50 every
body in the back lot buscbai circles of his
ncighborhood called him "rubsic. "
Not long ago he va, umpirng II fon,bolI
game down at San Antonio, Texas, and right
IN the midst of the p ay there came from our
of the grandstand this call:
"HclIo, Tubsic"'
Moran stopped the game right there. lie
walked over to the grandstand and de-
mandcd:
"Who is there here from Nashville, Ten
ncssec|'
And there stepped forth for business Of
shaking hands one Charlie Winnie, one time
of that village, now colonel, United States
Army.
Lord Riddcll, who stood between the
British delegation ut the Conference
ana the press of the world. Is the orig
ina of Mr.. Potter Of that book "Pottcrism, :,
which has made such an impression on both
sides of the Atlant,c during the last yrar,
He Is the publisher Of the newspaper in the
world which has the biggest circulation
lie Is Iankf gentleman il il-httinp
clotl's with a high, old fashioned cullar and
a ministerial expression. lie doesn't brI'nv
that things like disarmament can be brought
about right off and recommends a rcvamping
OF schoolbooks, eliminating ylorifraIivu nf
war, as the most effective method.
He adm Is. however. that this Conrororoo
Is the worlds best advertising stunt Of no
may be pardoncd for using 50 Grass II news
paper phraSc),
Ernest Il, AckermNn. of plainfrld. \
whose name comes first when the roiI iI
called IN the House of Representative. Inns
a room in his home which H. pupprrd WITH
postage stamps, lie Is stamp collector
aCcumulutions. '"' MS
The .papering is done with the yt,m,,s %
countries Of Central America that INV" ,,n''a W.
bad through shifts in administyntinn e'"'
The most valuable stamps in thc ,r,r,l
SaNS, Nr' Arkerman, are Of ccrtni,, is.no
OF the island Of Mnurltius. Of Which L"t
twenty -iour are known to exist nnJ uhj,h
nave SOLD for as much as $4,000 for a singIs