h n Ss.i'f 18 EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1919 -: ?. E H A IP it- td PRESIDENT DELAYS E ''Awaits Conference on Ponding Bills Between Hinos and ' Committee Chairmen Legislation to be rushed 1 By the Associated Trus Waahingtotn Dec. 3. President Wil on will not begin preparation of his pecial taessage to Coupress on the rail road situation until Director General Ulnea dob conferred with Senator Cum mins and Representative Escb. chair wen of the Senate and House interstate commerce committees, on the pending railroad bills it was said today at the White House. It was intimated that the status of the legislation might be such that the Tresident would not regard it neceary to nddress Congress ou the subject. Xtaders in Congress are determined to press the bllK but they have expreised doubt that their enactment could be completed before the Christmas lioli- fcach of the measures provides for the teturn of the roads to private operation within n specified time but they nre different In other "spccl. P-tflil'y as to the method of dealing with strike' and lockouts and these differences will have to be composed in conference. In view of the President's statement tn Conirrcss yeenlny that he expected lo treat the railroad question tn a sep arate message there hn been specula tion in official and railroad circle whether be intended to return the roads to private operation by January 1. Some officials mid railroad men be lieve the President inaj await action of Congress on the pending legiMatlou Thwe at the White House refuse how ever, to comment HOUSE REQUEST NEEDLESS Baker Says Army Plans Are Not Altered by Resolution Washington. Dec 3. 'Bv ' , Secretary Baku indicated today that tho resolution adopted by the Home at the last session, requesting that nil Mir pjun motor vehicles of the army be sold at auction immediately, would not cause the depaitment to alter its planr for disposing of this equipment. "It has b?en and will continue to be tho policy of the War department to tt surplus motor-propelled Mclrs t. the pub'ic bv auction." the secretarj wrote in reply to the resolution Referrin- to the request that ...UM vehicles bT allotted to the agrieu nre department for highway wrurtlon. be said they were being transferred as Tapidly as possible " Cumberland River Packet Sinks Pufnrili Kas.. Deo. 3. River packet C.Pa Bowery owned Bv Captain rv; ert, Dycusburg. Tenn . bound from that cUy to Paducah. hit a submerged stump and sank in the Cumberland river this morning. The crew made port safclj The loss is $10,000. Apartments at ftStetfcm. Broad and spruce ots. TliUadelphla't Home-I.lU Hotel Facing BROAD STREET Southern and Wetern Exposuro Suite, $300 per month. Corner Suite, $500 por month. QUIET COMFORTABLE fcAKr: 1DKAI, MCATION, BST flrniVICE .unrc Make Your Boy Railroad Complete No real boy ts satisfied with a miniature railroad without sta tions. We have them tn various elzrs. Perfect In every detail , jlato In window, doors swing In and out; walls of Imitation con crete blocks. Frank H. Stewart Electric Co. N.SthlLetCnffllBB Male Tour Chrlsemnii Old Mint Kldc rirlnr prrtlral -with Elrttrlcal Ciltts. EST. DIAMOND RINGS Dittinctive Setting in Platinum or Cold Plain or Elaborate flNE of all plutlnqm optn work vdUn, utth a lrt so- 225 prttae quality dlsmond "" Kennedy Br 102 S.THJrerEENTriSt Car. Jruy Lana RAILROAD MESSAG H. WANTED An old - established manufacturer of. na tionally advertised automobile tires will . finance a jobbing dis tributor up to $25,000 to $40,000. f Manufactures both Cord and Fabric guar anteed 8000 and 6000 miles. Distinctive seU jnjr feature ready mar ket numerous satisfied customers. Territory dis tributor must furnish CBeh bond of $12,000 to $20,000. ' ) Thb is an unusual ojl Iortunjty. f.l&imUite Office. SENATETO PROBE TRADE COMMISSION Bolshevism Charge and Attitudo Toward Business Subjects of Inquiry Washington. Pec. 3. (By A. V. General Investigation of the Federal Trade Commission was ordered today by the Senate. Besides inquiry into charges of Senator Watson, Republican, In diana, that the commission is n hot bed,of socialism and bolsbevlsm, the in vestigators will lake up the commis sion's attitude toward business inter ests and its general value ns u fed eral agency. The inquiry will be conducted by the Senate Iu'erstate Commerce Commis sion, of hich Senator Cummins, Re publican, Jowa, is chairman. The res olutlon adopted originally was con fined to Smntor Watson's chnrges. but was broadened at Senator Cummins's suggest lo,. BUCHBORN WILL PROBATED Oak Lane Resident Leaves Bequests to Relatives and to Charity Norristown. Pa.. Pec. 3. Iiv the will of Herman Biichborn, of Oak Lane, $1000 is bequeathed to the St. Joseph Home, a Catholic institution for the aged at Beverlj, N. J . and S1000 to St Vincent's Orphanage Asylum at Tnconv. Ten thousand dollars is given to cud; of his brothers, i.mil Biichborn and Charles Biichborn; ,'1000 lo the widow nf Uiirinlnh rtiii-hhoru : S1000 to Anna. wife of William Nam re. of Camden, V. J.i S1000 to lus Droiner ln-iuw, Joseph A rties; $10,000 in trust is left for his brother. AVilliam Biichborn and S10.000 in trust for his uncle, A illiam Deehler. . , ,,. ... . His father and mother Philip and Dorothy Buchborn. are to enjov the income of S20.000 for life His dnueb ter. Katherine. wife of Johu McKinlej. is bequeathed S10.000 The wimr-amount is provided for his wife, Marv .Buch born. who i also given the estate at Old York and Valley roads. Onk Lane. Wife and daughter are residuary lega tees. Charles A Reynolds and Charles Hssehmidt are named exrcutnrs. The value of the estate given with the pro bate for the will is $100,000 pertonallj and $10,000 realty Fielder Now Vice Chancellor Trenton. Dec. 3. Oath of ofticc as vice chancellor was administered to James F. Fielder, of Jerse.v City, bv Chancellor Walker jesterday Tho ccremonv took place in nun of the branches of the Court of Chaucerv lu the presence of a number of stjitr ofb cials and friends of thn former governor. The new vice chancellor villi uu doublcdly be assigued to sit in the northern section of the state probably Jersey City, where he has lived vir tually all his life I- '.TutinmiiiCTBlWWgn tw PA "The Cuarantma it T- itmMSl ' "" Bank for Ma" r or Winasmeias sc windows It fao Lit ana Doouy injury ana I IB jrtintinhtxi frt rtnv shave or sf I H We olio install beat Plate Glais 1 1 1 SUPER-GLASS CO. I 1 326 N. BROAD I I B l'lion Seroce 8S1S ltte 1139 J ailJjlHIJWIIWIWHlllllMlIHIHIiragBBP' , jStlz-v wmr mi Htn rittit.? au .?.? w EHAHUl&ALtf MSm tf Extra-Mild HAVANA Blend Cigars m, ' j jfcgr A good cigar will put a caller mote at his case &H!si22l7 ' i S tliaii anything else on earth. A MANUEL is M$ rat jig the sort of cigar the host is proud to offer the Jj?isirH kH I IS guest glad to accept. rlA fH i i Havana gives MANUEL a rich bouquet MW'lKSWtl HI I a and a flavor nothing else could. But not too itjW'it &$ z rich for comfort. The luxurious Cuban' leaf jIsIsHm&'SSm & , i is tempered by a happy blending of lighter if'WM &&& tobaccos" mWWSm Tcfek ALLEN R. CRESSMAN'S SONS Bfffiffi '83k. nnLADELPHiA, u. s. a. KM?y KSaKH5 18T8 &9 mW B85$SSEBl9 SmSffZ r- J. jdttflk - "sMild and Fragrant ' Yfit A Old Wine" WILSON'S ILLNESS REV VES G PS Failure of Hitchcock to See President Furnishes Fuel for Rumor Factory DEFINITE STATEMENT SOON By CLINTON W. GILBKKT Staff Corrrspondfnt t the Ktenlnc Tubllc Led ter Washington. Bee. 3. The Presi dent's illness is again agituting Wash ington. The Senate, especially the Re publican side of it, is busy suggesting that the President is incapacitated at present, manv senators declaring yes terday that the President did not write his lust message to Congress. Several circumstances have con tributed to this new outbreak of rumors. For one thiug the President's: recoverj has been extremel.v slow. Then, too, there have been no official bulletins in nian.v weeks. Those bulletius were stopped becnuse there was virtually no change In the President's condition from day to dav, nnd so the daily announce ments were meaningless Then failure of Senntor Hitchcock to secure an appointment with the Presi dent on Saturday started the story that Mr WiIon was worse The attitude of those who surrounded the President adds to the rumois. Questions about the President's actual condition provoke resentnunt The im plication is that speculations us to the President's health are prompted by politics and not by a legitimate in terest of the public in the chief of the nation. The President's friends allow the rumors to grow and grow until a denial liwwr MtmmltttoM&atim'ixn. - Hr Z4 VV llPll '& ZQf- - C3" B GUARANTEE TRUST AND SAFE DEPOSIT CO. 316-18-20 CHESTNUT STREET 14i!2 SOUTH PENN SQ. 9 SOUTH 52D STREET J8r FLOHDE bMSM In "whatever shape and nze SJ Hi;j fc IBwl you prefer :oc to 30c cPerfeeto Extra '"$' 'd1!!! At alt stores 14c or $ttJMJrQ m. 3 fir 40c .swhiB of them can no longer be avoided, and then somo statement is issued which tends to set them at rest. That point is being reached again. Some formal statement about the President's condi tion cannot be much longer delayed. As to the President's actual condition It Is difficult to obtain anything moro than Indications. The frtilnro to see Senator' Hltrhcock was without signifi cance. Hitchcock's relations with the President are complicated by the con test over the Senate leadership. Neither he nor Senator Underwood cau go to the While House without starting rumors thnt the White House Is favoring one or tho other In the Sen ate contest. Beneath the surface some obscure maneuvering is goiug on toget each on the front page of the newspapers or to keep one or the other off that page. This situation in some vvnjcoii tributcd either to the announcement that the President had summoned Mr. Hlchcock or else to his failure to ob tain an npjSolntment. The President did see Secretary Baker ou Sunday, just before the secretary's departure for Paunma. This was the day after the failure of Mr Hitchcock to sec him. It should set at rest the storj thnt the President had suffered a relapse and become once more unable lo rcccivo visitors. i There is another little fuirly well authenticated story which iudicntcs the President's activity und capacity. Mrs. Wilson showed a friend at the White House n mass of stenographic notes which she says the President had pre pared as memoranda ou some subject upon which he was working. These notes were described by the person who saw them as perfectly clear and well formed. "Impertinent" and Persistent If this story is true, and there is no reason to doubt it. it should dispose of the rumor that Mr Wilsou is par alyzed in his right baud Uveu accent ing the story that the President can I sign his name with his left hand, per haps invented by some one to account for his undisputed signatures to docu ments, it is not to be supposed that he can write stenographic characters with his left hand, nor for that matter with i(kvimnlQM , F' Imagine llie consternation of early Pluladclphians in the days when Captain Kidd and Biackbeard were familiar figures along the Delaware. Think of the excite ment and anxiety with which they hurried to bury the family valuables in some safe 1 place. The household chest never was and never will be a secure place in which lo store valuables They are not safe from loss, either by fire or theft. 1 Our vaults defy both flames and burglars. We invite your inspection of them and will gladly answer inquiries as to terms, etc., either in person or by mail. n right hand uhlch has been recently paralyzed. , .These two circumstances to show how film ia the evidence regarding the Pres ident s Actual coudltlon.. If jou nBk, you arc told stories like the foregoing, but anything more definite Is refused. It may be simply that those who sur round the President nrc unnble to un derstand the public point of view nnd regard his illness as a private matter regarding which everybody is some what inipertiueut. Or it mny be that they are so clear In their own mluds about his condition that they cannot understand the doubt and confusion existing thioughout the couutry. 'Bid Not Willo the Message This much inaj be confidently as serted, the braiu of the President is perfectly clear. vIIis mind functions as clearly as ever it did, but his nerv ous condition is such thnt not much mental work can be dono by him. The quality of his mental operations is as good as ever, tho quantit.v of them has to be restricted. And it is almost equally sure that the President has suf fered no such paralysis as would be ap parent In speaking, in his face, or iu the use of his right hand. It inny be uccepted as true beyond doubt thnt the President h mcntnllv capable of performing the duties of his ofhee, but that in the interests of Ills recover he is forbidden by his phj -slcinus from performing any of them that it is not absolutely necessary for him personally to do. , There is little doubt that he did not write the message. You can not obtain n definite statement from any one that 3 lti t&Unbstor CfjaiiS Jtr k luasui S02 S. lBTII ST. iM! " Hanscom's lew Restaurant 1332 Walnut St. Will Open Tomorrow TIiava t-J11 rtn a rt1n4a nti for jou. ft DISCOVERY THAT BENEFITS MANK8ND Two discoveries have added greatly1 to human welfare. I , In 18S5 Newton originated the vac-. uum process: for condensing milk with cane sugar to a scmi-tiquid form. In 1883'Horlick at Racine, Wis., dis covered how to reduce milk to a dry povder form with extract of malted grains, uithout cane sugar.- This product HORLICK named Malted Milk. (Name since copied by other..) Its nutritive value, digestibility and ease of preparation (by simply stirring in water) and the fact that it keep3 in any climate, i has proved of much value to mankind ' as an ideal lood-drink from infancy to old age. Ak for tlonLICK'S Avoid Imluiioni L im,V,!,',i,i,,i ";' i.i'V,.;. , 4vi .jV'iii fe'i'i' ' yy ."i ' i , r ! f HI L 'iJJ ) 14.1 til I -t ' ' ... 4v tU U.i, Ixxikv Tank J. X IhwII he did or did not, but tho evidence is sufficient that tho message was put to gether from the recommendations of various cabinet officers. It is not like ly that Urn President's physicians would permit him to write n long message such as that. It was not necessary for him to per form this labor. The usual Presi dent's message for many jenrs has been But together much as this one vvns. And doctor Orhjsou would naturally Insist thnt the President should avoid this labor. The failure to write the message is not significant. The Republican sen ators nre plajlng small persoual politics in Insisting upon It in public statemeuls as Important. Is SI 111 "a Verj- Slew Man" Doctor Grajson 'said to me, n few days ago that tho President was "still a very sick man and would be so for n long time." Physicians do not allow "very sick men" to indulge in pro tracted mental labor, when that labor can be uvolded. Even though he did not write It, the message Is the President's, icad, ap proved and signed by him. Cabinet Regains Powers In the same way the President is not lr!ne rnnsiilted unon the Mexican situ ation. The probability is that he is mmlznnt of the difficulty with Mexico nnd if Secretary Lansing's handling of Unturpatitd faeilitiet, a long tithed and well organized Company, dtitlngulth Packard Philadelphia Service. ejla6 PACKARD MOTOR CAR ef PHILADELPHIA 319 N. Broad St. BRANCHES.- Bethlehem Wilmington Reading ' Lancaster Harrisburg WiUiamsport . lnilHIIIIIHIIlllllllllllllllllllllHllllinilllllllllllllllllHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllH ! , i '".ii t li .' II ','n I ! ' 1 1,1 . 1 ' i '.. In ! ' , . ii2p . . I ' it.' t;i 1 1 , ! t it in, ni.i, :':,; ni - . .rf. -,, , t ut with Atlantic When you need gasoline, pull up within hose-length of the well-known red pump marked "Atlantic." For that is the sign of the Atlantic Power. House, and a good sign it is. Throw out your clutch,' slip into neutral and apply the brake. Tell the man to grind out a tankful of pure, powerful Atlantic the motor-fuel that bariished all toll-gates on the road to Engine Efficiency. When the cap is screwed on and the change jingles in your jeans, you're all set for a spin. The call of the .open road can be heard and answered in fine fashion. Every lane is a king's highway lo the motorist whose car is Atlantic-propelled. Speed? The law is the limit. Power? You couldn't use more. Make no mistake, there's just one motor-fuel that answers to the name "Atlantic." Be certain that you ask right out loud for Atlantic Gasoline. Atta boyl THE ATLANTIC REFINING COMPANY Philadelphia JU x G as o Put s Pep in it, for he reads the newspapers and has them read to him. But Mr. Lansing is now rcully secretary of Blntc, just ns the other cabinet officers nre now tho real heads of their departments. The United States has, In effect, a commis sion form of government. Secretaries who never could tnlc n step without consulting the President feci very in dependent now. RAMESE ' L rw J " 1 'rFwtt aWIY. arm A Business Man Remarked- "One of the most important things lo consider nf ter the purchase of a car or truck is the service . rendered by the maker; and the Packard Service is superior to any other." ' This Company offers everything that one might want in the way of service, which is an es sential part of a passenger car or truck purchase ' Largcft and most adequately equipped service buliding in thit , section of the country, j- Over a quarter million dollar stock of tervf- . parts. '' I Every facility for Mechanical, electrical and f coach work, " Custom body designers and builders, ' Packard trained expert mechanics. Free Operation Instruction Courses daily. Night, Sunday and Holiday Service. Truck Field inspection at regular intervals gratis. Transportation engineering, analytical and ad visory experts. , ,i Accessories service, including hydraulic press for solid tires. Personal' interest in every operation. Country-wide network of service stations. This is the service background of the best piece' of machirfery that ever went on the highways. "Ask the Man Who Owns One" XN X 1 i n e Idour Motor 1'ho President Is nervous nnd exclt able, especially oil the subject ot the treaty, absorption in which broke him down. Ha is improving, but very slowly. We have no longer n one-man gov ernment nnd the very persons who. onco were angry becnuso we had n. one-man government nre now nngry because It has ceased to bo one. -. arid ' bestoEaUr- RAMESES COMPANY Trenton Atlantic City Camden i i Pittsburgh A X K sHHPHPHHMHHIHHW uiiiiiirfj V a 1 i i ' ' . L - t V mm Xtf J '1 .. . .. . W- ' fl ' - w i & .... , ''. " F f V " " 'J . "
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