Abstract

Don't Overlook Philadelphia!

Great things have been happening in the State of Grundy and Pinchot, in the city of Penn and Atterbury. But the press, preoccupied with New York's achievements in the field of city government, has given Pennsylvania little notice. New York is stirred by its Mayor's large bank accounts and its Mayor's accountant's disappearance. New York has discovered that one of its municipal officers held a mere few thousand dollars' worth of shares in a bronze company that had somehow something to do with city contracts. In Pennsylvania the late chairman of Public Service Commission, William D. B. Ainey, who headed that body from the time of its organization in 1915 until very recently, was accused of accepting $150,000 from the late Thomas E. Mitten. The latter headed Philadelphia's unified system of street cars, subways, elevated railways, buses, and taxi-cabs.