Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-05
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Judging from photographs being
received here some of the organiza-
tions OF the Pennsylvania National
Guard, now in camp along the border,
are trying to make conditions pleas
ant about their cantonments and
while sword grass. cactus and the
coarse vegetation of Ell Paso regions
is somewhat difficult to work with
they are having fair success. Some of
the soldiers have cut paths through
the grass and have transplanted the
cactus and other plants to places
where they will not be in the way and
will add to the appearance of things
instead of detracting. Others have dec
GRATED tent poles and other placesS
about the camps making conditions
bit moro pleasant. Another thing
which seems to be general among the
men at the camp is the maintenance
of a mascot. There are goats, dogs
and other animals which are well TAX
en- care of and which seem to have
stood the transfer TO different cltm-
ate as we'll as the men. The Guards
men are evidently making up their
minds to a prolonged stay and are
talking about the program Of duty
which has been worked out up to the
middle of October. Because of the
likelihood that the Guardsmen will be
in camp a long time a number of fami-
them when the weather becomes
more pleasant and it is possible that
a number from this section OF the
State will go.
Speaking of National Guard mat
ters it is said in Washington that ef-
forts are being made to take care of
| the ordnance officers and others who
lose not only rank but place because
of the terms of the defense act. Just
how they will be taken care of is not
known, but the fact is that the army
authorities are just as anxious to keep
the services of the experienced Of
| ficers as the officers are to stay in the
service. Officers of long standing in
the National Guard have been mus
tered out under the new law and they
are making every effort to have n
change worked out before they incur
the expense of trips home Incident
ally, the ruling of the war department
that officers are not to be paid until
date of muster into federal service if
they did not leave with troops when
they started for Mt. Gretna is being
condemned as rank injustice and is
bothering Washington a good deal.
Prof Franklin Menges, of York,
who was at the State Capitol yester-
day, is one of the foremost authori-
ties in the State service on the soils
and rotation of crops. He has been
making a study of the subjects for
twenty years and has visited every
county. Adherence to time honored
customs of rotation of crops and care
for the soil will do many things, he
says.
THE suggestion in the Telegraph
the other night that people ought to
know their own agricultural districts
and do their best to get the folks in the
cities to do the same strikes home
and ought to be followed" said a
prominent business man and native of
| this section yesterday. You said that
it would be a good thing to have some
| of the people in the eastern counties
/ tour the central counties to see what
they make or raise. The same is true
of us. We ought to go to the northern
counties to note the big dairying farms
and interests and the western people
ought to come to the garden counties
to see where the vegetables of the
State are raised. If people were more
familiar with what Is raised in this
State they would not be so apt to pay
fancy prices for inferior stuff"
The old Poorhouse lane bridge, as
the structure spanning the Reading
railroad at Twenty-ninth street has
! been known to a couple of generations
disappeared yesterday before the
/
is to be replaced with a new structure
and yesterday the bridge over which
! thousands of vehicles have passed was
torn down. The lanes were boarded
up and people who have been accus-
toned to seeing the bridge for years
wondered what was the matter with
the landscape.
A good bit of excitement and hy-
steria is being manifested over infan-
tile paralysis. AS a matter of fact
there have been numerous cases of
this disease in Pennsylvania the last
| few years and in one year, about half
| decade ago, over LOO cases were re-
| ported. The percentage of deaths has
| been small. There have been few
cases in this section.
Speaking of paralysis a good story
| is being told of doctor in a nearby
town. He was called to see a child
which everyone was sure had the
dreaded disease. The youngster was
| lying inert and to be frank, not show
| ing much interest in anything. The
doctor was informed by an old family
nurse that there was no doubt of ii.
What he found was an old-fashioned
summer cold which had gotten all
| through" the kid" When asked why
| they thought the child had paralysis,
members of the family assured the
doctor that the child had been trou-
bled by running nose" and did not
seem to take much interest in things