Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-11
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In these days of tense interest in
ways and means to prevent the spread
of infantile paralysis it is a mistake
to suppose that children should not
be allowed to play in the Fairgrounds
and the parks or be brought together
where there is plenty of light and air.
Too often, children come from homes
where conditions are not as satisfac-
tory from the standpoint of the man
who aims to prevent disease as they
might be. In conversation yesterday
with a medical man who has given
years to the study of diseases of a
prevontable character he said that
children should be permitted to play
at the Fairgrounds and in the parks
where the conditions are good and
where they can be kept clean. Let
the children be permitted to use public
places IL they are sanitary and where
there is an abundance of light and
air." said he. Their home premises
you Will flnd in many cases are not
what we would like to see. Confning
the youngsters to their homes brings
them right into adverse conditions and
when we are dealing with anything
like infantile paralysis that is a big
thing to be reckoned with. The city
can do nothing better than see that
the children get all the fun out of
the Fairgrounds and that they are
kept clean and happy. 1t would pay
the city in the end to spend a little
more money with this object. Fresh
air and sunshine are the best things
to help doctors, who, after all, are
working to keep disease away.
Some of the foreign-born residents
of Harrisburg and vicinity are taking
big interest in the preparedness
movement which is under way in this
State and they appear to pe watching
the way the Americans take to being
soldiers of their own free will In the
foreign lands every one must be a
soldier. The viewpoint Of these men
is interesting. One when asked how
he regarded the military matters now
engrossing our attention replied in
rather broken English: Soldering is
good for young men. They ought to
take it up, everyone of them. In our
country we had to, and learned all
about it. Here we don't have to, but
If fight comes we would turn in and
show that we know something about
1t. Not many of us would stay out if
needed to fight in this country's
armies"
A story is told of couple of drunks
and disorderlies who ought to have
been rounded up which shows that
sometimes the way of the lawbreaker
is rocky The two men are said to
have been in Derry street late one
night week or so ago. A car came
along and they decided to stone it.
One stood on one side and the other
on the opposite track. The car crew
had put the windows out of danger
and one man decided he would wait
until the next time The other fell
low did not notice that the windows
were out of sight and threw his stone.
1t went right through and hit the
other man on the head.
The State Treasury is getting a
good many checks for $3.50 these
days. These checks are for what is
called the bookkeeping tax" at the
Capitol. A year or so ago it was found
! that the number of wnat are some
times called paper" companies, be-
cause their assets are nominal, was
increasing. So there was evolved a
tax of S5 as a minimum on all COR
| porations coming under the Auditor
General. This, it was figured out
would amount to a cover for the cost
| of bookkeeping, postage and the like.
Last year the tax was made $5 for
the twelvemonth, but under the new
law the tax is levied for fourteen
months to make the year conform to
the calendar so that $5.S3 is now one
of the most popular brands Of checks.
| There are hundreds being received
weekly.
! A couple of men of long experience
| in State affairs were talking yesterday
about the late James Russ and one
said: Il do not know of any one in
| Harrisburg who was better known
throughout the State than Jim" Russ.
L have been meeting people inter-
ested in the State government and
politics for forty years and wherever
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| risburg and the next thing they asked
after the Capitol was about James
Russ. The Russ family and it's hotel
connections have been a sort of tradi-
! ton in Harrisburg and Jim was the
best known of all. He was of the typo
that was famous fifty years ago and
which in these days of automobile
travel we miss sorely in many places"
Samuel D. Foster, former chief en-
gineer of the State Highway Depart
ment, who has had charge of the road
building operations of the soldiers at
| El Paso, is a Washington and jefferson
graduate and has been engaged in
! building roads since he came out OF
college. 1t happens that in addition
to being conversant with that much
needed accomplishment in that section
| he knows Spanish because he built
roads in Cuba and Panama and also
travelled in Mexico and Central AM
| erica.
| People here are much interested in
report from Ell Paso that officials of
the Carnegie Steel Company are going
to give the Governors Troop, or
Troop c as it is officially known, a
motor truck. The troop did good
service in the companys territory in
| the Allegheny county strike and its
work seems to- have been appreciated.
However, Harrisburg might have done
the same thing.
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