Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-08
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| Ohoer the plan which seems to
De likely to be adopted for the list
ing or the men for the new army. the
registration and enrolment of
voters machinery of Pennsylvania
VIII furnish the means of notifying
| uncle Sam how many men are to
pc mad for war. This machinery
mas peen perfected by a decade of
service and is conceded to be about
Union. In the three largest cities
mere are registration commissioners
| VINO nave charge of all registration
OF voters and in the third-class cities
tnere are registrars under direction
Oh the county commissioners. In
other municipal divisions assessors,
| also under the county commission
ers, do the work. If this system
should be adopted for Pennsylvania
IL could be put into operation with
little trouble. No one as vet knows
Wnat the government will ask or
what the State will use to furnish
the information, but the presump-
tloh is that cards will be distributed
10 all men between certain ages, saw
l9 to 45 years, and on a certain day
they would be required to assemble
at places to be designated by the
| sherln or some other officer, and en-
roll their names and hand in the
cards. 1t would be a sort of general
muster day. of which we used to
read in old times. Early records
show that Harrisburg, which was a
| hotbed of patriotism in the Revo1u-
ton was a place for general muster
| and that long after Harris Ferry be-
came Harrisburg in 1885, the people
of the town and of the country
round about gathered once or twice
a year in Market Square, where to
| nf 11.ttf,
formed in lines, marched and an
swered rollcall, while new men and
those just of fighting age put down
their names. General muster day
was great occasion in young Penn
sylvania and Harrisburg used to
make a gala occasion of it. And in
those days Harrisburg had anywhere
from three to five military companies
and everyone else who could bear
arms had to muster. We may be 60
ing back to that old-time system
again for this year.
State Treasurer Robert K. Young,
who retired yesterday, first came to
Harrisburg with his father who was
famous legislator years ago. He
was member of the Legislature in
: stormy days and a man of much
1orce. twenty years ago Robert X.
Young was elected to the 1897
House and served in some of the
5 liveliest sessions. his independent
! stand attracting to him the attention
which made him n State figure and
caused his election as Auditor Cen
l eral, which office he took just ten
{ years ago. 1t is an interesting CO.
t incidence that it was twenty years
l ago that he entered the Legislature
= and ten years ago that he entered
D his first State office.
/ Major General Charles M. Glenn
ent, commander of the Pennsylvania
S division of the National Guard, was
/ here yesterday in connection with
e National Guard matters. The general
: said that like the guard he was
. ready for service.
) Dauphin county's potato acreage
20 will probably be the largest ever
e known in the history of the county
} when the potatoes are all planted
) and everything is in readiness to
S count the area. The demand for
seed potatoes has been very heavy,
say the dealers and. farmers, and the
number of persons out preparing
= ground or planting is greater than
> the. average person knows. Indeed,
1t is n case of going out 10 dig gar
: den and plant in the evening instesAl
l of playing baseball with the "kids"
= and the people to be seen on vacant
r plots about the city are men with
. the hoe who work until it is too
a dark to work any longer.
S Soldiers and watchmen on duty
e about bridges, water plants and
d other places in this city and vicn-
c ity have become so familiar with
Y people living here that the average
man probably does not realize that
e the guardsmen are on business and
= that it is not safe to disobey. The
e orders to the guardsmen are to fire
= when orders to halt are disregarded
h and the fate of men in other places
f should be warning, say officers. The
y chief difficulty is that the people
n are on such good terms with the
e stalwart fellows on guard that they
s are apt to forget and cross some
t point where they should not go and
: to disregard commands.
= 1t might be remarked in passing
that this is the only county through
which the mission will pass which
I bears an official French title. Dau-
phin was named in honor of the
] Dauphin of France, a tribute to
French aid in the Revolution.
Just when the rain was pouring
the hardest Saturday afternoon a
little boy not more than eight came
slowly vending his way down Sec
ond street. A large touring roadster
was standing along the curb with a
very much bedraggled American flag
dropping over the rear end. The lit
tle fellow paused u moment, turned
and picked up the folds of the flag
and reverently pressed it to his lips,
and then let it fall. An observer no.
ticing the little patriot, remarked
the home that had given him his
training was the type of homes that
have furnished the country with the
patriots who have aided her when
she needed them most, and the type
> of teaching that has an incalcuable