Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-30
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Ioiks and the girls to give their aidI
20 20 the Red Cross than ever known inE
me eLe windows of Harrisburg. Thel
liass ana bunting and other emblems
ti,,,l II, naeional es ma love and strength at the
.IiIIe OF the Spanish War is as moth j
ing compared to the wave of patri-
otic olsplay now. In the last twoI
years there have been occasions
Wneh the flags were put out andH
this spring when things reached theE
eiisis the hags came out and stayedI
49,, nose or allies being added to
60 but Wnat now strikes the per-
Soh VINO walks along the streets
business as well as residential. widA
ana narrow, well built and contain
| ing small houses, Is the way the.
posters and the cards have blossom j
ed. The striking posters calling forI
recruits appealing to the manhood
oL HaTrisDurg to wake up and toI
tne Patriotlc impulses of the people'
10 simulate the enlistment and the
Tegistration are to be seen by thJ
hundreds. There are some streht u
! where they are in every store win j
COW and even in private houses
Homes are decorated with flags and
! there does not seem to be any cues
tlon where the people here stand. I'D
is great showing and will long bd|
remembered as distinctive featurd
| A"S WHO SSiIs
1t speaks very we'll for the peopldI
OF this city that in spite of the varied
| population contained within the linn
lts or the municipality so practically
nothing that could be construed aJ
an effort to discourage registration
Tor the selective draft has beerI
neard' 1t has been stated that efforts
10 interfere with registration or I'd
dampen enthusiasm or blind men I'd
I their duty would not be healthy
manifestations in Harrisburg. Thd
people of this city will never stand
for anynonsense such as has croSned
out IN some other parts or the Statel
Executive Controller Samuel Cl
Todd has a new claim to fame. Mrl
rod comes from BROWNSVILLE
whence came Blaine, Knox and
other national figures. Yesterday al
man came up to him in the House
OF Representatives and started I'd
give him a line of talk about thd
borough code, which is stirring up
some discussion. The gentleman was
real insistent on his views until he
found that Mr.. Todd did not answer
10 the name OF Representative Nell
son W. McVicar and that he did not
know anything about the code.
Members of the House of Repre-
sentatives INDUCED in some song be-
tween waits for busintss yesterday
afternoon. 1t happens that there is
bill pending which would enable
Chief Clerk Thomas H. Garvin to
pay the final instalment about this
time instead of waiting until the
close of the General Assembly. The
Governor did not announce action
: yesterday and the genial Garvin was
| busy explaining. Suddenly a group
of men who were signing faced the
desk and began to sing:
: "Oh, Tom, where's that check OF
mine, check of mine; oh, Tom
; where's that check of mine?"
| Mr.. Garvin soon skurried III
: some business and the House got
back into order without further EN-.
: barrassing questions.
! Robert S. Conklin, the States CHIEF
of forestry, got out a scale yester-
} day and did some figuring on what
!, the States forestry reserves contain
They aggregate not so far from q
million and n half acres. They
amount to more than the total area
of Delaware, Cameron, Snyder, Le-
high and Lawrence counties, or an
area larger than the Eighteenth Con-
gressional district in which we lke
Enough people camped on the State
lands last year, says he, to make a
city larger than Lancaster and more
than three times the size of Steel.
ton.
There were more big Philadel
phians at the Capitol yesterday after,
noon than at any hearing in quite
a while. Grouped in one room were
eX-Judge James Gay Gordon, Will
liam Draper Lewis, Ellis Ames Bal
lard and Joseph Gilfillan, some o
: the most noted lawyers in the State
together with E. T. Stotesbury, the
of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit
and others well known in city bust
ness and official life.
A man from Montreal surprised
, the audience in one of the movint
, picture theaters a few nights ag,
! by very vigorously applauding al
! air. The tune was attractive anC
pleased everyone who heard it, bu
. the majority of the audience faileC
to see why the visitor should wa,
, so enthusiastic. Tho air was tn
: maple Leaf" which is the nationa
r / hymn of the Dominion. 1t is a beau
;, tiful thing and practically no on
about here knows it. With Canad;
a and the United States united in TIL
= war ano many Pennsylvanians serv
3 ing with the Canadians in Franc
q it is n wonder that it is not brough
. more to public attention. We ar
strong for the stirring French al
and the Russian and Italian hymn
are pretty we'll known, but the Do
Q minion's fighting song needs to b
pushed a bit.
For the first time in years ther
was much activity about the irol
and steel mills of the city and Steel
ton on Memorial Day. The tremen
dous rush which is caused by gov
. ernment orders made the day on
of ceaseless activity. The activit.
was generally accepted by the peopl
as something which was expected.