Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-22
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III there is any approved method
or calling attention to the Liberty
Loan that has not been tried in Har-
risburg and its neighbor towns the last
week 1t is not known on the boards
Ink and paint object lessons and
word of mouth have all been en-
ployed and the bonds have been so
we'll advertised that there is rivalry
between people to see how much
each will take of the loan. One thins
which must have impressed the
average person in Harrisburg is tho
manner in which some of the staid
financial institutions, banks which
have been the backbone of the com.
munity and which have rigidly re-
Trained from advertising invest
ments, have come out with posters
Tor the Liberty Loan. Not even when
the city was selling it's bonds and
when other out of the ordinary is
sues were involved did any of the
banks ever place a poster on outer
walls. Now they are standing out
beckoning to people TO buy the ma
uonaI bonds. Then, too, the way in
| which some of the older stores. the
| big. conservative establishments of
TINS community, have given up win
| dows and stock space to boost the
loan must have been brought home
| to every one. Delivery wagons are
showing the Liberty Loan posters in
| a way they have never done even i'm
the heat of public improvement
| campaign. But most striking of ALI
| Is the fact that there are many pri-
| Vately owned automobiles, family
conVeyances, which show Liberty
Loan posters. 1t is the only time
that such thing has ever been done
In this rather settled city. But the
Liberty Loan is striking home and
the city that led the state that led
the nation in recruiting bids fair to
make week of it that will be talked
of for long time to come.
Reports of the approaching short
age of sugar have had a curious eff
feet in some of the stores of the city,
according to what has been heard the
last few days. In some stores peo-
pie have been quietly buying sup
plles ahead, although the merchants
nave refused to sell very large quan-
tlties. Some people have accepted
this dictum very quietly and taken
what they could get-passing on to
= another store where they bought
some more. However, the most
v
by a couple of men who professed as
, tonlshment at the course taken by a
couple of their older customers
This man, who is one of the think
ing kind, came in and asked for
substitute for sugar. / told him that
we were not yet in Germany's class'
, where we had to turn to chemistry
for the ordinary things and that the
law had banned coal tar derivatives"
' said one man. Then he came back
this way. We'll, L have been buying
oleo for trials and can't tell it from
= butter. have tested some of the
chemical flavors and don't know
them from the real thing. I have
g my suspicious about some of the
canned things and the dried out and
desiccated articles and yet like
, them. Now, in q pinch why can't
. We beat the sugar people and try
substitute"
Speaking about oeo it is rather
astonishing that in spite of the high
! price asked for butter at the stores
r and at the markets the farmers who
have been bringing butter to market
for years say that they have no let
l up in demand. A couple of farm
ers who attend Chestnut street mar
ket declared that they had every
pound of butter sold when they came
e to market. The customers growl
over the advance in prices, they say.
Il any one fails to get his pound on
s. either market day of the week.
II Manager Gus Catnerman of the
= local Western Union Company's of
flee is studying out a camouflage
plan for the protection of his clerk
l. at the Pennsylvania Railroad station
hf-a Nn1n IInNr frIa a
passengers hurrying from a train to
! send a telegram? Some overlook the
n obliging little lady back of the desk
who is ready to take care of all
business promptly. They grab 4
pen. dip it into the ink well. and
without looking give the pen a sud-
n den jerk to remove the surplus ink
IS The girl behind that desk gets the
& ink, and sometimes all over a silk
IS waist. The customer has paid for
o his message, is off to the train, and
= never knows what damage he has
IS done Recently lead pencils have
It been substituted for pen and ink, but
5, there are customers who must write
e their messages in ink. Manager
s. Californian Is of the opinion that
: with some camouflage arrangement
n the ink showers will not do much
= damage.
IS In some of the rural counties the
l, men in charge of the Liberty Loan
n campaign have found the farmers to
: be most nightly Interested in the
bonds which we are buying to pre-
vent this country from getting into
the Prussian system, where agricul-
ture is a fine art and a source of
o profit to the few. The farmers have
- had a good year and a ready sale for
all they can raise and inclusion of
representative farmers on commit
! tees for the selling of the second
loan shows that in many sections
they are going to be big helpers this