Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
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The most pathetic pile of mail in
harrisburg does not reach the may
OF oihce, the police station, the
courthouse offices or even the Asso-
clated Aid Society. 1t is sent to the
state draft registration headquar-
ts Iers at Locust and Court streets.
;Inere Is received every day q col
a1u.lon aI.,sn OF letters that can produce
almost any emotion-sorrow, regret.
amusement, suspicion and indigna-
IIoh at rank cowardice or stupidity.
me draft headquarters gets all OF
the mail that is sent to any one at
me capitol about the draft all that
tIe local and district boards pass
alohs, all that Washington consid-
ets pelongs here and what is sent
ulrect 10 the headquarters. There
are appeals from women against /
.ahlhs husbands or sons who are
thelf support, even letters from chill
dren obJecting to fathers going
away some appeals from aged par
ehts, Kicks from employers, obiec-
t.oIs from drafted men and some
eeateihentS .e OF scruples against mill
.aIy service that are inspired by
anything but religion. The other
| uay IN the same mail came a vigor-
ously Worded protest from n man
against being called to do military
| uuty on the ground that he had in
IorInatlon invaluable to his employ
er' VINO ran broom factory, and
another from the friend of a man
recently sent to camp and whose
! Wlle was worrying herself into a
state bordering on insanity. AS in
sanity ran in the family of the wom-
an IL was hoped that a way could be
| round to have the drafted man ra-
turned. The wide ramfications of
the draft, the manner in which it
touches almost every home, the Sc
Tlousness of the call to national de-
Tense must impress themselves upor
! every one who notes that pile of
mail, which arrives with the regu-
larity OF the hours, morning, noon
Wllliamstown, according to re-
ports received from that borough nv
members of the Dauphin countyIH
committee, is setting a record for
Liberty Loan enthusiasm. ThereII
are approximately 5000 residents oil
! Williamstown. or this number 2OOlI
have volunteered for service on theIl
Liberty Loan committee. Thatl
means Williamstown and the surI
rounding country will be coveredl
ike the dew covers Dixie FROM
Carlisle similar reports have bee1
coming to Donald Mccormick and
others of the local committed
FARMERS were a little backward id
the first sale of Liberty 315s, but inl
dications are that they will make md
for 1t in the present loan. Agricuil
turists of the United States this faI
total their receipts by $2,000,00O.O .OOI
more than they did last fall. THAI
is to say, they divide among thed
additional profits of two billion dol
lars. Considering the fact that til
government seeks to sell only S3I
0OO,000,000 of bonds at this tim
there is every reason to believe thd
the agriculturists will own not lei
than half the total issue when tl
flag falls October 27.
Joseph B. LeCompte, assistat
cashier of the State Treasury, vii
started on a trip to Oklahoma II
day, remarked to a friend that |
was going to visit a town large
settled by folks from his home tow
of Bradford. This calls attentit
to the fact that all through the ney
er portions of the western States a
towns in which people from Pen
sylVania counties are numerous
other words there are communitI
of Keystoners transplanted to whe
the buffaloes and Indians used
roam.
Word has just been received he
that Samuel A. Kephart, brother
the State Treasurer and the Superb
Court Judge, has been promoted I
be colonel of coast artillery. i
has been a lieutenant colonel al
stationed at Panama.
NJ. o. Brown, the Crawford counl
lawyer, who died n few days ag
was the man who drew the ClaI
third class city commission covert
ment act. Mr.. Brown, who had bee
q student of Pennsylvania law aGl
of municipal government for yeab,
drew the law in an arrangement
with A. M. EULER, Mayor of Med-
Vile, wNo was one of the leadlrs
for a change in governmental meh
DDS. -
Men of the old Fourth Pennsylv
MIA Infantry have been sending tn
congratulations to Adjutant Gene
Beary on his appointment. The
eral is pretty close to the Foul
as he spent almost thirty years
that organization and was in chf
! of their subsistence when the G
mand was in Porto Rico. In
the good care taken of Col. Cs
command on the island was do
the energy and system of thd-
| lentoWn captain, as he was IN 30
days.
The effort of the members ne
! Harrisburg Reserves to obtairleS
to drill young men of draft IN
the rudiments of military woraVe
been ably seconded by a nun, OF
residents who have loaned 'hly
priced Krags which they had the
! Spanish War and which thee at
rifle ranges. 1t is hoped tCtalh
enough guns for the drllin' the
young men next week.
There is n good bit of Try at
the Country Club of HspurG
these days to get low SEQ me
course is difficult one of sport
lest" in q long distance II Is
some battle to beat old CboseN
who roosts around 50. Thur hop-
ert McCreath has come sest TO
beating par, which is 70. IoI 'S'