Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-08
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lhing never known before. For some|
decades 1t was the custom to refer to|
wages paid during the Civil War and
In other years with something of
awe. But such wages are thrown|
INTO the shade by the prices now|
pelng paid. One firm in Harrisburg|
Is advertising thirty-fve cents perI
hour for labor. OF course this rate|
is only going to last during n rush|
period and the man probably earns
IT, but 1t is much advertised rate
In some building operations aboutI
the city things have come PRACTICABLE
to a standstill because the men in
charge can not get hands and heads
OF other operations say that thew
nave to put stickers on their people
railroad and other foremen guard
their men jealousy. Only the drafi
appears to be having no trouble tc
get men in and about HARRISBURG
soon after the war broke out things
IN the labor line began to ge
lghtened up by the enlistmentJ
winch were so numerous Then came
the tremendous industrial and trans
portation activity and next the draft
Inc result has been that rates have
gone SKY high. There is more mone
pelng paid out for labor in Harris
purS ana vicinity now than any on
would nave Ventured to predict
rev years ago.
decisions of President Judg
Geofge kunkel, of the Dauphin coun
W court, in refusing to order FLEE
noIiilnatlhg petitions presented b s
asplfants for Philadelphia judicia.
and Twenty eighth district Congress
slonai nominations, have settled
question which has agitated Capito
| Hill Tor years and which may hay
an important bearing upon the tim
unit Tor Hing nominating petitions
Judge Kunkel says in one case tina
a candidate must protect himseI
ana that If he selects the mails a
means of forwarding his petitio
instead OF messenger or persona
conveyance he runs chance of did
lay. In another he says very plain
ly that there must be a face to fad
| ofer to file if the mail is not use
and a messenger or a candidate did
slres to enter q petition. These tw
questions have arisen half a doZe
tlmes and are now regarded as Sc
tied. But the question of creates
Importance which the presider
Judge settles is that it is discrd
tionary with the Secretary of It'd
| commonwealth how late he ma
Keep open his office on the last da
Tor filing. Three-fourths of the pd
tltons filed generally arrive in til
last forty-eight hours. There is
crush and jam that often resul
In discovery of errors on closer stud
OF petluons after papers are file
Judge kunkel says that the law mu
| be considered in the light of reasc
| and must be interpreted in til
light of ordinary business custom
lie says the days included in tn
statutory period are of business, n
calendar Duration" and that pet
| tionS shall be filed during Gust
mary business hours" Time ar
again candidates have insisted tn
the law meant midnight of the la
day, but the judge says there is Il
! warrant for such assumption. How
ever, he says that while it is n
the Secretary's duty to keep his o
| lice open until midnight to recei-
| papers, he may as an accommod
! ton receive them at unusual time
| A day Nell likely be a business di
hereafter on Capitol Hill and a mud
| discussed question is settled.
William I. Greasy, former mast
of the State Grange, former legisl
tor and for years a familiar figu
at all agricultural and horticultur
| meetings, has written an INTEREST,"
article in this weeks issue of t
Pennsylvania Farmer on why agl
cultural labor should be exem
from the draft. This labor is ma
ing one of the problems for the
cal and appeal boards of the dra
system and there appears to be
| way of getting a medium cours
Mr.. Greasy declares bluntly that IL
less farmers and farm labor are
empted there will be dire distre
next year and that there should
what he terms "a practical repr
sentative of the farming class
the councils of the government.
another part of his paper Mr.. Crea
says there are considerably few
men at work on farms than thr
years ago in spite of the increas
demands on agriculture.
Here's one from the west: A Hu
risburger visiting in the vicinity
Detroit this summer passed t
home of Henry Ford, the man w
has made so many millions man
| featuring Tin Lizzie" automobil
and who owns so much unimprov
real estate in and about Detroit I'll
| he couldn't travel over it in q day
! one of his own make of oars. Col
menting on Mr.. Fords great succ
to his companion, native Detroit
! the Harrisburg man remarked I'll
Mr.. Ford must do a good deal
travelling back and forth, whereup
! the Detroit man smiled and sa
! 'At his home in the country,
tween Ypsilanti and Detroit,
Ford has been doing a bit of farm
this year, and he proudly boas
| 10 some friends at a little gath
ing last Saturday that he has gath
ed $4,000 bushels of wheat this We
with big crops of other foods in pr
pect. He also remarked that
sides manufacturing automobiles
his place in Detroit he is makina
certain part of an aeroplane for
government at the rate of 1 900 pa
| a day. Henry is no longer possess
of the idea that he can get the b.
out of the trenches by any
Christmas, and is now in favor
fighting the war until the Kaiser
been subdued and universal pc
is established. When you get a
pacifist converted to the fight i'd
he is some fighter"