Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-05-14
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All over the State registrars of
voters. assessors and election officers
are volunteering their help for the
conduct of the registration of the
young men of Pennsylvania within
the limit of the selective draft in the
event of Governor Brumbaugh
choosing to adopt the plan of utiliz-
ing the registration machinery out
ilned by Secretary of the Common
wealth Woods Newspapers in
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh tell Of
offers by registrars to give their SER
wees on the day picked for register
ing and not to ask one cent of COM ,
pensation' while in various counties
commissioners are sending word
that they will use their efforts to OBJ
tain similar services free to the Com
monwealth from the registrars and
assessors and election officers under
their charge. In Pittsburgh Regis
tration Commissioner David Law
renee, who is we'll known here, gave
the names of eighteen volunteers and
] said that he expected every regis
trar in the big western city to offer
his services. In Philadelphia sew
eral of the officials connected with
the registration work declared 1t af-
| forded splendid chance for them
10 do something. 1t is probable that
the smaller cities and the great army
| OF assessors and election officers in
the boroughs and townships will do
the same. In many instances, the
men who served on these boards are
beyond the age of conscription and
they are eager to do the work as
their bit" arfd where men are un-
able to serve some of the best known
men of the communities, judging
from their remarks, will substitute.
What will be most needed when the
registration day is fixed will be the
cooperation of employers to give
such of their men who are called up
Tor registration and those who sit on
registration or election boards "a
day off for their State and nation"
Registration day will be a pretty
solemn occasion when one considers
it aside from the flags and the
speeches and the patriotic appeals
but it can be made an occasion on
which men not called can do their bit
by sitting on boards and cheering on
those who are summoned by the
president Doubtless, the Governor
will make it a public holiday as has
been done in other States, and the
citizens will make it great oc-
casion.
What some visitor to Harrisburg
once called the most neglected spot
in Harrisburg" is now one of the
prettiest. 1t is the grave of John
Harris, the man who settled on the
banks of the Susquehanna just 200
years ago and in whose honor the
State Capital of Pennsylvania was
named. For years the people of
Harrisburg allowed the trunk of the
historic mulberry tree to which he
was tied when the Indians tried To
burn him to be his monument. Then
the headstone was erected. Success
I sive generations of Harrisburg chill
dren have played about that tiny
! graveyard and thousands have peer.
ed through the bars of the iron fence
and wondered why greater note was
not taken of the place where
was the genesis of Harrisburg. But
through the kindness of someone
who sowed the seeds, or did some
planting, the enclosure is now car.
, peted with beautiful wild flowers, {
sight well pleasing, and forming the
tribute of nature where a princelS
city forgets.
The suggestion of DR.. Joseph
Kalbfus, secretary of the State Game
= Commission, that the sportsmen q
the State plant such grains as kaff1l
? corn or sorghum or other seed bear.
l ing plants which survive the snow!
! and rear-aloft their tassels as fooC
! for game birds is based upon OBJ
servations in the Southern States
DR.. Kalbfus has found that II
LIZ l.
calities where the dried shanks o
the kaffir corn are to be found il
winter that wild turkeys, grouse
quail and other game are abundan
- and fat. lie suggests that this yea
3 there will be little of foodstuffs vast
n ed and that sportsmen who hav,
been interested in providing graiI
for quail and other game shoulC
, plant kaffir corn or strew it abou
and let nature do the rest, 9TH,
! price of a cigar and little work
are suggested as all the outlay tina
is necessary.
One of the greatest drawbacks Il
gardening is the plain ordinar,
everyday American weed and gooC
many persons who are now tacklini
gardening in the preliminary stages
will be face to face with an unttrin!
enemy in month. Much of the wee'
growth in the vacant plots abou
Harrisburg is the result of shee
neglect on the part of owners of gar
dens themselves or of land which /
now built up. The menace of tn
dandelion and the chicory, tn
numerous small weeds is one of tn
greatest that household gardener
have to fear, They will have t
hustle this year because of neglect 1
former years and it is not amiss, &C
] cording to a man who is trained i
agricultural matters to kill tn
dandelions now. The killing of tn
others will then come along as
matter of course. The fields and lot
are dotted now with the yello'
blooms of the dandelion and in an
other fortnight the flowers Will hav
| turned to the seed balls. Dandelion