Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-06
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| ~ SohNeiSdtioil DeIWeen TWO 1afn-
ers, residents of two of the great agri-
cultural regions of Dauphin county,
Lower Swatara and Lower Paxton
townships, is filled with significance
Tor people not only in Harrisburg
put IN nearby boroughs. These two
,armers were concerned over q probs
! lem which may have q serious effecS
on the food supply next summer.
both are land owners and each oper-
ates a good sized farm. The Lower
oWatara man comes from a section
Whlch Is we'll nigh as famous as Lam
N'S.ei county Tor fertility and the
care with which land has been hand
ied. Lower Paxton is a district which
Is more given to raising the staples
fhe Lower Swatara man declared that
ne nVed In sight of the smoke from
Steelton and that the wages paid to
the men at the big plant made it
worth while for men to work in Steel
ton and ride to and from their homes
| IN the country. He said the natives of
ms district who did not own or lease
| iarmS were working in the mills or
ABOUT the furnaces and that he could
not Keep colored labor for the same
reason that the native sons went to
Steelton TOR work and that foreigners,
VINO Know more or less about farming
because OF their home environment
simply scorned the wages offered for
1
man said he could not be sure of a.
worker on his farm because of the
! wages to be had .in Harrisburg mills
or on the railroads and that men came
W harrisburg every day on trolley
cars who had never had a lob off n
| tarm until two years ago He summed
| up the situation for both of them
| this way: Now IL the men are all
working in the city or on the railroads
what are we going to do if q war
comes on? 1t will mean that the young
iellows VIII be snapped up for work
TO take the places of the men in the
mills or on the railroad who enlist or
IL the war lasts any time the young
men Will do just like our fathers and
grandfathers did back In the sixties.
we've got to raise the food and we've
| got some of the best farming land in
the country. If we can't get hands it's
elther up to the authorities to provide
iapor or else the women and girls will
have to help in the fields"
Railroad men say that the average
tlme a locomotive gets for n rest or
| repairs just now is the lowest in years.
1t is we'll established policy that
engines must undergo inspection,
cleaning and replenishng after every
run in order that safety and efficiency
can be maintained but the demands
OF trafnc are now so great that as lit
tile time is lost as possible at the round
houses. The repair work is also rush
! ed, but 1t is to be noted that the shop
| repalrmen take no chances. If q part
SHOWS signs of wear that would bring
! back the engine in a short time it is
| replaced without delay. The tremen-
dous requirement for motive power in
| the transportation world and neces-
Slty or splitting UP trains in severe
weather such as has been prevailing,
make the lot of the average motive
| f11n ~
Democratic legislators who have
been getting raped for moving an
adjournment of the Legislature until
March II, can take comfort from
Delaware. There the whole Legisla-
ture adjourned and went to Wash
lngton in body and, furthermore,
does not intend to do much business
this week. The last time the Penn
sylvania Legislature went to Washing
ton was in 1905. The effort to go in
body in 1909 was defeated AMI
members who went on their own hook
were snowbound on the way by tha
now famous bareback" Z
Recently when Senator e. E. Beid-
leman was in the chair acting as
| president pro tenn. of the Senate his
eye was taken with the title of bill
seeking to amend an act of 1851.
President Beidleman read the title in
full as an example of what probably
Will be the most fearsome sentence to
come before the Senate'S attention for
IL certainly covers more ground that
modern legislators try to encompass.
| BE 1T enacted, ETC., that sections two
and three of an act entitled An act to
confer on some people of Allegheny
| county, the rights and privileges and
| advantages of children born in law
full wedlock, in relating to tax on
| dogs in the said county of Allegheny,
| incorporating the West Neston and
Braddocks Field Plank Road Com
| pany, relative to fishing with nets in
Monongahela river. authorizing con-
stables to serve civil process in Ger
mantown, relative to mining in Schuyl-
kill county, legitimatizing someone
else, relative to the premium on fox
scalps in the county Of York be re-
pealed insofar as the act relates TO
dogs in Allegheny county"
The old idea that the fate of the
country hangs on the placing of u
comma in a bill by lawmaker who
mayhap couldn't tell a colon from a.
semicolon is far from having any
foundation, although it is generally
believed that all manner of dire things
happen because the lawmakers get
mixed up in their punctuation. AS u
matter of fact bills are not punctuated
by the lawmakers. Wider spaces are
left by the printer in the bills and
each sentence begins with a capital
letter, but aside from that the legis-
| lator who wants to read n bill must
struggle through it the best he can
with homemade punctuation of his
own. Without even the commas the
sentence written in 1851 would not be
an, easy one to wade through.