Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-13
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| tne meetings of the district appeal
draft board at the State Capitol
these days and the abrupt manner
In winch the board is acting uponi
some OF the requests for exemption
from military service should carry
their own lessons. In one instance q
farmer from a nearby county came,
IN and asked exemption from the.
draft for his son who was just
within the draft age and whom he
ueclareu was essential to him in the
conduct of his farm, which. of
course, was vital to the food supply
of the nation.
asked.
Seven" said the farmer.
II turned out that three sons were
working on the farm and three
were helping other farmers between
tlmes when there was no work on
the nome farm. while the seventh
was a mere lad
Another instance puzzled the!
members of the board for a while
An undertaken claimed he needed a
son within the draft age more than
the members of the board had any
ldea: In fact from his remarks it
| would be impossible for people to
die in his section without the assist
ance of the aforesaid son. Ques-
tlons developed that the son ran the
automobile. Finally it came out
that there was another son and he
was working in a furniture factory.
why don't you have that SON
come and run your car? He is not
OF draft age, and then the other
could go to the Army" was sug-
gested.
WELL" replied the undertaken.
you see I couldn't pay him what
he is getting at the factory. No. it
wouldn't do at all. 1t would not
pay him."
A butcher asked exemption on the,
ground that he was needed to con-
serve the food supply. 1t was sug-
gested that he would be fine man
for the comissary department in q.
camp. He is.
The meeting to be held at the
Capitol about January IL in COM
memoration of what Pennsylvania
has been doing to aid the country in
the war will be patriotic event
such as has seldom taken place in
Harrisburg if the plans are carried
out. A speaker of national fame
! Is being urged to make the address
and the gathering will be of state
wide significance. The Pennsylvania
State Society is in charge of the ar
!, rangement
The Pittsburgh Gazette-Times has
this to say of man who is we'll
known here and who years ago be-
gan a work whose importance is
just being realized: THE plan for
Americanizing our undigested for
eign population outlined by DR.. H.
II. Wheaton here on Saturday eve
ming is practical-and many peo-
pie who have given the matter stu
dious attention will be constrained
to say, "at last" There has been
much generalization about Ameri-
canizing the foreigner and every
body comedies it ought to be done;
, but up to now little of a practical
nature has been accomplished out
side of the public schools. The Fed
eral plan to enlist 1 900, 900 workers,
each of whom will pledge himself
to influence one foreigner to begin
the study of English will work, and
its possibilities for safety CDR.
Wheaton made his plea on the pow
er for danger to America represent
ed by our unassimilated aliens) are
, limitleSS. If, as DR.. Wheaton said,
and we all believe, the enemy is
working against us here by propa-
: ganda, good propaganda of our
own ought to be pretty effective,
especially so as we are going to win
| and Germany isn't"
. 1--WE are just beginning to appre-
, ciate the Importance of our high
ways as adjuncts to railroad trans
portation," said c. w. Burtnett,
chairman of motors and motor
tre pepOrta tion IF tho Cop,p,;4.oo 90
, Public Safety in Dauphin county
in discussing with Telegraph re-
porter the other day the call Of
Saturday night for volunteers to
help clear the roads. 1.-THE motor
truck and the passenger motor have
| come to stay as means of cross
| country transportation and he is n
wise man who takes them into con-
| sidera ton" Mr.. Burtnett has found
in Ezra Hershey, treasurer of the
Hershey Chocolate Company, a will
ing worker in the eastern part of
the county and through him has
| procured q complete list of owners
of motor trucks, passenger auto
mobiles, the kind of cars they have
ami their willingness to serve the
government in times of stress. IN
, the lower end of the county similar
information has been gathered and
preparations are being made to get
a card index of upper end automo-
bile owners. All over the state SIM
ilar information is being gathered
and the automobiles that would
come voluntarily into the temporary
use of the government if needed
would crowd the thoroughfares all
over Pennsylvania. It is a big
work that is being quietly and eff
ciently done, this mobilization OF
the motor forces of the common
| wealth.
Some of the men who are home
from the camps are enthusiastic over
Army life and the difference in bear.
ing of some OF the boys proves it.
One young man who was home over
the week seems to have gotten the
idea that his first duty while home
was to recruit because he has been
buster than q marketmaster collect
ing rents on a crowded day. Another
young man spent hours instructing
some of his pals in the rudiments
of military training. -
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