Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-28
Edestt.1g Gl1at

way they take it. More than half OF
the people gracefully accept tha
SonoirIons; a quarter look puzzled
ana then decide to make the besl
or 1t and the rest get plain mad
chlefiy at themselves.
La esseroay was Tuesday and meat
Tess gay. There was an unusual
NUMBER OF strangers In the city be-
cause OF Capitol Hill matters and
.ne usual number of Harrisburg men
sny ~ens 70 cares for lunch. Here ard
some OF the ways 1t worked.
A man walked into one of tba
dnlrd dd street food places and sal
ooWn. He was tired and he waa
ready to eat. Waiter" said he,
5ring me q fine big steak and lots
ol potatoes" The waiter said 1t was
and .eSs LESS Gay. The man grumbled
ana ordered oysters.
Another man walked into a. Mar.
ket street food emporium and goina
10 table established proprietary
rlshts py standing beside 1t and hails
ing waiter. "I want a nice steak.d
| saia ne. Sorry, Boss, I can't gel
| tnat. You see" The marl
wheeled and darted out with "sbor1
or meat again."
IN another establishment a Harris.
puig man ordered chops. t'Nothina
| spaghetti. "'a
A story is told of man who few
INTO rage when turned down on
an order Tor tenderloin who came
,,'itif uaGk naiI an hour later and said
Wltn apology In his voice, Say. next
time put me next to meatIess days
four grub's so good l came back
places" Na
The hotel men say the people
thal, Iom Delleve them when they say
they serve no meat Tuesdays and
at tnat the walters have to turn down
ups which must hurt.
The soil of Lancaster county ia
not any richer than the earth that
covers the coal of Cambria and If
| the people of Lancaster county had
not peen putting back into the soil
properties needed to keep it pro
uuctiye FOR the last $50 years it
would o not be the garden spot of the
country, said Lieutenant Governor
frank b. McClain yesterday after
noon at the Capitol. This apostro-
phe TO the fertility of Lancaster was
evoked by the observation of one
from a western county who had re-
marked in commenting upon the ag-
ricuItural wealth of Lancaster that
said the Red Rose of Lancaster.
The soil of Lancaster, Berks, and
Lebanon, like the soil of York and
the Cumberland valley has been
taken care of. The people work II
from morn until night and they look
alter the soil conditions as carefully
as the crops. They have been do
ing 1t for generations and they have
prospered. 1t is because of hard
work and intelligent work on the
part OF our people that Lancaster
, county leads"
IF the food directors want to
control the price of turkey and
chicken during the holiday season in
this city let them put some of the
| governments secret service on the
trail of the turkey rafflers," said a
citizen to a Telegraph man on
, street car today. ITO my know
, ledge three of these rafting matches
have been operated this fall within
street car distance of the city, one
of them near Penbrook on Sunday
and others in Cumberland county
, near Lemoyne, and in each case I
have asked the district attorneys to
look up the offenders. These fell
VI lows go into the country districts
buy up turkeys, chickens, ducks and
, geese at any old price and then
, chance them off at from 100 to zoo
J per cent profit. If, as I have suS-
|, Rested, the government agents put
these fellows out of business / feel
sure prices will come down. 1t is
natural for the farmer to take all
he can get for his products and if q
turkey raffler offers more than an
ordinary consumer he gets the bird
and the price to the next man is
higher. And I might add that it
wouldn't require q very expert Sc
cret service man to locate these
gamblers"
This sale of Liberty Bonds and
IS certificates by the government is
teaching a lot of people to save" said
a downtown banker who has a large
number of bond accounts on his
books. when the war is over it
will find a great many people with
the habit of saving. These, | take it.
will look over their accumulation of
bonds, large or small, and will take
pride in their possessions as just. so
much laid aside for n rainy day.
They will reason with themselves
that having learned to save in war
times there should be no reason
why they should not continue in
times of peace, with the result that
savings will be greatly increased. 1t
was the habit of saving acquired
during the Civil War that left so
many of the passing generations
thrifty and prosperous. The young
er people are just learning, but they
are doing very well. I anticipate
a great run on the new $412 certi-
ficates which in five years will be
good FOR $500. These will give the
small investor n chance to get a
share of the good thing passed
around by Uncle Sam. They are
really better than Liberty Bonds and
it is well that Uncle Sam has de-
creed that nobody may have more
than 200 of them or ] anticipate
many rich men would lay in large
quantities 1t is right that they
should be better in their way than
Liberty Bonds because the little fell
low should in my estimation be
, given not only his share of a very
good investment but he should be
provided with an inducement for
, saving"
1t is rather sad coincidence that
two of the veterans of Capitol Hill
Thomas NJ. Jones, the newspaper
man, and Sergeant f. f. Rohm, who
were laid at rest this week, were
taken i'll within an hour of each
other and died within the same hour
They were warm friends through
many years.