Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-11


time. The meetings will include the
organizations which have been
/ meeting here the third week in jan
uary for years, with several others,
making one national and eight state
organizations to meet here.
| The agricultural associations
which will hold their meetings dur
ing the week will have considerable
| important work in hand as the re-
! suit of the closing of the war. and
the still greater demand for pro-
duction to feed the nations abroad.
The associations that will meet are
] the Pennsylvania State Board of
Agriculture, Pennsylvania Breeders
and Dairymen's Association, State
! horticultural Association of Penn
sylvania, Pennsylvania Potato Grow
ers' Association, Pennsylvania Bee
Keepers Association Pennsylvania
Sheep Breeders Association, Penn
sylVania State Poultry Association,
Pennsylvania State Veterinary As
sociation and the More Sheep-More
| Wool Association of the United
! States.
AS the inauguration is to be held
during the week the attendance is
| expected to far surpass all former
records.
State Defense Board Meets-Pre-
liminary plans for the continuance
in modified form of the American
ization work of the PENNSYLVANIA
Commission on Safety and Defense,
were made at a meeting of the body
in the Governors office in the Cap
itol. The great Importance of this
work was emphasized by the fact
that there are approximately one
| ~
are unable to speak the English lam
guage. 1t was pointed out by mem
bers of the commission that it is
possible under the PENNSYLVANIA
School Code for school boards to
carry on this work and that it will
be the duty of the committee to en-
courage and aid in the work. After
January l all of the branches of the
Pennsylvania Public Safety Commit
tee other than the Food and Labor
Administration will be discontinued
on the recomme endation of l.. S. Sad
| Ter, executive secretary OF the COM
mittee. The scope of their activity
will be greatly curtailed now that
the war is oyer. The great demand
| for food overseas makes it necessary
that the food administration be con-
tinued and such a condition has been
created by the release of many men
from war industries and the return
of soldiers that the labor board will
be q necessity. All county public
safety committees other than those
located in Philadelphia, Allegheny,
Lackawanna and Erie counties, will
also be discontinued. Acute labor
problems existing in these several
counties make it necessary that the
| ittanC 1nnnfa1 fhnrn o.
main in existence for the present.
The 16,000-odd volunteer police
created by Governor Brumbaugh
throughout most of the counties of
Pennsylvania during the war will
be continued in office until the peace
treaty is actually signed it was am
nounced. They will be transferred
within a short time by executive
order to the direction of Captain
George f. Lumb, acting superintend-
ent of State Police.
Armory Board. Plans-The State
Armory Board yesterday accepted
tentative plans for the completion
of state armories at Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh, Reading and Tyrone. The
work will be started as soon as the
architects can make slight changes
in the present plans.
Statc 10 ItCSutl0 NOfk-Ine OtdIe
Board of Public Grounds and Build
ings yesterday decided to resume the
states building. program, held up
by the war, in all parts Of the COM
monwealth. This will give work to
hundreds Of returning soldiers and
will be an example for those who
contemplate similar work of prl-
vate nature. Bids were asked for
bridges at Tionesta, Laceysville and
Penn's Creek, and for a home fol
the superintendent of the Union
City state fish hatchery, Improve
ments were ordered in the ladies' re-
ception room at the Capitol which is
badly in need of repairs. Miss Violet
Oakley, the artist, reported that she
had finished the last two paintings
for the Supreme Court chamber and
1t was announced that Architect
Drummer, in charge of the Capitol
extensions, has taken up with Miss
Oakley the matter of preserving the
present lighting of the chamber, sc
as not to spoil the effect of the paint
ings.
Major j. II. Thompson Promoted
Major James II. Thompson, OF
the One Hundred Tenth Infantry
(the old Fighting Tenth"), Key.
stone Division, has been promoted to
second in command-lieutenan colo
mel. He was formerly a State Sem
ator.