Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-22
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Dauphin county farmers are ask
ing their relatives and neighbors
who have forsaken the farms to
work in the iron and steel mills, in
the munition plants and other fac
tories and on the railroads in this
vicinity to return to the farm to
help out with the crops this sum-
mer. In several rural townships of
this county and in some parts of
Cumberland and York counties
farmers are in despair as to how
they will harvest their grain and cuI-
tivate other crops without additional
help. The number of boys volun-
teering for work on farms is not
large here and the demands for the
mills is greater than ever known.
In the upper end of Dauphin county
Whefe farming and mining are the
TWO chief industries the operation of
the draft has hit the mines and n
reduced output is feared and the at
fractions of higher pay have taken
tarm labor away. Now the farm
ers and the mines are after hands.
Both are vital and the situation is
commencing to worry observers. The
railroads and industrial establish
ments of this community have many
men who come from farms and they
are being urged to devote a week or
TWO during the summer to helping
out in work to which they are ac-
customed. The chances of getting
much aid from the negroes who have
come from the southern states to
work in steel works and from the
foreigners is slight.
Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
will not go away for his vacation in
the Maine woods until the middle of
July. 1t was the first of August be-
fore he got started last year owing
to the prolonged session of the
Legislature, and this year he will re-
main in Pennsylvania because of the
meeting of the National Educational
Association in Pittsburgh and the
nrst encampment of the Reserve
Militia at Mt. Gretna. Meanwhile it
is anticipated that he will take steps
TO I'LL up the various vacancies eX-
listing on the Public Service Com
mission, State Board of Public Char
tiles and other bodies. For some
time there have been reports that
selection of a Public Service Com
mission was imminent, but the Gov
ernor refuses to talk about it. DR..
Brumbaugh proposes to take a
prominent part among the educa-
tional meetings in the state the re-
mainder of the year. He will make
an address at the National associ-
alton meeting and visit certain other
meetings of like character while he
Will make an address at the meet
ing of the State Educational Asso-
ciatlon here late in the year which
it is expected will show a renewed
interest in educational matters and
perhaps contain some recommended
tions born of his observations of the
critical stage of school finances in
the last three years and some
recommendations on educational
laws.
You can not legislate the children
of Harrisburg to bed" remarked a
man who had been observing the
boys and girls Of Harrisburg this
first year of daylight saving with
the clocks turned ahead. This is
corroborated by a policeman who
says: There is no use talking;
the kids are on to the clock turning
ahead and they won't go to bed as
long as there is daylight Curfews
may blow, but the youngsters are
going to stay out"
Speaking about the Red Men of
the state who are going to meet here
in state council session next year 1t
is interesting to note that three Dau-
phin countians have been great sach-
| ems, or the head of the order in
Pennsylvania. They have been
Charles e. Pass, the prothonotary,
II. o. Burtnett and the late Jerome
Hite. Charles r. Willitts, of the
State Department, who is a resident
of Reading, also filled that office.
Mr.. Pass is the present national rep
! resentative.
Lieutenant Governor Frank B. Nc
Claim, whose observations upon the
course of cases before the State
Board of Pardons are always inter
esting, really knows them as we'll as
the men who present the appeals.
The lieutenant governor takes the
job seriously and studies the cases
| and applies the view of a lay mind,
but once in while he hooks up on
legal points with his attorney col
leagues, the attorney general and
secretary of the commonwealth.
''The board" he remarked yester-
day." is not stone wall in regard
to aDpaalsu