Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-16
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The fact that Dauphin county
went ahead of Philadelphia in War
stamp Selling last week was pleasant
readlng to war investors in this COM
| munlty, but there is very general
belief that sales not only should
put can be increased here without I.
interfering with the Liberty Loan or '
the drives in behalf of any of the
agencies that are doing such WON
derful work to back up the lighting
men, said businessman last
week. In the opinion of some
observers the sales here have not
Jumped because of the restricted
number of places where War Stamps
can be bought. The location of the
main selling agency on the second
Iloor or the post Office has not
heiped, either, because people have
not reached the point where they
will climb stairs to save. Posters
nave become so numerous and so
striking in promoting the objects of
the various agencies of the govern
ment that the people have come to
regard them more in the light os
rlValries than punch" There has
| been much conversation about War
Stamps in Harrisburg. The MANY
booths which have been established
In stores and industrial establish.
ments. the advice to have been
printed on the pay envelopes to in
vest some OF the contents in Thrift
Stamps and the enlistment of the
people to urge buyers and sellers
not TO forget the small investment
| that leads to big returns have not
materialized. The Chamber of Com
merce has done some things which
| popularized War Stamps. they have
been prizes at various entertain
ments and the boy and girl scouts
have been on the job, but the truth
is that most people who were inter-
ested have become too busy and
Postmaster Frank C. Sites has not
been supported as he should have
been. These remarks represent the
| boil-doWn of views of twenty men
spoken to yesterday on the subject
The fact is that almost all of them
are true. Harrisburg has a great
reputation for going through with
things, but 1T has gotten so
accustomed to the multiplicity of
War Signs" just as newspaper
ohces have become burdened with
Z, publicity" from government depart
mental press agents at Washington,
that the significance of w. 8. S. is
not borne home as strongly as six
months ago and it needs something
beside wind and ink to speed it up.
Formation of the Home Defense
| League, at Hershey, makes the
fourth such organization in Dauphin
county with at least one other likely
to be established in the upper end.
| There are now units at Harrisburg,
Steelton, Middletown, Hummelstown
and Paxtang have reserves, but they
do not conduct regular drills any
longer.
! Members of the Telegraph Family
have given their congratulations to
Augustus Blacksmith, the oldest of
their number, upon his seventy-fifth
birthday. Mr. Blacksmith has been
continuously in the service of the
Telegraph for over fifty-five years
T. Ellsworth Davies, the coal land
expert who is to come here to take
charge of the survey of the coal
lands of Dauphin county which some
believe are not assessed at values, =
has had wide experience in such
matters in the geological field and
figured in some strenuous contests to
make coal companies pay fairer
shares of taxes on undeveloped coal
lands. Ifwhat is generally believed in
| the Lykens valley-that there are
millions of dollars of untouched coal
in the Short Mountains estab-
lished the county will get much more
in taxes and maybe Harrisburg
would get some Lykens coal.
An Austrian workman got mo.
g." in a Hill car the other evening.
The Austrian was one of the few
who have been inclined to braZenness
| hereabouts. He wore a ring which
had some Austrian insignia on it
and pushed his way through the
crowd at car door and took seat,
grinning at the women who had
| to stand. Some one told him to
get up. He would not. So a man
went over and stood so that every
lurch of the car he trod upon the
Austrian's toes. Black looks. mutter-
ings and every other sign from the
| foreigner made no impression.
Get off," finally said the Aus
trian.
Get up" said the American.
The foreigner stood 1t one more
block during which he got tramped
two or three times and then he
bolted for the door, making faces at
every one and scowling at the car
as it sped by when he had alighted.
"The war movie has the old fash
ioned blood and thunder reel faded"
was the remark of one of the local
picture magnates. I'VE have had
some very fine films here. but
the pictures that draw the crowd are
those from the war zone. The official
pictures bring in people that never
go to a movie and they set the reg
ular fans to cheering.
Is a workman an industrial acci-
dent victim If the ankle on his right
foot has been broken while at work.
If that right foot was part of an
artificial leg? A regularly executed
accident report has been received
at the Bureau of Statistics and In
formation of the Department of
Labor and Industry from John j.
Boland and Company, mine opera
tors, at Dunmore, Pennsylvania, set
ting forth that James McGarry, an
employe, turned on his foot and
broke his ankle while at work Sep
tember 4th. The accident report
further states,-"This is an artif-
cial leg, however. but he had to
bava same reDaired" "