Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-02
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II there is anything in that con-
Viction of Army officers that a sing
ing soldier makes q good soldier the
carloads of men who have been
passing through Harrisburg the last
week to the National Army canton
ments or somewhere else will be
splendid upholders of the traditions
! of Uncle Sam. There have been
many thousands of men moving
| through Union station since the war
| began and of late, due to the draft
calls and other movements. there
| have been several trains a day. In
| deed. among the station employees
| the trains of soldiers and drafted
men are not attracting much atten-
tion except to see that everything is
in proper shape, although to the
| people who gather about the sta
| ton and on the bridges the trains
are never-failing source of inter
est. Every train that has come into
the station this week has been filled
with cheering singing soldiers. The
arrival and departure of the trains
can be told by the outbursts of
cheering from the cars. Monday
and Tuesday the train shed resound-
ed with songs and some of the i'm
provised glee clubs among the SOL
diers did very well, so well, in fact.
tthat they won applause from the
people gathered for trains. This
gathering for community singing
seems to be the thing among the
soldiers for when they can they pile
out of the trains. stopping their card
games and even eating to gather
round and sing. When they cannot
leave the cars they lean from the
windows and sing as Justify as
though they were sitting around un-
der tree at home.
Efforts are being bent by officers
at State Draft headquarters to have
all data regarding occupations of
men within the age limit of the Sc
lective service act completed before
the call comes for the big contin-
gent of men to be made early this
month. The classification cards
have been called for several times
and it is hoped to be in shape to
immediately meet any calls for men
with special qualifications. Numer-
Gus instances whether men who had
been given deferred classifications
because of work and who have
changed without notifying draft
boards have been discovered, while
there have also been cases arise
where status of railroad men and
miners as workers IN necessary in
dustries have been questioned. In
e consideration the actual division of
, work done by the applicants who
. work in mines.
Recent filing of notices of inten-
| ton to increase rates for service
by electric companies throughout
the state has brought a flood of in
quiries and number of complaints
\ to the office of the Public Service
/ Commission. Many of the inquiries
= are of kind that would naturally
p be made at offices of the companies
E but the customers take the matters
: to the commission for notice, al
. though they are referred back to
? their localities. In a number of in
/ stances requests have also been
: made of the commission to have i'm
= mediate investigations ordered.
s which cannot be done because of
= the cost which would be tremend-
Gus.
Speaking about the Governors
I Troop and what it hit at Mt. Gretna
p when it modified there with the
9 rest of the Guard for the Spanish
q War just twenty years ago, one of
!, the veterans recalled that the Troop
,. was one of the few organizations
that spent the first night in tents.
The troopers found the ground full
of snow, but managed to get tents
from one of the cars and put up the
g whole thirty-two and the hospital
n tent for the officers. The infantry
II men slept in cars and chicken hous-
|, es, but the cavalry were out in the
IS snow.
DIR. Joseph Kalbfus, the secre-
tary of the State Game Commission.
who is recovering from an attack
| of grip has written to men living in
| the northern tier who asked about
trying poisoned corn to get rid OF
some of the crows which have mi
grated to that part of Pennsylvania
from the southern counties and
Maryland and Virginia, and advises
[ against using that method now. The
danger, he says, exists in the fact
that some of the insect eating birds
are also corn eaters and of the kind
which would be affected by the
strychnine which can be eaten
without harmful results by chickens
and other birds DR.. Kalbfus says
that poisoned corn accounted for
many crows this winter and spring
and that while some birds have been
lost the harm done is not to be COM
pared with the damage caused by
v crows. After the migratory birds re-
(. turn hen eggs fixed with poison may
, be used, the eggs being placed where
crows can see them. The greed of
the crow will soon cause the poison
to do the work.
The State Department of Agricul-
ture is making an appeal for lawn
clippings as chicken feed. 1t calls
attention to the fact that when grass
gets long enough to cut in the spring
it is the very best kind of food for
chickens and urges that people feed
IL to their own fowls, or to those
owned by other people. Grass can
be turned into greenbacks. insists
the man who writes pieces for the
Department