Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-30
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TITS the business man and the re-
that I'm after. We want him to help
Uncle Sam, the farmer and him.
SELF" said F. r. Stevens. the agri-
cultural expert of the State Chamber
or Commerce, who has been annex
ed by the government and the state
to get the problem of farm labor
nearer solution. Mr.. Stevens comes
from New York state originally but
has been working among farmers of
Pennsylvania for twenty-one years,
having been part of that time with
the Lehigh Valley railroad which
started as a coal road and ended
up by making many tons of freight@
come out of the fields along it's lines.V
Mr.. Stevens was the man in charge
of that work. MY plan is to help
the businessman who goes away and
spends a lot of time doing nothing
reduce his waistline and get his mus
cles into good shape. That is provided
he knows how to farm and a whole
lot of our successful men started with
the soil. The farmers of this state
need help. And If some of them can
get help of just one man for a couple
of weeks it will be their salvation
and add that much to the food sup
ply. Take a man who goes away for
because he is well-to-do. After
he is forty his waistline becomes
dangerous If he sits around too much.
Now IL he will go back to the farm
for couple of weeks he will be able
to better enjoy life this fall. And
II some of the men who are playing
golf and know how to farm would
do some driving with hoes and put
ting with rakes their score would
rank away up. And when they came
back in the fall they would be able
to chase old Col. Bogey all over the
course. Really, this is a serious prop
position. Many farmers are up
against it for want of help and with
young men going to war and into
mills we feel that men who have
come from the farm and have time
or can take time should help on the
farm. 1t will be helping your old
uncle down at Washington too"
A tin roof opposite the Orpheum
isn't exactly the place where you
would look for a nest, But that is
where a pair of night hawks are
raising a family or preparing to.
are eroneously called whip-poor-
wills, are the birds which sail about
| collecting bugs at night. They are
the ones which dart and dip and
loop-the-loop and rival the bats A
pair of them have leased the roof of
DR.. Henry M Stine's property on
Locust street and have a nest in a
corner. They are very busy these days
and have not time to call upon the
other members of the family who
live on the roof of the Donaldson
building.
Residents of the Hill section of
Derry street, especially in the Thir-
teenth ward, are getting ready to
ask the City Council to provide some
means of preventing flooding of the
pavement and of the sidewalk every
time there is a heavy rain. Several
times this year the wash from the
sloping portions of Eighteenth, Nine
teenth and Twentieth streets as
we'll as out on Twenty-third has
| covered the street with mud and
dirt and lately rubbish has been
Strewn over car tracks. The sug--
gestion has been made that the gut
ters on the side streets be deepened
and larger catch basins installed.
The problem is commencing to an
noy people in that part of the city.
Samuel L. Long, of the State De-
partment of Mines, sent to Governor
! Brumbaugh the other day magno-
liza that looked like an umbrella
when the accompanying leaves were
held out. 1t was a huge white speci-
men, of rare stock and attracted
much attention. The leaves looked
like a big Lancaster county tobacco
plant.
A bulldog does not always run true
to form. Yesterday afternoon a
large dog with much pedigree visit
ed Capitol Park. He started to chase
squirrels and a misguided man tried
to chase him. The dog turned and
the man ran. So did couple of
other men. A Capitol policeman
4 came along and seeing the dog en-
gagged in bullying men, freeing squir-
rels and making pigeons soar, care
fully aimed at his head with his club.
1t was a good shot and landed right
on the end of the dogs nose. Instead
of holding on to the job he had set
out to do the dog steered a straight
course for Third and Walnut.