Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
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One of the most gratifying things
about the pledge Week" campaign
| for War Savings which a Harris
burger of much experience in such
matters and one of the keenest of
| observers commented upon in chat
I ting over this weeks strenuous work
| for patriotism and thrift was the
spirit of sacrifice that people are
| commencing to show. 81 tell you
the thing that has impressed me in
getting about among the people was
the way they wanted to help. L
found that especially among those
who had the good fortune to have
sons in their country'S service at this
time. l have always envied such
people. And 1 have found and heard
of persons who have had their
sources of income considerably di-
minished by the patriotism of mem
bers/ of their families, who are
skimping and saving to buy Liberty
Bonds. To such people the War
All honor to them" Still more sig
nificant was the remark of another
man of experience. II know
woman whose husband is in the
army, whose father, died two weeks
ago and who has two children" said
he. "And listen. She has taken two
Liberty Bonds and has agreed to buy
it l don't know. Then there is an
uptown woman who sold diamond
ring and put the cash into War
Stamps. She's better off, but 1 tell
you it takes sacrifice to sell such
things" One of the men active in
this weeks work tells of another
woman up town whose son is in the
army in France who sent home his
first pay to go into Liberty Bonds.
| And she is putting her allowance
from Uncle Sam into War Stamps,
he added. These examples are only
some of those that have come under
inotice. There must be more and
their number will increase in Harris
burg just as the small number of
persons who have refused from no
tices of disloyalty or out of Jointness
to buy bonds or stamps will decrease.
1t is not generally known that
some of the best known of Harris
burgs businessmen have bought all
the War Stamps that they are al
lowed to buy. These men sized up the
proposition as Il fine one and in
vested the eight hundred and some
odd dollars which it requires to buy
$1,000 worth of the Baby" bonds
right off the reel. The very first buy
er of Thrift Stamps in HarrlsonrG
bought what will be thousand dol
I lars worth in 1928. And there have
| been many others.
Splendid for Harrisburg. I knew
=. it would do it," remarked eX-Gov-
i ernor John K. Tener short time
ago when told that the city which
he likes so much had gone over the
T top for the third time on the Liberty
It Loan. Governor Tener keeps in
close touch with the Capital City and
watches all its activities.
t More than one person who en-
: tered the Federal courtroom in the
k Post Office Building during the past
v few days thought he saw the un-
conquerable r. r. on the witness
stand in the famous Lemasters Bank
: case. Can it be possible that Colonel
s Roosevelt has been called in as wit
t ness?" was a question asked OF court
n officials a number of times. The re-
- semblance between Clyde E. Kuhn,
promoter of the McConnellsburg-
Loudon railway, and the strenuous
i ex-President is very striking, and
= it is said that local people who know
9 the Colonel commented upon TINS
, resemblance. Even Judge Wilmer,
! who presided at this weeks session
: of the court, commented on Kuhn
as Roosevelt's double"
Judge Charles B. Wilmer, who
e presides in Federal court here this
week, has an unique and romantic
history. Born in Union county he
, taught school at Beaver Springs
u Snyder county, and while there mar
s ried a black-eyed Snyder county
= beauty. He studied law under the
famous old barrister, Simon P. VOL
yerton, and became United ateS
d marshal, advancing step by step from
n the marshalship to the office of dis
e trict attorney and later becoming
: Federal judge for the Middle DIS
remarkable step from a $40 peda-
, gogue to a judges chair" com
| mented a court official speaking
| about the judges history. The
Judge is an ardent sportsman, ana
/ with Senator William c. McConnell
owns a game preserve IN union
county. where the two go for fshlng
and hunting jaunts'
Miss Alice R. Eaton, librarian OF
the Harrisburg Public Library
Leaves to-day for a visit to the can
tonments about New Yoris City TO
inspect the manner in Whlch the
camp libraries are being orsanlHeu.
She will also address library classes
in New York city. One of the camps
which she will %lsit by request Will
he Camp Upton, where a big library
has been established:
The big Paxton oak, which local
tradition says began to grow petore
the first log cabin was built at Pax
ton Presbyterian GhurcnSarG, the
Storm of last week. The big oak
: was the pride of the grove and has Ta
= looked down upon worshipers in the
/ woods. the log church and the stone
. church for fully 200 years. Inc
same storm which wrecked so many
trees in and about HARRISBURG ae-
e+royad the old willow near the
$500 80 of tbe prettiest trees in