Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-22
Addressed by Mayor


AS the big procession OF more than
1000 men reached the END of the
route. in Market street, Mayor D. l..
keister made u speech i'll which he
highly complimented the force for
their patriotic interest in The loan
and congratulated them on the fine
appearance of the parade. Ii was
a great success and has left its in
iluence for good on the community.
Ouc industrial workers are standing
shoulder to shoulder with the gov
ernment and they are not only giving
of their LABOR, they are giving of
their earnings.
Throughout the series of meetings
at the great ron and steel plant the
men heartily co-operated with the
management. They labored each
with the other and wherever the
slightest Indifference was shown the
men presented the cause and the
hesitating one lined up. 1t may not
be known to all of Harrisburg but
t is interesting to note here that
this great plant is making plates for
ships. boilers and other equipment to
carry the food and ammunition to
the boys across the seas and it was
with justitiable pride that the work
as celebrated :he achievement Of
their purpose Saturday afternoon.
There is a large number of en-
ployes at the Central plant who were
born in other lands and these would
talk 20 heir fellow employees in their
native tongue, urging them to pur-
chase bonds. There are thirty-one
nationalities represented q: the plaut
including Austrians, Bohemians,
Bosnians, Brazilians, Bulgarjaps,
Cloatians, Danish, English, Germans,
Greeks, Hungarians, Irish, Italians,
Macedonlans, MeXicans, Montenegro
ans, Norwegians, Porto Ricans, Por-
tugese, Rumanians, Russians, Scotch,
Servians, Spanish, Swedes, Turks,
West Indians and others.
Aliens Buy Heavily
During the canvass an Austrian,
Who has been in the employ of the
company for about eleven years and
had taken bonds IN the first two
loans, but who had not yet been
reached by the committee. called ct
the Office of the company and said:
Say l want another one hundl ed
dollar bond; got others. take every
time; we want to help" This is the
spirit among the foreign born en-
ployes.
IL al dulO ptSNNulilS lIS llTSl ulNl-
sion were four employees who have
pany for fifty years. They were
George w. A-mpriester, Aaron S
Payne, Amos Bell and Joseph Fish
er. Other automobiles carried en-
ployes who had been with the uom-
pany thirty or forty years.
The parade committee comprised
w. Il. Drinkwater, William Roberts,
Ashton d. Peace. H. S. Evans, Guy
Rupert and George r. Souder.
The Liberty Loau committee of
the plant included D. b. Simouse.
II. S. Evans, Frank Anderson, Roy
Eckert, d. Rodgers. G. c. Adams,
c. y. Waite, II p. Kreps, George A.
Snyder. e. r. Souder, G.. f. King,
William Brown, Those Filby. WilIiam
McQuade, C. A. Orr Guy Rupert, w.
Il. Drinkwater, S. e. Moore, Harry
Snyder, Howard Mumma, +. d.
Zerbe, William Bribbins, Earl
Thompson. G.. L. Fisk, S. d. SAMSON.
The formation of the parade was
as follows: Sergeant and platoon of
city police; marshal, William Rob-
erts; chief of staff, Ashton d. Peace;
Liberty Loan committee acting os
aids of first division, Municipal Band
Central Iron and Steel Company's
police force, officers of the company.
main office force marshaled by F. c.
Michey.
Then followed in order the en-
ployes of mills one and two, the uni
versal mill, the transportation de-
partment and the testing depart
ment.
Many Slogans
The second division aids were II.
vic
Melosh, A. E. Eek, Harry Adams.
Dales Wolf, Milton Beamer, George
Snyder, II. Keim, George Brooks.
Then came the Steelton Band and the
employees of the following depart
ments in order: Engineering, open
hearth. blast furnace. Hanging, me-
chanical and general labor.
Some of the slogans carried on
banners by the men were as fol-
lows:
Don't be a Stacker. Buy a Third
Liberty Bond"
g If you are too old for the trench
es buy a bond
Buy bonds for bullets"
Our boys are counting on you.
"If you can't pitch in chip in.
Buy bonds"
"our boys want hackers not
slackers.'
Keep the home fires burning. Buy
bonds"
stop, Look and Listen
mo mlser can lick the Kaiser. Buy
bonds"
THE boys are giving their lives.
What are you giving?"
Soldiers give their lives. Others
lend money"
Into line double time. Buy
bonds"
eff you can't go across. come
across. Buy bonds"
IF you don't come across the kai-
ser will"