Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-03
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spent for gasoline on Sunday and
which they have saved because of
"autoless Sunday" into War Stamps
seems to have struck a responsive
chord and there will be many dol
| lars added to this mighty popular
form OF investment for young and
old in Harrisburg. 1t was made yes
terday in the presence of a number
of automobile owners and they
agreed to spread it. 1t happens that
some of the people who would other
| wise have gone out in cars yesterday
took railroad trips or spent money
| otherwise and they are being called
| up by loving friends and told to buy
| stamps because they violated the
! spirit of the law. In several cases
| 1t we . reported that men had saved
| money twice because they spent some
| part of Sunday inspecting cars which
| they did not run and discovered ne
| cessity for immediate repairs or
headed off disaster by attention
| which the car would not have re-
| ceived on travelling Sabbath. Some
| of the men who went to church in
| carson Sunday when they lived near
| trolley lines received ideas of what
their friends thought about 1t yester-
| day. But the best of all was the
| treatment the plain joyriders, the
| don't care kind. got along the streets.
! They were given cat-calls, dubbed
'slackers" and shown very plainly
what their fellow citizens thought of
| them. Some tried to brazen it out,
| but when they saw how few cars
were out'they beat it for home. The
most uncomfortable people in the
! state were the women who were in
cars because they could not conceal
| their feelings and many an one wished
that the horseless carriage had been
| kept at home when travelling through
| Thara
tomobiles run in Harrisburg Sunday
| and there are going to be fewer next
Sunday and the next.
|
Persons who rode in autom obiles
on Sunday Gidn't feel very comfort
able. If one may Judge from the re-
| marks of two women who had taken
short ride, a pleasure trip, at that.
One of them said: I'VE didn't have
very nice time of 1t on our ride;
every few squares some one would
yell, Stacker as we passed; at Hum
melstown man came cut in tho
street and took the number of our
car and along the road in the outly-
ing districts pedestrians hooted when
we went by them. No more pleasure
trips for lis until the ban on gasoline
is lifted. The roads certainly looked
3 deserted and we saw only few other
= machines during the whole time we
- were out"
"One thing about the no-auto trip
j. Sunday that l liked and which ]
l hope will keep up is that there were
no cars stacked up in front OF
Y churches and hotels" remarked one
: of the traffic cops. Every Sunday
j the folks who go to church in cars
t leave the machines standing in
n streets where there are trolley cars
= n nd sra
don't go into side streets / don't
/ know. But they are not as bad rs
= the folks who go to a hotel or res
S taurant md spend a couple of hours
. eating dinner. They leave their cars
wherever it seems to be busiest.
z These Sundays are rest time to US
4 fellows and I hope you newspaper
;, guys keep on lambasting the slack
!, ers.'
People here. especially in educa-
tional circles, are very much inter
! ested in The reports from Trenton
that New Jersey is about to estab-
lish commission to devise a school
code similar to Pennsylvania. The
Jersey people have run up against
the same situation that confronted
this state decade ago when the con-
ficting statutes and obsolete laws
made it impossible to get anywhere
without lawyer. DR.. Nathan G.
Schaeffer, one of the pioneers in the
movement for compressed school laws
worked for months to find out how
to meet a certain situation. The ex-
perience of Pennsylvania has been
the same as other states and the
code plan is now getting much favor.
Every now and then some people
get ideas about the new draft law
and start cut to raise questions. For
instance, there were some men who
were of the opinion that men who
were over forty-five did not have to
register. The truth is that every
man who is not forty-six on Septem-
Der IL, or Thursday a week, must
register. Better do it early and do
it with a smile; every man who
KNOWS, except a few, will be doing it.
The thoroughness with which Cap
itol Hill closed all offices yesterday
in observance of Labor Day was
much commented upon. There was
hardly an Office open except that of
the State Police which does not sleep.
Generally, there are a few offices
where men work. but yesterday was
marked by as general a closing as
the Fourth or July. Even the
squirrels is off," said "Chiefy" Gill
ner.
1t is an interesting fact that many
of the soldiers who stop here on
their way to eastern points are
marching about Harrisburg streets
at q cadence that would have Jared
| many people q year ago. A couple
| of years back men were trained at
about seventy steps to the minute
The men who have been marching
about the streets this week are go
ing as nigh as 124 to 12S a minute
Captain +. il. Hoy, Jr., who has had
much experience in drilling. says
that the 1870. step marching is COM
ing along. One regiment hit up 1874
for a time.