Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
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There will not be so much interest
In the next draft numbers drawn fol-
lowing the new registration as there
was when the first big lottery took
place at Washington, for the reason
that the draft numbers will be Sec
ondary to deferred classification. For
example, the first man drawn may,
py reason of having dependents or
being physically disqualified. be the =
very last to be called If he ever is
On the other hand 1t might chance
that the man who is the 125th to be
drawn might be the first to be called
II the one hundred and twenty-for~
before him happened to be entitlec
to deferred classification.
| Nobody will be able to tell with
anything like accuracy his place on
the actual draft list by consulting
his number as drawn at Washington.
AT oest any such guess can be but
approximate and in many cases
would be so far in error as to be
absolutely without meaning, so far
as possible date of call or order of
being called is concerned. The only
! way for the Glass 1 registrant to find
his true place in the draft will be to
wait until the questionnaires are all
filed, the various classifcations re-
corded by the draft board and then to
count the number from the first
name down to his own. as listed with
his local board.
Some of the lads who are beins
called into the Army are getting a
mighty short time to prepare. One
of them, a Cumberland county resi-
dent just turned 81, desired to be in
| Quoted into the service and called on
his local draft board to make ar
rangements. mo use said the secre-
tary, you leave for camp on Thurs
day." That was on Monday. Pretty
! short shrift, even for a man who
knew his time was drawing nigh.
The Telegraph loses another of its
reporters to-day-Paul D. Fettrow.
| ing at Camp Greenleaf, Ga. Mr..
Fettrow has been connected with tho
Telegraph staff for several years, act
ing as Steelton reporter and cover
| ing" the West Shore territory. He
is hard-working, cheerful, studious
young man who will succeed any,
where he may go, if application and
industry count for anything. His
friends on the paper presented him
with silver wristwatch upon his
going and hope to have him asso-
ciated with them again after the
war. .
A thoughtful young lieutenant who
deserved better stubbed his toes hard
Sunday morning against bonehead-
b ed individual in the Harrisburg po-
lice department and left the city with
a very poor opinion of the town. He
was in charge of a big truck train
coming down the Carlisle pike and
headed for the Atlantic coast and on
the West Shore paused to ask his
way through Harrisburg, saying
"our trucks make considerable noise
and I want to go through the city so
that there will be as little disturb
ance of church services as possible"
ASK the police department for a
pilot" suggested a bystander, which
the young officer did, and with this
result:
1--WE have no time to be plotting
soldiers around Harrisburg; find your
own way through"
For the good name of the town
and to save the face of the officer a
West Shore man volunteered for the
service and under his guidance ths
train was piloted through the city.
The Harrisburg. Rotary Club has
endorsed the nationwide movement
for war angelus," meaning there
by q period of two minutes set apart
at II o'clock each day for prayer for
!, |
the attainment of the aims set forth
by President Wilson in his war
speech. Just how the subject will
be taken up here is not known but
| it is likely that a committee will be
named to take up the subject. Ro-
tary clubs everywhere are support
ing the idea, which is already in op-
Grafton in large number OF cities,
the notification to the people of the
| N IN fnrn1
of whistle blowing and bell-ringins.
G. w. Ensign, the well-known con-
tractor of this city, is not one OF
those who believes that the Susuue-
hanna cannot be deepened at COM
paratively small expense. Within
few days he will complete the dam
ming of that section of the stream
between the big island and the east
ern shore above Falmouth. Fur
thermore, has has done his work on
the bare bottom of the river, with
out interference by the stream. This
he accomplished by temporary dam
a half mile to the north, dumping
sufficient fill into the water to di-
vert the current to the west of the
island. "The possibility of high wa
ter worried me, but not nearly SO
much as the labor problem" he said
the other day. THE river behaved
itself but in one week I sent to the
lob 76 workmen and at the end of
the week had 26 men on the DAM"
The new dam will do much to give
the York Haven Power Company
additional power for the Harrisburg
district as it will add tremendously
to the storage capacity back of the
big turbines which operate the plant.
The meeting of the Democratic
state committee yesterday brought
to Harrisburg many men of long
prominence in Democratic affairs.
Charles P. Donnelly. one of the Phil
: adelphia leaders, said that 1t was
thirty years since he had come to
this city for a Democratic meeting
and that yesterdays events were his
toric.