Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-08-06
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The great war IL not only eoing
TO make great changes in the life of
the people Of Pennsylvania and in
many ways of doing things. but In
opinion of men who have come here
from various sections of the state on
business at the Capitol it is likely to
leave more enduring memorials to
the men who bore arms than even
the Civil War. When the struggle
Tor preservation of the Union ended
there were numerous movements for
monuments and there is scarcely a
county seat in the keystone State
that does not have an expression of
the gratitude of the people of a coun-
ty for the boys in blue in stone or
bronze. There have already been som,
discussions of memorials, but thsS
are taking different form from ttrA
monument. In Pittsburgh there ara
some communities which will erect
tablets giving the names of the men
VINO nave gone into service and thia
pIan has also been discussed in Will
Transport and Erie. In other place.
1t is planned to line streets with trees
and to give each tree the name of a
solder. One upstate town which
has given many sons to the army
VIII honor any one who is called
upon to make the great sacrifice by
naming tree in the town park.
me tree idea was much talked of at
the Capitol to-day. In Reading
the mayor and councilmen are study
ing means to show appreciation
of their men in Khaki and as q start
er Will name some of the streets in
new sections of the city which nre
being opened in honor of generals.
Naturally there will be one named
rlght away for General Hunter Lig-
gett, who first saw the light in Read
ing according to late evidence, which
takes the honor from Birdsboro.
Harold Brown, who was one of the
spry young colored men at the state
draft headquarters and who is now
IN france with a field artillery regi-
ment. has sent Major w. G.. Muir
I'dock letter which is an interesting
view of the way the average young
Pennsylvanian regards his war ira
vels. Brown is getting to be a real
soldier. He says that his second
| Sunday in France found him 500
miles from where he was the first
sunday and he was still going, doing
| everything himself, including cook
| ing, washing, sewing and general
| housework," and finding the people
mighty congenial and without any
race prejudice. However, young
| Brown can not understand why they
call creeks rivers and misses the
| corn fields of old Dauphin. In de-
| scribing how he felt when some peo-
| pie appeared vexed that hes would
| not drink wine when on q ramble he
| and some comrades struck a farm
house he says: "I could not ex-
| plain as my French is a cross be-
/ tween French, English and deaf and
| dumb signals" He urges Mike"
| and Jim" at headquarters to con-
| tinue to study their French, they be-
| ing men who may go next because
| the draft does not respect even those
at headquarters.
The war seems to have started
things moving off with a rush since
the reopening of the Harrisburg
Public Library because over half of
the books asked for have war fla
| vor. The fiction built upon war is
much in demand and books dealing
with Normandy and Picardy are
| much sought. There is hardly a
day passes without some requests for
| books which describe the Marne re-
sion of France and the Saloniki dis
| trict.
Heber, DIR. Cherrick westbrook's
| battling tomcat has established a
dead line at the city limits. Heber
is black cat with a front line of
] trenches disposition and the accu-
| racy of grenade thrower in hand
ling his claws. There used to be a
time when dogs from Paxtang would
roam over the city line into nearest
| Harrisburg and those in the Thir-
teenth ward would ramble out into
the dusty streets of Paxtang. But
they do not cross the dead line whea
Heber is around and when he is on
patrol duty the barking of the Pax
tang dogs sounds far away.
Just exactly how the railroads are
going to get their cars unscrambled
after the war is ended is hard to say
| Yesterday there were cars from ten
different railroads from beyond the
| Mississippi river in Union station
and locomotives which are far from
home hostlers are to be seen here
abouts every day. Some of the vet
| eran railroad men of the Pennsyl-
vania system declare that they can
rot see where the cars are going
to end up the way they are being
shifted around. Some huge Nor
folk and Western engines, larger
than any seen hereabouts, are now
being used in this neighborhood.
Some of the big western soldiers
are bound to be comfortable no mat
ter what the weather. The other
day a train came in with the win
dows decorated with legs. The men
had gotten tired of things inside of
the cars and stuck their feet out
side quite regardless of what they
| mi oh n In
Harrisburg yards nervous, but the
men only wagged their feet when
called to pull in their "hoofs."