Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-23
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war may nave mLerIereo Will
many things, made food high, coal
scarce and winter come early. but It
does not seem to have affected the
Susquehanna salmon or the wild
duck They are both with US. And
they are just where they were
twenty-five or thirty years ago when
some heads of families used to stay
out until nightfall and get chapped
hands trolling for the wall-eyed
pike, which we call the salmon, or
getting up before daybreak to go
out in a round bottom to shoot
ducks among the islands or grass
patches that front the city. And
this year, in spite of the churning of
the waters by the fleet of coal
dredges that have been working day
and night to pile up mountains of
river coal for the winters use in in
dustrial establishments and the
State Capitol there have been some
fine salmon hooked and finer ones
seen. The deep water stretches
along the Cumberland shore seem to
be as favorite lurking places for sal
mon as thirty years ago and the fish
to be as game fighters as their an
cestors. There are a lot of bass to
be had, too, but the Susquehanna
salmon is on the job and he is to be
found in Wells water, the deep place
above West Fairview, the Maclay
street RIFLES" and other spots
known to the salmon fishers in 1892.
And as for the ducks, they don't
even limit their visits to morning.
They are around in the middle of
the day and are to be seen feedi~g
at sunset. Some folks say that ,.ie
appearance of the ducks here at this
season means an early winter and
made other direful predictions, but
the truth is about the time of the
equinox there are always a lot of
ducks to be seen. When the wedges
of wild geese commence to appear
in the sky it is time to talk about
early winters, but meanwhile if you
are cold, heed Ross Hickok's admo-
nitions about wood fire.
Dairy and Food Commissioner
James Foust has given the candy
men of the state a fine remedy for
the reported loss of trade suffered
through the sugar regulations and
the prejudice which some dealers
say has grown UP against candy due
to war measures. Advertise your
wares; popularize them through the
iiS"oPa pSlpb uSS lllh' llOb walls "
get your wares before the public"
said the commissioner in a talk at
| a state convention of men in the
confectionery trade at Pittsburgh.
| When business is poor and demand
no good, but you have big stock,
move it with an ad."
Some of the farmers in this Sec
ton of the state have ideas that a
tractor can do anything. Tractors
have been engaged and when the op-
orators showed UP the fields were
| found all raked, but they bit no end
| of rocks. The idea of calling in
tractors to undo the result of sew
eral years of neglect is dead wrong,
say the experts at the Capitol.
Congressman ]. Hampton Moore,
writing in the breezy column which
he contributes several times a wseJ
to the Evening Ledger of Philadel-
phia just to prove that he is still a
newspaper tells an interesting
story about Provost. Marshal and
Judge Advocate General Crowder. 1t
has a Susquehanna river end and is
one of the kind in which the Phila-
delphia newspaper-congress de-
lights. He says that General Crowd
er in June, 1914, was called upon
by the then Secretary of War, Mr..
Garrison, of New Jersey, to pass
upon the legality of an application
by the Susquehanna Power Company
for the approval of it's plans for a
power dam across the Susquehanna
River near Conowingo, Md. The
question was whether the proposed
dam came under the jurisdiction OF
the State of Maryland or of the
United States. The then judge advo-
cate general looked up the law and
the facts and ran plumb up against
an executive order of former Secre-
tary of War Taft, afterward Presi-
dent of the United States, by which
it was decreed that the Susquehanna
was a non-navigable stream above
the Maryland line. There was an
agitation on at that time for the
opening up of the Susquehanna
which courses through three states
and is one of the most picturesque
and historic rivers of the country
and Crowder found little difficulty in
coming to a conclusion. He wrote
an opinion for Secretary Garrison in
which he held in substance that the
Susquehanna was not only navigable
up to the Pennsylvania line but
came generally under the federal
Jurisdiction. This opinion reversing
"old Taft" was sustained by the Sec
retary OF War, since which time the
Susquehanna has been restored to its
navigable status, except at McCalls
Ferry, where the dam crosses the
river"
The manner in which students OF
the Harrisburg High schools have
taken to the new courses in military
training which are being arranged
for them is indicative of the spirit OF
the students everywhere in this sec
tica. 1t fits in we'll with the physical
training and the boys will soon know
Squads right as we'll as "Gallia est
omnes tres"
It may be Of interest to note tina
war has put dent in the roster o
the Legislative correspondents VIII
have been coming here to report tn,
LEGISLATURE. OF the men who wer,
here in the session of 1917 ]. H. B
Campbell, of the old Philadelphi;
Telegraph, is in Washington; Ed
mund S. Taylor, of the Evening
Ledger, is in charge of work for tn
United Press in the National Capital
and Charles P. Sweeney, of the Pub
lie Ledger, is with the Creel Com
mittee, going about with William II
vi H. A1- - Il.