Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-02
Enfnntg Gl1at

Pennsylvania 1919 automobile
license tags will not only have a col.
or scheme which will be materially
different from that of former years
but will be changed in style so that
such practices as painting old tagt
with the colorS of the current year
which have been reported here from
time to time, will be impotent to de.
ceive. The new tags, which are com.
mencing to reach the warehouse OF
the automobile division of the State
Highway Department by the thou.
sands, have the name of the state
and the figures of the year with the
soft metal keystone for the manu-.
~facturer's number on the opposite
side from those which have been in
use the last few a This is the
second radical change which has
been made in the style Of the licen>
SEES. Applications for the new licens
ses for 1919 are commencing to ars
rive, but the full tide will not start
much before Thanksgiving Day. As
far as possible, says Registrar G.. b
Brusstar, the present holders Of
numbers will receive the numbers
again, but that does not seem to
have checked the requests of people
for special numbers. Among the re.
quests made have been for figures
corresponding with house, post Of
flee box or other numbers, while a
new line of requests is for the num-
Der with the figures of a year where
in the owner of an automobile got
married or graduated from college.
The influenza quarantine appears
to have been prolific of dispute in
many sections of the state and men
who have fallen out with local Of
ticials and with friends over phases
of the quarantine have commenced
to write letters to various depart.
ments at the Capitol. The Health
Department mail has reached big
proportions, while the Governors
Office is also hearing from the folks
at home. The Attorney Generals
Department, which gets all the legal
problems, refuses to give opinions.
Men who objected to the closins
of the counties of Pennsylvania ia
the hunting of the grouse have
changed their minds and now be.
lieve not only that it was a most
timely and popular action, but that
1t will actually be the means of pre-.
venting the determination of grouse
IN some sections. In opinion of Ger.
$3.50 1BOA III viz law oCUI TGSullE
of their observations in the first ter
days of the small game season Ia
DIR. Joseph kalbfus, secretary of the
game commission, a longer period
than a year should have been fixed
to permit of extensive propagation,
One of the most successful closed
seasons in recent years was that on
wild turkeys, which were protected
for two years during which time
purchases of birds were made an6
Sportsmen gave their aid to stems
to care for the birds. The result ha,
been that there have been more such
fowls shot than for year and ex.
cellent sport has been provided. DR.
kalbfus says that he has failed ia
lind any n who regrets the CLOSING
of the state to grouse shooting and
that many of the hunters have re.
marked upon the scarcity of the
birds. Young grouse have been seer
as conditions were favorable to
Matching and some attention wal
given to protecting them from harm
by wardens and sportsmen. The state
will make every effort possible in the
next year to increase the grouse and
If any can be bought they will be
obtained, but Dame Nature is being
relied upon to restore this great
game bird.
Il don't think there has been al
much betting on the election in Har.
risburg this year as usual" said a
man who rather closely follows the
making of wagers and who is often
a stakeholder. "As a matter of fact
the war has replaced the election
as a betting subject and men have
been betting more on the duration
of the war than on who is going to
be elected or the size of majorities."
And now right after hearing that
the sauerkraut crop in this part OF
Pennsylvania is going to be shy we
are confronted with the news that
there are not as many turnips as ex.
pected. There was a time when
sauerkraut and turnips furnished
with potatoes were the backbone Of
many a winter meal in Dauphin and
Cumberland counties. The war is
working havoc in other fields than
those of transportation and COM
munication.