Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-06-04
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education in Pennsylvania say that
military training. which has been OPP
posed by many men for the sake of
principle and because of expense.
will likely be feature of work next
fall at most of the high schools.
many of the grammar schools and
virtually all of the private schools
| except some of those which are
against it on religious grounds. Ane
! even in some of the latter the ruoi-
ments of marching and taking care
of self in the fields and woods Will
| be given attention. This is one of
the striking results of the great war
and 1t is all the more significant be-
/ cause of the fact that Philadelphia,
which furnishes the lead for much
OF the educational work in the state,
is pre-eminently the place where the
men who abhorred military ideas left
their impress. Now there are we'll
| defined moves to have military train
| ing made q part of the course in
every high school in that city, while
| in Pittsburgh. where schools have
| been gradually taking it up, it is
| foregone conclusion that 1t will be
| feature next fall. And the same may
be said of other cities, because where
directors oppose they will likely hear
| from their people in no uncertain
terms. In speaking about the moves
| for military training a prominent
| educator said yesterday: Its been
| coming ever since the war started
and it's no use lodging it. Many
men oppose it, but they will have to
| go along. 1t Is the popular desire
and you can no more stand against
[ that than you can introduce Ger
man as course" Another man
| said that he had been wondering why
| something was not started long ago.
Ever since we got into the war and
we had those parades of everyone
last spring and summer the boys
have been taking to marching and
the girls, too. / saw that 1t would
lead to military training and have
been thinking about it. There will
be some expense, but, as was said
by a prominent man in Philadel-
phia, boards can cut out 'frills' now"
1t may be added that one state
official made this terse comment
submarines off the coast will make
this a state of soldiers faster than
anything else the kaiser could have
done"
Wonder IL the average Harris
burger has noted the increasing
number of conventions and confer
ences which have agreed upon this
city for their annual sessions during
1918. This is a direct result of the
building of the Penn-Harris hotel.
Harrisburg has always, been a great
convention city, but owing to made
quate hotel facilities during recent
years organizations which desired to
meet here were compelled to go else
where. Now they are swinging back.
Only those who are familiar with
the conditions which have confronted
the builders of the Penn-Harris hotel
can have any real conception of the
difficulties which have been over
come during the last few months.
Not only the severe winter, but also
a shortage of labor, has conspired to
stard the building activities, but the
contractors are quite confident that
they will finish the structure during
the early fall. Already the furniture
and equipment have been ordered
and during the next two or three
weeks the exterior work will have
been completed.
The coming. of the quarter-million
a month movement of cars on the
philadelphia division of the Pennsyl-
yania railroad, just reported TO the
men by Superintendent n. w. Smlth,
lJr., has caused much congratulatlon
among the railroad men in this Vlcln-
ity. For long time the men nave
considered that figure a matter OF
pride and the record of last May was
beaten over $4,000 cars. What is
particuIarly pleasing to the men IN
the Harrisburg and Enola yard sec
tions is the announcement that IN
Nav 265,929 cars were handled on
all humps in the yards. Yardmen
have been struggling to make RECORDS
and succeeded, as notices posted IN
the yards tell them. An effort Will
be made to beat the record In june
Production in the iron and steel
mills in Harrisburg is said to nave
reached. the highest figures IN the
history of the city during May, put
tbe data will not be made public, as
practically all of it is going into mu-
nitions or material for war. The
steel production in the city was
greater than ever and is to be con-
siderably Increased by the firing up
of a newly built open hearth steer
| furnace at the Central works The
two furnaces in blast produced close
| to daily records.
| William A. Magee, who was sworn
! in for another term as Public SerV-
| ice Commissioners yesterday, has
! adopted an outdoor study. The COM
missioner took the books and papers
| in a case assigned to him to bench
! in a shaded part of Capitol Park ana
proceeded/to study up in cool spot;
| He had only children, squirrels ana
pigeons to distract his attention.