Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-12
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"Have you ever realized that a
considerable amount of the money
Dauphin county has invested in Lib
erty Bonds and Thrift Stamps stays
right here?" said one of the city's
bankers this morning. "Very few
people have" he went on. "The
truth is that a very large percent
age of it is circulated right in our
part of Pennsylvania. There are
some large payments made from this
city, to be sure, but there are large
sums which come here so that the
balance of exchange is very we'll
maintained and the money that goes
INTO the securities of Uncle Sam
from the savings of the Harrisburg
ers often pays some of those Har-
llSpurgers for their work in the
'nllls and factories on war munitions.
Practically all of the big works here
are engaged on war work and
If the truth were known
think that it would be found
that Steelton was largely on
government orders. This commun-
lty was large subscriber for Liberty
Bonds and the money went to Wash
lngton, but u lot of it came back
here and has kept coming to pay the
mills which are making shells, the
factories engaged on shoes and leg
gins and other materials and the
railroads for their parts in the gen
eral supplying of materials and in
making shipments. SO you see that
the money stays at home and is in
circulation. 1t will be the same
thing with the new Thrift Stamps.
They will be sold at the stores and
| the banks and the post office and it's
substations. The bankers and the
merchants will put up the money
Tor the stamps and their customers
| will pay them and Uncle Sam will
put the money into local banks as
deposits and the banks will pay it
out on government orders to the
works engaged on war orders"
Postmaster Frank c. Sites, who is
the man who has. the Thrift Stamps
to sell, says that when it is figured
out what nice investment they are
1T is no wonder that the government
carefully limited sales to $1,000 to
| each person. They amount to five
per cent. Putting aside n quarter
or dollar a week enables a person
to soon accumulate enough to buy II
| 50 stamp, which will cost SAP,
| $4.1S, $4.14 and so on according to
| the month wherein the big stamp is
bought. Twenty So stamps make
500. 1T is beautiful plan and the
sales are going to take a jump when
people get next" said he.
Answering questions regarding the
/ arrival and departure of trains at
the Pennsylvania railroad station is
/ some task just now. Occasionally
! some one will raise the roof because
an information bureau clerk or ush-
er does not answer a question
| promptly. Yesterday an eastbound
| traveller was rather veXed because
his train was not on time. He made
three trips to the information bu-
reau, and twice called on Anthony
, Derr, the ticket examiner. Then he
asked David Goldberg, the interpre-
ter, and finally Charley Killian was
called upon to tell what time the
train for the East started. The
! traveller was told to read the bulletin
hoard and then take a look at the
figures on the teleautOgraph.
| Il have done so, and both tell me
the same story, that my train is one
hour late" said the man.
We'll, we cannot tell you any diff
ferent," replied the usher.
81 guess 1 will have to wait" said
the eastbound passenger, and he did.
Some folks think we don't tell the
truth about trains" said an usher.
There is no buster man at Camp
! Hancock in Georgia, where the
Pennsylvania volunteers are encamp-
ed, getting in trim for the western
front than Major ]. f. Culp, Medical
Reserve Corps, of this city. The Ma
ior is one of the higher officers at
| the base hospital, a tremendous in
stitution located on the outskirts of
Augusta and within stones throw
of the camp proper. To this general
fol I,f AVtl
cases and those outside the mere
routine of daily ills that are looked
after by the medical officers assign
| ed to every regiment and special
unit. Major Culp is in charge of
| Ward 13, to which are referred all
men afflicted with ear, nose and
throat trouble. With his assistant,
Lieutenant Collins, and staff of n.
g. O.s and enlisted men, the Major
| is at it day and night with scarcely
a minutes rest. An officer from this
city who had acquired a slight deaf
ness dropped in on the Major for
treatment and without delay was put
| through a course of sprouts and
turned out cured in a few minutes
{. The erstwhile civilian has acquired
the military habit of quick dispatch
and no lost motion, which is such Il
requisite in the service.
| Dozens of people are using the
/ Ice bridge on the Susquehanna river
every day, saving toll and pretend
ing that they do not mind the icy
breezes which blow down the fields
of ice which bind the wide branch
ing river from shore to shore. From
what these people says the ice in the
river will stand many warm days and
there are some places where it looks
to be from eighteen to twenty-four
| ipphaS thick Men walk regularly
from West Fairview to the upper end
of the city and back and from Le-
| moyne and even New Cumberland.