Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-07
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lOI WOlhCl1 oWluB 10 Ln0 tAibcnClCo
of the great war. Large corporations
and mills and factories throughout
the country are demanding women
chemists Men who have formerly
done this work have been called TO
the front, or else put on govern
mental jobs. Dye factories are open
ing now throughout the country and
many new factories of various kinds
are taking up the work that has
formerly been done in Germany.
These mills are now greatly handi-
capped owing to the lack of trained
chemists for research and expert
mental work State College at State
College. Pa, has been asked by many
of these concerns to give the train ]
ing that will enable women to take 9
these positions for which they are
| eminently fitted, and which need
them so badly to-day.
State College will give special
training to such women as will take
the work, Mr.. Worse, of the college
force told Telegraph representative
to-day. College graduates are special
ly needed. as they have already the
broad foundation for special train
ing, and could secure the expert
work in six months or a year of in
tensive work. Special courses will be
given during the summer also. Then
too large colleges throughout the
country have to-day fellowships that
are going begging-the men who
would have been eager to secure
them having gone to the front.
Women will be given these fellow
| ships, even by universities that here
! tofore have accorded them only to
men.
Miss Margaret NJ. Macdonald, of
State College, State College, Pa, will
! give information regarding these
| fellowships and also regarding the
specializing along lines of chemical
| research work." said Mr.. Worse.
Work along these lines is to-day
real patriotic work for it will enable
important industries to keep in mo-
tion, and will facilitate the govern
ment in many ways. The corporations
state that women need not fear be-
| ing displaced after the declaration of
| peace, for there will be work for all.
Many of the men will still be needed
| abroad in the great reconstruction
period there, and in the building of
railways and the opening of new in
dustrial and commercial fields"
"I've got an idea that people are
| becoming better educated in regard
to catching fish, especially trout"
said Commissioner of Fisheries
| Nathan r. Butler in talking about
| the fact that comparatively few ar
| rests have been made for violation
of the trout laws, except for short
| fish I'VE do not have as many arrests
| as we used to have. The majority of
| trout fishermen are true sportsman;
| they go for the fun and they are as
much interested in maintaining the
! supply of fish as any one and they
often round up fish hogs The fell
| low who used to go out and fish and
| fish until he had more than he could
carry seems to growing rare. The
| questions which have arisen over
what shall constitute the legal limit
of trout in day will likely be settled
in court soon. Just now we are warn
| ing people to be careful And they
are taking it we'll"
William M. Donaldson is a pretty
busy man, one of the busiest in Har-
risburg, but If there is one subject
on which he will give up his time 1t
is the Thrift Stamp. Mr.. Donaldson
took the chairmanship of the COM
mittee in charge for this county and
has been working at 1t right along
in spite of the various drives and
campaigns and his faith and work
are commencing to show. Some of
| the biggest men in the community
have been waking up to what the
| Thrift Stamp means and the DON
aldson telephone is an active one.
Mr.. Donaldson was remarking the
other day on the way people sud
denly realized how easy it is to save
by the stamp. "One man asked me
about the system" said he. And
few days later he said, say, just
| look at the quarters I've saved!"
Francis ]. Hall, vice-president of
| the Central Iron and Steel Company.
who is one of the businessmen of
! the state who are giving time and
brains to helping Uncle Sam in re-
| turn for nothing, is putting in good
bit of work at Washington where he
is on the committee on steel plates,
| just now one of the most important.
| Mr.. Hall says that every time he
comes to Harrisburg for a weekend
sleep he finds a new drive of some
kind on. He remarks that he has
| gotten into the habit of subscribing
before he goes to the national cap
ital, so as to be on the safe side
A dozen years ago grocers used to
sell oleo only when anyone asked
for it and the oleo licenses were kept
where no one would think of look
ing. The display was good bit
like the average compliance with
| the cold storage law provision for
| sign to be posted. The sign may be
around, but you need a diagram of
| the store to find it. Now, say the
grocers, things have gotten to a pass
where they have to boom butter.
'The average man does not know
| the difference between oleo and but
ter, and many don't care" said he.
| ITS getting so that people who
would have thrown things at the
suggestion of using a substitute
some years ago, are developing a
| discriminating taste in trying the
new things"
One of the Jealous young men in
terested in the Thrift Stamp cam
paign conceived the idea of going
to one of the city markets and
getting the farmers to buy the
stamps. He figured out that the
| farmers came once or twice week
to Harrisburg and that he could get
some of them to buying SO many
stamps each week and that maybe
the farmers wives, who are sup
posed to get the proceeds from gar
dens and chickens and other things.
like m inisters' wives are presumed
to get the marriage fees. would put
their profits into Thrift Stamps. The
greatest objection he found was that
they, men and women, would have
to go to the post Office to buy the
Baby Bonds or to register them.
There is a fertile field for the Thrift
Stanon neonle among the country