Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-01
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man of the War Savings work for
Dauphin county. is vitality interest
ed in making the sale of stamps a
big go in this county, especially
since 1t has shown up so we'll on the
/ Liberty Loans, Mr.. Donaldson is
working out a plan, which has been
! tried In other communities, to have
| people save Systematically. The
| idea is to have pledge week during
which people will be asked to pledge
themselves to save so much, little or
big, just so it is saving" says he. q,
1T will not interfere with weekly I
payments on Liberty Bonds. but :
rather help it because 1t will be to
catch the nickels and quarters that
| might be spent otherwise. There
can be much money saved and peo-
pie learn how to save IL they have
something like a pledge to tie to-
When Mr.. Donaldson's plan is
thought over the strength of it is
| apparent. There are many Harris
| burgers who spend money each week
for something they do not want and
do not need They ride when q
walk would do them good and they
spend money for trips when they do
Capitol or the delights of their city
parkways. They buy out-of- town
and pay the freight when they can
get 1T just as good and cheaper at
home. They eat between meals
when it hurts their digestion and
spoils their temper and some have
an idea they have to drink certain
beverages now because pretty soon
they won't be able to get them. BY
just going down the line and think
ing where some clipping can be done
and then putting down the sum on a
pledge card they can be savers in
stead of spenders and the money be-
ing loaned to Uncle Sam is put back
into circulation right in Harrisburg
where there are works and factories
making munitions and supplies for
the Army and Navy and where the
| railroad men who haul them live
and where the workmen who are
building the big depots near here
have their homes. Just trace the
money you put into Thrift Stamp
or a Baby Bond and watch it come
back to your own hand. You buy
the Baby Bond and the $4.16 goes
to Uncle Sans credit. An officer
pays it out to Harrisburg firm or
to the Pennsylvania railroad or the
Central Iron and Steel Company.
Either one pays it's men and they go
to store and buy and by and by you
get paid something and before you
know it the money is back in your
pocket and you have the Baby Bond,
too.
good story is told about the ar
rival of some colored men from one
of the central counties at Camp
Meade the latter part of the week
These men arrived about noon and
the colored men in the Army We're
summing themselves against their
barracks after the usual Army din
ner. Suddenly one of the bucks in
uniform spied the draftees toiling up
the road and sang out at one of
them:
''Oh, Henry. oh, Henry, dey done
got you at las
The man addressed. whose name
was not Henry. looked embarrassed
but he grinned just the same.
Now say, Henry" said the man
in uniform. You jes answer all de
questions and tonight dey'll give you
suppah. Real suppah. You'll get
all de chicken you can eat-like
something"
The mention of chicken had in
spired grins, but the windup SEEM
ed to break their hearts. while the
! audience in khaki just yelled.
Now what do you think of that
: for a welcome" remarked Colonel
Hatch, who had come along ana
, heard 1t.
' Speaking of music. at the organ
recital given Monday night by
Charles Heinroth. he transposed the
numbers on the program, playing a
"Spring Song" in place of a Bach
fugue in d Major. Imagine the per-
plexity of musiclovers when they
heard the note of bird opening the
brilliant Bach composition. But
they were happily set Alright when
they heard the opening notes of the
fugue as the next number. and
found that McFarlane's Spring
Song" followed.
War does not seem to have hit the
Harrisburg Public Library circula-
ton to any extent. The April fig
ures will show that it went over TO-
900, which is almost q winter
months figure. Generally in March
and April reading declines, but this
year, as in many other lines, the cir
culation of books has gone ahead
and the April figures show UP better
than any similar month. On one
day over 1000 books were taken out
} and on another 958. March was al
so ahead of the usual figure for that
month
That Harrisburg has some mighty
fine musicians, is fact which needs
no note. In the various recitals
given by local artists, Harrisburg is
being given an opportunity to realize
this. The other evening a party of
musicians began to invent new ways
of amusing themselves. 'I'll wager
you can't play sonata with Upper
ary' as the theme" said one of the
party to an expert pianist. The
wager was taken and auditors heard
"Tipperary" played with the skill of
q Josef Hoffman. Here's a harder
one ! Allen Sangree has made "The
Old Gray Mare" a marching tune,
Can you transpose. it to a funeral
march ?" Without perceptible eff
fort or knitting of the eyebrows the
pianist played a death march. with
THE Old Gray Mare" as the theme.
Among Harrisburg visitors yester-
day was e. A. Jones of Scranton,
formerly second deputy highway
commissioner. one of the well-known
men of the Lacltawanna region.
Mr.. Jones was warmly greeted by
old friends here.
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE