Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-03-02
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NlAC nOWly-OpGnSu SECTIONS OF 6aT-
risburg and its suburbs, are anything
to go by the states capitol is not
likely to pay much attention to the
governmental injunction not to build.
Not in years has the demand for
homes been so general in this COM
munity. 1t is unusual to see cellar
excavations under way on Wash E
ington's birthday, yet that very OPP
Grafton was going on that holiday
all the more remarkable because of
the winter we have just passed
through. Apparently need for homes
is going to supersede Washington
edicts. Men who manufacture and
handle building materials say that
in spite of the high prices they are
compelled to charge they have many
orders and look for a busy season.
The population of this section, they
say, has jumped because of railroads
and industrial expansion and they
are declaring, when they get down
to brass tack talk" that there will
be more building this summer than
known in the panic years, which is
a cautious way of intimating that
building operations are going to be
about normal. 1t is a matter of
fact that sales of lots, not only in
sections near the railroad yards on
both sides of the river but generally
have been going on all winter. Some
OF the real estate men say that 1t
is because money is abundant, as is
generally the case in war time. 1t
is an axiom when people have more
| money than usual they buy land.
All of which opens UP a very inter
| esting situation because Uncle Sam
| is calling for investment in War
| Savings, not only a patriotic but
safe method of putting by extra
| cash, and will shortly come around
for another Liberty Loan. Hence,
there will be somewhat of a con-
test between the natural desire to
buy a piece of land and the impulse
to invest in national securities.
DR.. Joseph Kalbfus, Secretary of
the State Game Commission, big
game hunter, plainsman and con-
servationist, is close upon DR.. Ma
than c. Schaeffer, State Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction, for the
longest record of a state official in
continuous service in one office. The
game protector, if he counted in his
service in the Department of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
could be one of the patriarchs of
Capitol Hill in point of years spent
: in work for Father Penn, but there
ia nothing patriarchial about the
way he works or travels over the
state. DIR, Schaeffer became Super
intendent on June 1, 1898, and DR..
Kalbfus began his service October
1, 1895. He will celebrate a quar-
ter of a century in the Game Com
t mission secretaryship on that dayI
and under the stimulation of the in |
I, terest he has taken and the support
given by commissioners the Penn
: sylvania system has attracted inter-
national attention for conservation
propagation and protection of game |
( When he went into the commissions 4
service, right after the commission
had been put on definite basisI
I the game work was handled as Il
: side line of the State Economic
e biologists bureau. 1t was started
so that the insectivorous birds could
e be preserved because of their value'
4 to the farmer and DIR. KalbfuS has
never lost sight of that underlying
1 idea.
One of the most impressive
things about the railroad situation
and it is the thing which looms
: manner in which the railroads are
: rushing "empties' to the West
Every day there are trains of empty
: coal cars on the way back to the|
: mines and the length is such as I'd.
; naturally suggest counting the carsI
The passing of these huge traini
gives an idea of what the situatiorI
must be like at the ports. And IL
is also giving Harrisburg railroad
men lot to do.
Lancaster county farmers are evS4
dently wide awake to the farm la
Dor shortage and to the necessity OF
increasing their grain yields this
years." said Herbert K. CURL, genera
manager for the International Har1
vester Company in the eastern dis
trict, with headquarters in this city
For the first time in the history o
the state we have booked orders for
two combination reapers and thresh-
ers for Lancaster farms. When il
is considered that we have difficulty
showing the western farmer the ad |
visibility of reaping and threshing=
his wheat all in one operation, the
adoption by Pennsylvania farmers, !
whose grain tracts are usually much
smaller than those of the west, the
innovation in Lancaster county is al
the more remarkable. These big ma
chimes cover the fields once. At ond|
operation they cut the wheat, sweeTI
II I'M into the machine, thresh it and
! |
straw aside to be baled or stacked
ALI while the horses or tractors pul
the apparatus along. The saving in
labor is beyond belief"
Mr.. Curll has been buster thi
spring holding farm schools than he
has been selling implements. Tho
schools for farmers held here were
we'll attended and during the pas
week hundreds of Lancaster county
farmers have been attending those
held in that district. Gradually the
farmer is getting awake to the fac
that it is not only profitable to raise
big crops when prices are high, bu
that it is his patriotic duty to do Sc
at this time when the whole country
is dependent upon him for food
supply, and far across the waters
hungry men, women and children
: are looking to the farmers of thi;
country to save them from starva
ton. Our schools have been very wei
attended and much interest has beer
shown"
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