Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-31
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ought to be a good place to start
SO m e practical RAmericanization.
Ihere has been room for 1t here for
a long time and people who had to
do with running down the feeling
| between Austrians and Italians and
Roumanians and Hungarians last
year during the height of the war
know good bit about the oppor-
tunities presented. To begin with
Harrisburg and Steelton have every
nationality in Europe and some in
| Asia represented. There are sec
tions in the two places, where one
does not hear English. Either Ital-
ian or Balkan tongues seem to pre-
dominate. The enterprising Italian
seems to have crowded out the Slavs
from some parts, but there are
others where the people from the
countries which are being revamped
are still strong. The Italian people,
because of the alliance in the war,
were an effective aid in American
ization the last eighteen months.
They have stood no nonsense from
enemy aliens or persons who had
opinions on the war and as they
seem to get assimilated rapidly they
taught respect for the Stars and
Stripes in more than one block. All
one needs to do in some sections of
Harrisburg is walk along and OBJ
serve the names on store windows.
This is an interesting study in some
parts of Steelton and in one or two
in this city. And after that move
ments for Americanization will be
we'll supported.
Spring must be coming. They
have started to sweep up the grass
in Capitol park. This is always
taken as a sign that the wintry
times are over, barring flare-backs,
when the men on the Hill start TO
i sweep up the cigar stubs and peanut
shells and other things that accu-
mulate during the winter. Ana IL
(ithe ground hog sees his shadow after
lsweeping up is over 1t means sprlhs
lis coming.
Shirley B.. Watts, who is in the
tractor business and gets about the
country a great deal, observed
farmers beyond Camp Hill ana thls
side of Mechanicsburg plowing yes
tetday afternoon. THE SOIL lookeu
prStty wet to me-" he said, but inc
fa rmers had evidently been at their
work for several days and were
getting along quite well WIN the
worn. Last spring this time theS
would have had to remove more lhail
J four feet of snow and in some places
y eight to ten feet at this season anu
then would have found the grouno
v frozen ITO q greater depth than thv
~ peepestN, plow share "oulu ha''
: Iltaken."
a. Some of the farmers nearby haVS
ef lbeGn doing a lot of advanced sprlnt
L work and when warm weather linal-
8. M comes tto stay will be weeks
OF ahead of last year. They are pc
III Ginning to fear, however, that lh'
ut warm winter may not be entirely
s. blessing. The buds are advanclns
'e far ahead of time on the fruit tree
1T and it is feared that if the mgr
g. temperatures continue the sap may
l. start too early and killing cor
t. spell came along as occurred las
u year when many of the blossoms
RS were frozen by a belated sleet storm
u that Wrecked the peach crop in thi'
t section md seriously damaged man!
NJ other eafW fruits,
Ell But thereNre others who are look
III ing upon the warm days with satls
as faction. These are the fishermen
who are looking anxiously forwaI'
ly Ito the first run Or suckers. Thes
ce fish are as fine and>hrm and whit
to as shad when taken ott of the sprinl
It. waters as they come Up to spawn
ic and not even the troIN fisherman
as viii turn up his nose az skille
A filed with. the Drowned beauties
ed The suckers may be caught\in tn
o. eddies and small streams juseabou
ms as soon as worms can be foundwitl
MT which to bait the hooks. fister
in men say that the coming seasl
D. should find plenty of fish in I'll
al. streams. The winter up TO date ha
H. been most favorable to them, pal
or tjcularly trout. Not few flies haN
IL been on the water even as late
tn December, when State Commission
10 er Butler observed the fish feedin
as on the insects near Boiling Spring
lie and the ice has been of such sma
no consequence as to be ignored alto
he. gether. Even bass have been see
n disportine themselves in the Susqut
y hanna. The unusual sight of sever;
cd big fellows jumping around pie
IFS of the Market Street bridge bein
,.H observed by passengers on a We'
y Shore trolley car the other aftel
noon.
Frank r. Musser tells this stor
on himself:
oh He was driving party of dow
IN town 'kiddies" to the Rotary Gu
IL Big Brother Dinner last month an
ak the streets being slippery was mo'
- ing slowly for fear of endangeri,
or the little folks in the car. "Sa!
N, Mister" said one little fellow, "Can
90 YOU heat it. little"
~ SO Mr.. Musser speeded up a litt
VI and in n minute had cut around
" big vehicle numbering along jul
20 ahead and left 1t behind
III "Gosh." said the admiring on
re "he's sure some driver. Why "
VI lust passed the ice wagon"