Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-06
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Not only has Pennsylvania fur
nished general officers to command
armies and corps of the United
states Army like Liggett and Memo
her and others whose work is part
OF the history of the war, but it has
literally dozens of officers of high
rank and valuable attainments in tae
DIVISIONS and brigades which are in
tne army of occupation now. Some
VI 'tneSe men are just being heard of
Wy the average man who does not
Know that they saw the light in the
| keystone State. Every now and
then something crops up to show
What pennsylvania men are doing
ror instance, Adjutant General
Beary was talking the other day
about Pennsylvania soldiers and
mentioned that the Thirty-third di.
vision had number of Pennsyl-
Vanlans as high officers. The Thirty
| tnlrd is not much known by the peo-
pie here, but it is made up of the
men from the National Guards OF
Minnesota, Idaho, Nebraska, North
| ana South Dakota. In the present
lst OF It's officers are General Henry
" Iodd, PhiladelpIian, command
ing the 5Sth artillery brigade, a part
ot thls middle western command;
maJor george Roth, formerly of the
lOSth artillery, and q former captain
OF the Second PENNSYLVANIA. who
served with the Twenty-eighth Di-.
vision; Brigade Adjutant Mechtel.
win rank of major, who is a Berks
countlan and has command of the
| motor transport, his adjutant being
aiso a man from Berks; Col. Charles
u Alien, assistant chief of staff. who
was formerly in command of the,
FIRST pennsylvania and is a Philadel-,
pnlan, while the commander of one
oL lhe DIVISIONS infantry brigades is
General Edward l.. King, who mar
1llIo d lormer Harrisburger and was
colonel and chief of staff of tbe
| Twenty-e eighth while it was at Camn
Hancock. There are probable other
divisions of the army of occunation
IN which Pennsylvanians are to be
Iouhd IN high places. 1t all goes to
snow that the Industrial state has
hghters of the first grade.
an TINS connection it is fnterestinp.
20 note how much the men of the
''th infantry, which was organized
ana trained at Camp Devens. Mass
thlnk of their colonel, who is none
other than Col. James b. Kemper
VINO was stationed here as INSPECTOR
ana instructor of the National Guard
whlie on leave from the Third regu-
lars ana who was lieutenant colonel
~ the EiShth pennsylvania at El
Paso. Col. Kemper was chief nns
tering officer at Mt. Gretna in 1915
ana while living here entered very
much into the life of Harrisbure
me regiment had hard luck. Trained
W the minute, its stuff on TRANSPORTS
IL was ready to sail when the armis
tlce was signed and it was ordered
pack. 1t is being changed around
and had celebration the other davl
me boys put out booklet and what
they saw about Kemper would make
lne reading for his friends here.
The State School Directors Asso-
clation and the organization of
school board secretaries. which are
meeting here this week, were in real
lty formed here. They came into be-
ing as result of the activities of the
state educational Association and
nave peen potent factors in affairs
OF the districts, representing the bust
ness and administrative ends. Dan
Hammelbaugh and others active i'm
school board work here have been
officers for years.
Capitol Park Extension seems to
be an endless joy to the youngsters
IN that part of the city and these fine
winter afternoons there seems to be
an effort to advance the baseball
season. Games are in progress al
most as soon as the schools "let
OUT and the boys are wondering
whether state plans are going to in.
terfere with their games during the
coming summer.
People seem to have become
aware of the fact that if they do NOT
license their dogs the animals NAV
be shot" remarked County Treas
urer S. Mark Mumma. The law is
very plain and the dogs which are
not licensed are under the ban. We
have had some funny inquiries, but
the law is plain"
Some folks do not seem TO he
aware of the fact that there has been
change of administration at the
Capitol. Letters are still coming ad-
dressed to Governor Brumbaugh and
once in while some one puts one
, over like a letter received yesterday
which was addressed: Martin
Brumbaugh, Governor, Pa"