Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-07
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4 y. y. -. clarke, representing the
government reclamation and re-edu-
cation service for wounded and dis
abled soldiers, addressing the Rotary
Club yesterday at luncheon, said
that the government will give the
disabled soldier one, two, three. even
six or ten years Of education IL 1t is &.
necessary to fit him for desired
calling which his infirmities will
permit him to filracceptably.
This is not charity" he said.
"The returned soldier who accepts'
charity is looked upon by his fel-
lows as having broad yellow streak.
in his makeup aad there are
mighty few of those. These mem
have paid for their insurancel The
government owes then an oppor-
tunity to re-educate themselves for
new callings, since it was in the
service of the government they lost
their ability to hold their former
positions.
'"Of course there are limitations"
said he smilingly. For example,
there was q man of foreign birth
who came to us recently and we
asked him what line he would like
to take up. He said he had heard
that being bank president was a
fine job and paid well and he
thought he'd like to train to be a
bank president. OF course this is
impossible, but the man can have a
business training, or he can, II he
is fitted mentally, learn to be doc
tor, q druggist or lawyer. Most
of the men are seeking mechanical
jobs, the kind they had before going
to war, and 1t is up to the employ
ers of the country to see that they
receive work. In case they cannot
make~scale' wages in their occupa-
tions, the labor unions have agreed
,, to make exceptions in their cases
so that there will be no difficulty
about pay"
Mr.. Clarke says that the success
of the plan lies with the employers
believes that once the re-
turned soldiers are trained along
their particular lines they will prove
to be very valuable workmen.
Norris S. Longaker is a happy
man today. The announcement that
the Harrisburg New York sleeper is
to be restored came as the culmina-
| ton of prolonged effort on his part.
AS division passenger agent Tor the
| Pennsylvania railroad with head
quarters here he has long seen the
need of the restoration of this serv-
| ice and ever since the war ended he
has been busy with it. ''It is great
pleasure to be of service to Harris
burg" said Mr.. Longaker, because
the people are so appreciative. The
| new sleeper will fill a long felt
need"
This belated Christmas letter was
received by the Telegraph on Sat
| urday:
"The soldiers of Harrisburg and
vicinity in Truck Company A, 1O3rd,
| Ammunition Train, now in France
send best wishes for Merry Christ
mas to the folks at home. And,
coupled with these we'll wishes, they
send the assurance of their own
comfort and health and prospects
for q Jolly celebration of their own,
in camp, in billet, or even on the
march wherever the day over
| takes them.
Furthermore, they ask the folks
at home who may be inclined to
regret too deeply their absence from
the family circles on this day of
days, to remember that it is due
to their absence from home that
Christmas day this year will be a
HdDDlcT OllS III lllOuoeaiNS Va
homes all over the world because
of their presence in France and
their share into the events of the.
past year in the great world war.
"The fighting has ceased but there
| Is much work still to be done ere
the last of the soldier boys will set
sail for home, conscious of a task
we'll done. In the meantime, then,
they ask the home folks to realize
that their further stay here is
| fraught with no more danger than
their daily lives at home and that
worries that brought sleepless nights
| and DAYS of anxieties to the loved
ones at home, are things OF the
"It is more, then, like tourists
abroad. that the soldiers send the
CAV seasons greetings back across
the Atlantic.
"Home-comings will soon be in
order and, in the meantime, let JOY
reign supreme on both sides of the
water"
"It would be we'll for autoists and
others travelling in vehicles to be
watchful in passing over a certain
ont of -the-way - perhaps nameless
= bit of Travelled roadway or some
dark night or sunshiny day, even
thew may come to grief" said
we'll known Elliott-Fisher company
man the other day.
"Enter the Old Cameron Parkway
- that part of it ceded to the city
M the entrance right opposite the
door of the general office OF the
Elliott-Fisher Company in South
Cameron street, walk for few
minutes, pass behind the bridge Tor
another half minute, and you Will
see the last large tree in the Iine'
the truck of a large locust. Now
look toward the public road and you
will see an old terra-cotta sewer
nine leading to the bluff on which
the road passes. At some time in
the past this bluff was pierced, with
MANY of these terra-cotta pipes, and
the water following the outside or
the pipes instead of the inside, has
filled the cliff with sinkholes, and
some of them in years gone has
fallen in. Just behind the ascent
of this particular terra-cotta pipe
on its way up the bank is hole
large enough for a horse to enter.
The opening is, at it's mouth, per-
haps six or eight feet under the
surface of the road, but on It's way
to its origin, the sewer inlet on the
opposite side of the road, 1T has CONS
so near to the topsof the roadw9
that there Is an ugly depression a.
ready developed above the passage
of the fissure underneath, and n
several points the top already mas
holes, showing that the passage has
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