Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-22
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| owners of automobiles who have
been rejoicing in low numbers of
automobile tags will probably not
get them during the distribution of
the license plates for 1920, which will
be started by the automobile divi-
sion of the State Highway Depart
ment within few weeks, owing to
a change in State policy in regard
| to cars owned by the Common
wealth. For years there have been
| issues of numbers under 100 and
some under 200 to individuals, some
of whom have had them for years,
| TWO cases being known where the
same number has be1n held by per-
sons for more than half q dozen
years. 1t is now the plan to give
| the State the low numbers The
Governor has had No. | ever since
| 1911 and the State Highway Com
missioner No. 2, but although the
cars owned by the State, especially
the State Highway Department. have
| increased in number, there has been
no classlhcation of them to speak of
State cars arc now numbered as the
Applications came in and no attempt
| at continuity has been made. All
state cars are now being listed and
| the licenses will be issued to them
first. Then the other applicants will
be taken care of. Present indica-
|
| increase in the number of applica-
tions for licenses filed during Dc
cemher Pennsylvania has more
cars now than ever before in its his
tory and the receipts from the Ii
censes have gone far beyond eXpcc-
tations. regular rush is looked
for next month.
Bishop Henry st. George Tucker.
who was the speaker at the Epis-
copal meeting last night, is in charge
of the diocese of Kyoto, Japan His
address, according to those who
know him well. is Karasumaruderi.
Hunting ways have certainly
changed when dogs go hunting in
"bath-tub" motorcycles and men
chase wild turkeys over country
roads in automobiles. Bearing in
mind the way hunters from Har-
rlsburg used to get up to take PA
clnc' for the Juniata valley about
2.3O a. m. in the old days and how
they often went up to "Lykens" or
Lewistown" the night before to be
in the woods or the mountains by
daybreak, these sights of men start
ing out to hunt in touring cars with
hampers filled with food and bottles
that keep coffee hot; dogs comfort
| ably seated in the cars and gazing
, out at the passing show are enough
TO make folks wonder what the
game thinks of it all. The auto
mobile can get hunters from place
, to place with a rapidity that rattles
| deer and makes wild turkeys take
t to the rocks on top of ridges. but
the motorcycle is the greatest of all
Tor the hunter. it seems.
= The convivial drinker is taking the
l dry period like a good sport and
S accepting the situation without
3 much complaint, but the down and
| outer" is proving the most trouble
g some to the State officials charged
with the drug control and the over
= seeing of the Federal and State acts
S governing the sale of opiates and
| similar preparations. A large num-
f Der of reports have come to the
= State Capitol lately giving experi-
= ence of officers in enforcing the new
' regulations and it has been discov-
: cred that more trouble is caused in
: the smaller communities than in the
: cities by the men who insist upon
r some sort of stimulant. Half a dozen
or the smaller boroughs of the State
: have had to be inspected because of
q extraordinarily large sales of pare
gorlc and in each case it was found
o That small group was buying the
!. medicine because of the opium de-
rlVatlVes 1t contains. Various patent
. medicines with "1<icks" and other
properties making them attractive
Z 10 men who were addicted to drink
q nave also been brought in demand
q and tracing reasons for sales has
i been keeping State officials busy.
q Indications are that Harrisburg is
= not going to suffer from lack of coal
| 10 In
= become serious and the anthracite
:. supply coming to this city is cur
Il tailed. The city is taking its coal
- for boilers of its power and heating
y plants and other establishments right
: out of the Susquehanna river. The
river coal industry, always an ac-
:. tive one here, has been revived Wig
orously and there are more dredges
in the river now than known for
many years. The coal is not even un-
y loaded on the wharves or the river
y bank, but is shoveled directly into
? trucks and hauled to the coal re-
Il serves of the State Capitol and the
. different plants.
1T will take a month or more to
> digest the conclusions that we have
= > received from the various sectional
meetings of the State Educational
Congress, but think that much that
Il will be highly useful to us in work
: ing out plans for improvement of
: Pennsylvania educational system
l. VIII be found" said Dr. w. D. Lewis,
y deputy State Superintendent of Pub
: lie instruction. THE congress-
: brought together the men who do
things in education in our State and
II the freedom and earnestness with
which they discussed the subject
was marked. Americanization will
be given a great impetus in every
section as a result of the congress
n and so will rural education be
helped"
80 DR.. Thomas e. Finegan the State
superintendent of Public Education.
is improving. He was reported as
- very seriously i'll yesterday, but ral-
- lied during the afternoon. Before
leaving, Governor William c. Sproul
sent him q meSsa ge of gum m th,. q nd