Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
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numerous inquiries made about
so-called Rolls of Honor" of Penn
sylvania soldiers who were killed or
died during the war which haveA
been sold about the State have
caused officials at the Capitol to de-
clare that the Commonwealth has
issued no official publication of that
KIND and neither the State Council
or National Defense or any of its
units or the State War History Com
mission has published such lists.
from all accounts the lists being
sold are purely commercial ventures
and not put out with the sanction
OF any agency of the State govern
ment. Steps are now being taken
by the War History Commission,
which has its headquarters in Phil
adelphla to coordinate all history
/ researches and when the war is end
, ed and the official information is
\ in hand, and verified through the
war Department, publish the names
of those whose lives were given on
| behalf of the nation and who resided
| IN pennsylvania when they enlisted
or were summoned under the Sc
lectiVe service act. Until that is
done any Rolls of Honor or lists
! or those who made the great sac
rifice will be either private enter
| prises or local affairs. AS the
! branches of the State Council of Ma
tlonal Defense, county historical
societies, chambers of commerce and
| others interested in the perpetuation
or the names and deeds OF those in
| the war in a manner that can be
depended upon and a source of COM
fort to those who lost loved ones
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who wore the national uniform are
now organizing their work. The sug-
gestion has been made that publica-
ton of lists wait until all names are
in hand. A rather striking illustra-
| ton of the way these premature
publications operate can be had from
a so-called \ Harrisburg Roll of
Honor" 1t contains the names of
forty-nine residents of this city who
were killed in action, died of wounds
or disease. The latest list which
has been compiled from official
! sources and with the greatest care
by persons greatly interested shows
that there have been at least ninety
two Harrisburg young men who
have gone. AS the casualty lists are
still being published there is some
force in the suggestion that people
| hSllJ DtlOIt puylDB SuCh llSlS.
While the lines and features of
the model of the Memorial bridge
to Pennsylvania's soldier and sailor
sons in the great war shown in the
State Capitol have attracted much
attention and the highest praise.
there appears to have been a very
popular chord struck by the plan to
make the two great pylons contain
chambers where the names of every
Pennsylvania in the war will be
shown. The details of the plans
for the interior have not been work
ed out as yet. but tablets showing
each man and his unit. as is done
on the State Memorial at Gettys-
burg, will be installed. The pylons
will be sixty feet high. They will
follow classic lines with some dapta-.
tions by Arnold w. Drummer to the
/ present plan On the west front,
facing the State Capitol, each will
have a group of scripture, one rep
resenting the army and the other the
navy. The studies show the prov
of a ship for the navy and artillery
for the army as characteristics with
central figuEss allegorical of victory
The intSSfor of each pylon will be
eighteen feet square, the chambers
being about twenty-five feet in
height. The details of the interior
chambers have to be worked out.
The pylons will be approached by
broad flights of steps.
Captain Frederic A. Godcharles,
deputy secretary of the Common
wealth and one of the authorities in
the State on stamps, has received
the first copy of the new Victory"
stamp to come to Harrisburg. 1t is
a three-center printed in violet and
represents an embattled figure stand
ing in front of the flags of the Allies.
The stamp is square, smaller than
any issued in recent years and about
the size of the issue of 1869. The
only stamp put out so far is the
three-cent variety and the captain is
showing it with considerable inter-
est. The stamps will be on sale be-
fore very long.
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The Departments of the ATTORNEY
General and Commissioner of Fish
, cries have declined to rule on an
inquiry from Pittsburgh as to
whether the head of halibut should
be cut off as soon as such a fish is
caught because as the writer stated
, the head of the fish has a resem-
! blance to human head. The writer
did not state whether the rule should
apply to inland fishing. Another
, inquiry that arose this week to in
terest state officials came from the
: town of Girty where man desired
! to know whether sawdust thrown
into a stream is injurious or not,
tho writer having an idea that 1t
might be reclaimed as a valuable
| state asset after being washed