Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-04-01
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Major William G. Murdock, the
executive officer of the draft in
Pennsylvania, in a letter issued to
| members of the boards in praise
of their efforts to make the selec-
tive service law success in Penn
sylvania, to-day expresses the hope
that whatever military organiza-
tions are formed by the soldiers
upon their return will welcome you
as honorary members" The ma
1ors letter regrets that the law does
not provide for recognition of tbs
services of the members of the drafs
boards and he takes occasion to ex-
tend to the hundreds of men who
administered the draft commenda-
ton of their services. Major Muir
dock was busy to-day receiving re-
ports from the boards of the State,
as to the manner in which they had
closed up their official existence yes
terday and q complete report will
be made up for the State. 1t is
probable that some steps will be
taken by members of the Legislature
to bring about recognition of the
services of the men who served az
members of draft, appeal, medical
and legal advisory and instruction.
boards. A record of the service Of
these men, many of whom served
throughout the whole war is being
made up by Major Murdock for the
archives of his office.
Walter McNichols, acting Com
missioner of Labor and Industry, has
offered the services of the State to
enable industries and physicians and
surgeons to get together because of
numerous requests for information
as TO opportunities for industrial ser
| wee in Pennsylvania from physi-
clans and surgeons leaving the army
aIter service during the war. Heads
OF industrial establishments have
peen informed in a circular that DIR.
| francis ID. Patterson, chief of the
bureau of hygiene. will look after
this feature of State work.
DR.. Dan" Polling, who will ad-
oress the big Christian Endeavor
convention in this city tonight, dur
ing ms student days was reckoned
the finest specimen of physical man
hood in the Pacific coast colleges.
lie held a dozen championships for
events requiring extraordinary
strength and endurance and is still
an ardent devotee of college sports.
Early in his life, and he is still q
young man, he was elected to lead
the young peoples work in the
| United Evangelical Church in Amer
ica and his headquarters would
nave been Harrisburg had he ac-
cepted, but he felt called to the
wider field of young peoples work
IN general and has become one of
the leading Christian Endeavor and
temperance workers in America. He
| hn - G..
| squadron which did such valiant
work in the promotion OF national
prohibition; at the outset of the war
he threw up his work and went to
France in the "Y" service and
served down in the front line
trenches until he was gassed ana
shell-shocked to the extent of being
forbidden further work in the war
zone and was invalided home. His
book. "Huts in He'll" is one of tho
war classics and anybody who doubts
the service the Y. M. c. A. rendered
the men in France would do well to
read It.
II matters can be arranged, Major
Henry M. Slime, the officer in COM
mand of the Harrisburg Reserves,
will have the first of series of talks
by returned officers at the court
house on Saturday night Captain
John T. Bretz, who helped train the
Reserves in their early days, will
be the speaker and will tell Of the
work of the 112th.
|
Thomas d. Beidleman, who has
resumed charge of things about the
State Capitol Park, has his force
on the daylight saving plan. Things
start early in the park maintenance
department and the park is com
mencing to show the results of his
painstaking supervision.
|
'I do not know why it is, but we
have had more fittings this first
of April than / have known for a
long time. For while there was a
disposition to get away from the
! April fittings and to take up May,
but this year calculations are off"
said a van man yesterday