Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-16
Ehrtttttg Gl1at

]. G. Sanders, former State
Economic Zoologist and now Direc-
tor of the Bureau of Plant Industry,
who will go to Europe to study
potato blight for the Federal Gov
ernment, he not only deadly eye
for all manner of insects, big and
little, that prey upon foodstuffs in
tended for food for man, but he Is
crack shot as we'll. Mr.. Sanders
comes from northern Wisconsin,
where big game shooting Is popular
and where deer are plentiful. He
! is good woodsman and can handle
a rife with the best of them. The
/ other day he went over to the Har-
risburg Rife Clue range and sur
prised the old-timers there by rum
ming up a score that ranks him as
| one of the coming shots of this sec
| ton at the local targets. The Har-
risburg Club is developing a num-
ber of men who are going to be
heard from in the national contests.
Among the frequenters of the range
is Fred. A. Godcharles. deputy secre-
| tary of the Commonwealth, who Is
one of the best shotgun and rifle
shots in the United States. Mr..
Godcharles having attained high
proficiency with these two weapons
is now engaged largely in pistol
practice.
DR.. c.. E. L. Keen, who reported
on Monday to the Rotary Club his
observations of the Salt Lake City
international convention during his
western journey, which included
stops in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming,
Illinois and other western States.
Wherever he went he made 1t point
to compare the school building de-
velopment with that of Harrisburg
and he came back home converted to
the university idea, for which he
voted recently as member of the
Harrisburg school board. He met
many school officials during his
Journey and discussed school prob
lens with them. He found the
practice general in modern COM
munities to build the high schools on
ground that will permit of future
development well out from the center
OF the city, just as Harrisburg is
preparing to do on the Hoffman's
Woods site.
Two men stood at Third and State
streets at midnight and saw three
violations of the automobile regula-
tons in two minutes. One man
came down Third street like a fire
engine in full flight; another ran up
Third with his cut out barking like a
l machine gun and the third was
E speeding on the wrong side of the
street.
= Congressman J. Hampton Moore.
Y Wrlting In the Philadelphia Evening
t Ledger, says this about man well
t known to many Harrisburgers on
n and off Capitol Hill: Former State
= Senator John S. Fisher, who is now
z commissioner of Banking, heads a
long list of Pennsylvania financiers
who favor the abolition of the Of
> flee of the comptroller of the cur
: rency. Commissioner Fisher is in a
= position to say what many banking
: men decline to say openly, viz, that
? the present comptroller of the cur
rency is very unpopular with the
banks and banking institutions. Mr..
FISHER rises to remark that "as to
5 the said John Shelton Williams"
and so forth, that besides using the
. power of his office to coerce State
institutions to convert into national
e banks, hes has been issuing many
bulletins designed to disparage State
5 financial institutions" Truth is, the
y bankers of the country are tied up
: In the Federal reserve, so that it is
n not-wholesome to discuss officials at
washington; but some of them, like
= the old Quaker lady who missed her
= train at a remote station, can thank
f the Pennsylvania commissioner for
i expressing their sentiments" as the
+ good lady did when she heard a
t masculine fellow traveller cussing the
n railroad management"
S With all the reviews and parades
e going on now as the A. e. F. grad
e ually Sits homeward, a funny story
g related by one of the older French
s officers detailed to this country for
n staff work comes to mind. The
: time is the War of 1870 and the
s scene Paris during one of the great
reviews. The General-in-Chief was
II about to conduct the march past
i and had as one of his aids an old
general of some uncertain years and
q of still more uncertain strength and
= horsemanship. The old general,
u mounted on a fiery steed and all
dressed up in the resigentals
Il which the French wear when on
II parade. came slowly forward to re-
= ceive orders from his Marechal de
D France, who sat in state amidst his
a staff. The little old man, puffed
X with pride and Importance, pulled
e out his sword and swung it far up
e and to the right and then flashed it
IL downward in the impressive salute
Il And now comes the heavy scene.
e The horse, unaccustomed to having
e bright things waved in front of its
: eyes. reared, turned, and having
= bucked the little old officer neatly
It to the feet of the grand staff, dashed
/, off down the street. The staff re-
: strained its glee with difficulty, but
the marechal himself held his salute
n until the general could get to his
g feet, recover himself and his horse,
r and finish his abruptly interrupted
: salute.