Show I V prevail Prevailing ng Opinions I Comment of the Tho American P Press ess Dead Letter Latter Takings The chain letter crall craze of or last Jut spring was wu a wind that blew a tidy bit of ot good to the po post postoffice t Mr Farley reporting on the year In his department says say the chains brought him an increase of 39 73 in money taken from Undeliverable undeliverable un- un deliverable letters He Hi had more dead letters Jet Jet- let let- tars ter containing money than for forthe forthe forthe the year before All t told ld they I yielded The larger part pirt partI I of ot this sum aunt r represented prese ted m money my lost by the senders bec because use of of I their failure to address their letters letters let let- properly This can hardly be bes s said ld however of the considerable share found in undeliverable chain letters letter The mon ey money In Lii these of c course uru was was lost by someone but not by the senders under These had lost bat their coin anyway by investing investing invest invest- In ing in a chain All told from the carel carelessness of p o persons rs who use the malls the postoffice reap reaped d This in addition to money money and sta stamps ps found in dead letters and found loose In lathe the malls malli c came me from the sale Ie of ot unclaimed merchandise and magazines magazine and md nd f from om the 3 cent fee exacted for return returning In dead letters letter V Still Mr Farley does doe not Indicate indicate indi Indi- cate whether or not there was Wl a profit from this this this' keepers finders business He H. tells us merely that the the- per personnel cost COlt of the dead letter service wal was 2609 This nil would be be- scarcely en enough ugh lh Information information information mation for tor an accountant asked t to furnish a balance sheet for the dead letter Iette enterprise san San Francisco Fran Fran- cisco Chronicle chronic Speech and nd Action Robert V. V Fleming president of ot the American Bankers Bankers' association association tion urged in hi a speech that it 1 is I. time for the banks bank to loosen up a little come down on their interest rates and resume those thOle lending functions which they turned over during durin the d depression to the the- RF R R. F. F C. C and other oth-er governmental agencies He said I I 1 believe bankers should explore explore ex ex- the possibility of handling these credits at t n L reasonable rate of interest to the public thereby h helping the government to reduce its ita expenses and in turn aug aug augmenting bank earnings We often otten hear complaints complaint against the government governments government's gov gay participating in busin busi business busi bual- n. n ness let Ut IM us therefore make malia it pe for foeS th tM the government to gt get t out of ot business There Is no longer an any need for banks maintaining maintaining main main- taming a high percentage of liquidity and bankers can adopt a broader range long-range viewpoint In dealing with their customers That was wa part of a speech and what people sa say is not necessarily what they do And as a matter of ot fact the R. R F. F C C. announced that it had loaned a substantial sum um to the Illinois Central railroad railroad rail rail- road at 4 per percent cent to take care of nf some lome maturing 6 54 per cent obligations and said that it stood ready to lend another to the railroad next June when another batch of at such obligations falls tails due This news new would seem to indicate indi Ind- cato cate that the bankers are still unwilling to go goback back into the sort lort dt df financing work that th the R. R F. F C. C has been engaged in ln But it happens that two hours after atter the R. R F. F FC C. C loan had been announced Mr Fl Fleming was a. a a visitor at the White House His object was to outline his p proposal that private ate Institutions resume their regular function He got a careful hear hear- ing ini V So it begins to look as I if Banker Fleming meant what he said Baltimore altimore Sun V Lying Figures Never before were the American p people ople so ao deluged with figures and perhaps never before were so 10 many people interested in them This may justify a little consideration con con- of the methods of ot getting getting get get- et- et ting statistics statistics' and the us uses s to be made of ot them Figures should be timely to be bea a accurate curate Statistics collected b by bythe the decennial census takers taker usually usual usual- ly Iy have been considered author author- They They maybe may be wholly misleading misleading mis mis- leading If It not false falsa toward V the end of the th-e dec decade de V tabulated as ai the result of ot surveys may be e important or or useless According to the facilities thoroughness and purposes of th those 0 conducting the survey Surveys Sur Sur- veys undertaken to prove pet theories may be worse wone than use use use- lest V V Government statistics should hould be collected collect d by regular and frequent statements returned b by local units unit of ot government in immediate charge of the matters matteri reported They should be compiled and tab- tab ula by trained disinterested disinterested disinter disinter- ested sated workers at the seat eat of ot government gov gov- From top to bottom this important branch braneK of the th ser ser- We ie should b N ia ia JA charge of per per- V sons guaranteed civil service pro pro- The haphazard circulation of ot tons tons of ot government reports having having haying hav hay ing the obvious purpose of proving praying proving pray pray- ing the luc success ess of the party in m power should cease The reputation reputation r puta tion of ot government statistics should be above suspicion or re re- re Detroit Deholt Detroit News Little LiHle Washington Those who bell believe ve that one Washington is enough enough it if not too many In many in th these se days day of overemphasis overemphasis overemphasis over over- over over- emphasis of federal functions willbe will willbe willbe be slow to respond to the suggestion suggestion sug sug- of or President Roosevelt's national committee on natural re resources resources resources re- re sources that 12 little Washing Washing- tons be established in various sections of the country The laudable purpose Is to make governmental programs more more- morere responsive responsive re re- re to sectional needs and provide to geographic framework for tor the development of natural resources The I committee in includes includes in- in eludes five members of the Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt cabinet It n is easy to that these est established for the purpose of ot conserving and developing developing developing devel devel- natural resources would Inthe in inthe inthe the course of time Ume take on additional additional additional addi addi- functions function We Wa should hould then have a ridden burden Washington extending by gradual process to every quarter of ot the national do do- main More bureaucrats more personnel more taxes Probably a still further encroachment on the sovereignty of the states statu Administrative spokesmen in congress so far as quoted on the subject show an inclination to toV V caution The Th plan is wo worthy thy of consideration says say Thomas of ot Oklahoma ma Buchanan of Texas Texa chairman of the house appropriations appropriations committee takes a more positive attitude I am against anything that calls calli for more money The Buchanan attitude is II also alJo worthy of or cons cons Id I'd Ir era t tt i o 0 on nL n- Cleveland Plain Dealer Poor Rewards eward for Jor Bravery Does bravery pay Pounding the pavements pavement trying to sell In Insurance Insurance In- In urance a graying man In Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago cago asks himself that question In Iri st stocking feet he he rushed to to a pile of explosives in France and extinguished I. I a fire started by a bomb and saved the lives of ot 30 men Selling refrigerators refrigerators' over an anarea anarea anarea area covering half halt a state tate is I. a aman man who threw his hi body ever DYer a I I Mills bomb that landed In his bay of the trench in order to save lave the I lives of his comrades at at atthe the expense ex ex- pense penso of ot his own He didn't know that it was a dud Had It not been he w would uld have hay been one of ot those symbolized by the Unknown Soldier buried burled at Washington Designing costumes in an Ohio city Is Isam a man n who hore received elved a prized medal for courage in bringing from the trenches the body of ot hl his dead captain captain- V Teaching high school boys how to swim in Englewood III Ill is 1 a aman aman man who last Jast an eye in a a. gallant performance durin during an air raid in which he displayed a a carelessness careless carelus- ness of ot his own safety beyond the requirements of the d duty ty even eyen ofa of ot ota ofa a brave soldier Every one of t the heroes mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- above is the holder of a medal given for sacrificial l bravery bravery brav bray ery cry In the face of danger Every Everyone one onel of these men men according to the findings of ot a reporter sent out outto outto outto to Investigate by a great metropolitan metropolitan metro metro- politan 1 newspaper Is II in need some sam of th them m on the dole Is II it any wonder that stealthily there Invades their reflections as they compare their situation with that of of pals pal who st stayed eit home the thought Was Wal it worth It The answer Is It was unless coupled with the heroism wa was the best reward that heroism ever ever gets Others win a happiness that only m my sacrifice can In- In Columbus Columbus Dispatch lt Let Christmas Endur Endure Christmas has u furnished a beautiful season It brought out some of ot the finest traits trait of human nature Toe The spirit of giving and of at sharing seldom has haa been more moreIn moreIn morein in evidence and seldom has been I more effectively But after Christmas What Christmas What Months of ot cold cheerless Inhospitable in inhospitable In- In hospitable weather are t to Intervene Intervene Intervene Inter Inter- vene before balm balmy days and garden garden garden gar gar- den making and blossom time Those may be hard months for many unless the spirit of oC neighborliness neighborliness neigh neigh- can be kept lively He who can make the Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- ms m's mas mood endure proves s that his hla Christmas givin giving was not prompted by shallow enthusiasm Detroit Detroi Detroit Ne- Ne News |