Show I I I v r t I In Other Days II j I V Va I HERE'S HERES ERI S 'S a page from an n n old diary jS Septem September I i ber 18 18 1873 Jay Jay Cooke Co bankers of N New NewYork York fail A financial panic pani Js is is The N New Nv v York York- clearing house house- is forced to t to suspend The he presidents of of th the banks meet in iii c council to devise ways ways' of relief President Grant declines tp to accede to the bankers bankers' request to aid the banks with th the tr treasury treasury treas treas- as- as ury balance of 44 Runs are made on banks and and private bankers and man man manto strong houses houes fall rail during the the en ensuing ing ten days Americans lately have been talking about business depression Compared with wit some of f th theold the theold old time panics sledding is easy Get Get g to tell ten yo you about 1873 Then you'll appreciate V the federal reserve banking system th the shock I absorber v vIn V VIn V In climates with cold winters plant life will nOt resume nornal al growth in the tile warm a m weather of spring t unless h has s been subjected previously to a p period of chilling So s saysa y scientist i ithe ii in inthe the Smithsonian Smithsonia institutions annual report This s suggests that c cold ld winters are necessary for for forthe V the health of people who people who northern states Not so in fn the south The chemistry of climate a and d cold weather and their influence on the body are mysteries That's why we all an talk so much about the weather V Th war Thc war depart departments department's annual report can can be boiled d down wn to this tilis one one sentence T The department department depart depart- depart depart- ment spent during the last fiscal year That's too much for war purposes in a peace year The economy that hat is being applied I j in In the war department must be intensified Same j i I with all alJ other depart departments of of government I I I 4 1 A A Ai for form former n serviceman e m nn n we wed his VeeL S sweetheart I II I in in France jy by cable The departure opens opens' possibilities possibilities I s for solving the divorce n Still I we suppose suppo's they will meet each other s me day an and perhaps then th they y will willbe be just lik like other folk I Ian |