Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-12-13 | Page 4 | [Untitled]

The extraordinary liberality shown by President Beckwith of the Oberlin bank to Mrs. Chadwick suggests sug-gests the advisability of having civil service examinations exami-nations for the heads of banking institutions. . .' : 1- . -. A 'ship-building1 company has failed -because it lost money on contracts with the Government. It is the first case on record when the Government wasn't the loser. Verily, the times have changed. t Ferhaps Secretary Taft merely threatened to take the whole Panama army and put it in his coat pocket, and that brought our new Central American wards to the milk in their cocoanut. Some Republican newspapers are now saying, "Any Democrat would have lost." But it would be hard t6 convince most of them that they could not have done better than Parker. - 1 Chicago boys killed a man with snowballs. Next thing we will read of a Chicago baby murdering somebody with its nursing bottle. That town believes be-lieves in beginning young. Our amiable friends, the heads of departments at Washington, are "releasing" a great many more things to the newspapers these days than are printed. If there i3 anything left out of the Chadwick crash the lawyers will get it The depositors in failed banks may as well bid a fond farewell to their money. " - is urged that one of the new battleships be named "Utah. Good idea. The name of the State-lias State-lias always been associated wkh salt water. We iik the sample of snow that the weather man gave us on Monday. Just a little more of the Kime sort and all will be forgiven. . . . - What a wife Mrs. Chadwick would have made for Keeley of motor fame! K . The name of Andrew Carnegie is one with which to conjure. There seems to be an "On to Washington" spirit in the air. Tom Lawson'g panic hardly lived a day. waBsssJsssssssssssMsssssmsssssssssssssss V There are symptoms of winter.