Show w alm IA abiva 0 at chaska minn almi my friend james F faber city editor ot of the valley herald published at chaska minnesota sends me a memorandum of t the h e claim ot of that thriving little city to the title I 1 ot I 1 the most prosperous town in america with 2000 inhabitants chaska has a surplus of over in the city treasury taxes have been cut 30 per cent the people of chaska have almost 2 in the two banks and the town never had a bank failure there are no n 0 natives on the poor list and the city Is providing a good living tor for nearly ninety business and professional men besides their employees on top of 0 that chaska has had new businesses opening la in each year of the depression and has only five names on the delinquent tax list I 1 know of no other town the size ot of chaska that can make such a showing do you SAVINGS in the banks there Is more money in the savings banks ot of the united states than ever before in our national history in new york state alone savings bank deposits were more than five thousand million dollars on the first ot of january this money Is owned by more th than five ave and one halt half million depositors the people of 0 the united states are certainly not broke when savings deposits increase like that folks are putting their money into safe places instead of spending it because they are not quite sure yet what Is going to happen in the future just as soon as conditions seem to be stabilized zed there will be plenty of funds available for investment in prod pro enterprises CREDIT and an idea taking the country as a whole the I 1 banks are full ol of money but it Is harder gardei than ever lor the average person to borrow money from the banks the reason tor for this Is very clear fewer people than ever before are in a position to give i a banker reasonable assurance that they will be able to pay a loan when it Is tuc due it Is not shortage of money that it keeping us poor it Is shortage of credit the few who have good credit can borrow money cheaper than ever before I 1 dont know how it would work tout but it seems to me there Is some merit in the suggestion that it if the banks would lend everybody enough to pay their debts money would begin to circulate so fact faast that business would immediately pick up and credit would be as good as it ever was that idea Is certainly riot not any more foolish than a good many ot of tha inflationary proposals that have been offered in congress RABBITS they multiply two adjoining long island towns voted a couple ot of years ago to permit no shooting and to sepress cats in order to provida a bird refuge but the townspeople fargot all about rabbits now centre island and mill neck are so BO full of rabbits that it Is almost impossible to drive over the roads without running over a few cottontails cotton tails farmers and gardeners are wondering what they are going to do to protect their lettuce spinach and other garden crops in the spring they are trying to get the local gilme game ordinances amended to permit them to shoot the rabbits I 1 what has happened in these long island towns Is what happens whenever man interferes to upset the balance of nature COINS some valuable rare eare old coins still bring high prices A penny sold at an auction in new york the other day for sixty dollars it was a copper cent dated 1799 among the other rare coins sold at the same time were some copper hard bard times tokens issued from private mints between 1834 and 1841 one of them dated 1837 brought 22 50 coins are not valuable merely because they are old it Is rarity that makes collectors bid for them the sliver silver dollar of 1804 Is so rare that only four or five are known to be in existence and anyone finding one of those coins can almost name his own price for it most of the bliver dollars coined that year were sent to europe for the payment of certain obligations and the ship was lost at sea 0 i last year the united states mint made made more coins than in the previous two years there were more than twenty million of them worth one renson reason for the increased coinage was the large offerings of gold jewelry and ornaments which the mint Is obliged to purchase tor chase and give gold coins in exchange |