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BRYAN PRESENTS HIS BILL.
Governor Bryan's budget measure is a confes
sion of failure. Looking back over his campaign
speeches we find that Governor Morehead ran the
state of Nebraska for two years at a total cost of
$8,000,000, and that Governor Neville, also a demo
crat, spent only $9,000,000 during his biennium.
The voters of Nebraska were led to believe that
r»y a return to democratic simplicity Charles W.
Bryan could approach those figures. Instead, he
now comes out with a request for $21,992,554 to
run the state government for the next two years.
An apologetic tone runs throughout Governor
Bryan’s message. It is interlarded with regrets
that he was not allowed time enough to “make a '
thorough investigation,” references to “hurried ex- j
amination” and confessions thai he had not found
opportunity to go fully into the state’s activities.
On the stump last fall he was confident enough to
lead many into the belief that he had his plans for
economy all ready, and he has had more than two
months since his election to familiarize himself with
his duties.
Right here and now let it be pointed out that
his estimate represents a reduction of $3,799,702
from the appropriation made under McKelvie for
the last two years, which amounted to $25,792,256.
Any reduction in the tax burden is to be apprecia
ted, provided only it does not hamper or destroy
the useful services which citizens have come to ex
pect of their state government. This drawback
, Julies to most of the economies outlined by Gov- I
Cmor Bryan. With the decline in the general cost
level, a reduction of state expenses was due, and
it is to be regretted that the governor did not seek
in this direction for his savings, rather than by at
tempting to sacrifice the business organizatidn of
the state. |
Several hundred thousands of dollars is to be
gained by abolishing the department of agriculture.
Abolition of the public welfare department is urged
as a way of saving $200,000. Some of the func
tions of these offices are .o be dropped completely.
Others are to be transferred to the state agricul
tural college and its extension service, which is not
to receive any additional appropriations, however,
for discharging these new duties. It appears that
a good many of these services are simply to be
starved to death.
The confusion of mind which Governor Bryan
indicates makes it difficult to determine just how
the state government is to be run under his pro
posed changes. The “executive council,” which
would consist of himself and four other state of
ficers, would direct the road building policy and
supervisa banks and insurance companies. The
governor would increase his number of personal
appointments and add greatly to his powers, and
the code system would disappear.
The good roads program he recommends be re
duced. His pledge to cut automobile license fees
in half would be fulfilled by abandoning the prac
tice of spending $1,500,000 on bladcr grading. The
department of labor is to be abolished, with only a
deputy remaining under the personal supervision of
the governor. The work of preparing the budget
is to be transferred to the state tax commissioner,
and the duty of keeping all the accounts on which
these estimates are based is to be turned over to
the state auditor. The department of finance, which
exercised business management and installed a uni-*
form system of bookkeeping throughout the state
offices, is to go. and no mention is made whether a
return is to be made to the old system under which
each separate office kept its own books is contem
plated.
The blue sky bureau is to be destroyed and re
liance placed on laws which will punish fraudulent
promoters more severely after they have committed
their crimes. Instead of the department of public
works is to be appointed a state engineer, without
power to act except under orders from the governor
and the council.
Appropriations for the state university and the
normal schools are trimmed, but the state penal
and charitable institutions are to receive a needed
increase of $313,000. The system of animal tuber
culosis eradication, by which farmers whose stock
is condemned and are partly indemnified, is to be
dropped and the state agricultural college is expected
to carry on this work, which cost $235,000, with
out any added means.
Such is the program of economy outlined by
Governor Bryan. Manv constructive features of
the state government are to be abandoned, but ap
parently little saving is to be made in the salary
list. This is noticeable in the governor's private
office, which Neville ran for $72,000, but for which
Bryan asks an appropriation of $104,000. Although
he emphasized the fact in his campaign that the
attorney general's expense used to be $61,000, he
sets the figure now at a rlrnnd $100,000.
Governor Bryan has been put to the test, and
measured by his promises, he has failed. It was
not possible for any man to bring about the savings
that he so easily promised the people of Nebraska.
His plan calls for the complete overthrow of the
code system, and yet when this is done, and all his
other ideas carried out, taxes will be only slightly
lowered and every citizen will be poorer in the
protection and service afforded him by the state.
Governor Bryan need not apologize for the haste
in which he prepared his budget proposals. If he
had taken more time he might have done even worse.
No sound amplifiers will be installed in the
house, members feeling that their voices carry far
enough as it is.
Mr. Bryan is finding that it is one thing to talk
on the stump and quite another to speak from the
governor’s office.
Three men dropped dead after ft drink in a
New Jersey speakeasy, a sign that Jersey lightning
is still potent.
The dispute at Washington is not that the
farmer needs help, but who is going to help him and
how,
WEST INDIES AND UNITED STATES.
Some interest will be revived in the study of
geography by the tentative discussion of a plan to
transfer the British and French ^'est Indies to the
Uhited States in settlement of war debts. Posses
sion of these islands would ensure control by the
United States of entrance to the Caribbean sea and
the Gulf of Mexico, a fact that would justify Great
Britain in declining to make such a trade. Other
factors enter the problem, which deserve to be
carefully analyzed before deciding on the issue.
Support is given the proposal by certain espe
cially interested persons, who see in possession of
, the Bahamas an opportunity to end illicit traffic in
I liquor, at least to the extent of cutting off a source
of much irritation to the enforcing officers. Cuba
would be left, friendly but independent, and Can
ada, and Mexico. Purchase of the Bahamas is not
the solution sought by the prohibitionists.
When the purchase of the Virgin islands from
Denmark was concluded, a considerable group of
population was compelled to change flags without
being consulted. Similar consequences will follow
if the Bahamas, the rest of the Leeward and the
Windward groups and Jamaica are transferred to
the United States. Out experience with Porto Rico
has hardly been so happy as to warrant the con
clusion that all these people will relish the ex
change of government. That the population is over
whelmingly negro does not necessarily mean they
will shift from flag to flag without protest.
Canada has some concern in this matter, po
litical and commercial interests holding our north
ern neighbors close to the islands. In 1913 a Cana
dian-West Indian conference at Ottawa discussed
plans for getting closer together, and the thought
of a strong Caribbean confederation under the
Union Jack was brought forward. Extremely pa
triotic West Indians express much apprehension
over the spectacle of annexation to the United
States, and turn for safety to a “confederation of
the British West Indian colonies, with responsible
government, as the only means of checking ultimate
annexation to the United States of America.’’
These are some of the points to be taken into
consideration in connection with the problem. If
the freedom of the seas, for which we have so long
contended, is to be maintained, rum-runners will
continue to vex and harass the prohibition agents;
if self-determination is not to be denied, the op
position party in the islands will be heard to ob
ject most vehemently. Finally, Great Britain has
governed its colonies in the islands too long to
lightly consider parting with them now, even at a
bargain price. So, too, the French may be averse
to the "trade. It is a pleasing subject for debate,
however, and does not appear much more fantastic
than did the deal with Denmark when first broached.
* WHEN THE TEACHERS COME.
Once again Omaha is hostess to the teachers of
Nebraska, assembled in annual convention. To
reiterate the welcome, so many times extended, is
a pleasure, for the teachers always are welcome
here. Omaha recognizes the importance of the
schoolma’am, as well as the schoolmaster; in her
own housekeeping Omaha has put the public school
ahead of all other requirements. The most beauti
ful and costly building in the state of Nebraska is
the Central High school of Omaha, and it will only
be surpassed by the new Technical High school and
the capitol building at Lincoln.
This is referred to only to show the devotion of
the people of Omaha to the cause of education. Mag
nificent buildings, perfectly appointed and equipped,
are of litte sendee without the competent corps of
instructors to carry on the great work for which the
pubic schools are established. Consequently Omaha
not only presents the great buildings in which the
schools are housed, but also .1 corps of 1,200 teach
ers, organized and efficient, a mighty army to dispel
the darkness of ignorance and drive back the forces
of evil by the light of intelligence.
Other elements of civilization are present in
Omaha to give greeting to the *chool teachers. Theiy
come on business bent, with a program of deep in
terest to all, yet some of their time will be spent
outside the lecture room fir the conference chamber.
In such time they will find the people of Omaha
pressing them with a hospitality that will not be
stinted in any way. Theaters, business houses,
homes and hotels, all will unite in providing pleas
ure as well as service to these visitors, whose work
for Nebraska means so much to the permanence of
the state.
Another of the Shipping Board’s cargo carriers
is piled up on the beach at Manila. Surely the ques
tion of what to do with the fleet is being answered.
No need to go to Paris for the style of wearing
a knotted handkerchief around the throat; the Ne
braska cowboys originated this years ago.
Old King Ak is starting early this season, but the
early bird is he who comes home with the bacon, or
the worm, or whatever the prize may be.
While the Berlinese are singing “Die Wacht am
Rhine,” the Yanks at Coblenz are warbling, “How
can I bear to leave thee?”
We know a man who dictates to his wife; but
she is learning to be a shorthand writer, and it is
done for practice.
One of the troubles connected with taxing intan
gibles is that anything that is intangible is also elu
sive.
The Dog in the Canyon
» 1 ■ "-From the New York World.
Forbidden to meddle with world peace, reparations
or the French march into the Kuhr. the cabinet at
Washington is not without a living issue. That over
looking Providence which shapes the ends of many a
loiterer has set up for the employment of the best
minds the problem of a dog in the Grand Canyon Na
tional park. The law and the Interior department say
the dog can not bo there. The Postoffice department,
bidding the law' betake itself to the dead letters, insists
that the animal shall remain within the sacred limits.
The White House, having once pronounced itself for
the Postufflce, has reversed its decision—perhaps with
a thought back to the hither-thither policies of the old
front-porch days—and the canine in the canyon becomes
a continuing subject of dispute.
The dog is first aid and comforter to a lonely post
master. Without quadruped companionship the mind
of the solitary official might wander even as a piece
of misdirected mail. Hence the solidity of the depart
ment behind the postmaster; hence the first and sym
pathetic impulse of the president. But what to the
head of the Interior department is human feeling to
the literalness of a law made and provided.
We could almost w'ish that this issue of the dog
were before congress. It would divert so many lead
ing statesmen from butting into affairs of state. But
it is by no means a Waste of contention where it is.
Scandals would quite certainly arise if the secretaries
of this and that were driven to stud poker or to the
rolling of dice pending the efforts of the world to re
volve itself back to party normalcy
“From State and Nation”
—Editorials from Other Newspapers—
Mr. Brian's Suggestion.
From the Nebraska City Tress.
Instead of the civil administrative
code, which has been the infant
prodigy of Governor McKelvie. Gov
ernor Charles \V. Bryan would abol
ish that terrible bit of administrative
iniquity and substitute therefor a
"cabinet" of advisers, consisting of
all elective officials except the attorney
general, who would be required to
confer with the governor on matters
of state, leaving to the chief execu
tive the right to appoint men to of
fice pr fire them if their services were
not satisfactory.
Mr. Bryan's suggestion, as contained
in his message to the legislature
makes us laugh. It shows, for one
thing, that campaign promises are of
no valuf whatever except as the
means of getting votes from the un
i «,'>histicated and unthinking. It
proves, too, that the new governor
is just as inconsistent as it was in
sisted he was during the campaign
and that instead of utterly destroy
ing the code he would repeal the pres
ent workable, competent laws and
substitute therefor ulinost an exact
imitation, to function am She code has
functioned but to bear the Bryan
stamp of manufacture instead of the
trade mark of his predecessor.
It has been demonstrated, we think,
that Mr. Bryan thinks more of the
code system than he has admitted;
that he realizes Nebraska needs a
businesslike method of tending to
business, but he is too much of a par
lisan to ever admit that in spite of
the rank abuse to which it has been
subjected the MoKblvie plan of gov
ernmental administration has been s
success. Mr. Bryan knows, too, now
that he has stepped into office that
the code was not responsible for high
taxes, a direct sequelae of war condi
tions; that high taxes will continue
in Nebraska as long as the public de
mands and insists upon having those
things which require an appropria
tion to make good.
There are no indications in Mr.
Bryan’s message that he expects the
legislature to adopt any revolution
ary, reactionary or red-eyed program
of lawmaking. He has shown, in ad
dition, to the satisfaction of those
who read his message, that he wants
Nebraska to be well governed and
that campaign promises and stump
speeching fulmlnations are made, not
to lie fulfilled, but to stampede the
voters in one's direction if one has a
desire for office. The people elected
Mr. Bryan to be their governor and
they will support hint manfully if he
will hut continue to give Nebraska a
square deal. They only regret, that
he is a partisan first, last and all the
time.
Learning and Intelligence.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
I'rof. Lewis M. Tuerman of Stan
ford is a specialist in tl?e measure
ment of mentality. He tabulates the
results of examinations of masses of
people and on them bases the start
ling announcement, that the average
Intelligence of the population is de
creasing. Prof. Tuerman is not alone
in this opinion. Other scientific ob
servers have declared that the great
est illusion of all times is the illusion
that the, spread of knowledge among
the people has been accompanied by
an improvement in the average in
telligence. One expert goes as far as
to say that we are now in the Dark
Ages and that they began with the
French revolution. He believes that
we confuse mere literacy with intelli
gence and assume that because peo
ple in general could not read In for
mer times they did not think. The
trouble with all such theories is that
there are no trustworthy standards
by which the intelligence of one pe
riod can be eompitred with the intelli
gence of another. All measurements
of mass mentality are more or less
guesswork, and certainly It would not
be fair to judge of periods by the
politicians they elect to office. Cir
cumstances may have conspired to
give us a poorer offering in the way
of candfdates.
Making Free With -Millions.
From the Cincinnati Knquirer.
This country has responded to every
appeal made by the suffering peoples
of the world since the tragedy of the
great wap. Millions upon millions
freely have been given to succor and
care for the victims of intolerable con
ditions existing in Europe and Asia.
But there must he a limit to our na
tional philanthropy. We must stop,
somewhere, no matter how urgent the
appeals even of those who otherwise
must perish. .This is not indiffer
ence or hardness of heart. Even this
mighty nation cannot become the al
moner of all the desperate peoples in
the world.
Our charity and beneficence should
be guided by prudent and careful dis
criminations. This people willingly
will go the limit to relieve distress,
sorrow anti suffering; hut such relief
should go. in every instance, to those
who may not hope for help from their
own governments.
Just now a new campaign Is being
started to influence congress to ap
propriate $100,000,000 for the pur
chase of agricultural implements and
seed for the Russian people.
It is true that the Russian people
Daily Prayer
And which of you with taking thought
can add to His stature, one cuhit? If ye
then be not able to do ihat thing which
ie least, why take ye thought for the
rest? Consider the lilies how they grow;
they lott* not, they spin not; and yet 1
say unto you, that Solomon In all • hts
glory was not arrayed' like one df ilieae
If then God ho clothe the gi-HHc, which le
today on the field, and tomorrow ie cast
into the oven; how much more will He
clothe you, O ye 6f little faith?-*-t,uke
12:26*28.
O God, Who Knowest our neces
sities before we ask, and the manifold
temptations we meet with day hy day,
help us to put our whole trust in
Thee when despair and misgiving as
sail us. Suffer us not, we beseech
Thee, to become the prey of useless
forebodings, nor to lose the things
which belong to our peace, through
the habit of morbid and sinful worry.
So guide us, in all our way, that we
may keep our faces always toward
the light, that our shadows may lie
behind us. Of Thy great mercy en
able us to perceive our blessings, that
we may always serve Thee with a
glad heart and a quiet mind, through
Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.
BISHOP CHARLES E WOODCOCK,
D. D„ LL. D., Louisville, Ky.
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need these tilings, that they, are In
hard ease: hut it is equally true that
the Russian alleged government is
maintaining one of the greatest armies
in the world, an army equipped and
manned to the limit of effective ef
ficiency. The money required to main
tain this great military machine would
j buy agricultural machinery and seed
! for the Russian people for the next
■ 50 years.
There are peoples worse off than
the Russians, In some respects, people
who could, and should, be helped to
I the limit of our resources, and such
i help would not operate to tlie benefit
of the enemies of the present forms
| of civilization; *is help for Russia
j would do.
! file plan proposed would advance
this money In the form of a loan to
| the soviet government, eventually to
la- paid hack through some arrange
I merit as yet quite nebulous to the
! common understanding.
Such an indirect recognition of the
j soviet government is offensive to
American sentiment and policy. We
should dump no more millions into
Russia.
"The Friendly Arctic.”
Fiom-the Philadelphia. Public Ledger.
"God gives all men all earth to
love," but naturally each man holds
a brief for the region he,knows the
best and has found his most congenial
place of habitation. Tlie late Dr. Gor
gas was convinced that the tropics
would increasingly be considered the
fittest abiding place for mankind; this
theory he derived from his crowning
life work In the sanitation of Panama.
Stefansson, on the other hand, ex
pounds and persuasively extols the
far north, and the pen pictures he of
fers are not those of fantastic ro
mance but of sober verity. He does
not pretend that cold and ice are ah- i
sent, but he shows how mankind may
circumvent the adverse natural con
ditions and live comfortably, and he
emphasizes the northern coast of our
continental mainland, and the ap
proaches thereto, conditions of slim
mer temperature and climate that
make agriculture feasible and trans
portation practicable. “Fear alone
stands in the way of developing a
land area twice the size of the United
States,” he asserts.
Stefansson. like others who have
given attention to the problem of de
veloping the north, is a firm believer
in tlie development of commercial air
routes which will break down the last
barriers of isolation and shorten
present steamship routes by flights
across the circumpolar regions. Nat
ural resource* of coal and oil await
development. The spirit is not want
ing on the part of the pioneers, but
they are too few in number. The
tiogey of low temperatures has had
a formidable effect which the records
do nut justify. As the population in
creases in the more temperate areas,
mankind will discover the habitabil
ity of many regions now thought to
be Inhospitable, just as among the
ancients the abomination of desola
tion was supposed to enrlng the nar
how areas that Strabo and Pliny
knew.
Spoiled Children.
From E. W. Howe’s Monthly.
The most noteworthy event of my
life tills month was meeting a mother
able to control a 9-year oId daughter.
I complimented her, and she said;
"Bad children are a reflection on the J
mother.”
That is the truth simply stated.
In one of the Important magazines
a man tells of an experience with his
sons. He was ambitious to be gftod
to them. His father had been a hard
taskmaster, and he determined to be
more reasonable with his own chil
dren. But the man soon discovered
that he was spoiling them. They be
came impudent and mean, and he
thereupon changed his policy, with
excellent results.
Nearly every successful, useful man
in America has been compelled to
work and "mind” as a boy; either by
poverty, or by a. stern father. Spoilt
children are nearly always a curse
to their parents and to the eommuni- '
tics in which they live. Thousands
of apparently sweet young girls are
terrific tyrants at home; and the num
ber of boys going to the devil un
necessarily is astounding. All over
the country bandits are operating.
When one is caught, it nearly always
turns ou that lie is a bad bay who
was not properly controlled at’home.
Common Sense
Making Husband a Society Man.
Too many wives try to make society
men out of their husbands, when they
do not enjoy anything of this sort.
The task of making a living, laying
aside enough for a rainy day or old
age is a big problem to most men.
They cannot afford the cloudy,
tired brain, and worn nerves, which
late nights would cause them to take
to the office or shop next day.
The man who is in earnest in en
deavoring to make good, needs plenty
of sleep, and recreation that is rostfui,
making him happy and contented.
The right sort of man—husband
or father—has his biggest aim to pro
vide for his family in the present and
the future.
In planning for the future ho thinks
no so much for himself as he does
for bis wife and children if there Is
one or many.
In this effort he should have his
wife's help and sympathy.
Instead of making the struggle
harder, the‘good wife will try to avoid
tb'ngs which lesson prospects of suc
cess.
As a wife, do you make it hard or
easy for your life partner to do his
best along the line he believes right.
. (Copyright, 1923.)
Benj. Franklin Said
“The Way to Wealth
it a* plain a* the way to
market. It depends chiefly oji
INDUSTRY and FRUGALITY
—that is: waste neither time
nor money, but make the best
use of both.”
This Is Thrift Week
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“The People’s•
Voice”
Editorial! from reader* of Tha Mornlnt 8m.
Roodara of Tha Mornlap Bm art lavltad to
um thla column frarty for «*pr«^aloa on
matter* of oubl'c Interact.
Tlw? Burns Anniversary.
Omaha.—To th* Editor of The
Omaha Bee: Asram draws near th«'
anniversary of th*birth* of one of
whom the port Wordsworth said:
”1 mounted with thousands, hut as on#
More deeply grieved, for he nan gone
Whore light I halted u hen first it rhone
And showed nty youth
Ilow verse may build a princely throu#
On humble truth.”
Thinking of this tine personality
also brings to mind a part of Long
fellow's poem, entitled "The Day Is
Done:”
"Whose songs gushed from his heart
As showers front elouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start.
AA'ho through long days of labor
And nights devoid of ease.
Still heard in Ills soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.”
If I were to undertake to point out
tlie most exquisite passage in all the
lyric poetry of the English language,
I might quote from the poem, "Aftou
Water,” theRe two lines:
"My Mary's asleep by thy murmuring
stream.
Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not
her dream.”
1 know of no finer specimen of
what some one has called artless art.
In what school, from whit professor
of literature, from what instructor in
prosody did Burns learnthow to make
such an exquisite adaptation of words
to the finest sentiments of the human
soul? I sometimes have been inclined
to think that an attempt to analyze
a thing of supreme beauty is a vain
and injurious thing, for the reason
that wo cannot get at the essence of it
by any means whatever, and such an
effort seems to vitiate the instinctive
appreciation: but it seems not irn
proper to point out some matters of
form that show beautiful and- won
derful adaptation of language to the
communication of noble -sentiment. I
doubt whether Burns himself con
sciously recognized the means chosen
by his ardent feeling in the composi
tion of this beautKul expression. No
tice the apt alliteration, and the ap
propriate distribution of the conson
ants—ui, s, I, f, d and w—and the
pleasant and appropriate rhythm. Of
all artists the Tinman heart is the su
preme one. To Avhat school or teacher
does it owe Its power?
“O, Nature's child, by shamff unspoiled,
Though by some evils greatly troubled.
Yet from your great heart, as you tolled,
A sweet and sparkling fountain bub
bled."
BERIAH F. COCHRAN.
Hailing Crime.
Weeping Water, Neb.—To the Edi
tor of The Omaha Bee: I will give
you my plan to reduce crime, not
only in Omaha, hut the whole United
States. Make it a penitentiary of
fense for a man to carry a gun and
do not allow any to be sold. Allow
any man or woman not less than J10
for informing on anyone that is
"toting" a gun. Allow anyone to be
searched for firearms. Call the
hounds off from trailing down parties
The Fellow Who Objects to Straphanging_|
that are making a little'beer for their
own use ami let them look a little
closer for some of these holdups. Stop
all traffic from going faster through
town than 10 miles an hour, and if a
man or woman is caught the second
time, revoke his licensp. If they are
caught running without a license,
give them not less than one year in
the penitentiary.
J Try my plan once and see how soon
there will be less accidents and less
j crime. J. W. HOBSON.
The Old-Fashioned Hired Girl.
Waterloo, N^ph.—To the Editor of
The Omaha Bee: While looking over
the comic section this eve, I chanced
upon the pantomime, "Cook Wanted
—White.” Being caught in a most
helpless condition just recently it set
me to thinking, what has become of
the good old-fashioned hired girl.
I have been married for over 25
years now, and during that time it
has been our fortune or misfortune,
as you like it, to have to employ dur
ing that period of time more than 25
girls. We used to tie able to get one
on a day's notice most anytime. But
now—it’s different. Five weeks ago
our baby, age 3, fell seriously ill—
tried to get house help, nothing doing.
A week ago we were obliged to take
him to the hospital in your city.
Our little girl, age 11, went to bed
the day before he was taken away.
Mother had to go with babe. I had
to stay at home with the other on.
and had to close my place of business
l begged, coaxed, pleaded with Kir!
to help nte out—"nothing doing." To- ~
day I found a cook. "Ain't it a <lr "
gr-gr-and and Gl-gl-o-o-rioua f<-eling"—
paraphrasing another cartoonist.
Where, oh where, is our good old
fashioned "hired girl" gone.
E. -r. MEYERS.
Yes, Y'es.
"He and his sweetheart are mad
about golf."
"Yes, they’re a regular pair of tee
spoons.”— Philadelphia Evening Bul
letin.
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A. HOSPE CO.
1513 Douglas Tel. Doug. 5588
That’s the excuse given by most
people for not being able to save—
but the fellows that CAN and
DO—are the ones who wear tailor
made suits—ride in automobiles
and own their homes. If they had
never started saving they never
could have accomplished those
things. We will help you to the
better things of life—for your
family and yourself.
Make the start with a “Christmas
Savings Club” account. We will
open such an account for you un
til February 1st. After that it
will be too late. Don’t say you can’t.
Come in and Do it now.
United States
National Bank
