Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-12-14

countries of the world, for the system
of Government guaranty of deposits
now being adopted In several West.
ern States, which with Difference to
those who advocate 1t seems to me to
have in II the seeds of Generalization
to conservative banking and certain
financial disaster.
The question of how the money dc.
posted In postal savings banks shall
be invested is not free from difficulty,
but believe that a satisfactory pro
vision for this purpose was inserted as
an amendment to the bill considered
by the Senate at its last session. II
has been proposed to delay the con
sideration OF legislation establishing a
postal savings bank until after the re.
port of the monetary commission. This
report is likely to be delayed. and prop
erly so. because of the necessity for
careful deliberation and close invcsti.
cation. do not see why the one
should be tied up with the other. II
is understood that the monetary com.
mission has looked into the systems Of
banking which now prevail abroad and
has found that by control there cxcr.
cised In respect to reserves and the
rates of exchange by some central au-
thority panics are avoided. II is not
apparent that a system Of postal say.
ings banks would In any way inter
fere with change to such system
here. Certainly In most Of the coun-
tries In Europe where control Is thus
exercised by a central authority. pos.
tai savings banks exist and are not
thought to be inconsistent with
proper financial and banking system,
Bureau Of Health.
For very considerable period a
, movement has been gathering strength
especially among the members of the
medical profession. In favor Of n con.
centration of the instruments of the
national government which have to do
with the promotion of public health. In
the nature OF things. the medical de.
partment OF the Army and the medi.
/ cal department of the Navy must be
kept separate. But thcr seems to be
no reason why all the other bureaus
| and Offices In the general Government
which have to do with the public
health or subjects akin thereto should
not be united In a bureau to be called
the Bureau of Public Health" This
would nccessitatc the transfer OF the
Marine HOSPITAL Service to such a bu.
reau. am aware that there Is n wide
neId IN respcct to the public health
committed to the States In which thc
| Federal Government cannot exercise
| Jurisdiction, but we have seen In :thc
| Agricultural Department, the expan.
| sion into widest usefulness of a de.
| partment giving attention to ,agricul.
| ture when that subject il plainly one
over which the States, properly ,exer.
| else direct Jurisdiction. The opportu-
miles for useful research and The
spread of useful Information In regard
| to the cultivation OF the soil and fhe
breeding Of stock and the solution. Of
many of the intricate problems In pro
gressiye agriculture have demonstrat!
| ed the wisdom of establishing that de-
partment. Similar reasons. of equal
/ force, can be given for the establish
1 ment of a bureau of health that shall
not only exercise the police jurisdic-
ton of the Federal Government re-
speeding quarantine, but which shall
also afford an opportunity for investi.