Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-11-23
Argument Advanced by Farmers
Congress in Favor of
Parcels Post.
TRADING MORE CONVENIENT
Bank TO be Managed by Women
Cheap Turkey In Chicago
Shop EARLY Movement
(speeInI correspondence.

Chicago, Nov. 21.--'rhe benefits to
local merchants of a parcels post sys-
TEN In the United States, quite con-
trary to arguments advanced by pro-
motors of organizations OF retail Nor
chants, now are urged by the Farmers
National congress as one of tho rsa-
sons for action by Congress. This new
turn TO the argument was given bv
John NJ. Stahl of Chicago. II representa-
tive of the Farmers congress, who de-
olarcd The parcels post privilege
certainly would benefit local merchants
everywhere in the country for II will
make trading with them by the rural
people so convenient. Merchants are
really injurinE themselves by oppos-
ing the limited. rural route. parcels
post. for as the farmer is now COM
PEELED to go to the village to deliver or
to receive packages he very frequently
takes the train TO so to the larger town
or city To buy the goods he needs ANY
close observer in the western states.
where mail order trading Is perhaps
the greatest knows that what takes
most from the trade Of the local mcr-
chants Is not the mail order houses
but the low railway fares to the larger
cities. If the merchant could send nv
by mail or telephone, as a result Of /,
parcels post system millions Of dollars
of merchandise now bought OF the big
mail order houses would be bought Of
or through the merchant. A complete
modern parcels post would benefit town
and city people even more than farm
ers, but 1t certainly will benefit mil
lions of farmers. Will increase trade
of local merchants and soon would
,,.iv. A., Il a..
to superstition, the big mail order.
houses in recent years have opposed
rather than advocated the parcels post
for they are well satisfied with pres
ent arrangements v,ith the EXPRESS
companies and long ago realized that
parcels post system would put local
merchants on II parity with them in
the delivery of goods by mail
BANK FOR WOMEN.
A bank managed by women and for
women and children, which has been
launched In the Chicago suburb of Gdi-
son Park will give particular attention
to encouraging children to open ac-
counts. The banks capital Is to be
$4,000. Women only signed the ap-
pllcation for Incorporation and wom-
an attorney, Mrs. Antolnette Funk.
drew the papers. Womans intuitiye
Judgment, which in other banks has
proved sound, Is to have full play in
this institution and to an extent it
rarely has in domestic affairs or husi-
ness. Men will be depositors as well
az women and men as borrowers not
only will have to convince loan COM
mittee the loan will be paid but also
as women often have to convince their
husbnnds-.that the money will serve a
useful purpose.
CHEAP FEASTING IN CHICAGO.
The large supply Of turkeys through
out the country, according to reporti
to Chicago, is one fact to remember on
day. The dry weather
which amounted to a drought in many
states was Il blessing to the young tur-
keys whose greatest menace always IN
rain-soaked junglcs of grass through
which their energetic mothers always
insist in taking them on expeditions
after the elusive bug. The cranberry
crop is the best. largest and cheapest
that has come on the market for a
number of years Therefore this
Thanksgiving dinner should be an
old fashioned feast at no prohibitivc ex-
pense. Almost annually for several
years reports have gone out from the
in Chicago and other
cities that the turkey shortage is acute
aud that prices probably will be high
These shortages have not been relieved
any by the cntcrprising efforts of the
dealers to buy UP every available fowl
well in advance of the feast and
either market them during the
Thanksgiving demand or hold them
for even larger profits at the Christ
mas season. The potato and also sweet
potato crop will also be plentiful to
help reduce the cost Of that one grea,
occasion of Americans when overeating
is the rule and the reason for tina
Is all but submerged in tina
modern interest in football.
The petition for change Of venue of
the federal cases against the Chi
cago packers which are to be argued
l6 are based on a nominal
of Judge Lands with an
Of the packing business
some 10 years ago The investigation
vas started by congressional resolution
md Judson Harmon, now governor of
Ohio. then attorney general under
President Cleveland. appointed Kene-
Jaw NJ. Lands, then a young lawyer
Of four years experience at the federal
bar, to do tho investigating. This In