The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1914-08-03
LOAN OF POSTAL
SAVINGS new PLAN
Partnership Of People With Them
selves is Proposed in Rural Credit
Bill of Representative Heating.
CITY TO JOIN WITH. g. STRYMEN
Would Mean Removal of Limitation
of Deposits-Fighting Insect Pest
in New England.
By Congressman G. H. Tavenner.

By Congressman c.. H. Tavenner.
Washington, August "a part
nership of the people with themselves
is proposed in the rural credit bill
introduced by Representative Ed.
ward Yeating of Colorado, one of the
strongest progressive Democrats in
congress. In other words, instead of
having a rural credit bank to lend
money to farmers, the Heating bill
proposes that the postal savings funds
be loaned to farmers at low rates of
interest,"
His plan is popular cooperation
on the broadest scale possible. City
workers join hands with countrymen
to develop agriculture and cheaper
the cost Of living. Both sections
would prosper by the arrangement
the urban savers through interest on
stiles of life, the rural borrowers by
shaking off the usurer and obtainin g
cheap capital for developing their
farms
1t is believed by Heating that the
organization of this system could be
accomplished without any great ex-
pense, either initial or permanent.
The reason is that the bill proposes
to bring into the loan system many
agencies of the government. Post
masters, for instance, are to appraise
farm properties and collect payments
On mortgages. District attorneys
would foreclose on the mortgages of
delinquents. General officers of the
government would as directors of the
system. There would be no great
additional salary roll.
The bill proposes to organize with
in the treasury department farm
loan bureau in charge Of commits
sioner. He would act with the Sec
retaries of the Treasury and Agricul-
ture as the loan board. All postal
savings would be converted directly
into the treasury instead soft being
loaned to~banks as at present. And
from this fund the farm loans would
be made.
The postal savings fund at present
would be entirely Inadequate to pro-
vide the money needed for agricul-
ture. Mr. Keating's bill removes the
limitations on postal savings depos-
it's. With the removal of the limi-
tation on deposits the postal savings
fund would mount enormously, pro-
yiding an immense sum for use in
farm loans
Fighting Insect Pests.
Two unbidden immigrants came to
the United States several years ago.;
today the federal government is CO.
operating with several state govern
ments to slay the progeny of these
pioneers, says a bulletin of the Ma
tional Geographical society.
The unwelcome visitors to our
shores were the gypsy moth and the
brown-tail moth. The gypsy moth
was imported by a New England
professor for experimental purposes
the brown-tail moth was stowaway
in the cargo of some vessel. Their
descendants are devasting the vege-
tation of New England. The brown
tail moth has brought a new human
ailment, a skin rash which makes
life so unpleasant that visitors are
beginning to shun certain New Ems.
land summer resorts.
Aid is being sought in Europe anG
Asia. Beetles, which devour young
caterpillars, and parasites which feei
on moth eggs, have been imported
and are working against the twt
moths with great success. Thu
brown-tail moth spreads by flying
the gipsy moths larvae are carried
on vehicles and the cothing of pedes
trians. Quarantine fences are bein&
erected enclosing infected regions
These fences are of wire screen coat
ed with sticky substances to entangl
the moths.