Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-05
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A dozen trust companies and State
chartered banks. which are Under tho
supervision OF the State Department
OF Banking. published statements in
the advertising columns of the Harris
burg Telegraph last week and they
showed combined resources OF over
SIS, 100000. If call had been made
about the same time for statements
from the three national banks of Har-
risburg they could have showed addi-
tional banking resources in this city
which would have sent our grand total
away over s20,000,00O. And all this
without counting in the financial inst
tutions of Steelton, Penbrook, Le-
moyne and New Cumberland which
are within q five-mile radius. Prob
ably, first and last the banking re-
sources of what we consider Harris
burg would run around $25,000,00O.
This Is one of the best advertisements
we can have for our community and
the figures are something to which
Mr. and Mrs. Harrisburg can give at
tention. One trust company shows
resources of over $4,100,000, another
has almost $3,400,000 and thir3
shows $2,S00.000. Six of the truss
companies show resources or over So
SOC, 900. When 1t comes down to de-
posits the city's institutions under
State supervision show deposits OF
something not far from S15,O0O,OOO.
IL we consider Harrisburg has SO,OOO
persons within it's limits it would ap-
pear that without counting in the de-
posits in the national banks there is
comfortable amount of money on de-
posit here per capita, even after SUD
tracing the public moneys on deposit.
| The advertisements that appeared IN
| the Telegraph Saturday night are
worth studying. They show the way
things have grown in Harrisburg II
you have a memory for the figures
published q decade ago.
One of the singular things noted in
connection with the situation arising
out of the shortage of newspaper pa
! per and the curtailment of space
forced upon many papers is the del
uge of "press agent" stuff which has
appeared. 1t would seem as though
every organization, committee or pro-
paganda which had anything to urge
was demanding space for which not
one offered to pay. Every Legislative
session sees the appearance OF bulle-
tins of various kinds and some OF them
are useful to legislators and also give
the people who put up the money TO
boom the various movements chance
to read something for which they are
paying. Generally, they are the ex-
preston of individual opinions which
do not amount to a row of pins and
which are sometimes impractical.
There are probably dozen bulletins
and news sheets which are being is
sued this session of the legislature and
they are not soaring legislators a bit.
Other bulletins are being issued solely
to keep people posted on the progress
of legislation while others are put out
as frank boosters for various things.
The Public Charities Association OF
PENNSYLVANIA is the latest to enter the
publication field in the interest of the
reforms which it has been urging al
most as long as the Anti-Saloon
League has been booming local option.
Some one of these days the people In
terested in getting legislation for the
uplift of the race or the correction OF
abuses will realize, as have the can
didates for office, and the
corporations, when they have Il
fight on hand, that the best
way to reach the legislators is through
the advertising columns of the news
, papers, which it might be added have
made the department stores of Amer
lea what they are to-day. Advertising
CARDS getting results than all the leaf
let's or bulletins put out in the name of
any organization.
zone of the best things the State
ever did in the way of distinctive
marking was to devise the keystorN
collar ornament" said regular army
officer who has been on duty with the
PENNSYLVANIA Guard. Most States
have initials or arms or devices which
you have to pucker up your eyes to
read. Your State has something
which can be told at a glance. which
is soldierly and which is useful and
ornamental. It's emblamatic of your
Guard, too, if may say So"