The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-10-23

n in the whole industrial horoscope
they r the only concerns that can
not break way from their unlucky
stars. and increase the size of their
small coins. The Saturday Evening
Post is the sole remaining adherent
of the nickel, and even though post
age rates continue the same it costs
n six cents to RENAL this publica.
ton. But the Post puts dollar pegs
in the advertising measurement OF
lines, and continues to make money.
The tale Of the street railways is that
or part of one, IN every nickel fare,
that times have so changed that every
time the conductor pulls up a fare the
stockholders are thereby notified that
it is up to them to chip in to help
pay the deficit Of transporting the pas
senger who has just parted with the
nickel. Both commissions are trying
to perform a fine public duty, but in
both instances the great problem is:
where's the money coming from to
keep the wheels turning round 2"
Strangely enough street railways can't
survive, any more than individuals,
unless their affairs are readjusted to
meet the new order of things.
In a talk to the soldiers at the Wal
ter Reed hospital in Washington, Col,
onel R. G.. Cholmeley-Jones, director
of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance,
outlined the many methods by which
soldiers and sailors insurance policies
with the government, have been broad
ened and strengthened, and brought
more around to the methods which fur.
nish every kind Of insurance and pro-
lection that is desired by a person
taking out a policy. After describing
the bettered conditions affecting this
fine piece of work in behalf of the boys
who answered the call, the director
said that insurance officials and the
men in the insurance profession, had
porters Of the government in war risk
matters. There are, however, some
agents who have urged men to drop
their government insurance and take
out insurance in private 81
feel confident" commented the direc-
tor, that in such cases where ex-ser-
vice men have been advised in such
a way as to allow them to lose their
government insurance, that there will
be at least one man in the world whom
the e%x-service men will utterly despise,
and d~istrust, and that will be the I'M
%scrupulous agent who in time of test
was found wanting"
Carter Glass is making a irst-class
Secretary of the Treasury, all because
he was a first-class editor (and he still
a daily newspaper in Virginia)
before he began distributing his talents
in the sphere of politics. The job OF
following. Mr.. McAdoo was no minor
undertaking, because McAdoo was III
ways found going some" But Carter
Glass has some speed himself, and one
OF his latest appearances in public was
to talk the prosaic doctrine of thrift;
and he did it in a way that reflected
credit to Carter Glass, editor. France"
he said, would pay off her great ma.
tional debts before the United States"
he added, would not only
meet all Of her war obligations, but
would, in a few years, be a chief COM
in the commercial marts of the
Carter Glass evidently has the
right dope on Germany, since a news
dispatch a few days ago told that com
merce has already been resumed be-
tween Hamburg and Cuba and Mexico.