The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-12-01
tMEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
HELPING SMALL SAVERS.


Another group of government
officials has come out in favor OF in
creasing the interest rate for postal
savings deposits. The heads of the
Consolidation Service of the Depart
ment of Labor believe that only by in
creasing the interest on deposits can
the postal savings banks be widely ex-
tended in usefulness. They say that
such development would be especially
beneficial to workmen.
In mining towns and other small,
out-of-the-way communities, the re-
liable bank is usually lacking. But
the postoffice, particularly since the
establishment of the rural deliveries,
reaches nearly every section, however
remote from population centers.
Where banks do not exist, the temp
tation to spend thriftlessly every pay
day is hard to combat. BY offering
four or five per cent on deposits, the
government could obtain money at a
reasonable rate, while 1t was making
saving easier and more attractive
which require a migratory life It'll
seems only fair, too, that small savings
should receive reasonable interest
rate and should at the same time be
fully protected, as they would ne I'M
der the postoffice system.
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Moscow people, as well as those in
other parts of northern Idaho are re-
spending to the call for funds for the
children's home at Lewiston. This is
worthy cause and should be sup
ported The home, under the able
management, with the Rev. M. A. Gov
1ngton as field manager, is doing a
grand work Christ said: Even as
We have done it unto the least of these
my children, we have done it unto me"
He who helps helpless child is doing I
Gods work. This applies also to the
aid OF the suffering children Of the
4near east" for which the Literary
Digest is raising a fund which has
now reached $1,000000, and there is
not cent of this goes for salary, |
graft, or expenses for any one. 1t all
goes to save these children from star
vation Two Moscow firms, the Hub
and the Penney store, each paid for
a full page advertisement to set forth
the pitiable condition of these suffer-
ers and their efforts have brought re-
sponses from people of Latah county.
They are to be commended for their
unselfish action in this matter.
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AS the investigation committee
goes deeper into the shipping board
it uncovers more rottenness, running
all the way from rank Incompetence
to absolute theft 1t is shown that
the shipping board paid $5S for having
a hinge put on door on one OF its
ships, the hinge having cost origin
ally SO cents. A bill for 100000 was
paid twice. Graft, incompetence and
theft seem to have permeated every
department of the board. ii will be
a welcome relief when March 4 comes
and some of the grafters are put out
Of their positions and an actual III
vestfgation, followed by prosecutions
ian be started.
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The Spokesman-Review announces
another raise in SUBSCRIPTION rate 1t
S significant of the strangle hold the
,rint paper trust has on the world,
hat, when prices of almost every
hing else is falling, newspapers all
,ver the country are being forced to
.aise their rates or suspend publ
alton. If Warren G. Harding, a
newspaper editor and publisher, does
ct take steps, soon after his in
uguaration, to do something beside
leorize on this graft, we will miss
ur conception of the man.
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Prices of many commodities are
Iowly coming down, but news print
aper, as we'll as all kinds of paper,
aintains it's extortionate price or
going higher. News print paper.
hich sold for 81 cents in 1916, is
Nv quoted at IS cents, having adj
lnced more than five cents pound
the past few months. There was