The Washington times., 1920-12-31
Today
II Mr.. BurIeson Could.
Judge Gary Knows.
Whlskey, Head Gunman.
Hoover Dimes One Thousand.

dishonest so-called Hungarian nd
other foreign banking concerns,
are robbed of their savings, and
the process includes sending
those savings out OF this country.
IL Government would run it's
Post Office Savings Bank in a
way to encourage small savings
accounts, paying fair rate Of in
terest, instead of discouraging ac-
counts in every possible way, the
poor would not be thus robbed, and
millions Of money would be kept
working in America.
pstmaster Burleson, who has
ked systematically and intelli-
L. tly to make the Post Office
Jul to the people, would gladly
rove the Postal Savings Bank
|ilations, but Congress will not
w it.
pe impression is that to man
4 the Postal Savings Bank gen.
sly would be harmful to banks
(ately managed. That is not
J. Small savings accounts,
properly encouraged, become big
and move up to the private bank.
Judge Gary, head of the big
steel company, says that prosper
ity, to last long time, is just
ahead Of us. This is only hard
times Summer shower"
That statement should brace up
timid souls. Judge Gary, head of
the big steel company, greatest
industrial organization in the
world, one of the most conserva-
tive and keen business men living,
does not GUESS, or expose him
self to ridicule by haphazard talk.
His advice is, "if you see any
thing good, at the right price, buy
it." He takes his own advice. A
few days ago he bought for his
own company thirty thousand
acres of coal, for somewhere near
twenty million dollars. He didn't
wait, as some are waiting, with
vague hope that he might buy it
later for twenty cents. There is
. bottom even to prices. BY and
by you will be asking yourself,
"why didn't l buy when had the
chance?"
Whiskey is a tricky friend,
lying medicine, a deadly master.
Monk Eastman, greatest of all
gunmen and gangsters, is found
murdered. The police were puz-
xled that the head killer should
be SO easily killed. But Eastman
had been dealing in bootleg whis
key, and DRINKING it as we'll
rs selling it. The doctor after the
autopsy said, "Monk Eastman was
very drunk" That explains it all.
Whiskey is the greatest gunman,
especially bootleg whiskey.
Nearly a thousand dined with
Hoover on Wednesday. Each paid
q thousand dollars for the dinner.
Each ate a plate of rice, cup Of
cocoa, a small piece of bread
nothing else. Profit on the dinner
went to poor children in Europe.
That dinner would be profitable
also to the nine hundred that ate
it if they could learn from it that
such a meal, eaten every day, at
noon, or in the evening, would
lengthen life by twenty years on
the average.
Marshall Field, Sd, grandson Of
the great Chicago merchant, is go
ing into business IN CHICAGO, in
spite of the fact that he has more
money than he needs now and will
have scores of millions more later
He isn't marrying any Greek
Kings niece, or settling in Eng
land, or even at Newport. He has
started in to work as his grand
father worked, and will spend the
Field money where his grandfather
made it-a pleasant change from
the average. 1t is to be hoped
Marshall Field can see that grand
son, IN CHICAGO, which to Mar
shall Field was the central flower
bed in the garden Of Eden.
1t looked as though d'Annunzio
would have to die fighting. But
luckily poet has many ideas, and
d'Annunzio has flown away in a
flying machine, leaving word that
his countrymen, who concentrated
on "their Christmas greediness
while we were assassinated by
their government" were not worth
dying for.
D'Annunzio is conquered, but
his nation owes him a great deal.
He held in check the greed or in
difference of Italy's allies, that
would have deprived Italy of even
pretense Of justice. To the cour-
age and genius of d'Annunzio
Italy owes the influence that she
retains in the Adriatic.
1t is said that d'Annunzio will
now go to South America, which
would be a mistake. Europe is