Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-25
CHRISTMAS SAVING
CLUDPLAN GROWS
Annual Fund Expected to
Reach Billion Dollars
in Ten Years.

L
! ming Of the Christmas Club movement
1t was organized to provide simple
| and practical method of anticipating
holiday credit needs.
At first many banks opposed it as
involving too much trouble for its ul-
innate worth. But this opposition quick
ly subsidized when the movement spread
like wildfire into every State in the
| Union. During 1929 more than nine
million members saved grand total
Of $618,0Oo,000, as against $3.50, 00o, 900
in 1928.
The release of this huge fund carried
in more than 5000 banks is now
reckoned as one of the big factors
in Christmas spending. It is not too
much to expect that this fund will
reach $1,000,0OO,000 annually within
ten years.
Reports from many leading cities in
will exceed the great record made in
1928.
| This is the time of year when many
| Of the great cities Of America are vying
with each other for the crown title
of brightest Christmas city"
| At the beginning of this rivalry,
which started years ago, electric light
companies where more interested in
showing the possibility Of the future
1
municipalities and the other citizens
but this condition no longer prevails
The people of the different cities, work.
ing through the various civic organiza-
tions, take real pride in skillfully
lighting the homes and the business
| centerS.
1t is participated in, too, not only by
the larger cities, but by towns anc
small villages. It's fast becoming ma
tional Winter sport.
where the snow and the ice form the
earth's blanket, this development has
been carried the farthest. The people
in these cities seem to have accepted
this new way of celebrating Christmas
more enthusiastically than their neigh
bors of the South.
Among the principal contenders for
the honor of being the best lighted
Christmas city are Denver, Boston, st.
Louis, Les Angeles, Chattanooga, Kan
sas City, Washington, D. c.; Atlanta,
Dallas and Minneapolis.
Chicago has had plenty of building
activity in recent years. Office space
In Americas second largest city Is not
exactly a premium on the market to-
day. Most of the beautiful buildings,
erected within the last two years, are
only about half filled. This situation is
more or less acute in Chicago because
Of the tremendous development on the
| near-North Side, in the new Wacker
drive district.
William F. Callahan, an old sea cap
tain, el1o has brought cargoes into most
of the important ports OF the world,
has conceived the idea of locating the
consular Offices Of all the nations In
Chicago under one roof, so that manu-
facturers, doing a foreign business,
| would not have to chase all over the
city to get the papers necessary to ex-
pedite exports sent abroad.
In the future Chicago manufacturers
doing a foreign business will be able to
transact al their business in one build
ing and enjoy the convenience ana
concentration.
Service is the word. Results usually
prove very satisfactory to those who do
the job just little better.
Sweden is one country that requires,
beginning with the year 1880, that own
ers of automobiles, trucks and motor
cycles must carry an accident policy
sufficient to cover injuries to all other
persons and damage to their property.
This compulsory accident insurance
policy covers total Of about $4,000.
If a person is injured, the maximum
total which he can collect from any
one-rich or poor--is' $5,400. Even
though one or more persons are killed,
the total liability of the driver is lin
tied to $4,000 kronen, or $4,000.
How much does this cost the owner
of the car?
B. d. Dahl, the American trade COM
missioner of Stockholm, says one Of the
largest of the Swedish insurance COM
panies has agreed to write this policy
for about 500 annually. If the policy
is taken for five years the premium Is
reduced to around $2750.
Compulsory insurance for all car
owners to compensate for accident and
death should be written in the laws of
every land.
Big business is getting behind the
peace movement. Never in history have
so many influential leaders expressed
themselves so frankly In favor Of or
ganized peace. When Norman Angel
wrote THE Great Illusion" it was look
ed upon in many countries as anti-war
propaganda. In some places it was
banned from public sale. But not any
longer.
Thomas w. Lamont Of the j. p Nor
gan Co. stated recently that no SANDER
is more abhorrent than that men Of
affairs are not adverse to war because
of fancied or fleeting material profits.
Continuing, Mr.. Lamont said: "Busi-
ness men cherish the hope Of perma-
nent peace and the stability, prosperity
and happiness that it brings. They are
ready to support the movement for
lesser armament. which will inevitably
result in lighter burdens of taxation"
When men of this type make frank
statements of this kind it cannot be
passed off with shrug of the shoulder
or a condescending smile.
The Lamont statement was made at
a dinner given in New York to the
Japanese delegation to the London dis
armament conference.
It's hard to eliminate the war spirit
once it becomes part of the life of the
people. The recent example of Czecho-
book, "All's Quiet on the Western Front, ="
shows that there's still plenty of fight
left in the war champions.
One of CzechoSlovakia's great papers
answers the ban in the following Ian
guage:
"a soldier who knows the perils of
war; but who goes into battle, convinced
his fight is for just cause, Is more
valuable than one who is going in with
closed eyes, trained only for war with
| out realizing its horrors"
Business men have found out that the
business of war is no business at all.
For nobody wins-everybody loses.
And that's poor businesS-the bust
ness Of bankruptcy.
| Copyright. 1929. North American Newspaper
Alliance)
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