Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-11
Capital Sidelights
Bx WIZ P. KENNEDY.

Always the people Of the country have
| seemed to aanse that the men with
Newspaper experience, who had for
years bean guiding public sentiment.
carefully analysing projects and policies
and propaganda, were pretty safe Gus
todiAns Into whose hands to place the
most sacred trust Of free people-the
making Of the laws under which they
govern themselves. When newspaper
| Raen could be induced to quit their own
| profession to serve In Congress &c Q
patriotic duty, the voters have been
| glad to elect them.
Today we have many in Congress with
extensive newspaper training and ex-
perience, but in the incoming Congress,
which meets one year hence, there viii
be fewer. Among the most conspicuous
printers Ink and the aura of editorial
Sanctum about them who will be miss
| ing in the new Congress are Represent
alive Ruth Hanna Mccormick of Illi-
nois, who comes Of veteran newspaper
family and who was defeated In her
contest for . Senate seat, and Senator
Henry j. Allen OF Kansas, who was q
war correspondent during the war with
| Spain, later owner OF number OF news
papers and IN charge Of publicity for
the Republican National Committee
during the Hoover campaign.
Among the incoming new Senators
will be James =. Byrnea, formerly Of the
House, who boasts Of having been editor
of the Aiken GO. o. Journal and Re-
view, and Josiah w. Bailey Of North
Carolina, who for more than Q decade
was editor Of the Bibiiean Record, as
successor to his father.
Another House member who win be
among the missing and missed Ia Rep
resentative william o. Hammer Of
North Carolina, owner and editor Of the
Asheboro Courier, who died shortly be-
fore the November election.
william NJ White, managing editor
of the Toledo (Ohio) Times, b an
active newspaper man who ID coming to
Congress.
Among the conspicuous members OF
the Senate who are Newspaper owners
are Senator Arthur Capper Of Kansas
and Senator Carter Glass Of Virginia,
formerly Secretary OF the Treasury;
with printers ink and welded the edi-
torial pencil are Cutting Of New Mexico.
Dill Of Washington, Greene of Vermont,
Hale of Maine, La toilette of Wisconsin.
Moses Of New HAMPSHIRE, Nye Of North
Dakota and Vandenberg Of Michigan.
Among the newspaper.trained House
members will be Virgil Chapman, Ken
lucky; Edgar Howard, Nebraska; Guy
y. Hardy, Colorado; Hugh Ike Shot,
West virginia; Joe 7. Smith west VIZ
Louis Ludlow, indiana; Cyrenus Cole.
Iowa; Maurice X. Thatcher, Kentucky;
Robert II. Clancy, Michigan; Harold
Knutson, Minnesota; Isaac Bacharach,
New Jersey; Charles A. Eaton, New
Jersey: David J. O'Connell, New York;
Francis D. Cullkins, New York; Thomas
Hall, North Dakota; Jed johnson, Okla
hona; Clyde Kelly. Pennsylvania; Will
liam Williamson, South Dakota; Albert
johnson, Warrington; John NJ. Nelson,
wisconsin: william L. Nelson, Missouri,
and Pedro 0uevAra, Resident Commits
sioner from the Philippines.
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How the Postal Savings System has
Salvaged millions upon millions OF dol
lars from StoVepipes, hollow trees and
mother earth where it was hidden BY
timid souls who now place their trust In
the United states Government, and
how the tide Of other millions flowing
to foreign shores has been Stemmed-
the savings Of thrifty but distrusttul
aliens-is told by Walter =. Brown,
Postmaster General and chairman of the
Board Of Trustees Of the Postal Savings
SSytem.
He has Just submitted TO Congress .
report that shows that on November /,
last, the postal savings on deposit to-
tailed almost $500, 900 900, the largest
| amount ever thus intrusted to Uncle
Sans safe-keeping, and some $4,000
900 In excess Of the previous wartime
peak.
while the number Of native-born de-
positors far exceetss the number OF for
| eign- born, the Postmaster General calls
attention, 1t is q fact that there are
thousands Of our own citizens as well rs
those of foreign birth who will intrust
their funds to the Government but viii
not place them with private institutions.
Through the agency Of postal savings
| latent and boarded money Is brought TO
light and put into active channels, there
| by contributing to the common good. 1t
is impossible to estimate the extent Of
hidden capital. Much Of It Is destroyed
by IRE: some Of It Is stolen; some Is
never discovered because Of the death OF
! the owner or is otherwise forever buried.
Evidence Of the healthful influence Of
| the Postal Savings In bringing such
funds into circulation ID found generally
throughout the 6,7e6 depositories In all
parts Of the country. PoStmaSters state
that at times paper money received for
| deposit Is rusty, rough and badly stained,
the denominations being almost undis-
| tinguishAble. They speak, too, Of ita
| being Wadoed up In balls or made up In
rolls; Of its emitting nusty doors, and Of
its being frequently In the form Of old
gold certificates The receipt Of gold
coins Is common. These coins are some
times so old and moldy that the dates
are undecipherable. Funds brought to
post oflces are often bulky and come in
such receptacleg Is bags, cigar boxes,
shoe boxes, socks, baskets, jars, etc.
1t viii thus be seen that the Postal
Savings System, Postmaster General
Brown emphasizes, operates extensively
in q great field Of latent capital, or UNI
productive wealth, which Is beyond the
reach Of the business world. It Is the
field Of the timid. the suspicious and
the distrustful. These people have abso-
lutte confidence in the Government.
Thus through Federal cooperation these
funds become available g. active capital.
The Government Is not, however, in
the banking business, and the Postal
Savings System Is rather q supplement
tary thrift agency.