Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — News Bulletin. [ARTICLE]

News Bulletin.

Larger postal savings deposits will now be accepted at the postoffice. This is made possible by an important amendment to the postal savings act just approved by President Wilson. A postal savings depositor may now have an account amounting to SI,OOO upon which interest will be paid. Formerly SSOO was the maximum amount he could have to his credit. This enlargement of postal savings facilities will be very gratifying to thousands of depositors who have already reached the old SSOO limit and are anxious to entrust more of their savings to Uncle Sam. Another feature of the amendment that will avoid further embarrassment to the public and to postal officials is the doing away with the limit on the amount that could be accepted a depositor monthly. Under the old law onlj- SIOO could be deposited in a calendar month. The amendment abolishes this restriction. While the postal savings system has already proved a signal success as is shown by the fact that more than half-a-million depositors have over $80,000,000 standing to their credit, still it has fallen short of meeting the full public because of the which have now been eliminated. Postmaster General Burleson and Third Assistant Postmaster General Dockery have been tireless in their efforts to secure a modification of the limitations and the new liberalizing legislation is partcularly gratifying to them.

The M orld Outlook tells a story of a young Burmese nurse, who charted her dying patient’s condition in the following manner: “10 a. m., the sink; 11, patient flitting; 12, patient slot.”

Make' Farm Home Attractive. In the design and construction cf the farm house the question of utility alone should not be the determining factor. The first thought should be the making of a home. The amount of money to be invested in the building of the home should not be determined by its relation ia size to the balance of the plant, ncr by the amount that is necessary merely to provide a shelter, but the amount to be invested should be that which the owner may reasonably afford without financially crippling himself *too severely. The average city dweller in buying a house for a home does not proceed solely on the basis of what he can expect to se cure in case it is ever desirable to place the house on the market. He is not likely to consider the purchase of a home as a financial investment but as a social one, which will enable him to secure for his family the comforts and conveniences that he could not secure in a rented house, and to have for his family a genuine home, a genuine home life. If he is able when the time arrives to dispose of his property to financial advantage, well and good; if not, he considers, and properly so, that he has made a good investment from the social side. There is no panacea that will cure the yearning for city life evidenced by the country boys and girls of today, but there are certain condit ions, which, if established, will add matenallj' to the attractiveness cf life in the country, and should therefore prevent them from flocking to the cities merely to avoid life on the farm. It is not to be expected that every person reared cn a farm will desire to follow farming as a life work, nor is it necessarily desirable that they should do so. Many of the boys will feel a calling to one or another of the professions, and it is probable that if allowed o follow their bent they will be far more successful and contented than if overpersuaded to stay -with the farm. The problem is not to force the boy or girl to remain on the farm, but to assist them in every way in making an intelligent choice. Their choice can not possibly be intelligent unless they are familiar with farm life under its best conditions.- —E. B. McCORMICK, Ofliee of Public Roads and Rural Engineering. Yearbook, 1915,

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