Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 44, DeMotte, Jasper County, 16 March 1933 — EDITORIAL [ARTICLE]

EDITORIAL

We hear that there is to be some extensive repairing on several houses in DeMotte soon. A traveling man told us this week that stores in DeMotte, Thayer and Shelby have been less affected by the bank vacation than those in any other towns in this part of the stated; which is a mighty good indication. Read the advertisements in the Post for instructions where to find the cheapest prices on groceries, the best buys on tires, batteries, gasoline and other automobile accessories, the place to find spring household goods, the stores which have farming needs at the low prices. It will pay you in cash returns to keep an eye on the advertisements in the Post. The new building being erected by the Christian Reformed Church in DeMotte is fast nearing completion. It will be a thing of beauty, dignified, yet unpretentious, and will enable the membership to care for their congregations in a comfortable way. Work on the interior has been carried on during the winter. The church yard has been filled in with dirt recently. The building is to be stuccoed as soon as all danger of freezing is past. A feeling of relief over the banking situation is manifested by merchants and citizens throughout the Valley. It is the consensus of opinion that the worst is now over and the future is bright. We feel that the people of this generation have “enjoyed” the last banking scare this nation probably will ever go through. We feel that the stricter governmental supervision will make it almost impossible for those big New York bankers to “pull the wool” over the eyes of the depositors, and with this strict governmental supervision comes almost a guarantee to the depositor that his funds are safe. Fear has been eradicated, and that was the main thing that had to be overcome. The people can now rest assured that when Uncle Sam or the State Banking Department says a bank can re-open, that it is safe, sound and solvent.

We had a farmer friend tell us this week (when he came in to pay his subscription) that the Kanka"kee Valley Post has “more news than all these other valley papers combined”. Which, of course, is a fact that we are proud of. We do not fill up our columns with non-sensical pictures, columns of “boiler-plate”'political patter, and other space fillers. It is our aim to please the subscribers, first, by giving them all the local news, and we do that. We have up-to-the-minute political articles from Washington, D. C., a good continued story, a news review of current events the world over, a column of Indiana news and general farming news. The subscriber gets his money’s worth of local, state and national news, and the advertiser is assured of an advertising medium which has the necessary “reader interest”. People read the Post. The public demands quality as well as quantity in a newspaper, and that is what the Post offers. Mr. Subscriber and Mr. Advertiser, we invite your comparison. The Post will be pleased to serve you, either as a dispenser of news or as an advertising medium.