The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 35, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 December 1910 — Page 3

rhe New Year’s Feast 11 WHThe Children’s Table. • To the Old •: ; Year :i > By Julia Jayne Walker I '

O MANY days we’ve fared through gay and. wintry weather. Old Year, I cannot let you go! Such great times we’jve had as we journeyed side by side.

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None (other sa intimate as thou! No other friend, save thou; has witaessed iny defeats, no other So cheerily shared ihy triumphs. When friends -proved unwind thou Sidst walk by my side and counsel patience!. The hurts of wouhded affection were healed; time alone endured. Thou wijiuldst usher in a new day, full of sunshine and the song of birds. Its blessed healing power didst revive my drooping spirit and soothe all wounds. Thou/didst bring me friends from afar, The meeting them in the flesh once again, the looking into loving eyes and holding hands warm with the grasp of friendship, proved tlon after long years of wearying separation. The turning point in life came to more than one young person about me. Crucial Questions were decided which will for weal or woe; Thou didst accompany me each day while I helped to guide young lives into making safe departure from the beaten path, Farewells have been,said tore thg hearstrings and made them bleed afresh with the ever new pangs of parting. And then a time came when a great wrench I must be made. Tije old ways were to; be mine no more. I must turn . my badk upon the past ahd set my face resolutely towards the future. No matter how hard the road, nor how many lieartaches and longings for the aid path were involved in the treading ' of the jaew, there was to be no looking ; back. With gaze bent forward, the’ present must be lived; but there need be no [fear, with a heart of courage within I and God in his hegven overlead. All these memories are finked with thee, ©ld Year! flow can I let thee go? No matter how sad the retrospect, Jno matter how many sighs and heart-throbs, we have trod the way together. Thou, and not another, hast been my companion over both the rough I and pleasant ways.* I fejel so much at home with thee. Did Year! Thy face, so familiar, is the face of an old friend. But this stranger which comes on apace, hurrying to take thy place and to usurp thy privileges, I know naught of him. I know ( not what strange new ways he fcay Usher in. He fills nie with disirust and forboding. He comes bringing vast possibilities tor great things. Who knows whether le wjll realize his responsibility and jelze the moment of achievement as I soon las it is presented? If he proves ! to be a worthy heir of thine, he may add materially to the world’s acquisl-

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tion of science. i£re his life bo ended Tennyson’s dream may be realized—navies “grappling in the central blue.’ Edison may be making houses of ce ment, which shall be adapted to riel and poor alike. Wireless telegraphy and wireless telephoning may be ai easily done as the! same is upon wiret todhy. Mr. Stead may have bridged the gulf between this land and the furthei shore, with his spirit communications Medical scientists may have waged was against disease with such success that health may be reigning, o’er the earth. Warfare between nations may have been made so destructive that universal peace will cover the land as a mantle of green covers the earth. But, Old Year, should he introduce all these innovations, he might also bring tn his train sorrows and burdens, new trials and toils. I shrink from letting . him i»I shall trust thy son to be worthy of his sire, Old Year, to be like thee kind and sympathetic, no matter what fate may bring to me. Casting fears to th< wind, I look toward the future with smiling confidence, asking only that strength may be given to bear whatever of ill or good fortune the New Year may bring. Nevertheless, I am loath to part with thee, the friend of so many dear days that are.gone into the irrevocable ' past Goodby, old year, thou dost not I go! out of my life. Though I shall see thy face no more; the recollection of th> dear friendship will be sacred an)ong my heart’s innermost treasures. ; “Old year, you zhall not die; ' We did so laugh and cry with you I’ve half a mind to die with you. Old year, if you must die." i L \ wlPr ** TaZra I Ja w j 11 \ f f I | i I ' : About even now, but which will be the taller when next New Year’s d<y comes? Daily Thought. New Year, coming on apace, [What have you to give me? Bring you scathe or bring you grace, Face me with an honest face, [You shall not deceive me, Be it good or ill, be it what you will, It needs shall help me pn my road, Iffy rugged road to Heaven, please God —Christina G. Rossetti. Seeing the New Year In Hsr ? 1 I ' i No man is so rich he can afford tc lose -friends nor so poor he needs tc buy them.

SMSJINK LAW Postal Measure Is Soon to Become Effective. Board of Trustees and Special Committee Busy Perfecting Details for Putting Banks in Operation— Many Problems to Face. Washington.—The law creating postal savings banks, which was signed by President Taft June 30 last, will soon become operative. Since the date of the approval of the law the postmaster general, the secretary of the treasury and the attorney general, who constitute the board of trustees, have been diligently at work, assisted by a special committee of employes of the post office department, appointed by the postmaster general to perfect the details for putting the postal banks in operation. The special committee has had the advantage of the laws governing the postal savings banks in Great Britain, France, Austria, Italy and other countries, the result being that the rules and regulations to govern the postal savings banks in the United States will be as well nigh perfect as is possible. The postal banks will be conducted on strictly banking lines, with the exception that there will be no pass books, certificates of deposits being issued in duplicate. The opening of an account will be a very simple proceeding. Any person ten years of age, or over, may open an account in his or her name for one dollar. The same privilege applies to a married woman, whose account “shall be free from any control or interference by her husband.” Like the dime savings bank, however, you may begin your account with Uncle Sam by buying a ten-cent postal savings card. When you have purchased nine other postal savings stamps, which the postmaster has attached to your postal savings card you will receive in exchange a certificate of deposit. The postal savings stamps are then by the postmaster. The postmaster general has already ordered 1,500,000 postal savings cards and 10,000,000 postal savings stamps with which to begin business. No one may deposit more than SIOO ip any calendar month, while the total balance is limited to SSOO. Furthermore, no person shall at the same time have more than one postal savings account in his or her own wwi® MM Postmaster General Hitchcock. right. No obstacles are placed in the way of any depositor from withdrawing the whole or any part of his or her account, with accrued Interest, on demand, under such regularities as the board of trustees may prescribe. Depositors will be paid two per cent. Interest yearly. The postal funds placed in designated banks by the board of trustees will yield the government 2% per cent. It is believed I that this quarter of one per cent, difference between what the government ‘ pays the depositor and what the banks will pay Uncle Sam will be sufficient to meet all necessary ex- ' penses for conducting the postal savlings depositories. Government Benefited. A careful study of the law creating postal savings banks makes it clear that the government will be benefited largely, and that within a year or two after the system has been in operation Uncle Sam may have all the money necessary to meet deficiencies, and to mako effective public improvements without having to appeal to Wall street for financial aid. Section 10 of the act gives a depositor the privilege of surrendering his deposit, or any part thereof, in sums of S2O, S4O, S6O, SBO and SIOO and multiples of SIOO and SSOO, and receive in lieu of such deposit United States coupons or registered bonds of the denominations of these amounts, which shall bear interest at the rate of 2y s per cent, per annum, and be redeemable one year from date of issue, and payable 20 years from such date. These bonds are payable in gold coin. It is believed by the board of trustees that this section of the law will prove a strong inducement to the people, and especially the foreign element, to patronize the postal banks. It will also add to the desire of children to put away their pennies so that they may buy a government bond. In connection with the section of the law limiting deposits to. SSOO it should be understood that deposits are at no time to exceed that amount, but when a depositor has accumulated SSOO he or she may invest the account in the bonds issued by the government and then again build up their

' postal savings to the limit when more' bonds may be purchased. Money, at Home. One of the probable frst effects to follow the opening of the postal savings banks, say post office officials, will be the falling off in the purchase of international and local money orders by our alien population. It is believed this- class of citizens will be among the first to avail themselves of the postal savings depositories, and that they will discontinue the practise of sending their savings to their old homes in Europe for deposit in the foreign postal savings banks. The decline in the sale of foreign and local money orders may show in postal receipts, but is is believed the general good resulting to the country will more than offset the loss from this source. Treasury officials declare that one of the strong features of the postal savings bank law is the authority given the board of trustees to use the postal savings for investment in Unletd States bonds. As the postal funds grow they can be exchanged for bonds which become subject to the call of the secretary of the treasury. The success that has attended the creation of postal savings banks in foreign countries convinces the JiiL 'a >• fl J - ,iA\ Attorney General Wickersham. board of trustees that like success will Immediately follow the opening of the banks in the United States. Announcement has been made by the department that problems have multiplied in connection with the establishment of the system. The plan submitted by a committee of officials in the department of the postmaster general has failed to command the entire approval of the board having the matter in charge, although it is believed that the scheme as originally' devised will ultimately be adopted with a few material changes. Doubtless there are mans’ perplexities to be overcome in the inauguration of the new system, and it is pleasing to note, in view cf this fact that the postmaster general adheres to the tentative decision to put the system into operation as nearly as may be on the first day of January. OUTLOOK FOR LEGISLATION. The present outlook is that congress in this short session will do Httle more than pass the appropriation bills necessary to keep the government going during the next fiscal year, despite the fact that there are a number of important measures pending in both branches of congress, in addition to which President Taft has some important recommendations which he would like to see enacted into law before the Democrats take possession of the house. in the house, however, are such that It is doubtful if much legislation can be handled. Under existing rules only three days a week can be devoted to the appropriation bills and, with the customary two weeks Christmas holiday, the chairman of the several committees handling the appropriation bijls will consider themselves fortunate to finish their work before March 1. Confronted with a situation replete with confusion, the president is said to realize fully that he has a difficult task before him to accomplish much. The president has made it clear to his callers that he does not purpose to withdraw any part of his program, although he may be compelled to change his plans somewhat because of the change in the political complexion of the house. The short time that remains of Republican majorities in both branches of congress is being used by the president as an argument for pressing forward. During the session the regular appropriation bills, numbering 14. and carrying an aggregate of approximately a billion dollars, must be passed. Otherwise an extra session would have to be called next spring. Among the administration measures to be pressed is that providing for the fortification of the Panama canal, and this, it is conceded, will provoke controversy. Others are the parcels post and ship subsidies measures, the proposed pensioning of superannuated employes of the civil service, the creation of a public land court and the establishment of forest reservations. Opposition to the naval program may be expected. The ship subsidy bill is the unfinished business in the senate, but some Democrats are ready to talk it to death. There are enough Republicans to pass the bill, if they can be prevailed upon to accept it as a party measure. The present congress will be asked to provide for a reappointment of the house of representatives to conform to the figures of the recent census, but the Democrats will contend for the postponement of this legislation until the Sixty-second congress convenes.

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