WHAT'S IN THE MAGAZINES?
What's In The Magazines? People's Club Houses for Minneapolis Haynes, mayor of Minneapolis, shows how widespread throughout the country is the movement for social activities, administered by local...
...Hello, Sam," he said...
...Everybody's Magazine...
...The Mayor's program calls, among other things, for the appointment of a commission to investigate and report on the feasibility of a municipal fuel-gas plant, and for the taking over by the municipality of the lighting companies and applying the profits accruing from their plants to the construction and maintenance of People's Club Houses, which should furnish throughout the winter such social recreation as do the parks and playgrounds in summer...
...And steadily, inexorably, it is poured out again, uncritical of itself, slag and ore, half drivel and half literature...
...This safe business is managed by the farmers themselves...
...The loans are made for no other purposes than that of production...
...The Raiffeisen banks are the ones which loan to farmers on personal credit...
...What are you doing now...
...People's Club Houses for Minneapolis Haynes, mayor of Minneapolis, shows how widespread throughout the country is the movement for social activities, administered by local governments...
...He gets these loans at a very low rate of interest, and he pays them at any time he feels like it, and in such small sums as he may be able to raise...
...Better Credit Facilities for Farmers President Taft's statement advocating government aid to co-operative farmers' banks puts him and the influence of his office back of the movement which this paper has been advocating for years...
...but for a sow to rear him a a litter of pigs, or a flock of fowls to produce eggs, or a load of fertilizer for his fields, or for greenhouses, or feeds for balancing his rations he may borrow as small a sum as he desires and as much as the committee in charge of the loans will give him...
...His only critic is "the desk...
...They make no money for anyone but the farmers...
...We can confidently expect, therefore, that the next four years will see established in the United States a system of banks like the Raiffeisen co-operative banks of Europe...
...He snatches his friendships like his meals, as stokers must strike up their -friendships between shifts when the "Mauretania" is "out for a record...
...But we can suspect his smile, as he surveys our antics, to be something between pity and contempt.—Collier's...
...The Reporter Tugged by some centripetal force to wherever there is a clash of human passions, he is always "on the spot...
...The Southern Commercial Congress, representing the States from which Governor Wilson received most of his votes, has taken the laboring oar in the movement for better agricultural credit The Progressives are enlisted on the side of better rural conditions...
...Anonymity, which guards him from self-consciousness, stands also mockingly between him and fame...
...They loan the smallest sums...
...Yet there is no freemasonry like his...
...These banks are independent of all tates...
...Such public centers would, in his opinion, go far toward reducing vice and crime.—The Survey...
...To-day, yesterday's "good story" is lighting the morning fire in a thousand tenements...
...financial princes, powers and potenIn parts of this country, especially the east and south, such banks are sorely needed.—Farm and Fireside...
...The other day they had a big organist over from New Haven, and I pumped a piece he couldn't play...
...The recompense he works for is to have his fellow workers say "Good story...
...From behind the scenes he makes the puppets of the world's stage dance for us...
...They may almost be said never to lose loans...
...American farmers pay on the average over eight per cent per annum for money to carry on their farming operations, while the farmers of Europe are accommodated at from three per cent to four...
...glad to see you...
...Into it is flung day by day all the inflammable stuff of life—the mixed ingredients of heroism, murder, revolution, passionate love...
...Yessir, I'm still pumping the organ...
...An say, Charlie, I'm gettin to be a pretty fine pumper...
...A Test of Talents Visiting his home town after many years' absence, a gentleman met Sam, the village fool...
...Still pumping the church-organ...
...A farmer in one of these societies cannot borrow money to buy a parlor organ, or a buggy...
...Unlike his brother, the novelist who fashions out of the furnace of his mind at painstaking intervals some finely modeled bit of porcelain, the furnace of this man's soul is always at full draft...
Vol. 5 • February 1913 • No. 5
