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Show IN POSTAL Sd Deposits Increase During War . $34,000,000 Without With-out Solicitation. Postal s:i nH deposits fnr'l ahead during the war .f.'i I ,"!i( nlO, according to a statement, by t i u postnl'fiee department. de-partment. On .Marrh "1, 11H7, six days prior to our declaration of war, deposits depos-its in t he 1'nited States postal banks fooled up $1-".,4 2I,i;m;. (m October "I, li'IS, eleven days prior to the sipiintf of the armistice, they had increased to J.V.Vj70,S;!0. These figures arc all the more re-markable re-markable when it is recalled that during dur-ing the same period four intensive Liberty Lib-erty loan campaigns, and an almost continuous con-tinuous dri ve for t lie sale of thrift si a m ps and war sa vi ngs cert if icat es, were carried on. War activities had the complete right of way, and an appeal ap-peal by the postmaster general for active ac-tive cooperation on the part of the .'iOO,lH)U postal employees throughout t he country, in all financial and charitable chari-table war activities, brought enthusiastic enthusias-tic response. Meanwhile, postal savings sav-ings simply marked, time, accepting only such business us came to the post-office post-office unsolicited. Tho postal savings banks are largely pat ronized by wage-earners of foreign birth. These "people arc familiar with similar institutions conducted in their native countries, and naturally turn to our postal banks to lake care of their savings, thus evidencing their unbounded unbound-ed confidence in the I'nited States and its promise to pay back the product of, their toil and sacrifice the moment they ! ask for it. j Thousands of postal savings deposi- , tors 'joined the American army and i navy, and that many of them made the j supreme sacrifice is attested by t lie volume of death claims that are being paid to heirs of deceased soldiers and , sailors on both sides of the Atlantic. |