Show ti i JACKIES ARE MOST FRUGAL r I t Sailors Said to Save More Money j Than Any Other Class Despite Tradition of Profligacy I < > i Washington Though Jack ashore j iur may have acquired the reputation of being the model spendthrift the latest s statistics of the navy department g show him to be a thrifty person when 4 t It comes down to year In and year r out steadiness tt icks pay though not large Is de llf clicdly regular and then again Jack 1 ° hat lung periods when he has no opportunity op-portunity to spend at all If when 1 Ay he does get a bit of shore leave he manages to make things hum somewhat some-what faster than the average man In if the street and often rolls back to the f I anchorage In a state of financial depression de-pression equal to the treasury of a 14 1 1i South American republic he ten to 7 one has not spent It all for according 1 < k accord-ing to the allotment system in vogue In the navy today the bluejacket has I fiJl the privilege of allotlng any portion ir of his pay to whomsoever he may < 1 designate i The pamphlet recently published by Assistant Paymaster Jere Maupln U S N shows 22 per cent of tho sailors f sail-ors aro putting something by The t allotment privilege only applies to the men serving on the ships The f sailors on shore duty are presumed A to take care of such matters for themselves It has been ascertained that em ployes of corporations gonerally save less than 20 per cent of their salaries In fact the savings art probably nearer Wi > near-er ten per cent on an average |