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Show o - Postal Savings Banks The war In Kuropc Is proving n big boon to postal savings In this country. From tho very day hostilities hostili-ties opened across the sea postal-savings postal-savings receipts began to Increaco.by leaps nnd bounds and withdrawals' fell orf, a result quite contrary to the predictions of many well-Informed persons who, in their Imagination, Bnw lines of fovorlsh depositors at post-offlco ptry windows anxious to again return their savings to the boot-leg nnd body-folt depositors whenco they came before. Intrusted to Unclo Sam. Dut tho forecasters failed fail-ed to reckon on tho absolute confl. donco of the Amorican citizen, regardless re-gardless of the flag that first met his eyes, In tho ability and purpose of the Government to -.any out Its obligations, ob-ligations, not only anion the nations of tho earth, but with the l.umbleit citizen of or land. Two Important result.! hnvq folow-cd; folow-cd; thousnnds of .)c.),;i lurly of foreign birth, accustomed to send their Bavlngs abroad, are no-v patrons of our postal-savings syBtem; and enormous sums of actual cnBh two been released for commercial uses among our own people at a time when the need for ovcry available dollar Is pressing. ti!,0.K!?w,h of Postal-savings In tho United Stntes has been steady and healthy and the system has filled an Important gap between the tin-can depositor nnd tho factory paymaster. On July 1, when affairs were running smoothly here and abroad and the transmission of money across the Atlantic was safe and expedlous, there was approximately $43,000,000 or postal savings standing to the credit of about 388,000 depositors. Slnco thon over $10,000,000 or deposits depos-its have added and the number of depositors has lncrensed enormously Th s unprecedented gain Is the more striking when It Is considered that he net gnln In the lust three months Is larger than the gain for th0 entire fiscnl year 1914. Scores of offices navo done more postal-savings business busi-ness since tho war has been going on than wns done by them during tho previous existence of the service I he Increases nro confined to no Bpecinl localities, but have been felt n every nook nnd corner or the country coun-try .Sew York City alone mnde a gnln In September or more than n million while Hrooklyn showed a relatively big Increase. Chicago reported re-ported a larger gain in the past three months than for tho previous twelve mouths. More than 7.000 new accounts ac-counts were opened during tho period, brliigliiK the number of depositors In that city up to over 21,000. The unexpected Increase In postal-8alngs postal-8alngs business has not only added Eu , J..tho Klntjr1 administrate duties of the system, but has brought up mniiy new nnd Interesting prob-1 prob-1 ins which have called for the careful care-ful personal consideration or Postmaster Post-master General Ilurleson and (lover. -or Dockery, Third Assistant Pos - been lightened somewhat by tno promptness pro-mptness or depository bunks in furnishing additional security omoc to f .7n,iUoS08,t.B' A nmbo? o i . 1,nrKsl " I" the country which hnvo heretofore declined to fi1 J b "oi'osltorlcs for pos "al-sav-lugs funds, ure now among the eatier applicants for them. The deposits nt tho local office at American Fork, hnvo Increaaed $300 smS.o'be'r ,hrt; "" IS!!; take bnbi nr ' i Kro?'ln,K ""Mtlmont to ioko Hold of the absolute safety the government arrords. y " -o |