Show a ta t Habit I Saving as a HERE is every indication that saving by hy the people of the thet t f United States has become a 3 fixed habit that is growing as asime tHERE time ime progresses Naturally it would be supposed that the orgy of holiday 1 pending pen that prevailed toward the close of last y year ar and which uld id not well be described in hi any other expression had been done donea a gr great r extent at the expense of savings savings' a accounts cot Such however has proved not Jo to be t the fact as It is s true cording to financial reports that ha t. t bank savings were drawn upon a gr greater ater extent than ever before to make an an n Amer American can holiday cause caus there were more savings savings' than ever ever before to be drawn on ion It develops that even thus soon soon after the holiday buying the Ivings not only have been restored to their former figures but ive ve Lye been materially increased both as to to amount and as to the tuber of in individual depositors There would seem to be only two causes that would explain is extraordinary as well weIl as gratifying condition One is th the fact jat at the workers of the country are receiving higher wages than er yer be before ore and the other is is' is that the good results f from frow lessons of rift taught during the war and when bank accounts were started many people who never before had practiced the habit of sa say sav- v- v Jg g still are having an effect Another interesting condition in connection with the the s same me is that savings banks are lending money to a gr greater at r tent dent than ever before on land mortgages These loans are being made lade in a majority of instances to people who are planning to homes upon previously previously- previously acquired acquired for the purpose Thus it would seem that the savings habit and th the hc home home- me-c me habit are are relative and together they me mean n added pr pros prosperity pros pros- s- s erity increased ased happiness and a larger citizenship to the he people ff f f. f America as a a. a wh whole le c J |