Show I N Assurance of Prosperity I HE E wonderful increase in individual prosperity in the United T. T THE States together with the healthy growth of the saving habit is is' indicated by the statement that the deposits in national banks alone now amount to approximately seven and a half billion do dollars lIars i During the past nine years the number of d depositors in such institutions have more than doubled while the per capita deposits h have ve materially increased Nine years ago there were only about individual depositors in national banks compared with tl the e present number of more th than n or a gain of about I Per capita deposits now now are estimated at or a g gain in of I 38 during the same year nine-year period That the rural portion of the population and especially the farming class has enjoyed a season of prosperity even greater th than n experienced by the urban residents is indic indicated ted by the fact that the percentage increase in in- country bank dep deposits sits has been greater than that in city banks I Especially the grain belt farmers have been smiled upon by I fortune fortune and and- andin in fact no other large class of Hof of citizens h has s fared so I bounteously during the past few years In one instance given asan as asan an example it is stated that the bank deposits of a town of only a thousand population in a a Northwestern state now total as as' as compared with a few years ago and which amount then was considered an evidence of opulence I I The possession of financial resources resource by sl such ch an immense percentage of the population of the country is in itself an an an assurance assurance assur assur- I assur-I ance ance of prosperity of the country as a whole I COALS |