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Show r 1 gar the I ( , Outclass Other Countries in Savings WASHINGTON. More than 9,000,-000 9,000,-000 depositors in the savings banks of the United' States hold over $4,000,000,000. In the last year the number of savings bank depositors has increased over 300,000. The total amount of their deposits has risen $357,000,000 in twelve months. The average amount of every depositor's account is $445, which is nearly $25 more than the average the year before. be-fore. It Is certain that not less than $6,-000,000 $6,-000,000 in bank deposits can fairly be counted as savings. The national banks hold about $800,000,000 of such deposits. The trust companies have about $700,000,000 in savings accounts. The state banks hold over $500,000-000 $500,000-000 on savings bank conditions. Total savings deposits of the country cannot can-not fall under $6,000,000,000. There are more than 15,000,000 separate accounts in that Immense sum. The contrast between these figures and the statistics which measure the savings of other countries Is proof of the difference between the ability to save and the wide diffusion of prosperity pros-perity in the United States and the conditions in foreign lands. In Germany, for instance, there are more than 19,000,000 savings accounts, but the total amount represented by that multitude of deposits is only about $3,400,000000, or little more than half of the savings deposits in American bankB. The United Kingdom, King-dom, with nearly half as large a population popu-lation as that of the United States, has about 13,000,000 savings accounts, including postal savings banks, of course, but the deposits amount to only about $1,050,000,000, or 16 per cent, of the American total. Austria and Hungary together have about $1,600,000,000 In savings deposits de-posits owned by nearly 8,000,000 depositors. de-positors. Italy stands high in the number of savings accounts, with 7,-000,000 7,-000,000 of them, in round figures, but low in the total amount of the deposits, de-posits, which are under $700,000,000. Japan is a marvel in respect to the wide use of savings banks, including the postal savings department of the government, but the amount of the deposits Is very small In proportion to the multitude of accounts. Harem Refugee Goes Back to Turkey AFRAID Of. ALL. Y& - TURKS )N TU'RXEpffgjfc SHALL, return to Turkey and mln-1 mln-1 ister to the persecutions of my people," says Bernlza Baherion, an Armenian girl, who is looking forward I to the time when she will return .to Constantinople, whence she fled six years ago, disguised as the servant ol an American missionary, to escape life in a Musselman's harem. She will return as an American citl zen, an unordained minister of a Chris tian creed and a graduate nurse witl a diploma from the Seventh Day Ad f entist sanitarium of this city an six months' experience in the famou London City hospital. She is just fin ishing her third and last year at th local Institution, and this winter wll go to England for the post-graduat -ourse In the London hospital befor As Miss Baherion talked her voice was tense with emotion and her hands worked nervously, as she lived again the days that preceded her flight. She od how, as a child, reared in the Vrmenlan faith, she had been convert-d convert-d by her father, himself a convert of he Adventist mission house In Con-tantinople. Con-tantinople. "My father went about among his eople trying to convert them. He ras warned to stop. He refused to eed the warnings. He must show his eople the light. He was imprisoned t Alexandrata, near Constantinople. ! "Soon after my father had been ta-i ta-i ten from us my mother learned from 'rlends that a wealthy Turk wanted - ne to join his harem. My mother refused re-fused to treat with him and he finally i aid a trap to kidnap me. Warned In -:Ime, I remained a prisoner in my lawn home. s "Finally Doctor George advised my mother to send me to America. Dis-egutsed Dis-egutsed as his servant, In boy's clothes, I we went to Alexandria. After we had (arrived at Alexandria everything was (easy. Friends of Doctor George accompanied ac-companied me to London. There I was iturned over to the care of members of our church who were bound to New YoriirT,',?-rTw ..York I was sent to Lincoln, Neb., where 1 fuiyed Adventist Ad-ventist school and later the Unioj o, ' lege there. I stayed there three years altogether. Then I was sent on here for the nurses' course." going to Turkey. Asked If she no longer dreaded thos who had V.v ...urn. act rer,i. They dare not molest me. I , . J. Jived in thin country for six years. I am now an American citizen. I have taken out my first papers and am now ready to swear allegiance to the land of my adoption. White House Season Formally Opens ' l- r ORMAL " i i I to the judiciary will take place, which a week later will be followed by the customary dinner to the members of the Supreme court. Mr.. Justice Hughes and Mrs. Hughes will attend these functions at the White House as g' ests of honor, for the first, time. ji.m'Yoii " t the "congressional j l be on February 7, and as to these same people would practical impossibility at the House, one is not given, but Aent and Mrs. Taft conceived dea of giving a dinner in compli-it compli-it to the speaker when they took .session of the White House, and Ast year the custom was inaugurated. The following Tuesday, February (21, the state functions, which last a Vtxlfie over two months, will be concluded con-cluded with the reception to the army and navy, an affair which has more brilliancy than any of the others, owing ow-ing to the fact that most of the men guests are In full-dress uniform. Most people are uncertain whether they prefer to be present at the first or i the last of the receptions, for, of j course, that given especially for the diplomats Is particularly brilliant. r--w Dangerous Games DR. HARVEY W. WILEY, chief chemist of the department of agriculture ag-riculture and national authority on how to eat, has essayed a new role. Doctor Wiley has announced himself as a believer in the doctrine that it is better to have a few boys killed at football, on the diamond and in the water than to bring up a race of mollycoddles. Rough sport, according to Doctor Wiley, is essential to the upbringing of a race of fearless, sturdy men who are qualified to cope with the great problems of life and to furnish the right Bort of backbone for a progressive progres-sive nation. To a reporter Doctor Wiley said: "It Is better, even for a few Individuals, Indi-viduals, to sacrifice themselves for i the good of the race than to bring up mollycoddles. .' y "If all the sports In which persons have eometimes been killed should be eliminated from the list of human activities, only ring-around-a-rosy would be left. Football would, of course, never be played again; baseball, base-ball, riding, driving, swimming, boating, boat-ing, skating, flying in the air would soon be forgotten pleasures. "It is that very element of danger in a sport that makes the sport an education in itself. It is the danger in the sport that educates youths and lads to be bold and fearless, and to be resourceful when beset with troublesome problems. The boy who has not played at dangerous games Is not apt to know how to work at dangerous dan-gerous labors. , "The out-of-doors life of games, particularly par-ticularly of games of lusty activity, are necessary to children. City boys and girls, as compared with their coAttry cousins, are raised under, a to TSxit that work to their disud |
