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Show WAR TAUGHT PEOPLE THRIFT One Good Effect, zi Least, Carre as Result Re-sult of the Gigantic World Conflict While Christmas savings c!ub originated orig-inated about l.j years ao, the V.'orid war is credited with the tremendous growth recently in the number of depositors, de-positors, :,rsd, df courso, tiie totals ot savings. The weekly payment system for Liberty Lib-erty bjnd.s, regular purchases of Thrift ac-J War Savings stamps and more or less regular frequent c-on-ti-;tv;t:oi:.s to the war funds got th.e average American into the Iml-it of putting aside something out cf the pay envelope. "Employers adopted the system of taking the payments out of the salary, nnd as the amounts were only a dollar or two a wci'k, it wasn't missed so much," explained a Hyde Turk banker to the Woman. "When it was all over employees generally realized how easy it whs to save. They just got the habit, and the Christmas club idea was almost doubled in a year's time, 1020 to 1021, in membership." This year there were 5.000,1'riO depositors de-positors and deposits of $190,(Xk),0Ci0. |