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Show PROSPERITY IN AMERICA. According to the "Outline of Business" published by the Chatham Chat-ham Phenix National Bank and Trust Company, of New York, the United States has begun the year 1928 with the largest accumula tion of fluid capital ever recorded. During the year 192 7 more than $1,368,000,000' was added to savings deposits in banks and trust companies. The report continues: "Bank deposits climbed in a line parallel to wage levels, but whether the increase in the former is a result of higher wages is r matter of dispute," the publication says. "But it is clear that waget during 1927 were probably higher than in any other year. From a financial standpoint the United States government had a successful success-ful year. The gross debt was reduced approximately $1,000,000, 000." Now an increase in savings deposits means an increase in th : prosperityxof the working people of the United States. There is no better barometer of the financial status of the ever"y-day fellow ir the United States than the condition of the country's savings banks. A billion and a third in good United States money added to the bank roll of the workers is no mean sum in itself. No wonder the internationalists who want us to adopt European ideals, and the communists who want us to take up Russian methods, are able to make so little headway with Uncle Sam's children. |