The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-09
WOMEN BEST ECOl ' ) cheat Cheat.
r,ry OUTNUMBER MEN AS DE.
posTTORS IN SAVINGS BANKS.
o,ds Of the Household Are Double
discounted in Piling Up Dol
lars Banker Says.


NEW YORK.-The busiest time of
tbe wear at the savings banks is the
srst week of January. The presi-
don't of one savings bank told an in
.ufrer that % per cent. of the first
civ months business of 1909 was
dome during the first week of the
.oar The cashier of another said
that speaking generally, the depos-
its at the bank during the first week
of January represent Is per cent. of
the deposits of the entire year. At a
third the deposits during the first
week of January usually aggregate
little more than 1 per cent. of the
wears total business.
If woman, as some persons believe,
Is really more extravagant than man
certainly the fact can't be proved by
tbe savings banks.
At the Greenwich Savings Bank,
for instance, situated in the shopping
district, and the first savings bank
TO have a separate woman's depart
ment, it is occasionally necessary dur
ing the January rush to open a divid-
ing gate and divert the tail of the
line of women to the mems line,
which maybe is only one-third as
long. But this is not all Said the
president:
Women Save the Dimes.
"Of the 1929 accounts on our
books about 5000 represent women.
These are exclusive of several hun
bred more women who appear regu-
larly to deposit the family savings or
the husbands savings in the hus-
bands name.
"A large majority of the $4,000
are wage-earning women, represent
ing almost every kind of industry and
most of the professions. We have a
great many teachers on our books,
also many stenographers, typewriters,
saleswomen, factory workers, do
mestiCs and others.
Germans and Irish are the best
savers, 1t is surprising the amount
Of money Irish servants often save
lin few years, to send to the old
country,
AT the most conservative estimate
bit is certain that today women put
10 per cent. more in the savings
banks than they did 20 years ago, If
respective of the increase in pOpula-
ron."
Statistics collected by the presi-
dent of the Dime Savings Bank, and
in which he takes some pride, show
that not only are so per cent. Of the
banks depositors women, but that of
late at least one-third more money is
deposited there yearly by women than
by men.
Savings Sent From Syria.
An official at this bank, who comes
directly in touch with depositors,
added that after many years of eXpe-
rience he had come to the conclusion
that when she makes up her mind to
save woman can give points to man
any time in the art Of piling up dol
lars.
This opinion was shared by the
comptroller of the Bowery Savings
Bank, which perhaps has seen great
er changes in its Immediately sur
rounding population in a decade or
so than any other bank in New York.
Said he:
Woman can double discount man
every time in small economies. In
the household of small means it is
the woman rather than the man who
takes the initiative in saving. If she
doesn't it is likely to happen that lit
tIe or no money is saved
This may account in part for the
increasing number of women's ac-
counts on the book of the savings
banks. am inclined to think,
though, that it is easier explained by
the great number of women who earn
money.
At the present time fully so per
cent, Of our depositors are women
VINO represent all the occupations, in
Guiding that of foreign missionary,
zone woman on our books sending us
ner savings from Syria"