Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-04-22
Scraps and faets.

of $645 i'm exchange for his promise
to change his vote from former Gov
ernor Jas. X. Vardaman to United
States Senator Leroy Fercy during the
recent senatorial contest. The accep-
tance of the money. BilbO explained
was to secure evidences of Irregular
ity in connection with the contest for
the United States senatorship.
- Washington, April 2l: Ill, help
lessly paralyzed and supported by the
faithful wife who earns a pittance at
the wash tub. John r. Kissinger, the
soldier who gave up his health and his
future that the cause of yellow fever
might be known. will receive special
pension of $125 a month If bill IA
vorably reported today by the senate
committee becomes a law When the
ravages Of the dread plague swept the
men from the ranks and the trenches
faster than the machine guns of the
enemy at Siboney and Santiago could
do. Kissinger offered himself as a vol
unteer subject for experiment in an
army hospital. The surgeons proved by
his sacrifices that the mosquito spread
the plague and their experiments upon
him are believed to have been respon-
sible for his helpless condition now.
The subcommittee of the house
committee on postoffices and post
roads which has been considering
the postal savings bank bill for the
last four or five weeks has found it
self unable to agree. In consequence
it has reported two measures back to
the full committee. The principal
question at issue among the members
Of the subcommittee concerns the
disposition of the funds received on
deposit by the postal savings banks.
There are. however. several other mat
ters in dispute a considerable major
ity of the members of the full COM
mittee are opposed to any postal saw
ings bank bill at all. Yet Chairman
Weeks and the others who hold this
view realize at the same time that
some sort of a measure must be re-
ported in order that the house may
go on record on the proposition,
which is urged by President Taft as
one of the administration policies.
Both the Republican and Democratic
platforms contain planks advocating
postal savings bank legislation, so
there is a general feeling among the
membership of the house that some
hal at this
session of congress. \ straight saw
ings bank proposition is favored by
some members of the subcommittee.
They think the government should be
allowed to bring the deposits to Wash
ington and make whatever use of th+
funds is agreed upon. including invest
ment in the government 2 per cents.
Other members of the subcommittee
think the money should be deposited
in local banks so that it may remain
in local channels of trade. The sub
committee which has been unable to
agree on the bill consists of Repre-
Sentatives Gardner of New Jersey,
Huff of Pennsylvania. Durey of New
York. Hamer of Idaho. Moon of Ten
nessee and Small of North Carolina.
The reports of this subcommittee
will be taken up by the full commit
tee within the next few days.
According to statistics prepared
by an officer of the savings bank sec
ton of the American Bankers asso-
citation, the total savings deposits OF
the world are about $15.3S9,612 900.
This means that the banks hold suf-
flcient savings deposits TO give every
man. woman and child on the globe
$40. In this matter of savings bank
deposits no other continent can COM
pare with North America, if the rel
ative population is taken into account.
hold about $5,67S,735.000 in savings
deposits. which vast sum is about "a
per cent of the total for the world.
Here the average individual deposit in
savings banks is about four times as
great as the average deposit in Eu
rope. Asia, Africa, Oceania and Can
ada. taking all those continents, grand
divisions and countries together for a
grand average. In the United States
the average savings bank deposit for
every person in the country. not mere
ly for the depositors, is six times as
great as it is in these other parts of
the earth. In every such test there is
an immense difference in favor of
America But when it is said that
the savings bank depOSitOrs of this
country rumber l4.S94,695 and that
they hold. on the average. $3Sl.2S
per capita the figures are misleading
They are the most accurate that can
be gotten at. but they do not tell the
exact facts. The number of separate
accounts in savings banks, or of saw
ings accounts in all banks does not
mean the number of depOsitorS. Many
man has deposits in two. three or
even four or fiNe savings banks or in
the savings departments of other
banks. For this reason there are
really fewer depOsitors with savings
accounts than the official figures indi-
cate. On the other hand. the apparent
average amount deposited is too small
The true average may be fully $500
apiece. In all the world there are
about 11O.419.OOG savings deposits
That means one for every II persons,
more or less. including S00.O00.0O0 at
least. who live where there are no saw
ingS banks and hundreds of millions
of children and also hundreds of mil