Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-07
Over Seven Hundred Young De-
 pOSitOrs Have to Their Credit in the Miners and Merchants Bank a Total of S2,646.44.
Amount Gathered in Ten Months
 of Actual Shool Time; COnsi-
 dering This it Exceeds That of any Other ShOOl in tate.

With S2,648.44 on deposit, accrued in an actual working period in the schools of ten months, Bisbee children are held 10 lead the list of all Arizona in the matter of prosperity and thrift
 The Miners and Merchants bank is responsible for the showing. It was the idea of Cashier Buckwalter that put the swings system in the schools. He suggested it.
 The school trustees fell in heartily with the advanced idea. As for the bank, 1t costs it more at the present time to take care of the accounts than it can earn from these, but it is also looking into the future, too, as is the policy with all big and success ful concerns in this era. It figures correctly that it is making savers. All of these little depositors will not turn out that way, but a good percentage will Those who do not become inter ested and upon whom the saving habit grows with their years. will in part at least remain depositors of the Miners & Merchants, where they made their start. Some day among their accounts may be the biggest of the bank.
 The bank is finding that it wins in another way Not a few parents are learning from their children. They are demonstrating the wisdom of the old adage that one is never too old to learn. They have begun to save and carry accounts to which they are ad ding twice a month Before the chil dren began to save in the schools they had no accounts.
 Bisbee school district schools install ed the saving system in May of last year It met with immediate favor and there has been constant increase The first savers are still savers and best of all are now trying to save more than they did when they commenced
 The saving habit is the easiest oi all to educate and this part of the educational system of the schools oI the district is believed to be one oi the very best ever introduced Il certainly shows real results in the total of over S2.6OO to the credit O. the children The plan operated un der is simple The children with theii odd pennies, nickles and dimes simply buy stamps which each school teacher has. The school teacher turns in tn, cash and her stub of the stamp book and it checks with the stamps takeI up from the children These at tn, bank are accepted as cash and entered into the savings bank book of eacl child
 The S2,64644 now on deposit fol the children showed how the accounts stood at the recent close of school the summer school is also contribut ing to the savings bank department but as yet there has not been turned in the total received. It would pro bably bring the total considerably nearer the S3,OOO mark. Every is anxious to reach that figure earll in the fall But as 1t stands at pres ent the savings accounts of schoo children of Bisbee Is second in th, State, Phoenix being first with abou $3.50O But Phoenix has operated tn, school savings system twice as lonl as has Bisbee Bisbee is therefor' entitled to first place. It will actuallr have 1t at the end of the next schOo year if the gain over Phoenix deposit as shown last year is kept up in th next school year. And there is ever reason for Che belief that 1t will b considerably more than kept up.
 Included in the savings depositor among the schools of Bisbee are nor than TOO children. That ln its sel is a pretty strong story It amount to a third of the total average attend ance This year it is hoped that tn number will be brought up to half is significant, too, as indicating tn value of beginning the saving habi young, that the younger children hay taken hold of the saving Idea bette
 than the older ones. The gramme
 school rooms lead the high scho'
 rooms in percentage of savers, bJ
 this will not be 90 when the high