The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-05-17
1876 ACTIVE
ACCOUNTS IN
postal. SAVINGS
GUTHRIE OFFICE HAS DE-
POSTS OF MORE THAN
THIRTY THOUSAND


Every person in the United States
ten years old or over may open an
account in a postal savings bank af-
ter July 1st. according to an instruc-
tive leaflet on the Postal Saving
i. System just issued by Postmaster
General Burleson This Important
extension Of the service will be made
possible by permitting persons living
in communities so sparsely settled IS
not to Justify the designation Of their
, local postoffices as regular postal
savings banks to open accounts by
: mail.
Governor Dockery, Third Assistant
Postmaster General, who has direct
supervision of postal savings. was SO
impressed by appeals from all over
the country to open postal savings
accounts BY mail that he took up the
task some weeks ago Of working cut
feasible and safe method for meet
ing a demand well illustrated in a
iatter from a Saline County Missouri
an. who resides niles fram postal
savings bank.
Having a few hundred dollars saw
ed from fifty years of hard and as
siduous labor and skimping economy
on the part Of my wife and myself
we concluded to deposit it in the
postal savings bank of--. We
wrote to the postmaster at that pace
land received reply 10 the effect that
none but patrons Of that office codle
deposit in that office which is very
disappointing news to US. Our lit
tie farm is not large enough to sup
port US and land is SO high that it is
impossible for US to buy more with
what little we have saved and we
hare so old that we can't labor much
now and we would be so glad TO lay
by at least enough to put US away in
deceney"
Under the plan adopted by the
postmaster general for opening ac-
counts BY mail an intending deposit
or. residing where there is no regu-
llarly designated postal savings bank,
viii apply to his local postmaster,
who will see that necessary identifi-
cation data is prepared and forward
ed TO nearby post office authorized
tc accept deposits The intending de-
positor will then be given permis-
sion to forward his first and subse
quent deposits by money order or
registered mali direct to the post
master at the banking point for which
receipts or certificates will be issued
He may withdraw all or any part Of
his postal savings BY mail and on de-
mand together with ans interest that
may be due him.
The new leaflet points out that any
person ten years old or over may
open an account in his or her own
name; that an account nay be open
ed by a married woman free from |
any control or Interference by her
husband; that post office officials
are forbidden to disclose to any uer.
son. except the depos.tor the amoanI
Of any deposits; that wit walls
may be made without previous nc
ti.e; and that the government guar
antees to repay all depositors on
demand with accrued interest
The Ieaflet viii soon BE- printed in
22 foreign languages for distribution
through local postoffiees The rs-.
eign- born citizen has taken very
kindly to postal savings and liteTa-
ture in his own language viii be of
great assistance TO him In a recent
article. Postmaster General Burleson
commented on the foreign born de-
)ositor as follows:
Upwards of 100000 depositor1
low have accounts in the Postal Saw
ngs system and they represent ev-
ry nationality on the earth. They
lso represent almost every known
ecupation-professional men. theat-
ical people. mechanics. labcrers.
shermen. pack peddleFs. etc. But
be majority are wage earners. and
Z this class the foreign born large
predominate. A census OF depos-
ors taken by the post office depart c
ent shows that approximately 30
.r een' t2o0.0OOl Of the deposltorn e
e fereign born citizens and they
IN more than 80 per cent OF tie
posts splendid eviden Of the
Of our newly acquired cit
ems in the ability and good faith Ct
e.r adopted country TO fulfill obli
tfons