Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-05-21
POSTAL SAVINGS
Every Person in The U. S. Ten Years
Old or Over May Open An Account
Accounts be Opened by Mail
Popularity Among Foreign Born
Citizens-Growth of the System.

Every person in the United States
ten years old or over may open an &C
count in a postal savings bank after
July 1st, according to an instructive
leatiet on the Postal Savings System
just issued by Postmaster General
Burleson. This important extension
If the service will be made possible
by permitting persons living in COM
llluIItIes so sparsely settled as not to
justify the designation of their local
post offices as regular postal savings
banks to open accounts by mail.
Governor Dockery, Third Assist
ant Postmaster General, who has di-
rect supervision of postal savings,
was SO impressed by appeals from ali
over the country to open postal saw
ings accounts by mail that he took
up the task some weeks ago of work
ing out a feasible and safe method
for meeting a demand we'll illustrat-
ed in a letter from a Saline Missouri
an, who resides many miles from a
postal savings bank.
Having a few hundred dollars
saved from fifty years of hard and
assiduous labor and skimping econ
omy on the part of my wife and my
self, we concluded to deposit it in
Postal Savings Bank Of, We
wrote to the postmaster at that
place and received reply to the effect
that none but patrons of that office
could deposit in that office which is
very disappointing news to US. Our
little farm is not large enough to u o
port US and land is so high that it
is impossible for US to buy more with
what little we have saved and we are
so old that we. can't labor much now
and we would be glad to lay by at
least enough to put US away in de-
cency."
Under the plan adopted by the
Postmaster General for opening &C
counts by mail an intending depositor,
residing where there is no regularly
designated postal savings bank, will
apply to his local postmaster who will
see that necessary Identification data
is prepared and forwarded to a near
hv post office authorized to accept
deposits. The intending depositor will
hen be given permission to forward
his first and subsequent deposits by
money order Of registered mail direct
to the postmaster at the banking
point for which receipts or certificates
will be issued. He may withdraw al
or any part of his postal savings by
mail and on demand together with
any interest that may be due him
The new ~leafet points out that any
person ten years old or over may
open an account in his or her owr
name; that an account NAV be open
ed by a married woman free from any
control or Interference by her hus-
band; that post office officials are
forbidden to disclose to any person
except the depositor. the mount OF
any deposit: that Withdrawals may
be made without previous notice; and
that the Government guarantees tC
rnrav OIL denoSits on demand with
accrued interest.
The leaflet will soon be printed in
% f~oreipn languages for distribution
throrOh local post Offices. The for.
eign-born citizen has taken very kind
" 70 postal savings. and literature
in his own language will be of great
assistance to him. In a recent article
Postmaster General Burleson com
mented on the foreign-born deposi.
tors as follows:
Edwards of 500 900 depositors
now have accounts in the Postal Saw