Postsmen, shikker and Saving

NZ Truth, Issue 771, 14 August 1920, Page 1

Postsmen, shikker and Saving

{ Mby» vnr la blamed far making tha |gfffa> peopld boot* extravagant and jjjpflirui. but If the banking' returns fcft to b» trusted the canni* Boot is ra|l *gty Aldent on' earefu' or.th* bawm*.* Bat even /Soots differ according lAth* districts and towns of their call jjpjmtry, fl?fc« Aberdonian and the jQpUoyedian cure like natives of dlfforjatfl' countri»B except that they have tarif things In common— -their love oi ItaQtland and being "unco fond W- Bille?/! The Glasgow mas MtA th« Edtoburgh native* though Tfrvrtx each other m location, twr» oven xnor» diverse than the Gallogttdlan and the "loon" frao Aiberdeen Ph« EdinbtUTgb^native makes a God it rtupeotabllity and spends more or In* clothes, outward show and "aping Ids bctteVfr than the most vain of th< ceelies ; fron\ the Clyde wouti jyer draaxa of doing. Then Edlnl»jargh Id a comparatively sobei town, -whereas Glasgow has beer bMeribwd as "the most drunken citj m the. world." Tommy Taylor used U latteinpt to silence the Scots opponent jot pi^bhlbition, by asking, dramatically ♦"Btye you ever been to Glasgow?" Yei furm 1 are the wowaery pro-hlbltionlsti Coins to get over these Scots bankins Nitujrnsw The figures giving the numMr of depositors show that whereat In sober Edinburgh one out of ever; fly* persons has a banking account, o: *which number 14,480 opened banklni ftccounts for the first time last tre&r, drucken Qlesca comes alonf with a .banking account for on< feersofa m every three. Of this number 60,888 opened accounts last yew tor ' the first time. Compared on c population basis the increase Is tw< to ,bne m favor of Glasgow. If takex (m a basis of families the disparity ii iitXU further m favor of Glasgow. It jGHasgow the average family is onethird bigger than the Edinburgh famUy, cad on this basis the returns slurc • banking account for three out 01 <$very four families for the city whos< Inhabitants Beem to be overfond o) drinking "we* haufs," against two oul pf every flva families m Edinburgh To cai'ry the comparison further, the gavings per Individual (apart from trading accounts and business invest- . ments, which are so much greater m the Clyde City, because of its industrial activity) m the Havings banks, where family accounts are generally deposited, compared with his Edinburgh confrere's £1, the Glasgow man saves £8. How do our prohibitionist friends explain these things?