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POSTAL  SAVINGS

to  pay  the  money  order  fee.  Many  immigrants,
moreover,  distrusted  American  banks,  and,  being ­
  familiar  with  postal  savings  banks  in  their
home  countries  and  having  great  confidence  in
government  institutions,  remitted  their  savings
to  these  home  banks.  How  extensively  this  was
done  there  are  no  figures  to  show. 35
35  Cf.  George  von  L.  Meyer,  Postal  Savings  Banks;  North
American  Review,  CLXXXVIII,  pp.  250-252.