Banks Do Not Help Much To our disappointment, we still find most of the banks in the state of Idaho either actively opposed to the War Savings Stamp idea, or simply refusing to help. This is partly because it is a idea and partly because of their preconceived prejudice or notion that it would lessen the savings accounts in the banks. Again, let me point out that in England, where the War Savings idea and the sale of War Savings Stamps have provided a far larger percent of the income from government securities, the deposits in savings banks have grown at the same time that hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into the treasury through War Savings Stamps. That is a fact, not a theory. Bankers ought to be able to digest cold hard after acts even if they are slow to be interested in the theory.

Fla is Bad at Troy. Word comes from Troy that the influenza epidemic is very bad there and that there are about 60 cases in the town and nearby country. It is said that the people have been lulled into a false sense of security by the belief that injections of the anti-influenza serum will make them immune to the contagion. It had been reported that all of the soldiers here were forced to take the serum injections and the people of Troy are said to have rushed for this preventive and many have been deeply disappointed to discover that they took the disease after having the treatment to prevent it. 