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Show President's Wife Praises Women For U.S. Bonds Work The Treasury has paid tribute to the women of America for their 20 years of service in the U. S. Savings Bonds program. Mrs. John F. Kennedy, wife of the President, as honorary chairman chair-man of the national women's advisory ad-visory committee for Savings Bonds, expressed it thus: "During this twentieth anniversary anni-versary year of the U. S. Savings Bonds Program we salute the volunteer spirit of the women in American in bringing the Savings Sav-ings Bonds message of -thrift to our family lives. "Buy buying bonds and encouraging en-couraging others to do so, we help build a more secure future for ourselves and for our country. coun-try. Most important, this self-discipline self-discipline of regular savings will help build the spiritual strength so essential to our continued growth as individual citizens and as a nation." , The Treasury, through a public pub-lic service ad, one of a monthly series saluting volunteer groups for their bond service record, said. "From the very start 20 years ago, the U.S. Savings Bond program has been lucky in having hav-ing dedicated support of thousands thou-sands of American vomen. The wonderful cooperation has been from the war bond tours of Hollywood's Hol-lywood's brightest stars to helping help-ing to operate the Savings Stamp program for the nation's small fry. Thousands of husbands and fathers owe their payroll savings nest egg to the influence of their wives. Many boy and girl would not have a full savings stamp book, but for Mom, and many a bond would not be sold, but for the army of women volunteers who put their strength behind j the savings bond program." t It's always interesting, in the case of a great man, to know how he affected the women of his acquaintance. |