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Show FEW GOLDEN COINS FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. Use of gold coins as Christmas gifts has heen almost entirely eliminated this year by a campaign cam-paign of educating the public to the need of conserving tbe gold supply in bank vaults, according io reports to John Burke, treasurer of the United States. Banks have persistently declined to give out gold on demand, explaining to customers cus-tomers that the tendency oi' persons to hoard gold pieces given as Christmas presents for weeks or months had a serious seri-ous effect in depleting the aggregate gold reserve. |