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Show BB URGED TO BUY MORE STAMPS Nation Needs Money From This Source, Director Odell Says. State and City Still Short of Quota Allotted in Drive. State Director George T. Odell of iho war savings stamps committee has issued an appeal to the citizens of the state to buy wax savings stamps as follows: "The war is not finished, even though j fighting may be ended. All the nationr. I whom we have conquered must eat and ; the United States is the logical source of food supply. "President "Wilson, the national war savings committee and the national council coun-cil 0 defenso at Washington, D. C, through the chief of the field division. Franklin K. Lane, urges the war savings committees wherever located to impress upon everyone that pledges must be kept and additional stamps must be bought to the extent of between three and four million mil-lion dollars by the state of Utah prior to rVcember 31, lflS. "Utah's quota mush be filled and we must not have any black marks against our beloved state. Buy and go "over the top' on war savings stamps, the best obligation ob-ligation Uncle Ham ever offered, four and a half per cent per annum interest and maturing in four years. High Taxes ' Alternative. "If we do not buy our quota the result will be methods ot taxation by congress that will hit us all and hurt. Buy while you have the chance, and this timely notice no-tice is given to everyone. "We appreciate what has been done by all organizations in Utah and we wish everyone now to get busy and see that Utah's allotment which we are contracted to buy is bought before the end of the year. " "We urge the immediate and continuous continu-ous attention of all war savings societies and invite them to correspond direct with the war savings headquarters, Commercial Commer-cial club. Salt Lake. City." The slogan adopted by the state committee com-mittee In the drive which will be made during the week of December 2 to 7, is "For the Honor of Utah." ' The County's Share. The intent is to make the drive a most intensive one. In 8a.lt Lake county there must be raised between now and the last day of the year about $1,500,000 if the , honor of the county is to be sustained j in ' meeting its quota of war savings I stamps as it has in meeting all other calls of the government. The state council of defense through its chairman, L. H. Farnsworth, has sent out an appeal to all county chairmen to aid the war savings committee in every way possible and an appeal has also been sent out by tiie authorities of the Mormon Mor-mon church asking the members to buy as many war savings stamps as they can. |