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Show SU3SGRIPT10N OF S75 1 . PER M1KUTE ASKED That Amount Necessary if Salt Lake Is to Reach War Stamp Quota. . i a:t J-.i.s'e '.";'. inn-! .-uiisi, ri' -e ;'ur war; savings seen rilies, sU'di as hai.iy bonds j and thrill stamps, at the rate of a minute up lo December ol, if, it wishes ( to reach its quota by that dale, accord- ) niti to a renort ieu out yesterday by j the loea: war savings committee. ihc report shows that ihtouuaout lab simseriptions aggregating ?I'-01 an hour mnt tie turned in. This is at the rate ot a minute. Of this Salt . I.ake fitv. as its share, must sub- s ,il f , I As a result of this showing, the local ' I committee now' calls for volunteers. Tt wants to euro!! oue-mimite to fourteen- j minute men. The one-minute men will j have to subscribe ST,"; two-minute men, i M.'tO- and so on, with the fourteen-min-ute men subscribing the maximum al- I lowed lo be taken up by any one indi- ! vidua! SI 000. ! While toe public, generally speaking.! lias subscribed largely in amounts from Si to ?... the committee states that there has been a it absence of bigger subscriptions, subscrip-tions, except in comparatively few cases. hat is needed now is for the big cor- : porations and the wealthy individuals to come lorward with anywhere from $7i to 1 hjh each to pull Salt Bake t.'ity out of Us present position. Sal! Bake City, instead of going ahead, is receding, according to reports furnished vesterdav. Ueports were received from all the counties. They showud thai Sail Bake rilv. which is tabulated as a coun-t coun-t v lu this connection, has slipped from eighth tc tenth position. Piute. Tooele, han pete and other conn I ies. with consul -erablv less wealth than Salt Bake Fity, are far ahead on the per -capita basis. I uless there - is a more generous response re-sponse bv the people of the city within t he next lew days, disaster will be certain, cer-tain, ofhelals say. There is nothing now to prevent the city being branded as a slacker unless patriots come forward in hundreds and subscribe. The situation is said to be the most desperate ever faced in a war savings or any other drive in at Bake City. While the city is extremely slow in its response to the nation's demand, other cities and towns in l-he county are furnishing fur-nishing an example of patriotism which can well be emulated by the metropolis, ollicials declare. An instance is provided pro-vided m- Midvale and West Jordan, scheduled to ra ise a,O00. Not content with reaching Hie quota, these two municipalities mu-nicipalities are continuing the good work and up to aatc have subscribed a total of nou. In addition. IJiere is a pa trio tic war now racing among the outside counties. Piute and Carbon counties are already over the top. Tooele led all other counties coun-ties until vesterdav, when Sanpete speeded speed-ed us subscription machinery and relieved re-lieved it of the position. Morgan county passed Boxeider, San Juan passed Weber, We-ber, while iron trounty passed Juab, We- oer and i acne counueb, ulluiuiii iu l-is- reports tabulated. Since there are only twelve days left until the end of (he campaign, the Salt Bake City and county war savings committee com-mittee now calls upon everyone to renew his or her energy in subscribing lor more thrift stamps and baby bonds "for the honor of Utah.'' i |