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Show SNOW!!!!, UTAH'S ME LARGE Total Subscriptions of $H 510,000 to Increase as Reports Arrive. BONDHOLDERS, 62,328 State Second in District and Fifth of Nation to Fin-ish Fin-ish Task. Incomplete reports from Utah banks show that the state is well ovor Its quota in the third Liberty loan. Every county has reached or oversubscribed its quota, but correct figures will not bo available until later this wcok. Utah's quota was $10,313,000. Bank reports show a total amount subscribed of $11,510,000, with approximately 62,32S subscribers. This will be increased in-creased when the reports of SattJfcis subscriptions are received. While the state was oversubscribed two weeks ago, there has been some delay de-lay in getting the money in the banks and it lias been still more difficult to get reports from some banks. Utah has been officially advised that she was second sec-ond in the twelfth federal reserve district dis-trict and fifth in the United Statos to oversubscribe her quota. The campaign is now complete, with the exception of obtaining final reports (rom the banks. When these are received figures will be published by counties of amounts subscribed, sub-scribed, number of subscribers, and percentage per-centage of subscribers to population. Organization Efficient. At the outset the state leaders of the drive determined to finish it within two weeks, in so far as securing Utah's quota was concerned. With a wonderful wonder-ful organization in every city and county, they began with irresistible energy and accomplished their purpose. Not content with this, howover, they devoted de-voted the last two weeks of the campaign cam-paign to increasing the oversubscription and in making sure of the numerical quota. The figures, as announced officially bv the central committee, show how well their final aim was achieved. Women's Work Thorough. More thoroughly organized than ever, the women's committee made a magnificent magnifi-cent record in securing subscriptions. The center of their activity was the bungalow bank at Second South and Main streets, where hundreds of thousands thou-sands of dollars in subscriptions were received. They also established booths in the department stores and hilb-committees hilb-committees working among the reliS: I and labor organizations and wonienl1 clubs. Second to none in the energy ant loyalty they have displayed in the ifya-vassing ifya-vassing are the Boy Scouts of thelate. They were given the final week'of the drive in which to do their work, after all other agencies had practically exhausted ex-hausted their efforts. In spite of the tremendous difficulty the boys made an excellent record. Final returns on the amount they have secured have not been received. It is noticeable that the news from the front had a marked effect in compelling com-pelling subscribers to buy bonds. No period of eaual length during the entire year in which America has been at war has witnessed such colossal effort, and in a sense such costly endeavors to the allied cause as the month occupied by the Liberty loan drive. It brought home to the American people the grim reality of the war, and here in Utah, at least, stimulated the campaign to every possible degree. Weeks Greets Workers. The following telegram from George K. Weeks, general campaign manager ot the twelfth federal reserve district, was received by Heber J. Grant, chairman of the central committee, yesterday: Governor Lynch .-joins in congratulations congrat-ulations to yourself, your state secretary sec-retary and all other committeemen and campaign workers on the result of your srjlendid campaign, in that not only Utah, but all counties have exceeded quotas, with the number of subscribers materially exceeding the last campaign. All states of the twelfth district have stood shoulder to shoulder in obtaining a result of which the entire district may justly be proud. |