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Show Third War Bond Drive Begins Today In Nation Most Gigantic Fund-Raising Effort Ever Attempted Sets Utah County Quota At $4,192,100 With All Asked To Help. The United States is embarking upon the most gigantic fund-raising effort ever attempted by this or any other government when the Third War Loan jets underway today. Utah as a state has been handed the assignment to raise as her share in the national goal, the sum t $41,000,000 in bond sales and all bonds purchased during the September drive are to be by non-banking non-banking sources. Utah county has been asked to raise $4,192,100 in the drive and it will take cooperation of every city and all townspeople to raise the quota. To usher in the huge drive, fifty huge, four-motored bombers of the type being used to help bring the Axis to its knees will roar over Utah cities Thursday morning as the Third war loan campaign gets under way. This and other features of the campaign's first week are designed to give the people an idea of the nation's military might and impress im-press upon them the necessity of making an immediate investment in united nations victory, Jennings J. Phillips, Jr., state publicity director di-rector for the U. S. treasury war finance committee, states in announcing an-nouncing details of the opening program. C. G. Salisbury is chairman of the drive in Springville, with Mrs. Leah Hales, chairman, in charge of the women's division. The Third War Loan thrusts upon every American an un-(Continued un-(Continued on page ten) WAR LOAN... ' (Continued from page one) equalled obligation of self -appraisal. The cash assets and current incomes in-comes of all individuals must be examined in the light of their true relation to the war today and the' nation tomorrow. Every person who possibly can do so will be asked to buy at least $100 more than his usual purchases purchas-es in War Bonds during the 15 billion bil-lion dollar drive beginning September Sep-tember 9. i Before resolving to meet or exceed ex-ceed that quota, each of us must face and answer the question: "What is mV solemn duty?" And this question is complex. It involves, above all, our duty to the men on the fighting fronts, the men who cannot measure sacrifice as one ladles out a portion, but must stand ready to spill the whole of their life's blood in the cause which is our common faith. Must Forego Luxury .... That is the primary obligation to back those men to the hilt. To strip the cushions of luxury from our own lives that we may in some degree ease their arduous task. To pour every availaole dollar of our resources into, the common fund which will insure them these rights the rights their deeds have earned: (1) Adequate materials of war, without stint and in quantities sufficient suf-ficient to overwhelm the enemy. (2) An orderly financing of the war, to check rising prices and thus assure the stability of America Ameri-ca today and the America to which they will return. Each civilian on the home front today is a trustee of the future. Sharing in the increased prosperity prosper-ity of war times, we must spend only what is needed for the simple necessities of life, holding the remainder re-mainder in trust, insuring a sound, stable nation for fighting men who cannot taste of these rewards until un-til the war is won. Bonds Are Seal of Faith . . . Buying War Bonds is in itself an expression of that basic loyalty. loyal-ty. A War Bond is the seal of a faith well kept. That faith is a belief in the victory vic-tory that is to come and a willingness will-ingness to shouluder, each of us, more than our share of the burden and the price. It is a belief in the principle that I the nation can be great and whole only as its men and women are great of heart, standing solidly, unencumbered, ready to shape the days of peace into fruitfulness. It is a belief in the new generations, genera-tions, in the need for saving to educate ed-ucate them, in the need for rolling back the upward surge of prices that they may never see their country disordered, chaotic, with values distorted. |