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Show WAR BOND SALES BEHIND IN THREE LARGECOUNTIES Flatly asserting that war bond sales are lagging in the three largest counties of the state, D. Howe Moffat, executive manager, man-ager, Utah War Finance committee, com-mittee, this week returned to Salt Lake from a 10-county tour with the impression agricultural communities are lending themselves them-selves more wholeheartedly than city folk to 4th War Loan support. sup-port. People in the sparsely settled areas seem to sense their individual indi-vidual responsibility in the war effort more than persons in large communities, Mr. Moffat explained. explain-ed. He gave as one reason the fact that more than 10 per cent of the total population of the lesser-populated lesser-populated counties, Sevier and Washington for example, are in the armed forces. "This is not true of the more populous sections, hence doubtless doubt-less the war has not been brought home to them in such a degree," said Mr. Moffat. San Juan county has officially topped its individual quota, and Wayne county reported "E" bond sales totaling more than $34,000 on the fifth day of the drive, Mr. Moffat pointed out as examples ex-amples of what he meant. He urged the public in the industrial in-dustrial areas of Salt Lake, Weber We-ber and Utah counties to emulate emu-late the people of outlying communities com-munities by taking a more personal per-sonal attitude towards putting over the 4th War Loan. "They are better organized and doing a better job than ever before," be-fore," he declared. "If Utah fails to meet its individual bond sales quota of $22,000,000, it will be because the industrial areas, not the agricultural communities, have failed to shoulder their share.'' |