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Show CHURCH WILL NOT -BUY BONDS BUT ITS MEMBERS WILL Declaring that the church has not the ready money to invest In Liberty loan bonds and, that If ' such a purchase were made enemies ene-mies of the church would seise upon tha Investment aa an opportunity oppor-tunity to misrepresent its financial standing, Joseph F. Smith, president presi-dent of the Mormon church, said yesterday that the church aa an organisation would not subscribe to the Liberty loan. He declared, however, that Individual In-dividual members and corporations corpora-tions in which the church and ita officials are Interested would subscribe sub-scribe liberally. By action of tha board of directors, the Utah-Idaho 8ugar company, a corporation in which the church la heavily Interested, Inter-ested, has subacrlbed for $260,000 aBaSSSSSaBBS3EBSSBaaBBaaBBSSSBBBSBBSE |