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Show PLEA FOR W. S. S. Editor Goodwin's Weekly: You will no doubt remember my letter let-ter of January 31st caused by editorials edi-torials which I read in a morning and evening paper on War Savings Stamps and Liberty Loan Bonds. One of these was under the caption "Discouraging "Discour-aging Bondholders" and referred to the fact that Liberty Bonds in their downward tendencies of price in the stock market was a discouraging factor fac-tor and would be for the ensuing Liberty Lib-erty Loan issue to be called the "Victory "Vic-tory Loan," which is to be put in the market, presumably, April next. My letter referred to above called attention to the fact that War Savings Stamps or Baby Bonds, as they are frequently called, wore one of the best investments over put out by the United Unit-ed States government, the first issue maturing January 1st, 1923, and the second issue of Baby Bonds for the current year 1919 maturing on January Janu-ary 1st, 1924, and bearing a rate of interest higher than any other United States government security offered, practically 4 per cent, with the privilege priv-ilege of cashing same at any post office of-fice in ten days from date of written notive given by the holder. At the meeting held at the 12th Fed eral Reserve Bank, San Francisco, at which there were present all of the state directors for War Savings in the Twelfth district and at which Governor Govern-or Lynch of the Federal Reserve Bank and Lewis Franklin, Chairman War Loan Organization, were present, it was urged that no effort be loft unused un-used to push the sale of War- Sayings-Stamps, Sayings-Stamps, the hope being offered by these gentlemen that the government might raise tho limit of the amount that any one could hold, tho present limit being $1,000 for an individual corporation, or firm, but it was very forcibly brought to the attention of the State Directors that a husband could buy for his wife or wives, each of his children and also grandchildren, NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE, COM-MITTEE, GEO. T. ODELL, State Director for Utah. |