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Show MANY OWN LIBERTY BONDS Conservative Estimate That There Is One In Every Home Throughout the Country. Before the war there were substantially sub-stantially ll.OUUHM) savings bank depositors. de-positors. Add to this BrOOOfOOO depositors de-positors In state bunks, which list, of course. Includes many commercial accounts; ac-counts; 400,000 postal savings haul; depositors and 100,000 depositors In private banks. After eliminating duplications. du-plications. It woulo likely be lib eral to estimate that there were 14,-000.000 14,-000.000 money s&vers In the United States before the war, with not to exceed 10,000.000 families probably represented In this number. The fourth Liberty loan was supported bv J1.000.000 subscriptions. It would likely be extremely conservative to say that .'1,000,000 others have subscribed to former (MOM of the Liberty loan, and were unable to do so In the fourth loan. We can then with safety say I there are '.M.OOO.OOO owners of I. II. '. erty hom!fc In America today. By the elimination of 4,000,000 for duplicates dupli-cates we are not In danger of misstating misstat-ing facts when we say that fhere Is now a bond in every home in the country. coun-try. Thrift Magazine. |