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Show LESTER HIRST WINS THE BOND GIVEHY BANK Student 13 Years Of Age Shows Exceptional Literary Liter-ary Ability Lostcr Hirst, a sou of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Hirst, living nt 202 South First East street, Is the winner of the fifty dollar Liberty Bond offered of-fered by the Thatcher Bros. Hanking Hank-ing Company, for the best essay on the subject, "Why Every Home Should Buy a Liberty Bond." Lester Is but thirteen years old, nnd graduated from tho eighth grado last May. Ho belongs to section four of the ninth grado. After finishing his high school work, Letter expects to attend collego and later may become be-come a teacher. Professor N. A. Pedorson, head of tho English Department of tho Utah Agricultural College, acted ns chnlr- I man of tho committee that mado tho final decision and In behalf of tho commlttco 'makes the following announcement: Lester Hirst's paper has been selected se-lected ns tho best for threo reasons: 1. Its very clean and orderly plan. 2. Its number of reasons presented. 3. Its definite facts and figures given. Honorable Mention Ada Ellefson , Arnlo McCullook , Maud Mitchell Florence Smith La Monte Zundel. Notablo weaknesses la yapera were: 1. Lack ot orderly plan 2. General ideas rather than definite def-inite reasons. Students' grasp ot conditions and their interest, in the war was surprising. sur-prising. Tho Thatcher Bros. Banking Company Com-pany is to be congratulated tor creating cre-ating so much enthusiasm for such a worthy causo. More than 500 u-plls u-plls took part In tho contest and ono I splendid result was noted by the examining ex-amining committee, their commont bolng: "Students' grasp of conditions and their Interest In tho war was surprising." It Is also quite evident that the students havo learned moro reasons rea-sons for thrift and economy and It Is moro than likely that tho contest will give an Impetus to the saving habit. Tho wlnnor's essay follows: "WHY EVERY HOME SHOULD 11UY A LIBERTY BOND." Lcnter Hirst, .Section 4 October 30, 1017 Thoro are throo great reasons why every home should buy a Liberty Bond: First. Our government must havo tho money to win tho war. Second. Wo aro benefiting ourselves our-selves by buying Liberty Bonds. Third. It Is our patriotic duty. If tho Allies are .to como successfully success-fully out ot this war they must havo largo, well eulppod armies, great floets ot warships ot all kinds, numerous num-erous merchant vessels to carry tho supplies and munitions to tho various vari-ous armies, and countless numbers of aeroplanos to control the skies. To do theso things we must havo monoy. Tho war Is now costing tho Allies 1160,000,000 per day ot which the United States Is paying ono fourth. Between now nnd July, 1918, the United Statos must raise botwoen $15,000,000,000 and $17,000,000,-000. $17,000,000,-000. ThiB amount Is to bo raised cither by tho salo of Liberty Bonds or by taxation. Tho governmont now raises annually $5,000,000,000 by taxation. Taxation will not bo" ro- sortod to ralso tho balance unless tho peoplo will not buy tho bonds, Tho nation's wealth Is now $260,-000,000,000 $260,-000,000,000 with an lncomo of $50,-000,000,000. $50,-000,000,000. Tho total lount ot the Liberty Loan of 1017 is only ono tenth of tho bank aces ,,.3 ot tho Unltod Statoa peoplo. Somo peoplo say, "Lot tho rich (Continued on Pago 8) B Lester Hirst Wins Bond BB (Continued from Page 1) BB antn buy the bonds," but If this idea Hfl -were carried out every enterprise Bfl -would go bankrupt thus crlppliug BB Ihe nation and causing panics. Bfl Which Is tho better, buy Liberty BB Bonds and help win the war, or to Bfl aorde up the money, thus crlppliug BB 'the cause of tho Allies, thereby let- BB ting Germany win and scatter her BB jreat indemnities over the world for BBj tho families to pay? BBj Tho money Invested In the Bonds BBj jlus 4 per cent Interest per annum BBJ & to bo paid back and so we are BBJ xiailng no sacrifice. 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