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Show THE DESIRE TO INYEST Secretary of tho Treasury Houston Hous-ton has been having considerable to say about tho attltudo of tho American Amer-ican public with roforenco to Investing Invest-ing In public securities and ho assorts as-sorts that tho treasury Is committed to tho continued salo of government savings securities. A now series of ono and twcnty-flvo dollar nptes ar: bolng arranged to fill the domnnl which was discovered when war savings sav-ings rtamps woro put out. Libert; bonds aro also being pushed, nni t - : --i ll the treasury says that with' roduct-d prices for commodities nnd lowe 'money rates, tho market prlco for government securities is bound to 'appreciate. I Tho X.lborty bond salesmen were sowing moro seed than they anticipated antici-pated when thoy conducted thn'r 'rallies.' Whllo it Is truo Uu: a great many pcoplo converted the.i i bonds into cash and cleaned up thcii transactions, It Is equally truo thai ' fully as many moro learned for th first tlmo tho great valuo that com l from saving and thrift. From buv JlnK .Llborty bonds many liaVo lM branched off Into tho field of socurr H Hies. It Is said that In tho electrical 'MB field alone there are 1,200,000 ts- '9 Vestors. Local concerns, llko street fl railways, lighting systems and wir. 9 crworks, havo proved conscrvaUfe SM ' and. tho lnvestlug spirit has induced m . a great many conservative poople cf ' M ' cmagre means to Join tho ranks of : 1 their homo capitalists and usually 1 t tho results havo been satisfying. ' 1 |