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Show $120 APIECE The $1G billion goal of the Fifth War Loan drive represents rep-resents an investment of about $120 for each mail, woman wo-man and child in the United States. These figures may seem large and the individual goal may loom out of the reach of many families. However, when sent alongside along-side the $307,300,000 that the Government is spending daily on the war, or more than $9 billion monthly, $100 billion yearly, or nearly $800 for each American, the job for every individual is clear. The advantages of buying War Bonds extends over a long list, and the disadvantages do not appear at all. The money invested in bonds is useful in ready cash to the Government in buying war implements. Bonds are even more useful in that they absorb loose currency, of which there is estimated to be about $22 billion presently pres-ently in circulation. This is far more than might reasonably re-asonably be required in trade, so the assumption is that a good deal of cash is idle in pockets or in the family's favorite hiding place, constituting a constant threat of inflation. C. S. Montior |