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Show EvVybody Ev'ry Pay Day 6,000,000 WomenM in War Savings Payroll Plan. KilWLSl' Week, opening Nov. 22, during Donds nnd stnm,,l ...m 1 greatest suigle week's volume of War Koen1 det"" totaTOOO0" W" SaVinES Payr" The- y The customers of 300,000 newspaper newspa-per boys who have sold more than $50,000,000 in War Bonds and Stamps are mostly women. Volunteer saleswomen run nearly ;ill the Bond booths In theatres from Maine to California. They also are sparking the War Bond sales in retail re-tail stores. Ralph G. Engelsman. Associate ield Director of the payroll savings section of the War Savings Staff, eadily admits that without the support sup-port of women the phenomenal rec-ird rec-ird of payroll savings enrollments would not have been achieved. Pay-roll Pay-roll savings plans are now in opera-I opera-I non in 148.000 businesses and fac-ories. fac-ories. Employees of twenty-flve housand of these firms are convert-ng convert-ng at least 10 percent of gross pay-oils pay-oils into War Bonds every payday. Associate Field Director Engels-nan Engels-nan says that women have contrib-ited contrib-ited directly and indirectly toward his record. When a man devoted 10 r more percent of his pay envelope o War bonds, the woman at home as had a powerful voice in the de-ision. de-ision. Her planning, her economies md her cheerfulness play their part .n the success of payroll savings. The Treasury Department is counting count-ing upon this woman influence in its current campaign to "top that 10 percent by New Year's." By the first of the year the Treasury hopes to enrol at least 3.000.000 women workers in a payroll savings plan 'This Is My Fight Too' i t' fi 4 n Proud of her Investment in the Ameri can way of life and equally proud of tht grime of war production on her face an: arms, the young lady in this "Women A War Week" poster symbolizes two of II:' chief activities of women at war. and 5,000,000 more men with tola deductions for War Bonds over th; 19 percent mark. |