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Show - COMMENTS - WASHINGTON, D. C Women At War Week, opening Nov. 22. during which women will seek to sell the greatest single week's volume of War Bonds and Stamps will serve to put the spotlight on the mighty contribution contribu-tion women generally are making toward financing the war. Six million women are on War Savins payroll plans. Their monthly deductions total $70,000,000. 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 all 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 Field Director of the payroll savings section of the War Savings Staff, readily admits that without the support sup-port of women the phenomenal Record Rec-ord of payroll savings enrollments would not have been achieved. Payroll Pay-roll savings plans are now in operation opera-tion in 148.000 businesses and factories. fac-tories. Employees of ' twenty-five thousand of these firms are converting convert-ing at least 10 percent of gross payrolls pay-rolls into War Bonds every payday. Associate Field Director Engelsman Engels-man says that women have contributed contrib-uted directly and indirectly toward this record. When a man devoted 10 or more percent of his pay envelope to War bonds, the woman at home has had a powerful voice in the decision. de-cision. Her planning, her economies and her cheerfulness play their part in 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 ot the year the Treasury hopes , to enroll at least 3,000,000 women workers in a payroll savings plan |