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MEETING OF FRB SOLICITORS RE

TREASURY'S SHARE-IN FREEDOM CAMPAIGN
FOR THE PURCHASE OF U.S. SAVINGS BONDS

Bank Relations Conference Room
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Monday, April 22, 19&9

SUGGESTED TIME TABLE

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA
SAVINGS BONDS CAMPAIGN

Apri

May

22

Monday

Solicitors meeting.

29

Monday

President's letter to all employes.

1-8

VJcd-Wed

In Bank and department publicity and promotion build-up.

* 3

Friday

Solicitors meeting - distribution of campaign material.

6
6

Monday
Monday

President's letter to Officers in charge of various department
Company Chairman's letter to all.employes.

7

Tuesday

Company Chairman's letter to solicitors.

Thursday

Solicitors initial contact vrith employes.

(©

Friday

Clean up job by solicitors.

13

Monday

All returns reported, destination to be announced.

15

Wednesday

VICTORY meeting of solicitors.




SAVINGS BOND DRIVE, 1968
F e d e r a l R e s e rv e B an k

o f

P h ila d e lp h ia , P e n n s y lv a n ia

P h ila d e lp h ia
19101

May 6, 1968

To All Employes:
The Treasury Department has launched a new United States Freedom
Bond Drive. This Bank has been asked to Join the campaign. As president,
I pledged the Bank's cooperation. Now I should like to explain briefly my
feelings about this.
Each of us is different in many ways. Some of us are the sole
source of support for our families, others are single, or have working wives
or husbands. We have different needs for goods and services; our earning
power is different. Because of these and other differences, our spending
and saving are also different.
Some of us spend all or nearly all of what we earn. Others save a
fair proportion of what we make. This is fine, so long as we are doing what
we want or what our individual situations cause us to do.
When we save, we don't all save in the same way. Some of us
emphasize life insurance, others corporate stocks and bonds, and some of us
save more in liquid forms such as bank deposits, savings and loan shares,
and United States Savings Bonds. In any case, we each assess our own indi­
vidual situation and save in a way that seems more appropriate.
Your investment in Savings Bonds and the new Freedom Share Notes,
besides being a lucrative, secure way of saving and providing for the future,
is a key element in the sound management of the public debt — a stable
factor in protecting the value of the dollar. Naturally, a stable dollar
means greater domestic industrial growth and continued job opportunity and
security.
A solicitor will call on you to make it easy for you to enroll in
the payroll plan. But remember, it is entirely your own decision. There
is to be no pressure and no persuasive solicitation. Only you know if you
should buy Savings Bonds through the payroll plan.

President
(The Chairman of the Drive was James H. Muntz. This letter was mailed to
the home address of all officers and employees.)




Federal

Reserve

Ba n k

of

P h ila d e lp h ia , P e n n s y lv a n ia

O ff ic e

o f

P h il a d e l p h ia
19101

t h e

May

P r e s id e n t

2k,

1968

TO ALL EMPLOYES:
I am happy to report the results of our 1968
Share-in-Freedom Campaign for the purchase of United
States Savings Bonds.
We have

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given a free choice.

members on our staff.

Everyone was

Sixty-one of those already on the

Payroll Savings Plan took the initiative to increase their
deductions.

Of the 50^ individuals not on the plan, 16^

joined during the Campaign.
In summary, 5 H or 60 Per cent of the entire staff
are now on the Payroll Savings Plan.




Sincerely,

Karl R. Bopp,
President