Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1918 — WHAT LIBERTY BONDS CAN DO [ARTICLE]

WHAT LIBERTY BONDS CAN DO

One flfty-dollar Liberty Bond will pay the United States war bill for 1-10 of a second, ,or buy 1,000 cartridges, or 100 hand grenades, or 104 rifle grenades, or 87 first aid packets and cases, or 10 bayonets and scabbards, or kits for a platoon, or knives, forks and spoons for a company, or four gas masks. It will feed one soldier for four months, or will feed 100 sailors for a day, or provide life preservers for 10 men or hammocks for 10 sailors, or windproof suits for 10 naval lookouts, or save 1,000 men from smallpox by paying for vaccine, or save 666 men from typhoid fever by paying for their inocculatlon, or save 139 wounded men from lockjaw by providing antitoxin, or buy 1,000 yards of adhesive tape, or bandage 160 wounds. A one hundred dollar bond will buy eight 75m. field gun shells, or three rifles and their bayonets, or 5 incendiary airplane bombs, or T. N. T. for the bursting charge of a 14-lnch shell. It will clothe a soldier for overseas service, or clothe a sailor. It will feedfl company of infantry for a day. For the medical department It will provide: 25 pounds of ether for anaesthesia, or 145 hot-water tags, or 2,000 surgical needles.