Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1919 — WOMEN WILL RECEIVE MANY VICTORY LOAN MEDALS [ARTICLE]

WOMEN WILL RECEIVE MANY VICTORY LOAN MEDALS

As in Former Liberty Loans, Women Of District Will Do Great Work In “Carrying On” to Success the Victory Liberty Loan. Ten thousand medals made from captured German cannon are to be distributed to women Victory Loan workers throughout the states Of Illinois, lowa, Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin at the close of the coming campaign. The United States treasury department has taken this means of showing its appreciation of the work done by thousands of volunteer workers in Liberty Loan drives. The medals are to be made from German cannon captured by American troops at Chateau Thierry. These cannon have been melted, and the metal rolled into sheets, from which the medals are made. This badge wilt be the first of its kind to be distributed in the United States since the war. It will be about the size of a half dollar, and will contain on one side a reproduction of the United States treasury building, with the words, “Victory Liberty Loan,” and on the other side the certification of the work done in the Victory Loan campaign with a blank space in which the name of the recipient will be engraved. Women all over the country have shouldered a large share of the work in preceding loan campaigns, and the roll of honor undoubtedly will be just as large in the coming Victory Loan. In the last drive more than 18,000,000 was subscribed in amounts of SI,OOO or less, much of which the women’s committees were responsible for. Victory Liberty Loan workers will include many prominent women from this as well as from other districts. Mrs. G. Edgar Allen of Detroit has been appointed state chairman for Michigan. Other state chairmen working under the "leadership of Miss Grace Dixon, woman’s director for the Seventh. Federal Reserve district are: Mrs. Howard T. Willson, chairman for Illinois; Mrs. James Mariner, Wisconsin; Mrs. F. H. McCulloch, Indiana, and Mrs. W. W. Marsh, lowa. These are only a few of the many women who will lay aside social and business responsibility for patriotic service during the Victory Liberty Loan campaign, and who will be among the thousands of recipients of the Victory Liberty Loan medals. HELP “FINISH THE JOB.”