Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — TURN "BUSY BERTHAS" INTO VICTORY MEDALS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TURN "BUSY BERTHAS" INTO VICTORY MEDALS

Workers of the Victory Liberty Loon Will Be Decorated for Helping Uncle Sam In the Big Victory Drive. The “busy Berthas” that spat their hell at Verdun are silent. Their fate has been decreed. They are to become medula of honor conferred by the treasury department on volunteers In the Victory Liberty loan army. The mighty Krupp masterpieces are being melted up to make Victory Liberty loan medals. . Op one aide of the medal will be a reproduction of the /

Treasury building, and on the reverse side will be certification of the worker’s imrticlpation in the loan drive. Space is left for the name of the recipient to be engraved on the medal. The medal will be about the size of a half-dollar. Purchasers of Victory loan securities will not receive these medals, as the bonds are intrinsically worth all the buyer pays. However, those who volunteer to sell the Victory issue to their neighbors and associates will be

awarded one of these medals. The only restriction is that the medal will go only to those who in advance of the drive are authorized to perform the work of distributing the Victory Liberty loan among the people. If you want one of those medals, your Distinguished Service Cross as it were, for service in Uncle Sam’s financial army. It behooves you to hustle over ami see the chairman of your Victory Liberty loan campaign and tell him yon are on the job. Some of the medals have just reached the Seventh federal reserve district. A large quantity of them will be available for distribution before the campaign begins. HELP “FINISH THE JOB.”

Front View of Medal.

Reverse Side of Medal.