Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1919 — GRENADES TO HELP INDUSTRIAL CONCERN EMPLOYES TO SAVE [ARTICLE]

GRENADES TO HELP INDUSTRIAL CONCERN EMPLOYES TO SAVE

Government Saving* Societies to Bo Formed In 100,000 Plants of District to Aid Unci* Bam’* Finances. ▲ fairly generous proportion of th* 15,000,000 band grenades owned by th* War Department of the United States when the armistice was signed are to pass Into the hands of America's in* dustrial army through the Govern* ment Saving Societies of America's industrial organisations. They will be used as savings banks. Already 20,000 of the country's Industrial organisations, those in which Government Savings Societies already flourish, have been "lined up” for distribution. At least 100,000 will be included when the work is in full swing. The hand grenades are the genuine articles, just the same hand grenades as those with which the Tanks did such deadly execution in Europe. The only difference, in outward appearance. Is that a money slot has been cut through the shrapnel casing forming th* body of the grenade. Inside, the explosive chamber has been cleared and a removable screw substituted for the base of the casting. In place of the high explosive* so carefully developed by American army experts the grenades, as banks, hold one hundred dimes or one hundred pennies—the shrapnel at the United States treasury. Acquirement of a hand grenade bank will become possible to any United States worker by following the simple plan outlined by Harry Edwards Clay, massager of the Industrial Division of th* War Loan Organization, Seventh Federal Reserve District, who has the distribution In charge. The Industrial worker, eager to possess one of these remarkable war souvenirs, has only to purchase, through the secretary of the War Savings Society of his particular plant, factory or organization, three War Savings Stamps at a single time or ohe War Savings Stamp a month for three consecutive months. The grenade bank then will become his, being received through the Government Savings Society for the industrial organization of which he is a part. Thereafter it may be used for personal and private savings, as well s as for money in course of accumulation for further War Savings Stamps purchase or a* a beginning toward acquirement of one of the newer Treasury Savings Certificates now Issued In denomination* of SIOO and SI,OOO.