Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1919 — TAKE 500,000 GRENADE BANKS [ARTICLE]

TAKE 500,000 GRENADE BANKS

Financial Institutions Distribute War Relics to School Children in W. S. S. Campaign. Nearly half a million hand-grenade banks, the deadly weapon of the world war converted into a savings receptacle, have been ordered by* the banking Institutions of the Seventh Federal Reserve district for distribution among the school children of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Michigan and Wisconsin in the War Savings campaign of the government. In the neighborhood of 1,200 banks and trust companies have bought the grenade banks in amounts ranging from fifty to fiftythousand. The original plan was for the school children to earn during the vacation period the money with which to buy the War Savings stamps to entitle them to the ownership of one of these war relics, but as there was some delay in procuring the grenade banks children may get the banks by buying the War Savings stamps, even if they have not earned the money themselves. Announcement to this effect has been sent to the banks by J. H. Puelicher, Government Savings Director of the Seventh district, as follows: “As we got started rather late there will be no objection to a little extension of the date by which the conditions of the award are to be completed. Also it will be permissible to make a little broader interpretation es the terms. • As. the schools soon reopen many of the children will not have an opportunity to earn money but the hand grenades may be given them if they purchase the required number of War Savings Stamps.”