For School Children
Fifteen million hand grenades will become coin savings banks
for American school children under a plan announced by the Savings Division of
the Treasury Department.
The former weapons were manufactured for eventual delivery
to the American army, but the armistice was signed and the War Department
decided to sell them. The Treasury, however, thought the souvenir value of the
weapons should be preserved and took them over. Each grenade will be provided
with a slot, into which either pennies or dimes may be dropped, and will be
lettered “Buy W.S.S.”
Each child, under the age of 10 years, who earns sufficient money
during the summer vacation to buy a war savings stamp and who submits to his
teacher when school begins a story relating the manner in which he or she earned
the money, will be entitled to receive a bank. Children above the age of 10
years will be required to buy two war saving stamps.
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