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HAND GRENADES
Over 17B?00 Children in Mtth District
. : Will ft* Routing Enemy, Waste-,
Owing Svmmtr Months.
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Richmond, Va. ? According to the
latest available figures over five hun
dred banks in the Fifth Federal Re
stive District "have ordered supplies
of hand grenade penny-savings banks
that are to be used by the children for
summer savings. The total number
of hand grenades that have been or
dered exceeds 175,006.
The plan of the hand grenade bank
originated in the Treasury Depart
ment. and the banks are being dis
tributed in this district by the War
Loan Organisation here. Every school
child under the age of seventeen year*
may. by applying at the local bank, re
calve one of these hand grenade
penny-banks as a loan for the vaca
tion period. X& during; the simmer,
enough money is saved to purchase
one or more War Savings Stamps the'
bank becomes the property at the
i The banks are made out of real hand
grenades that were to have been used
slots cut to receive and take oofrtfoina,
'they are now doing service against
the snfiy, waste, as banks for sav
School officials all over the district
. are enthusiastic about the plan, as
they feel that it win not only keep
alive but strengthen the thrift ideals
that already have been implanted in
the minds of the children.
J. H. Binford, assistant superinten
dent of public schools here, has en
dorsed the scheme, hi a recent letter
expressing the hope that all the banks
in the district woolxf co-operate by get
tins supplies of the hand gfsnsdus, as
the children are tithmtfTtit
about securing them. .
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worker* and agencies, are already un
dertaking Ufa fork and axe in dose
co-operation with the treasury da-;:
partlnent" \ ' ? '*
According to Iff*. Braddock's latter,
plana for the creation o i eavinga facil
ities in the home are outlined, as fol
lows: _ - '
.
"1. Habit of saving first some part
of income for future njeda and of
spending wisely for present needs. *?*:
"2. Home betterment fund, to ae>
cure, for example, running water in
the hoasa. '?? '
. "5. Savings plan for every boy and
girt.
"4. Saving* fond in government se
curities for every family.
Keeping of accounts t* m
mote wiaa spending cad to increase
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Harold Braddoefc, Director of Savings
Division Writes Latter af Ap
preciation Jbo Each of eigh
teen Hundred Workers. >
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First-hand information and sogfcj*
tions as. to how to obtain increased
efficiency and prosperity may now be
obtained, by women oa the farm, In
any jjart of the country, from the home
demonstration agents of the depart
ment of agriculture. Entering into the
national savinga movement with a Best
that characterises : all their work,
some eighteen hundred of these home
demonstration agents have been carry
ing the message of thrift into the farm
bouses all over the United States.
In appreciation of their voluntarily
undertaken work. Director Braddock
has written a letter to each worker
o^commendAtion, which reads In part
"Thrift Is primarily the people's con
cern- If thrift -to become ajpanfta
nent national asset, the people's.
cies and organisations must definitely
assume their share of responsibility
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