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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
THE COMING OF MONEY-By Frederic j. Haskin

minis is a discrimination to maintain the
American price and stimulate the industry.
At present considerable silver is being
minted Just now there is not much new
silver being offered but the minis have an
ample supply.
Before the price of silver was fixed the
minis bought for coinage needs in the open
market. Just before the war an ounce Of
silver could be bought for SO cents. With
the war it speedily rose to $3.50 an ounce.
The government bought in the open market
until the price of silver as a commodity
passed it's value as money and then the 81
price was set. Since the war the price has
gone down but the 81 price still stands.
Silver producers lost good customer when
the price went above dollar but the decline
has given them a good guarantee.
The principal channel through which coins
pass into circulation is that constituted by
the federal reserve banks. These have taken
over the duties and functions of the sub
treasures. All silver coinage is in the Of
fetal custody of the treasurer of the United
States. Any bank or any individual who
desires a supply of silver may apply to the
treasurer. He will direct the nearest sub
treasury to meet the demand and the coin
will be furnished in exchange for such lawful
money in other form as the customer pre-
sents. Banks and large commercial estab-
lishments get this silver coinage from the
federal reserve banks in this way.
Once in circulation the coinage turns over
and over, being added to for the most part,
but subject to comparatively slight occasional
contraction. Theoretically every man, woman
and child in the United States has in his
possession slightly more than $50 in cur
rency and coin. From month to month this
amount fluctuates. 1t is less now than in
the years of business boom-1919 and 1920
but greater than before the war and very
much greater than twenty or thirty years
ago.
The government payrolls themselves put
much coin into circulation. In the aggre-
gate hundreds Of thousands of silver coins
are paid out in monthly government salaries.
AS coins become abraded banks return
them to the treasury. In the case of gold
coin, worn piece is redeemed only in the
amount of actual weight, but a silver coin
can be worn so badly that the inscription is
scarcely decipherable, and still be redeemed
for it's full Genominational value.
During the war there was a great demand
for pennies. This was due largely to the
war taxes. Excise taxes of various sorts,
such the soda tax, made things which al
ways had sold for even amounts such as
cents or 20 cents, sell for or cents Or
% cents, such odd amounts, because of
the addition of the fractional tax.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
Unrest ~, Baqdad

TROM the city where once the good
Haroun Al Raschid reigned fllustrious-
1y. come tidings of grave unrest. Not
alone in Bagdad but throughout Mesopotamia,
lately rechrstened Irak, stirs leaven of Arab
resentment against European mandates. A
special correspondent Of The Journals, now in
Cairo, cables that on Thursday last the nego-
tiations between King Feisal and Sir Percy
Cox the British commissioner, touching the
future of Irak's government were broken off.
King Feisal,' runs the story, refused longer
to discuss British insistence upon the man
date saying that he would be unable to con-
troll his people If he made any settlement on
that basis" 1t appears further that on the
Saturday ensuing, the native ministry met
and, having taken the same position as the
king, halted negotiations altogether.
Thus in the ancient valley of the Tigris and
Euphrates where men have striven and
thriven and made history since the dateless
beginnings Of civilization, war again threat
ems. But surely, with their genius for I'M
tangling knots of this kind, the British will
find a way to maintain due order in the re-
gion and at the same time satisfy all right
full Arabic aspirations.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27

"They must be all soiled or else they are
in my darning basket" said Imogene. you
do not have to have them tonight, anyway"
81 don't eh?" demanded Andrew. 81 am
going to wear that Palm Beach suit tonight
if l have to go sockless. That's all nonsense
about those socks 1 have not lad on white
shoes but once since I bought them and
know I did not wear six pairs that night"
"Well, do not get nasty about it," said
Imogene. II guess I can find them"
81 want those socks" insisted Andrew
"They cost me a dollar a pair and they had
nice little green clocks on each one and
looked better with my Palm Beach suit than
any have ever had and, like the small boy
reaching out of the bathtub for the soap,
will not be happy until 1 get it."
Those socks are just like that pair of
stockings you have on" he said, little green
clocks and ALL How far up do these clocks
go?"
you are impudent," she said flushing.
mo-" he said, "only inquisitive. Let me
see?"
She started out of the room with her nose
in the air. He rose and stood in the door
way before her.
do not misunderstood me, DEAR" he said
soothlngly. Il only want to borrow pair
of those stockings from you to wear tonight
1 will not mind the extra length" AS he
finished he reached for her and she lodged
around the bed.
"1t was so hot she said sniffling land
other women wear them and did not know
you would care and I did not think you would
find out and . :"
Andrew broke into laugh saying: "Well,
let my pants alone at least.
Copyright, 1922, by 21st Century Press,
Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27

WV WASHINGTON, May 22.-The gold
w holdings of the federal reserve banks
w have just passed the three billion
mark, record for any bank of issue or for
any nation. Successive importations of gold
from foreign countries, arising from the
heavy balances due people in this country
have piled up this great store of gold. While
most of it remains in bullion form, large
quantities are coined. Of the gold coin, the
chief quantity remains in banks and in gov
eminent custody, but some of it passes into
circulation along with the great quantities
of silver and minor coinage. The process
is direct and simple
The United st les minis will receive and
mint into coin, entirely free of charge, gold
brought to them from any source, excepting
only Russian gold. Russian gold will not be
received because of the soviets' policy Of
wholesale confiscation. Some one might
later come along and prove that the minis
had received what in reality was stolen gold,
in which case the government probably
would have TO restore the gold to it's rightful
owner.
But when gold is dug out of the mines,
when treasure chests are dug up, when gold
ornaments are desired to be reduced to coin
age or bullion, when gold, scraps from jewel
ers shops are to be salvaged, the precious
metal can be taken to any mint and turned
into gold coin or bullion, free of any charge
to the owner. 1t is curious fact that period.
ically dentists doing large gold-tooth bust
ness Will Durn the rugs under their dentlSC
chairs and take the small residue of gold
Filings and clippings and have Their reduced
to coin or bullion at mint.
No Need to Wait
When raw gold or ornaments are taken to
a mint or assay office, theoretically the owner
could wait and receive the actual gold in the
form of coins But this is not a speedy
process, so the usual course is, after essay
to ascertain fineness, to give the owner gold
coin already made, or bullion, a check on
the nearest government depositary. This can
be paid in gold or any other form Of coin
or currency the owner elects Thus the
value of the gold submitted passes very di-
rectly into circulation.
The treasury owns a vast store of gold,
keeping it in part at the treasury in Wash
ington, in part at minis and assay offices,
and in part in federal reserve bank vaults.
Gold coins are manufactured only as the
needs of the government and commerce de-
mand.
Under the law the minis must buy all
the silver mined and reduced in the United
States, which is offered. A fixed price of
81 per ounce is paid. No foreign silver will
be bought. The open market price Of for
eign silver is between 60 and 70 cents an
ounce, and the exclusion of this from the
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27

m HE greatest graft in this world is
amiability. If you are easy to get
along with, people will forgive you
every offense in the whole calendar of sin,
and if you are pleasant to have around the
whole world constitutes itself your guardian
angel.
You may be as homely as the proverbial
mud fence. Nobody cares, if only you
wear the smile that won't come off. You
may be as dull as ditch water, without two
ideas to rub together in your head. Your
society will be eagerly sought if you say
them feel good. You may be lazy, and
shiftless, and inefficient. Nobody cares
whether you do anything else or not, II you
always rub their fur the right way.
On the contrary, you may have every
virtue under the sun; your middle name
may be Efficiency, and you may work your
self to death for others without ever get
ting credit, or gratitude, or reward for your
labor, if you are irritable, and 1rasc1Dle'
and have personality that rile those with
whom you come in contact.
Look at the households that have nag
cling saints at the heads Of them! we all
know women who would check up hundred
per cent perfect in any blue ribbon wife
contest. We all known women who deny
themselves everything possible in order to
save their husbands money; who burn
themselves to a crisp cooking just the
things their families like to eat; who sit
up half the night sewing SO that their
NAMES and Sallies may have just as many
furbelows as richer girls have; whose houses
are cleaned and scrubbed until they are so
immaculate you might eat off the floors.
But these women are punches of nerves.
They are always fretting and complaining.
They are pepetually finding fault with their
children and husbands They consider 1t
their sacred duty to wet-blanket every plan
| and project. It is hanging crime and
| misdemeanor in their houses to be five
minutes late to a meal, or move chair, or
rumple a rug.
! They never laugh; they are never jolly.
| They never chum up with their families,
and then they wonder why their husbands
and chiIdren's idea of having a good time
| is to get away from home, and why they
are not appreciated, and loved.
And they think this is an ungrateful
world, because some other woman who is
a slack housekeeper, and buys ready-made
clothes for her children is adered by her
family for no other reason than that she
is gentle, and affectionate, and soft-spoken,
and laughs and plays with them, and is
always understanding, and good-natured.
81 slave for my husband and children. l
deny myself everything for them. l give
them food, better clothes, more comforts
than she does hers, but because I am not
always Sinking and smiling, and don't
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK L. PATTERSON.
"Saving the A.. B. & A.

The Moultrie Observer has plan to sug-
gest for keeping the A, B. G A. on it's feet.
1t IS that the people along the line give 1t
business. road that is doing a good busi-
ness will make money and will continue in
operation. A road that does not receive
enough business to make operation prof
IaOle Will nave to be saved often. Those
who interested in the E. A
should ride on it and ship by it, and induce
others to give it patronage. This will beat
bonds for keeping it in operation. "-Tifton
Gazette.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
DID YOU KNOW THAT

The heat of $50 degrees F. or more to
which clothes are subjected in power laun-
dry is sufficient to kill the hardest of bac-
terra.
If all the progeny of one oyster lived and
multiplied and so on through six generations
the heap of shells would be eight times the
size of the earth.
Bears hate the smell of musk but are
especially fond of the odor of asafoetida.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

Two tramps gathered at the local English
tavern at the end of a long days begging.
They were both tired and hungry, and gazed
with longing eyes at their empty glasses
DIDN'T you make anything, Bill?" in
CURED one. "Wot about that house l saw
you looking at-the big one with the open
Window"
Didn't trouble to ask" was the reply
looked in the window and saw two gals
playing on one piano, so I guessed they
was too poor for me to worry!''
The young New England bride had risen
early and descended to the kitchen of the
big old southern home. Nanny Caroline
had not yet arrived and as the young bride
watched she emerged from her quarters and
entering the kitchen, began preparations for
breakfast. ''Why, Gardiner" said her mis-
tress, "aren'- you going to wash your face
and hands before you start breakfast"
Lord bless yo,' honey replied the I'M
abashed Caroline cit don't make me dirty to
Sleep
Mr.. and Mrs. Phelps had come to that all
important part of naming their newborn
baby.
Mr.. Phelps, who, by the way, detested
work and liked nothing better than to sit in
front OF the fire and watch other people do
it, wanted the baby named plain Bill"
Mrs Phelps had different views.
Il shall name the baby William Oliver
Robert Kenneth she asserted.
"But why all those names?" asked her
husband.
Because" replied Mrs Phelps bitterly, eff
you look at the initials you will find that they
spell wv. o. R. X so perhaps when baby
grows up he will take to it better than his
father,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27

The attendance of 3,346 club boys ana
girls at junior short courses given at
twenty-one of the state agricultural colleges
during 1921 Is convincing evidence of the
hunger for further education created by
club work under the United States depart
ment of agriculture. The old notion thar
the doors of colleges were BARRED to all
except those who had completed pre-.
scribed preparatory course, and that aA
higher education necesstated full-t1me at
tendance at one of the colleges has been
replaced by a broader conception OF tne
needs Of the younger generation.
It is fully recognized now that there are
many young boys and girls, especially IN
rural districts, who are prevented, because
of financial and other reasons, from con-
tinuing their studies in the usual way.
Those who must take part in the business
of farming or in the farm home life are
peculiarly in need of further instruction in
their vocations just at the time when it
seems impossible to obtain it.
To meet this need many state colleges
have offered short courses in agricultural
and home economics subjects during the
recesses in the regular terms. The Christ
mas holidays, the spring vacation, and the
summer months are utilized to give prac-
tical instruction in such farm problems as
how to build poultry houses, how to mix
feed, how to select seed, how to Gull
flock, how to manage live stock or special
crops. The home economics laboratories
are opened to the girl students who wish to
know more about bread-making laundry
work, dressmaking, and other household
branches.
Arrangements are made for housing the
students who come to these courses, and
after study hours recreation is provided.
The courses usually result in developing
leaders who can stimulate club work to its
highest activity. Last year $50 scholar
ships were given at thrty-two agricultural
colleges in both short and long term
courses, so that many who might have been
deferred by even a small tuition fee were
able to enjoy the work More than
5,155 former club members largely en-
couraged by the taste of college life re-
ceived in short courses, are enrolled as
regular students in various colleges.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27
Severe Earthquake

A severe earthquake, lasting five minutes,
was felt at Santiago, Chile, on Monday. The
phenomenon also was experienced at san
Felipe, northward to Rantague and south
along the Central Valley. No damage mas
been reported.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-27

A giant turntable, 100 feet in length,
weighing $4,000 pounds, electrically oper-
ated and equipped with the latest safety de-
vices, has been installed by the Southern Pa
cific company at Ashland, Ore, to take. care
of the powerful new locomotives being placed
in service an the roads mountain division
Tom barrow, construction foreman, estab-
lished a record for railroad turntable erection
by setting up the huge turntable in 10 hours
~ minutes without delay to power or traffic.
The turntable was built at cost OF about
$4,000.
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-04-14

/ Can | do something for you Polly
HopkinsT' queried Robert, as she fin
ished telling about life In the squat
ters' city.
h flung out both hands in a com
prehensive gesture as much as to say
ne could see for himself how much she
needed.
Sure, sure you can" she said with
fierce emphasis. "You can make Old
Marc leave us squatters be. You're
oigger'n he is! The squatters need
you awful bad"
Her voice broke. Robert took a long
breath. OF course he could help this
g1rl and her people. He would. too!
As far as money gave power, he could
equal and surpass Marcus Mackenzie.
Il did try to talk sense into Mr..
AacKenzie's head" he returned pres
emily, but now l will make him leave
you alone"
In spite of the curved lips about
which a smile lurked, there was appre-
nenslon In her voice when she asked:
Can o lick I'm to a finish, mis-
ser?"
"Yes, | think 1 could" laughed Rob
Tt; but it won't be necessary"
The | see us Silent City folks
eein' happy again." sighed Polly. 1--WE
got a awful lot of things an folks to
take care of here"
Robert made a sweep with his arm
mat e-ncompassed the group before
him.
you have, evidently ~ he laughed.
AN / got more home" interjected
Polly. II got Daddy Hopkins an
Granny Hope-an' this brat is my
brother, an this goat is Billy Hopkins
an this lambs Nannyop. Oh, sure.
air, I've got a hull lot to love in this
good old CITY,"
Polly made an upward motion with
her hand toward the picture on the
fence.
"She's got a bunch to love, too she
said softly. "AIn't she7"
He walked to her side and contem-
plated with her the pictured woman,
making her silent appeal to them for
the wounded boy in her arms.
"Of course she has" answered Per-
cival reverently. "She's the Greatest
Mother in the World, Polly Hopkins,
and-and-' his gaze dropped upon
her, and he continued, "and you're the
ifttlest mother in the world"
A glad smile widened the girls lips.
All the fear that had been as a ton
weight upon her had fallen away. She
wanted to pay him the highest compli-
ment she knew. When he had mount
cd, she told him gently:
"Some day you'll be the biggest IN
most beautifulest daddy in the world.
GOod-by."
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-04-14
cHApTER VI.

Twice had the golden sun sunk in
a weller of splendid cOlors behind
West hill, and twice had the warmth
OF his rising scattered the mists from
the lakeside since the encounter In the
hut, and Polly Hopkins was making
ready for her daily walk through the
Silent City.
1t was her custom to go among the
squatters and give them courage, to
tell them that they had a right to
their homes, to food. and warmth. How
her girls heart ached for their dumb
misery! Surely the squatters had suf-
fered In the past year! Many a boy
had been taken from his home and
sent to France, and many a mother
had crept about the settlement with
grief-worn face, waiting for news from
over the sea.
PollyOp understood what war meant.
The squatters were always at war;
Granny Hope had explained to her
that, whenever people fought and were
cruel to one another, that was war.
| IlaunL she WdFTeu Dut lWO hiShtS ago
with Oscar Bennett?
She had not seen him since, and the
pain and humiliation he had dealt her
had been lightened by Granny Hopes
assurances that love was the levefer
of hate. SO Polly, having quantities
Of love and sympathy to spare, sent II
broadcast over the hopeless ones in
the settlement and promptly put Os-
car Benefits cruelty out of her mind,
She did not even remember sometimes
how much the milk Oscar had be
grudgingly given her was missed in
the shack. To offset that deprivation
she was free from him and the ugly
quarrels she had had to settle almost
daily between him and Evelyn.
This morning. while Daddy Hopkins
was In Ithaca, Pollyop started out
with her many loves for a walk. Or
her shoulder perched Wee Jerry; a
her side, In stately dignity, stalked th'
billy goat, and tied TO n of her arml
by a small rope gamboled Mamie
American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1922-04-14
CHAPTER WI.

To describe Oscar Benefits rage
when he left the two girls in Granny
Hopes shack would indeed be a task.
OF late Evelyn had ceased to attract
him. In the excitement of the court
ship he had put his best foot forward.
and for a time after the marriage he
had found a great satisfaction in the
glamor of their secret honeymoon
time had worn off, and the farmers
crude, cruel nature had been disclosed,
Evelyn's mad %infatuatiOn had disap-
peared in terrOr-stricken horror.
AS Evelyn was finding In Marcus
Mackenzie a mate more to her taste,
BENEFITS primitive passions had burst
into a sudden flame for Polly Hopkins.
The squatter girls scorn of him, her
drawing ridicule, only made him de-
sire her the more.
A couple of days after the night
scene with the girls, he left his house
and took his way to the lake. He
crossed his fodder lot and plunged
into the Mackenzie forest which lay
between the railroad tracks and the
water. In his pocket he had a letter
for Evelyn. He intended to kill two
birds with one stone. If he could find
Polly Hopkins alone, he would tell her
the decision he had come to and give
her the note to deliver.
Oscar did not relish entering the
Silent City by the highway. The
squatters hated him as much as he
did them, more, in all probability: and
1t was his habit to give the settlement
a wide berth. If he discovered any of
them on his land, with the exception
of Polly Hopkins, he drove them away
~furiously. Oscar wa one of those who
would rather have produced rot on
his land than give 1t to the needy.
Before vauIting me MacKenzle
fence, the sound Of people talking on
the other side halted him. Pollyop's
voice came distinctly to him, and am
other voice, a mans, answered her.
The deep well-bred tones Bennett was
sure did not belong to a squatter. He
listened carefully to pick up the i'm
port of the conversation. The bass
voice mumbled something about a
mother. In response, the squatter
girls tones fell upon his ear; "Some
day you'll be the biggest an most
be%autifulest daddy in the world" Then
followed the rush of departing hoofs.
Jealousy tore at the eavesdropper. II
did not take him long to get to the tor
of the fence.
Some sound he made brought the
squatter girls head around sharply
from her survey of the picture.
what do you want2" she asked sui
lenly, frowning at him.
Oscar Jumped to the ground.
II come down TO see you, Pollyop,'
he rejoined, coming forward. "Wh'
were you talking TOT"
The only safe way to get along witt
the farmer, Polly had concluded, wa
to have nothing to do with him.
Leave me be, Oscar B~ennettl" sh
shrilled. II don't want nothin' to d
with you. I'm goin' home"
To cut of her retreat, Oscar needle
TO take but a couple Of strides, and h
promptly took them.
JENNY crickets ~ he expostulate'
Don't be so COMPOUNDED Short PollyoE