Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-01
LIVING ON $500 A YEAR


the story of Wisconsin man, with
a wife and two children, who lived
on $500 per annum, and told how
he did it. He insisted that his meals
were abundant and healthy. He
itemized the articles bought even
down to baking powder and soap.
The detail is interesting to read
about.
He was a school teacher, on a sal
airy Of $400 per annum, and he
claimed to have saved half of it
to buy a home.
If he had lived in the 1920's he
might not be so well provided for,
but it goes without saying, that
close economy can work wonders if
all the family pull together in the
saving process.
Just after the Civil war thought
L STRUCK bottom" when I had no
income whatever, and had to teach
school with my husband to feed the
family and to pay the hire Of two
white laborers, besides boarding
them. We had to do without the
things it seemed like we were just
obliged to have. But I taught school
five days in the week, patched and
mended, scrubbed and secured on
Saturdays, and then went to church
to play the little instrument that
led the choir on Sunday.
1 was so hard at work didn't
have time to pity myself, SO held
my head UP, and worked like a
Trojan, to make another start in
life.
am prepared to say I would
have been glad to have had 5000 per
annum, and I learned some sflifty
ways Of doing without that has not
hurt me a bit, as I grew older.
When sickness comes and death ap-
pears in a family, you must spend
for what you are obliged to have,
but it is a well-known fact that you
can get along and make progress
with small income if you make up
your mind to get ahead and keep
out of debt.
Another Lost Cause
A distinguished critic compares
the 16 to 1 campaigns in the early
COS to a lost cause. There are still
a number of u.s.. who are familiar
with Hon. W. J. Bryan's three
presidential campaigns with free
silver" the slogan of the era. Those
were exciting times, to be sure
There was no humbuggery, either,
in the loyalty of those southern and
western Democrats. They believed
in it, and the silver dollar has re.
manned, up to this good hour, the
cherished dollar of the common PEG.
pie.
This rugged old dollar can bear
rough handling and service. A tiny
gold dollar is like blind kitten, diff
ficult to find it's way in the marts OF
trade.
For my part I enjoy the feel of a
silver dollar, and history will do it
justice in the time to come, when
we get a relief from a multiplicity
of banks and the banking tyranny
with which the so-called reserve sys.
tenn has affiliated.
These colossal money temples
which are being enlarged and deco.
rated are like an ancient temple in
Babylon, and we are to spend $685..
100000 to buy land in the city OF
annex to the golden temple OF
Mammon, making broad these gid
ed plylacteries! For better OF
for worse we have elevated the
gold standard in the United
States. We had to join a League 81
Nations in the selection of gold as
a BASIC measure for money, because
our profiteers could pack away their
gold coins, to the amount of hun
dreds of millions, and then make the
plain peoples silver dollar do all the
hard work where poor men are
hired by the day or the hour. IT
would answer quite as well to melt
the coins into gold bullion, and be
easier to handle. It is reported in
the newspapers that the late
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania
took delight in laying away in
his safe deposit boxes, bank bills
each of ten thousand dollars. They
were money all right, but not usaBle
money. Just so with bank vaults
strutting with gold coins and pack.
ed there to remain until some rainy
day brings them out into the open
for a great coup de'tat in the finan-
cial world
The cause of the hard-worked sill
yer dollar is not lost cause.
The Southern Confederacy is truly
a-lost cause, in so far as nothing
tangible is left to finger or pay taxes
upon. But the silver dollar is. still
here and here to stay.
In the Pan-American countries
silver is the coin also Of the masses.
They may heap up gold coin in bank
vaults, and hold it to count and to
look at when rich pains are thrilling
the body polite, but it is silver that
makes the world go round in all the
marts Of trade. Small three-cent sill
yer coins had their day, and five
cents silver change lasted a long
time.
In. my early remembrance I saw
only 'thrips and sevenpenca and a
peculiar coin valued at less than 20
cents, to be exact, 10 IL cents.
Z At one time the little gold dollar
was in regular change, but it was
too small, too easily lost when drop
ped in crowd.
I have had a 50-cent gold coin
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