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EDISON AND GOLD.
Great Inventor Has Little Respect for
Most Precious Metal.
"Gold makes pretty jewelry and
picture frames and is used effectively
for filling teeth. Otherwise it is an
almost wholly useless substance. Yet
we hold it as the standard of all values."
That is Thomas A. Edison's valuation
of gold. The famous American
inventor has never believed in the
gold standard idea. In an interview
for the Mentor Magazine, he told
why.
"To me," Edison said, "The goldstandard
system is largely fiction.
Banks have a gold reserve of, say,
fifty per cent of their note issue. This
is fifty per cent alleged real reserve
and fifty per cent pure gamuie, uie
banks taking the gambling chance
that the note holders will not call on
them all at one time. Finally, if
things go wrong, and the note holders
begin to demand the fifty per cont
gold, the banks fall back upon the
credit of the government and the
merchants' notes through the Federal
reserve.
"It seems absurd to me that all
our values should be based on boxes
of metal in any treasury. It is an
absurdity, but everyone has4 been
educated to believe that absurdity is
common sense.
"Before the invention of credit
money there was gold enough to
function perfectly with the small
amount of business that was transacted.
Now it is otherwise. Just think of
using gold as a standard of value in
the highly organized financial and
commercial system at .present in
vogue throughout the world! Under
the present system our government
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disks and bars of metallic alloy. Then
they are packed into boxes and kept
traveling continuously all over the
world?New York to London, London
to Bombay, back to New York, and so
on. The principal quantity we keep
in vaults as an alleged support to
our circulation medium. Other governments
follow the Same programme.
"I should think that values should
be based not upon supplies of gold in
treasury vaults?for gold is a commodity
and must fluctuate?but upon
the wholesale price of the necessaries
of life; that is, production cost plus
a reasonable profit at the point of
production, as for instance, the cost
of coal at the mine or that of certain
basic manufactured articles at the
factory.
"Why should not all. the governments
of the world come together
and establish an international index
of value for exchangeable necessaries
of life in the countries producing
them. Then the peoples of the different
nations could do business by
the infinitely simple system of plain
barter. You have so much oil; well,
I have so much wool or woolen goods.
I want your oil. You want my wool or
cloth. We might be governments or
? individuals; it would not matter.
A great amount of research and
other work would need to be done before
this system could be established,
because of the different tastes and
needs of the people. But what is
better money than that based on certified
commodities in government
warehouses and merchants' short
notes for goods actually sold and dis
counted by a bank taking currency
issued by the Federal Reserve bank,
with notes as security?
"We need not worry very much
about a standard for super-luxuries,
but the prices of absolute necessities
ought to be fixed. As it is, no man
can tell how much, food, clothing,
pleasure, education, his labor will
secure."
Importance of the Comma.
We all remember the smart school
boy who wrote in bold hand on the
blackboard: "Bill Smith Says Teacher
is a Fool!" The teacher, and no
doubt a good one, surveyed the legend
with complacency. The boys,
watching with much interest the out
. come, saw their mentor take a piece
of chalk, and nonchalently place a
comma after Smith and teacher. Lo
and behold, "Bill Smith, Says Teacher,
is a Fool!"
The comma within itself is a very
humble mark of punctuation, but has
a world of meaning when properly or
improperly placed. Once a printer
set up a poster to advertise an address
by a millitant suffragette. Her
subject was, "Woman: Without Her,
Man Would Be a Savage." When the
speaker called for the posters the
proofreader had to leave town suddenly
for the flaming sheets said:
"Woman, Without H^r Man, Would
Be a Savage."?Monroe (N. C.) En-.
quirer.
Taking No Chances.
Jeweler: The gold plate on this
ring, Mr. Cheape, will never come
off."
Mr. Cheape: "I guess I'll wait a
while .Neither may the wedding." . j
RUSSIAN CHURCH JEWELS
Russian Government Puts Them to
Fit Use.
An Aladdin's cave of jewels has
been opened by the decision of the
Soviet authorities to confiscate some
of the treasures of the Russian
churches and sell them to feed the
famine sufferers.
(The Soviet decree issued Feb. 26,
directs the seizure of all precious
metals and stones "which would not
interfere with the interests of the various
cults." It has been announced
that the All-Russian Central Committee
will determine what articles
are absolutely necessary for religious |
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tion.)
Most famous of the church treasures,
described by the Moscow newspaper
Izvesta, is the bejewelled ikon,
"Our Lady of Kazan," at the Kazan,
Cathedral in Petrograd. It is a representation
of the Virgin done in
beaten gold, weighing 10 pounds and
decorated with 1,655 larger and 1,-1
532 lesser diamonds, 638 rubies,
seven sapphires, 1,400 pearls and
155 other jewels; and hung about the
neck of the Virgin is a diamond neck-|
lace of huge, first water stones.
At Peter Paul's cathedral, also in
Petrograd there is another famous
ikon, known as the "Jerusalem Holy
Lady," in solid gold. It is about two
feet square, and contains 38 carats of
large diamonds, 13, carats of middlesize
diamonds and 14 and ,one-quarter
carats of smaller* stones. Altogether,
in this church, says the Izvestia,
there are 24 almost equally valuable
ikons.
To St. Isaac's cathedral, Petrograd,
were presented on the day it was cpended,
a total of 125 articles containing
81 pounds of silver, and later a
shrine was built of solid silver weighing
468 pounds. St. Isaac's also has
one ikon 21 inches wide by 28 inches
high, done in gold overlay and bearing
a wreath in large diamonds.
There are a dozen other ikons of tre
mendous value at St. Isaac's alone.
While these big Petrograd cathedrals,
which were long favored by royalty,
probably contain the most valuable
treasures of the -Greek Orthodox,
church in Russia, nearly every one of
the estimated 61,000 other cathedrals,
monasteries, convents and
churches contains objects in gold and
silver and jewelled ikons are not at
all rare, even in the small edifices.
Royal gifts, donations by pious
parishoners and church taxes for centuries
went largely into ornamenting
the churches. Kazan cathedral was
the holy of holies to the Cossacks.
The Cossacks of the Don once sent to
it 1,440 pounds of silver, asking that
it be made into ikons of four of the
Apostles.
Beyond their value in precious,
metaland jewels, some of the objects
mighfbe extremely sought after
by collectors. The Byzantine piagnificence
of the jewelled ikons, however,
might impress the Western
world as more ornate than artistic.
With a few scattered exceptions,
wherein some looting of churches
-may have occurred during the early
days of the revolution, church treasures
have been left practically intact.
, Patriarch Tikhon, the head of the
Russian church, is understood to contend
that, since the church and the
state have been separated, the title to
the treasures rests in the hands of the
parishoners of each church and that,
therefore, it is for each parish to
decide what treasures it wishes to
surrender for the famine sufferers.
He advises charity in this respect
but it is believed in Moscow that the
church, as a whole, will strenuously
oppose general confiscation, while
willing to surrender those objects
which it does not consider particularly
holy or of essential use in sacramental
observances.
Credentials Demanded.
Some years ago the late Squire
Abingdon Baird, Bart, came to this
country as financial backer of Charlie
Mitchell, English heavyweight, who
was matched with Jim Corbett, then
world champion. Baird Was wealthy
and a good scout, although at times
inclined to be a bit brusque.
Just about that time it was quite
the thing for successful pugilists to
attempt to elevate the stage, the
theatrical business beiner fluttered ud
with chaps who hitherto performed
exclusively in the squared circle.
One night during his stay in New
York, the Squire and some friends
with taking some slight refreshments
at the Hoffman House bar when a
popular young matinee idol drifted
in. He was introduced to the party
and joined the group. Presently during
a lull in the conversation, Baird
leaned over his shoulder and whispered:
"Beg pahdon. old chap, but wot did
the chappie say your line was?"
"I am a member of-the theatrical
profession," was the reply.
"Aw," ejaculated the sporty baronet,
looking over the other's slim
physique, "I say, old chap, pahdon me,
but who in 'el did you ever lick?"
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of Common Pleas for Bamberg Coun'ty,
S. C., heretofore made in the case
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All that lot piece and parcel of
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Also.
That tract or parcel of land situate
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measuring one hundred and fifty
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Northern and Southern boundaries,
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J. J. BRABHAM,JR.,
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SPECIAL TERM OP COURT FOR
BAMBERG COUNTY.
State of South Carolina, In the
Supreme Court, April Term, 1922.
In the matter of a special term of
the Court of General Session and
Common Pleas for Bamberg County.
A satisfactory showing having
been made to me that a special term
of the Court of General Session and
Common Pleas for the County of
Bamberg is needed,.
It is ordered that special term of
the Court of General Session. and
Common Pleas be beld in and for the
County of Bamberg, at Bamberg
Cojirt House, beginning on Monday,
November 6th, 1922, and that notice
thereof, as required by law, be given.
(Signed) ' R. C. WATTS,
Senior Associate Justice of the
Supreme Court of S. C., Presiding.
Columbia, S. C., Oct, 12, 1922.
A true copy, attest:
HARR? McCAW,
Clerk.
Pursuant to the above order, said
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on the date above mentioned.
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said court, as the criminal court has
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C. C. C. P. & G. S.
Bamberg, S. C., Oct. 16, 1922. 11-2
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