Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-11 | Page 13 | Have your Head the Fable of the Dollar?

IttVEYOU MW1 FABLE OFTHE DOLLAR? A Perfectly Good One Brings Joy and Tobacco to Men in Trenches. Once there was a man win.) Iia l a dollar. It was a perfectly good dollar, having purchasable qualities, and of tie species that in the root of all evil, txi-epi when it is put to moral uses. It was known by many names, anions others, mazuma, inazerka. wa.oti wimel, cart wheel, heme, uou.Lch. iron man. etc., I ad infinitum and ad naueum. ('ailed hy any oilier name it sounded jupt' as sweet to the man in whose possession pos-session it WHS. 1 1 was the kind of dollar i hat is the foundation of trusts, happine?.1? and dynasties. It was the kind of dollar that ts power to the man whnowns it in multiples. It was t he kind of dollar for which wars have been fought and blood has been shed. 'j, It was the kind of dollar that makes w men's finpers itch with the desire to get it in his monopoly. It was a good dollar, forsooth and in fact. . 0 . There were many objects upon which the man could lavish the dollar. He could put it on the shell, if he wished, and make its usefulness nil. Or he could put it into the hands of the banker and let it increase itself of ltseif. The man had finished paying for his Liberty bond. He wore a. Red Cross insignia on his ' coat lapel. He had contributed to all the charitable war organizations. He was confronted with the necessity of uslnt? this dollar. . And the time in which he had to come to some decision as to its disposal was short, because every minute of delay lessened the usefulness of it. This man was a man of generous sympathies. sym-pathies. a-1 indir-a ted by his various charitable contributions. In the vorv midst of his meditations he J thought of the Tobacco fund. He remembered that for each 25 cents 45 cents worth of tobacco was sent to some Sammy in France. Where could he get such value for his dollar? i le could think of no place, whatever. "Pike a man inspired, therefore, he be-1 be-1 took himself straightway to The Tribune office and deposited Ids dollar with the Tobacco Pond manager. And he went away smiling. We are still distant from that $4000 goal. Let's speed up. Address your contributions fo - the Tobacco To-bacco fund. Tribune, .Salt Lake.