Show I I I I l I rii Dream ani F Fades a l s t 55 I rr TIME IME W was s when finding jn i a a. g go i t t I 1 Pt the full glory lor pf of the h dream rea of riches che t tJ J but ul times S have hav chang changed d. d The r fact of the thC ma matter maUer ter if iS that t an American gold mine ir e today 1 is a- a a bf production t t a profit profi 1 In a word word-it word if c costs 1 the tiie c gold miner r just about as much to produce IC as he can can cant can't a g get t t for foi his his pio product d because b se the price pric of his liis foods foods' is ls d definitely ly fixed by governmental l. l stand ards I S Foreign c conditions have hay S not helped J the lot 1st of the Am American ritan g gold ld miner r. r The exchange val value e of t the the- e American meric 1 dot dollar ar is is' is so much higher that foreign gold is s n marketed here her in large q quantities much of it the South African fields field The closing of the copper copper mines h has hs s resulted Jr in w shutting off the supply which came as a byproduct I from this source I In In the face of these conditions it 15 is is' not st strange that gold production n in in the he United United States States' re recorded orde a material drop in 1920 Official figures fig fig- fig J ures res just given out ul by the United United States treasury I sho t at fine ounces dunces of gold were mined d in the United States in the fiscal year of II 1 1920 That represents a money value of 49 or almost less ess than the value of the gold mined in the fiscal fisca year 1919 which was lower t than an that of f pr preceding preding ceding years It is apparent that development of f American I g gold fd mines is dep dependent upon some artificial stimulation The present conditions c cannot continue continue con con- I without red reducing ilg production n to even lower figures A sugg suggestion stion has been made that the government provide a bonus for Ameri American an gold and this might serve to bring bring- about the res resumption mp- mp tion of normal norm production An Indiana woman haled into into court for using i profanity told the judge sh she was the mother of fourteen small children G and nd ld had to take in washing washing wash wash- ing to support her family Anyone who h had d as ashard ashard ashard hard a life as that she contended had a right to cuss a little The judge agreed that SHE had But what about you neighbor Do you keep your tongue leashed except under difficulties equally's great |