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Show PEACE DOLLAR j Washington, Jan 17 The brand i new silver dollar known as the "Peace Dollar" Is now In circulation. The real article varies quite a little : bit from the advance descriptions of : it. There were as many rumors regarding re-garding rhe "Pepce Dollar" as there were on the Russnan-Australian battle bat-tle front during the Carpanthian cam j paign. The first rumor stated the design would be that of an eagle clutching a broken sword. The storm of popu- j lar protest against such a design up-1 on an American coin, which would have represented impotence, caused I this to be abandoned. j It was then stated the design i would be that of a peace dove carry-; ing an olive branch. This story appeared ap-peared to be the authentic one. The appearance of the dollar itself, it-self, howkever, clearly proves that the author of the peace dove story was, to say tho least, no ornithologist. ornitholo-gist. If tho robust, life-sized American Amer-ican eagle on tho new "Peace Dollar' Is a dove, then a lion is a lamb. It is the same old-fashioned American Eaglo which has adorned American money for these many generations. True, he Is clutching what may be to the vivid imagination, an olive branch, but the big thing is that It Is an eagle, and not a dove, which occupies tho foreground on the dollar. dol-lar. Underneath tho ongle. Is the word "Peftco." Taken together It Is very significant for tho pose of the Rird-of-Freedom clearly carries tho impression im-pression that be is In a position to command pence and, if necessary, to fight "for It. which prohobly In this unregenerate day is, after all, the oest guarantee of peace. It develops that the author of the story regarding regard-ing the peace dove not only lacked expert information regarding the bird world, but he also was not familiar fa-miliar with the Inws of the United States, which makes it mandatory for the America ndolar fa fat fafaa for the American dollar to bear upon up-on it a design of the American eagle eag-le and that of another bird. ar le and that of no other bird. |