1927 Cedrus Yearbook

..P1 47'/V1/'/V 1/1I• /VW//VW/1/1/ / //V' 1927 THE CEDRES 192.7 unillIn1111111L11114 FACE VALUES In our course in Economics we are studying the various types of money and credit, and the analysis of these has started me to thinking of the mortal money and credit circulating in this busy world of ours. It used to seem like drudgery to have to walk down town to attend to some errand, but now without the slightest pretext I can stroll down the street and thoroughly enjoy myself on the way. A little child, with rosy cheeks and a beaming smile, that warms the heart like a ray of sunshine,nods a cheerful good-morning as she passes. Gold! Or silver, perhaps! Minted, to be sure, in the mold of the Heavenly Father and still pure! A chic young teacher with a smiling, jaunty air'clicks along on her high French heels. The real self is covered with a veneer of worldly training and carefully polished with the dainty little mannerisms. As I catch a glimpse of her fresh young face, however, I am assured that this is a gold or silver certificate that has full value in the bank of life. On the next street corner a woman of perhays forty-odd years is waiting impatiently for the bus. She is swinging her armsand grumbling rather volubly to herself. Whatever natural beauty she may have possessed is hidden beneath the cosmetics of worldly beauty daubed promiscuously upon the face already wrinkling with age. I guess, at once, that this must be a duplicate of the rare "greenback" of 1890, which was issued without metal backing and which was for so many years irredeemable in coins. Yes, as I look closer I am convinced that this currency has been irredeemable for quite a long time, but I am also convinced that, with the proper investment of friendly at- tention and kindliness, it might be made convertible.