THE GOLDEN BULLET

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2609, 3 November 1915, Page 6

THE GOLDEN BULLET

OLD GOLD FOR THE MELTING POT. As money means men and munitions, and they are going to win tho day in the present war, tho idea has been mooted that as an added way of assisting tho Stato —whether by aiding wounded soldiers, equipping hospital ships, or supplying winter clothing for the man at the front—would be to "scare up" all the old and broken gold that is lying about in' drawers and oscritoircs. Nearly every household, it is pointed out, has a few of such trinkets—old brooches, and pendants, old medals, oar-rings. bits of chain, old gold plates, or mountings from various articles. A great many of such objects, it is added, are kept merely for sentimental reasons; and perhaps not even for that, and could well be spared for the melting pot, that will mean soma good to those who go forth to fight the good fight. . It is suggested that some business man, preferably a jeweller, might arrange to have a melting pot in tho window, whero it can be seen by all, and those contributing "golden bullets" should have tho dropping their articles into tho pot. It is estimated that there must be thousands of pounds worth of good gold lying idle in Wellington in such scraps of old gold as those mentioned, and the notion that it should ho turned to some profit is one that should make a wide appeal to the public. Onco it was started it is considered that the public would become fascinated with the gradual rise of the "golden tide" in tlie patriotic not. The idea lias been carried into effect most successfully in somo of the cities of tic Old Country.