| Newspaper | Wheaton Journal |
|---|---|
| Date | Friday, October 10, 1924 |
| Headline | HEN TO REPLACE EAGLE? |
| Text | The happy, helpful hen should replace the eagle on the silver dollar, so declares Secretary Jewell Mayes of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. The time might have been when the dirty old tramp of a bald eagle might have been an American favorite. We admit that the eagle possesses some mighty fine characteristics, but why the old bald headed cousin of the buzzard was ever picked on as our monetary emblem must be more or less of a mystery. The golden eagle and all of the other American eagles other than the bald eagle have more American qualities than old baldy. The hen is the modern personification of economy advocated by Benjamin Franklin. Think of the loveliness of the sight of a fine old Plymouth Rock hen on the silver dollar and its fractional coins. Think of a Rhode Island Red biddie spread out over a silver coin ready to hatch into a dozen others. Geo. Russell of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture insists that the American emblem should be a Brown Leghorn and C. T. Patterson moves to amend the motion to make it a White Leghorn! Just so it is a Missouri hen, we're willing to consent that each monthly coinage be a different breed of the Queen of Moneymakers. |
| Resource | State Historical Society of MO Microfilm |
| Submitted by | Don Warner - Deceased |
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