Arizona republican., 1907-10-12


 Laboratory of New York. whose con
 clusions. after continued and repeated
 tests and experiments on pennies nickels ten-cent pieces and bills takeI
 from a cheap grocery store. are a
 follows:
 Dirty pennies averaged 96 living bac teria each.
 Dimes averaged 40 living bacteris
 each.
 Moderately clean bills, 225O living bac'
 teria each.
 Dirty bills. 7S.0OO living bacteria each
 And mind you, your grocer ant butcher handle this bacteria -lader money and then hand you your foot or throws your meat upon the scales
 The dirty bills were those whicf probably are rer erresented in the treas. urer's report as having come nearly tC the end of their average life" but where these are kept in circulation how many human lives are ended?
 That word. the life" of bills ant coins. is singularly appropriate. inas- much as they swarm with such men, ! acing vitality. No wonder one of the most prominent bank cashiers of New IlsitIu Sdlu to tllt WTlteT Toisol- ousi Dangerousi Why we feel 1t is a miracle that our assistants who SC constantly count money do not catch every disease that is going! Here is z. stack of tightly bound bills six feet long. four feet high and two feet wide Do you see much clean money in there?" What do you do with it?'' Put it right back into circulation Why" Because We cannot afford to let it go out of the bank long enough to be redeemed" ''The re- lquirements of business are too great?'' '"rhe government does not print enough small bills. If they did we should not have that mess there. We should get il redeemed and receive new money for it every day" That is true" we an swered. and the government recog- nizes the difficulty. The report of the Treasurer says that the acuteness of the Treasury conditions has been so urgent for lack of an adequate supply of bills of small denominations, that banks and others. rather than utilize subtreasuries. have remitted direct to the Treasury for. redemption, prefer ring to pay transportation charges both ways III lo lllllc anu StCul the small denominations reqquired. This shortage in the supply of small denominations has had the tendency to retain the currency much longer in circulation" And it is for this reason that they are contemplating a much larger issuance of small bills and the relief of forwarding by registered mail free of charge" Well" said he, when business men and depositors generally throughout the country en- phasize the situation by insisting upon clean money. clean money will come and come to stay"
 Subsidiary coin is redeemable in the lawful money of the United States, and during the months from January to July large amounts of the coins are returned to the Treasury for redenmp- tion, but they are again distributed either by shipments to depositors therefor or paid over the counter at treasury offices in exchange for other kinds of money" Could not this sub sidiary coin be cleansed and sterilized before it is redistributed? There is no report that such an advantageous thing is done "The amount of subsidiary SlNeT Ituttiiltu uuTlilS lIe liIsl qudl- ter of 1907 in the offices at Washing ton Baltimore, New York, Philadel- phia, Boston, Cincinnati, St. Louis. New Orleans and San Francisco amounted to $10.37S.4S9. What if ev cry piece of this coinage had been cleaned before again being handed out Can one estimate the value of such a procedure? Can one estimate the re- suits of its not having been done?
 All germs die when subjected to 300 degrees of heat. Could not all coins be subjected to such heat at the sub treasuries of the above cities?
 But the people ourselves, the indi- vidual must be the incentive, the source of motion in the demand for clean money. In one case in Boston a large firm catering especially to wo- men, of their own accord made an with their bankers, by which they were generally enabled to give only clean or new money for change. But when they could not se- cure it. as was often the case during the holiday season. they caused all coins received to be dropped into a bath containing a germicide and then udu d BlTl ldht lneffl Oul anu pDllSn them on a ''buffing" machine, at a small cost, the process being shown on the first floor and attracting most interested attention. The result has been most gratifying. Ladies caught on" to the idea, were pleased and at tracted. The firm has now enlarged its establishment by taking in two or three other shops. Yet they did not advertise the fact. Should one leading department store in any city arrange to give out nothing but clean bright coins and new bills in change and ad- this advance in the methods of shopping. we doubt not the apprecia- tion of the public would soon be made manifest by increase of business. of course the others would be glad to fol- 1 low.
 As an instance of the earnest desire | of cry goods merchants to please and | protect their customers. letter from | one of the largest and best known es- in the country is here l quoted:
 We are always very glad to adopt | my measures which may add to the | comfort, convenience and safety of our | patrons and we should be interested to I know more of the subject" We be-