The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-14
Best BanknoteS Are Products Of
 American Skin

best banknotes in the world may sound at first rather boastful, and yet any history of the art and industry | of note engraving which failed to record that fact would be incomplete. Paul Revere was the first American banknote artist, and from the time Iof the chartering of the Bank of North America under the direction of Rob-. ert Morris, in 17S1, up to the pres ent American engravers have excelI- ed not only in the artistic quality of their designs, but in their provisions against counterfeiting. Marco Polo found banknotes in China ages ago, printed on paper made from the bark of the mulberry, tree. One of the notes upon which the great Venetian traveller himself may have gazed is on exhibition at this day in the office of an American company. It is one of a series js- sued by the Ming dynasty about 1929 A. D.-'current anywhere under heaven" seems to have been sheet of paper nine by thirteen inch es,, bigger surface than any man could cover with both hands out stretched It is good for lone string of cash.v The provision against for gerry is simple to the point of sever II ity: Count mterfedters hereof win be ex- ecuted. Persons giving information of colnnterfedters will be rewarded with taels 25O and in addition will re- ceive the property belonging to the criminal
 Another great government has pEac- ed much dependence upon death as d deterrent to ifnftators of it's promises to pay. When Jacob Perkins of New bur ypprt, Mass, invented the method of transferufng designs from hardened steel plafes to steel cylinders and re- transferring to fiat plates, thus enab- Hing the engraver to devote the time necessary to accomplish his best work in the original and reproduce 1t at will, the new process aroused inter national interest. Mir. Perkins and his associates went to London in 1619 at the instance of the British n1iniB- ter at Washington to help the Bank of England to tissue notes not easily old bank refused to adopt the new method. preferring, as one of the Am efrfrans said, to rely upon the hang man rather ta1an the engraver. New ertheless the English began in time to follow American methods after the geometrfc lathe had been invented by Asa Spencer Of New London, Conn, and improved by Cyrus Durand.
 The governments of continental Eu- rope depend exclusively upon color work to protect thefr paper currency, and several of the large banks of ts-
 
 their bureau of engraving and print ing, though what connection there may be between engineering and en- gravfng is a mystery. Many Italian baninDtes are easy to counterfeit The Bank of Spain has of late abandon ed its own plant because it's notes were initiated so successfully that commercials were accepted by the bank without question. A private concern now does the work. The Bank of Greece now uses the Ameri- can method, having had sad exper- fences with notes of Austrian, German and English fashioning
 A myth that probably win never die tells US that the notes of t14e Bank of England cannot be counter feited. As matter of fact. they can be initiated readily enough. for litt1e attempt is made to protect the notes beyond the use of watermark paper. The watermark can be easily copied
 One practical safeguard of great cf- fectiveness is the custom of the Bank of England to cancel every note that is returned to tine bank and issue an- other i'm it's place, This and the numbers of all bank notes used in ev- cry business establishment keep alive a keen sense of responsibility which adds to security. The custom Of cir crulating soiIed banknotes of course, gives the counterfeiter his best op- portmndty. Forgery is much mofe readily detected in a crisp, stiff, new bdal than in runlpled and dirty oHe-
 The American style of banknote has become the standard in the countries of Central and South America. The experience of the Brazilian govern~ men,t led the way in this after varfous dfsapp pointments. First the n111dl vaurSted Austrian system was tried. the notes being engraved and print ed in England under that system. They proved a complete failure. Couh- terfefters f1otur6hed. The Brazilfa11s tried banknotes made in France, and these were promptly and extensively mihated as soon as the nterfezf- CTS could get their plates and paper ready. Brazil tried German and Eng Msh establishments, but still without securing protection to, the banlnote circulation, and at aslt turned to the United States and found type of < bills practically impossible to courfef- feit So it is mo boast, but a rnefe record of fact. to state that Ame71- cans make the best banknotes in the world. d.-Detuoit News
 New. York-The Dental Hygfe1s Council of the schoolboard has report ed that the teeth of 60 per cent Of fke school children are seriously defArff{a