Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-10-05
SOME VERY FOOLISH QUESTIONS
Why Guides in Bureau Of Printing
Earn ThCir Money.

why guides go mad might be an
appropriate title for a comedy which
could he coll2borated i'm 10y the nine
women employed i'm the bureau Of en-
craving and printing to escort WISH
tors through the building. II is hard
to believe that the foolish questions
put TO these guides come from the
lips of apparently sane adults. Can
Won picture a dignified. middlc-agcd
gentleman apparently in possession
Of all his faculties, turning to the
young woman at his side and asking
seriously:
why are these notes green on one
side or q sensiblc-appearing mat
ron putting this one. What happens
to all this money" No Q]ucrulous in
FAINT with an abnormal thirst for
knowledge, could do worse than that.
Some Of the most amusing incidents
i'm connection with cscOrting visitors
through the bureau are related by a
woman who has been in the employ
of the government over twenty years.
She is now a special guide. it being
her duty to take charge of parties
which generally include dignitaries.
so many Of the visitors labor UNI
der the dclugiOn that this is a big
exhibition hall, and that the money
is being made i'm a sham sort Of way.
with merely the idea In view Of en-
tightening them as to the process
she said. $50 they ask:
Now show us, please, where they
make the real money!
Surely this isn't the money that
w use?'
1t must cost a lot to hire all these
men lust to show us how money is
made
What do they do with all this
paper. after we are through looking
at it%
You don't mean to tell us this Is
real money!
Sometimes" added the guide,
YEARLY. 81 cannot refrain from ask
ing in reply:
"IDO Won suppose tho government
is engaged in making counterfeit
money simply for your amusemeut?'"
Here one Of the younger guides in
t%crrupted:
why, l have ever so many persons
beg me for a note to take home as a
souvenir. When explain to Them
that the government would soon be
bankrupt If II gave money way in
that fashion 7 receive the reply.
We'll, it's so easy TO make money
here and so much Of 1t is turned out
! can't see why in the world any one
should be poor at all. We ought TO
have all We want when it's such a
simple thing to manufacture"
1T is amazing how few persons
know that the face of a bill is printed
In black ink and the back in green.
until they visit the bureau" contin-
ued the older woman.
Some time ago, when the buffalo
notes were being printed. ] was es-
corting a banker through the place.
he suddenly paused before one
Of the machines and asked whether
we were printing a new note. re-
piled IN the negative. but he contra
diCtod me.
My dear madam he said. L have
i'm the banking business in New
York for over forty years, and l have
never yet seen a bill which was green
on one side
81 told him that. on the contrary.
he had never seen any other kind He
promptly offered to give me every bill
in his pocket which happened TO he
green on n side. When he brought
to view a large roll Of bills and dis
covered | was right he would have
turned the money over to me had I
been willing to accept It. But II was
TOO easy a way to make so much
money. | didn't have the heart to
take II. That man was only one Of
many who are amazed over the same
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