Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-22
The Country Home
RY MRS. w. I'll. FELTON,
MAKING MONEY

After reading a late description OF
,,bo+ is known as the national pu-
raau of engraving and printing ana
the amount Of legal tender money
made out of properly prepared paper
II occurred to me that perhaps some
of the readers of the Country Home
column in The Tri-Weekly Journal
would be interested in the descrlp-
tion In the centennial year or ~ o
7 was in Washington City and ac-
companied many visitors to TINS Won
derful place for printing money.
These visitors took IN Wasnlns eoa
CITY en- route to Philadelphia, ana
Georgia people were very glad 10
have a sort of a guide to see DIG
things, and [ was glad to be OF serV.
ice. SO I went through this national
mandatory of money, where pank
bills of all denominations from one
dollar bills to ten thousand-aollar
During the fiscal year ending June
80. 1920, the employees printed TWEEN
weight billions of dollars. No other
factory in this world does such a
rushing business.
About $4,000 sightseers visit TINS
mandatory every year. There IS one
place in Washington where there are
no secrets about the work. In fact,
excepting the process for making the
paper on which money and govern
ment bonds are printed, there are no
secrets about the work at all.
Though money passes through the
hands of the employees all the time,
there is apparent freedom permitted
to everybody employed in this busl-
ness. It would seem possible for one
representing millions of dollars to
slip bills in an inside coat pocket or
otherwise conceal them in their
clothing and get away with 1t, Tor
or their garments. Of course they
can succeed in hiding these bills II
they are so disposed, but they cannot
get away with it.
Many attempts have been made,
but they generally wind up in prison
terms. There are, however, certain
precautions which practically make
such thefts and the getting away
next to impossible. No one is per
mitted to work alone. They work
collectively. Hence one of the
strongest protective factors consists
in collective responsibility.
Most of the counting work Is
done in groups, such as bundling.
counting and asserting the bundles.
Each group receipts to the last one
that takes hold. and each group
must be responsible for what leaves
ltS fingers. IL mistake OI d
theft occurs, each member Of that
group has to pay. If a sheet of
ten-dollar bills, half finished. dis
appears in it's transit through the
bureau, the group where the loss
occurred is easily discovered. Then
the person who caused the loss is
sought. If it is a proved case of
theft, the offender goes quickly to
jail, and to the penitentiary finally.
Should it be due to carelessness,
the offender is at once discharged.
If the sheet is not recovered the
one who handled it last, must pay
face value. If individual blame
cannot be accurately fixed the
group must make good the loss. No
one can go alone into a vault where
valuables are kept. High officials
are subject to the same rule.
Every sheet Is registered before
giving out to employees: The same
sheets must be in evidence at the
finish.
The peculiar paper Is made at
a Massachusetts, factory. No visitors
are allowed to go through the mill,
vkA-s the paper is prepared for
the government.
The paper on which money and
bonds are printed is made of linen.
The only secret is the little silk
threads that are woven into the
the paper and the way they are
fastened in. A sheet of money pa
per is handled about fifteen times
But there will come a time later
in due process of preparation. before