Evening star., 1925-12-13
Machines Take Place of Human Touch in Tests of Cur

tokens. packet Of cigars or q ho-
OF candy. Please remove one of rhesr
silver certificates from your pocket Or
handbag and study it. You will noe
the wonderful likeness OF Georg,
Washington which appears on the
central face Of the bill. This pictur"
of our first President is the fines,
piece of plate printing known to man
II took more than eight months cf
the hardest kind OF work for the mos;
Skillful engraver TO reproduce Wash
ington'S picture In steel. That self
same picture is Impossible to counter
felt by Photographic means. Observe
how the bust OF Gen. Washington
seems to stand out from the paper SUI
face as though T. were embossed
When the couuterfeiter tries 10 repro
duce this picture by photograp phic sub
terfugeS. he invariably turns out an
inferior duplicate which has a na
surface and = easy to recognize a.
spurious
II the contemplated currency reform
goes through in its entirety, the stand
ardized 81 bill will bear the picture oc
NaShInEt ON, tho g. bin Will present
the features OF Abraham Lincoln. tho
FlO bill bear the likeness of Theodore
Roosevelt and the $50 bill Will carr.
the photograph Of Thomas Jefferson.
And. as has been previously pointed
out, the currency identification OF the
dlferent bills will be centered in tho
distinguishing seals. Eleven models
Of money each representing q denomi-
nation will do the work a nd answer
all the purposes which SO are nov
used for if this financial transforms
| llon is conSummated.
SECURITY has been the guidinG
beacon which has carried our
| existent system TO its intricate sue
| cess. Everybody who has handled
United States paper money always
knew that he was intrusted with cur
rency which was as substantial, stable
| and secure as though it consisted O.
| bars of gold and slugs Of silver. Even
| the original United States notes which
| We're never backed by gold or Rilver
| or Government bonds have continued
| 10 circulate at face value since the
return TO specie payments just after
| the Civil War. In fact this element
| Of guaranteed security has steered our
national finance from many OF the
| crises and eraS Of imitation or sta gna
ton which have handicapped the eA
change media Of other lands.
! The II models Of money as sug
gested in the redesigned currency will
/
which range from s. to $4,000 As
you doubtless know. Uncle Sam makes
paper money in denominations of s.
81, 50. SO, $40. $50, 500, $500, 81 .00o
$1,000 and $4,000. Naturally the 5
! bills are exposed TO the greatest wear
and there is demand for more o.
| them than the others. The fives and
| tens are also subject to strenuous
| service. The $50 bill has a norma
| TG
used as extensively as the fves and
| tens. The higher denominations are
! even less used by the general public
| than the twenties. Many of our cItI-
| zens have never even seen d 800 or a
$500 bill. The $1,000 bills are identi-
fed by remarkable length of life,
they are not handled frequently like
the smaller denominations.
The silver dollar or cartwheel b
| lasts indefinitely and may almost be
called indestructible in view Of what
happens to our paper money in short
periods. Time was when we Aineri-
cans lugged around a pocketful o.
silver dollars and thought nothing o.
II. Visit the resort and commercial
regions of the Far West even toda
and YOU Will soon find that your
pockets will begin to sag under the
cargo of silver which You will short
lly pick up. The rank and file OF
Americans. however have gotten out
of the habi. of using silver dollars
| largely because our centers of popu-
lation have not circulated the carr
wheels extensively during recent
| years. CnqueStionably. Uncle Sam
could decrease the wear on paper
lmoney-particulariy the 81 bills-b>-
| circulating silver dollars in great
quantities and curtailing the distribu-
tion of small denomination Currenc,'
simultaneously.
| No one would dare TO find fault with
the printing OF our currency as il IS
now produced. The printing job Is a :
nearly perfection as Il Is possible 20
make human endeavor function. The
| chief objections to our pa per money
are short life, too many faces and Va
rietieS and the need for producing and
redeeming vast amounts annually due
to hard service and lack of durab bility
| When Uncle Sam institutes the re
forms which will be offsprings of the
research and investigation now under
way. the most of these difficulties Will
be eliminated. One thing is as GER
tain as the millennium-our cur
rency of the future will be as safe
secure, sound and stable as that for
merly used and IL will be more dur
able and more limited in type and
model. Standardization will be added
10 form a trio with stability and sub
Stantiality as the earmarks of our
national currency.