The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-09-21
LETTERS FOR
SPECIAL DELIVERY
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U. S. Bureau of Engraving,
Washington, D. c.
Gents:
T JUST ran across an item saying
THAT you plan to work overtime
printing 240, 600, 900 new one-dollar
bills needed by the country to re-
place worn out currency and I guess
you are fooling. No dollar has last
ed long enough to get worn out in
this country in the last 10 years. It
isn't even around long enough to
need pressing or repairing. If there
Is an immediate need of 240, 600, 600
new dollar bills it must be because
there is a confetti shortage.
Or else you are forced to it by
the fact so many dollar bills
get lost or are thrown away.
There must be millions of them
in cutters, beneath subway graf
ings, in old clothes and under
beds. There was a time when
they would be recovered but no.
body will bother to pick up a
buck any more. Suit pressers
don't take them out of pants
pockets these days. They clean
and press them and return them
with the pants. You can drop
a new dollar bill on the street
anywhere today and nobody will
stoop to pick it up, as 1t is worth
more than that to bend.
Until the last year or two a dollar
bill could be used as a tip in the
cheaper restaurants but the walters
there will not accept them any
more. Few movie houses want any
truck with them. Bring a dollar to
a butcher and e what you get.
Mice r refusing them. I stuffed
some dollars in a dark corner of the
pantry months ago and they are still
untouched. You have to use at least
five-dollar greenbacks to arouse the
interest Of a mouse.
The fellow who used to attract at
tention by lighting a cigar with a
dollar bill is in a complete eclipse.
"A dollar goes so fast in all other
ways that he would just be accused
of boarding. Where do you bureau
Of engraving boys spend your spare
time? Don't you ever get around
and learn the facts Of American
economic life?
am surprised that Harry
Truman and the Democratic
party permit you to threaten the
country with more dollar bills.
1t will cost the party a lot Of
votes. And the support Of kids
who will become voters later Is
being lost, as nothing Is looked
upon with more contempt by
them than q dollar in any way,
shape or form. Give a kid a
dollar today for going 100 yards
to the drugstore and he will cut
you down with the look that
kills. I know a kid who left
home because he helped dry the
dishes and his mother only gave
him three bucks, a gold watch,
. movie protector and two
quarts of ice cream.
So be yourself and forget about
printing 24O, 600, 900 more dollars.
Yours,
Elmer.
P.S.-What are you quoting on a
trade-in allowance on a few old dol
lar bills which I just found on the
floor Of a grocery and which not
even the clerks would bother with?
Would 10 cents be too much? They
are in good condition.
PROOF
He's q Video comic,
My little pet;
/ can tell it by
The aDay be SWEATH
mayor In Tears; Files For Pen
sion"-N. Y. Times headline. With
a suitable interval, we assume.
1.-THE clocks on my left and right
as well as my wrist watch show it
is now 6:25."-Mr. Malik in adj
journing a security council session.
va mean he would accept the time
Of three time pieces without any
argument!
A horse called Golden Bells won
a race the other day and paid $21O
to win and $50 to place. Shudda
Haddim missed him, Of course.
..And talk about a hunch!" he
squawks. Gall the way to the track
a guy is talkin' to me about ring
ers. Also this skinner is by Swing
And Sway and I make the trip to
the track in &. bus which rocks so
muchI get seasick. Golden Bells?
Swing and Sway? Get it? And I
let it get away from mel"
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