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The Wingham Advance Times, 1926-08-05, Page 8;IFI 7„ t ; 1. 11•!''' 7'S 1E •„-..,_:-,-."..-•= -- ,-....-„•,. ;;.. e Pts,.. m .,..a i9i/Y7'//Y'G Notes and Certificates of Reduced Size Soon to Be Issued by the Treasury — More Con- venient to Handle, and Will Last Longer in Circulation —When the. Dollar Was Born." By RENE BACHE OCKETBOOK manufacturers smaller plates from which the all over the country have money is printed, less ink required, been writing to the Treasury, .one-third less paper needed. asking anxiously how soon the "small' money" is going to be issued. That Iasi is a mighty important' o The Treasury cannot say how Item. Paper for the currency soon, because the requisite arrange- ments have notyet been made. It is coming, however, before long. Many millions of pocketbooks are sold annually in the United States. The .manufacturers are obliged to get them out a year in advance of the retail market. That is why they are anxious. For the small: money will radically alter the character of the demand for their product. Billfolds and pocket- books With ' which • billfolds are combined, will no longer be wanted, inasmuchas the new paper, cur- rency wiltfit,. fiat and unfolded in• an ordinary wallet' 'the are to be only six 'inches long 'anybulk• , and :weight by one-third the country. Out downand there. two and a half inches, wide. They y note_ will be a big saving. will fit easily into an ordinary Way,Experiments made with bank paper envelope; which, by the ton' will be quite a convenience, The clerks and 'tellers in Washing have shown that paper currency of paper money now in use is- seven tem Istel does not and one-third inches long and the• size con P three and one-eighth inches wide, cramp the fingers, in the counting e of it, as do the bills of now. Which means that the new paper dollars 'll be onlytwo-thirds the These trialsweremade in a very a wx carried fiat,Practical way, -• with Philippines Present ` size. Beinghi i rinted and not folded, • they will have a paper money, all of which is.printed 'much longer "life." . It is reckoned at the Bureau of Engraving in h Treasury that they will last . Washington, 'That currency` is of byt the y- the exact proposed for. United` at least. one-third longer in circula tion. States notes and certificates, six by Hence there will be only two - proved in all respects satisfactory thirds as many bills to be re- in our Asiatic achipelago. deemed each year as unfit for e. That will save money. • New Bills For Old further use. That But in -.other ways there will. be ° When the "small money" is is- Saving On Paper Cost costs the government nearly • 81,- 600,000 per annum. Cut that bill down one-third, and there is a saving' of close to half a million dollars yearly. It costs the government one cent to print a paper `dollar and put it In circulation. The paper used is of the finest quality. made .from. the best linen rags that the rag market affords. There is sone cotton in it,. because otherwise it would be too hard. • Five tons of paper currency' are shipped out of Uncle Sam's money factory M Washington every week- day in the year. It costs' a lot to The new notes and certificates. distribute ' it by express all' over : saving: Less engraving for the sued, there will be very little trouble because of two sizes of'cur- rency in, circulation. Great .quan- tities 'of 'the"newnotes and certifi- cates cates will 'be prepared in -advance,• to be exchanged 'for, old ones' at sub -treasuries, .banks, and other financial establishments. At the: present: time the currency in circulation amounts to $41.73 for everyman, woman and child in the United • States.' "Ever"y • now 'and• then the newspapers print' a state- ment. of that'kind, with a' headline saying;•"Haveiyou'got your share?"' Whereupon thousands of : people writeto the Treasury Department, asking for "their. share." It is really very funny,,' There is only one piece of money that the people of .this country do • not seem to ,want. It is• the two- dollar bill. They think it is un- lucky. Many persons will not ac- cept one if they, can help It, Various reasons have been given for the bad luck supposed to'attach to a two -dollar bill, but the true explanation is offered by a man who is in a position to know. Ile is thecurrency expert of the U. S. Ti5/.' c5'�/./vr E.9Y/ ��" �`/Y'GJ%�f/!�./YG ./!Yl�l!•9?i5!�%YG- Bureau of Efficiency, . William Atherton . Du Puy. • Pirate Superstition a It is `a part of that Bureau's job to devise ways /or making the: cur-. rericy''flow freely, and thus it was that' Mr. Du L'uy,was_led:to;'a.spe- cial inquiryon the subject of ;the two -dollar, bill. "People object .to - two -dollar bills," `he said, "because the pirates of the Spanish Main;. centuries ago; disliked' money of 'that • denoinina- tion. "The idea had' its origin et a period' when we^had •no money of our own. We were English colonies, but England had `so, little coin for her own use that she' could not spare us any. So we used wampum in New York and tobacco in Vir- ginia. "Those were the palmy days of Spain. She had beefs getting vast quantities of silver from Mexico, and she had plenty of coin. In. the English colonies of America coin was, at a premium,' and so it came about that much Spanish metal money towed in their direction. More Spanish , coin than 'English circulated in the colonies. "That is how we came, to use dollars . instead .of the English shillings ' and pounds. Ou•r'. dollar is the old 'piece of eight' so often spoken of in pirate stories. "The 'piece ofeight' was a coin of eight reales or bits. Our dollar has eight bits in it;: which is the reason why we • sometimes speak of 'four .bits' or 'twobits' in reck- oning the price of a, 'thing. "In the old days there : were 'pieces of six,' `pieces of ten,' pieces "of twelve,' and even 'pieces of thirteen,' ,The piece of thirteen was a huge silver .coin, about equal in value to the Englishten-shilling piece,, Which was worth approxi- mnately two dollars. Chests Of Silver Money "When piracy was ' in flower these pieces of thirteen were in general circulation, . and many of then found their way to the West Indies. Chests full of them were transported by ships which on some occasions were captured and looted by freebooters. "Theirates though. greedy, for n g money, did not like _feces of thir- teen. p teen. People had mistrusted that nuhiber ever since the Last Supper and the betrayal of the Saviour by Judas. Those sea -wolves were 'ex- ceedingly superstitious, and •'it is said, whether truly or not, that many 'a ghest of the ' two -dollar pieces was thrown overboard, in sheer fear lest possession of them invite 'misfortune. "This idea • about . two -dollar. pieces, 'that, they were' unlucky, spread from the West Indies and the Spanish Main to our Southern States, and thence. to the :North. It •now prevails everywhere in this country, having transferred itself to the two -dollar 'bill, :Many a man, if a bill of that denomination bepaid to liim over a counter, will hand it back. "On the other hand 'there has never been in this world a:piece of money so popular as the American dollar bill. From Uncle Sam's 'point of view, it is even .too much' liked. The dollar- bill, passing' con - • stantly from hand to hand, is soon worn out, and to replace it with a new one costs something.: Indeed, the tendency to' the use of more and more dollar bills is rather re- markable. Ten • years ago forty per cent of the total paper money in circulation in this country was in the shape of one dollar bills; today it is fifty per cent, Tale Of The Dollar Bill "There are always - about half a billion dollar bills . in the pockets of the people of the United States. Onan average, they last a'; year. If the story of .the adVentures of a single dollar hill could: be •,known and told, from_ the time it is issued fresh and .crisp from the Treasury to its return through the banks for redemption, soiled and perhaps ragged, the tale would be a thrill- ing' romance. Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief; shopgirl, flapper, actress; bootlegger -thou- sands of persons handle ; it and pass it on. It knows no rest. follows that the government is obliged to print half a billion dollar 'bills each year, toreplace those, worn out. Those :bills, 'man ufactured in a twelvemonth, would weigh seven 'hundred and fifty tons. It .would take a train ' of. twenty freight: cars to.. carry the annual output, which would carpet a road five feet wide from New York to San Francisco. There are today seven times as many dollar bills in.circulation as in 1900. "The dollar is today the dom- inant money unit of . the world. Everybody uses it. Yet there are few who have any idea where and 'when it first came into existence., "It was born 'way back in 1616,, In St: Joachim's Thal, in Hungary. St. Joachim's Thal was a valley over which ruled, in ,those feudal' times, the noble and high-born Count of Schlitz. "The Count discovered a silver mine on his property, and, k ow- ing a good. thing when he s'a it, he, put his serfs to work and o, ceeded to develop it. ' Ore fr in the mine was smelted, yielding; ingots which were converted into coins.' In short, the count set• up. a mint, and on the face of each> coin he stamped a portrait of St. Joachim, the patron saint of the valley. "In honof • of the saifit and the valley, he called his coins 'jpachimsthalers,' and,metal money being rather scarce at that period, they soon found wide eir- culation, ,becoming current not only in Hungary but also in Ger-' Many. ' "In Germany the name shrank to 'thalers,' ' a term still in use. When thalers reached Holland they became 'dales's,' and, arriving in England they were called dollars.. "For a ''century before .4 aaricans began to make. their owetal money the word 'dollar' W. used as a name for coins of seve a Eu+ ropean nations which had approx- imately a certain value. Thus -the Spanish 'piece of eight' was called a. dollar by the colonists, who 'when they became a nation made it 'the. basis of their currency system. ' Warehouse Receipts For Coin 'For eighty years after we began to have money of our own man-, ufacture' dollars were mostly silver. There was no . paper money issued ' by the . central government. Life ' was much more simple in those days, and the currency needs of our ancestors were so limited that silver served their purposes' well enough. Even as late as the Civil War it was quite customary for a well-to-do gentleman to fare forth on the first of the 'month in his carriage with bags of jingling.coin, to call on his creditors and pay their :bilis: . "Later on. we learned the lesson of paper money redeemable in 'coin.It was not until we had mastered that principle that 'hard money began to be replaced by paper.. Expansion of business had by,that time made. silver unsuitable for its transaction, becauseof the bulk and weight of the metal, "In 1878 Congress. passed a law saying that any person who owned 'silver dollars might deposit them in the Treasury and get warehouse receipts' for them: These receipts are still given, taking the form of what we call 'silver certificates.' Our one -dollar bills are mostly. ,silver ,certificates. "Back of every. paper si ver certificate is a minted •e Iver , dollar stored , in ; the Treasu ` y for its redemption. The piece pa- per is a warehouse, receipt,, hich can be exchanged at any ti for the oin it re esents e h c pr n It is the actual silver dollar that the pos- sessor of the certificate owns, and he can get it whenever he wants it." C/47YCEP Z.,,Cw. /747, R,,57b. . .:.._• hs#:7;., r—^ < /r'�G/^lss�• f�..5E/Y C''/.//%Ti��Y�"C�•, Research and Exploration Have Revealed Specific for DreadDisease— Remedy Found in Heart of Jungle After Long Hunt. By FRANKLIN . JOHNSON �.NTIL recent years a diagnosis of Christ. In ancient Egypt: the of leprous infection has been equivalent to a death warrant, with banishment frons civil- ized contact as the inevitable por- tion of the sufferer who lingered. Today's patient has the prospect of possible cure and a return to his former surroundings. The leper camp is no longer a place of living death, in which all hope is abandoned. ' The extent to which cures have' been effected is indicated by the records: for a recent period of ap- proxirta:tely two years, • during Which 142 patients were paroled ,frons the leprosy hospital' in Hawaii, with no relapses reported at the end of tho period. A single month of this stretch: of time saw the release of 64 patients, an the medical finding that they were no longer a menace to the public health, Once Principal' al' Disease In the lightit of history the emod- . rn record !struly remarkable. encral thing leprosy has been Astig considered incurable, and the death e tremendous. Eminent tollhas been authorities .hand declared that the ailment was the principal disease, i middle -age , ,Chrlstendorn,' and 0 het its ravaged dated back tsar period 15,00A year before the', birth scourge was extremely prevalent among, the people living in the valley of the Nile, More modern times have seen the disease widely scattered in Asia, Africa, the West Indies, cer- tain parts of South America, and sortie of the isolated regions of the European continent. At o'ne time there were 'O6 religious hospitals for lepers In Great Britain' alone, These were, abandoned in: the fif- teenth 'century when there carne a remarkable diminution',' of the scourge. -' America's chief Interest in the disease came through the Hawaiian Islands into .whlclx area the infer tion Is supposed to have .been irxi- ported by Chinese ltninigrants. Prior to 1848 the ailment was un- known in the islands. Within less than 20 years the tiumber'of lepers had' risen to 280, and by 1882, 34 years after its introduction, the disease had 4,000 persons marked. at Its victims. In addltien to'this condition in Hawaii, tt e United States has had some distributien in its continental territory. Lepel' colonies ate maintained by the Government in Louisiana and IYawaii, e a i u The p epic of 'India„ r huh,. n,. dress of years fled known some- thing of the etirtitlVo value of the G ...4.9r/G/700GiP�9 7/rtse41 �rq/p,47,YraG.c,-ass oil produced by, the scattered trees known, to science as. Taraktogenos kursil, The Oil' itself was known as chaulunoegra, long used in crude tasltlon by the natives,of the Fast.. ;Indies, through -local application or Internal dosing, Government investigators sought more 'direct. methods' 01 ' utilization and lis Covered them in the form ,of, in lectiOns torted into the muscles of the patient. From this •diarover'y, dates the modern „effectiveness af' the ohaulnlool;ra oil as a cure for; leprosy. Yrs studying 'the suhj et e ofin- jection,' jection,' the'first' goal of • th.e stleh tilts Was to determine which of the constituents ofch.autmoogra, dil poeeeI1ied aefnite',. V&lUe ; fn" the treatment : of the disease. To achieve this.,knowiedge. they split the substance into its '.component' parts, and isolated the various ele- ments, The work along this line was done by" .Dr, Frederick B. Rower, now. a laboratory worker in the United States Bureau of Chemistry: In.Spiitting the ell Dr., Power discovered a marvelous Crystallines acid from which he lvt are •1n ,own . as re aced 'what c p n 'ethyl esters,"'the material Used in tr'e ting 'sufferers from le ros Y, Experimental Work 'Armed with these esters --the Public ,Y'Heaitli' Scrviee conducted experiments at the leper eoiany' in. t nt tud even Ilawati;" Iyorsfs e s y developed ped the° effectiveness- of 'the :injection 0.47- C•:.Sf9G G /'70 76iP. "7 ,flip. '-4 method, .which overcame. the diffi- culties' connected with the internal appll<aition of ' an oil that had proved itself, so nauseaing that pattens could ould not retain it after l c The had been somal tlw d i Te re- sult of this discovery- has been to enlist!, cl auimooli'ra oil to take its lace in` the scientific world as the p standard treatment for iepiOsy',': rtant truth dem- ith this ireportant W p. ont>ttrated the World ways confronted with .the need for an adequate source of supply, There •'are, said More than twolepers to be n million 1 pers in ,Various quarters of the globe. To insure p roduetien of the ell in the q required ualntities It was nec q essary that'eclenoe should promote the cultivatiotl of the C au mooga li l. r` tree an, ascale much greater than that . re e entod the lin iced pr s by . i su 1 in Burma and Beh al. pfl y g Tho investigations pursued 'byt. the United States Department of Agriculture disclosed that there was a small coinn'iercial trade in the seeds', of the oriental trees, re- sulting front the activities of a few natives who collected the seedsin the jungle and brought; them to the centers of , population, • to be sold in the bazaars' and. market places. Some of, the products thus bartered were the genuine article; and others were not,. • To overcome . the , handicap of uncertainty,- caused by lack of positive knowledge concerning the seeds thus offered :commercially, the investigators realized that 'the wild -growing trees could not be relied upon as the ultimate source of supply.: They became convinced that trees of the proper type must he g,l'ewn as a ,plantation.crop for the production of, oil before there Could be any definite knowledge as to source and ptirity. I In this way it Caine about "that the authorities .commissioned Dr. Joseph F. Rock to trace the ..trees in their native environmentand scould obtain cene that t t d be used for ro on Amer P 1 ghagat ort i scan soil in the Hawaiian Islands. Thetravels s of this scientist took him ,into the remdte'jtitg1es of the Orient, over a period several yeats in duration, Throtigh, Siam, through h. various regions of southeastern Asia, and iu stctlops almost beyond; paiiteatety- tion, this distinguished botanist `. pressed his search for the correct species:. r, ll4any False Trails The wanderings of the scientific expedition were' full of hardships and disappointments. After a long journey by houseboat,' canoe, afoot' and on beasts' of burden, the ex- plorers' were' apt to find; that;they had been following' a wrong scent, .and that the trees discovered were not the true type which produces{ the priceless oil, but a „closely rem sated kinsman _ that had many of the family characteristics withou4 ability to. deliver the 'goods. Ex, periences of this hind involved ,many hundred miles of wasted journeyings through the jungles and mountains of various parts oflt ' India and neighboring countries. The first glimpse of the longi sought trees was' achieved tail I{houng Kyew; a small village 09 a :bend of the Khodan river. T1s trees were tall, and stately, with extreme: height of 60 feet. Th growth covered the steep hill ides, on an area no greater than ?i 40 acres, The limited growth, "pro- ditced but a small quantity -of the much prized seeds, and the Amer- ican scientist ; determined 'to pro - need further into the jungle; i the hope .of finding the cluster o huts known as Kyokta, 'a village of thirty houses said to be close tot the home of ,a large forest of the trees. • , (s,envine 'frees Discovered Five miles from Kyokta the journey brought„ its full reward. The sole means of approach 'was;' by way of a creek bed which was dry during the season at which the Visitors appeared. Following this channel, the scientist found the banks 'growing steeper and steeper; with changing character of vegeta- tion, culminating in a dense growth of Taraktogenos kurzii-the object of the long continued exploration, 'The seeds cblleeted by Dr.. Rock were sent to Washington and to Honolulu' for germination and propagation, The results :have been highly satisfactory in ' produc- ing several thbut;aria, trees which. promise' a dependable supply of Oil. 'Throughe' g the activities of th Washington statixoritiee there have been donations of seeds to other countries, with a view to est ish-a ing Widespread c t vatton '.tho is rewth The seeds grow in a fruit the size of a large orange.' Extraction theof oil is aCcoinpllslted by means of cruNlxng between rollers, stilet the seeds have'' been dried in ill* Mtn 4