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Show SHOULD WASH THE CURRENCY BILLS Chicago, April 15. "Wo must wash' our currency bills to prevent their conveying disease germs, and reduce them In size so that they will Letter fit our pockethooks, before wo will have approached1 the ideal in our medium me-dium of exchange." said Earues Mac-Veagb, Mac-Veagb, eon of Franklin MacVengh. secretary or the United States treasury, treas-ury, before the South Side Business Men's association last rJght. Mr. MacVeagh exhibited a dollar bill, half of which had been washed In chemlial8 at the Philadelphia mint and thy other half of It bad been received. re-ceived. There was the same noticeable difference as In a clean collar and ono worn a week without change. MacVeagh said that the government govern-ment would save from $200,000 to $3ii0,000 unnnally by washing its raper currency instead of destroying It. 1 |