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Show Uncle Sam to Make New Paper Money SECRETARY MELI.ON'S approval approv-al of the new designs for paper money, under consideration for more than a year, has been announced an-nounced at the Treasury department and many brand new bills of distinctive distinc-tive type and marking soon will be In circulation. The new designs at first will affect only United States notes, silver certificates certifi-cates and federal reserve notes In denominations de-nominations tip to $100, with the exception ex-ception of the "unpopular" two dollar note, but It Is hoped later to extend the new designs amounting almost to a program of standardization -to national na-tional bank notes and ultimately to the rare gold certificates. Working to make the Job of counterfeiting counter-feiting less remunerative, treasury experts chose the method of standardizing standard-izing designs, giving one denomination of all kinds of currency one distinctive distinc-tive design for face and hack, so that those persons Into whose possession the money comes may recognize instantly in-stantly if alteration has been attempted. at-tempted. The faces of the new hills will carry portraits of well known figures In American history, mostly presi dents, and the best known faces have been chosen for the bills most used. The one dollar bill for Instance, will have Washington's portrait; the five, Lincoln, and the ten, Jackson. Cleveland's Cleve-land's likeness will appear on the twenty-dollar bills while for the fifties and one hundreds, the portraits of General Grant and Benjamin Franklin, Frank-lin, respectively, have been selected. The backs of the new bills will be of the same general character as the present gold notes, consisting of the conventional scroll work panel with lathe work border and not pictures and thus the design of any one denomination denomi-nation will become well known, whether wheth-er it be a United States note, silver certificate or federal reserve note. The whole design will be uniform, nnd the difficulty of "raising" bills to higher denominations, Chief Moran of the secret service believes, will be greatly Increased. As for the unpopular two-dollar bill, a new design for It was not Included since Its discontinuation is being considered. con-sidered. If It finally Is decided to continue con-tinue the bill a portrait of Thomas Jefferson will he used. |