Show WAY TELLING OF BAD MONEY FROM GOOD GOO GOODNew New York Times Weve all had that slang pleasantry sh shat shot sho shoat at us Well so long old man Be Ba sure suro yo yoi you dont take any bad money Good advice assuredly and unlike mo moe most other good advice wed all like to take 1 It ii But how many of us can do It tt Hoi Hor How many of us can tell a counterfeit banknote from a genuine one According to A L 1 Drummond forme former chief of the United States secret service and said to be the foremost expert in th the country on both metal and paper cur cui currency currency rency there are very ery few people who pos positively positively know bad money from good TM This Ignorance e so the says Is shared share even by bank tellers cashiers and other others who are constantly handling thousand thousands of dollars dollan and whose mistake might eai easIly Ill lly cost coat their employers a snug fortune This statement Is L not as sensational a ait as asit ait it seems at first glance Mr Drummon Drummond says that the fact that tellers and cash cashiers cashiers lers are constantly handling money dc do develops in them what might be bo called a i sixth sense by which they intuitively de detect ct suspicious currency Watch a bank cerk says s ys Mr Drum Drummond Drummond Drummond mond as he runs through a pile of money Every now and then you will notice Usa that he ho stops glances hurriedly at a bill anthen an am and then either counts It In with the rest o 0 othe of the money or tosses It to one side Then when he has reached the last note In ir th the stack he will subject the extracted note not notor or notes to a more careful and prolonged scrutiny This Is Js the moment mom nt continues Mr Mi Drummond to watch the bank officIal carefullY if It you want to discover how lit littie little littIe tie tle he really knows about detecting hat bat money The chances are that the firs first thing he will do is to 10 feel the tM banknote carefully rubbing it between the thumb I and ind second finger of each hand That almost invariably the first trial of a non expert In testing currency Then Th n he mir may ma hold lold it up to the light If he is still li it In doubt he may maTask ask the th opinion of some on om one ilse else in Ute tile bank His decision reached he IB either accepts it and lets it become i r II part of the banks funds or ho he tosses 1 It ii back jack to the man who has hns tendered it am anc and remarks 1 I dont like the looks of that Seldom will he take the responsibility o of ot doing loing what the federal law authorizes authorize urn him to do when bad money is offered him bin stamp the banknote at each end coun counterfeit In prosecuting counterfeiters Mr Drum Drummond nond mond has time and again seen bank of ot meals display this uncertainty upon the th witness stand Some such dialogue as this takes akes place between the witness and the prisoners lawyer This banknote says the lawyer hold holdIng Ing ng in his hand the spurious bill which ny my client Is ia alleged to have passed you yoi firmly believe to be bo counterfeit I 1 do answers the witness What makes you think so soWell soWell 7 Well here the witness begins to tc fidget it seem Tight right and It II the t th same appearance that a 0 genuIne Ine no banknote has The witness has ha h been simply Depending on n his hla Intuitive knowledge of good mon mars mony money ey y iy In this instance as In the majority ol ot Instances It misled him But it makes lakes him an easy mark for the pils pris pilsners prisoners ners lawyer when he be asks sk Please tell in detail In what way this note ote sote looks and feels different from other otes notes j jI I can only say that it does replies the witness meekly Are you then prepared to say bel er are ate under oath that this bank banknote note tote ote waa was not engraved In the bureau of and engraving at Washington No I Iam am not answers the witness who rho Is then dismissed from the th st stan his rt practically valueless |