Show TREASURY OFFICIAL TALKS Tells of Old Evils of Work In the Department and Then Speaks of Some Recent Reforms A treasury official got reminiscent the other day and began to talk about some of the old evils of work In the treasury department and then began to speak of reforms Among other reforms re-forms liosald was one which the new school of antimicrobe doctors havo instituted which he believed to be avery a-very excellent one This is in teaching teach-ing people that money is filthy lucre Indeed he added when it la made ot paper Within the last few years the amount of paper money returned for cancellation has doubled Now the treasury redeems and destroys about two million dollars In bills daily Most of tho notes are of tile smaller small-er denominations the ono and the two dollar variety People have learned that death lurks in tho dirty currency They like the Idea of clean now cranky bills in their pockets The banks havo learned that their customers like this and they are usually ready to redeem re-deem the old bills because only the express charges stand between them I and getting all tho clean money they want Formerly a note would stay out for threo or four years Now I think the average is not over fourteen months So roughly speaking the entire en-tire circulation is renewed about one In every two years and a half Tho government finds It costs a little more but it encourages the renewal re-newal for all that The old bills are put into an electric machine that punches and then slices them at a rate of sometimes one million notes a day daAnd And here Is an unusual little bit of Information also Do you have any Idea how many now onedollar bills It will take to equal In weight a 20 gold pleco Probably not Hardly one out of a hundred you meet and ask will be able to give you a good guoss Well It takes 20 now onus After they have been used and soiled and crumpled It takes only 25 You can see bow much dirt those notes must have absorbed to have gained a whole note In weight |