Show CUBANS KICK THAT MONEY IS WORN OUT HAVANA Nov 20 Americans Americans in Cuba have Joined Cuban bankers and business businessmen men in making fresh complaint of th the worn-out worn money in circulation here bere Except Except Except Ex Ex- Ex- Ex silver the only currency in In use is American It has has has' been been- Changing hands so often that it is tattered almost beyond the point of recognition and health experts experts ex ox- have declared that much of it Is a public menace Bills that once were green now are brown and yellow The edges are frayed and the best small bills obtainable even from banks banis are so frightfully filthy that it if found in the states they would be quickly called in and destroyed While the money in Havana is disreputable disreputable it itis is fine compared with much in general circulation in the provinces Physicians Physicians Phy Pity have protested on the ground that it spreads skin diseases and they have advised patients to demand silver sliver even cven If it a truck Is needed to cart it around The story is told Here nere of at a traveling man from Georgia who on a recent trip to the island brought 1000 new one dollar bills which he sold to the natives at 2 each Many 1 natives however refused to accept them on the ground that they were counterfeit In some shops In Havana new American money is looked on en with suspicion and not infrequently large new bills are taken first to a bank to find if It they are genuine I |