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Show 1928 Will Mark Change In Ui S. Paper Money The year 1928 will mark the first change in size of paper money since 1861. For months the bureau of engraving engrav-ing and printing, the greatest print shop in the world, will be busy making new and smaller $1.00 bills so that upon some fixed day next fall they may be issued simultaneously throug-out throug-out the country and the old ones re- tired at one swoop, to be redeemed , of course upon demand. Notes, of ! other denominations will be printed ! and put in circulation probably in : 1929. I The new notes will be 6 5-16 by 2 11-16 inches whereas the notes now pear on the different denominations and the various kinds of notes. Washington's Wash-ington's portrait, for example, appears both on the $1 and some $20 bills. Treasury officials point out that through standardizing the designs the new notes cannot be so easily "raised" to higher denominations by the crooked crook-ed gentry who make this their business. busi-ness. In addition to standardized designs de-signs on the new paper money there will be a relation between the portrait j of the face and the engraving on the I Back, except in cases of the $1 bill and those above $100. On the face of the- new $1 bill will i be the portrait of Washington and on j the back will be the word "ONE" in J ' large letters. On the $2 bill will be a portrait of Jefferson with an en- ggraving of Monticello, his home, on the back. j Lincoln's portrait will be on the face of the $5 bill with the Lincoln Memorial on the back. Hamilton's portrait will appear on the face of the $10 bill and treasury buildings on : the back. For the face of the $20 bill Grover Cleveland's portrait has been chosen, with the White House for the back. , , Grant's portrait will be on the face of the $50 bill, Benjamin Franklin's on the $100, McKinley's on the $500, Jackson's on the $1000, Madison's on the $5000 and Chase's on the $10,000. .All these designs have , "been approved, ap-proved, although some may be'ehang-erl be'ehang-erl Inter. Xo retirement of money making machinery will be necissitated by the ; change, it is said. in circulation are 7 7-16 by 3 1-8 inches. By the change the government govern-ment expects to save $2,000,000 annually. an-nually. The reduction in size cf the bills is expected to increase the capacity ca-pacity of the bureau of engraving and printing by 50 percent because 12 of the smaller notes can be printed at one impression upon the same press which now prints but eight. Through the change in size the bills will be made more convenient to handle han-dle and will also be more durable. The new notes will slip into a bill fold or pocket, it is claimed, without creasing or folding, and for this reason are cx-' cx-' pected to have much longer life thr.n those now in use. The life of th? average b'"ll is not more than six or seven m '.nt'-.s, 'reasury officials say. Folding i.. . f ;he chief items cutting cut-ting shorl !' of paper money. Designs of the bills are also to be standardized. Many designs now ap- |