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Show FEAR OF MICROBES ON MONEY IS GROUNDLESS H Asst. Surgeon Rucker of Public H Health Service Says Bills Are Very Free From Germs H Washington, Mny 14. Those who I H havo hesltntcd to nmnsB wealth ho- ll cnuso of tho warning to "llewaro of ll bllllotiB of billions of bacteria that , H lurk In every bill," need hesitate, no H longer, according to Dr. W. C. Ruck- ' H cr, assistant Burgeon general of tho j H public health service ' )H Ho declared today that tests and v M examination of currency ootn whshed , iH and unwashed bills, showed them to '' M bo singularly free, from germs. Ho i! H attributed this to tho Ink auscd In H printing tho bills, which no said had M proved to bo an almost perfect gcrml- k H "Tho public health servlco was M called upon to oxamlno tho soiled 1 M money returned to tho treasury," said ' !H Dr. Rucker, "after It had travoled J around tho country nnd had passed jiH through tho hnnds of thousands ot i H persons. To our surprise It wns found JJH to bo singularly freo from bacteria H and the Ink tmed In tho bills Is given H tho credit." i H Tho Ingredients used in tho govern- I, H ment's Ink nro not mndo public, the "BH reclpo for tho Ink manufactured by ,iH tho bureau of cngThvIng nnd printing "''jH being jealously guarded. "fH ' iBH |