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Show ' j ONCf OVf R : ; 'kj Money- Currency or Confetti? " By H. I. PHILLIPS five-dollar greenbacks to arouse the interest of a mouse. The fellow who used to attract attention at-tention by lighting a cigar with a dollar bill is in a complete eclipse. A dollar goes so fast in all other ways that he would just be accused of hoarding. Where do you bureau of engraving boys spend your spare time? Don't you ever get around and learn the facts of American economic life? S. Bureau of Engraving, "shington, D. C. GicU: J HIST ran across an item saying 'Jat you plan to work overtime "tag 240,000.000 new one-dollar "f needed by the country to re- worn out currency and I guess ''" fooling. No dollar has last-0ng last-0ng enugh to get worn out in - ' country in the last 10 years. It ' eve around long enough to - 1 Pressing or repairing. If there i 11 ""mediate need of 240,000,000 ' dollar bills it must be because . re a confetti shortage. - J )b0r e'se you are forced to It by ' 'act so many dollar bills L l05t or are thrown away. e,e must be millions of them y In"'!"8' benea" subway gratis, grat-is, In 0,d clothes and nnder (J tb' There was a time when u'l Won,d be recovered but no-I no-I 2 WU1 bothe'' 'o Pick up a tl , ' ay mre. Suit pressers I PockV 'hem out of Pants aw ese days- T1ey clean Wi?.?SS them and return them 1; , "e pants. You can drop vh d"ar bUI on tne street ilnl . ,oday and nobody will ;r Pick it up, as lt u worth i tt0te that to bend. I am surprised that Harry Truman and the Democratic party permit you to threaten the country with more dollar bills. It will cost the party a lot of votes. And the support of kids who will become voters later is being lost, as nothing is looked upon with more contempt by them than a dollar in any way, shape or form. Give a kid a dollar today for going 100 yards to the drugstore and he will cut you down with the look that kills. I know a kid who left home because he helped dry the dishes and his mother only gave him three backs, a gold watch, a movie projector and two quarts of ice cream. bl cnS St year or two a dollar ' w used as a UP ' tere Lr,?Staurants but the waiters ' Uote F not "ccept them any ' W is" movie houses want any ,utch them- Bring a dollar to Mice ar!r 8nd see wnat vou get- 1 some d ii usinS them. I stuffed hMrv m to a dark corner of tne VtdWhs ago and they are still You have to use at least So be yourself and forget about printing 240,000.000 more dollars. Yours, Elmer. . p. S. What are you quoting on a trade-in allowance on a few old dollar dol-lar bills which I just found on the floor of a grocery and which not even the clerks would bother with Would 10 cents be too much? They are in good condition. |