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Show COST OF METALS : i REDUCES FAKERY i WASHINGTON, March 5. Rising I costs of metals work at least one benefit bene-fit to the government and the public, j They are largely responsible for the I marked decrease in counterfeiting 1 during the last year. The "non-prec-I ious" metals, from which bogus coins are made have como so near .o being precious that the margin of profit in . the counterfeiting business has been cut, and little bad money now is being put. into circulation. Thiswas disclosed today by treasury treas-ury secret service officials, who for ! reasons of policy did not make public j the exact decrease in counterfeiting I cases discovered within the last year. I Other reasons ascribed for the great I reduction of illegal coin manufactured were that a number of former counterfeiters coun-terfeiters have been taken by the army j draft, and work is now so plentiful that men criminally inclined did not iavo to resort to counterfeiting to make a good living. ; no |