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i » 11 COVER SLIPS OVER FRINGE^^ SPINDLES planned to repeat tones in the wall paper of the room in which the chairs were to be used. The bold stripes of the putty tan, green and wine red material gave just the right contrast with the flowered pattern on the wall. Narrow green fringe was used for edging and the sketch shows how the two pieces of the slip cover were made. • • • NOTE: You will find more illustrations Cor making over dining room chairs, old rockers and armchairs in Mrs. Spears’ Books 5 and 6 Also directions for design ing and making rugs; hooked, braided and crocheted. Each book has 32 pages of illustrated directions. Send order to: QUINTUPLETS use MUSTEROLE for CHEST COLDS Mother! Give YOUR Child At the first sign of s chest cold—the Dfbnne Quintuplets’ chests and throats are rubbed with Children’s Mild Mus> resulting ghial and croupy coughs. Belief usnally comes quickly because Musterole is MORE than an ordinary "salve.” It helps break up local con gestion. 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A two-piece frock was 'Know Your Money and You'll Not Be Losing It to Counterfeiters,' Says Chief of the United States Secret Service FEDERAL RESERVE SEAL AND LETTER TYPE OF NOTE 5.HOWN HERR F B Qg R RteS U V *** B OOOOOOOOAT SERIAL NUMBER TREASURY SEAL SERIAL NUM6EIA PORTRAIT Study the above diagram—it shows you the position of important features of United States paper money, you get a suspected bill, compare it with a genuine bill and observe carefully the following features: By ELMO SCOTT WATSON' (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) ’HEN your friends say to you, “Well, wooden nickels!” you laugh heartily don’t take any for you recog nize it as a good joke. Of course, you wouldn’t take any wooden nickels! But there’s always a chance that you’ll do something worse—take a paper bill that looks as though But it’s just as worthless as a <s>— it ? s worth $1 or $5 or $10. wooden nickel because it’s a counterfeit. In fact, during a recent five- year period Americans were swindled to the tune of $1,- 000,000 a year by counterfeit ers and these crooks got by with it mainly because of the indifference and ignorance of their victims. How about YOU? Do you ever do more than just glance casually at the paper bills that are handed you in making change—especially when they’re handed you by a stranger? Do you know whose portrait is on a one-dollar bill, or a five, or a ten? Do you know what pictures are on the backs of those bills? If you do, you have made a good beginning towards protecting your pocketbook from the counterfeit er. If you don’t know the out standing features of your money, you have only yourself to blame if you become the victim of the counterfeiter and his vicious racket. “Yes,” you say, “but how can I learn about money? I know what it looks like, but I don’t know what to look for.” Well, the United States Secret Service has undertaken to show you what to look for. A trial edu cational campaign indicated that this loss was largely due to your lack of knowledge about money. But the campaign also showed that enlightenment of the people would protect them. Therefore, the campaign of education against crime was intensified, under the slogan “Know Your Money.” For the calendar year of 1940 the pub lic losses through acceptance of counterfeit notes were reduced to about $100,000. The Secret Serv ice believes this 90 * per cent re duction is the dividend of its “Know Your Money” campaign. Newspaper stories, magazine articles and educational pam phlets carry the message into homes, schools and the business world. A 32-page illustrated book let, just off the press, entitled “Know Your Money,” published by the Secret Service, tells how to detect counterfeit notes and coins, and how you may protect yourself against the forger of government checks. The booklet may be ob tained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., for 10 cents the copy. A sound motion picture, also entitled “Know Your Money,” entirely made by the Secret Service, and with Lowell Thomas as commentator, is being shown in high schools in the 48 states and to business groups of 100 persons or more. “There is no secret formula for detecting a counterfeit note,” says Frank J. Wilson, chief of the Unit ed States Secret Service. “Years of experience have proven that the human eye is the best coun terfeit detector in existence. But it must be properly trained. Gen uine paper money is printed on distinctive paper containing tiny red and blue silk threads. The printing is done from steel-en graved plates made by a corps of the most expert engravers in the world. “Do you have a bill in your pocket or purse? Take it out now and look closely at the portrait of Washington, Lincoln, or another of. the great Americans shown on the various denominations. You will see that the facial character istics are shaded Ly small dots and dashes, each of which is clear and distinct. In the portrait back ground you will see tiny perfectly square spaces between horizontal and vertical lines, which are also very clear. Around the border of the bill, face and back, are intri cate white lines resembling a net. These are known as the geometri cal lathework, and each line is un broken from beginning to end. Look at the colored treasury seal on the face of the bill. Around its outer edge are many sharp points which look like the teeth of a cir cular saw. “The counterfeiter has a hard time to imitate a bill and most counterfeits are crude, but some times he makes one above the av erage. Whether a counterfeit is a good or poor reproduction, you should be able to detect it by com parison with a note of the same denomination which is known to be genuine. A comparison of this kind will readily disclose defects in the portrait, the seal and the lathework border, and is definite ly the best method of counterfeit detection. If the suspected bill is FRANK J. WILSON counterfeit, its portrait will be dull, smudgy or scratchy in ap pearance. The points on the coun terfeit treasury seal will be un even or blunt, instead of sharp and regular. The white net lines in the border will be broken in many places, and generally the texture of the paper and the color of the ink will be quite different than the genuine.” It is often said that if the ink or color can be rubbed off a bill, the bill is counterfeit. Nothing could be more wrong, according to Mr. Wilson. The ink or color can be rubbed from both genuine and counterfeit notes, and such a test proves nothing. Counterfeit coins are also a source of trouble. Genuine silver coins have a clear, bell-like ring. Counterfeits sound dull. Ring sil ver coins on hard surface and be ware of those which sound like stone. In extremely rare in stances, genuine silver coins may have an invisible crack or air bub ble which would make them sound dull. However, these are so few that your chances of receiving one are very slight indeed. The corrugated outer edge of silver coins is known as the “reed ing.” It is this feature which should be closely examined on sus pected coins. Likewise, this reed ing should be compared with that on a coin of the same denomina tion known to be genuine. On most counterfeits the reeding is notice ably imperfect, but on genuine coins the corrugations are regu lar and distinct. In some cases, of course, the reeding is complete ly worn away on genuine coins which have circulated for a long time. Washington Jefferson Lincoln Hamilton Jackson Grant Franklin McKinley Cleveland Madison Chase on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all on all $10,000 bills bills bills bills bills biUs bills bills biUs bills bills 2. SEAL—On the genuine bill, the sawtooth points around the rim are identical and sharp. On the coonterfeit these points are usually different, uneven, broken off. i ^ 3. SERIAL NUMBERS—On the genuine bill, they are distinctive in style, firmly and evenly printed in the same color as the seal. On the coonterfeit the style is differ ent, poorly printed, badly spaced, uneven in appearance. 4. PAPER—Genuine bills are printed on distinctive paper con taining very small red and blue silk threads. The following information about paper currency will also be help ful: SIGNATURES — The signature of the secretary of the treasury appears at the lower right side on the front of all United States pa per money. The signature of the treasurer of the United States ap pears on the lower left side. TYPES OF CURRENCY—Out government now prints three types of currency or paper money: fed- .eral reserve notes, silver certifi cates, and United States notes. Every note or bill is distin guished by words telling which type it is, printed at the top of the bill on its face or front. The type of each bill is also shown by the color of its treasury seal and seri al numbers. The treasury seal and serial numbers are GREEN on federal reserve notes, RED on United States notes, and BLUE on silver certificates. FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES —Federal reserve notes are placed in circulation by the federal re serve banks, each bank placing its own notes in circulation through the banks located in its district. There are 12 federal reserve dis tricts. Each district has a num ber and a corresponding letter of note shows that it was issued by the Boston Federal Reserve bank in the First district. The letter “B” in the regional bank seal and the figure “2” shows that a bill was issued from the Federal Re serve Bank of New York, and so on through the list of the 12 banks to San Francisco, whose symbol letter is “L” and district number is “12.” The regional bank seal and the district number on fed eral reserve notes are always BLACK. I alter* in the CCEDE535JI BACK-TALK OF A NEW YORKER: A weekly “liberal” publication re ports that James True and Robert Edward Edmondson have been forced to stop spreading their lit erary garbage because of a lack of suckers ... I don’t believe it . . . Another weekly which features pro files complaining against gossip bases all of its profiles on gossip . . . One of those “Americans” will shortly be shown up as a bloke whose only interest in a peace negotiation is this: If Hitler loses, then he loses his personal fortune of six million dollars, and a bank in the Northeast will fail . . . Nice guy, huh? He doesn’t care what happens to your son’s life—so long as he doesn’t lose his dough! Senator Wheeler calls everybody who disagrees with him a warmon ger. If you criticize Wheeler he is the first to yelp he’s being smeared . . . Wheeler is the gent the Bund indorsed for the Presidency—if he ran. If PORTRAIT—On genuine bills, the portrait is lifelike, stands out from the oval background which is a fine screen of regular lines. Notice particularly the eyes. On a counterfeit the portrait is dull, smudgy or unnatnrally white; scratchy; the background is dark with irregular and broken lines. The portraits of 11 great Ameri cans appear on United States money. It is important for your protection that you know on which bills these portraits appear. Re gardless of the type of bill, all bills of the same denomination bear the same portrait, as follows: William Rhodes Davis denies h# is peddling erl to the Nazis . . . What’s that erl refinery he admits owning in Hamburg, Germany, used for—killing mosquitoes? . . . Dr. Kingdon, ex-president of the Univ. of Newark, is quoted by the Her- Trib as telling a group that Amer ica’s great need is to be “re-dis covered” . . . Hmmmm. The Times says editorially that all during the campaign Willkie was in favor of FDR’s foreign policy . . . That’s not so . . . Remember the speeches in which he claimed that FDR was responsible for Munich, and when Willkie said the Presi dent’s foreign policy would ruin this nation? . . . The New York Times seems to have an abbreviated mem. ory. The Topeka State Journal’s tele graph editor, Arthur J. Carruth, 3rd, thought we’d be interested in the following Associated Press word- age which came over that teletype in the Kansas City area: “Editors: New lead British Offensive. RAF give Ratzis terrific blasting KX” . . . Ho, hum . . . That’s not the first time we’ve been on the big-time. American ships must not trans port war supplies to Great Britain, or appeasers and other friends of Germany would holler blue murder . . But an American ship loaded with war supplies for Japan (for its war against China), and nobody said anything about that. It hap pened in the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas . . . The little boy from Iowa wants peace, too . . . But he makes speeches before acquitted bomb- makers. Ex-Senator Holt gives out dark hints about the people behind the President “who are working secret ly to ruin the country” . . . We can tell Holt in a jiffy who is behind the President—The People! . . . All the ostriches who insist tha^ Hitler is no danger to America are loud supporters of our defense program ... If Hitler is no danger—what are they defending us against—a British invasion? Mark Sullivan, the Washington sage, laments that Lindbergh has been smeared by some sections of the press and public . . . That’s too bad . . . Lindbergh can say what he likes—but if you say what you like about Lindbergh, you’re unfair . . . Life says Vain Marshall has been smeared by the press . . . We wish someone would define the word smear to us ... It used to mean an unfair and untrue attack. Now it seems to describe any sort of criticism based on facts. G-Men seem to be always in the middle. Senators Norris and Wheel er, John L. Lewis, Max Lowenthal (there’s a character that rates be ing written up) and the commies claim the G-Men have gone too far against subversive groups . . . Con gressman Dies claims they haven’t gone far enough ... Somebody needs a rehearsal. the alphabet for its symbol. City SYMBOL DISTRICT LETTEK NUMBED Boston A.. 1 New York ... B.. Philadelphia • ###••• C/ • • •. • •. 3 Cleveland ... Richmond ... Atlanta Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Kansas City .. Dallas San Francisco The letter “ A” in the regional bank seal on a federal reserve Senator Hiram Johnson is quoted as saying he is no appeaser and “wants to see Hitler whipped and Britain triumphant” . . . Then why is he always blocking and fighting aid to Britain? That new song, “I’m Jerk McGerk from Albuquerque,” reminds me: Whatever became of Montana’s Jake Thorkelson? ... Do you care to know what became of all those peo ple who belittled our pleas to wake up two years ago? . . . They ar* now wearing tiny American em blems in their coat lapels. The Civil Liberties Union deplores the fact that some freedom of the Nazi-American Bund has been curbed . . . With the freedom of all civilization at stake—look at the things they worry about! . . . The Nation and New Republic reveal great concern about the growth of the Trojan Horse in America. They urge something be done about it . . . 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