The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise., August 16, 1922, Page PAGE THREE, Image 3

About The Cody enterprise and the Park County enterprise. (Cody, Wyo.) 1921-1923

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1922.
M. CHAMBERLIN
DENTIST
HOTEL CHAMBERLIN
Cody, Wyoming
The Mint Case
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Connection
We serve Eastern corn-fed
Beef—Steaks a Specialty
Home Made Chile
Everything Good to Eat
DWIGHT E. HOLLISTER
Attomey-at-Law
Cody, Wyoming
Pioneer Bldg. Phone 98
Howerton & Scholes
General ■ Contracting
Mill and Cabinet Work
Estimates Furnished
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MAKE EVERY HOUR
A HAPPY HOUR!
Pool Billiards
Cards Bowling
LUNCH COUNTER
With Blanche Gokel fixin'
up the eats
LOVE’S PLACE
Dave Shelley
Saddles
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COW BOY BOOTS
Hyer, Justin and Teitzal
on Hand
Chapa, Bits and Spurs
Tourists Outfits
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sl,ooo Reward
will be paid for information lead
ing to the arrest and conviction
of any person or persons killing
or stealing stock belonging to
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Cody, Wyoming
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These ten pretty girls, fill high school students of W ashington, D. C., are shown wearing sweaters made by
themselves which won the prizes in a contest just held. The first prize winner is seventh from the left, and the
second prize winner is next in order; the third winner is on the extreme left.
C ounterf eiting
Is on Increase
Entry of Women Into Profession
of Making Spurious Money
Adds New Problem.
SECRET SERVICE IS WORRIED
Increase in Counterfeiting Began
Shortly After the Armistice and
Has Been Growing Noticeably
Since—More Opportunity.
Washington, D. C.—Counterfeiting
of money has Increased to hitherto un
precedented proportions in the United
States and is causing much concern
to the secret service of the treasury,
the federal agency charged with sup
pression of this species of crime. Os
particular Interest is the fact that for
the first time in history, women have
entered the ounterfeitlng profession,
presenting new problems for the gov
ernment experts.
The increase In counterfeiting began
shortly after the armistice and has
been growing noticeably since. It is
regarded ns a part of the phenomena
of crime which every great war brings
In Its wake.
War Draft Thinned Ranks.
A curious effect of the war while It
was being waged was that It resulted
in almost complete suspension of
money counterfeiting in the United
States. There were two good reasons
for this. First, native-born Ameri
cans are seldom found in the profes
sion. It Is a department of crime in
u hlch foreigners, and especially south
ern Europeans, engage. Under the re
servist system of military sendee
which obtains in nearly all European
countries, these foreigners, living and
counterfeiting in the United States,
were called to their home colors and
thereby forced to abandon their pro
fession here. In the second place, the
war upset the channels of distribution
of counterfeit money, and turned the
thoughts of all men, including counter
feiters, to other things.
But after the war the profession
came back stronger than ever with
many recruits. Four million Ameri
cans were under arms. They were
taken to the war from their accus
tomed vocations and pursuits and put
into a life which, despite its manifold
hardships and dangers, was a life
lacking in responsibility. No one In
the army had to worry about earning
money for his next meal. It came
from the government, ns much a mat
ter of course as the sunrise.
Also, the very idea of an army Is
’the destruction of property and life.
To be sure. It is the enemy’s prop
erty which la to be destroyed, but
among many youthful and irresponsi
ble persons the fundamental idea of
ccntempt for property rights persists
and makes few bounds for Itself. It
was natural that among soldiers who
for a year or two had followed tills ir
responsible existence there would be
some who lacked the force of char
acter to return to the drudger> of
hard work. They wanted easy money,
so counterfeiting as well as other de
partments of crime received fresh re
cruits.
Mora Money to Counterfeit.
Another strong reason for an In
crease in counterfeiting resulting from
tiie war was that there was an in
crease In the number of kinds of
money and securities to counterfeit.
When there-fire only a few kinds of
money In general use, the people be
come so familiar with their appear
ance that they quite lendlly detect any
fault in design or general appearance.
But when there are many new and
unfamiliar kinds, the people are at a
lors to know whether they have gen
uine money.
Twelve federal reserve hanks were
slablislieil at the time the war began,
. n ,l nil issued currency of two kinds:
di r I reserve notes and federal re
,.ne‘bank notes. Also, the treasury
issued billions of dollars In Liberty '
bonds. Victory notes, war savings cer
tificates, thrift stamps and treasury
certificates of indebtedness. These
were all new to the people and of un
familiar design. They constituted a
paradise for counterfeiters.
Reprint on U. 8. Paper.
One of the most difficult obstacles
for the counterfeiter is the distinctive
paper on which government notes are
printed. It is made by a secret process
and has so individual an appearance
and feeling that almost every one can
detect a substitute. All denominations
of American money are printed on
notes of a uniform size. Therefore a
favorite device of the counterfeiter
is to take a $1 bill and raise - its
denomination. He will bleach It
and have a piece of nearly white dis
tinctive currency paper on w’hich be
will print a note of a higher denom
ination. Such notes are hard to de
tect, especially if the counterfeiter
prints a SSO or SIOO note of a new and
unfamiliar series.
Another scheme is to take a note
and change only the figures. This
proves a snare to the counterfeiter if
he gives such a note to a man famil
iar with the designs of money. Such
a man knows that a S2O note has a
buffalo on its design, but no SSO or
SIOO issue has. This sort of counter
feiting has increased with the new
money because the counterfeiters know
that few people are familiar with the
designs of the various new issues.
The same is true of the Liberty bond
Issues. No two issues are alike, and
a counterfeiter changing the denomina
tion of a SIOO bond to SI,OOO could
readily be detected by one who lias
studied bond designs.
Experts in Secret Service.
The secret service at Washington
has many experts who are very hard
to fool with aven the cleverest coun
terfeit, and while counterfeiting lias
increased to a great extent, the circu
lation of counterfeit money has not
done so. The new counterfeit issues
are detected very early in their ca
reers and the source discovered and
stopped. It means more work and
constant vigilance for the government
agents and greatly increased investi
gative work.
The appearance of women in the
counterfeiting profession has caused
the secret service many difficulties.
The women are not engaged in the
actual manufacture of counterfeits,
but are confederates in the passing of
the spurious currency.
Counterfeiters seldom work alone
In spite of the fact the records show
that only the counterfeiter who plays
a lone hand meets with success for
any extended period. But it Is hard
to practice the profession singly. The
great difficulty Is In getting the coun
terfeit money into circulation. To ac
complish tills the master counterfeiter
has accomplices. The general prac-
NOVELTY FOR BATHERS
A book, a cigarette and tiie cooling
waters about your feet —what more
could be desired on a liot day? These
are tiie comforts offered by the new
surf chair and being Indulged In, in
tiie picture, by Miss Muriel Quacken
bush at the Tidal Basin bathing beach,
Washington.
; Race to Lose Power of j
J Walking, Warns Doctor ;
! Los Angeles.—The human race J
J is destined to lose the power of t
t walking if the present tendency J
J continues to its ultimate con- *
t elusion, according to Dr. R. J
J Kendrick Smith, who read a pa- * j
t per here on Friday at the na- { ]
J tional Osteopathic convention. *
* Trolley cars began the retro- \
{ gade process, he declared, and j
* automobiles, elevators and in- *
J numerable other contrivances J
J conspire to keep human beings t
' off their feet. As a result, he
J said, we are becoming a race of f
f weaklings from the hips down. *
J Back to the woods in bare f
1 feet, with plenty of running, }
J would make over the race, Dr. 1
1 Smith said. J
tlce Is for the counterfeiter to sell hit
spurious money at a substantial dia
count. He w’ill sell a SIOO counter
felt bill to a passer for SSO of gen
uine money and of course no one Is
more expert In detecting spurioue
money than a counterfeiter. The
passer then may make another sale
getting perhaps $75 In real money foi
his SIOO counterfeit.
Great care is taken not to let manj
of them get Into circulation at tht
same place.
Women Plead Ignorance.
It Is in this passing branch of the
profession that women are being em
ployed. They make valuable confeder
ates because when detected they fre
quently escape arrest by claiming to
know little about handling money and
therefore are easily imposed upon.
A curious psychological mysterj
about the whole profession of counter
felting Is that a really good counter
fetter requires skill of such a high or
der that he could earn a better living
by honest employment of his talents
than by the manufacture of spurious
currency. Counterfeiting is a long,
tedious process, beset with hard work
and difficulties and It is rarely indeed
that a counterfeiter makes as much
money before he Is apprehended ae
he could from regular honest-employ
ment as an engraver.—Frederic J
Haskin in Chicago Daily News.
BEAUTIFY CITY OF BELGRADE
Serbs Rush Work to Make Capital
Worthy of New Nation—Many
New Buildings.
Belgrade, Jugo-Slavla.—To makf
this capital a w’orthy setting to the
magnificent territorial patrimony tc
which they have fallen heir the Serbt
are working swiftly. They are cutting
new streets, paving them with asphalt
Instead of cobblestones and erecting
new dwellings and public buildings. A ■
prize of $75,000 was awarded recentlj [
for a new city plan. Fourteen hundred ;
new buildings went up in 1921 and
4,000 are going up this year. A new
hotel has just been completed opposite
the station. It was begun before the
war and used for barracks. But its
walls have been replastered and the
building * was completed and opened
two days before the wedding of King
Alexander.
The city is still overpopulated. Res
idence has been refused to 40,000 per
sons. Prices in the city are very high
and should the local money Improve
In value Belgrade will rival Constant!
nople as a city of huge expense so)
living. House rents are prohibitive
for the native, and for the forelguei
they range upward of SIOO monthly.
Farm land within 30 miles of Bel
grade sells from SIOO to S3OO an acre
a big price when converted Into the
dinar currency of the country. Hotel
Moscow, within the city, recently sold
for 14,000,000 dinars, or upward ol
$200,000, a price that astonished
strangers.
The best buildings within the city a<
the present time are the two palace*
of the king, located centrally and ad
joining. A parliament building Is par
tially constructed. Other offices foj
public uses are planned. Some por
tlon of the new American loan wil
be used for projected public buildings
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