The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, July 6, 1929, Page 10

THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1925 PST= WE'LL FOOL THESE FISH — 4 THEY'RE NOT BITING = y WE'LL UUST PRETENDeWE'LL MAKE BELIEVE yy, WE'RE LEAVING — AND WHEN YNEY <I j WELL CHESTER-* 17'S TIME Yo BE GONG— 12:15 = ‘You KNOW MOTHER EXPECTS US NOME FOR LUNCH TODAY — AND } NAVE THAT GRASS TO RAKE = BY RODNEY DUTCHER | volving, cut the paper to tiny bits. No (NEA Service Writer) | whole money is thrown in The ~ Washington—It seems rather tragic banks returning the currency slice it because one can think of so many neatly in two. nicer things to do with the money, but} Special “destruction committees” the treasury will be destroying three are appointed from among officials or four billion dollars in currency | at both the treasury and the bureau. within the next year or so. It's their job to see that there isn't All the money we are now carrying any monkey busin At the treasury in our pockets is headed for the de- | Secretary Mellon has appointed John vouring currency macerators in the F. Moran as chairman of the national treasury building and the bureau of bank note destruction committee. engraving and printing here. It was; Mr. Moran and two other members bound there anyway, but the issuance | are accompanicd to the macerator by of the new small currency will speed | a bank agent. The doomed money is up the process somewhat, although | brought from the treasurer's office in re” the old bills aren't coming back j trunks, each of which has three trays. in a flood because most of the new | Tray by tray, it is carefully dumped money will be issued only as the old from a raised platform into a square bills wear out j hole, about 14 inches, in the top of it's Fun to Watch the macerator. ‘The average life of a dollar bill is fh member of the committee has only seven months and lives of other two keys. These are for three separ- bills longer in proportion to their de- ate locks to champ down the hatch Vy); JHINK WE'RE GONE = 4 SWEY MIGHT BITE = v 4 y x= YG@oTt TA tS) “THIS. AFTERNOON: 1 FORGOT = | WOULDN'T MISS ‘THAT nominations, so treasury officials of the macerator after the money pect to have our pockets filled goes in and three separate locks cipally with the new currency | which must be unlocked before the within a year. Issuance of it beg machine can begin operation. After duly 10. locking the former each member puts ‘With an easily procured pass one | hi in his pocket. They return to- can watch the destruction of a few! gether an hour or two later, unlock Look Out, Tag! million dollars either at the treasur he hatch and gaze upon the pulp to or the bureau. Several million dol-j sce if it is sufficiently mashed. It lars are destroyed daily, under the | generally is. r | i DAN ‘TOLD US To WAIT RiGuT IT'S FUNKY WE HAVENT most careful supervision. Your cor- Make Paper of It fy respondent attended one such session | ‘The pulp is then strained through HERE WHILE HE AND FRECKLES ] SEEN ONE = Wily, ALL My FOOLING OS ABouT Beans in the basement of the treasury build- | a wire basket underneath which ts de- WENT AND BROUGHT THE HonsE: UFE IVE WANTED To BEING AROUND HERE PP STIL, ing, where a single macerator eats up 5 at | sufficiently macerated. It is then put PRETTY SOON 17 URE " atime. This macerator takes care of | into a drain box, allowed to drain for G0 BACK TD ME RANGA” } oeegcrane the worn national bank notes, those | 24 hours and carted off to the bureau, i ‘at the bureau destroy the U. S. cur ere it is pressed and rolled for sale rency and federal reserve notes | to paper manufacturers and souvenir ‘The macerator is a large churn, re- | makers at something less than $20 a sembling a big red apple about 12/ ton. Once a year the bureau ad- feet in diameter, operated by a steam | vertises for bids on this stuff; it dis- engine which has been doing busi- | poses of about, 3,000 tons a year. ness in the treasury since 1873, re- | William H. Easterday, 72 years old, ducing millions of dollars to pulp each | who superintends the treasury macer- day. The principle is somewhat sim- | ator, has been destroying millions ilar to that of a cooker in a paper | daily since 1909. His big day came in ‘mill. the pr ar period, when he made When the money is dumped in the | pulp of $140,000,000 in a single macer- churn is about half full of a mixture | ation in which nothing less than a of water, soda ash and lime. While | $10,000 note went into the hopper. the chemicals destroy the silk fiber Two macerations a day are ex- ‘and attack the coloring matter, 110| pected for a while during issuance of knives, some stationary and some re- | the new currency. Ow! Amy Knows Her Groceries TL WONDER WHATS. KEEOING THAT LITTLE VIXEN ? AMY YOU'D BETTER RUN RIGHT ALONG HOME 02 YOU'LL BE LATE FOR AND IF YOU SEE AMY UP THE STREET, 1 WISH YOU'D SEND HER HOME MRS. TYTE For once, however, Sandy Ross was | deftly swung the steering wheel to- over-optimistic. It was four hours) ward the curb before the Myrtle before his plane was ready to take off| Street house. And Tony would not from Stanton for Nicaragua, to take | have exchanged those priceless words a mother to her dying son. The plane | for the accolade at the hands of a had to be gone over thoroughly, and | king . stocked with its capacity of gasoling, ell Mom while I wash up for this was to be a non-stop flight | and get into my flying togs.” Sandy unless accident forced a landing. instructed Tony, as they entered the And there were other things to be! familiar hall. done, too—the weather bureau to be! “Wear your warmest coat, old dear,” consulted for the time and location; Tony advised, with gorgeously sim- ef storms within the next twenty | ulated nonchalance, but when his hours; his meager stock of air route| back was turned she gathered the maps to be consulted, his mother to! oil-stained, fur-lined leather jacket be told of his suicidal plan. | in her arms and kissed it passion- It was eight o'clock when Tony | ately, darkening one of its oil stains forced Sandy to leave his plane for a| with the tears she dared not shed while and return to the Ross house | before Sandy. ‘Then, head high, eyes with her. There would be time only | very bright, she went in to break the for the briefest of visits and the hast- | news to Mom Ross. fest of meals, for Mrs. Purvis had| Fifteen minutes later a fed, been instructed by Sandy to be at! scrubbed and warmly clad young av- the aviation field at, nine o’clock,| iator stepped into his mother’s room. when the take-off for Nicaragua was| The two women who loved Sandy } scheduled. The event was being kept | Ross better than their lives had al- as secret as possible, Sandy Ross hav-| ready done their weeping in each ing no more love for publicity than | other's arms, and now it was a cheer- his famous colleague. | ful-voiced mother who greeted her On the drive home Sandy wasj son matter-of-factly: Po S ALESMAN SAM H ‘Tony did not dare talk; she could only NEXT: A triumph over Mary “Good kid!” Sandy muttered, his! Burns, hand gripping the little one that | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) fis GOING PLACES MMISEEING THINGS ; I) coastward on Universal | of 2000 feet, with my portable perched il we Aireraft’s first plane-to-train passen-| at a precarious ea upon ad lap. wie ) Now poles for a quite different rea- son. we vague misgivings, suc! 6—Jumping an Ohio river] were felt on fat or fas oie a boat, which cares little for| sea, in which yawns portended a visit , into an airplane which | to the ship's rail. But, in the language the world how to get | of Moran and Mack, why bring that @ greater hurry, is just a| up? contrastful. MASS *** *% And demonstrates you can yi “ be as old-fashioned or new-fashioned a q, 6 faving to get, Sales as you 5 ‘Thus, tit Mt litle | & T have as mentor in this effort none & couple of days ago 1! other than Mrs, Mabel Walker Wille- enn on the deck of | brandt, who sits just behind me in stern-wheeler, bang-| the plane. Mrs, Willebrandt, you the typewriter keys at odd in-| wii recall, was the charming lady tervals. Today I must pick out the | who gave up the arid to take the air. letters of the alphabet from a height|1 have already been arguing that if ——-| she couldn't make me agree on the ne G | TEStion of water, she might have f LITTLE JOE || Some slight ciftiuity with air. Particularly when a 40-mile wind is e- ° peeling ie us, somewhere be- . ween the ship's nose and her left a ESTATE |S CONE wing, causing a series of drops. dips and dives that are somewhat discon- certing to one who was never awarded medals for sea-worthiness. Roller coasters and a shoot-the-chutes will hereafter Bold Bp i ad for me. * Just to show you, however. how ny l Ah, but it isn't the alr pockets, i OT ests i tek fai | THE GUMPS—OUT FOR LUNCH : I \IONDER IF DAN'S BEEN, - ned to catch any large pieces in- IF WE DONT SEE A BEAR SEE A REAL FoR _ WE SHOWED US Those grimly silent, but Tony, whose heart! “Well, son, mind you, keep warm, CAN OF POLsH, HUH? ) ‘cause “TY Wiee ) (Te ov WELL, HERe's TH’ GesT STUFE INH’ was nearly bursting with love and’ and don't let Mrs. Purvis talk your WECL,WHAT ARENA 7 TOLD ME TO. SHE AN aWeUL ate Pride, knew that it was not fear that | arm off. And you might bring me a GEXTING IT FOR? _/ Sens 1'A GONNA S STRUMMAIN' ON “THAT eee tale ee ee tightened the clean-cut, boyish mouth | souvenir from that foreign country =a USE IT ON “TH’ STOVE-ONLY HAD IT and narrowed the freckled grey ey u're going to—something nice for y KITCHEN STOVE} to slits. Or—if it was fear at all, it| the parlor... Tony, you put up a , GQOOUT SENENTY- FIVE, : was fear for ie safety of, his pas | thermos bottle of hot coffee and a igure He DERN Okey? (UL TAKE @ CAN, senger, poor, stricken Mrs. Pur- | box of sandwiches for this flying~ s T= - ‘ ‘YOU RECOMMEN ‘is, willing to risk her life that. her | of mine.” eesti as ieee dying son’s moments might be; Tony fled, as Sandy the brighter for her presence. Eyit | Ronee or dies ils auacsiamane WANE A Bis BEAR Come WALKIN’ UP HERE QieuT NOW SHUCKS! TM