Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1913 — Rout of the Money Germ. [ARTICLE]

Rout of the Money Germ.

One of the marks of the amateur in counting bills is an unrestrained habit of wetting his fingers with his tongue. This has long given experts the fidgets caused a general installation of sponge cups. It is not a tidy act nor fair to look upon. While not distressful, it has been classed as a waste of natural resource*} which might be conserved against tbe ad* heslon of a couple of hundred stamps. Now, however. Dr. Rucker (of the national health service) declares that ibe danger of Infection is so slight as to be hardly calculable. It appears that the Ink which the notes are printed Is a germicide; bacteria may swarm over our money to their confusion —that Is, over the money that is subject U> invasion. Newß of the bacillus-proof issue should be actuating. Let us get more ot It, seeing that ite reputation as a germ ambush is false. The opportunities for health Increase with the rout of this fanciful foe. On, then, for more money, and let us lick it if it resists!