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Did you ever stop and look at a 1-dollar bill? It's not just a piece of paper to exchange for something of equal value; it's a whole history book setting there in your wallet. Take a 1-dollar bill out and look at it while you read this. The bill you're looking at first came off the presses in 1957 in its present design. It is made, not from paper, but is in fact a cotton and linen blend with red and blue minute silk fibers running through it. It's material not paper. And what do all the symbols stand for or mean to us?

On the front of the bill you will see the United States Treasury Seal. On the top you see the scales for the balance – a balanced budget. In the center you have a carpenter's T-square, a tool used for an even cut. Underneath is the Key to the United States Treasury. Turn the bill over and you will see two circles. Both circles together comprise the Great Seal of the United States. The First Continental Congress requested that Benjamin Franklin and a group of men come up with a Seal. It took them four years to accomplish this task and another two years to get it approved.

Look at the left hand circle; you will see a Pyramid. The face is lighted and the western side is dark. This country was just beginning. We had not begun to explore the West or decided what we could do for western Civilization. The Pyramid is uncapped, again signifying that we were not even close to being finished. Inside the capstone you have the all-seeing eye, an ancient symbol for divinity. It was Franklin's belief that one man couldn't do it alone, but a group of men, with the help of God, could do anything. "IN GOD WE TRUST" is on this currency. The Latin above the pyramid, ANNUIT COEPTIS, means "God has favored our undertaking."





(Information taken from an article published in the April issue of THE FIRING LINE, the newsletter for The California Rifle and Pistol Association, Inc.)

The Waynedale News Staff
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