Show Mark Twain T Vindicated I C CHANGES I CES of successful pay check forgeries in in the thc J United States navy DaVY ha have Q been reduced to a n minimum minimum minimum mini mini- mum by a 1 recent or order cr of tile the department that the tile endorser endorser en en- dorser of every check must place the thc impression of the four fingers of his right hand on the back of the check before it will wil bo be cashed As a record of the finger prints of every ever man mall in the service ser ice is is kept it i will wil be practically impossible under tho the order for a n forger to 0 escape identification It I is said the finger print me means ms of identification is being resorted to in many Now New York ork and ad Chi Chicago r safe safo deposit vaults especially where customers customer are not able to write their names and somo banks bank are arc ae adopting it under similar circumstances It I has long long been utilized in police departments and prisons and is regarded as the positive means of identification that has been devised The Thc goe government adopted it in identification of aliens aien residing in this the thc country during war a Thus Mark Twain who in his famous play o of ot Wilson written more than fifty years ye ago made the eccentric lawyer take an impression of or orthe the thumb prints of t two wo babies babics in order in the thc last act to convict tho tile villain grown to manhood of the crime gown of murder and exonerate the hero is vindicated indicted in his theory that no two humans have ha the same saIe thumb and finger prints |