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Show ! Safe Makers Only One ! Jump Ahead of Thieves ! Recent defensive experiments anil inventions in-ventions might lead us to forecast an end to hank burglary. Hut to bring this ubont in fact Is not so easy, asserts as-serts the Scientific American. What concerns safe makers Immediately is the possibility of devising so:ne metal I or other substance capable of resist ins the devastating onslaught of the various vari-ous types of the acetylene torch, a high temperature device which will eat its fiery way through metal defenses onee thought absolutely Impregnable. The contest between the safe eraeker and the safe maker Is last resolving ' Itself into the old problem of the ir-i ir-i resistible force and the Immovable body with the ix: In favor of the safe cracker, j Since the beginning of safe making : the inventors have bad two N of , men to deal with tiie burglars vvh" use the drlil and tho-e who use ex ' plosives. Each new Improvement of safes has been met. on the part of the ' burglar, with methods fer successfully aitaeking- it. |