Show FIGHT tuberculosis IN STEUBEN COUNTY new ew york community leads in eradication of disease according to a report from the drifted rifted states department of agrical aure steuben county new york now cow eads the country in the eradication of 0 from its dairy herds hav ng more cattle under supervision han any other county in the united tates tales the county farm bureau began bega n the radl adi catlon cation work two years ago with ie employment of a single feterl irlan arlan whose services were paid for r r local dairymen the dairy farms farma of the county became interested in e work and launched a countywide county wide to rid their herds of the dis tse se 11 a approximately 15 days 30 yet vet Inar garlans lans supplied by the state a and nd dional departments ot of animal indus tested head ot of cattle to low up the work and make it per nent the steuben county supervise appropriated funds to employ a 1 time veterinarian subsequent ts is that have been made have malally increased the total of herds ier der supervision t Is estimated that as a result of bovine tuberculosis eradication tle tie values have increased about 5 1 head ead in the county the count county y 1 rn bureau reports that since the 2 a large number of cattle prents have been made outside the I 1 aly certified and grade A milk dubers in the environs of large ra r aern i tem cities cities are nomine to arlt hir a sentence nce to a term in the tennessee state prison at lie ile was a man of resources and invoked the same art that had got him into trouble to set get him out stoddard forged the signature of the governor ut of tennessee e to a document pardoning him it presented to the warden by a confederate then at Il liberty alberty ond and walked out of the prison gates to freedom in those days forgers did dad not depend so much upon mass production as upon a single coup for their profits one of the best examples of a killing was that of one sheer or slifer in 1892 slifer bought four drafts of 18 each at four banks in lansing idich ile he raised each draft to 1800 and cashed them at banks in detroit making ills his haul within a period of of 21 21 hours A an n even greater profit with less trouble and expense was made at one rs rr stroke by charles decker becker sty styled ed prince of forgers who in 1893 1895 11 had ad a confederate buy a draft for 12 at a bank in a small california town the cashier as an extra precaution using the crude protective device ol of the time punched the figures 12 on both upper corners ot of the draft becker filled up these perforations erased the word twelve and the figure 12 I 1 restored the papers tint flat which it had d suffered by the erasures era wrote the words fuenty tn enar two thousand and the figures punched the same figures on each corner of the draft and had a document so genuine looking that he cashed it without trouble at a reno bank the fraud was not discovered until long after because neither delther bank had noticed anything amiss with the draft 1 the money had all been spent when N 0 becker was convicted of the crime and to fo the courts had finally decided the litigation beaw between een the two banks 1 an itinerant vendor of patent inks who v ho recently made the rounds of small at ai towns in the last east used modern methods calling tor for the proprietor of ol a I 1 tha astore store he would ask for one of the BL merchants blank checks ind and fill it out for using ordinary ink then with acid he would wash the check iclean dean and rewrite it for 1000 this antime an time using the patent non eradicable link from a bottle in his sample case feagain again applying the neld acid bath the ink BlI bu would stand fast this demonstration usually made the sale the merchant tendering a dollar bill in payment bu if I at sight of 0 the bill the peddler atwould an would register comic distress as be h adrew I 1 drew from his its pocket a huge roll of 0 ea I 1 dollar bills and explain flint bat as he bu had made so many sales all paid for mn bills he would appreciate it if the merchant would give him a check inn an stead so simple a request was rarely oth refused in a week or so the accod wo rno dating merchant would receive a the th canceled check for ch ably genuine as to all but the amount i 1 repeated add washings by the dis ll 11 bayed merchant would fall to erase da r the ink but a last resource to plain I 1 soup and water would easily remove jo it checks expand currency the volume of check transactions in the united states Is greater than in any other country it has been estimated that the annual business turnover in the united states Is more than the nations actual money circulation Is only about so stupendous a total of 0 annual business transact transactions iong could be possible only through the extensive use of checks and it Is estimated that 05 per cent of the business transactions in the country are made with checks this furnishes the check crook his golden opportunity the average check user Is surprisingly careless in his handling of what lie he uses in place of money indeed performs tho the functions of money and which lie he should safeguard sis as zealously as ills fits cash it Is with the unprotected check that the crook Is enabled to do his will there Is nothing very complex about either drawing or using che checks acks and the matter of preventing some going coln astray Is even simpler yet so general is the carelessness that attends thel issuance and handling that the following litten commandments for chech users recently were formulated by the forgery prevention bureau keep blank checks and canceled vouchers under lock write checks with safety ink or with a check arising ArI tIng machine that shreds the paper and impregnates it with the amount in ineradicable ink tn in writing checks leave as little space as possible between the figures of the amount and start the written amount as close to the lefthand left hand margin as aa possible drawing heavy parallel lines through the unfilled space use only alteration proof check paper destroy all checks marred in drawing and ne never ver permit a check to be issued with any on it do not issue checks to for strangers and never make them out to cash or bearer do not sign blank checks scrutinize all certified checks as tin the stamps are not difficult to duplicate be careful where and how you sign your banking signature on checks you deposit add to your signature for deposit only thus mak ing it impossible for then them to be cashed by a thief without alterations |