Show EVERYBODY'S FINGERPRINTS Handwriting faces and an forms may be so nearly alike as to seem deem identical Not so with fingerprints No two people have havethe havene the ne same fingerprints say experts in criminal detection oy py such means I 1 Here we have the basis for national fingerprint registration 1 Why anyone would object to such a plan is more than we can cantellI cantell ten I All citizens should be strongly in favor of the movement To the average layman if there is an average average layman a card index of ot fingerprInts at the seat of government would be idle HUe ana useless seless granting that they had them all But the experts smile and explain all For fingerprints are classified It is a science dY a process of elimination the particular print desired can be run Tun down 11 and this to an amazing degree of accuracy There are the Camel back the arched print an and and many other general to say nothing of ot the sub sub-classifications just as I identities result first from blue eyes gray eyes red hair hatchet 1 pace ace and so on I Hickman RIckman was caught by the fingerprint method Quite re- re a Canadian was identified who confessed to implication ina in ina a murder in Melbourne l Ontario for which his brother was hanged hanged hang hang- ed months ago Some may object to national fingerprints on the ground that there here may never be a reason for lor it in their own cases But if the world of science and detection has discovered so accurate ana and crust trust worthy means of identification no innocent law-abiding law citizen should hesitate to endorse it t fully A print finger is ib merely hand writing in another form Nobody objects to signing his name for the purpose of identification unless it be a crook who is asked No one who is innocent would hesitate to roll up his shirt sleeve to prove that he had no mark or scar such as would identify a criminal being caught unless the person asked asked asked ask ask- ed happened to be the man wanted We Ve ought as well back up the authorities in a positive method such as fingerprinting which will not only serve to help identify the wrong doer but likewise protect the innocent |