Show 1 SCRAPS OF LETTERS in the largo large cities waste baskets are often guarded in big establishments and the contents traced to the boiler rooms this care di ver over scraps is explained I 1 by a writer in the brooklyn eagle guilt to bo be established by torn letters found in a waste basket this I 1 significant newspaper headline forecasting the line of evidence in an ecclesiastical trial about to begin in ili philadelphia serves to call ball attention to a queer business of which the general public knows hilous nothing of all the strange industries in which keen witted persons thrive perhaps none is so odd as astvat that of at raking over the ahe contents ot of waste paper baskets for flotsam and jetsam of discarded corres i pond enco that can be turned into cash I 1 I 1 in many of the office buildings where large financial companies have their headquarters not a scrap of waste paper Is permitted to find its way outside the four walls of the structure torn paper may divulge official secrets to lynx eyed rivals every bit of waste paper taken from the rooms in these buildings is carried to the engine room and con consigned sigried to the flames occasionally casio caslo nally private information gets to the outside world but such leal leakage cage is usually usi rally traced to some scrubwoman scrub woman or office cleaner who has succumbed to temptation and accepted a bribe more carefully guarded even than the financial district waste paper aro are the scraps from the government offices the contents of waste baskets tn in some departments are even taken to the furnace carefully guarded and the office cleaner is under espionage all the time but in most offices the contents of the waste basket are considered as of no more importance than last years calendar the waste is thrown out and no one troubles what becomes of il only the men who get their living by delving in the scraps from office buildings know th evalue avalue of torn tom letters and old envelopes |