Show MUMS N PASSBOOKS SOUGHT use them to steal money by forged forced slips should be guarded astare as carefully fully as cash continual vigilance in safeguarding savings pass books as aa well as blank and cancelled chicks against heft IW by crooks who use this material in for gery 0 operations erat lons Is urged an on bank customers by james B U baum deputy manager of the american bankers association in charge at its protective department this department la is continually vigilant in promoting means both among bankers and the gen general cral public to thwart the operation of bank crooks it annually investigates ti hundreds of crimes against banks and Is responsible dortho tor the majority ot of arrests among amone this thi class of criminals in a large majority of eases cases of forgeries on checks or savings withdrawal orders investigated by the american bankers association stolen blank checks or savings pass x oha were the forgers chief stock in trade mr baum tays says in many instances the temptation presented through the careless handling by depositors oc at can celled or blank checks or pass hooks books so that they fell into nto the hands of others was the immediate stimulus tor for hither hitherto td honest people peoli e to commit their first criminal offense offen sc banks should educate their depaal tors tore to exert the same degree of care in handling bandling these instruments and to to avoid leaving them about unguarded as they exercise in respect to ta actual money because they represent money he be declares for dealing with the bank robbery situation r baura baum recommends the use of electrical alarms actuated by any tampering with the wires or mechanism and also wider adoption of at the plan of state police forces now employed n a few states elates declaring that last year in seven pastern eastern states where state slate police forces were maintained there were only 20 bank holdups as against attacks perpetrated ii ti banks backs in five states in the central anduar and tar west where banks are denied the advantages nd vantages of the speedy and coordinated action given by statewide police forces the records of at the american bankers association protective Protect ivi department reveal that tor for many years the odds la in favor of state police protection have been at least 8 to 1 when measured by the experience of banks in states where efficient police protection la Is t missing in the rural districts he ays t i truth or heroics about story of joan of are arc although investigators have fairly well proven that joan of are arc was uever never burned at the stake but was to take olt off her mate male attire go home and never tight again there are many people who want the world to stick to her story because it Is heroic and inspirational declares the worn mails home companion the magazine cil adds ads editorially that it Is far better to accept the findings of thorough research according to the article investigators found records of joans joana visit to atz in aik 1430 five years after her death was wag helleved hell hel eved level to have taken take place and subsequent papers recording ler ber marriage and a costly gift to her by the city of orleans in memory of the good she had done during the siege ot of the city this was eight years after joans ashes were supposed to have been scattered in the belue for our part concludes tte the article we prefer to know the truth even when it hurts in the long run there to Is nothing so inspiring as true knowledge |