Show MUCH TO BE SAID IN ADVOCACY OF fingerprinting FINGER PRINTING to be fingerprinted no longer means that one has a police record fingerprinting Is the latest fad in the higher circles of society according to the united states news people who have never been accused of any of offense ferise more serious than a violation of a traffic trade ordinance are pressing their palms to ink pads and recording the little whorls and lines on their fingertips men women and children are f filing alln their fingerprints as well as their fingernails it Is more than just a fad interest in finger records promises to be permanent the reason Is not hard to find every few days appears some news item about a long iong lost brother or sister who has been located after years of futile search or who after being given up as lost has returned to claim a share in the last will and testament of a relative it la Is noticed that these missing persons usually turn up at a time when an estate Is being administered and there Is frequently a question about their real identity persons afflicted with amnesia or loss of memory fire are unable to learn who they are this would be comparatively easy it if their fingerprints were filed with the pollee police doubles are unable to prove who Is who but the principal reason probably for this rage for fingerprinting Is to be found in reports report 0 persons laule d families dealing with kidnapers can be sure of positive identification fi it Is not necessary that they have fingerprints on file at pollee police stations prior to being A home file would do in most cases identification could be established by other means dut cut handwriting can be imitated and that of a child more easily than that ofa of a grown person there could be no doubt about a clear fingerprint record although there might be uncertainty as to whether the one was dead or alive at any rate no one need be ashamed of having been fingerprinted unless he Is guilty of a crime the best people are doing it st SL louis globe democrat |