Show Big ig Stores Take Steps I to Prevent Shoplifting ft ng preparation for tor the opening of pr the I IN season of ot Christmas shopping all the lar larger er retail stores where a heavy henvy volume of ot business Is done will willi Inaugurate this wc week lt a n special detective detec tive the system us as a preventative c against the depredations of or shoplifters In each store especially c the department I stores corps corp of oC detectives most mostly women will b be 7 on n guard Juard constantly against the n fingered who heren heretofore heretofore here- here have reaped tl a rich harvest hUr durn durIn during dur dur- In ing n the holiday rushes rushe department Department store mana managers ers do not fear visits from professional shoplift shoplift- shoplifters ers as these visits are rare but In former former for for- forI I mer years cars tho they thoy have ha lost t considerable erable from thefts b by women shoppers who seem to have hac no other motive e for tor stealing stealing steal steal- In ing the things thinS's they covet than a desire to make their spending mane money go as asfar asfar asfar far as ns possible In most instances the women who are detected stealing In department stores are arc married women ot of good of homes who tale talc laces pieces of ot rich trimmings and occasionally valuable shirtwaists Between Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanks Thanks- giving and Christmas the losses from fro this kind of ot petty pett thle thievery ry are serious i I in to all stores where lIch uch articles ar are handled and it Is thought an unusually large force torce of or detectives in each store I will more snore than pa pay o Jt Its Ih salary salar e expense I In th the sa ln saving It will wall cause caUle b by making these thefts more or l' l less s Impossible In hn no Instance does doe OCl a a. department I I store Interrupt an ostensible customer cr I Iwho who I Is suspected unless have actually seen Been her or him secret something something some some- thing from tram the th counters In man many Its ln- stances the tho arc are certain some customer ha has stolen something but buti i unless the thc theft J Is s I seen nothing Is sold to the one suspected With Ith women doI do- do I I moving from counter to counter seemingly l on a shopping tour I It Is Ig thought that few tew customers will willbe willbe be able to steal anything without without without with with- out d detection The a advent of ot holiday a goods always arouses an any dormant temptations that ma may obsess shoppers and as theses these articles usually ire are small th there re Is setI gelI sol set I dom a day a that a store does not lose man many dollars In n then theft It Is this class s sot I of ot stealing that the private detectives detective who will go on In the dif dlf- different Ir- Ir ferent terent stores will watch atch |