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9 COMPILATION OF OREGON SUBSCRIPTIONS ' ' , TO LIBERTY LOAN PROVES INTERESTING THE SUNDAY OKEGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 30, 1917. REPORT OF FINGER PRINT METHOD OF DETECTING CRIMINALS IS INFALLIBLE Lines That Mark Fingers at Birth Are Unaltered in Conformation at Death; Each Print Contains 32 Primary Divisions, Each Containing 32 Sub-Divisions. C. C. Chapman Comments on Patriotic Oregon's Liberty Loan Record. BY C. C. CHAPMAN. INDEED it haa been a labor of love to compile this detailed report of what the splendid, patriotic citi xenshlp of Oregon subscribed to the First and Second Liberty loans. I have traced 73.029 subscriptions, of which a considerable number were sub scriptions made for numerous individ uals. The total number of actual bond purchasers, as nearly as I can estimate it. is 90,000, or one for each two families in the state. The difference between 73,000 and 90.000 represents the un known number of employes and other Individuals who bought Liberty bonds from employers and other wealthy peo ple who sold them on terms. The actual total of bonds purchased In Oregon during the two loans was $37,001,450, an amount equal to nearly one-quarter of all ' the bank deposits of. the state, or an average of $50 for every man. woman and child in Oregon. Comparisons Not Passible. No official data is available as to how Oregon's record compares with other states, as the Treasury Depart ment at Washington to date has Issued no tabulation classifying returns by states. From unofficial data, published oon after each Liberty Loan campaign. It can be asserted with confidence that Oregon's showing in proportion to her quota was higher than that made by uy other Pacific Coast state. For the first loan Oregon's quota was $9,000,000. The amount subscribed was 11,802. 900. For the second loan Oregon's minimum quota was $18,000, 000,' and the amount subscribed was $25,198,550. The foregoing figures, as to total subscriptions. I have compiled from In dividual reports by banks.. I have reason to believe that the amount ac tually subscribed for the first loan was' somewhat in excess of the total quota. Newspaper announcement from San Francisco at that date credited Oregon with having subscribed $13,200,000. "While I have been unable to trace this reported excess, I believe unreported subscriptions made by several banks will make up part or all of that dif ference. The figures I present include only the actual reports as made to me by the different banks. So far the Federal Reserve Bank at San Francisco has issued no report showing the amounts subscribed by individual banks or communities. So it has been neces sary for me to write to each bank In the state and obtain from it the figures upon which the following tabulations are based. Portland Does Lion's Shsre. To the first Liberty Loan Portland subscribed $8,369,700. Outside of Port land the subscription totaled $3,433,200. To the second Liberty Loan Portland subscribed $13,502,850. The state out side of Portland subscribed $11,695,700, or more than three times the amount subscribed outside of Portland for the first loan. Oregon's response from the outside communities is reputed to have been far ahead of what outside communities sub scribed in any other state of the Union. Again there are no actual figures upon which to base comparisons. It is known however that a more intensive cam paign wss conducted among the smaller communities of Oregon than was the case elsewhere on the Pacific Coast, and word received from Washington at the conclusion of the campaign was that Oregon's record in that regard sur passed anything else that had. been re ported. Small Communities Patriotic. The conclusion is that the rural population of Oregon and the people of Its sTna.II communities felt the financial responsibilities of patriotism more in tensely than was manifest in other states. Not only did they furnish soldier boys but money to the cause of the war, and furnished both to a degree beyond that attained by . any other state so far as any information la available for comparison. For the second loan, each county and community was informed by Oregon Liberty Loan headquarters in Portland that it had a definite quota to obtain. This quota was based upon bank de posits 13 per cent of the actual av erage deposits for the previous 12 months, or approximately 14 per cent of the deposits In bank in October, the month of the second great drive. The following is a table showing how well the counties of Oregon responded to the call based upon these quotas. Twenty-four out of Oregon's 36 coun ties 'exceeded the quotas that were as signed to them. The table shows the counties In the order of their rank, the percentage column Indicating the per centage of their quotas actually sub scribed: Report Made by Counties. County Pt.l Counts- TVt. 1 Benton. lSOilO Clarkamai 113 113 113 10 107 31)3 P9 1'7 B sr. S3 2 SI 73 64 SO 45 2 T'nion . . . . S I'matllla. 170 0 Hood River 151:1 Polk Multnomah . . .. 130 2-J Douglas 5 ClatBOD 142 23 Deachute 6 Orant 142 24 Washington... 7 Wallowa.. 13 2."i Morrow h Jarkton . . . 0 Tillamook. 10 Uk 11 "Waaco 12 Lincoln... 13 Wheeler.., 14 Cool 15 Crook 1 Yamhill. . . IT Columbia.. 18 Sherman... 132 20 Harney 132 27 Baker 131 2S Josephine. . 13" 2!1 Marlon 12f':to Lane 12H.11 Malheur 126 32 Linn 123 33 Currv 124 34 Ollllam 12i);3.-. Klamath... 14,36 Jefferson. .. The following is a table showing the subscriptions for both loans, classified by counties and communities as to number of subscriptions and amount subscribed for tiie second liberty loan. There also Is included a computation of the percentage of its quota sub scribed by each community and county: BAKER COrXTV. First Loan. Town Baker . . . . Hainea ... Halfway . Huntington Richland . No. Amount. 247 $ 122.7..0 4.IKH1 . . . . -1 inn ir. 7.4.K) 8oO , Total a S3 ( 135.U0U Amount. Pet. . Second No. 1.226 178 Baker .... -Ttalnes Halfway .. Huntington Richland . $ 447.2o 99 32.200 11B 20.1IM) $-1 5. TOO 41 8.300 37 Total 1.49 $ O11.000 6 BENTON COOTT. First Loan. Town Corvaliis . Monroe Philomath Total .... No. Amount. 436 $ 93.600 2.130 , 12 6.800 437 $ 104,330 Second Loan. No. 1.726 93 168 Town Corvaliis . Monroe ... Philomath Amount. Pet. $ 361. sort 11 14.030 141 iM.100 104 Total 1.887 $ 389,150 180 CLACKAMAS COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Canby t 47 $ 6.2O0 Kstacada 6 l.oH Molalla 7 1.130 Mllwauklo Oregon . City 309 117.730 Sandy 3 . 12.400 Wilsonvllle Total .... Town Can by ...... Katacada .. Molalla .... Mllwaukle .. Oregon City fcandy 372 $ 138.000 Second Loan. No. Amount. Pet. 142 $ 22.400 112 15.750 11.1 14.400 on K.330 :i6 S5S.0.-HI 120 14.150 ISO 14)1 137 '70 Si Citizenship of Oregon, Laying Particular Stress Upon Excellent Showing Made by Smaller Communities. Wilsonvlllo 14.650 122 Total 1.283 348,850 113 CLATSOP COl'KTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Astoria 432 $ 138.530 Seaside 36 7.050 Total 468 $ 143.600 Second Loan Town No. Amount. Pet. Astoria 2,606 $ 77,oO J39 Seaside 213 35.SOO 275 Total 2.819 $ 815.100 .142 COLUMBIA COCNTT. Flmt Loan. Town No. ' Amount. Clatskanie $ 1,450 Rainier St. Helens 40 9.150 Scappooso ................ 7 1.250 Total 47 11,850 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Clatskanie $ 33.900 94 Rainier 39.850 234 Ft. Helens 340 42.0OO 100 Scappooso 56 6.750 90 Total 800 $ 122,000 120 COOS COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Bandon , 47 $ 16.HOO Coquille '..... 20 7.230 Myrtle Point 78 8.350 Marshfleld 134 80.4OO North Bend , 36 24.55U Powers ......... Total 315 $ 156,130 Second Loan Town No. Amount. Pet Bandon 393 $ 55.250 110 Coquille 267 35.000 96 Myrtle Point 392 47.400 118 Marshfleld 1.141 270.6OO 113 North Bend 153 74.350 177 Powers '. 37.950 633 Total 2.346 $ 521,150 126 DESCHUTES COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Bend 51 $ 33.700 LaPlne 12 030 Total 63 $ 34.650 Second Loan Town No. Amount. Pet. Bend 777 $ 138.100 126 LaPlne 8 1.250 60 Total 785 138,350 125 CCKBY COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Brookings $ Gold Beach 2 2.050 Port Orf ord Total 21 2.O50 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Brooklnirs S 5.090 62 Gold Beach 15 5.300 SS Port Orf ord 0.750 . . . Total 15 $ 16,050 73 CROOK COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Prinevllle 67 $ 45.030 Redmond 40 4.350 Total 107 $ 49.400 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Prinevllle 146 $ 102,400 108 Redmond 203 28.100 104 Total 349 $ 130,500 107 V DOtGLAS COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Brain 10 X 2.400 Glendale 5 1.700 Gardiner 34 19.450 Myrtle Creek 1 1.800 Oakland .... Rosebura 82 30.30O Riddle 20 4.050 Sutherlln 12 7.800 Yoncalla .... Total 164 $ 68.400 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Drain 96 $ 16.6O0 151 Glendale 43 13.000 180 Gardiner 170 43.000 122 Myrtle Creek 67 17.750 131 Oakland 18.050 31 Rosoburar 607 250.40O 125 Riddle 49 15.250 138 Sutherlln 55 12.500 loo Yoncalla 23 3.130 45 Total 1.010 $ 889.700 109 GILLIAM COCNTT. Pi rut Loan. Town ICo. Amount. Arlington , 27 S.IOO Condon 39 23.20U Total 66 $ 20,300 Second Loan. Town . No. Amount. Pet. Arlington 71 S 13.700 34 Condon 195 78.40O 75 Total 266 92,100 64 GRANT COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. ' Canyon City ...J 34$ 16.2.10 -lohn Day ................ .. 21 200 Prairie City 24 0,550 Total 58 47.000 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Canyon City 120 $ 65.7O0 203 John Day .. 41.500 104 Prairie City 11T 21.600 114 Total 237 $ 128,800 142 HARNEY COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Burns 34 $ 31.800 Crane 3 600 Drewsey ................. Total 87 $ 32,400 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Burns 272 $ 121.750 87 Crane 33 6. 0O0 .. Drewsey 8.150 .. Total .104 $ 135,800 87 , HOOD RIVER COUNTY. First Loan. Town- No. Amount. Hood River 139 $ 5U.500 Second Loon. . Town No. Amount. Pet. Hood River 911 141.500 113 JACKSON COUNTY. First Loan. Town Ho. Amount. Ashland 143 $ 97.200 Butte Falls Ct-ntral Point 40 " "tn6 Bade Point 5 1 05O Gold Hill 8 1.2O0 Jacksonville 9 10.0O0 Medford - 278 109.85O Rogue River 2 400 Talent 5 sou Total 489 226,100 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Ashland 305 $ 172.950 124 Butte Kails ..... 2,450 31 Ceittral Point 15 40,100 223 Kb (tie Point 42 9.400 134 Gold Hill 27 2.450 4l Jacksonville 96 22.850 229 Medford 1,028 345.950 13.1 Kogue River t. 23 3.600 80 Talent . 57 9.5U0 118 Total 2.828 609,250 133 JEFFERSON COCNTT. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Madras 22$ 2. Too Metollus 12 3.800 Total ." 34 6,500 Second Loan. , Town No. Amount. Pet. Madras 141 $ 13,100 37 Mrtollus 18 8. 300 64 Total 159 $ 21,400 45 JOSEPHINE COUNTY. , First Loan. Town No. Amount. Grants Pass 96 40,900 Second Loan. Grants Pass 420 $ 105,650 83 ' . KLAMATH COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Bonanza $ Merrill 32 15,050 Klamath Falls 194 63.300 Total 226 78,330 Second Loan. Town Amount. Pet. Bonanza $ 1.200 1.1 K le math Falls . . 433 122.II0O 61 Merrill 1 57 12.05O 57 Total 490 136,150 59 LAKE COUNTY. First Loan. Town . No. Amount. Lnkevlew 10 $ 4.850 Paisley Total '. 10 $ 4;S50 Second Loan. Town No. Amount Lskeview 264 225. 150 120 Paisley 32 18,550 169 Total 296 $ 243,700 131 LANE COUNTY. First Loan. Town - No. Amount. Coburg 1 $ 50 Cottage Grova - 14 19,509 Creswell 10 2.000 Eugene . . .-. 310 180.700 Florence Junction City 41 9.100 Springfield 20 8.630 Total 306 220,350 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Cobnrg 26 $ 5.000 123 Cottaa-e Grove 48 40,950 82 Creswell 5 12.000 120 F)uene l.uuu so.J".- Florence 72 22,400 332 Junction City 71 17.6O0 65 Springfield . . 61 27.730 82 Total 1.334 $ 492,800 83 LINCOLN COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Newport 12 $ I f.'" Toledo - y .. Total 12 $ 3,730 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Newport 79 $ 11.700 106 Toledo 35.2O0 144 Total 79 $ 36,900 129 LINN COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Albany 143 $ 121.5.50 Brownsville 14 7.1.0 Harrisburg- ?6 Halaey .7 19 4.850 Lebaon".-.: 16 18.000 Shedda 1- 3.000 Sclo 13 9.80O . Total 243 $ 172.800 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pot. Albany : 464 $ 207.150 75 Brownsville 200 31.950 116 Harrisburg 262 aZ-"2 J Halsey 74 20.350 102 Lebanon 38 '"'"W " Shedds 38 13,500 115 Sclo 88 0.350 55 Total 1.114 .. 371,500 81 MALHEUR COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Jordan Valley 3 $ 1.200 Juntura 3 -it,: Nvi.hu 30 2,750 OntSlo .... 2"4 45.400 Vale . 41 14.8O0 Westfall 21 3.750 Totals 301 67.800 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Jordan Valley 36$ 14.0OO 25 Juntura 30 7.950 57 Nyssa 101 9.10O 33 Ontario ... 45 105.800 90 Vale ' 72 102.100 lift Westfall 88 , 14.100 236 Total 783 $ 253,050 82 MARION COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Aumavllle 6 $ 750 Aurora 19 5.750 Donald 8 600 Gervals ..... Hubbard 7 5,500 Jefferson 13 l,5O0 Mill City Mount Angel Btayton 26 4.050 Salem 207 12O.0O0 Sllverton S7 2,ooo St. Paul 8 1.600 Tumer 8 550 Woodburn ................ 01 lw.oy Total 439 $ 202,050 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Aumsvllle 31 $ 14,000 200 Aurora 68 7.850 31 Donald 65 6.200 104 Gervals . 15 3.50(1 25 Hubbard 22 K.lOO 51 Jefferson 66 20.500 113 Mill City 150 . . . Mount Angel 8.45U 24 Stayton 72 16.650 42 Salem 147 tuo.Hou Sllverton 315 110.1OO 102 St. Paul S3 12.000 133 Turner 20 2.300 33 Woodburn 173 70.650 101 Total 1.768 X 902,250 85 MORROW COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Heppner 55 X 28.500 lone 18 6,950 Lexington Total 73 $ 35,450 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Heppner 670 X- 114.450 82 lone 4S 89.7O0 144 Lexington 83 11.100 ... Total 648 $ 165,250 99 MULTNOMAH COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Bridal Veil Gresham 57 $ 16.800 Portland 8,268 S.36U.7U0 Totals 8,325 $ &.366.0UO Second Loan.- Town No. Amount. Pet. Bridal Veil $ 11.450 ... Gresham 236 87.40O 89 Portland 24.098 13.502.S5U 150 Totals 24.3.14 $13,531,700 150 FOLK COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Dallas 73$ 44.250 Falls City 18 4.UO0 Independence ............. ..... 5.000 Monmouth 47 11.800 Parkers Totals 138 65.150 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Dallas 283 $ 116.450 137 Falls City 113 II.20O 124 Independence 42.20O 77 Monmouth 177 23. 800 86 Parkers 300 . . . Totals 573 $ 193,950 110 SHERMAN COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Grass Valley Moro 73 $ 18.300 Wasco 15 . 2.500 Totals 88 20.800 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Grass Valley 74 $ 34.200 62 Moro 176 - 71. 800 159 Wasco 93 85.700 127 Totals 343 191.700 114 TILLAMOOK COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Bay City 1 $ 2.500 Cloverdale 2 1.600 Tillamook 28 9.300 Wheeler , Totals 31 $ 13.400 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Bay City 24 $ 4.100 51 Cloverdale 70 7.-000 175 Tillamook 162 103.200 120 Wheeler 1U.25U 232 .Totals 256 $ 130.550 132 UMATILLA COUNTY. First Loan. No. Amount. Town Athena .. . . . . . w-ai 9 $ 4,2,lu0 Echo 28 15.000 Freewater ........... Helix 4 5.300 Hermlston 20 5.300 Milton 37 18.730 Pendleton- 575 ' 572..1O0 Pilot Rock..' 30 . 5.450 Stanfield Weslon 6 4.600 Totals 735 $ 669.050 Second Loan. - Town - No. Amount. Pet. Athena 106 $ 103.400 103 Echo 105 63.050 317 Freewater ..... - 22.700 . . . Helix 51 52.450 164 liermlrton 120 17.300 115 Milton .. 136 107.75O 103 Pendleton ... 1,236 1,207.030 161 Pilot Rock 143 40.63O 123 Sranfield 11.000 122 Weston 91 32.050 117 Totals ............. 2,050 1.657,400 151 UNION COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Cove Imbler 12 $ 3.6l0 La Grande 462 105.450 North Powder '. Union 27 5.1O0 Total 601 $ 114,150 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Cove $ 6.550 60 Imbler 29 22.050 157 La Grande ; ' 6O8 449.40O 1S7 North Powder 43 18.950 126 Union, J 149 47.8UO 120 Total 829 $ 544,730 170 WALLOWA COUNTY. First Loan. - Town - ' - No. Amount Enterprise ............... 75$ 25.500 Elgin 11 7.100 Flora 7 3.8IMJ Joseph 9.500 Lostlne 3 150 Wallowa 25.050 Total 95$ - 69.100 Second Loan. Town . No. Amount. Pet. Enterprise 448 $ 141.450 181 Elgin 165 24.05O 75 Flora 85 8.450 106 Joseph . 50.050 83 Ixstlne 42 8.250 ... Wallowa 71.000 ... Total 1 . 740 $ 803.250 138 WASCO COUNTT. First Loan. - Town No. "Amount. Dufur 31 $ 8.000 Maupin 3.000 Mosier 27 5.0OO Shanlko 29 13.000 The Dalles 389 199.550 Total 476 $ 229,150 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Dufur 160 $ 43.750 122 Maupin 86 28.50O 158 M osier 67 18.0OO 276 Shaniko 94 52.200 148 Tho Dalles 1,038 372.930 124 Total .'. 1.445 $ 515,400 130 WASHINGTON COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Banks 7$ 6.6OO Beaverton 14 2.000 Cornelius ................ ..... ......... Forest Grove ..... 33.500 Gaston I 1.OO0 Hlllsbo.-o . 24 6.200 North Plains 3 1,300 Sherwood Total 49 $ 49,600 Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Banks 68 $ 17.200 122 Beaverton 84 16.750 120 Cornelius! 6.4O0 43 Forest Grove 108.050,108 Gaston t 15 8.250 59 Hillsboro lot - 154.500 103 North Plains 73 10.7O0 110 Sherwood 1O.80O . 67 "Total '. " 344 $ 332,650 101 WHEELER COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Fossil 4 $ 6.750 ' .Second Loan. Town " " No. Amount. Pet. Fossil : 196 $ 45,250 129 YAMHILL COUNTY. First Loan. Town No. Amount. Amity 1 $ 1.000 Carlton 20 5.100 Dayton 12 8..I00 Lafayette 13 5.100 McMinnvllle ' 34 60.300 Newberg 131 29.100 RVierldan 20 4,950 Wlllamina 10 2.5O0 YamhiU .; 15 3.000 Total '. " . 236 $ 117,330 . Second Loan. Town No. Amount. Pet. Amity 91 $ . 15.60O 120 Carlton loo 31.750 227 Dayton IOT 13.3O0 103 lfayette - 33 9.350 187 McMinnvllle 723 254.250 127 Newberg 533 108.350 120 Sheridan 118 27.730 77 Wlllamina 106 16.200 11." Yajnhlll 158 23.150 122 Total 1 .991 X 501.00O 124 GIRL VICTIM OF SHOCK Hospital Patient, Found Semi-Con. sclous In Street, Hysterical. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 20. Suf fering from the effects of a nervous shock, 16-year-old Catherine Fagan, of 710 Rhode Island avenue Northwest, lies semi-consrious at Kreedman's Hos pital. She has been in that condition for the last 12 hours, or since she was discovered at 1:30 this morning: lying on T street between Seventh and Eighth streets Northwest by police of the Eighth Precinct. According to the girl's mother,. Mrs. Ethel Fagan, she was returning from an evening's entertainment at the home of a girl friend and must have fallen to the pavement after getting oft a Ninth-street car. Mrs. Fagan thinks her daughter slipped on the ice, but this view is not shared by doctors, who attribute her condition to effects of hysteria. She has been unable to make any statement other than that she was alone at the time. She was taken to Freedman's in a passing automobile. All efforts to arouse her from her coma have been fruitless. HIGH WAGE WRECKS HOME Belgian Earns so Much in Detroit That lie Prinks 5 Days in Week. DETROIT, Mich.. Dec. 23. It was the high wages paid to floor layers in America that wrecked the frail matri monial craft of Eugene and Marie Deleau. according to testimony in Mrs. Deleau's divorce suit before Judge Tap pan. In Belgium Eugene earned only enough to get drunk twice a week, but on his $35 to $40 in Detroit he made merry five days out of seven, Mrs. De leau's sister said. "I pleaded with him to cease for the sake of his three little children," the sister said, "but he told me the thirst was in his blood, and he couldn't." Mrs. Deleau told of alleged threats her husband made to kill her, and Judge Tappan gave her a decree, the custody of her children and $8 a week alimony. MORE SUGAR IS DESIRED New York Restaurant Proprietors Deplore Shortage of Product. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. Five hundred restaurant owners signed a petition re cently to be presented to Herbert C. Hoover, Federal Food Administrator, urging that they receive Individual al lotments of sugar. The petition, which was drawn up by I. O. de Pass, of the tea and coffee de partment of the Acker. Merrill & Con dit Company, charges that some dealers re disposing of their allotments of sugar in combination sales, despite the ban placed upon such sale by the food administration, BT BEN HUR LAMPMAN. THE villain of this prelude was by profession a "minion of the moon," as the country press used to phrase it, when parties unknown looted a hen roost. Which is a roundabout way of stating the facts, implying that the marauder operated in the hours that lie between dark and dawn upon prop erty lawfully held by another. If hen roosts ever had engrossed his attention and talents, that time was dim in memory. In the school of crim inal experience he had matriculated, holding degrees in several social in stitutions, from tank-town jails to the reinforced concrete hostels that states provide for those who make the mis take of getting caught with the goods. His string of aliases reads like a pedi gree from William the Conqueror to the present day of grace, and marked the periods of a career that had been attained with resplendent success in its own particular sphere. Curious acquaintances, actuated by motives of uplift or the desire to chron icle with exactitude the trend of a mind so sadly brilliant, frequently sought for light on why he did thus and so, when the law specifically for bade it and the chances were that he would be brought to task, anyhow. For these our friend in error had but the one answer, given in all sincerity. Though the intricacies of a time-lock were as simple as a jig-saw puzzle to him, the meshings of his'own thought, impulse and action were problems which baffled him. So he was inclined to smile, sun.nily, if somewhat sardon ically, as he made reply: "I don't know." Two plain-clothes patrolmen on pawnshop detail, took him Into custody as he idled down North Fourth street. Not that there was anything in his appearance, from his $6 cravenette hat to his $10 English shoes, that In any way appeared to warrant his detention. If you should ask the grave old bea gle why he gives tongue on a rabbit track and he might answer, it isn't at all probable that he could enlighten you. Nor could these, who hunt and harry the gray wolves of the city. "A crook or a yegg," said the one. "You're on," agreed the other. With such scant and intuitive com ment he was made the jailer's guest. At headquarters they talked with him, conversationally, very much as new found friends might chat over their cigars, but with flashes of sharp pur pose that sought to shear his secret from him. It was "old stuff," for all its finesse, and the graduate smiled easily. So they urged him politely into the Identification bureau, as the last shaft left, to loose, and placed his digits, from thumb to little finger, on a smoothly blackened slab, transferring the impressions to squares of white paper. Curleycues and whorls, rivers and lakes of minute tracery appeared on the sheet. Over the face of - the suspect crept- just the trace of appre hension, fleetingly, as on the map of one who holds a dubious hand at poker. A filing case creaked open, with its methodical array of card indexes, thou sands of them. The identification ex pert glanced now at the smudges on the paper and again at the cards. He chose one of the last and laid it aside, veri fying with scrupulous precision.. He turned to the hopeful, anticipatory sleuths and their enforced companion. Quite Impersonally he read from the "James P. Wellington," he briefed it. "Did time In San Quentin, Leavenworth and Walla Walla. Wanted at Akron, Q.. for safe-blowing." The plain-clothes men grinned at one another. But Jim Wellington shrugged his shoulders the least bit wearily be fore he-smiled and nodded. "That's me," he agreed. It .was Dr. Alphonse Bertlllon, a French physician, who perfected the system of measurements which bears his name and which is in practice wherever the police seek their-garue. But it was not he, contrary to the pop ular assumption, who first hit upon the significant observation that the tiny lines on the ends of the fingers are never duplicated, though millions might leave their digital signatures. Investigators were delving at the subject before Ben Franklin flew his kite. They fared the fate of those who pioneer, in blazing a trail that led to incalculable benefits for society, but were consigned to their fathers with out glimpsing the fruition of their work. So infallible is the report of the finger print method, according to James M. Hunter, in charge of the Portland bureau of criminal identifica tion, that it is certain to be but a mat ter of few years before the involved Bertillon method. necessitating the taking of many measurements by the metric scale, will have passed into the discard. The lines that mark your fingers at birth, assuming that you retain the fingers, are unaltered in conformation when the papers print notices of your 87th birthday. Coarsened they may be, but to the slightest detail the mysteri ous tracings which characterize the in dividual, and none other, are there for reading should occasion arise. Pacific Coas.t bureaus hold the rec ords of the Pacific Coast alone, running well into the thousands, but at the Federal prison of Fort Leavenworth, Kan., is a complete clearing-house for America. In its archives, available to branches of the police service, are the Bertillon measurements and the finger signatures of every man and woman who has snarled with the law and on whom society bends the black look of suspicion. There are 32 primary classifications of finger prints, each with 32 sub divisions. Loops, whorls, deltas, islands. outer and inner termini, arches, tented arches, pocket loops, composites and accidentals, are but a few of the distinguishing terms for the ordinary or freakish disposition of the ridges that ride on the tips of the fingers. The finger print method of tracing perpetrators of crime is too well known for detailed repetition. Briefly it consists of procuring some object touched by the unknown suspect, of dusting that object lightly with pow der, usually the ground charcoal of the willow, and of observing with in terest the signature that springs there from. For the tell-tale perspiration has left a document for the undoing of the criminal. In no instance is the wide variation between reel and real life' evidenced than in the ingenious, though mis taken, efforts of the scenario writers to ayail themselves1 of the melodra matic effect of the finger-print. Not so long since, because the board of censors feared that the film might afford criminal instruction. Sergeant Hunter was summoned to pass Judg ment upon a six-reel thriller. The duplicity of the villain almost passed belief. A crook of high attain ment, it had become his obsession to "get" the star of the drama, the in credibly agile and erudite young de tective who followed his trail, usually a lap or so behind. So he cooked up a scheme, did the villain, to rifle a millionaire's strong box, contriving at one and the same time to procure "the papers" and leave the sterling young sleuth in the hottest sort of predicament. Consider his cleverness: In some wise he had ob tained duplicates of the detective's finger prints and affixed the same to rubber gloves. Donning the gloves, our vengeful villain set about the deed. Upon the strong-box, when it stood as bare as the Hubbard cupboard, 'were the prints that would bring disgrace, dismissal and conviction to the hero. Sergeant Hunter sat through the special performance . with commend able patience. He did not remark the numerous departures of. the hero from accepted police decorum, nor did HJ more than smile at the antics of th villain, which, beyond the film, would 'assuredly have brought him before a. sanity commission. But he balked at the rubber gloves. At their apearance he rose to assure the censors that the film was devoid of aught that might benefit the rising young thug, but that he wished to protest against its light disregard f r technical accuracy. "The best yegg of the lot can't per spire through rubber gloves," decreed Sergeant Hunter. "No perspiration, no prints. Aside from that, and a few other minor matters, it's a fine film." WAR BRIDES ARE NUMEROUS Camden, J., Has Large Number Who Charge. Desertion. CAMDEN, N. J., Dec. 20. The rec ords of David Rankins, supervisor of charities in Camden, show that 226 deserted wives have asked for assist ance in the Jersey town during the cur rent year. The supervisor says that investiga tion has shown that a vast majority of the 226 were so-called war brides, or girls who were led to the altar by young men of draft age. Despite the high total of deserted wives, the supervisor of charities says that Camden is remarkably free from poverty. In past years a heavy snow and cold always brought a line of men. women and children beggars to the charities office, 223 Kaighn avenue. WOOLEN SWEATERS ARRIVE (Continued From First Pare.) you. She's in the downstairs cup board." Her nurse proved to be a Red Cross nurse doll, but we feel lUie old friends on the strength of it. Another young patient of mine who is about three years old and squashed. her fingers in "missus-next-door'i" washing machine, arrived yesterday with her hand out of her sling. I scolded her and asked her why it wasn't in the sling. She smiled an angelic smile and lisped: "It's a very windy day. nurse, I fink, it must have blowed out." A poor excuse, but better than none perhaps. My very best little boy was having tea the other day and his mother and some friends were telling fortunes in their tea-cups. He watched them and listened, and then excitedly passed up hi little cud. do find her in there muvver?" His "muvver" told me next day with great gusto. A grateful patient of mine who is a, barber, generously offered me the pre scription, all free of charge, of a. most wonderful dry-shampoo mixture. Ho really is a kind-hearted man for ha comes up and shaves the wounded sol diers in his off time all for nothing. It was my rejoicing out. Patients who graphically described to me the whole German Army being rolled outj flat like a tennis lawn by the British' Tanks. I had not seen the paper that morning, so relied on them for the news. Their war news never lacks in cident. . The "wobblyne9" of Russia annoys them vastly. The war comes home to them sure enough where all their fathers, broth ers and sons are fighting. A boy with, a damaged arm patted his sling affec tionately this morning and said: "This scarf belongs . to my unrle, nurse. He's a prisoner 'of War in Ger many now." Then he told me what a fight ha made before he was taken prisoner. Only five of them were left alive out of 75 who went into action together. The boy was very proud to wear that scarf, - '