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Use of Lie Defector To Combat Employee Dishonesty Debated
By HENRY J. BECHTOLD
UPI Financial editor
. ' New York - IUPD - Two for
iner government security of
ficers turned management
cons ultants
f V"N : are in sharp
mm.jL d i sagreement
lit J as to the lie
11 J detector's role
in combatting
employee dis
honesty. Lincoln M.
Zonn of the
security con-
Henry Bocntoid sultant firm
bearing his name spoke re
cently of the growing use of
the polygraph to reduce com
pany losses from employee
Family
Council
Editor'i Note: The Family Conn.
ell consists of a Judge, a psychia
trist, three clergymen, a newspaper
editor, a women's editor and two
writers. Each article is a summary
nf an actual case history. The
Council reports on problems that
have been dealt with ny rtsponsime
agencies and counselors
Lucy J. - Marge should find
a nice guy and get married.
Marjoria F. - There are no
"nice guys!"
Lucy J. - I am a married
woman, trying to help my
sister Marjorie, who may be
going to the bad as a result
of a tragic experience.
A year ago, when she was
16, she was the victim of an
attack by a distant cousin
who came to the house when
our parents were away. The
whole thing was hushed up
because we belong to a nice
family and didn't want to be
involved with the law.
. Since that time Marge has
taken up with a group of wild
girls who have gotten into a
lot of trouble in our neighbor
hood. A couple of them have
been arrested for shoplifting.
They all say they hate men
and they're proud of it. I
have tried to explain that all
men aren't alike and that
Marge should find a nice guy
and get married, but she
laughs at me.
Marjoria F. - I sure would
like to see some of those "nice
guys" Lucy talks about. She
thinks her husband is great,
but I've seen him looking out
of the window, ogling every
thing in skirts that passes by.
Even my own father is like
(hat. I'm sure he has been
unfaithful to my mother be
cause I once overheard some
thing when I was around 13
My mother was crying and
begging him to give up some
woman and he just laughed at
her.
. ,
I haven't had a dale in
nearly two years and I don't
miss It. BUI I have to have
some fun and friends. The
girls I have been hanging
around with aren't really bad.
The two who got into trouble
were always wilder than the
others. The way I see it, you
, get Int t less trouble without
men than with them.
Tha Council: Marjorie is
the victim not only of one
brutal incident, but of even
more brutal neglect on the
part of her family.
The Incident Involving the
relative never should have
been hushed up. The man
should have been brought be
fore the law. Possibly, these
parents feared a revelation
that Marjorie was not a com
pletely innocent victim, but
even if that had happened,
the results might have been
less serious.
As things now stand Mar
jorie inevitably feels her fam
ily did not stand by her in a
time of crisis. Also, the help
and guidance she would have
gotten from a social worker
or a doctor were denied her.
Actually, the family neglect
goes back farther than the
attack. Girls who have had
wholesome family relation
ships all their lives do not
turn man-haters as the result
of one dreadful experience.
They eventually come to ac
cept the experience as an ac
cidental misfortune.
Marjorie is far from ready
to think about marriage. Her
sister's lecturing although
well inlenlioncd, is of no help
to her.
Things have gotten very
serious in this case and there
is an urgent need for the pro
fesslonal services of a train
ed individual. Such a person
might well suggest that the
girl would be better off in a
new environment for a lime.
Essentially, Marjorie needs
to develop goals and interests
to restore her self-esteem.
When this has happened, she
will quite naturally become
interested in the doings of
normal, wholesome young
people and will seek to join
them as a matter of course.
(Copyright 1960, Gantral
.Faaiurti Corp.)
thefts, which now amount to
more than $4 million a day.
Zonn's firm banks heavily
on the lie detector, which it
says is the "surest and least
costly" way to reduce these
losses which, to many firms,
may be the difference between
a profitable year or one in
the red.
However, Harvey Burstcin,
a Boston industrial security
consultant, took issue with
Zonn's remarks, stating that
the lie detector is a crutch
for poor detective work and
a doubtful weapon against
thieves and pilferers.
Zonn's reply to Burstein
was that it is no more of a
crutch than is the cash regis
ter which is just another
technique for internal con
trol of cash.
Burstein also contends that
the wholesale use of lie de
tectors in plant security to
investigate thefts was damag
ing to the morale of honest
employees.
Zonn says he has found the
reverse to be true. Most peo
ple are basically honest, he
notes, but many have a low
threshold of resistance to
temptation.
"These people genuinely ap
preciate the moral shot of
integrity which the lie de
tector's presence pro vides.
They want to be honest and
the machine helps them to do
it," according to Zonn.
Burstein claims that a skill
ed, well-trained, knowledge
able investigator, who has laid
the groundwork as he should
by interrogating a subject,
"can do as good a job without
a polygraph albeit perhaps
not as quickly."
Big Task Ahead
Zonn countered that no in
vestigator can be positive on
verbal evidence alone that he
has gotten the full story. He
says that without a verifica
tion factor the thief tends to
admit to lesser crimes, hoping
to conceal greater ones.
Burstein also insists that
the polygraph is far from
reliable and subject to inter
pretation by the operator who
might have a grudge against
the suspect.
"No more so thany any in
vestigator not using the poly
graph," Zonn states.
Whether the lie detector or
the skilled investigator is
used, the industrial security
consultants have a big task
ahead of them.
Zonn notes that from 30
per cent to as high as 80 per
cent of all employees engage
in dishonest practice - pilfer
ing, embezzling, abusing al
lowance privileges, making
fraudulent sales. '
Employee turnover result
ing from untruthful pre-employment
representations
costs business millions of dol
lars each year.
For every thousand dollars
stolen by outsiders, $50,000 in
cash and merchandise is taken
wrongfully by employees.
Sports Car Gets
In Way of Truck
Portland-OIPD-A heavy
freight truck ran over a small
foreign sports car late Monday
and the sports car driver suf
fered minor injuries.
Police said the car, driven
by Robert E. McDonald, 17,
collided with the side of the
truck, operated by Billy G.
Pierce, 32. The rear wheels of
the truck rolled up and over
the low hood of the sports car.
McDonald was treated at
Portland Sanitarium.
At the end of 1958, the Am
erican petroleum industry
represented an estimated gross
investment in fixed assets of
$51.2 billion.
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