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S15,0OO,OOO SAY Ed
TO OHIO EMPLOYERS
ACTUARY ESTIMATES BENEFITS
OF STATE FUND FEATURE OF
THE WOKMEN'S CONPEN-
SATION ACT

New York City. Sept 6.--To Ohio
employers at least $l5,OO0,000 has been
saved through the exclusive state
fund feature Of the compulsory work
mems compensation law, according to
Miles NJ. Dawson, consulting actuary
Of New York. Mr.. Dawson was one
of several actuaries selected by the
Ohio legislature and state officials
to make an audit Of the fund.
The salient features and results OF
this law, considered one Of the out
standing achievements of James NJ.
Coxs three terms as governor OF
Ohio, are enumerated in an account
of his public record contained in the
Democratic Campaign Textbook soon
to be issued from the national head
| quarters, Grand Central Palace, New
York City Among the many claims
made for this piece Of legislation is
| that II IS the first Of its kind in tho
country, and that its excellence won
for 1t the commentator last June
Of the American Federation of Labor
in the convention at Montreal as
model for all states to follow.
The system is administered by
commission Of three members, one
representing employers, another lapor,
and the third the public. The law
requires that all employers or five
or more persons must insure their
employees either paying premiums into
the state fund, or filing a bond guar
anteeing payment direct to the injured
employe Of any award the Industrial
commission of the state may fix or
the 90, 800 employers carried as risks
only 500 carry their own insurance
subject to settlement of claims by
the commission.
800 900 Claims Allowed
Since the law became operative
more than 100000 claims have been
allowed including 1000 death awards
with the number Of workmen insured
approximating 100000. In that time
SAG. 600. 900 has been paid into the
fund Of which s24OO0,000 has been
paid out in awards to workmen or
their dependents and Of the remainder
about $4,000 900 is obligated and be-
ing paid out in weekly installments
TO beneficiaries.
When circumstances demand awards
are paid in lump sums. In thousands
of cases this has enabled beneficiaries
to buy homes, or pay off mortgages,
and many injured workmen incapaci'
tated for their former occupations
have thus received start in new
business.
From time to time the awards have
been increased, likewise the sum al
lowed for medical expenses. Death
awards are now $4,000. Medical ex'
penses originally were limited 10
5000 in any one case, but this has
been modified until now the most
competent medical and surgical serv'
ice is available to an injured work
man at the expense OF the state, rs
long as it is required.
Before the law became operative
Il 5000 personal injury suits were filed
each year in Ohio and they cluttered
the courts. Notwithstanding this,
statistics show that only six out of
every one hundred injured workmen
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injured in that part OF the plant
which was outside the Ohio state line
The injured man was employed III
a lowly capacity and was unedueateu
and ignorant, but when he reaiizeu
the seriousness OF his hurt he began
to crawl slowly and painfully toward
the Ohio line. Although every move
ment of his body meant agony TO MN
he did not cease until he had reached
the Ohio side.
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ever got any compensation. This
changed condition has done much TO
still the clamor for judicial recall.
II is asserted that administration
Of the law cost only per cent of
the amount paid in premiums as
shown on the report Of expert ac-
countants. This is said to be the
lowest Of any fund in the world.
Dying. Crawls TO Protection
How the law is regarded by the
workmen is illustrated by an incident
which occurred recently. A work
man employed in u manufacturing
concern whose plant crossed the Ohio
state line into another state which
had no compensation law was fatally
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-09-06

How Lo, the
Poor Indian Beat
the Dutch
Example in Compound
Interest
The DUTCH bought
Manhattan Island,
Upon which the
City of New York
Now stands, for
$24 or $25
From the Indians.
And they thought
They were Smart
But it looks like the
Indian got the best Of
The bargain and that
Manhattan wasn't
worth $25 at that
Timel
Here's the way to
Figure it:
If the Indians
! Had put their S25 out
AT g. Interest
1t would now be worth
, OVER 800 BILLION
I DOLLARS.
Just shows how
I. Interest multiplies
! Dollars.
| We pay 4fc Interest
| Compounded
Semi-Annually
| On Savings Accounts.
| Exchange Nation
| al Bank
of ArdmOre
"Always Alert to Serve
You"
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Use the Ardmoreite Want Ads for
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The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-31

The whole cost OF a good mummy was
81 ,200-a sum that undoubtedly represented
n small fortune in that day. The body lay In
brine for thirty days, after which different
personalities were employed. mixture Of
halsams and gums and spices was finally
found most satisfactory, although bitumen,
pitch and other Ingredient al had their
vogue. Nile mud and sawdust were first In
jected beneath the skin, to prevent shrink
ing.
Egyptians who were not rich were but in
differently preserved; and the very poor
made shift to get to heaven without their
bodies.
And Egypt had pyramids because of the
mummies. These were simple great tomDs
OF intricate Interiors In which the dead might
be kept safely for the last day. They were
designed to be as paidtial and comfortable
as the wealth of the dead one permitted
security was essential, for robbing the grave
yard was q favorite pastims in ancient
Egypt.
A mummy might decay; II might be stolen
or SO mutilated and defaced that the risen
dead could not reoccupy It. Therefore a man
had his mummy wonderfully incased and
entombed. The body was placed first in a
stucco and linen coffin, It's face sometimes
wearing a mask and sometimes merely
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or more of the most famous sculptors OF
his time.
In 5000 and 1000 3. G. the Egyptians be-
leved in life after death and In day of
resurrection-a belief brought out Of Egypt
by the Children of Israel and handed down
by them to all subsequent Christians No
Biblical scholar now wholly disbelieves this
But the Egyptian belief was materialistio
rather than spiritual; a tenet that took little
or no account of the soul. The body was
the thing. Hence mummies and statues in
tombs
The earliest race of Egyptians lived In the
Nile Valley about 40O0-3700 3. G. Men have
found their cemeteries in numbers, although
most traces of their villages and their art
have disappeared. In that era mummies had
not yet come into fashion, although some
idea of q hereafter was theirs, as II Is every
primitive peoples.
Their earliest burials are reminiscent of
indian finds in our own country. The dead
were laid In a contracted position In the grave
with pottery and stone vessels containing
obviously food and drink, and flint and
stone implements of the chase; they are
found upon the left side, with head toward
the south and knees drawn up--"in an en-
bryonic position ready to be born into new
world
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apparently no family relationship in the fine
tracery of the tiny wrinkles in our hands"
1t is not generally known that foot and
hand prints are just as infafiible as finger
prints as means of identification.
With universal Identification many present
day difficulties would disappear There
would be no such thing as lost IDENTIFY
said Commissioner Faurot. "by establishing
a central bureau, to which the fingerprints
of every member of the population must be
forwarded. Careful study Of the various re-
curing lines reveals the fact that they can
easily be classified for reference under GER
tain general headings which include pecu-
liarities
Loss of Identity Impossible.
"The central bureau, believe, should be
under the Federal Government, with all
other bureaus, State, county and municipal
as its tributaries Two sets Of prints would
be made of each individual, one being held
at the local bureau which had made it, the
other being sent on to the central bureau
THE number does not matter. Careful
work would make the classification perfect
IL they numbered seventy times that many.
The prints OF infants would be comparatively
easy TO obtain; school childrens finger
prints would be as easy; at the time OF CEN
sus taking many others could be gathered,
existing adult population at the start. Later
the prints of children born and children In
the schools would cover them-for finger
records do not change, while children ma
ture rapidly.
"This plan, carried to its ultimate conclu-
sion, would establish a great system which
would identify without delay the numberless
unknown unfortunates found mysteriously
dead II would solve those puzzles which
fhe groun of mental ailnepts calIed onhaSio
is constantly presenting and which furnish
frequently such strange losses of the men,
Dry of individuals that their identity is never
known. Such cases are continually increas-
ing in number, q circumstance attributed to
the rapidity of modern life and its great
strain.
"But they would do many other things be-
sides these. They would for one example,
end those election frauds which so contin-
ually scandalize us. No man could vote a
dead mans name If the dead man had been
fngerprinted and he himself were to be
fngerprinted, a process which would &C.
cupy but a few seconds when he went to
cast his vote. Nor could he vote a live
mans name IL he were not that live man.
An election is approaching now which may
very well be followed by loud crieS of fraud
from both sides. Most Of the frauds which
will be charged would instantly be made i'm
possible IL our voters all were ingerprinted
"In the system of recorded fngerprints
lies the possibility of what seems to me to
be an absolute safeguard to banks against
the forger. Banks, particularly savings
banks are continually swindled by impostors
who are able through some prearrangement
to answer the usual questions which are
asked-to give the names of relatives which
have been taken when accounts were opened
and so on. Illiterate people would be per-
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What Mummies Meant to the Ancient Egyptians

TT HE Metropolitan Museum displayed IN
it's iftieth anniversary exhibition a
diorite stone statue that has not re-
ceived the attention due It. This is a statue
Of King Sahure of the fifth dynasty (275O-
1926 p. CO. and is in a wonderful state of
preservation, in spite Of the fact that 1t had
been buried for centuries and centuries in
the ruins of Sahure's pyramid temple, under
tons of sand and earth.
The mummy of Sahure was unearthed by
German psychologists prior to the discovery
OF the statue now at the Metropolitan, but
It was retained by the Egyptians for their
own museum 1t is thought by many schol-
ars to be the best preserved mummy yet
found The face OF the mummy and the
face of the dorite statue are so startlngly
alike that their probable likeness to the King
himself in life cannot be doubted.
The sculptors of ancient Egypt made all
the statues, the face masks and collins for
the dead as nearly like the subject as was
possible. A man had all his statues arranged
for before death, and very rich man took
no chances on having poor work done. There
were religious reasons for this. So powerful
a king as Sahure indubitably employed one
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swathed In mummy CLOTH this coffin was set
in another or wooden case, the wood being
statue of the deceased made true to life.
only larger. into which the first case fitted.
Cases were sometimes multiplied, as In
the tomhs Of great princes of certain eras,
end as many as six and eight have been
found one within the other. The outer
covering was a huge box of wood or granite,
according to the period. They defied ghouls!
Now. the mummy and its whole series Of
encompassing cases might conceivaby be
destroyed. The Egyptians were taking no
chances! SO, statues Of wood, of stone and
of bronze were also fashioned In the like
ness Of the man and set about his tomb As
many as ten were found in one tomb of the
eighteenth dynasty. on the assumption, one
supposes, that the most tireless despoiler
could not get rid Of them ALL
sahurss diorite statue Is not the only one
found In q tomb that seems 10 have been
an exceptional portrait Of the dead buried
there. These statues have been Of inoai-
cuiable value to srcheologists In visualixng
the features ana, therefrom. the probable
moral and mental attributes Of the ancient
Egyptians.
Their utilitarian expression Of the needs
OF the dead when he should rise again has
furnished scholars with much material for
reconstructing customs OF that day.
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The Bertion system performed wonders;
fngerprints have performed superwonders,
and the marvel Of the system is that the
only requirements for proficiency are ordi-
nary intelligence and practical experience.
Criminologists who have studied the sub
ject say that the value Of the ingerprint, or
better known as the thumbprint, was dis
covered by the Chinese more than 200 years
B. c.. an impression Of the thumb being used
by them in lieu, of their signature in all
legal and business transactions. In later
years this method was adopted in India,
where It was developed to such a state that
Government officials have come to rely upon
criminals It has entirely abandoned the Ber-
tillon system Of measurements, and many q
mans flngerprints have resulted in his con-
vtction.
Vital In All Business.
India IL referred to because In no other
country are business men called upon to
deal with a more numerous, crafty people
than its natives. singularly alike in features,
stature, color Of hair, eyes and general char
acteristics as the natives of that country
are; without an absolute means of identifica-
ton the business men and Government Off
Gals alike would be continually involved.
Thus, in making payments in Government
Offices as well on plantations, the
swarthy sons Of India must give their fin
ReTpTlIlls, ana IL tney 90 not agree With tne
records previously taken the criminals are
at once prosecuted and forthwith convic.ei
upon this evidence, which under British law
is relevant.
From time to time various systems for the
classification of fingerprint impressions
were advanced, but not until 1901 was tn,
value OF the system realized, when the Brit
ish Government adopted the Henry system.
Since then fingerprints under some system
have been installed by the police of all the
principal cities throughout the world
No matter what system Is used, all agree
that there is no escape from the cradle to
the grave.
The fngerprint of new born child will
remain the same through life. 1t will grow
larger, but the imprint remains unchanged.
fingerprint Is the reproduction Of the
ridge formation on the bulb surface of the
outer or nail joint of the finger in any man.
whatever, whether 1t be made with ink,
blood or the greasy substance which Is
emitted by the sweat glands, the outlets OF
which are on the summit of the ridges;
whether 1t be a Photographic reproduction or
printed by means Of what is known as line
cut or whether impressed in clay, wax or
putty. All are impressions within the full
meaning and can be used by experts In maxi
ing identifications. A smudge made with the
finger would be mark, but no impression
in accordance with the fngerprint system.
However, an impression is not hard to OBJ
tain; in fact the subject can be made to
furnish the evidence of his guilt or innocence
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fectly protected, despite their lack Of educa-
ton. for they could make their fingerprints
upon deposting their money and a check
signed with their fingerprints would be
beyond question when they came ag;in to
draw their money out.
1.-THE business man would be protected, for
he could add to his pen signature, which can
be forged and often is, the signature of his
own fngertips, as nature made them, which
has never been and never will or could be
duplicated"
Aids in Other Cases Besides Crime.
But, as Commissioner Faurot observed, too
much stress is put on the crime end # the
fingerprint system of identification Many
times the system has been the means of
helping unfortunate persons. One case hap
pened in Washington last month, when a
native of Norway-Anders Martin Ander-
son-became q citizen of the United States
solely by virtue of the fact that when he
enlisted In the army several years ago his
fngerprints were taken. When Anderson
applied for his final citizenship papers he
had difficulty In establishing his Identity.
Then he remembered that when he enlisted
. his hngerprints were taken. The AdJutant-
Generals office was appealed to, another Inn
preston taken, comparisons made and
Anderson made happy.
striking example Of the usefulness of
this system Is the case Of Fox who was
arrested recently in Montevideo on suspicion
of being lie Roy, the man wanted for the
Detroit trunk murder. 1t was not necessary
to bring Fox to the United States The
fingerprints of lie Roy were sent to Monte
video where after comparison with prints
of Fox's fingers the innocence of the prisoner
was established.
This case brought to the attention of the
authorities the need for more rapid means
of Identification. and experiments are now
being made with device that registers
the voice in a manner somewhat similar to
the photograph, except that the vibrations
are visibly recorded. 1t is claimed that no
two voices are exactly alike and that the
use of this device might be made practicable
in the absence of fingerprint records. The
use of the wireless telephone and the sending
of pictures by telegraph also are receiving
the attention of police officials. Had it been
possible to send a photograph of lie Roy's
fngerprints by telegraph Fox would have
been released within an hour.
The New York Bureau of Criminal In
vestigation, in charge of Lieut. John III.
Allen, has developed the fingerprint system
into a wonderfully efficient machine. The
bureau can fingerprint, classify, search and
complete the record of a subject in four
minutes.
The Identification Of Charles Raymond as
Harry Gilmore, a man of SS years, who had
spent a third of his life in prisons in this
State, New Jersey Pennsylvania and several
Western States. is only one of the many
mysteries solved by fngerprints an infalli-
BILE means of Identification which nothing
short of the loss of both hands can over
come. Even then, II may be possible to COM
plete Identification II the person is alive, as
will he shown later.
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in the most natural manner possible
suspected person is brought in for ex-
animation, or he may be seated beside a de-
tective and the surroundings seem the most
casual one can imagine. But somewhere
near the suspect is piece of paper and
some time he will put his hand on it-he has
to. At that moment the paper disappears.
some ordinary graphite powder is sprinkled
over it and-a fingerprint is secured.
All systems of fingerprints are based upon
the pecuiarities Of the ridges, such as their
formation into various patterns and by the
formation Of two fixed points, known as core.
or inner terminus and delta, or outer termi-
nus, together with the ridges intervening
and surrounding these two points.
To make 1t clear to the layman, there are
but four types Of finger marks-the COM
posite, the aroh, the loop and tho whorl.
Everybody's fingers fall into one AZ those
classifcations.
Nearly twenty-five years ago tho British
Government employed p. A. FLAX, claimed
to be the inventor of the fngerprfnt system
at Singapore. FLAX first directed his attention
toward the criminals end Of the system, and
his services after he left India were sought
by the police departments both In this coun-
try and abroad to perfect, arrange and clas-
SHY their records. His work finally led to the
conclusion that In one essential the finger
print system as employed by the British
Government III EHBldIlu WAS III IdulI, 0dIHelys
the use of the thumb print only, and in the
working out of his idea he consequently
abandoned this method. adopting instead the
prints of the three middle fingers
The majority Of people do not clearly un-
derstand what a fingerprint is or realize the
wonderful reliability Of this, nature'sT own
mark of Identification Apart from the
CT eases caused by the folding of the skin, the
tactile surfaces of the hands are transversed
by fine lines representing the ridges and fur
rows In the cuticle.
Grouped in Lines and Patterns.
On the last joint Of the thumb and the
fingers in particular these lines are grouped
into patterns conspicuous in outline and
rich in characteristic detail. The courses of
Nthe lines are determined by the presence and
position of sweat glands located in the SUBJ
cutlcle. When taking fingerprint the sur
face Of the finger is slightly linked by simply
pressing It fiat down on glass or metal
plate which has previously been covered with
a thin layer of indelibe fingerprint ink and
by subsequently pressing 1t on the paper In
similar manner.
II properly manipulated only the tops OF
the ridges will be mixed the imprint on the
paper being n clearly defined reproduction
in black and white Of the ridge formation in
its smallest detail
There IL yet another method Of making
fngrprints by using an impregnated paper
on which the impressions develop themselves
the minute the paper is touched by fingers
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Jekyll and Hyde Life Revealed By Fingerprint

Through courtesy of York city Police Dep
graphic just mysterious Brooklyn suicide dent
At each side characteristic photographs
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.sVV THAT'S your numberf"
NJ "s,476.es4. New York
A few moments later tn
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