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was stopping and handing the clerk
500 bill requested that it be saved for
him until he called for it. The following
day he went to the clerk and requested
his $100 bill The clerk started at him
and, shaking his head with seeming in
credulity, said: You've made a mistake,
you never gave me 500 or anything else.
The salesman's eyes flashed fire, but he
saw the point at once; he had no witness
to the transaction, and so left and re-
paired to the aforesaid lawyers office.
This was the lawyers advice:
"'You get another 500 bill and in COM
pany with some trusted friend go to the
clerk and apoIogizingly say that you gave
a 500 bill to some one to- save for you,
but mistakenly thought it was he, and,
however, you hand him the new 500 bill
and ask him to save it for you. He will
do so. Later in the day you GO to him
alone and request him to return the $100
bill. He will return it to you. The fol-
lowing day you go to him with your
friend who was present when you turned
over the last 500 bill for safekeeping
and demand the $780, The clerk will see
the point when he sees your witness, and
so you will get your first $10O back also.'
1.-THE salesman did exactly as advised,
and the day thereafter came to the law
yer with broad grim saying: Your adj
vice worked like charm and l got my
money back, the first 500 as we'll as
the second. Now how much do I owe
you?
"$100' replied the lawyer"
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Are Brainy Criminals Extinct as Dodo?

crooked can read of them and be inf1u-
enced thereby.
Suggestion is a very important factor
in the makeup of the criminal mind.
Many of the high class swindlers and
com men know better than Coue him
self what an important part suggestion
plays IN their particular kind of crime.
These men are usually of fine appearance,
dress well, are good takers and have at
least a dozen ways to convince the most
intelligent that the moon is really made
of green cheese. No one knew this bet
ter than our old friend Wallingford.
"And many full fedged swindlers stock
operators, wire tappers or confidence men
of to-day started out like Wallingford
but unlike him their evil qualities were
stronger than their potential powers for
good.
Prohibition? A few of these old time
confidence men have taken advantage of
it and have joined the bootleggers. Quite
few of the criminal type among the boot
leggers have formed new associations
with near respectable members of
society and often get information from
them that makes holdup possible.
Lets look back, say, ten years
ago. The crook in those days was just
a plain ordinary thief and he stayed
such. If he was a safe cracker he was
a bit different-an aristocrat in his own
world House burglars were middle
Copyright. 1923. by The New York Herald.
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generalization which is that the criminals
of 1928 are harder to catch than they
were two or three decades ago. And if
this generalization be backed up by a
long list of undeciphered crimes then
what is one to believe if not that to-day's
malefactors are brainier than their pre-
decessors who were always getting
caught?
The supply of clever crooks may have
diminished but it hasn't died out. What
are they busying their brains with to-
day? How great a menace are they to
modern society?
Harry V. Dougherty, one of the best
known detectives in the country and
man with over thirty years experience
in the detection of crime, smiled when he
was asked the questions and quoted the
famous remark of Inspector Byrnes:
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By EDWIN H. BLANCHARD.

n Aa sas with sf" tns originate Has' p 1ss'
This is an age of adaptation, of
Encouragement of creations of men who
are dead. There is no more originality
In crime to-day than there is in litera-
ture."
According to the penologist who made
the statement here quoted the brainy
criminal, represented in letters by Count
Fosco, Vautrin and others and in the
annals of Newgate and Inspector Burns,
is as extinct as the dodo. The present
thief, burglar, holdup man and other gar
den variety of enemy of law and order is
copyist and works by rote. In list
of characters of a modern crime novel
he figures among others"
But the officers of law and order, de-
tectives, public and private, do not agree
with the man who sits in his study and
compares statistics in order to draw con-
illusions which the former say may be
true to figures but are false to life
Where one brain invents a process to
protect, another brain, the crime detectors
say, discovers another process to destroy.
1t all goes back to the faithful law of
supply and demand.
If we are to believe what we read or
hear tbE2 we are apt to swing into a
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any event, the game seldom fails to sep
arate the stranger and his roll The
men who fall for overlapping have
pretty good sized rolls, too; they're
usually successful in their own line of
business, but overlapping gets them.
But other confidence games of the
past are dead. No gold bricks are sold
to-day. No confidence man now tries to
sell a stranger a bunch of counterfeit
money or wad of paper clippings with
a real bill on each end. Their confidence
games to-day are more complicated
fake business deals of one sort and an
other.
Loft burglars, the men who specialize
in silk and fur robberies, and freight car
and motor truck burglars who go after
the same materials are high class crooks
of another type. Their burglaries are not
just a matter of the time it takes them
to commit them They are carefully
planned. The stolen goods are often sold
within an hour after the burglary has
been completed; almost always within
very few hours.
GAS an example of what modern crooks
have learned compare the jewelry rob-
DGIISS VI IO-udy Will ClIOOS VI NWOhIJ
five or thirty years ago. In those days
the haul was disposed of through fences
and pawnshops, perhaps 200 rings in this
place and 200 in the next. The police
knew the fences and could locate the
stolen jewelry without much trouble.
1.-THE method of the crooks who special
ize in jewelry thefts now is entirely diff
ferent To-day they take the big stones
out of the settings and the gold and
platinum settings that run IA carat and
UP are melted. Then the stones and the
gold and the platinum are sold separately.
This means that when, ring disappears
now in a burglary it is dozen times as
hard to find out what happened to it and
a great deal harder to catch and convict
the thief. 1t means that the thief has to
be caught and made to admit the theft
and the man who bought the stones or
the man who bought the gold has to be
found and made to admit that he bought
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" $780, replied the lawyer"

FREDERIC ALMY of Buffalo, N. Y:
zone of my favorite stories is that of
the Frenchwoman who complained that
she had been grossly insulted by an
American with whom she was travelling.
On inquiry it appeared that they had
travelled alone in the same compartment
for an hour and that he had not once
looked at her."
"If I may give two. I like also the
story of the suffragist who cried out:
The Lord is with us, and with Her on
our side we cannot fall"
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associate him with as low class as the
gorilla holdup man would be to insult
his intelligence. Owing to the invention
of burglar proof safe and modern devices,
especially electrical equipment, this crook
has been outwitted in his special line.
In the past two decades he has been
obliged to turn his wits to other equally
productive lines of crime; the result is
the stock swindler, the oil well con man,
the wire men and the Raff1es type of
high class crook
''The man who would have been po-
tential safe cracker in the old days turns
out to-day to be holdup man. His marin
qualification now as in the past is the
nerve that comes of physical prowess,
and to-day more so than eUer before in
the history Of crime, multiplied by the
use of drugs This sort of criminal is
much more dangerous than his old time
prototype for this very reason. Ask any
detective or physician or neurologist
who has investigated murder cases and
he will tell you> that the criminal who
uses drugs is fiend par excellence
"As to other types of the so-called high
class crook read between the lines of
newspapers and magazines. We are liv-
inality are shifting. There are certain
so-called business transactions that are
so near the borderland of crookdom that
those who are at all inclined to be
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The Busybody.

by RossELLE MERCER MONTGOMERY.
She is busy tugboat on Life's bay,
Small hustling, fussy, ever on the
Attempting to take all her friends
in tow,
To manage them, to make them go her
way:
To try her tailor; or to see this play;
Or read that book-"You1l like it,
dear, know!"
She prattles: ~"You must see the
flower show!"
oh, why not try this new tea room
to-day?"
she makes us patronize her charities.
And cure our colds her way; her
clubs embrace
But if she finds that we are OBJ
stinate,
Resist her towline. go the way we
please,
She. struggles with us, but at last
gives place
And backs away-to Iaave US to
our fate!
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Bank Burglar NolU
Is Vault Breaker.

''The UP to date bank burglar steers
clear of the city banks. AS l just said,
he's a vault breaker rather than safe
breaker. His speciality is the safety de-
post vault that has been put in recently
by so many medium sized banks; this
vault usually contains a good many easily
negotiable securities among the stuff
that is packed away in the boxes, parti-
cularly Liberty bonds 1t MS a two door
affair and the crook can use nitroglyc-
crime against it successfully. This same
crook occasionally tackles a safe the
same way, with nitroglycerine, and rips
the door off it's hinges.
1.-The popular picture of the bank bur-
glar with his ear to the door at the safe
while he turns the combination this way
and that and listens for the tumblers
is all right for Jimmy Valentine on the
stage, but that's the only place. Bank
burglars don't do it, because they can't
do it.
"In every case where you read of a
safe being opened by outside men who
didn't know the combination, it's safe
bet that some lazy clerk or bookkeeper
didn't actually put the combination on,
but gave it what is called the quarter
turn so that he could open the safe the
next morning without exerting himself.
Burglars are wise to this labor saving
trick. When they find safe that has
been left this way their ignorance of the
combination doesn't bother them bit.
They tap it for it's contents, and when the
loss is discovered and the guilty employee
keeps mum there's another mystery and
another example of the way burglars can
open a safe listening to its tumblers.
Listen, nothing! There was one man who
was interested in this subject who ex-
perimented with all sorts of safes for
years. and when he got through there
was no doubt in his mind. 1t couldn't
be done! You'll notice that the safe COM
panies always have mechanics on hand
when they have to open safe of their
own make for any reason.
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that we Should go
hiking instead Of
riding. This would
mean eight or ten
miles of heel-and-
toe work. Among
those present were
Kid Mccoy, lCharles
B. Dillingham; and
myself. There ar
rived the night be-
fore a fat young
chap, who weighed
$50. He went along
all right for a mile,
but as we took a
IL IsIJ
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in Congressional elections.
my negro friends in jamestown told
Cheatham not to abuse me there for it
would do no good. Cheatham took the
advice given him. But he did worse.
He said: Congressman Simmons is a
powerful man in Washington. He can
get anything at the White House. The
President will give him what he wants,
Look at this fine building he got for you,
just for the askingi But my people,
that is just where the danger lies. II
Mr.. Simmons gets mad at you all he's
got to say is that every last hide OF you
ought to be put back in slavery, and in
slavery you will so. Sometimes "a man
has too much influence, and that is the
trouble with this man you have sent to
Washington
REPRESENTATIVE FRITZ G. Lam
AN HAM of Texas:
zone time two negroes, brothers, were
in the restaurant business. One had a
place up North and the other was in
Texas. The Northern brothers restau
rant apparently, was first class, but that
in Texas was little more than hole in
the wall.
"In time the Northern brother visited
his less fortunate relative and was sur
prised to find the restaurant so very much
run down.
why he demanded, don't you fix
this place up. I've got some menus that
will show you how to get them up
1.-THE Texas brother looked the menus
over and decided they were all right, so,
instead of getting any printed, he put the
ones the brother had given him around
in his place.
"That night two travelling statesmen
came in to get something to eat. They
were surprised to ind so many different
kinds of dishes were offered. They made
up their minds the place was better than
might be supposed from its appearance.
well take some of those lobsters,
said one of the statesmen.
Sorry, boss said the negro, were
just out o. Iobsters.'
"'Then just bring us some of those
bluepoints,' the salesman continued.
"I'm out O. bluepoints, too, said the
negro. The truth is that tn only kind
O. shellf1sh 1 got tonight is one kind,
an they's eggs
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school board ballots.
The work would
give him a profit of
about $50, and he
needed the money.
He had it all spent
even before the time
came to print the
ballots. T h e n the
board of elections
sent him word that
they wouldn't need
the ballots, as there
was no contest for
school board.
-" You'd give me
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Spring Mud.

It's deep and it's mellow,
It's black and it's yellow,
1t mocks at a fellow,
The mud of the spring.
It lies in the highway,
It closes the byway,
It's always in my way.
And how it can cling.
1t oozily sloshes
And cheerily squashes,
Removing galoshes
With grip that is steel,
It forms into rivers,
1t shakes and it quivers
With jellylike shivers
That rival an eel.
AS springtime. advances
1t CLEANS and it dances,
In sparkling eXpanses,
An animate thing.
And though we may flout it
I know that without it
We surely should doubt it
Was really the spring.
GEORGE o. SCHooNHovEN
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the JoD IL you gave
it to anybody, wouldn't your the printer
asked.
"'Oh, certainly they told him.
$50 the printer got out a petition and
ran for school board, thus making a con-
test, and they gave him the job of print
ing the ballots, after all. AS soon as they
were printed and the bill o. KID he with
drew as candidate"
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began to puff. When we reached the top
he sat down on a big cold bowlder and
began to wipe the sweat from his face.
"'Hey, you big fat slob!" yelled the
Professor. What the blankety-blank do
you mean by sitting down on that wet
stone when you're all a-sweat? Do you
want pneumonia"
"Said the victim promptly: Yes. and I
want it right now!'"
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= $50 -
sector previously oc-
cupied by the Eng
lish. The next even
ing seven volunteers
w e e sent on a
reconnaissance. The
smoke from a bar
rage fire became so
thick that these good
American soldiers
lost their way and
walked unsuspect-
ingly a n d directly
into t h e enemy's
hands. They could
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lima, was a member
of the House of Rep
resentatives in the
Fiftieth Congress.
He was then a rising
you n g Democrat.
But at the next cleo
tion he was defeated
by Henry P. Cheat
ham, a very cunning
negro politician, who
served in the Fifty
first and Fifty-sec-
ond Congresses.
In those days in
North Carolina about
IN 000 nnCronc voted
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No Dodo Bird;
No CLeUer Crook.

"I have never seen a clever crook, be-
cause if he was clever he would not be
a crook"
The criminal class of to-day, however,
Mr. Dougherty declared, differed greatly
from that of former times.
For instance, in times gone by he
said, "the criminal that to-day is mixed
up in holdups would have been high
class safe burglar or craftsman, and to
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- ~ ANSA ~ - - - - -
can earnest young
lady in Philadelphia
sought ut owen
Wister, the novelist,
and told him that
she had planned to
see 'Disraeli,' Z" says
Mr.. Arliss, "but she
first would like to
read up on him.
Here she found her
self in great diff
Guilty.
"'Y on S e e, Mr..
Wister,' she said, L
I-~1u ~ - - %Lo
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"A travelling sales
man bristling all
over with a n g e r
stalked into a law
yer's office and told
the lawyer that he
had been bilked out
of 500 in the fol-
lowing manner:
Suffering some
what from inebriety
and being apprehen-
sive that he might
spend all of his
money, he went to
the clerk of the
hofoI in which ha
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CUPREME COURT JUSTICE ISAAC NJ.
- KAPPER of the Appellate Division
retells this yarn:
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They Like to Tell These Stories Again

FORMER REPRESENTATIVE ROB-
ERT WILLIAM BONYNGE of Col
orado has an exclusive Roosevelt story:
II was in the House while Col. Theo-
dore Roosevelt was President. One morn
ing l went down to invite him to write
letter opening the Colorado Live Stock
Show. Just ahead Of me was an auburn
haired newspaper men who had asked
Mr.. Roosevelt to write letter for an
Edgar Allan Poe edition of his paper.
Il heard the President break out in
fierce language, saying he would write no
letter about Poe. No, sir, young man.
he said, I will not do it. I have never
read all of Poes works, but would not
write the letter if had. I am asked to
write thousand letters a day, and
refuse.
To show you what I think of Poe, 1
am going to take complete set of his
works with me to Africa, but 1 can't
write any letters about him.
"As the reporter passed on / presented
manner. The President declared en-
phatically he would write no letter open
ing the Colorado stock fair.
called to the retiring newspaper repre-
sentative. Come here he said.
81 have just told Representative Bon
ynge that I would not write letter open
ing the Colorado Live Stock Fair. Now,
what if I had agreed to write the letter
you asked me for and the one Mr.. Bonynge
asked for, and had made a mistake and
mixed the two, describing Poe as fine
Short Horn bull, would have been in
mess
"Mr Roosevelt gave a hearty laugh
over his happy thought"
REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM A.
~ RODENBERG, Republican, of ILL
nois:
Richard James Oglesby, noted Illinois
lawyer soldier and statesman, once Gov
ernor of our State, and later United
States Senator was an interesting talker
about a table where men sat in the good
old days, and drank good liquor. In 1883,
when Joe Phifer was running for Cover
nor party of friends met in room in
a hotel in little Illinois town and had
some wine. Dick Oglesby was one OF
them. Phifer was another.
AS the night passed Oglesby became
eloquent Along about in the morn
ing, when the contents of the decanter
were almost exhausted, the old man. ad-
dressing Phifer, said: "Joe, you and
are moving on. We have had our ups
and downs and are due many more downs.
Sometimes I reflect on the whole scheme
of life. We are born into the world
without any chance to protest or approve.
We pass through the pains and Ills OF
childhood, the troubles of boyhood, and
the knocks of college days. Then we sally
forth to battle for ourselves with the
world Old age comes, and we must give
way to younger men.
Eyes, we travel rapidly and roughly.
Soon we die and our friends and rela-
tives take us back to the old home and
inter our remains Tears are shed. Then
comes dissolution. Our bodies are eaten
by worms.
"But, before I co. here is case of de-
lirium tremens for one old worm"
He emptied the decanter into his glass
and drank to the health of the crowd.
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CENATOR- ELECT TESS of Ohio:
"A printer out in my section of Ohio
was promised the job of printing some
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CENATOR FURNIF0LD NJ. SIMMONS,
~ Democrat. of North Carolina:
Senator F. M. Simmons, OF North Caro-
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HAROLD MAC GRATH (novealist9;
- Zone dark, chill April morning,
some years ago, Billy Muldoon announced
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T OUIS MANN sends in this story,
which he has copyrighted:
A detachment of American regulars
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GEORGE ARLISS never tires of recall
~ ing an incident which occurred while
he was acting the title role in Louis N.
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Bible, but I'm not sure whether he ap-
pears in the Old or the New Testament.
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k.D RAINY criminals? They went
* out with the original poets
, 1923-03-27
AL N r1IE srATE on MINp

ALL IN THE STATE OF MIND
II you think you are beaten. you are.
II you think you dare not. you don't
II you would Tx to win. but think
you can't,
IT'S almost a cinch you won't.
II you think youn lose. you're lost.
For out IN the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellows will
It's all in the state of mind
Fun many q race is lost
Ere ever a step in run
And many a coward fails.
Ere even his work Is begun
Think big and your deeds Will grow
Think small, and you'll fall behind;
Think that you can. and o WILL
It's al In tho state OF mind.
II you think yours outeiassed. you
are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got 70 be sure OF yourself be-
fore
You AN sver win a prize
LIES battle don't always 90
To the stronger or faster a
For sooner or later the man who wins
Is the fellow who thinks he can
, 1923-03-27
MAKE THIS WEEK COUNT BIG FOR YOU!
NOTES

Don't overlook the second sob
scriptions." They mean more votas-
Tho second year is worth moro votes
than the first year. One yea gives
you $4,000 votes. The second year
gives you $4,000 votes II 10 imInater-
ial whether you got the first year or
whether some one else. II you secure
John Jones' eoond year It will credit
you $4,000 votes. II Someo1s gave
a two year subscription and you 80
cure the last four years II will credit
you $4,000 votes. Then too-tf the
subscriber was a nsw subscriber you
would also be entitled to rs 5000 extra
votes for each year-if secured before
April end. BEAR IN MIND THE
SECOND SUBSCRIPTIONS AND
THE NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS THEY
COUNT YOC THE MOST Woes.
, 1923-03-27

II a little friendly advice Is worth
anything to you-tnke II A good lead
secured by tho end Of tho first period
viii 'cinch" for you the gift Of your
choice. It may be the dstermintng
actor IN this election It viii win for
you. with votes less after Monday.
a lead now VIII be hard to overcoma.
Il will PAY YOU WELL TO put forth
every ounce Of energy possible in
your effsrt to lead the vote at mid.
night Monday.
, 1923-03-27

In fact, some Of the candidates who
have been lower down in the lists
arc now starting their campaign in
earnest n II we are good ~guesssrs"
some Of those who have been leading
will have to look out or they will be
passed by. A little mathematics used
will show any candidate how TO jump
to the top OF the list. Read and study
the vote schedule outlined on this
page.