THROWING AWAY MILLIONS ^ Surely we arc the most careless pic in the world. In one little dcri of our daily business life we throw awaS each vcar, *$50,000,000 and we arc losing more and more in this direction every year we live. That little detail i« the writing of checks in so careless a manner that they jean be “raised’’ or altered. $50,000,000 a year that we simply hand over to the [crooks. _ • ;______ ._!/ “But this is , an economic waste that may be in' great part stopped bv the exercise of ordinary care. The principal precautions that 1 would recommend are those formulated by the Forgery Vrc.? vention Bureau, recently organized in New York at J-11 Broadwaw The following: Lack of care in guarding blank j checks against theft: improper drawing i of the check: inefficient protection against thefts of checks and the mail, and failure lo use forgery-proof paper and mechanical’ check writers. “L’ndcr the first head the bureau advises that checks be kept tinder lock and key; that they be numbered serially, and that the paper be on some special design or fabric that will be* extremely difficult to successfully imitate. "To guard against loss by improper drawing of the cheek, the drawer should never have a check typewritten, but should have the payee’s name pemvrit-tcii in a good q’uality of ink. The' figures also should be written in ink, With a . minimum of space between each figure in the amount. Where the amount t>f the check is written by baud the [writing should begin as ciosc as possible to the left-hand margin and the unfilled space to tht right filled in with two wavy lines, preferably in ink of a different color. “A favorite method of the forgery gangs to get raw material for their operations is to rob the mail boxes of apartment houses and loft buildings. Where this is done they follow close in ,the wake of the letter carrier on the morning delivery, and die construction of the mail boxes now generally. in use is such dial an expert lias no great difficulty in extracting the letters lie is after. Once in hand he ; rifles them, appropriates the checks, and wherever they are of the primitive type that lack careful drawing or anv sort of: safeguard, lie skillfully 'changes the names of the payees and the amounts. Hundreds of thousands of dollars arc .lost right in New York through this method. "I’nder the fourth head there is little to be said, except that if \forgcry-proof paper and cheek-writing machines arc used, together with the observance .of precautions under die. tlircc other hearts, die forger gangs will find the business so unprofitable that they will become discouraged. The use of swell protective devices lias die virtue of obviating the deficiencies due to live personal equation in the drawing of cheeks." ■ .\'otv Id's su; how many of us will Ipjoill bv this 0rl,bv anv part of i(. ] ’ ......... j No. 788 NATIONAL Iff COLUMNAR BOOK Hade in the following Rulings 6 Columns to Right. 8 Columns to Right. 10 Columns to Right. 12 Columns to Right. 16 Columns to Right, Double Page Form. 18 Columns to Right, Double Page Form. 20 Columns to Right, Double Page Form. 24 Columns to Right, Double Page Form. 26 Columns to Right, Double Page Form. 30 Columns to Right, Double Page Form. 8 Columns Divided. (4 items 4) 10 Columns Divided. (5 items 5) 10 Columns Divided. (2 items 8) 12 Columns Divided. (6 items 6) 24 Columns Divided, Double Page Form. (12 items 12) 26 Columns Divided, Double Page Form. (4 items 22) 27 Columns Divided, Double Page Form. (3 items 24) 27 Columns Divided, Double Page Form. (5 items 22) 28 Columns Divided. Double Page Form. (6 items 22) 24 Columns, Cash-Journal Form. (2 items 22) The above are Units, No. 3 Faint. Also Records, Margin Line, And Stock Registers. TO DUPLICATE THIS BOOK Order No. 788 State Ruling indicated by arrow Give Thickness wanted MADE IN 150 AND 300 PAGES