Facing, is reproduced a newspaper clipping that recently arrived at the Institute of Applied Science. It is a sad commentary on what we consider civilized life in the world today. Here we are with wondrous drugs of modern medicine, the lightning swift communication of radio and television, the nuclear power to blow the globe to bits — yet we lacked the wherewithal to return thT unfortunate man to his family — and the same thing happens many times each year.
It is true that had the man died to-day his chances of being identified would be many times greater than they were in 1929 because so many law abiding people have been finger printed for non-criminal identification purposes in the interim. In the gigantic finger print files of the F.B.I. in Washington, containing over 170,000,000 finger print cards, the vast majority of them, about 75%, are the prints of non-criminal people. So, if " Eugene " had died to-day his chances of being identified would have been much better than they were 35 years ago.
However, there is still some selling to be done because 125,000,000 civilian finger print cards on file in the F.B.I.
