Phoplifting Habit

Notwithstanding the frequent arrests for shoplifting in the big department stores the practice goes on unabated. A girl belonging to a very respectable family was to have had a hearing before Aid. J. V. McMasters this vorning, for steallng about $5 worth of goods from Kaufmann's about a week ago. The case was postponed for a week, however, and out of regard for the family a persistent effort was made by the firm and the fiont office men who made thp f rrest to tppress the name of the young woman. Assistant Supt. Filson of Kaufmann Bros., said: "We did not want to exposé the girl, but as you now know her name you must use you own judgment about making it public. We merely desired to take another step toward suppreesing the practice of shoplifting. "In spite of the frequent arrests and exposures the work goes on, and that, too, by a class of people who surely do not need to steal. In the past eighteen months we have had nearly 200 cases, in all of which women or girls were concerned, except two inetances, where the pilfering was done by a drunken man, a morphine victim. Doubtless some cases have escaped detection, but the thieves should know that they cannot carry on the practice very long