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Both the New York Stock Exchange and District Attorney Joab H. Banton have declared their intention of wiping out bucketshops. Yet each has proposed a different cure, and this has been the occasion of rather heated dispute between them. Mr. Banton declares that the only solution to the problem is to license stockbrokers. The Stock Exchange, on its part, maintains that the only way to stop bucketing is to put bucketshop keepers in jail and keep them there, and that what is needed is enforcement of old laws rather than enactment of new ones...