Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 69

ILLUSTRATED FEATURES MAGAZINE SECTION The Sunday Stw FICTION AND HUMOR Part 5—8 Pages WASHINGTON, D.. C UNDAY MORNIN®G, MARCH 99 22, 1925. " Immigrants, Like Sheep, Fleeced by All Kinds of 5 BY ROWLAND ICTURE greater ever was gether a flock of tually ywhere d-eved, bewlildered, Wwoollies,” with 700,000 more being added to their number yearly Picture that flock as being literally iwested with a zolden fleece, worth the a ate hetween $350,000,000 nd $400,000,000 Picture in she brought to- 000,000 m trusting merable w s of ent as feeding in & with innumerable behind every wretch, armed sharp ining 1y- wait or shear and fill pockets with the golden spoil sheep are our foreign horn and imm . Their wool vast money—havd ¢ ch they or send betw old homes and their new nen in the bushes are them City al the precious r dotted 1shes—and clumps 1sh th of some avaricious and o igkote sum o the New York trated ted 1 frauds have ne mu m out of stated tively as “many , thou- Nrs. Lil n Aliens partment of dr left, Pri- ticket v, real Wl take toll of they have savinzs of \emes they flagrant sht an steamship ticket vende inst 1t of th is included amon udd and than oadway Deen made such “in “Trinity 1 publi o one ed fts umber recounts lish immi- age 10 United the r ol in the married was approach- <hip a personable wom- manifested friendly interest Iy learned her history addr them ady single-—she RDLY and set le was Anna off Ellis Island ed in her first job than the her up. The sisters ging together, and their was pained t humble cir H* Y s.ances, she rved, that themselves “mil- husbands?" the hocd with their mouths agape had they not heard? New full of millionaires on the ive for wiv and who W girls spouses, Db-cause girls much nicer American girls, who are cold and lous, not warm and devoted.” vill be the two such nice ire wealthy husbands, constituted mentress she added. in < 1 happen ropean as I world for to the their assured to » s o husbands oAb her no fools. thei or Ann Th Zo1 wide noc open k, and the were forth- spportunity’s 1 of the d what print n in ope brought ensued can be re- Not all of it could n court where the out. The woman unspeakably b all pamphlets ch good studied as text books in of lov She also in- to a who under- art of cap- As are out- then man in them in the tivating Ame millionaires Lot episodes, there s Charges now nding But Jeot the rlad sister trust major part r husband happine al abilit iitors rican slavery = were merely Money was the chief ob- harpy. and she bled her Anna and the unmar- agly paid her the of their and the r, who was at odds with to her gleally re- to the best But still the iled make hose maneuvers of wages. I ind hoped have also financ million the sorceress remarked that 1 b enough cken have not i and 1 shall see ic id y "hus was brought about the all but lible sceme in Trinity churc yard, The hapless fowl bought, Anna And the harpy carried it down to the hurying zround. In a quiet they stood above antations were that put the nerve on a Faw drew a long hiss- chicken from nistoric grave puttered in superstit s The “witch th and took the unobser Strange n errie way br ing = whispered, peering im: of her frightened feathired sacri- darkness by its vou shall see what Watch! Watch the Now,” she 1sly into the ping is now i the dupe. and gr fice to the scrawny neck, real powers ar my tombstone * % d about her with WHILE Anna gaze unwilling eves . . time she the neck. At the same ti afled cut sharply. Then, while.the dr- ing bird still fluttered, spoke again bkt 1 she the woman e the the at Look at moving A folk heneath them turn over command. Another word from and they would be thrusting their hands up through the curth to grasp yours, I told you 1 wa at the And ordered See them ravestones! See them move!™ Anna saw them move, in the in- stant longer she was able to look at them. Whereupon she fell victim to a violent attack of hysterics. It was a fortnight before she was herself again. With restored health, mome common sense came back, and the reell the “worceress’ had established over her mind was broken. One word led to another. Complaint was made to the authoritics. The Woman was arrest- ed and the whole fantastic tale was brought out in court One touch of comic nished by the harpy’s husband, a self- styled Polish “aristocrat” of impres- sive aire and graces, who claimed to be a motion picture director. He was ar- rested with his wife, having had a share in the dealings with the girls. There was only bail money enough for one of the pair, and the husband-used it for his own benefit. But when he came into court next morning and in front of the judge's bench met the spouse he had oolly relegated to a night in the cells he clieked hiz heels together with stiffly poliched precizion and bent low to kiss relief was fur- thing in the | to | wrung | me | TR | | find them | simple | nted | girls as vou | | ob- | | ver hand, while the churlish court roared Foreign born population. resident in this country, approximately 14,000.000 ; yearly increase, 700,000; aggregate wealth iof immigrant aliens estimated at from $350.000.000 to $400.000,000. Sharpers in every conceivable disguise take enormous toll of these savings of years. | Fake passports and permits, lottery tickets, fraudulent real estate and "home-buying” propositions, money transmitted abroad at extortionate rates, drafts at pre-war values only payablc. if at a“. in depreciatecl foreign currencgy are a few of the commoner means of separating the poor dupes from their money. Amounts as high as $1.000 have been asked and obtained for alleged influe.nce with Government officials, in the vain hope of bringing over relatives or other proteges barred by quota restrictions. \ | sh | mt con- | 1tmg 3 Ya toland Erris [szAND tendants | his honor di Look o end b the dupe. the | cumulated price of his and family. bankers, he with him, was New York ticket agency to book his passage. The men ish. Th | hearted and friendly. to see the miner carrying all that money Was he not afraid, they asked. that some scoundrel might rob him on on him. the ship? keep thim Why didn’t he play gested, and was a plece of paper which | A wa no draft Just &ood a te | because on he presented the draft to their rep- resentative pay him I good Po use in “It miner place was big shiny fiinge clerks and On the fac took a $2,500 and i’oland. he found -his, money change. “The: sharpers had fig- the exchange at but made' the. draft redeem- depreciated: When it was pashed the man sea wured values, able in rency. found him than $5 in his And neither the whom the Polish auth for him. But the By selling other pitiful belongings he managed to serape together the single - tick York. By him to they penny three trips From fle such as thi ered range paid sther case encountered by « since she these frauds, After toiling for 12 years in mines of hidden carrying h Polind. , | looked explained But when he got to Warsaw 12 years of toil airs. through with those steamship agents of his ELLIS ISLAND, where the imigrants laud, at with laughter which | d not reprimand severely * x % % Mrs began her drive to a Polish mimer was Pennsylvania he had ac- 0 in addition to the passage home to his wife Suspicious of banks and carried the money always in his clothes. He it so when he reached to a steamship 2 and went a there spoke excellent Po- were impressively sleek and But they were also good- It troubled them Ships were hard places t safe, they sug- | buy a draft from them?| s good as the money, but o anybody but the miner, 1¥' he could cash it. When in Warsaw is small fortune money, too, all they 13 ready would in to ] me,” the afterward. “The | a very fine place. It had | vindows and a lot of brass | Also:, there were many | machines to write with.” | of those appurtenances draft in_exchange for hi salled;, happily away for | all, right to had suffered & pre-war par post-war cur- self with something less actual value to show for in Pennsylvania Polish bankers on draft was drawn nor the horities ‘could do anything aman’ was a fighting fool his wife’s furniture and money for a et and came back to New 2004 luck some one sent Sive, and beiv « s0e got that miner back every 500, plus the price of across the Atlantic Ocean. ecings on the grand scale , the cases she has uncov. down to the opposite ex- Polish qirl immigrant, casy prey for cewindlers [mnagrants awaiting tragsportstion after landina At left: Mes Lillian D Sire, head of the Division of Aniens of the Ness York State Departwent of Liabor treme of pettiness its is a worthless bit of stamped pa- per which a credulous Ttalian hought for $10 from a New York notary pub- lic of his own racc It is merely a statement under oath | |V that the man been alien residents of the States for a number of years: that they are going to Italy ¢n a visit in- tending 1o return within the. speci- fied time limit, and—fine touch of irony—that they will be carrying baggage with them. The man had toted it carefully across the ocean and back in his pocket, untroubled by the fact that no official condescended to ask to look at it. “Have you onc of these?' the no- tary had asked, showing him a sam- ple as he bought his tickets. “Unte: you have one, they won't let you sail out of the country. And if they hap- and his family have 7 United One of her exhib- | pen to'let you sail, they'll never let And it you come back -without one. enly costs you $10." At Mr Sire's earnest suggestion. the notary has presented that Italian traveler with a fresh $10 bill * oW k% | 7ICTIM of sharp practice of anoth- er sort was a Polish girl to whom | a strange man came as the bearer of glad tidings. She had won a great prize in a lottery—a beautiful build- ing lot. She had only to pay the pricc of making out the deed, $30, and she would be a real land owner. | She paid the money, to find that the | bit of land to which she had acquired | title might be worth $1 if the ap- praiser had an expansive sense of | values But the fleecers, having once arous- | ed the girl's interest in real estate, did not let her off even that easily, Before they were done they had sold | her another building lot for $3%0, | which turned out to be worth only a fraction of that amount. Smallest of all the sharp practi- tioners on Mrs. Sire's list, pernaps, is the private banker to whom an im: migrant_servant girl went with $10 she had painfully saved to send back to 'still more needy kin on the other side. The “financier” split that bank note 60-10, keeping $6 of it to defray the cost of transmitting the $4 to his European correspondent. And even the $4 never reached the intended re- cipient. Mrs. Sire’s most dazzling discovery so far, undoubtedly, is an individual who advertises in the foreign-lan- guage pr and is impressive be- caunse of the scale of his operations, maintaining suites of offices in both Washington and New York. He is also remarkable for native ability. When the inspectors of the division they holding a “land of- hopefuls who were two pict found them throng of gazing, awestruck, at {on the wall. There was & big photo- graph of President’ Harding, with a facsimile of his signati ath it, |and a .similar counterfeit- present- ’n.vn( of Presidgnt Coolidge be Asserted friehdship with the |dents and other high officials of the Government was the chief stock in trade of the establishment, according to Mrs. Sire. The head of the office, alike in his advertisements and his interviews with clients, professed to have connections and friendships, po- |litical and personal, which enabled Presi- |him to hurdle the barriers set up by | the tmmigration quota laws. | Those who flock to him are foreign- |born residents who have kinsfolk or | friends Bn the other side for whom they are eager to secure admission | which the law denies or makes pre- {carious. Their simple minds im- |pressed by the stage setting, they | wilkingly ‘pay the fee exacted for |“services.” The sums usually de- |manded range from $10 to $50, but |in one instance this Napolcon of im- migration asked for and got a re- tainer of $1,000. The quota restrictions Mrs. Sire, have meant a golden har- vest for numerous shearers of alien {shesp.” The happy effectiveness of “influence” and bribery on Govern- ment officials abroad has been fasmil- far to most of the foreign-born since childhood, and they listen with utter credulity to the-man who sgvs he has | pull in Washington or inthnates he jcan “fix it up” with a United States consul. The best evidence of the emptiness of all these claims is the fact that no patron of one of these places has yvet been found who got what he paid for —a relative or protege. admitted in spite of guota restrictions. * K koK according to HATEVER scheme these fleecers select as most promising, one characteristic_distinguishes them all from the confidence man of fact and fiction, and makes their activitfes des- picable in a way'his never was. The seller of gold bricks, dealer of three- card monte, manipulator- of the elu- sive little pea that slipped from be- neath the shells, depended for his crooked: gains on the crookedness of his dupes. - He stung them because they were confident they were going to sting him. of aliens went to this man's officeg,’ But thess less defensible sharpers | whe use ally dent fort to ac these intangible commodities Sometimes it_is very small graft, like charging $20 or $30 or $5 for the expense of sending an “agent’— rarely goes—to Washington when a i-gent telephone call to Ellis island is all that is necessary Sometimes it is bolder—as when $100 or -$280 or $300 is taken in New York to buy steamship tickets for a family in Europe and the transpor- tation is never purchased And metimes it fraud most elaborate sort e case which Mrs. Sire had to deal ferer was a young Greek compensation for an utterly right band received $3.000. intended to return to his n with this small fortun have furnished a competence there for the rest of his life But the sharpers interested him in a fruit stand in New York City. The price they asked, $1.800, was a one for the business. tives of the State department of labor. which had aided him in secur- ing his compensation, approved of the proposed investment as a good one and his money was turned over to himajn two checks, one for $1,200 made “out to himself, and the other for $1,800 made payable to the crooks. But it happened they did not own the business which they were selling. They took his $1,800, gave him a fraudulent bill of sale, and with consummate ef- frontery also succeeded in cozening him out of $750 of his remainiug money before he realized he was hooked, and, sick at heart, gave up the unequal struggle and sailed for Greece, with no prospects but dependence on the charity of kin _there. The greatest. difficulty Mrs. Sire had, when accident brought his plight to her notice, was to induce him to com® back again to America and make & fight. Of course, since the original deal was fraudulent, every person and bank that handled the $1,800 check by indorsement became liable for its value to its rightful owner, 80 that Greek stands a good chance of recovering at least that much of the price of his destroyed hand. T HESE are only a few of scores of cases which have already been uncovered. Eventually the.list will their lure. Practi- asy m they them in the will bring aid or sorely in altruism all the intrusted o lef it me one need In « of the with the suf- who as maimed He had tive land which would Regresenta- ok % % reasonable | harpe mount_into Mrs. Sire thinks. The numerable, and lurks behind cver the pasture. But division of aliens done till she titution f dupes This He'd ge The sheey lumb™—and hundreds, into thousands sheep are unli eheare clump of bushes the director of the will her job exacted possible has You ants, u Woman New Yor harried a slu Paris. artist A sing turer has put w znificant, profes- lavender vellow B8 e ShEa o training know heek curve mpire, 1 flappe nd « ne so popular aband he te - Bois, so grea Vogue reautiful blond duat Mad Lepic give her when Paris the peared witl In France we her art of beauty, and her art of the theater M. Lepic w kind _enough to lustrate his t with one of his models, a rather descript young | ish as she took her place be- fore him. An assistant prepared her tace with creams, much as it is done in the American beauty parlors—then came the work of the artist M. Lepic mixed his powders Ing tints as a painter would his co First he applied oné shade and then another, ar third over the blend. He used pads of cotton for this pur- pose and art and brushes blend the delicate shadows about the eves and nose. He cleverly raised the line of the brows, and so contrasted the tint of the forehead and that of the rest of the face as to @ive the effect of a broad. smooth forehead Then the bobhed hair was parted an informally waved “Voila! The ized by the ut equal for choos stubs English type, immortal Poet Laureate Tennvson as ‘Maud.' Tt is this type that will wear ihe new empire gowns that the Paris designers are now ercating “Yet, perhaps,” reflected M. Lepic “Perhaps the new empire frocks will be better on the more subtle French type—like the beautiful Mme. camier. Then we will make the lish Maud a little bit naughtie And he transformed the rose skin to one like a magnolia bloor and the rosy lips became thinner, with delicious dark corners. Truly the Re- camier type as the painter David saw the célebrated lady As a type of the fashionable dark beauty, M. Lepic referred tc Marcella Sonty, who now poses for Drian, the noted Paris dres” dwigner. It was “Sontie” who introduced .ciwe natural hair line, showing tne ears Women say making over a face to suit a gown is an easy matter loarcd with making over a figure. Fish Swims on Back. NLY one known species of fish has the habit of swimming on its This is an inhabitant of trop- | ical waters, known as the globe fish The skin fish loose and be air at will. When the itself out in this manner. it naturally turns on its back and goes om its way in that position. 1O | back on the under side of this filled with fish blows is can I 2