Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1930, Page 4

VG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, UL 5. BORDER GUARD TELLS OF GUARDING BORDER vehicles that have never left the country. “It must be a source of great incon- venience and annoyance to people trav- than American cars enter Canads. This is partly accounted for by the fact that many Canadians work in the factories | on the American side and cross over| 1930. brought over in automobiles, there is a record of all Canadian liquor exported to the United States. This last fiscal yurhu amounted to worth. about $25,000,000 family of Sweden has been extinguished | Noble Family Ends. | STOCKHOLM (#).—The first noble | 410 11th St. N.E. | with the death of Count Magnus Brahe. Keeping & time-honored custom, the 500-year-old Brahe coat of arms was broken against the coffin and the arch- bishop threw the key to the burial vault | eling the highways of the United States| and back every day. to be suddenly stopped and held up by| - “There is very close co-operation be-| “Of this a certain part is short-cir- some man on the roadside. This has|tween the Canadian and American cus- | cuited back into Canada for illicit trade many times led to serious lhoeunxs.itoms officers. Both have their problem |.there. With & border patrol at the border this| to solve, and their mutual help is very | 4 Rooms, Kitchen, Bath and Porch, $40 Canada Has Bootleggers. WORK IS EXPLAINED Lowman Broadcasts Strug- gle to Protect Americans Against Smugglers. ‘The importance of the measures u-kvn! along her far-flung borders to protect the interests of the United States was described 1n an illuminating manner in | a radio address last night by Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who is in charge of the Coast | Guard and Customs Service. “How America Guards Her Borders” | was the subject of Mr. Lowman's ad- dress, which he delivered in the Na-| tional Radio Forum, arranged by The Evening Star and broadcast over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System. Protessional Smugglers Furnish Thrills. | The “real thrills” of the service come in dealing with smugglers for profit. Mr. Lowman said. The other class of smugglers are travelers, he said, for the| most part women, “who just csnnot understand why they should pay_duty on the foreign-made finery and jewels they bring home.” | Mr, Lowman said the customs agents usually “get their man,” but that the work of guarding the borders would be more_effective under a unified border patrol. The administration has recom- mended such a step. and a bill is pend- ing in the Senate that would bring the unification about “The present patrols are functioning as well as can be expected,” Mr. Low- man said, “but the proposed bill would undoubtedly be much more effective. The proposal is to move the patrol right up to the border and require all| persons to enter and leave the country at regular stations on the border. This would prove & convenience to the trav- eling public by service at the actual point of entry. Under the present arrangement, he ted out, the traveler may have to make a long detour and report far in- Jand to some customs station. Mr. Lowman said prohibition had in- creased the work of the border patrols, but that increased traffic over the bor- ders was a natural consequence of good roads and the automobile. Few Americans Can Buy Liquor. “Some attribute this enormous travel to the supposed American thirst for booze. However,” he commented, “to buy booze in Canada you have to have a permit to purchase, and the records show that less than three out of every 100 American visitors qualify as buyers.” The address of Mr. Lowman follows, in full: “The old-time stories of pirates, buc- caneers and smugglers are fascinating me. “The battle cry of the buccaneers is no longer heard along the Spanish Main or in the West Indies. “The hidden caves on the coast of the British Isles have long since ceased to be the rendezvous of pirates and thieves waiting to fall upon and rob honest folk. “However, even today smugglers are & pest to all civilized nations. “America spends millions of dollars and much effort every year in guarding her borders on both land and sea against this class of law violators. “The Congress has placed the duty of guarding our borders on the Bureau of Customs and the Coast Guard, in the Treasury Department. “These two Government activities have a personnel of nearly 25,000. “Guarding the borders is only part of their many duties, but it is very important. “The new tariff act recently passed by Congress and signed by President Hoover, in addition to furnishing reve- nue for the support of Government, is designed to protect American labor and promote American industry. These aims can only be secured by vigorously enforcing the law and requiring all per- sons who bring goods into the country that are taxable to pay the full tax due,! and also by keeping out of the country| merchandise that is prohibited, such as convict-made goods, dumped sur- pluses of other nations, and contreband | generally. Two Classes of Smugglers. “There are two classes of smugglers,| namely, those who are in the business| for profit and those travelers who try 0 escape paying the duty on their own personal belongings. They are both violators under the law, and look alike me. “The first class are usually skillful, hardened criminals who are ready to use almost any means to accomplish their purposes. The second class, mostly women, just cannot understand W they should pay duty on the for- eign-made finery and jewels they bring home from abroad. | “They are usually caught and pun- ished severely in the way of fines and penalties, but some travelers try the| game over and over again, always ap-| parently wondering why they are found out. One woman this Summer peid| more than $200,000 into Uncle Sam’s| Treasury in duty and penalties on her return from Europe. She had the money and could very easily pay, but| many times great financial embarrass- | Good Pictures Deserve This Special Care YOU'LL notice the re- sults of the extra care we take in developing and printing your films when you see the finished pic- tures. Photo finishing is an im= portant part of our bu ! mess, and naturally it is our aim to see that your | snapshots are successful. ‘We have a staff of experi- enced men whose skill is evident in every picture that comes out of our darkrooms. EASTMAN KODAK STORES, INC. 607-14th Street, N.W. difficult situation will be remedied. “The concentration of attention on the border also will have the result of eliminating the evils which have arisen out of the attempts to detect smuggling on interfor ruads. “Examination of persons and property at the designated border crossings can be careful, thorough and certain. In the very nature of things the accom- plishment of this end by scattered in- tertor patrols is almost an impossible task, and it is not surprising that errors and misjudgments of these offi- cers have occasionally had unfortunate consequences and that there have been many protests against the working of such a difficult and uncertain method of regulating entry into the country. “The men of the border patrol are loyal public servants. They are in con- stant danger at the hands of the ene- mies of law and order, as well as from exposure to the elements on land and beneficial to both services. “It is very important that the flow of | commerce by railroad over the border | be not interrupted. To examine the contents of every railroad car would | cause great delay to the trade between | America and our neighbors. | “Smuggling by freight cars is kept | down to a minimum by carefully check- | ing up on loadings at the switches. | “station agents knows, as & rule, what | merchandise is being loaded at their switches, and any suspicious circum- stances are at once reported, thereby enabling the customs agents to check up and see if there is anything irregu- Iar going on. “Prohibition has greatly increased the work of the border patrol. The smug- of other commodities. The more smug- gling of liquor leads to the smuggling | 4, “They have bootleggers and speak- !N easies in Canada who thrive after 6 o'clock at ni , when the government | liquor stores are closed. “A certain amount also is seized by American customs and border patrol-| | men and destroyed. | “Canadian smuggled liquor is not a great factor in the American liquor problem. A careful estimate places it | at not more than 2 per cent of our total | drink bill. b | " “The Coast Guard, the ciistoms offi- cers and the border patrol are on guard at our borders day and night, regard- less of all weather conditions. “They are placed there to protect the| Government revenue, to protect Ameri- can labor and to protect American in- try. I ask for them the support of all good citizens and the sympathetic glers there are the more Work it is to i keep them under control. Assistant S —Harris-Ewing Photo. | ment results from efforts to smuggle| things into the country. “These are not the cases that interest | me much. It is disagreeable business for the customs, because the unluck: person puts up & big howl when told that wearing a fine fur coat on the boat does not make it exempt from duty, even when an old American dealer’s label has been sewed onto & new foreign garment. “It is almost uncanny the way cus- toms inspectors are able to spot a passenger who is trying to put over & job of smuggling. They seem to know just which end of a fur collar to rip open to find diamonds that have been sewed in for safe keeping. “Most travelers are honest, but all hay to submit to examination as a preventative measure for the protection of American labor and industry. “The real thrills of the service come| in dealing with smugglers for profit. “They often baffle some of the keen- | est minds to be found in the Govern- ment service. | “The customs agents usually get their man. They never let up until they do. Smugglers Use Three Methods. “Smugglers for profit use three meth- | ods in their work—first, they trust to Lady Luck and try to get by the guards; | second, they bribe some Government employe to let them through; third, they use intimidation and force, even sometimes resorting to shooting. “So ie idea of the size of the task of guarding our borders can be seen by recalling the fact that, exclusive of the Great Lakes, the distance to be covered is more than 4,500 miles. To be exact, it is 2,839 miles along the Canadian border and 1,677 miles along the Mexi- can_border. “On the land borders the Department of Labor and the Public Health Service, | as well as the Department of Agricul- ture, are also involved. “The Immigration Service of the De- partment of Labor is concerned in keep- ing out aliens who attempt unlawfully to enter the country. “Bringing in aliens is a thriving branch of the smugglers’ business. | “Many a foreigner who has safely landed in America after having paid a handsome fee to some smuggler for| helping him over the line has later| been confronted by an immigration in-| spector and deported back to his old home, a sad but wiser man. “Some of them do not get off as| easily as that, for there are many well authenticated cases where the smug-| glers have deliberately thrown some of these unfortunate people into the Great Lakes or the waters off Florida to drown when they have been too closely pursued by & Government boat. “The Public Health Service is con- | cerned with keeping out disease, and| often establishes a guarantine at some point along our border. Likewise the Department of Agriculture quarantines against diseases of domestic animals or plant life, “President Hoover in his last annual message to Congress recommended that the border patrols of all these various services be consolidated into a single force in the interest of efficiency in protecting our borders and preventing unlawful entry of persons and mer- chandise. “Many wild and misleading stories were circulated as to what might result from such a force. The border was pictured as bristling with cannon and other war-like equipment. Peaceful re- lations with our Northern neighbor were % be sacrificed. “Free intercourse for social and busi- ness reasons were to be made impossible. “Such is not the plan at all. “Representative Hudson introduced the bill for a unified border patrol. “Hearings were had before & commit- tee of Congress, and the bill was finally passed by the Lower House, and is now pending in the Senate. “The present patrols are functioning as well as can be expected, but the pro- posed bill would undoubtedly be much more effective. The proposal is to move the patrol right up to the border, and all persons would be required to enter and leave the country at regular sta- tions on the border. “This should prove a convenience to the traveling public by giving service at the actual point of entry. “Today s man comes along the high- way which he is accustomed to travel from Canada, we will say. He comes into the United States. There is no customs station. There is no office at the border. 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