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1 -J J5 i - . ' r M Vigorous Crusad That Is Being Conducted by Federal Government to Redu ce Smuggling to Minimum By WJtHam U Altdorfer. Copyright 1911. iay William U. Altdorfer t .rjpO 6Ml'GGt.H or not to snmii- H sJp, iut t ia the question" a wilfi" aj.orosles to Shakes A PW.. Thl is tlw problem tit A t PRUSCB niUCll lOBH Of ' eleep and the addition of numerous wrinkles of car to many of Uncle Pern rilecf and nephews upon their homeward wav lroin tliclr vacation abroad. Tlie crucial point In the prob lem is renrhei when t'nclo Pam liandf them his little declaration blank upon their arrival homo and fcavs: "Now children, her If ft rhanca to he (food and donate a little of your surplus cash to your vfii- rwh!e uncle for house keeping purposes." I'o they do it? That Is another and more Import -fit ques tion. -In the Treasury lurl ii"!; at Waah InRtfHi sits I'nelr Shih holding in hia hands the threads that ki-cji him in touch with 11 paits of the world. Ha .has eyes find ears 'n the form of HKents everywhere, nn.1 where there g no arent. he has oLIirr arranRemcnts ju.st , aa effective for his purposes. In all the large cities of Rurvpw and even In t'hlna and Japan, you will tind one of the ears of Undo Hum always ready and willing to hear of the wavward Inclina tion of Ids children and the pernon who .brings the information wil be well rewarded. An much us one half of the duties recovered as the result of the WKcn In Need of Money, Call on Ward Continued From tne First Page of This Section divided into twi Fe'-tlons, tlie school worth more than the money, for it gave lads and the working chnps. a spiritual stimulus to the community 'These varlo.ia committees are named that would make other enterprises pos the crank is tunica and the machinery slble. Ktarts. Verv often tbo Kenern! public U,s words proved prophetic When the is only Inform. h fw davs aliead of campaign closed with $27,1,000 ($23,000 th start that a minion or i Is to h mor than the amount asked for), the collected. Usually a ilinnci K-ld the night before the amimlei s opening. and snnouncmnt Is d. mc as to w- how. .much monev is needed and the : number of days allotted in the work. -.. Meetings of tl;e various committees are -.every day at noon The progress of the next day, when the llnal preparations .. are made. I-dnners for the workers are given every day at noon. Th.- prograss of the , u, ,m, ...t... ,. u, viv- ! , ii i ' i j ami liiv , 1n turn. retM 1 l.el; ..M,erlenr A large clmk Is ctn- of tl c pilme rat- ures Vt vach .anrV-n it is placed in front of the hf,i,l.'.Titoi6 dn,J adI-s the.genetal iut.ll, h'.w ni.it li has been . .raised. In the large cities the clock used Is six fed :n dMn.-tor and is y placd well above the street, so that it ; can be seen for some distance Tho hour hand remain stationer) at XII nnd the email hand Is moved to tho latest amount subscribed. . The Ttoman numerals arp m rod and the ligures reprfM-ntl-ig ihr thousands of dollars representing U e thousands ;v are placed around the rlin of the clock and a row of six or eight on the mln- ,:Mte hand. -,1ft.- , From all this It can he seen what dlf- flcult tasks Mr. Ward undertakes and Hhar-efforts on his part are required Tor the collection of thousands of do!- lam In a few days. In Jact, he is the mainspring that animates the whole human machine. Ae was suggested in the prelude, he "! the literal embodiment of the lodger , in ."The Passing of th Third Moor liack." Not -only does he raise money, he- 19 a moral force appealing to the ,. i. 5. ... ie touches souls a wWss pocket books. 11 get because he gives so much in return li, oh of his early campaigns, held In indunsprlis. th Rev. Hit Haines, pastor LT flT1 CbUTh' Mld that ihe-byproduct of the campaign was it . THE o ,0 1 - CHAS.P. CHIK? OF CUSTOMS DIVISION. information given, is frequently made a present to the enterprising one who Is so fortunate' aa. to deliver the goods. How Uncfc Sam Knows. It i usually the case," one of the cuftonis orflclalfi4-at the treasury ex plained, "that Information is received by one of our agents abroad that Mr. American piircliaaott itowie valuable dfa mnnda at Mr. Jones jewelry establish ment several days ago, and It Ik be lieved that he Intends to smuggle them Into the United States by having a whiskey flask made with the diamonds blown in the bottom of the flask. This Information Ik duly forwarded to the treasury department, at Washington, and It In turn notifies the customs officials at the port where Mr. American Is expected to return. Where there Is any doubt aljout the exact port at which he Is expected to return, a general no tice Is sent out to nil customs ports to he on the lookout. When he Hhows up h la very much surprised, not to say Indignant, when the customs Inspector takes awnv his vvhlnkey flask, but later when the flask in broken and the dia monds drop out, .lis indignation quickly vanishes. The enterprising party on the other side who gave the Informa tion, usually recplves a substantial part of the proceeds of the confiscated stones minus the cost the government may have incurred in catching the offender. Clever Tricks Resorted ToH. 'The tricks by which people attempt to evado the customs duties are so JOimg women's Christian Association iook tne same organization ana neaa- and asked for $ 1 00,000 It re- ceiveu m.,au in six days. i ncn qui- ler College raised $70,000 to complete an endowment. And as a finale, more than $25(1,000 was collected for the Masonic Temple. This Is a common everyday-occurrence now. Whenever a campaign Is closed, manv smaller ones follow. Churches rind other organizations have found their flnKnclai problems solved. TflP Kev J)r Snpnr.pr R Meeser, pastor of lfl Woodward Avenue Bap- ,.st ,.niirpn , I)otro)t sal(J that tnn raRtnfr of 433,000 bv Mr Ward was worth mor(, to le institutions of that (ily th8n a Blft of many minions from any ono mar. At a campaign that recently closed in Winnipeg $500,000 was collected for the central branch and $100,000 for the immigrants' building within seven and a half days. Immediately afterward a campaign of three days started by the Voting Women's Christian Association brought $200,000 for the hospitals. That still another Institution bene- fited by this same campaign was shown bv the fact that Lord Strathcona cable'd $ 'o,0fo for the Winnipeg movement and u' arne week sent a similar amount tu the Vancouver building. When Mr. Ward arrived in Boston, ho founl that the old building could not accommodate all its members,, and otnors had to be used for educational purposes. Yet those In charge of the ln6jtitutlon hesitated to begin . a cam 11 WM Anally undertaken, and , .'. 0 w,s ra,sad tor the central 7,11dlnr- In th" weeks following !T"' movements were started in the suburban sections, and nearly a million 7,r" 7,, . ,?ni xmr wl" 'f,f i. h , n11 nis successes, Mr. Ward'Js ZttlS v" JS11"?. ZU a half Hlon d"oHa Th rUy hrtd for seve?"ia year.Th?e scrape together $80,000. The commit- '..;:', OREGON-SUNDAY- JOURNAL, PORTLAND,' SUNDAY 'A'. i ) JJ II V 4 ttt AAJT; SBC. JAKES ECUmSfiOTXECm many It would fill volumea- to tell them," continued the same official, "why the other day we caught a man trylnK to smuggle jewelry by cleverly cuttinir out n nnrtlon of hl woorffln lcg, placing the iewelry in the hollow thus formed, and then replacing the top wood, making Ibe leg appear per- fectly good and as though it had never been touched hen there was another instance re- cently in which a clever diamond .mug- gier made himself, acquainted with a oung American man and wife in i,on- iM-atnnrt they were soon to return to America. The smuggler notjeed the kind of rattle tho baby was using, and by alleged acrldent'met.ths man and wife on the steamer coming over. As it afterward turned out the diamond smuggler had bought several babies' rattles In Lon- don, exactly like the one the baby of on his leg. but the official was obdurate, ' his friend used, and when they arrived and the man was compelled to hobble wel1 k??wn Fu 8 , ,0rJ.th'Bd in New Torir hi. nuhstitiitBd hu mttin nn r.n 1 .ii. ,. ... .vihj States. After they learned that Mr. .... ' " : filled with diamonds for the one the baby was using. When the party 'were partment at Washington decided In fa on the pier after passing the customs vor of the man on the ground there was officials, he made another exchange no warrant in law for the taxing of .a with the baby and took back his own man's leg." rattle. If the customs officials had not . received advance notice of this little Picture Smuggling Profitable. game, it is probable the smuggler ",uu . i,v-MU u.r : - fvf. . $10,000 out of pocket." i The Humorous Side. The enforcing of the customs laws Is not without Its humorous side. Ono casa came under the observation of this official a short while ago at Niagara tee gave It up as a bad job. Then "Ward put his hand to the wheel. To begin with, $200,000 was neted for the Young Men's' Christian Association, followed with, $200,000 was netted for the Young and, iiuturn, by $60,000 to entertain the confedeVate veterans at their conven- tlon. Next came a fund of $100,000 for Richmond college and, as a grand fl- nale, $110,000 was realized for the Young Women's Christian Association. Last spring a campaign in Toronto secured $800,000 for the Y. M., C. A. in 12 days, and an additional $150,000 to ward the Y. .W. C. A. Ward Chicago Experience. -nr-- - J 1 . ..!!.. - ' 1. -hT.ao Ths iMUtutintheWhadln Chicago. The institut on there had bee" iv J "v - "' ,' l?aInd ? y tC J?.!!i5 !222'2 W Bld $350,000 additional. Of t his total fund tIianw?-t0Ur.lnllvldua " P of $100,000 each. Thls campaign brought the Y. l. o u. ........ I rklAA.n n tha W. Jt Jill W V " collected in 18 days, followed by $100.- 000 in two days for the women's-asso- cllr- . .uu -" v'ivb." " 000 was raised there. Other places where important cam- palgns have been held are Baltimore, Flisourg, Syracuse, uirmingnara, nor- loin, linmaiiuuRB, xeiroji, iiwub, St. Paul, rmluth, Kansas City, Houston, tUnnaA f; DkAStniv ' Q un Is at n aft :'Psi nnm . a nJ !''-w SS .t thfn J luncri '"cvement had no Interest to. him until the tedious, long drawn out begging hM developed a new type of costume 5-SlS.J -H. hnnt A7n nnn h8 read ln aNew Tork PRPr t"at hls ventures that too often died a-borntn'. for alrmenf Bvan in the summer the fl0a-.!J ni n nf Jmisis-n "" a had donated a large sum. The reports of the Young Men's . atmogphere In the higher levels is cold A".the, -!1dm0!.?v. "ceI,rtCpai?" He had always made it a point not to .Christian Association of North America fl b Ung B0 tnat fur muBt ba worn WH89 111 VievUltUlU WlirjjQ fVIV.vw tv .c I CVVDh-M... i- t H I' I" 7 Falls, New Tork, -where a cripple, w.ith one leg hobbling around on ft crutch, took up a subscription to buy himself a wooden leg. He finally obtained the necessarv amount 150 and then he' thought he might save a little of his money by crossing Into Canada and buying his wooden leg there. Ono morn- ing he crossed the bridge on his crutch and the same afternoon returned ' over the same bridge mtaus the crutch. The fflJffi ' VSft ,.m wtth ht rt.h a T'" ,'i " " IS" ,w"e" " "K "e 0"'? 'T8 when In the morning he had only one boueht a wooden lee In Canada ttA C"mSS 2 duty on the Teg an 71 u aw!y from the man Thf man heclml indignant and mnM to tmr i,, h ;;;,,, r,t i t log. The m " .". .uuiiuou to Washington for decision. The de A short whJIe ft Vncl9 Sam got next to the smuggling of many valuable paintings by old mastbrs, by a well known flrm ot picture dealers, where it was charged that the ctiBtoms were robbed of mora than $200,000. One rea- son why the smuggling of pictures, vases, tapestries and the like inJtO Amer- ica is so profitable Is that an Import duty of 60 per cent ad valorem has to .''., : I . Los Angeles; and Ottawa and Sher- brooke, in Canada. Every section of the country has ben covered and yet Mr w , hn,ipvp- hl raTnT,t ar nniv ZlCm. ,. , 1 ln 'neir '""ncy ana mat mucn is sun to be accomplished. , The individual workers ln these cam- palgns have all kinds of experiences, many of them pathetia It very often occurs tnat a gollcltor is turned down .u. ,.n. . a. - " ,7" " . .uuuui. " and Gary and others paid the entire ex- remained the highest but one week Ward's mall the next Uy will Include pense of erecting institutions in their , Then Georges Chaves made his fatal a check and a promise tt support from Industrial vicinities. . , flight across the Alps, attaining an altl the same man. -. A word of Mr. Ward's personal his- tude of 8792 feet. On October 1, M. Then again, the tireless worker will oftcn run u faln8t the crusty old gentlemen wno take prla ,n neVer giv- ing anything to anyone, one prominent New England manufacturer, in particu- lar. who was opposed to religions of all klndB and wouldn.t ,vo a that misrht find its way to a clergyman, amazed the residents of his town by f,BBr.nh,ria. t.,Rnnn frnm VnJr . ---o.-- o ...... , . n . nfr(lM fn ,ha. a othern, had actually got t'; VeUar of him. ' wara a Kemantaoie Kecord. In some instances Mr Ward has been relieved of a strenuous campaign by geiung rnniviatiar sunscripttoss, worn v hiiui niai coverea -su x,ne neeas. ii3 explains to a manufacturer or the head ': gi'f . m. nnvnArat.An that . itVnaAll.UM Am. 'MORNING, FEBRUARY. 5, 1 'IjiJlT ' . 1 I I in - -' - M .. hi -y be paid. If a man brings in a vase worth 1100 he has to hand over 60Uo Uncle Sam. - So because of the Immense profits to be made when an old master, vase or tapestry, was successfully smuggled, many people engaged in the traffic, but since tho new regime' took hold, the game is now numbered among the things Of tho past Sleeper Trunk Frauds. , neatest schemes to do- fraud Uncle Sam, and at the same time one of the most profitable, to the orig- ,,.. . nr ,,. oio. r.i, '"""' frauds recently unearthed. To work thls Kame several hundred fashionable -dreMrsraistltlnsr establishments in America, had nts in Paris and other large Eu- centers. Their plan was to have a number of trunks filled with dresses and dress goods on the other side ready. Trr.l, UJ 1 II.. Lusltanla for America and that he and his family were In the habit of carrying a large number of trunks with them, thoy would send their trunks across on the following steamer as undelivered baggage belonging to Mr. "Wellknown. After the baggage had .been inspected and delivered on the plor in New Tork, one of their confederates would come down in the evening, bribe the watch, man, and take tho trunks away. This game Is said to have been carried on for many years and that these people succeeded in getting through,- a vast amount of merchandise in this manner without the payment of 1 cent In duty. Many people wonder how the govern- ' . ; ; ; 1 the Toung Men's Christian Association the stockholders, in turn, reap the har- vest The J'oun ' men have many chances to improve. themselves and the nnocent sports and recreations keep them from ana card games. Like- wi8e, he explains that cooperation im- proves the entire community, and is better than installing these Improve- ments for the exclusive Use of the Plant. That these arguments are convincing la shown-by the fact that Studebaker tory, , ho js a native of Vermont, a f aduatt of Dartmouth college, and has been interested In Y. M. C. .A. work lur U1- " "" " jas a local secretary, stationed at New Britain, Conn., and Grand Rapids, Mich. For , the other 14 years he has been labprlng as a field secretary, and "his experiences n the first nine years showed him the necessity of develonln .... A , ... - .1 Bhow that, five yeafs ago, it had $30.- JW' ?f J' '1'" .bb.led: does, not in- uiuos .ti .vvu.uuv 111 goa BUDscnpnons. iected ,3.460.00V:' v 1 These sums, speak for themselves, and when a man can get that much money from the rest or humanity (even if It, is ior a puouc gooat. ana s trill be popular among his' fellow men, he must be a, ". bhk j.b .... . ., . 1911 h ment finds, out about the dresses and iAXMra tit A mai'tiati man a nA tunman nnf. chase on their travels abroad. Another J""1'0"8. ff P0ollcy fare "' dec'ded way in which the government is ad- the Aslstrt Secretary Curtla or Seo vised Is explained by a man who -wn MacVeagh are called upon for one of the largest Jewelry establish- menta In Paris. He says: v "There ar 4 lot, of persons in Parts who make thlr Montgomery are handled questions relat Ttini. i,;. t,v.vi hr- r,n ing to the control of the customs serv- They will walk into a ehop and appeaf ,ce- classification and appraisement of to be looking at a 5 matchbox, at the merchandise, drawbacks when any are same time listening to a party of Amerl-, due- fins' Pnl and forfeitures In cans who are examining a magnificent ??se8 ?f smuKgling or other lrregularl fllamond necklace. In almost every case ties; aU matters relating to -copyrights In which information about, articles pur- Liff chased abroad reaches the ears of ths "d Tthr "lr"y "MvC0m" customs officials, tlie women who jnaka In Into the United States through the, tbe purchases are In some way respon- m.a,ls: cooperation with the department sible for the information leaking out aejIcuHow in prohibiting 'nipura I know of one woman who used to b ods and -drugs being imported into hard up, but she. is now making as the. country, all matter that comes Tnuuh as $10,000 -a year In jthls way." through the malls and parcels post; spe- ctal investigations, such as frauds, etc , jyiacveagn introauces vnange. th CBIIt0ml aivlslon of the treasury f Since Secretary MacVeagh took vthe department, with a total force of 28 helm in the, treasury 'department early employes. - in March, 1909, things commenced to .. .. . . . . happen. At the port of Now fork la Secretary MagrVeagh'a Opinion. 197 there were 283,298 cablrl passen- jn speaking of the many different gets, and they paid 1487.921 In duties f flg txpoeed durfng the pagt two ;Vepl'slnK'wa.IniesS!! year. Secretary MacVeagh says: ha only 238,546 and they paid $460.OQfl. far frauds were found to cover in ona In duties. The change began in with a more vigorous search of baggage, ome Important arrests for smuggling, the ImftoBltlon of fines, and more or Iesi alarm among returning European tourists. For-tne passenger ar rivals were 295.846, and theypatd I n duties 11,041.878, an Increase of hard y 66,000 passengers but the dul m vM ZLuTto7Z prlS yiK amount for tne preceaing cr; JXt iSM IH JJSSli . t0ai ti.043,390, which means that . h. dna of the vear the rier col- r I ci ami AAA jecuons aggregaieu uiuio .-", iSJef 1MI la addi- t,or, the government has already col- iectod , smuggling fines In 1910 more 1100 137.000. ..0f course there will always be smug- ffllng ooean steamship passengers," the , , . . .. 11 ' 1 Altitude Records Set at Two Miles From Popular Mechanics. T HE aeroplane altitude record was set at more than two mnes aoove the earth's surface by Arch Hox sey at Ijos Angeles, Cal., the day after Christmas, wnen, wuu m' V .i... h. Mtmhefl to a level 'iTVt feet This feat brought to a .5 "' til, hn remarkable in "h altitudes reached fey aviators, if for : ' r:h whit there were sev- . n, , flights prlorv to 1810, when !. pauiban reached 4164 feet, Jan- 12 , A.ngeies, ha kindled the amkitiott to fly-highest 1 ft the breasts -of his. brother airmen and, during the 13 months that followed, many attempts were made to reach the higher altitudes with such great success thatx a height of 2000 "or 3000 feet is now Considered the ordinary altitude for maneuvering, waiter Brookins twice bettered Paul- han's record, his final mark being 6176 feet, which he reached at Atlantlo City, n. J., July 9. . Within a month Drexel made 8760 feet at Lanark, England. Then in Sep- tember Leon Morane in France raised the record to 8471 feet a mark which Wynmalen captured the record with an aitUude of. 9121 feet and on the last v0f the International aviation meet at Belmont JParK, u. 1.. me iaw naipn Johnstone increased tho world's record t0 mi feet. 0n December 19. at Pau. Krance( M. Legagneux flew to a height of 10,499 . feet Then came the final raoord 0f Hoxsey at Los Angeles, De- i:i.. , . vwuusi k I ...,ny,. n or, Arctic exptorer or'ari EsS belyn, m&A9 tor comfort wlthout a lri' mnpnas' of cut r - Xttwn Intuition Is Loadctl, . t From London New Age. Intuition without exnerience -In world- ly affairs Is a trap which sentiment sets : j . js .. :". .WllBKE CUSTOMS "EWUTINBJ . v officials say, "but the only way to re duce It to a minimum Is to keep the tourists' reasonably scared." Due to the vlgoroun policy pursued by Uncle Bam during the past two years, there have been many frauds of all kinds unearthed In addition to those mentioned. 01 course, the Immense sugar frauds are well' known to every body. The frauds on the coast, said to have been committed by thq sugar trust, were drawback frauds, like those brought to light recently in New York. In the San Francisco cases it seema that sugar Imported from the Philip pines, used In fruit and then' exported afterward, got a drawback as Java sugar.. These .frauds, too, are claimed to be extensive. The duty of administering the cus toms devolves upon Secretary Mac Veagh, but Assistant Secretary James F. Curtis is directly In charge of the customs service, and he handles all 4 questions relating to that branch of the aervlce. Next to Mr. Curtl la Charles P. Montgomery chief of tb customs division in .the treasury, who has had more than 20 years' active experience In the conduct of the detailed affairs' of tariffs and customs matters. It la under lila "direction that regulations- for the fonduct of the custon j revenues are prepared, and it is only when general J T In the division presided over by Mr. iaTm or n(,lllfr " ol me sugars c mn ATi!1' i?!.M oiai ve''' 01 "",.7;.7 mouJ" " ,.v nanI.'i i . i vi"V r . " at the port of New Tork, Involving cor- P""0 d Srs been such a revelat tg'r(S?"rt1SSSt IS mn7JloI' on as ZutomutMiS tixXt SShaul l Mnmtinnm "aTihe'persons found out in smug- sWr undervaluing, tourists are t.f. only ones , who have sought to excuse themselves. The inevitable, however, - la cnm1n to nuns American travnlern are more and more realizing the lndc- -"----'- ""V,", . 7 . fenslbleness of smuggling Its rank dis- honesty and its extremely bad exampla and influence-nd they are conforming In increasing numbers to the law and to their obUgatlonS as citizens." -.. .. Xrch. Het 11,474 Ft, 10.4 Ft Dit.lt i&eoort RilphJo1n ,?H Ft.1 0t II ,000 e. CtSriri Cll4 vl ,m n Sept tl Wiltti Brd 6,17) t toull PuulhUM 4.IM Ft. . 1 JM.I1 A VKUNMSTOIlWoiluUINt MtrsoixmvHlbwi 7W". .'lirrcLTowia . 84Ft. 1 7 r v ' 8oe-, , tm AlUtuit BMr of Mil - From Popular Mechanioa. J.