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Vigorous Crusad
That Is Being
Conducted by
Federal
Government to
Redu
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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
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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-
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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
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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
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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"
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n11 nis successes, Mr. Ward'Js
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ZU a half Hlon d"oHa Th
rUy hrtd for seve?"ia year.Th?e
scrape together $80,000. The commit-
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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.
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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
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$10,000 out of pocket."
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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.
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Chicago. The institut on there had bee"
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$350,000 additional. Of t his total fund
tIianw?-t0Ur.lnllvldua " P
of $100,000 each.
Thls campaign brought the Y. l.
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collected in 18 days, followed by $100.-
000 in two days for the women's-asso-
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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
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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
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when In the morning he had only one
boueht a wooden lee In Canada
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C"mSS 2 duty on the Teg an
71 u aw!y from the man Thf man
heclml indignant and mnM to tmr
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log. The m
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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
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Los Angeles; and Ottawa and Sher-
brooke, in Canada. Every section of the
country has ben covered and yet Mr
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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
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.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
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othern, had actually got t'; VeUar
of him.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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Bhow that, five yeafs ago, it had $30.-
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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,
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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;
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. 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
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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-
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Arctic exptorer or'ari EsS
belyn, m&A9 tor comfort wlthout
a lri' mnpnas' of cut r
- Xttwn Intuition Is Loadctl,
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Intuition without exnerience -In world-
ly affairs Is a trap which sentiment sets
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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
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In the division presided over by Mr.
iaTm or n(,lllfr " ol me sugars
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mouJ" " ,.v nanI.'i i . i
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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
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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-
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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."
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