Evening star., 1924-08-15

the oyster beds south OF Baltimore.
Bivalve, just inside the Delaware
Capes, is another faVorite landing
place. Bivalve, which makes it's liv-
ing fishing for it's namesake. is not
averse to making $40 head for land
ing aliens.
Along the sand dunes OF Long Island
are many, a great many. spots where
only hunters venture-and few of these
after dark. 1t is along this isolated
coast that the alien finds safe landing
place. The price here is a bit higher
ranging to $40.
To the eastward there is little oppor.
tunity for smuggling aliens in. The
shores of Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts are too thickly populated
and too well patroled to permit such
smuggling. The Maine coast is desolatt
and barren to a great extent, and the
sea usually too rough to permit landings
by small boats.
Assistant immigration Commissioner
Sbray admits that his department Is
well nigh poWerless to cope with this
situation.
"How can we handle a situation with
insufficient men, and what is as impor-
tant, no boats Of any kind he said tc
the writer. I'VE asked the Congress tc
give us nine motor boats for use on the
Canadian frontier, and the request was
turned down. And we need the boats q
thousand times more along the New Jer'
sey and Long Island coasts.
Canl-ot Properly Patrol Coast.
I'VE know Of conditions there. But
how are We to cope with them? We
have had less than so men in the field
up to July ]. Now we have $50. But we
need them along the Mexican and Cana
lion frn how y
cooperation from both the immigration
and the customs inspectors. but ever
| with that help we are in a bad way.
''If you will look at the coast line OF
New Jersey and Long Island you can SEE
at glance why we cannot patrol II
properly. 1t is too long, has too many
inlets and bays and little rivers. Ant
what is more to the point, where are
we to get the men and having gotter
them, where are the needed power
boats? Our only hope lies in the Con
gresS. Perhaps at the next session II
will realize the desperate needs of thi:
department in the way OF additlona
men. weapons and boats.
I'VE should have at least 1000 men
so power boats and Sawed-of gun FOL
every man. Only the other day SNUG
glers held up four of our patrols ant
| took their revolvers from them. Had
our men been armed with guns there
would have been a tale of several deaC
Smugglers instead"
Another sore spot in the patrol service
Is the low pay. Men receive s1,620 q
year on which to support themselves
and their families. Out Of this sum they
must pay for their arms and munitions
And then, too, each man in the patro
service is risking death every time ht
goes on his trip of duty. Several mer
have been killed since the first of the
year and as many more wounded. Tht
| smugglers are desperate characters, wht
place a low value on human life-sc
long as it is not their own. With more
men, boats and better pay the service
will reduce the total of smuggled-ir
aliens.
The next and last article of thi:
series will deal with the situation on the
Canadian border, where thousands pou1
in annually, many Of them attracted by
the high wages prevailing III the auto
mobile factories at Detroit.
| Copyright, 1924, by Current News Features
IncurpOrated.)