Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-07-29
ADVENTURE APLENTY, WIS
DOM?

Would you have adventure and
yet more Of adventure? The way
is open. Opportunity beckons. The
three guardsmen never encountered
moro enticing lure. Nor is there
likelihood in our day and generation
that the call will be less imperative.
Needs and diversions have somewhat
dampened thee ardors Of the chase.
The habitat of the wild animals
shrinks year by year; that Of the
wild humans correspondingly widens.
1t seems. What with the will to
wickedness and the manifold ia
cilities 1t perverts to that end, what
With the call for navigating the
clouds and the wsters beneath and
the ways Hereunder adventure
aplenty is assured to the venture
some.
A call has gone forth for men to
join the chase Of those hunted under
the laws and for the protection Of
society outstanding, fearless, incor-
ruptible men, able and willing to
withstand temptation in it's most al
Turing or formidable guises, threats,
Establishments and bullion. Such
men are no less needed in the war
on vice than they were in the World
W4r; indeed they are more SO. men
with no weak spots in their armor,
-ahd they will not be greeted by an
enthusiastic populace when they
come marching home.
Nor is this need solely because Of
the bootlegger Of liquor and drugs.
but on account Of the bootlegging OF
human beings as well, a situation
vividly and convincingly presented
by Stuart N. Lake in a recent article
in the Saturday Evening Post. The
reader Of that will experience a
feeling Of impotence in the face of
the magnitude Of the menace and
the indifference with which our law
makers regard 1t. We pass a law to
cloSe the front door, even against
mahy worthy people, and leave the
back door open to the lawless, whom
we. do not want. Fatuous, and then
some! Thousands Of undesirables
ara being added to the number Of
this country's Inhabitants with little
chance we ever shall be rid Of them
short Of the grim reaper.
Suppose an alien should be obliged
to have a certificate of admission,
who would be embarrassed except the
1awless? Some of the politicians
seem to think they would be, but
aren't they seeing things at night?
Isn't 1t an insult to the respectable
alien who has complied with all our
requirements and has obtained his
admission into the country in proper
fashion, isn't 1t an insult to him
virtually to leave him without any
mark Of distinction from the number
Of those who are here illegally?
Under existing conditions, what
with syndicates engaged in SNUG
Cling in Chinese and every kind Of
alian willing to mortgage such soul
as he may have for security for the
bill what with the greatest desper-
ADDE'S in existence profitably engag-
ed in this criminal pursuit. regard
ing human life no more highly than
tine life of sand-flea; what with
our long frontiers and all the facili-
ties there afforded for smuggling do
we not see that a force adequate to
prevent smuggling would be power
full enough. should 1t be so inclined,
to take over the management Of cur
affairs? This we do not want to
eventuate. yet we sit idly by leaving
It to few venturesome spirits. who
delight in the chase, to do the best
they can while the aliens are coming
in by water. by underground" ways,
threading frontier forests or flying
overhead in airplanes. Can't some-
body nudge US awake?