The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-03-27
UNIFIED PATROL SYSTEM
is PLANNED FOR u. s

The tendency Of the government is
toward uniformity and consolidation
Of departments. In line with this
theory it is probable that before the
end of the year Uncle Sam will have
unified Border Patrol, making for
greater efficiency IN capturing inter
national law violators.
There is an interesting outline of
The proposed new department in the
current issue of the National, Repub-
lie, written by Oliver Mckee, Jr., a
well known Washington newspaper
man. Mr.. Mckee says in part:
Creation of a unified border pat
rol, to control land rum runners, and
other violators of the federal laws.
may be one of the big changes in our
government during the year which
we have now begun. Recommended
by President Hoover the proposal has
been favorably received on Capitol
Hill, and bill to carry out the reco-
lamentations of the chief eSe--r4i--->
IS now before Congress. With ovs7
a century of public service behind II,
the coast guard is well fitted by
tradition and experience to take over
the direction of the proposed patrol.
The border patrol will guard our
frontiers against smueglers of all
kinds, for smuggling takes many
forms; contraband liquor narcotics,
aliens, criminals and plants and an
limals whose entry is banned under
the quarantine regulations of the De-
partner. Of Agriculture.
In the government reorganization
program of the administration there
are few proposals more interesting
than this. For the change will bring
into beng an organization whose
work may prove as varied and pietu-
rescue as that of the marine corps
The new force will have plenty to do,
for the army of smugglers runs into
many thousands, and tha &c r -
patrofman will have plenty Of thrills,
and. enough danger to satisfy those
with an itch for excitement.
The United States already has
border patrol as part Of the immigra-
tion service. It's work, however. is
confined in the main to preventing
the smuggling Of aliens along the
coast, and the Canadian and Mexican
frontiers. It was in 1925 that Con
gress appropriated the sum of ST.
O00,00 to establish an immigration
border patrol, an appropriation which
followed logically the enactment into
law of the immigration quota act.
1.-The passage Of this law brought
about situation where the law en-
forcing agencies of the government |
were faced with the 'bootlegging' of
Aliens as one of their major problems.
Aliens by the thousands were SNUG
efed into the United States in viola
ton of the law, and the tide assumed |
such formidable proportions at one
time that the law itself threatened to |
become little better than a dead let
ter. 1t was apparent TO all who had |
siiodt oily obudN Vi blc IutSblUU tIldU Il I
patrol on the borders was urgently
needed, and Congress was not slow
n recognizing the urgency of the
situation and the officials concluded !
that force of at least 500 men would
be needed as nucleus. There was
no civil service register Of eligibles
at that time for the position :.
rol inspector, so there was another !
problem presented, namely, how to
recruit this force. Until an exam
nation could be held, the Civil Ser
'vice Commission agreed that the men |
for the new force might be drawn /
from the railway postal clerks, and
IMMIGRANT inspector registers. Yet !
troubles soon arose, for as a result
If the large turnover it was found |
that the men on the registers were
not qualified for The arduOus duties
Of the border patrol"