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# ' ^'jfli THE ALAMANCE GLEANER 1 ? '|IB | . _ .. _ -- . .. _? ._ ? Y(ML UY. ' GRAHAM, IS, C., THURSDAY FEBRUARY 23, 1928. NO. 3. J "N- ' ^ \ ^ ??p?^????????? ; , ? 1 ? : 1 1 1 ? i Sons of Naval Academy Officers Learn to Box Sons of officers stationed at the Annapolis Naval academy mixing It op In a battle royal. These boys are members of "Spite" Webb's boxing class. Webb Is boxing* coach of the academy and former coach for the Amer ican Olympic team. False Security Nips Smugglers ?? Officials Ignore Border and Center Efforts on In land Trails. -No effort la made on the pan of United SI a tea Immigration and costoma authorities to guard the crossing points of the Rio Grande as ? means of preventing, or at least less ening, the carrying on of a nefarious traffic between tlie two countries. In fact, allena and smugglers are per mitted to cross at will. The effort to apprehend them la made, and usually successfully accomplished, after they are we|l an (bis aide of the river and headed, perhaps, toward some Interior city. It la declared by government officials on che border that thousands of men would be required to enforce an effective patrol of the American bank of the Itlo Grande. It la pointed out that at one time Just prior to the World war ther^ were flO.UOO United States soldiers forming a cordon from the mouth of the river to El Paso and that despite the vigilance of these troops unlawful crossing of the Inter national boundary stream was freely done. It is In the territory back from the river a few mllea that the mounted Immigration Inspectors, In cooperation wttb state rangers and local peace officers, operate so successfully that It la estimated that less than fi per cast, of the, allsn%.?rb4 smuggle across the river get outside of the deadline and on their way to freedom. In the lower Rio Grande border district wblcb extends from the mouth of the river to Rio Grande City, 125 miles, the border patrol couslsts of only twenty-live men. Although these men are scattered over a territory-larger In area than the average state, they ran he aaaembled at any point In the dis trict frlthln a flew hours. Roads Wstl Guarded. When a party of Illegal allena, liq uor runners or other klndfc of smug glers land on the Texas bank of the Rio Grande they may fed, and prob ably are temporarily secure from mo lestation by officers so long as they do not attempt to go Into tbe Interior. The roads and trails leading beck from the river are constantly guarded by .officers who shift around from place to place. Tbe uncertainty of where one or .more of these officers may be on any day or even a particu lar hour of the day adds to tbe hazards of the smuggler who may be seeking to get through the danger line Not long ago word cams to the Immigra tion chief In charge of tbe district that forty aliens bad been seen la the chaparral back from the river near Rio Grande city. In two boors a force of twelve mounted Inspectors was as sembled and on tbe trail of tbe fugi tives. They were rounded up and later Reported. Smuggling liquor from llexleo Into Texas has become such a hazardous vocation that It Is believed that coes paralively little of tbe wet goods get beyond tbe border towns Constant watch la kept by prohibition enforce ment officers and rangers eh tberanffe lending north, from tbe border. It Is almost a dally experieore for aa auto mobile traveler to eomo upon a painted eanvaa sign stretched across the read feeding. "Stop! U. K. Officers." These signs era usually placed Just beyond a ?harp curve and there Is as escape ban search. One of the mom difficult forms at smuggling to be contended with la that of oarootles. There are no means of knowing kew mark contraband opium and ether tajarions drags are brought tote Ibis country by unlaw ful manna. It la the'theory of harder enstrara nraherUlns. that a Bar ranch log organization hat?long existed which la devoted to the smuggling not only of narcotics hat of Chinese and other banned aliens Into the United States. , The ramifications of this organization are believed to ex tend Into China and possibly other Oriental countries, as well as Into those of Europe where the qnota sys tem applies. It Is well known that aliens who are seeking unlawful entry to this country are taken In charge by members of this far-reaching organi zation when they land at a Mexican port, whether It be Mazatlan. Mnnza nlllo. Vera Cruz or Tamplcar for a stipulated price the alien is assured of being landed oo this side of the border. He may or may not reach his goal. Many Instances have been brought to light, and many others which probably were forever hidden have occurred. In which trnstnil aliens were murdered and robbed of what little money they possessed ere they reached the north ern hank of the Rio Grande. Chinese Hardest to Deal With. Of the various nationalities of aliens wbc flock to the border In a continuous and apparently never ending stream the Chinese are the most difficult to deal With, according to Immigration authorities. They possess a cunning and Intelligence much above the average of other aliens. Tbey have more patience and are willing to abide their time In order to make sure of success In crossing the border. It Is dlffleult'tp Identify s smuggled fTiluese once he gets among bis countrymen anywhere In the United 8tatex No bet ter evidence of the magnitude of the unlawful Chinese Immigration through Mexico Is needed than the feet that la practically all the border towns In Mexico the Chinese population Is ao large as to be out of all proportion to the business In which.they purport to be engaged. This Is particularly true of Mezlcall. where there are said to be approximately 4000 Chinese out of a total population of aboot 7,000. la Nogalea, Mexico; Cananea, Juarez. Villa Acuna, Piedraa Negraa. Noevo Laredo, Reynosa and Mats moron the Chinese colonies are far larger than those of any other towns of corre sponding size In Mexico. By means of false certiorates and with a knowl edge of English which they acquire before attempting to croas Into the United States these Orientals are pro vided with eafeguarda against pos sible detection to s far better extent than aliens of other nationalities. United States Immigration authorities do not sttempt to estimate the num ber of Chinese who elude their vigil ance and set up a residence In tbls country In the course of a year. In the matter of smuggling of mer chandise and articles upon which there Is a high duty, tt Is believed by commercial Interests In bonier towns that not as much of thta la done as was the case In former times. Smuggling In the earlier days was regarded as more or less legitimate. Some of the large fortunes of families that now are beld In high respect both In Texas and Mexico bad their origin In smuggling operations. In those days the nefarious trade consisted largely In smuggling silks, diamonds and other gems and a variety ol articles and goods upon which the United 8tates Imposed high Import duties. Cattle smuggling was also a profitable business. KEMAL ON PEDESTAL General view daring the ceremonial la Angora attending the dedication ot the Turkish victory its toe?a gigantic piece ot work, baring as Its central Ago re an equestrian Ago re ot Kemal Pasha. Pant* Not Morconary Thomas Paine waa editor of the Pennsylvania Magazine for 18 months, tils salary. was 82S0 a year. Moocnra Conway has said that probably no person ever before or since has pro duced so tnncb good literary work for ancb meager compensation. German Envoy and Wife Arrive The mv Herman inbunto to the DiHM State*. Dr. rriodririi Wit hout too Prittnitk and Saffron, and Us wile, napped shortly alter they arrived is Washington. ' ' ' V * ? . .-'it-, t . -i-j'. ? .j*'l . ' '-V I GRANDMA AT f | THE WHEEL | o?-o? o? o ?o?oo-?Oo?o?o~o ? o ? e iatl & J. Watah.1 WITH her beautlfuly coifed white hair, her stlm. erect ? (ore and fashionable clothes she la one of the youngest |o our crowd as to fun and energy, and because she Is eighty years young and so full of "pep," we call her our Bupper. Natalie and her grandmother are real chums which Is a pretty good thing for Natalie, who needs a real chum. Spoiled beyond all reason when rhe was younger, as she neared maturity her parents, realizing their error, began to surround her wltb Just us unreasonable restrictions and In hibitions, and of course tbere was war. Things would hire been moeb worse, but about two years ago bar grandmother broke up her borne and came to Urn wltb ber son's family. She acted as a sort of buffer between the girl and ber parents, pouring oil oo the troubled domestic waters, and with ber tact and sympathy winning the rebellious girl's confidence. They go about together a great deal, and though jthe older woman most often long to stay quietly at borne, she nerer says so. Natalie Is tremendously proud of ber and tores to take ber around. "Why, grandma.'' she will exclaim, "If yon would Just get your face lifted you would not look a day orer flfty 1" "And lore that face eighty years of real llrlag baa glren to met fn afraid I cannot do that, dear. I am used to this face; I bare llred wltli it a long time. Old you erer see a 'lifted' face that had any more ex pression than a wax dolll" Natalie was twenty last summer, when Traters Stanton came Into her life. He was good looking, and bad a soft caressing way wltb women that made the girls rare orer blm, and caused the men to grind out muttered curses. Natalie's father disliked Stanton In stlnctlrely and peremptorily forbade ber baring anything to do wltb blm. Of course 8tantun Immediately be came rery Intriguing to tbe willful girl's fancy, though before that she bad scarcely noticed him. For the Brat time ber grandmother remonstrated wltb Natalia. Hitherto she bad regarded ber romantic esca pades wltb amused sympathy, but ber experience warned that Stanton was a different proposition from tbe young sheiks wbo had swarmed around the girt. Tbls man was much older, subtle, and she felt, dangerous She tried to warn Natalie, wltb tbe result thst tbe 'Infatuated girl shut ber. too, from ber confidence. Ornndms was la daspalr. She dis liked (o belrajr Natalie to bar parents and aba was convinced (bat bar dar ling was la danger. She was per suaded (bat aba waa meeting Stanton clandestinely, and aba bad not lived eighty years far nothing, One evening (be aat la bar room, trying to decide on some plan of sr tloo (bat would open (be girl's eyes. Natalie's pa rente bad gooe for a mo tor ride and aba and ber granddaogb ter were alooe la (be boose. As aba sat musing aba beard an antomubile atop la front of tbe boose and beard Natalie ran do anaemia SM'Kit bid a window la time to ^aee ber getting Into a closed car, and la tbe faint llgbt she recognised Stanton. For an Inrtaat aba stood rigid, over come by ao overwhelming sense of danger, then with a swift prayer fer help she hurried down tbe stairs la the garage stood a small runabout, wblcb sbe and Natalia used frequent ly. and wblcb Natalie bad coaxed bar lato learning to drive. "Just think," aba urged, "of learn ing to drive at eighty, sod bed doe, who knows but something might hap pen that yon would have to driver It was happening now, grandma thought grimly, as sbe bached tbe lit tle car ont sad started It In tbe dlree tloo taboo by tbe other ooe. The dosed car was not of sight, bet gbo took tbe direction, kaowlag It waa the only paved read leading to tbe coun try. She wss not nervosa. Tbe thought of danger to Nslalle swallowed op all seose of personal danger or even pos sibility ef fail ore. Of course, sbe would catch (hem. 8ha most I finally, bar straining cyan caught a rod beam far abend, and that presci ence eo wblcb (be bad always relied, told ber It was quarry. She Increased tbe speed and seemed getting doaar. when the llgbt disappeared. Her heart almost stopped In ber despair. What should sbe del Sbe was driving tbe little car si lis al most speed, and they bad oetspeeded ber. Then sbe remembered (bat (bars was a by-reed abend which Natalie bad pointed out to ber. A road Utile i Tarried and inrbmig with trees, Natalie bad laughingly told bet M area called "feter'a Paradise Hoed." She would Rod I beta there. She drove ou till ahe route to the torn, yea, there In the dlatanre waa a red tall light, uud II hud stopped. The next motueut ll liud wlaked out. Thla road waa rough, and .grandma bad hard work driving. She hud put out her light ami with the motor ruu ulng almost oolaeleaaly, crept along till ahe caught the faiot outline of tbe other car about three huodred feet ahead. Then abe altered to the roadside and switched off her lighta. For a tew momenta grandma am rubbing her crumped hunda, nnd debut ing bow to proceed. Tlieu ahe slipped (rout the car and crept toward the other otie. The ground was rough and she stumbled frequently apd twice she fell, but got up und went on. but when near the oilier car fell headlong. She lay quiet a uiotneui und when she tried to rise found to her dismay that her ankle would uot hear her weight. U was plain she could uot walk, neither could she remain there so. though every utovetueut hurt her sore ly, site crawled ou bunds and knees toward the other cur. She could al ways laugb al herself, and even la her pain and anxiety she smiled at the thought that perhaps she was stalkiag the wrung car. But aa she caiue closer she knew that abe was not She heurd Natalie's voice and It was raised angrily. "I tell yob I want you to drive hack ooto the aula road and take ate borne at oocsl How dare yoa bring me bersT" r Tbe man laughed softly and said something, hut grandma could not catch the words. Then Natalie spoke shrilly: "If you dare |o touch me I'll , scream!" He laughed. "Scream your pretty bead off. Who do you think will bear you} Do you think you are going to make a fool out of me, stringing me along and letting me blow myself on you? Now he nice I oh I you would, would you? Well. I bate to be rough, but?" There was a muffled scream, and grandma opened tbe car door. "Come Natalie, I have the little cat here, let us go home!" With a sob of relief tlie lerrlded girl sprang out and the baffled Stanton, without a word, suited bis .motor. Grandma held onto the door for a moment. "A word to you young mun. If you are not out of thla town by tomorrow algfat. Natalie's father shall learn of Ibis, and If be does?Lord help you. I know you are a villain; I don't think you are a fool P It waa a contrite and humble girt who almost carried her grandmother U> the runabout. Grandma sat white aud suffering In her neat, bul she ut tered oo reproaches. She never preached, but Natalie would have wel comed a tirade rather than that look of suffering. Her parents had reached borne before them, and they were as tounded when gruudma limped Is oo Natalie's arm. "Why mother] Whatever Is the matter? Uow did you hurt yourself?" they exclaimed. "Oh. I ?ii (ill/ enough to 117 u> da tba Charlestoni At ujj age. loo!" Ilad grandma (allaaily. "i'oor Nqta lla la heartbroken; rbe Mian bar ?elf." Aa aha saw (ham turn la tbe dialrmill girt, "I think we Happen hare both learned a lesson I" And with her anna around her grandmother Natalia whispered la bar ear: "Oh, granny darting, I prom lea yea that I hare!" Prehistoric Medicine Tnbca of rufl ouapalooe uaed by a prehistoric Indian aha titan, or roedl etna man, to boal the sk-k hare been aoearttied near Sao Diego, Calif., aaya Science first blowing clouds' of smoke through throe tubes orer the body of a patient, the medicine nun pretended ha could see Into lite body. The patient was ttdd he had been be* witched by an enemy who had In Jerted Into lila body a magical sub stance wblcb changed Into a toad, snake. rock or other object. Ilarlng located lite object, the shaman pro tended to pluck II out. producing a* evidence, by sllght-af-bsnd. tbe offend log substance. Raaourcafai Alligator The Indians on the banks of th? Oroooco iwfl lliat pwlmul; |o aa alligator going la search of pre/ It ahraya swallows a large stone. that II ?ay acquire additional weight to aid It la dtrlag and dragging Ita rictlma aoder water. A trareier being some what tacredutoaa oa thla point, to coo rtaea hi merit, rbot aewtral with bla title, add la ail of them were found atooea varying la weight according to the alxe of the animal. The largeat Killed wan a boot IT fret ta length, and had wtthla him a atnoe weighing about 00 or TO pound*. "One Way Window*" By adding to glaaa estremely thin Kltna of gold, no English Inventor. S. t'owper f'owlea. hna found a menna ' of making "one-way windows." aays Popular Science Monthly They are aald to be transparent and nf a pfenn ing greenish color tn a person looking not. hot one trying to look la arcs only aa opoqne burnished gold panel i-.' a VI:. W ? " *h,l .,?*?*i# On a Chinese j River 4i3?-l ChlrtcM Imm at LoncH. | IPrapMt by |M NiIUm! IMmiWa ?mm. wummia D. C.I rHK rfver at Shanghai ta foil of houseboat*?so full that jrou could cross dry-shod?but few tlicrc be among foreigners <*bo ver Inquire where these houseboats o or whether one can be acquired or a song In the proper keg. Suffice t to sag that prior to the present eoo Itlon <k civil -war houseboats could e acquired, not. perhaps, for a song ut for a few notes, and tberebg see rs! dsgs of delightful adventure light be secured. It Is no trouble nt oil to secure,a lost admirable rook and a most wlnstnklng coolie In this land of ousckeeper's delight. A number one og can pick ihem like ripe apples rom a tree. And such food I Legs f frogs and breasts of guineas and iheasants and caviar and sweet pnta oes and pancake suxette and woo lerful things In bottles on the Ire. Ind nil for a verg moderate sum, less hnn the hotel charges for the same K-rlod. and doubtless plentg left over or the number one bog himself. In the tangle of boats at the Shang ?ol qung the one you hire Is sure to le live or all boats from shore, and to -each It It Is necessary to "walk a dunk." One Is glad not to fall In, 'or the river at Shanghai Is very, very llrtg. However, there Is scarcely ipoce to fall. Mow to get the boat out of Its :angle Is s problem. Coolies work and iwrat with hawsers and lines and poles. Great cannon balls of rolled nope drop between the stern of one Pont and the bow of the next to pro rent chafing, and before long yon And rourself being towed slowly but imoothly upstream perhaps In the sake of a Chinese hotel boat?a lousebont which Is not rented to one eell-to-do family, but wblch takes ?Ingle passengers for a consideration tnd boards and lodges fbem during he trip. The river Is very wide at Shanghai, ind harbor craft literally by the thou innds suyrm about. A bronzed Hut ercup. her bumboot piled high wltb leanuts and ling nuts, sings a strange Ittle song at your side and sells her vnrrs to people a little less poor than icrself. Food It Tempting and Cheap. China la certainly (lie home of (be Icllcnlraaen Idea. The cramped house [price, teeming will) children who did int liove the grace or the luck to die, tua made cooking or a near approach o (he family in hie well nigh Impno ilhle, ond everywhere savory little ntfscs cooked over charcoal are sold it an Incredible rheapneaa, and small rowla of (teaming drllrnrles are al iaya being carried through the etreeta or morning or evening consumption, rhe river la no exception. Coot boats ire everywhere ond the principal oh ret of enle le alwaye food. A barge loaded with wool pusses, rlth one leaking bale. Utfle hand ula of the precloua commodity begin o dot tlie crowded waters.* and In tently half a dozen antall boata. poled iy women and girla, tcreamlng with xcltement, dart from nnder your irow. shoot skillfully helwft'n the loosebonta. and give chuee to the de Irable bits. Small children with long ilrka or skllleu like butterfly nets on ?olet Aeli the treajure-trore from the rater, (wearing volnbly as ether mala and other treasure seekers In ereept a desirable morsel. The water carefully squeezed out, he flotsam and Jetsam are laid out to Iry on the little decks. Each of the romen and children risks life In this renzied dart among the stream craft ifler a few cents' worth of wool. Presently water spoce la not at lulte such a .premium, and one begins j ? meet bus* boats, shaped Ulw Noah'i arks swinging iliiaiialiananJ They are sagging ?wlth 11111 ahlgnj ?trans* to Westers ajaa gnat Diet % dlosnaglaB things la green aad-wWM^^ like a Bakst stage setting. They SSSi'J going with the current, bat are hagk/w tened In their pingnas by a strongs- $ looking bent oar which itssnihlia iho winning half of a wishboos The sag a Is osnslly operated hy three wOHag g workers, on* of thens almost sfwnySe1| a tireless woman. A baby, of two, or tfama, or Mh'1 often shows a sharen crown oa tfea. J deck; bat {he fact that aba Is msidkj times a mother does not exemgt a A woman from taking her trick at UwH oar In Chins, and one wonders hoar jj long a rscation she gets when tfea "1 baby actnally arrives River tcsnsa Ahova ths City. " As soon as the first few bridgta i? am passed one begins to meet stately Junks coming down nndsr fall, g picturesquely patcbed sails. Tfealr | easier locomotion gives crew and gam sengers more time to gnze and to gam !| form various domestic duties on deck. Women wssb regetsbles In the dirty - river water or stitch diligently as garments of Peking blue. Always there Is a hobbled chicken or dacfe ?| and almost always a mongrel ka to ; bark bis warning at night. Usually J them Is a dump of Chinese titles growing In a blue bowl. As twilight begins to tell, yonr beat commences to pass between long lines of uprlver boats, not rich enough to be towed, tied np for the night oa ths banks. Everybody Is eating a supgw of rice, but no one Is too busy to pslat at strangers with succulent, dripping ; chopsticks. These boats seem sm^S. prosperous. The docks am being swabbed; boy nsMeswenr large, laoss " silver- rings shoot their necks, and ' little bright queues braided in rod f stand out as a Sis Hopkins hals 7 around their chubby brows faces. The darkness deepens Ths water ' thumps at the bows The sounds die away; the villages darken; the boats moored on the banks become quist and yon tuck yourselves away In yonr berths Pretty Girls of Soochew. The towed bo use boat irrlreo at Soochow In tho morning and In noon tied op In Ibe moat, oatdde and am> dernentb the thousand-year-old walla. The ancient barricade* took down peacefully enough. The battlement* ? are pierced wltb loophole*, throagb n hlch green tree* grow and loag^' atranda of creeper* reil the oda, Here and there are crumbling watch tower*. Breakfast over, one tnd* beaiofn waiting by the riverside, two for oath of the dosed chair* in which eaa alts . comfortably, looking eat la three . recti on*. The girls of Soocbow are toady. They art alao Cordelia-rotced. The most famoos "alng-song" (Iris Is. China cotaa from Soocbow, aod tboso of them who bare had the mtsfartaae to h*re been born elsewhere claim Soocbow for their nativity. The beauty of the women la matched by the brains of the men. Ihr la the palmy days #f Chinese dvB service tbe examining halls of Soo cbow sent mora honor men to Peking than -did thoan of any other Chinese dty. Tbe examination balls are Is ruins, of coarse, together with the .civil service system. Silly sheep nam, > occupy tho narrow stalls whero scholars ooce pondered the CuifMM classic*. Boston Ivy appropriately drupes IM age-gnarled trees, and tbe taMMKl erected In honor of famous eebetidjS of the past are, ninny of them, aeJKj
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