Show I Timely Topics I SMUGGLING ALIENS IN One of f the most Interesting features of the smuggling of human beings Into the United States States s that there evidently is no punishment for tor the offense The 3 percent percent per percent cent Immigration law lacks teeth probably b because use It I never occurred to the framers of the act that European emigrants would try to enter the United States States' by other than conventional methods If the wise men in Washington had remembered what happened after the Chinese were legally excluded they might have established a penalty for violations of the 3 I Ip p per r cent law Chinese have been smuggled into the United United Unit Unit- I ed States through either Canada or Mexico ever since the Geary act became effective The smugglers brought the coolies across the Great Lakes for a head and the supply of laundrymen in this country was regularly augmented The Italians Polish Jews and other Europeans who are legally barred from entrance because their immigration tion quota Is exhausted havo have ambitions at least equal to those of the Chinese Some of them with rich relations in the United States are able to pay five times as much muchas as the old cost of smuggling Chinese The operation of ot getting them Into America Is more difficult but not more hazardous Once they are In any of or the Caribbean Islands adjacent to Florida the task of dummy running Is easy The worst the feder federal l authorities c can n do to the undesired alien aUen Is to send him back to th the place h he came from The worst they can do to the smuggler is nothing unless he has been unwise enough to try to bring In rum as well wen as contraband Immigrants The The New York Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid Ind md One nice thing about the disarmament conference It gives everybody a chance to say I told you so so- so S Wichita Eagle What the farmer needs most Is js an auto that will eat oats The The Evening World r y Ulster Is a part of or Ireland that seems seems' determined ed to remain apart Pilot I |