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THE COLBORNE EXPRESS. COLBORNE, ONT., THUR SDAY, DEC. 13, 1928 3 $2,000,000 Year Rum Graft Laid to Border Staff 20 U.S. Patrol Agents Face Indictment in Liquor Smuggling Plot at Detroit Effect of War on Social Life TO LOSE JOBS -Two million dollars ; tatween twenty and of the patrol. Already srs have "been accused ; pro;>r< general welfare and i a man has done or can r more important than! and six under $10,000. The man pleaded guilty. Ths j is still sought. The estimate of $2,000,(XX collected from the rum runn customs patrol is derived statement of one of the me average month's split of an member of the patrol was $ that approximately 100 m< patrol are involved. This means payment of $170,000 a month, or $2,-940,000 a year. The estimate Is bolstered by previous revelations that $1,500,000 worth of liquor a month has been earning Ic across, or $18,000,000 a year. ESTIMATED GRAFT CHARGES The average tariff charged by tlx customs men, it wts whispered wa 25 cents a case for beer and $1 a case1 jj"" js "pr" , • for liquor. It Was said" the custom ' fafcher was to charge $500 a night, daring! Since the war which the -rum runners could bring | ent Hse and co across as much liquor as possible.! ed to look baclo Whole tiainloads of whisky have been xherefl,re ancestor! known to be emptied in Windsor in a! xheletlle- "nce>>tor. night, it was whispered, all of which came across in "right" boats. ! , . An immediate result of the invest!-1 "1 , US !Vcry. . ?r , i . , .-pheiv. and voulh wa.- not content to gation was a sudden abatement u, dTvi<fe hum^ity into strata, rum-running operattons. according to; As (.areless] as ,£ is accused of customs officials. Runners fear arrest.; oraghi codoR and ballroom "pates," -*»d bemg charged with conspiracy, .. lh(. .s betffe,enB j,]c ? ' I school and board school. LACK OF VENEER. The harm attributed to the war is on the surface. We hear a great al about the new plutocracy, but By are as generous with their rses and far less invidious than the 1 aristocracy. Except in veneer, Stolen Bonds Coming to Light Vienna Police Say Securities Are Property of Bank in New York Vienna.--The police announced recently that they have recovered $210,-j 000 worth of Tokio electric light j bonds, the property of the New York 1 Guaranty Trust Company, which were | stolen last August on the United States liner Leviathan while in transit frort New York to Paris. Six of these bonds, each of $1,000 value, were presented to a Vienna bank which advised the police. Since then 204 additional bonds were traced MAILS RIFLED LAST JUNE Mails aboard the Leviathan were rifled last June, the amount of the loot being variously estimated from $500,-000 to $6,C"". New York postal inspectors at' the time said the amount was not more than $10,000. ' C. H. Clarahan, head of the postal inspection service in New York, said that the theft of the Guaranty Trust Company bonds was not discovered "until some time after" the Leviathan marl theft in June. J. L. O'Neill, vice-president of the Guaranty Trust Company, said that iispatch from Vienna was a mis-and that no bonds belonging to ;ompany had been stolen on the ithan or elsewhere. Ie have had no losses of the kind," aid. "I understand that the se-ies lost on the Leviathan, though nally reported in the millions, later f> und to be worth only 10,000 or ?L0,00O." Spain's King Talks to Kin in New York led with cespt, perhaps, a gave youth it ■ entertain the "Static" Car Gets Hero's Welcome ; Conqueror of Man-Made In- < terference Royally Greet- 1 ed by Port Arthur , Huge welcomes may have been ex-j habit of that sornev tended to those heroes who conquered j which is generally the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on j adequate imaginatii their adventurous flights, but the en- j spontaneity, friendl: thusiasm per person could hardly have ! appreciation of hui exceeded the welcome extended by a j Society as a club Canadian city to the first government1 as disagreeable to interference car which sailed into its; hers as some Tory midst in a solo flight to conqv.er "man-: Mall, its placidity made static." ^ ists, would be to iti Car number 16, the latest addition ers! to the fleet, is at present in northern1 But to society - Ontario, where it is clearing up' force, in fact, as : trouble for northern listeners. This war has done nothi car, which is equipped to eliminate j day it comprises all inductive interference, started out; and active elemenl recently from Toronto with one of the: political, opinion, a government radio engineers who re- im] cently returned from the Hudson Straits, as interference engineer. From Toronto noi-y> to North Bay, and then west through the nickel j si counti-y, past Sudbury to Sault Ste. 11< Marie, trouble shooting was done all I p along the way. At Sault Ste. Marie 1 tl the car went aboard a passenger a steamer to Port Arthur. At Port Arthur a welcoming com- v .mittee. including the Mayor and the v officials of the radio club, met the car as she rode off the gangplank. It j &1 was the first radio interference car j tl that had been seen in the city. The' t( engineer was tendered a banquet, at a which 400 radio officials, dealers and fans of the district sat down. During g the two weeks that the car stayed in a, Port Arthur and Fort Willi belonged to ■re killed. In s taken by i tatives of what is vaguely kncn the middle-class, and these mi into families who before 1914 too self-sufficient even to have in-j New York.--Columbus was more vited them to dances! | than two months crossing the Atlantic It was the middle-class girls who fol. the Queen of Castile, and his let-could not marry, becouse their men-|ters and pifts to her from the islands New Telephone Link Cuts Columbus's Message Time From Months to Minutes folk had followed the nat to compete for the biggi Another result of the ng her. Th; 6 almost as long So heir: lied and"the Net --rniallyjtc ' betv their sisters, who would have been content with the pittance j Isabelli allowed to female children by our 'used it system of primogeniture, Lund thr -selves landowners and free to marry , x, \: Y< where they wished. The c Consequently the last ten years 6nd wa, have seen a social evolution caused by! jjehn, e the infusion of nev strains with Internal standards of work and ambition un- Corpora known before the war. The effect of Don Al buch has been even more salutary j tu tho than the revolution, guided by newly j jfeatriz liberated youth which realized that; the QUP the s iety Eder mly they* substitute apple! With the war ■ as mental elasticity, i the demands made m 'I the l rather thai static n which the nat NATIONAL RESERVOIR. Before the war society was a issed found- 1 an, m progressive at all, the stupid m good. To- stupidity 'intelleetual should s y shade of is the ca 7n dCeneandVse Russell. Discuss Plight of Miners in Britain All Political Parties View Unemployment With Utmost Concern London.--The plight of unemployed miners in Britain has reached such a serious stage that all political parties are viewing the matter with the utmost concern and the Miners' Federation has issued an appeal for assistance. Nearly 300,000 mine workers are out of employment, and of these 200,000 to 250,000 constitute a permanent unemployed surplus. With their wives and children, this means that over 1,000,000 souls are faced with a cataclysm comparable to speedily forthcoming. The Miners' Federation, in its appeal, says: "The mining population is 'faced with « catocysm comparable to ! the destruction wrought by some great earthquake or other giant disturbance of nature. Some of the miners have exhausted their unemployed benefit and are being supported bp grants from the poor law, which naturally are small, and the courts are filled with stories of hungry miners tramping the countryside in search of work. The miners natural reluctance to leave the mines is also responsible for much distress and in the valleys of South Wales their mental attitude makes the transfer of them to other areas a difficult undertaking. They are so accus.omed to being hedged in between hills Miat they regard the out-si de world as foreign, and it is even difficult to get them to allow their daughters to go to London to work as Newspaper correspondents report terrible conditions. Men, women and children are living on the barest subsistence and thousands of children are without boots in spite of all charitable efforts. The unemployed are rapidly sinking into a state of utter Bush Telegraph Informs Africans of King's Illness News Spreads Through Wilds and Natives Assemble Along Route Which Prince of Wales Travels on His Hurried Return to the Coast London.--How the mysterious telegraph of the African natives, which the white man never has fathomed, spread the news of the King's illness and the race of the Prince of Wales to the coast from his hunting camp was described by Sir Percival Phillips, special correspondent of the Daily Mail, in a dispatch from Dar-Es-Salaam. Sir Percival cabled: "The inhabitants, both white and black, assembled along the route of the Prince's special train, showing sympathy for the Prince of Wales. News Travels Fast "News travels, fast in the bush. Natives living in the vicinity of the railroad already knew from their mysterious wireless the purport of the. Prince's journey. The women paused amid their cooking pots. The men were curious but impassive. "A stray European comes to my carriage, in his battered helmet, khaki shirt and' shorts, eager for a morsel of news denied to him in his life of solitude." Sir Percival then presented a picture of the Prince's arrival at Dar-Es-Salaam: "Tropical darkne: s, damp and oppressive, enveloped Dar-Es-Salaam in its suffocating clasp when the Prince's special train entered the station at 8.05 p.m. The Governor, Sir D. C. Cameron, and his chief secretary were waiting on the platform. The Prince conversed with them earnestly. "The Prince descended the steps to the street into the glare of a single electric lamp. He paused and looked in ' wonderment at the scene. The crowd, which had been ordered to keep clear of the exit, forgot its usual discipline and rushed wildly to obtain a closeup view, but there was dead silence. "The Prince entered his automobile still wearing his safari dress, including a shirt with half-sleeves and no coat , and a khaki helmet. The watchers then cheered him." Mount Etna Rampag? Serie'is Railway Agent Lauds Loyalty of Indian Help Bengal Official Seeks to Keep Personal Touch of Employer and Employed Calcutta.--The appointment of "personal officers" whose sole duty is to deal with the grievances of workers, was commended by N. Pearce, who urged that this system should be universally adopted. Mr. Pearce, who is agent of the Eastern Bengal Railway, was speaking at the twenty-fifth session of the Indian Railway Conference Association. The problem of tackling labor troubles occupied the greater portion of the presidential address. Get back as quickly as possible, Mr. Pearce urged, to that personal touch between the employer and the employee that used to characterize railway working. It was most essential that they should not lose sight of the important fact that India was still a ma hap (patriarchial country) and they must avoid the danger of substituting for the old direct personal touch between the District Officer and his staff a system whereby the personal interest of the staff was handled by those who had no personal acquaintance with his needs. The*'officer must be imbued with tremendous enthusiasm for his work. He must get out of his office and move about all over his section of the railway, so that not only would he know practically every man individually, but, what was quite as important, he might be known by the staff. This might sound Utopian, but he was convinced that it was worthwhile trying, so that there might be ail end to the suspicion that often expressed itself in labor unrest. cleared both cities of inductive interference. days e the wa Slippol both -------»- | It acknowledged A Merry Xmas \ ™£nt W*™™ 1 * And Personal Cards distribution, not o Your frieuds would prefer them and | of opportunity, t you will have a lot of fun preparing movement for th your own Christmas Cards this year.! labor conditions wl Make it personal, send an individual ed by the names ot both tne old and greeting to your friends that reflects new society. vour personality or the life of your ; The most insistent critics of modern home. Mabel Reagh Hutchins volun- j life are those who depended on Vic-teers a number of suggestions as to 1 torian restrictions for their power or Christmas card ideas in the current prosperity. These lament the experi-issue of "Your Home Magazine". She : ments of a generation which is out to lists the photograph of the home-made find the best wherever and however into a cut and printed along with a it has been produced, verse. Listing the tools necessary for : But they are defeated, not only by the work she suggests that the artistic ! the modem spirit of adventure which womaa make a cut in battleship lino-> makes friends where it chooses and leum aud either print it herself through j marries where its common sense rathe clothes wringer or have it done by j ther than its inhibitions dictates, but a, printer. Avoid the stilted type of by the facility of transport which card, she says. |j»as reduced the whole civilized world m the background. buried, standing I Mr. Meighen Changes His Tune Quebec Soleil (Lib.): (At the conference of steel magnates at Bole via. Miss., Arthur Meighen said that no other nation could hope to profi- by / the destruction of another. This, - ays Le Soleil, is a Liberal sentiment.) Who would have said that in three years time the Hon. Mr. Meighen would wake up one morning almost a Liberal? To adore what formerly he used to condemn, to condemn the idols- which he used to adore, to leave his old arguments and to sjtate others which contradict them, to throw in the waste . paper basket doctrines which once upon a time were dear to him and to oppose others of them, this is what often happens to men who have had the time to reflect and mediate. Thus we were not greatly surprised to learn that the former Conservative leader had practically denied his gods to approach the principles of his adversaries which not so long ago he used to fight.