SCRAPS OF PAPER.
Professor A. L. Kroeber, of San Francisco, in an article in the New York Outlook, describes the minute examination visitors to Germany have to undergo on crossing the frontier. He shows how the German officials confiscate small pieces of paper. "You may have the remnants of a 50-pfennig package of pipe tobacco. The wrapper is a lithograph. So it must be condemned and destroyed. The contents may be worth three or four cents. As a wasteful American, you assume them confiscated with the bag; but the scrupulous soldier hauls out a sheet of paper—an official Customs blank .or something—wraps up your precious crumbs over your protest and offer of them to him, places the new package back into your suit-case, and retires with the nice red lithograph It is a safe bet that if you insisted on the tobacco in your cigarettes they would be torn open and the tobacco handed to you. But the paper in which each one is rolled becomes the property of the German Government."
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Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 143, 17 June 1916, Page 16
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