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TIIE 3IORXIXG OEEGOXIAX. TUESDAY. APRIL i. 1919."
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PITCHER COOPER IS
of the street and be named Victory
street Jn honor of Pueblo county sol
diers. The street Is one that motor
tourists use In reaching the city and
BY BUFFALO
suitable archea with . appropriate In
scriptlons are planned at either end of
FOR BATTLE
the elm rows.
BEER SUBSTITUTE SOUGH
GORMAN f D HARPER
WED
Beavers' Leading Hurler's
ree Agent Claims "Denied.
McCREDIE SCORES WILTSE
Manager of Bisons Charged With
Tricking Unsuspecting Player
Acting Jn Good Faith.
T BY HARRT M. GRAYSON.
Pitcher Gay E. Cooper Is the prop
arty of the Buffalo International league
club and will not start the season with
Portland next Tuesday. This startling
bit of information waa dished out last
right by no less a personage than
Judge William Wallace McCredle. pres
ident of the Portland Baseball company.
Cooper has made a tremendous hit
with Walter Henry McCredle at Crock
ett and waa looked upon aa one of the
Bearer mainstays this season. He was
signed by the McCredtes as a free
agent. Judge McCredle advised the
big right-hander at the time that he
was being carried on the Buffalo re
serve, but Cooper Insisted that ha was
rree aa the air. declaring that he had
a is irea agency In writing from Buf
I-Uo, Later he mailed the good Judge
a paper signed by George R. Wlltse,
manager or the Bisons, and which read
as follows:
"The Buffalo baseball dab agrees not
to reserve Pitcher Guy Cooper for the
season of 1919."
Guy would not sign with the Inter
national leag-ue club last spring until
ootainea wnat he thought was the
"cessary document which would per
mit him to sign with whom he pleased
Jn 1S1. The yoong fellow did not know
that the president of the club had to
sign such an agreement, that It had to
oe written In his contract and that the
national commission must approve of
BUru Eatry ClaJ
To make a long story short. Cooper
aa neen tricked by the Bisons, and
what's more, they've put tn a claim for
mm.
Judge McCredle yesterday received
letter from J. H. Farrell. secretary f
of the national association of minor I T
leagues, attaching Buffalo's letter of
claim to his communication. Bullafo
ays It mailed Cooper a contract prior
to juarch 1 ana plana to force him to
report.
When the local magnate waa In Croc
kett last Friday he told Cooper that
If Buffalo took steps to enforce Its
rights, he (Cooper), had no grounds to
tand on and would have to hike east
ward. The heaver was confident that
'Wilts would not attempt to hold him
and Imparted the Information that he
would not go back for love or money.
The Portland inrtjit wml 1 .in u- l-t
ter to Secretary Farrell yesterday, glv- I j
Jit for what he terms "the tricking of!
an innocent oaupiayeracttn g In good
faith." The fact remains, however, that
Guy E. Cooper Is lost to the Beavers
unless Buffalo haa a heart, and as be
ta a very valuable young man. It Is
hardly likely that Joseph J. Lanntn,
former owenr of the Boston r.ex Sox
and now president of the Bisons, will
check a bit like lilm free of charge.
Cs-r Has Cawd Record.
Cooper has a fine re ord. He took
part In 19 gamea last season, winning
nine ana losing six. He pitched H
innings, racing o4 batsmen and allow-
Return of Old-Time Coffee-House
Sot Unlikely.
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn. Is coffee to
become the favorite beverage
Minneapolis after July 1. as it was in
England In the days of Dryden
Pope, when British literati were won
to gather of an afternoon for leisurely
discourse? Or Is horror of horrori
the afternoon tea to take the place of
the cup that cheers and likewise In
ebrlatesT
Among Greeks, of coures. coffee Is
the cup of conviviality. The "Hellenl
con Keffenon" Is the gathering place of
the decendants of the old Athenians.
There the beverage is served In sma
cups, resembling a demitasse. It is
thick, almost slrupy liquid, taken with
out milk or sugar.
A taste for this may be acquired, but
the breakfast coffee of America, perco
lated. its flavor enhanced by cream,
and. If one chooses, by sugar, haa some
thing of a delicious reaction, an ex
pandlng fluence, one that haa an ef
fect of warmth and mellowness. Tea
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Joe Gsrmaa, Portlaad llaktwelght,
who will box Hobby Harper 13
roeidi at Vaacoover Wash
April .
Is tea. There Is no disguising It for
Americana. America Is learning to like
its Ceylon and Its Formosa, but It Is
I assuredly uot a drink such as one would
enjoy In a cup resembling a mug.
mug which could be thumped upon
plont- The teacup is a delicate thing,
to be balanced on the knee while listen
Ing or observing with politeness; but
ing l-t hits. Fifty-three runs, of which I coffee It has a certain masculinity.
32 were earned, gives him an averase I red-Jowled man-sized touch of fellow
earned run mark of IX. Cooper passed J ship.
swattera and whiffed 32. hitting! The coffee house has had its trial In
ijaree of the opposition, wild pitching I America, but then It had competition.
once. He was taken out of but two .Vow there are but soda fountains and
gamea and finished four contests when I tea.
htm brother chuckera were In trouble. I The most famous coffee house waa
This youngster can hit the pellet as I In Boston. It waa the exchange on
well aa pitch, for his average was .29! I state and Congress streets, built In 1808,
In 191S. and Manager Walter had I which after being burned In 1S18. was
planned to use him for a pinch hitter. I replaced by a less pretentious structure
Jiis fielding mark waes :9dS. No won-1 In which La Fayette was banqueted
ccr burralo wants bim. The Interna-I on his return to America In 182a.
tiona league is of the same class if I- I Suppose the coffee houses do come to
cation aa the coast circuit. I Minneapolis, will they resemble those
cooper will be held by Portland un-I convivial places of England, which Eng-
til the subject Is cleaned up. according I land's literary celebrities made their
lo the Portland Jurist. There was some I habitat? Is there ever to be a chance
Twelve-Round Contest to Be
Staged in Vancouver April 9.
3 PRELIMINARIES LISTED
Fight Programme Will Be Given in
Liberty Theater Main Event
Men Now In Training.
Joe Gorman and Bobby Harper wllll
box 12 rounds at the Liberty theater.
Vancouver barracks, Wednesday, April
The match waa closed vesterdav bv I
waiter juonarty, president of the Van
couver Athletic club. Bobby Evans acted
tor Gorman, while Nate Druxman, of
the Seattle lodge, B. P. O. Elks, talked
business for the undefeated Harper.
mere win be two six-round and one I
our-round preliminary. Billy Nelson and I
Freddie Anderson, of Vancouver, will I
clash in the six-round eemi-wlndup. I
Nelson, Just back from France, has had
but two matches since his return. He I
obtained a draw with Jack Wagner here
ana made a great showing in Seattle I
last Tuesday night, copping a decision
over ieo Houck.
The main event announced yesterday I
by ilorlarty Is the longest tangle to be
staged hereabouts since Bud Anderson
and Danny O'Brien stepped 15 rounds
Vancouver in 1911. iiorlarty de
clares that this Is the first of a series I
of 12 and 15 round battles which will be
presented during the spring and sum-1
mer months.
Bobby Harper started boxing as a 105-
pounder with the Seattle Athletic club I
several years ago, winning the north-1
western championship at that weight I
and later took the bantamweight cham- I
plonshlp in the amateur ranks. He
urned professional a year ago as a I
lightweight and since that time has I
beaten Joe Gorman, Harold Jones, Joel
Harrahan and other clever and tough
boys.
Around Seattle, Harper is considered
the northwest lightweight champion by I
virtue of a win over Harold Jones. Both
Harper and Gorman will scale less than
33 pounds. Gorman, just back from I
Grants Pass, went Into training yester
day for the battle which promises to be I
the feature of the season.
Frank Kendall is anxious to get a re-
urn match here with Young Hector
who obtained a decision over him at Se
ttle a week ago tonight. "I'm sure 1 1
can trounce thia fellow." is the way big I
Frank puts It. Kendall has a host of I
friends In Portland and wants another I
chance at Hector in a Portland hempen
square.
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Jack Johnson confessed to everything I
but that he had met a better man. I
There's another coming though. Jawn I
asn't confessed that the first confes-1
Ion was plain hokum, and that the last I
lis the real honest-to-goodness unbosom
ing.
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Now that Austin and Salt have laid
ff showing In Seattle, the Sound City
lodge of Elks has thrown Its hat in the
ring and will put on some fast tilts.
ill il sm!m
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Ilit?l - J V K H
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ting loose joy'us
remarks every time you
flush your smokespot
with Prince Albert it
hits you so fair and square.- It's a scuttle full
of jimmy pipe and cigarette makin's sunshine
and as satisfying as it is delightful !
It's never too late to hop the fence into the
Prince Albert pleasure-pasture 1 For, P. A.
is trigger-ready to give you more tobacco fun than you ever had
in your smokecareer. That's because it has the quality that makes
its flavor and its fragrance so enticing.
And, quick as you know Prince Albert you'll write it down that P. A.
did not bite your tongue or parch your throat And, it never will!
For, our exclusive patented process cuts out bite and parch and lets
the man with the touchiest tongue simply smoke the roof off the house I
Man, man, what a wad of smokesport there's stored in that P. A.
package that's addressed directly to you !
Toppy red bagm, tidy reef fins, hemdtome pound and half pound tin
humidor and that elmver, practical pound cryttal glan humidor with
sponge moMmner top that keep the tobacco in each perfect condition.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-Salem, N. C.
talk of Walter McCredle using him
Jn the opening game next Tuesday, but
yesterday a letter from Secretary Far
rell knocks that idea into the well-
anown cocked hat.
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Jimmy Hamilton blew Into town
yesterday and left at 1 o'clock this
morning, bound for Crockett, where the
Beavers are training. Hamilton will
look over McCredle'a castoffs and take
those he likes to Peoria, I1L. for he
has been elected manager of the nine
which will rpresent that burg in a new
league being formed in the middle
states.
He had a long talkfest with Judge
TV. W. McCredle yesterday, the local
jurist tipping him off to the best
youngsters who endeavored to land
with the Mackmen. Hamilton plans
on spending two or three days with the
Beavers. He talked cold turkey with
Outfielder Merle "Ike" Wolfer and
Catcher Al Bartholemy. local bora.
yesterday, and may sign them both for
Peoria. Wolfer has made a fine record
with Northwestern league teams, while
Bartholemy has been declared a free
agent by Tulsa of the Western league.
Lartholemr asked that club for his
release. Hamilton managed the Van
couver Pacific Coast International
league club last season. Now that
Manager McCredle has started the well-
known pruner working at Crockett.
Hamilton will have no trouble In get
ting the players he desires. He has
signed but few to date for Peoria.
Hamilton's club may be used as
farm" for the Beavers as Jimmy and
the McCredies commenced talking busi
ness a couple of months ago. Tech
nically no club Is permitted to station
players from where they can be re
called, but there is nothing to pre
Tent a gentleman's agreement.
Fined contracts from TnfleMr It-mtiV
Fuller and Pitcher Red Oldham were I rhes the flavor of oral circulation of
received at baseball headquarters yes- current, news.
terdav. Pitcher Sam Lewis inH First Then these lines of men one eees
.in I Rln. hv nt tn fn,-- through the steamy windows of a win
ward their documents. I ler night, each confronted by an amber
e I glass, cannot be thrust suddenly Into
J'jdge McCredle telegraphed a local I games of dominoes and checkers in each
office of one of the railroads to shoot l"iers nomes. .Many 01 mem in Min
ritcher Carroll Jonea transportation, "eapolis do not have any home except
while he was stopping at Hornbrook. ,h room where they go to change their
!.. on his way nA-th Saturday. "Yes. clothes and sleep. They may even not
that's all I did at Hornbrook." said Prefer to go to a movie show, and If
the portly purveyor of the national ther do- the ecreen begins to pall with
of walking into such a place as Will's
where the "great press was to get near
the chair where John Dryden sat? In
winter that chair was always in the
warmest nook of the fire, in summer it
stood on the balcony.
There was a cameraderie then that
made such places possible. Is America
too much imbued with the spirit of
"hurry": does it find Impossible the
leisurely discussion of polltls? Then
the lines were sharply drawn between
the various political, professional and
literary sets. Today there is no such
demarkation of social groups or cliques.
The professional clubs are the most
persisting in thenr distinguishing
identity, and these would be the hope
of a new regime.
In the coffee house, too, in those days.
news was passed from sip to Hp. rather
than through the medium of a newspa
per press, and speculation was rife on
the returns in the latest mail. Business
news was discussed in thoe ancient
coffee houses.
Nevertheless. MInneapolitans love to
get their news, hot and savary, with
the personal touch, from their next-
door neighbors. The spread of astound
ing rumors during the war, each as
that of the maimed Belgian nurses.
whose presence In the city everybody's
friend learned from a friend. Is an ex
ample. It was noised about with & pain
ful attention to details, aa could not be
found In the most careful of newspa
pers. It is the friendly habit that
despite Its glaring inaccurancies, to tell
the folks next door of the events you
have deard. It is doubtful if the city
might not be quick to seise such an op
portunity for retailing events aa a cof
fee house might afford.
Though the Minneapolis business
man gets most of his knowledge tof the
world's wagging from his newspaper on
the way home In the streetcar, he still
pastime when "kidded about Jumping
the rattler at the last chance. Jones
wintered at Oskaloosa, Mo, and now is
bound for Crockett.
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Jimmy Hamilton did not land Jack
Kibble. Inflelder released by Portland
without enjoying the trip south. Kib
ble is at Roundup. Mont., and. as he is
demanding more coin of the realm than
a surfeit of It. They may want to con
tlnue, with pipe in mouth, discussion of
the events of the day with their old
companions. But where.
Perhaps the coffee house will prove
the answer.
Tahiti Shaken by Earthquakes.
Portland could afford to pay one with U,,, Ynd It, nirghborin
his ability Ham'lton fails to see how Moore4 nmT OMn shaken
be could obtain Kibble for Peoria, so
uit flickering for him.
v Pneblo to Have Victory Street.
rtEBLO. Colo. If plans recently In
augurated by the Arkansas valley chap
ter. D. A. R-. materialize, a section of
Twenty-ninth street will be marked
with a row of elm trees on either side
PAPEETE. Island of Tahiti. After a
lapse of several centuries the island of
g island.
oorea, have been shaken by earth
quakes. While none of the shocks have
resulted in any damage, their long con
tinuance has caused some uneasiness
as to the probable awakening of one
of the ancient volcanoes. The severest
shocks of the series, occurred on Feb
ruary Is.
Phone your want ads to The Orego-
nlaa. Fbone Main 7070, A fOSS.
Jack Brltton was matched to box Jock
Malone ten rounds in St. Paul next Frl-
trance to the hotel or the foreign office.
The Jibes of small boys and the jokes
of various allied soldiers who gather in
day night but "owing to a stress of I wonderment never seem to disturb the
business" the champion called the affair Imperturbable Cretans.
o'f. There's too many "chumps" fori Perhaps the most startling uniform
Jack to knock off while he's champion I worn by one of the guards consisted of
to -be bothering about fast boys like
Malone.
"Now r-m telling yoa something,
Fireman Jim Flynn still is talking in
California. "I want to meet Jack Demp
sey." Quit your laughing. Jim means
It. "I knocked him out once in Salt
Lake," said the veteran to a California
sporting writer. "Sure, I know he
knocked me out once after that, but
that leaves it a tie. doesn't it?
"When baseball teams play to decide
the championship, they play a series,
don't they? They don't stop Just any old
time and say that the team tnat won
th last game Is the champ, do they?
WelL I want to finish up this series with
Dempsey best two out of three get
me?"
DEFEAT ISN0T ADMITTED
Germans Still Believe They Bested
Allies in Great War.
COBL.ENZ. (Correspondence of the
Associated Press.) Articles in the Ger
man press and speeches and Interviews
with German public men since tne ar
mistice went into effect show that the
German point of view still is completely
at variance with that of the rest of the
world, asserts one of the political ex
perts with the American army of oc
cupation.
In a recent article on tne question oi
German psychology published In the in.
telligence summary or the third army,
the political expert, who is an officer
of high authority, said:
The German feels that, first ana
foremost, his army waa not only un
beaten but had all the military prestige
of the war. Then he knew that there
was a scarcity of Victuals at home and.
feeling that the allies were in mortal
dread of new drives by the German
army and would be only too glad to
compromise, proposed an armistice.
'Germany expected all the world to
supply her gladSy with all her needs
and. as a mark of good faith and to
encourage the allies, offered to allow
them to advance to the Rhine. Now
the Germans affect to wonder why Ger
many is not completely supplied by
the allies and why the garrisons, having
been allowed to see the Rhine scenery,
do not withdraw.
Of course, the more Ignorant classes
might be expected to take this attitude.
but when these ideas appear inaddresses
by Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, by
Scheidemann and by the crown prince
the result is more than puzzling. All
the people consider, apparently, that
the armistice was an agreement for
mutual benefit and any idea that the
war was anything but a draw, with the
prestige all on the German side, has
not yet penetrated the German mind."
white tights bound by tasseled black
silk cords at the lmees. a red velvet
blouse and sash, a red fez surmounted
by a black silk tassel so long that it
fell below the waist and black eandals
with upturned toes topped by great
black pom poms. This costume was
completed by an ivory-handled knife
two feet long, thrust carelessly into the
sash.
The knives and swords worn by the
Cretans are the chief feature of the
uniforms and make collectors of an
tique weapons very envious. They are
of all sizes and shapes and have sheaths
of great splendor, jeweled and carved
in a marvelous manner.
Some of the guards are bare-kneed
and have costumes not unlike the
Scotch in style but much gaudier in
color. Others wear marvelously deco
rated leggings reaching far above the
knees. Capes of oriental hues are fre
quently worn by the Cretans and add
to the brilliancy or tne tireeK nnnorms,
which make the fancy dress uniforms
of the French and English look somber.
planned to strengthen the structure
to enable it to store water up to the
85-foot level instead of the 65-foot
mark, as at present.
!at a meeting vesterdav. Representa
tives E. B. Collins and A. J. Nordale of
Fairbanks were present at the meeting
and expressed belief that such a plan
could be worked out at this session.
THRONGS SEE BODYGUARD
Cretan Soldiers Are) Brilliantly Ar
rayed in Paris.
PARIS' (Correspondence of the Asso
ciated Press.) Kings, presidents and
premiers have ceased to be a novelty
at the peace conference, but the body
guard of Premier Venizelos of Greece,
never fails to attract great crowds. At
the hotel where the American delega
tion is housed and at the foreign of
fice. Venizelos' approach is always her
alded by the arrival of one of his Cre
tan soldiers arrayed more brilliantly
than a comic opera bandit.
The Cretans who escort the Greek
tatesman are all more than six feet
tall and apparently hava been chosen
from varloua organizations, as a dif
ferent man appears daily, and the same
uniform Is never seen twice. The
swarthy Cretans all have small, waxed
mustaches -twisted into upturned points
nd stand rldlgly at attention for hours
while awaiting M. Venizelos at the en-
HUN FORESTS WILL BE CUT
Farnce to Inslsst That Germany Pay
for Destroying Trees.
WASHINGTON. "Germany will find
that France will insist upon Germany's
paying in lumber for the casualties of
the French forests wnicn were ae
stroyed during the war," declares P. S.
Rldsdale, secretary of the American
forestry association, who has Just re
turned from a tour of the allied cqun
tries. Mr. Ridsdale went to Europe to
nvestigate forest losses In France, Bel
gium, Italy and Great Britain so that
the American forestry association,
might determine how America could
help to replace the destroyed forests
of Europe, by presenting forest seed
to the various governments.
In northern France many of the for
ests," he says, have been so badly
smashed by shell, shrapnel and rifle
fire, or so badly cut for trench timbers,
fuel wood and other supplies for the
contending armies that they have been
virtually destroyed. They oan be re
stored only by replanting. The agri
cultural land lying between the forests
in various sectors of the batle front
have been so torn to pieces by shell fire
that It is no longer serviceable for agri
culture and, like the devastated forests,
will have to be planted with forest tree
seed so that in years to come the shell
holes may be filled by gradual erosion
and the humus of the soil restored.
Then the replanted forests, may be cut
down and the land worked over and
restored for agricultural use.
"The peace delegates are now hav
ing prepared data upon the losses in
the French forests, and France means
to insist upon e large amount of cutting
in the German forests so that she may
be provided with lumber for reconstruc
tion purposes as a part of the indemnity
which Germany will be required to. pay
for the damage which has been in
flicted. "Italy, Belgium and Great Britain will
make similar requests, for they, too,
have suffered forest losses, and they,
too, need lumber in large quantities
and believe that Germany should supply
it to the extent of her ability."
Mr. Rldsdale expects that the Ameri
can forestry association, by securing
large quantities of forest tree seed next
fall, will be able materially to assist
America's European allies in restoring
their forests.
Plnte Dam to Be Strengthened.
SALT LAKE CITY. Blda are being
received by the Utah board of land
commissioners on contracts for 85.000
feet of earthen fill for the Piute dam,
which stores water which irrigates a
large portion of Piute county, in the
southeastern part of the state. It is
RIGHTS F0RJV0MEN ASKED
Act Introduced in Porto Rico House
of Representatives.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. (Correspond
ence of the Associated Press.) That
women in Porto Rico should share all
rights granted to men under the exist
ing laws, is the proposal of an act in
troduced into the house of representa
tives by Representative Gonzales Mena.
The woman's League of Porto Rico,
with over 2500 members throughout the
island, and which is working to obtain
the vote for women, is not in favor of
the bill as it is considered too sweeping
In its terms. The league fears that if
the vote Is given to ignorant and illiter
ate women throughout the Island it will
mean only more votes to be controlled
by the politicians.
It wants votes only for women who
can read and write, more, for educa
tional and patriotic reasons than for
political purposes, and the women ex
pect to use their Influence and power
in social, charitable, moral and intel
lectual ways.
Under the control of the Woman's
League of Porto Rico the woman's suf
frage movement in the island has made
a considerable advance considering that
it has been in progress only two years.
For many years Porto Rico has held
the usual Latin-American idea of wom
an's place in life.-
Bills providing for woman's suffrage
were introduced last year in the legis
lature, but failed to pass, while not very
strong hopes are entertained of the bill
recently introduced, which in any case
is thought by the league to be too far
reaching. Members of the league, how
ever, say they are not discouraged and
will continue their work until the wom
en of Porto Rico who can read and
write are given the vote to be nsed
for the moral and social benefit of the
island.
REFUGEES ARE ASSISTED
Red Cross Doing Good Work for
Destitute Slavs at Omsk.
OMSK, Siberia. (Correspondence of
the Associated Press.) Humanitarian
work for destitute refugees is being ef
fectively conducted at Omsk by the
refugee section of the American Red
Cross, under the direction of Colonel
H. S. Thompson, of Concord, Mass. The
refugee department has its headquar
ters on a train in the main railway
station of Omsk. There is a storage
room in the Czecho-Slovak headquar
ters, nearby.
Several active young American women
circulate among the destitute of the
city and its suburbs making investi
gations of needs. They make their re
port to the directors, and necessities,
chiefly underwear, sweaters and socks.
are immediately distributed. Americans
at home who may be knitting to sup
ply Siberian needs may be assured that
their efforts are appreciated and are
serving to render less terrible the rig
orous Siberian winter, where the tem
perature reaches 45 below zero.
Colonel Thompson and his assistant.
H. F. Fales of Shanghai, formerly of
Chicago, have purchased much cloth
ing at Omsk, for the condition of the
Trans-Siberian railroad has prevented
the coming of adequate supplies from
Vladivostok and China. Among other
things they were able to find and buy
20,000 suits of children's underwear,
which have perhaps saved the lives of
many under-clothed children of this dis
trict.
HUN EMIGRATION LIKELY
Unfavorable Freight Tonnajre Said
to Be Reason for Conrse.
BERLIN. Unfavorable freight ton
nage balance against Germany after
the declaration of peace, threatens to
become one of the chief Incentives for
the stimulation of emigration from Ger
many, in the opinion of the Allgemeine
Zeitung.
"Our principal need will be sn abun
dance of foodstuffs and raw materials,"
it says, "but the lack of export com
modities will give ample room for hu
man freight on return voyages.
"Even at a time when we anticipated
more auspicious peace terms, attention
was called to the necessity of adopting
measures restricting emigration in the
interest of economic reconstruction.
German workingmen should, therefore,
take to heart the warning that their
actions at this time are liable to play
an Important role in German industry
and its ability to compete in the mar
kets of the world."
The Vorwaerts urges sending of all
surplus unemployed technical workers
into the rural districts for the purpose
of enlarging the cultivated area and
raising the yield of agricultural products.
WO MM AN SURPLUS NOTED
1,500,000 Residents of England
Ixse Marriage Chance.
LONDON. There are one and a half
million women in this country who
never will have the chance of getting
married, is the statement of Miss Norah
March, editor of National Health. In
1917 there was a surplus of 1,337,000
marriageable women over marriageable
men, and since then there have been
the war casualties of 1918.
Miss March says that emigration will
remove a few of these surplus women,
while economic Independence will pre
sent women from marrying men for the
sake of a home.
"Many men and women in this age
)f modern advancement," says Miss
March, "are getting different views
from those held in the past, and re
gard women's right to motherhood as a
supreme individual prerogative. Hav
ing such a large choice of wives, the
question remains as to whether the
men will choose the best and strongest
women, as upon the women will depend
largely the future human race, since
the best of manhood has been cut off.
The choice really rests with the woman,
for with her is the right of refusing an
offer of marriage."
ALASKA ATTORNEY KILLED
Edwin M. Stanton Reported Dead In
War.
CORDOVA, Alaska. Edwin M. Stan
ton, an attorney of Iditarod and grand
son and namesake of Lincoln's famous
war secretary, gave his all in the
world's fight for democracy, acording
to word from the Interior.
Stanton enlisted soon after the de
claration of war by the United States,
joining a Pennsylvania regiment. He
came to Alaska In 1910 as a lieutenant
in the regular army and was stationed
at Fort Seward. He had seen service
In- the Philippines. Soon after coming
to Fort Seward he resigned and was
appointed United States commissioner
at Iditarod in 1911, where he took up
the practice of law. His mother died in
Germany during the war, where she
and Stanton's sister had been traveling.
U. S. USES SOUTHAMPTON
Many Americans Pass Through Eng
lish Port Durlne War.
SOUTHAMPTON, England. The im
portance of Southampton as an Ameri
can military base during the war was
disclosed today with the publication of
figures showing the number of troops
handled at this channel port.
Of the 7,136,797 soldiers who passed
through Southampton, 45,814 were
American officers and 868,955 were
Americans of other ranks. To this
muBt be added 6954 nurses.
Territorial Militia Urged.
CORDOVA. Alaska. Enactment of
laws creating a territorial militia was
urged in a resolution adopted and for
warded to the territorial legislature
at Juneau by the Cordova home guards
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