TIIE SIORXIXG OREGOXIAN. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER - 2, 1919.
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SHIP ASSiHIENIS
PROMISED FOR TODAY
Admiral Rodman to Make Se
lection for Portland.
BATTLESHIPS ARE WANTED
City Demands Creditable Fleet and
. Will Protest Vigorously If
This Is Not Granted.
Assignment of tbe ships of the
Pacific fleet to be sent to Portland
will not ba made, until today, accord
ing to a message received yesterday
by W". D. E. Dodson. executive secre
tary of the Portland chamber of com'
mere from Captain Jacob Speler.
Portland's harbormaster, who is now
in San Francisco.
B. F. Stone, president of the Port
of Astoria, received a message yester
day from Admiral Rodman's aide, in
which It wu stated that the "Birming
ham and elx destroyers should reach
Portland September 5."
The Birmingham is a third class
cruiser with a displacement of but
3730 tons, little more than the cruiser
Boston, which is in the same class and
which lay In Portland's harbor for
a number of years as the training ship
for the Oregon naval militia.
Should the Birmingham be the only
cruiser assigned to Portland, rigorous
protest is certain to be made by Port
land citizens, as assurances made by
Washington have Inferred that Port
land's allotment would include at least
on dreadnought of the latest type.
Efforts by Mayor Baker to obtai
assignment of ships some weeks ago
from Admiral Hodman failed, it hav
ing been decided to await the return
of Secretary of the Navy Daniels from
Honolulu before deciding on the ship
to ba sent to Portland.
Uf.rmatloa Doe Today.
captain fcpeier was sent to San
Francisco by the city council and th
Portland chamber of commerce to con
far with Secretary Daniels and Ad
miral Rodman and to obtain an allot
went of chips for Portland which would
compare favorably with that given
other western ports.
In his message yesterday Captain
bpeier said that assignments would no
be made until after the review, which
was held in San Francisco yesterday
Definite information on the allotmen
of ships to Portland is expected to
day. Should this be unsatisfactory,
Mayor Baker will communicate direct
ly with Secretary Daniels.
It took considerable effort on the
rart of Captain Speier. during his re
cent visit to Washington, to convince
engineers of the navy that Portland's
harbor ia of sufficient depth to ac
comodate ships of the latest type.
in line with the government' new re-
trenchmen policy, it is believed.
Davis is located closer to overseas
foreign shores than any other Ameri
can mainland army post, it has been
pointed out. The Nome Nugget, a
newspaper, speaks of the sad plight
forties Nome would be in if a sloop
load of hostile bolshevlkl should sail
across from the eastern Siberian
shores, not far from here. .
CONFEDERATES ASK
FEDERAL PENSIONS
FLOUR SPOILED IN SHIPPING
Complaints Made in Brazil About
Manner of Loading Cargoes.
PARA. Brazil. (Correspondence of
tha Associated Press.) The effort of
th bureau of foreign and domestio
commerce at Washington to induce ex-
Dorters to pack their merchandise se
curely for shipment is having good
results. Merchandise is now arriving
in South America in better condition
than formerly, it Is said, when poor
packing resulted not only in loss of
goods, but in injury to the market for
American products.
Importers are making complaints
against the manner of loading cargoes
on steamers. A striking instance was
the case of a recent shipment of flour
to Para. It was stowed away among
barrels of kerosene and turpentine, be-
Recent Reunion in Georgia
Makes Request.
MONEY HELD DUE SOUTH
Losses by Alleged Illegal Cotton Tax
Cited Help Given to Vet
erans of North.
ATLANTA. Following throughout
debate at the recent reunion of the
Oeorcia State Veterans' association.
ing used to pack the barrels snugly. h.M fit Tiawnon. Ga. a preamble and
The flour was useless when it was re- ,,,. nimouslv adopted
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OPIUM SHIPPED AS CIGARS
German Residents of Mexico Impll
catcd In Traffic in Drug.
MEXICO CITT. A shipment of crude
opium consigned as Japanese "cigars"
was imported Into Mexico throueh Sa
lina Crux on March 30. 1917. from Kobe
Jipsn. according to declarations made
by W. K. Herrmann, described by the
papers here as a "German banker, in
a deposition made in court following a
vigorous anti-opium campaign by the
press.
Except for a raid by police and
health officials and t"he legal Inquiry
in which Herrmann figured, the opium
expose has not been pressed in the
couits. Although Herrmann. In his
Deposition, did not give the size of the
snipment Imported m 1917, the news
papers declare it totaled 6000 kilo
grams and that, at present prices, it
was valued at 3.600.000 pesos. In the
raid crude opium valued at 2.1.000
ptsos waa seised it is said, and thou
sai ds of tiny empty tins, supposedly
us-c ror retailing the prepared drug,
were found.
-nccormng to the newspapers, the
profits of the opium trade, on the one
shipment referred to. an into millions
or pesos. It is said that an Involved
system of smuggling resulted in most
of the narcotic being sold in the United
Stales. It was shipped as "cigars,"
aer.t over the line In automobiles
equipped with double gasoline tanks
and carried across in hand baggage by
a band of Germans, according to the
revelations here.
Sir.co the Mexican law does not nro
hibit importations of opium, the federal
lepartmert of health being cmcrrned
only in its sale, the drug dealers con
fined their operations to sales by de
vious methoos 'n the United States.
Branch's of the organization are said
to have operated at Nuevo Laredo,
-iex.. isew lorn and Pan Krancisco.
During their campaign against the
traffic the papers printed rharges and
names of personages as though libel
laws aid not exist.
SAILORS REJOINING NAVY
High Cost of Living Held Responsi
ble for Desire to Re-cnlist.
WITH THE PACIFIC FLEET.
While officers of the navy are ftrowinir
anxious because of the many enlisted
men who are asking and obtaining
discharges under the ruling which
makes discharge easy for those who
entered for the dtiraiton of the war.
ther is a tendency among those who
get out to get back in again.
This tendency is growing .too, and,
in the opinion of petty officers of the
Pacific fleet, it is likely to grow still
more. They say the high cost of liv
ing is responsible for many discharged
men deciding to rejoin.
"These goys who are getting out.
said one petty oflcer, "think they can
get out and get some of the high wages
they read about. They forget the wages
will grow less with the increase of
men who ask them.
"When they get out, they begin to
realize what the high cost of living
means. They think of the old three
squares' a day and the certain pay
they get in tbe navy and they come
back."
FORT TO BE ABANDONED
Far North American Army Post in
Alaska "o Longer cdcd.
NOME. Alaska. Fort Davis, a few
miles from Nome, one of the five
American army posts in Alaska. Is to
be abandoned, according to word re
ceived here. Next to Fort Gibbon, at
Tanana. Alaska. Davis Is Uncle Sam's
farthest northern army station.
The soldiers at Davis are to be trans
ferred to Fort St. Michael, Alaska,
which lies south of here near the
mouth of the Yukon river. Washing
ton probably thinks St. Michael a bet
ter place for the men as the point is
busy during the summer months with
tha transferring of passengers and
freight from ocean steamers to the
Yukon river steamboats. .
Nome does not want to see Fort
Davis abandoned and a number of pro
tests hav teen sent to Washington.
Th order to giv up th post was mad
ceived here and had to be thrown
away.
A shipment of 1000 barrels or cement
from a New York state manufacturer
arrived here on an east coast steamer
addressed to a merchant in Lima, Peru,
via Callao. Callao is on the other side
of the continent farther away from
Para By sea than Para is from New
York
Another small matter which irritates
ocal merchants and business men i
the frequent sending of mail from the
United States without sufficient stamps,
The minimum postage for South Amer
ican countries is 5 cents. When let
ters are mailed with deficient postage
it means the paying of double postage
at this end and a delay of two or more
days in delivery.
in resrard to the payment-of pensions
to confederate veterans by the national
government.
The preamble sets rortn in iuii De
tail the various amounts of money
which have been paid by the south
In various manners since the con
clusion of the war between the states
and the resolutions urge that the pre
sent conarress not only take off the
hands o fthe different states the pay
ment of pensions to the confederate
veterans, but also tnat congress as
sume the responsibility for the care of
all negroes, born In slavery, ana new,
by reason of advanced age, unable to
care for themselves.
Preamble and Resolutions.
The preamble and resolutions In full
are as follows:
When the poeple of the northern
states pay their money for the pur
pose of discharging the pension bur.
Six Kinds of Pears and 32 Kinds of . r . nT.s
OLD APPLE TREE WONDER
Apples Grafted on Limbs.
FINDLAY. An apple tree bearing 32
kinds of spples and six pears has been
produced by Henry Flater, of this city,
after years of experimenting.
back to them and the same sums and
amounts virtually stay at home and
the same body politio has the use of
It again.
"But when we, of the soutn, pay
150.000.000 or S60.000.000 a year to
The tree, declared by experts to be I wards federal pensions, the money goes
across the line; is distributed among
the northern public and never comes
back again.
"Let us rapidly and as briefly as
possible consider the figures and tne
burden of this tremendous pension
problem federal pension problem as
now borne by the present generation
of southern people.
Southern Losses Large.
"The illegal cotton tax amounted to
$68,000,000. Proceeds of captured and
abondoned property amounted to over
$25,000,000. This total, $93,000,000 went
inot the treasury of the United States
one of the most exceptional horticul
tural wonders ever produced, was the
last of the famous Vance orchard.
Whon Flater went to work on it the
trunk was decayed in a number of
places. Limbs were dead and farmers
declared it never would yield again.
F-Iling the holes with cement and
bracing the broken limbs with chains,
Fiatcr grafted on a number of kinds
of opples. Year after year he added
new grafts until this summer the tree
is giving more than three dozen kinds
ot fruit.
The tree is more than 75 years old
and is bearing apples from early sum- and has been there ever since. Five
mer until iate fall. nr cent is less than what it should
have made should it have been leu
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LONDON BOYS PLAY SOLDIER Add annual interest, which amounts at
D per cent to f.nau.uuu, even wunoui
Trafalgar Square Favorite Drill
Ground for Youngsters.
LONDON. The war is ended and the
peace treaty signed, but dozens of boys'
"armies" continue daily to parade, drill
compounding, that is 60 years, from
1867 to 1919. makes iztu.suu.uuu ana
principal and interest added together
kes tha sum justly aue oy tne gov
ernment to the south under this head
alone $333,800,000.
The Bouth has been lorcea to con
or stage mimic battles in London tribute annually at least $50,000,000 to
I federal pensions, which for the 30 years
amount to $1,600,000,000.
"There was a cruel and useless loss
Inflicted on the south in the burning
of cities, towns and Jiomes and the
destruction of cattle and crops and
other personal property . amounting ,t
streets. Trafalgar square is one of
their favorite "drill grounds."
Battered tea trays, biscuit tins and
pans are made to serve as drums, a bit
of petticoat does for regimental colors
and there are generally more drummers
and color-bearers than others, for ap
parently none of the youngsters relish! at least$1.000,000,0o0
the Idea of being a common private. ' 94,833,000,000 Total,
The boy officers have chevrons or col-1 "Ther was a further loss of four
lar insignia from the uniforms of their billion- dollars - (14,000,000,000) by
demobilized brothers, and some of the emancipation. Remember, the slaves
groups have acquired considerable pro-I were sold originally to the south, in a
liciency in marching ana drill. large part, perhaps mainly, from nortn-
Boy Scouts association officials are I ern homes and northern ships. The
making an effort to bring th members north kept the money and has it yet.
these nondescript boy "armies Into I The north and tne government with
membership in their organization. I the south must share the blame of
slavery and the north should at least
Hn tVi manlr thlnar and stand sav half
LONDON HOUSES SCARCE ?' ".; 1 8 tw0 . bUI,an do1-
lata vf.,vww,tfuv,vf,
Much Inconvenience and Xot a Little
Suffering Caused.
LONDON. Scarcity of housing ac
commodations throughout England is
causing much inconvenience and not a
little suffering.
One man with a wife and 10 children
was compelled to give up his house at
the expiration of the lease and, hav-
ng nowhere to go, was given accom
modations in the Essex workhouse un
til he could find another home.
The government building programme.
which contemplates the construction of
half a million houses, is being delayed.
t is alleged, by endless rolls of official
red tape.
Woman's Weakness Played Upon.
Examining Magistrate "Madam, you
persistently deny that you committed
his act. though the description of the
culprit fits you exactly beautiful face
and figure, extremely youthful appear
ance, most attractive "
The Defendant. "Your honor, I con-
ps all ys. It wss I!
The above named items or amounts
added together makes a total of four
billion eight hundred and thirty-three
million ($4,833,000,000) dollars indem
nity and penalty inflicted on the south
ern states by the government as a re
sult of the war.
"Remember, the war ended SO years
ago. But this penalty continues to be
levied, added to and increased -at the
rate of at least fifty million ($50,000,
000) dollars a year in northern pen
sions exacted and collected now, not
from the southern men who ought in
tho war, for they are nearly all dead
and gone, but from their innocent
grandchildren and innocent negroes of
the south. ...
Unparalleled Wrong.
"History furnished no parallel to
wrong like this. The democratic party
ought to have tried harder and sought
more diligently for a remedy than they
did when in power; and now the repub
lican party can and should right the
wrong with the help of good men in
the democratio party.
"There were not more than 8,000.000
people who seceded. The above named j
gross amount, for billion eight hun-
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000,000) dollars of penalty, if it was
apportioned among or on them would
be, and is far heavier per capita than
the penalty or indemnity exacted in
the late war by the allies on fifty
million defeated Germans. This com
parison is emphasized from the fact
that the German knew that he was
wrong and was in an unjust and cruel
war of Invasion; while the confederate
was honest and honorable and fought a
war of defense on laud and on sea and
his cause fell without a stain. This
dayhe with hjs-de.&oendaiUs now dou-J
ble in number after SO year of blame
less life and duty under the parole
they gave, are possibly more faithful
and devoted to, peace, liberty and the
u-Ion than any other collective body
of Americans ;are .American now and
forever.
The duty on the national govern
ment in taking care of every negro
born in slavery, but too old to work
and care for himself or herself, is too
plain for argument.
Beaolntlons Adopted.
"Your committee Is of the opinion
that the action that this body had at
our Thomasville reunion did not go
far enough and we recommend the
adoption of the following resolutions:
'Resolved first. That the southen
states with existing population ought
to be, by this present congress now in
session, entirely relieved of the burden
of pensions to confederate veterans by
the national government taking that
burden upon itself, preferably trsing
the pension laws, methods and officers
of the different states as tne Best and
already existing agencies for the cor
rect discharge of this duty, and that
the grading and classifying and amount
of pensions should be made the same
and no less to each confederate veteran,
whether officer or private, then in like
case to the union veterans.
" 'Besolved second. That a fair and
just pension should be paid by the
United States government to each negro
man and woman born and reared in
slavery and now too old to work, who
by emancipation lost the protection.
care and comfort which in time of
slavery the law of every southern
state required the master to bestow
upon her or him.
"Unanimously adopted. June 19. 1919
KING RECEIVES CRIPPLES
Americans Guests at Royal Garden
Party in England.
NEW YORK. King George of Eng
land received two of America's most
famous cripples Michael J. Dowllng of
Olivia, Minn., and Quentin D. Corley
of Dalls, Tex. on July 25 last at a
royal garden party, according to a let
ter from Sirs. Ethel Wood, former sec
retary of the British minstry of pen
sions, to. the. Red Cross institute , for
crippled and disabled men, made public
here today.
Dowling lost both legs, his left arm
and several fingers of his righ hand as
the result of exposure to the cold in a
blizzard when he was 14 years old.
Corley lost both of his arms in a rail
road accident. The British Red Cross
society, through the American Red
Cross Institute, invited them to visit
England to cheer and give courage to
the thousands of disabled British sol
diers in the reconstruction centers in
that country.
Twenty-four thousand disabled sol
diers, gathered in Central hall. West- j
minster, were encouraged by the stories
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Dowling and Corley told of their strug
gles to overcome their handicaps.
Prince Albert also addressed the audi-
ence. The meeting was presided over
by Sir Laming worthington-isvans.
British minister of pensions.
Dowling and Corley plan to leave
England soon for France. They will
e accompanied by Mrs. wood.
Growing Baldness Annoying.
London Tit Bits.
Poor old Alf!" sighed Mrs. Crimp, as
the form of her husband vanished donw
the road. "He's growing sbockin'
bald." 1
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I hope he ain't worryln' over it, Mrs.
Crimp?"
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"And well it might," said her neigh
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he felt the cold somethin' terrible."
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Alf." replied Mrs. Crimp. "It's tha
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