The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-09
THRONGS Do HONOR
TO MEN Who FELL
FOR SOUTH IN 81
Memorial Service by Veterans
of COnfederaCy, Sons and
Women Feature Reunion
Celebration at Atlanta.

ATLANTA. Ga, Oct. s,-The Confed-
crate Veterans, Sons of Veterans and
the women of the Confederate Memorial
association joined today in the annual
memorial service" one of the princi-
pal features of all reunions. Nearly
1000 persons were assembled In the
auditorium armory for the occasion.
brought to order by the assembly
call, prayer was made by Rev. Robert
T. Martyr, chaplain of the North
Georgia brigade of the veterans. Honor
rolls, reciting names of members who
had died since the last reunion were
read by representatives of the three or
ganizations, Short addresses were made
by Rev. j, W. Bachman, of Chatta-
nooga, chaplain general of the veterans;
Miss Mildred Rutherford, for the Con-
tederate women, and Rev Henry W.
Battle, for the Sons of Veterans.
At the business session of the Veter-
ans preceding the memorial exercises,
the resolutions committee announced
a series of resolutions which would be
presented to the convention for adop-
ton. These included:
Memorial to the United States senate
to speedily ratify the peace treaty and
the league of nations covenant without
amendment or textual reservations.
Memorials Sought.
Resolution to change the name of the
war of 1s6le5 from the Civil War" to
the Confederate War" on the ground
that the term civil war" implies a war
between two factions OF the same ma
tion, whereas the Conferedate States Of
America, during the progress Of the
war, was separate nation, legally
born by the Confederate states through
the exercise Of their constitutional
right of secession
Resolution requesting the federal gov
ernment to pay Confederate pensions,
on the ground that s6S, 900, 900 worth of
cotton was illegally confiscated BY the
federal government and has never been
repaid; that the South for more than 80
years has paid millions in taxes toward
federal pensions; that the federal gov
ernment further owes the South an un-
paid debt OF $25,000,0 900 for captured
property which was sold.
Resolution requesting congress to APP
propriate an additional S50,000 to COM
plete the Vicksburg memorial arch in
the Vlcksburg National park, the pre-
vious appropriation OF $4,000 being In.
sufficient.
It was expected by the committee
that all the resolutions would be unani-
mously adopted.
The veterans today adopted resolu-
tion ndorsing a movement proposed by
Miss Mildred Rutherford. of Athens,
Ga. to correct historical errors and in
justices concerning the South Gen X.
NJ. Van Zandt. commander-in-ch chief, ap-
pointed the following committee to take
the movement in hand at once: Gen. G.
Irwin Walker. South Carolina Gen. c.
B. Vance, mississippi; Gen. Julian S.
Carr, North Carolina; Gen. v. Y. Cook.
Arkansas, and Gen. A. j. Twiggs,
Georgia.
Miss Rutherford, in an address, de-
clared that the South has been misrep-
resented in the majority of the school
and college histories. The time has
come, she said, for the Confederate
veterans, the Sons of Veterans, the
United Daughters of the Confederacy
and all other patriotic organizations of
the South to unite their influence in a
movement having for its specific object
the removal from school and college cur
riculum of historic textbooks whose
authors either did not understand or
purposely misconstrued the attitude Of
the South in the political events leading
up to and eliminating in the war be-
tween the states.