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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
M'DUFFIE TO URGE STATE OWNERSHIP
 OF MOBILE DOCKS

Washington. May 14.-(Special) )-Repre- sentative John McDuffie of the First Alabama district today invited the other members of the Alabama delegation to confer with him Monday morning re- garding the necessity of state action relative to the ownership of terminals at the port of Mobile.
 The delegation will endeavor to arouse the interest of the people of the state through civic organizations, in that they may vote any amendment to the state constitution which may be necessary MT. McDuffie holds that it is essential that the people be assured that any action toward port ownership will not re- suit in increasing taxation.
 As previously reported, Secretary Weeks has asked the interstate commerce commission to so regulate dockage and wharfage rates that the railroad mo. nopoly allegedsto exist at all south At lantic and gulf ports might be broken He urges state or municipal owner ship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
GERMAN HONOR IS
 AT LOWER POINT
 THAN EVEN 1913
After Parade, Whines and Lies Government Promises to Pay Bigger Sum Than It Had
 Declared Impossible
By MAxIMILIAN HARDEN

 Special Wjriess Dispatch to The Age Herald (Copyright, 1921, by The Age-Herald) Apparently only "notsy minority" of sympnthixers .a with the dethroned Iioh henzolIerns and other war lords Of Germany have approved the course of the German government in Its ma- ncuyers to avoid payment of the allied reparations demands. There exists to- day a real distinction between the German people and the German gov ernncnt. more real perhaps than when President Wilson insisted upon it and by doing so helped to drive the Hohen- xollcrns from the thronc.)
 Berlin, May 14.-(Special.) Our ing the progress of the World war, which apparently had no perils great CT than those of what is now termed peace" President Wilson insisted upon distinguishing always between the German people and the imperial German government. Mir. Wilson's persistence in making that distinction eventually drove the Hohenzollerns from power in the great German en- pire.
 That distinction, let me say, is more real today perhaps than when Wilhelm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

An astonished and momentarily indig- nant Germany the answer of upright- ness. Thus, were all of Germany s avenues of escape cut off by words of k con science, and she was obliged to in- cline to the demands of the allies. backed as they were by all of civiliza- ton,
 A1ad thus if is proved that what we always said vas truth and not merely Sblind hatred of Germany. R What did we say?
 M We said Germany could pay, and this 74eclarAtion, true when the treaty was 6igned, was even truer when the repa- rations commission announced it's final figures
 CAUSES ALL ANGUISH & Well, if that was true, the whole world must note that through Ger many's efforts to escape justice and through her refusal to honor her own signature, the world has been thrown into confusion, and thus Germany is responsible not only for the war. but for the continued vicissitudes and ans guish which still 5eset humanity
 Our troops have been mobilixed, and as tho London decision gave Germany 12 days in which to comply. they. of course, will not occupy the Ruhr. But here we must understand each other, for if in tho near future Germany dis honors her present promise, we shall call the world to witness both our moderation or today and the energy with which we shall compel Germany
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
RED MEN LIKELY TO BUILD $15O, GOO H0MS
 IN STATE, DECLARED

Mobile, May 14.-( Special That 3 Is160000 home for widows and orphans of deceased members of the Improved Order of Red Men will beabuilt in Ala bama within the near future is preb- able, according to delegates who wifi represent Tuscahoma tribe No. 5s at the annual state convention of Red Men to be held in Gadsden May 24-25, inclu- sive. Those who will attend the com vention from Mobile are pr. Harry J. Krudop, past sachem, and Moreland M. Marsh, great keeper of wampum.
 The question of establishing home Is expected to be brought up at the convention
 The Mobile delegates will fight to bring the home to Mobile.
 The great incohonee of the United States will be represented by proxy, ". P. Lightholder, past great sachem. from St. Louis coming and delivering an address in his stead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
WANTS C0NFISCATI0N SECTION ELIMINATED
 FROM DRY STATUTES

Washington, May A.-(Special)-An amendment to federal statutes eliminat- ing from danger of confiscation automo- piles of innocent persons used in trans porting intoxicating liquors was intro duced today by Senator Dial of South Carolina.
 In various southern states all automo- piles involved in liquor cases are subject to conf1scation, however innocent the rightful owner might be. Senator Dial holds such statutes unfair and unjust on their faces.
 Recently the supreme court upheld a Georgia conf1scation and relied upon a law enacted in 1866. It was for the pur- pose of amending this law that the South Carolina senator took action All state laws are defended by reference to the federal statute
 The amendment would protect not only all automobiles of innocent owners, but all other conveyances.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
FRANCE DOUBTFUL F GERMANY WILL
 FULFILL PROMISE
Must Give Security to Insure Payment, Substitute Acts For Words as Proof Of
 Good Faith
By RENE VIVIAN Former Premier of France

Special Cable to The Age-Herald
 Copyright. 1921, by The Age-HeralO V (Gcrmapy, in the opinion of the former Premier Of France, must give some security of her promises to pay the, allied reparations demands. such serhritity would be demanded in m ordinary civil transaction between individuals. France must be pardoncd for doybting Germany's word. Further there fs the plain iptimation that when Cermnny offers her merchnndise to be sold as n condition to her abfIity to pay the allies, Europe will not he able to fipnncc the gigantic propositicn. Therefore, naturally, Europe will look to wenIthy America to help buyD
 Paris, May 14.-(Special. )-Ger- many finally has yielded, making one wonder why it took so long to reach that decision. Nobody imagines that if the allied demands were truly crushing Germany would have accept ed, with all the peoples and the gov ernments of the world failing to utter a word of protest. Therefore, Ger many's yielding after making the peaceof the world wait so long sim ply means that she realizes it is inn possible to continue the faithless, criminal policy she mas followed since Eshe placed he rsignature to the treaty.
 When the new American administra- ton was installed at Washington. Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
APPROPRIATIONS
 ARE GUT IN HALF Deficiency Bill to Be Reported Monday to Carry Less Than
 Hundred Million
By Associated Press

Washington. May 14.-Less tlAn half the amount requested by various gov-
 ernment demands will be carried in the deficiency appropriation bill, which probably will be reported Monday by the
 House appropriations committee. with q
 total. according to Chairman Good. ''un- der $l00.00 0O0." Approximately SEQ QUO
 was sought by the departments to meet
 expected dificiencies.
 The shipping board requested $1700OO. .O0O.
 of which $36, 100000 was to go for oper- ating expenses. Mir. Good said a .'sup-
 stantial reduction had been made in thin
 item. Other major requests included $l5, ,O00,0oo for the federal board for VOL cational education and $S.0O000O for addf-
 tional hospital facilities.
 The measure is the last supply bill ttat
 Mr. Good will assist in drafting. He said today that as soon as it was sent to the President and the Senate ana House had come to an agreement on tho
 budget bill, now in conference, he would resign his seat to practice law in Chl- cago.
 A lively fight Is expected for his place. as chairman of the appropriations com- mittee Is considered the most desirable
 chairneanship in the House If the seniority rule is followed Representative Davis, Minnesota, ranking republican. will be named, but friends of Representa- ltive Madden, Illinois. are urging his name. while some republican leaders arc said to favor Representative Burton 0f | Ohio. former senator. now a member of the foreign affairs committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
BRAND IS AMAZED
 AT LLOYD GEORGE
 SPEECH ON S|LES|A
Declares France Will Never Consent to German Troops Entering Country, Which
 Would Bring War
By Associated Press

I %5risf May l3-fSSlnce is 1nskerably x soEsa ID eay. .issA las]ss " orar sr,s :. ] s-gs, {, ,is Never never could t1e Tssa.S.i ss e4tsa43 mert consent to German troops entering Upper silesia." the Premier explained to
 half hundred foreign correspondents
 whom he received at the foreign office
 in consequence of Premier Lloyd Georges
 speech yesterday in the British House of
 Commons
 OFFICIALS AMAZED
 The entry of German troops into Upper
 silesia would provoke intervention by
 regular Polish troops. which would mean
 war and in such a war France could not
 remain neutral, according to expressions
 in official circles here today.
 The utmost amazement was expressed
 in these circles at the speech of Premier
 Lloyd George on the Upper Silesian si-
 uation, containing what is regarded here
 as extraordinarily friendly references to
 Germany and Judgments hostile toward
 Poland and unsympathetic toward France.
 Premier Briand himself took the uni
 usual course of recivng all the foreign l afternoon to recount to them what the French government had done and intend ed to do.
 German bands are operating in Upper Silesia, maltreating and arresting Poles" continued M. Briand. Not all the dis orders in that province are produced by the Poles. The French government could not permit German military forces to in- tervene in such situation. FRANCE FULFILLS DUTY the false impressions being spread ernment has fulfilled to the utmost of it's T., 600 troops there who have had to deal with 100000 insurgents and a rising of several hundred thousand persons. "The French troops could do no more than hold the cities, the towns and tho strategic points.
 If the British government would send 5000 troops to help us the disorders could be put down more quickly. 'yrhe news received by the foreign of- flee from Upper Silesa today is that the insurgents are going to their homes and returning to work
 f"The French governments solution IS that the allies should in the first place assume a calm attitude and instruct their commissioners in Upper Siesia to try to reaqh unanimous agreement. MUST INCLUDE GERMANS "My keenest desire is that the trouble shall be settled amicably, that violence shall cease and work be resumed. But (Continued on Page Three)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
YALE MEN IN CAPITAL TAKING KEEN INTEREST
 IN FIRST MEETING

k Washington. May 14-tspecial.) Yale men in washington-some 300 all told-- are taking keen interest in the coming first annual meeting of the Associated Southern Yale Clubs, which will be held here May ? and B. An extensive orr ganixation has been perfected to care for all the arrangements of the big Jollifi- cation and business meeings of the clubs. with Frederick Fl. Brooke. '9S. as secre- tary.
 The Washington club, or Alumni asso- ciation, as 1t is called, realizes that much depends upon the success of this. the first annual meeting of the Yale clubs in the south It's members are anxious to give the visitors-who will come from other sections of the country as we'll as from the south--a real time.' The plan ot entertainment covers wide range, from |a visit to to the White House to tennis and golf at Chevy Chase. Many of the local men have issued per- sonAl invitations to old Yale classmates to visit them here during the coming meeting Everything possible for the comfort and pleasure of the visitors IS being done:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
CYST OF THE NEWS
GENERAL

Baptists to end annual convention Tuesday noon.
 Presbyterfans open sixty- first gea- eral assembly Thursday.
 Wfil next war be fought in air or New Orleans defeats Birminsham. e to 2. Visit of Japanese crown prince con- aidered important ! Living cost data to serve as basis for wage ndjustments.
 Return to peace leads te n open sea- son of "crises."
 Tower of financial strength built up by federal reserve.
 Further pressure in stocks, cotton has bad day.
 STATE
 Confederate reunion to begin in Annfston Wednesday.
 Another appeal to Kiisy for relief Tor taxpayers.
 social workers to hold csnferencs .. child welfare.
 LOCAL
 Jitney regulation vital fssue witt city communications.
 County truckers rent city lot te epe- own market. Dlstrict,s largest building ready at sewer pipe worka. ComMlttee maker report on survey q unemplOyment.
 Alabsm. bankers here tAis week IT annuni meeting. & Fl0Gh of eane1s nay be feature ol biz shrine parade.
 Premoear m0pe up h speed eveUtn. sttlk ordlnance 70 De ennetses
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

a grave error, and Is in need of serious correction.
 The people beheld this republican government at the allied conference at Spai, at Paris and at London, pleading poverty and rejecting as beyond all capacity to pay, the reduced bills which the allies presented, while neg lecting to make any but the most i'm : pudent and arrogant offers of its own as to what Germany felt she was able to pay.
 THE SHAME OF TT
 What traversy to behold this re publican" regime Of ours defending those whom the people of Germany .banished in disgrace aud nlaintair the entire innocence of war guilt of the imperial German government!
 The people of Germany and of the world have had to listen to this 're- publican government slander France as a beggar exploiting her sores. And finally, we have had to submit to an appeal by this republican" govern ment to the United States--an appeal So obviously insincere that the world s conscience revolted in It's contempia- ton.
 After all this parade. after all these whines. after all these threats and lies, this same republican" regime signs a document promising to pay sum much larger than the one it originally declared to be impossible!
 WHY BESMIRCH PEOPLE
 Our republican" government must have known it would eventually have to come to this. Therefore why has it seized every available opportunity since the treaty of Versailles was signed some two years ago to besmirch the good name of the German people
 Why has it followed a despicable course. which could only result in deepening the worlds belief in German insincerity? It is lamentable to admit that this belief of insincerity exists But is 1t any wonder that the world today, after the woeful exhibitions of the last few weeks on the part of our republican" government, is more skeptical than ever?
 Is it any wonder that public opinion even among the masses of the German people. is bewildered and flabbergasted by such kaleidoscopic changes?
 Much as l regret to say it. German honor is at lower ebb today than it was in the fateful year of 1913.
 Just as In the old days. when ouy rulers believed honor to be synonv, nous with arrogant effrontery. so to, 1, day the noisy minorities are creatine : similar impression.
 Unless German honor, in this time n, crisis. becomes voluntary and whole hearted fulfillment of promise ana ~ duty, German honor will be but s gaudy escutcheon at funeral process sion ls1 <,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
COTTON CONSUMPTION
 DECLINES IN APRIL
Bx Associated Preea

Washington, May 14.-Cotton con- sumed during April amounted to 4os.- 3S2 bales of lint and 4S.0s6 bales os linters, compared with b66.s14 Of lint and 2o,3s7 of linters in April lasf year, the census bureau announced to- day
 establishments was l.316.016 bales oi line and 2I2S15 of linters, compareSi | with 1.s11,527 of line and 28s,s42 oe linters year ago, and in public stor- age and at congresses 502s,esl balec of lint and 3o2,4 of linters. compared with 2,97S,15S of lint and 3s5,I29 q. linters ai year ago.
 Imports during April were 1s,731 bales, compared with 69.357 in AnrilI last year. i, II Y
 Exports during April were Sl9,sss oe lint, and 4.7S4 bales of linters. com pa re,i with 546.l25 of Hht and 6.l5a of linfers in April last year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
ALL WIRES HAMMERED
 BY'AUR0RA B0REALlS
By Associated Prees

Washington, May A.-Press and com mercial wires leading out of Washington early tonight were prostrated by the strange and mysterious effects Of the aurora borealis. At various intervals powerful earth currents short-circuited the wires and made it impossible to transmit either news or nessRgen.
 Each year telegraphers and repeater attendants are baffled by the queer be- tavioY of their circuits, and after mak- ing frantic efforts to tune up their wires It finally dawns upon them that itsis a.i- other visit of the aurora borealis with its peculiar magnetic force, and they lnust sit Idly by and twait its pa16Ins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15

mission and. complying with the law
 which requires at least an annual visit to each county, the commission went to Birmingham this week and made a quiet Investigation of all plants en- gagged in furnishing service to the
 public.
 SHORT HALLS HIT We went through the office of the Birmingham Railway. Light and part of the system. Tn the office is was found that the decrease Tn revenue could not be attributes to genearl business conditions
 because many of the lines, the long haul ones, showed substantial inl- creases in revenue, while the snort
 hau. ones showed the decreases. For instance, it was found there had been good increase on the East Lake,
 Tidewater and Ensley lines, while there had been decrease in the reve-
 nue of the West End, Highlands ana Irop lines The net result IS that the receiver is no wobtaining about sL,00O day less than it had been expected l the increased fare would give. AThe public service commlssion fs reouired by law to give public I utfIity such rates as will permit reasonable return on its invcst- ment, The commission has no
 option. If it does its duty and complies with the law, 1t must make such investigation m will show whether or not this fair re- | turn is being made.
 "Section 24 of the public utility act of 1920 reads as follows: Every utility shall be entitled to such just and req
 sonable rates as will enable 1t at all
 times to fully perform its duties to the public and will, under honest. eff lcient and ecopomical management, earn a fair net return on the reason able value of it's property devoted to the public service. Tn any determines | tior of the commission as to what constitutes such fair return. the
 commission shall give due considera-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
KILPATRICk'S BROTHER
 TO PLEAD PERSONALLY
 WITH SECRETARY HUGHES

Washington, May 14.-(SpeciaL) )-Rufus Fitzpatrick of Gulfport Miss. brother oi Capt. Enmet Fitzpatrick, imprisoned by the soviet government of Russia, and of Dr. G. c. Fitzpatrick of Mobile, has come to Washington to interview the Secre- tary of State
 Secretary Hughes will probably re- ceive him Monday. Mr Fitzpatrick does not criticise the Alabama delegation for the fact that his brother is still con fined in Russia unjustly, but he states that he came to see if personal appeal would not have the desired effect.
 The secretary has stated to- the delega- tion that all is being done for the relief of the prisoner that could be done with out recourse to warfare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
! DIES FROM WOUNDS
Cripple Dead From Shot Fired By
 Deputy Sheriff

Mobile. May IA Especial. -loan Nc Laurin, 60, cripple, gunsmith. died this afternoon at o'clock at the city pest house from gunshot wound in the abdomen that was inflicted by Deputy sheriff Walter Blackman on the after noon of February 1. last after Me Laurin had shot and mortaliy wounded Deputy sherin Earle E9nterline, who was attempting to arrest fhe crippled
 man for using profane la66uage follow ing the arrest of D. M. McLaurin, his som, on the charge of violating tlne pro- hibition law. McLaurin developed small- pox at the hospital. Easterlins's fela- tives reside in New Orleans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
GOMPERS SCORES "DRIvE"
 AGAINST UNION WORKERS
By As.ecInt.d pr..e

Cincinnati, May 14.-The drive being made against organized labor by em- pioyers' and business men's organiza- tions is most unfortunate, not alone as it refers to the working people but to the business interests Of tho coun- try, and the wholeheartedness of pa- triotic service," President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor declared today in . state federation's executiws council.
 "The policy of the drive now being made by the forces of erecd,'s said the labor leader, "is violative Of every thought and action of the people of the nation itself"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-05-15
SUBMITS ENTIRELY
 NEW TAXING BASIS
Would Divide All incomes Into Three Classes to Carry En-
 tire Revenue Burden
Rx Asaociated Press

Wilmington, May 14.-An entirely newY basis for levying naSional taxes, with exemptions on personal incomes substantially raised, was submitted to the Senate finance committee today by C. B. Clark of Detroit, who said he spoke for the National Retail Dry Goods association. the National Asso- citation of Retail Clothiers, the Ma tionaI Retail Shoe Dealers association and the National Garment Retailers association.
 Concretely, the plan would divide all incomes into three classes, and they, with the aid of . sales tax, would carry practically the entire revenue burdens. MT. Clark proposed raising from the present $I.oo6 for single per sens to s2s5o0. and from $2.0oo for married persons to $5,o00. with an additional $500 exemption for each child or dependent instead of the lapresent $200. The witness also would flower the higher rates on income sur- taxes.
 MT. Clark's plan divides Ill incomes, roughly. as follows:
 E'irst. income from salaries and K wages; second. income from all busi- ness. individual. partnership or cor Rtt q 4S40A1y 8HN SHAxu, Ai4 oLttSk2 t4&>0tuc e which would be "unearned" and taxed higher. On salaries and wages, the tax proposed Is a normal rate of per cent on the first s4000 above exemp- tion and 3 per cent on the remainder. The second class would be taxed 10 per ce1t. with an exemption of $5,000. A normal tax of 10 per cent is pro- posed for the third division. with sur texes ranging from per cent on in- connes between $20,O00 and $5O,OoO up to per cent on incomes of $b0o,ooO or more.
 Adoption of the programme. MT. Clark satd. would permit repeal of ex- cesa profits and excise tax. many lux ury taxes and the tax on transporta- tion. Repeal Of the latter tax, he said, @Suld bs reflected notieeabl in retail
 Tn using the sales tax and the new baels for assessing Income taxes. Mir. Clark cqntended the government would be collecting reyents on "a practical parity q tho proceeds Of | profit