The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-01-29
IMMIGRANT
TROUBLES
Hundreds Who Try to Come to
America Are Rejected by Ship
Physicians

! bI 'HlcI, IldnDulS ana DanZlg to seek
: new homes in America are rejected
before they can embark for what to
/ them Is the and OF plenty ana prom
/ lse. Tragic scenes are numerous
when the ships physicians announce
! ne list Of those barred because of
| signs Of disease or disability which
/ would prevent their adm lssion 10 The
United States.
One hundred home seekers wcro
rejected out Of 600 who attempted TO
leave Bremen on one steamer recent
-. All these unfortunates were not
detective but chc rejection Of one
m"mhcr o: :, family in many eases.
prevented thr entire group from sail
ing FOR America.
The most pitiful OF the tragedies
occur in the breaking up of family
groups when some children old
enough to travel alone are allowed TO
proceed TO America, while others are
detained. Weeping mothers among
the hundred rejected the other dav
,ricd 10 kiss the hands of the phy-
SlclunS in an effort to get them to
alter their diagnoses while scared
groups of bunde]-ladcn emigrants
A.ood by in terror lest some techni
cality might also keep them off the
steamer train for Brcmorhaven.
One Polish woman, the widow OF
IN army surgeon and her 16-ycar-
Cd son had been rejected at Danzig
when tho steamer had touched there
because the boy had conjunctivitis
The woman came with her son hv
Gain 10 Bremen and pleaded for an
other examination here. but the ply
Sic'ana adhered to their original diag-
no@iS and the woman was compcllCd
TO remain with her SON. In several
cases onn child in q family Of five or
2iN showed traces Of trachoma or con-
lrnctiyi s. This was sufcien, to halt
a." WhD.. lamlly or 20 b.eak un III.
family group. Some OF the members
Of which might go to America while
others could not.
Typhus. trachoma and favus, an af-
foction of the scalp, are the three
diseases FOR which ships physicians
seek above all others in examining
"migrants from Poland and other
war areas destined for The United
States. The United States emigra-
ion officials are slow to admit per-
sons whose eyes are not normal
and tor"1 the steamship line 10 carry
,hcm back 10 thor port Of cmbaril-
alton. itcsdcs fuc o. $500 NAV. be
imposed upon the steamship com
panies for carrying such persons to
American por's.
Corscl uently, az, g,nts of the steam
~Hp 'in, taxi few chances in these
days wien there are hundreds Of
crnigrants clamoring for every steer
age passage available from Danzig,
Eremen and Hamburg to the United
States.
Czcchoalovakia, Jugoslavia and Po-
land arc pouring streams Of prOspec-
tive emiGrants into these ports and
ihe steamer lines are forced to exert
every effort to check them from con-
greeatin8 at Hamburg and Bremen in
larger numbers than can be accom-
mOdatcd. Model, sanitary quarters
are ava able in these two ports for
em!grants but the conditions are far
iesS 50 satisfactory in D1nzig whore
many complaints are made concern
iHg the ,migrant quarters and charaes
vermin
The refugees who flock into Dan
zig are generally in n wre .chcd state
when hey arrive from the deva8tat-
ed parts of Poland and The Baltic
states. Their accommodations there
are OH and unsanitary. Poll .ical
crosS-cIrrcnts and divided authority
Keeping chipping i'm panzig in con
slant STATE of uncertainty. with the
result that emigrants can not get
proper attention.
Stecragc passage from German
ports TO America this winter have
been cHactly three times The rate
charged before the war, or the equi-
valent Of $110 while second-class
passage has cost $22O.
In spite Of the increased expense
Of transatlantic traVcl, every steam
rr leaving for America has every
hi"th taken ana reservations are book
I'd Cor WOnths in advance. 1t is eX-
pectcd here that this situation may
be relieved by the gradually increas-
ing number of ships entering the
German American service and pos
sibly, bE immigration legislation now
pending in the United States con-
grcSs.
Paris, Jan. 27.-Pachclors of Par
is are TO be taxed to pay bonuses to
babies. The general council of the
Seine has decided that mothers giving
| birth 60 Il third child shall receive $50
! francs. 400 francs for the fourth
child and $50 for all children be
! y0nd t." fourth.
This system will apply to illcgiti-
mate as Wcll aS 10 legitimate chill
lGr,u.
OWING 10 the interruption in tclc-