Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-11

Quebec and Eastern Canada felt their first
touch of real winter last week when they were
visited by heavy snow and sleet storm. The
telegraph system between Montreal and the
maritime provinces was badly crippled. The
trunk telephone line connecting Montreal
with Sherbroke and the eastern townships
snapped.
Red Cross bandage maker and basketball
| champion has been added to the personnel OF
| the New York state legislature in Marguerite
L. Smith, who was elected to the assembly on
! the Republican ticket from the Nineteenth as
| sembly district. She is twenty-five years old.
! She ran on her war record and on promise
of legislation for remedying the housing con-
| gestion and rent scandals of Harlem. Sol
diers who danced in the War Camp Commu-
nifty headquarters which she established in
| Mount Morris church, Girls Scouts who assist
| ed her in the allied war drive and women
who helped her roll bandages at Red Cross
Auxiliary 81, OF which she was chairman. all
got out and worked for her
| King George gave his view of the former
| German emperor in the course of an audi
enCe with a missionary from Armenia, Ar
chibald Forder.
When the missionary told the story of his
captivity of four years, saying that the trou-
bles had all been instigated by the Germans,
the king replied:
We'll, they are finished now. The kaiser
|
He is we'll punished for all he did,
The Mexican government, according to Mex
leo City newspapers, has refused to refund
to William o. Jenkins, American consular
agent at Puebla, the $150,000 ransom money
which Jenkins attorney was forced to pay
Mexican bandits to obtain his release.
The American Embassy in Mexico City had
advised the state department of these pub
lications, but officials declined to say if they
| ha from
| CarranZa government on the subject 1t has
been understood that Mexico was asked to
reimburse Mr.. Jenkins
Winfred T. Denison, prosecutor for the gov
eminent of the sugar trust frauds of 1909,
! later assistant United States attorney general,
former secretary of the interior for the Phil
| ippines and at one time chairman OF the New
| York executive committe of one hundred.
! committed suicide last week by leaping in
| front of a Seventh avenue subway train at
the Thirty-fourth street station in New York.
| After pacing the platform nervously for some
| time, he suddenly wrapped his overcoat ABOUT
his head and jumped in front of the swift
moving train The two front wheels passed
over him, and he was dead when bystanders
were finally able to extricate his body from
under the trucks, where it was jammed hard
Friends could give no reason for his act otner
than i'll health
| Following hard upon similar announce
ments from Idaho, California, Nevada, COLO
RADIO. Governor Lynn j. Frazier has just set
November 25 as the date for North Dakota
special session to ratify the federal suffrage
amendment This makes the sixth state TO
set a November date for it's special session
| and insures that there will be more raIlncd-
lions in November than in any other one
| month except june since the senate passed
| tba amapdmant In June nine states ratified. o
| fonr in July, one in August, three in Septem-
! Der.
Thirty representative American women, IN
Guiding two college presidents, prohiln ',n
| women physicians, social workers ana reig
| ions leaders, will leave the united
| States during November for tour OF
| the Orient The purpose of their journey rs
| to study every problem OF the mission hela
from the Standardization of women's univer-
stiles and the prevention or tuberculosis u
| the adaptation Of American hymns to Cnmese
| tom-toms and the putting OF healthy con-
! temporary American novels in the Japanese
| "best seller" class.
The deputation, prominent among whose
| members are President M. Carey Thomas OF
| Brvn Mawr college, and President Ellen f.
! Pendleton, of Wellesley college, was organ.
lied by the Federated Women's Council OF
| foreign missionary societies. Its hndlngs Will
| he used by the Interchurch World Movement
| of North America in the formulation Oh us
| world program. The deputation is the nrst
| interdenominational body OF women to go
abroad for the investigation of missionary
problems. After reaching Japan the deputa-
| ton will divide itself into several commits
| sions to make first hand study Of the multi
tude of subjects to be covered.
| By unanimous vote the Senate Judiciary
committee has declined to recommend repeal
! of the Espionage act Repeal bills OF Sena-
tors France, of Maryland, and Poindexter, of
Washington, Republicans, were ordered re-
ported adversely.
i The committee decided it was impracticable
| to repeal the law, because it included search
| warrant and other provisions necessary for
| the enforcement OF prohibition.
BY Thomas B. Gregory