Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-11
CURRENT EVENTS

The question. of mans efficiency after
fifty seems to be settled satisfactorily when
one considers the ages of the men of note IL
the present war General FOch is 67 years
old. Premier Clemenceau, the Tiger Of
France" is II. President Wilson, the dom
mating figure in world politics at the present
time, is So; and General Pershing, COM
mander of the American Expeditionary forces
in France, is SO. Edison, whose electrical
genius has been employed in behalf OF the
nation at war during the past two years,
is To-
The bill authorizing the city of Chatta-
nooga to condemn and use for street pur-
poses the heart of the Western and Atlantic
railroad terminals in that city, has been
withdrawn, according to telegram received
by Murphey c.. Gambler Of Atlanta. chairman
of the railroad commission of Georgia. White
ford r. Cole president of the Nashville, Chat
tanooga and st. Louis railroad, which leases
the Western and Atlantic, has given assur-
ance to the Chattanooga terminals will be ex-
tensively improved just as soon as the gov
eminent turns the railroads back to private
ownership.
The City of Atlanta on Tag Day this week
gave nearly ten thousand dollars to the Smell
tering Arms Nurseries of the city. This is
practically double the amount subscribed an
nually by the city for the maintenance OF the
nurseries which take care OF many or the
children of the city. The name Tag Day is
applied to the annual date devoted to secur-
ing funds for the nurseries because each per-
son who contributes is given a heart-shaped
tag to show that he has already been APP
preached and given to the fund.
A memorial tree to the soldier dead of the
United States department of agriculture has
| been planted by Secretary David F. Houston
| in the department grounds. The secretary
| was assisted by Colonel Henry S. Graves, chief
| of the forest service, who himself saw ser
| vice in France. Representatives Of the army
| and navy participated in the ceremony. The
| tree selected to common crate the sacrifice Of
| the fifteen employees CT the departmnt who
| died in service is white oak.
Frank w. Woolworth, the originator of the
| system of five and ten cents stores which
| brought millions to his pocket, died suddenly
| last Tuesday at his home Glencove, Long Is
| land. At the time of his death his annual
| profits were estimated at approximately eight
million dollars. Forty years ago he started
! his first five and ten cents store with CAPT
tai of just $50, going into debt to secure the
| stock needed for his tiny little business. Now
there are over 500 of his stores throughout
| the country and the talest building in the
| world the WoolWorth building in New York
| City, is part of the estate left by him.
He did not start toWards success and for
| tune until after he was twenty-one years OF
age, working until that time on his fathers
| farm at ROdman, Jefferson county, New York
In that time, however, he managed to secure
a meagre education at the district school and
| later attended business college.
Ten years ago this week the north pole
was discovered by Robert E. Pe2ry, the
| American explorer reaching it after others
| had failed through four centuries CT perilous
endeavor. Now another polar expedition is
to 11%T0OT To-
and sea; but, instead CT going by boat anG
! dog sled only, the adventures expect to sup
| plement their equipment with air planes IL
order to fly when they can no longer go OF
land or sea- The expedition now planned
| will be under the general direction of Com
mander Peary, the flight to the pole to bt
made by Captain Robert A. Bartlett.
A veterans association made up of the
fighters in the great world war has already
| been formed, and the call for the first con
vention of the members will be sent out soon
| The meeting will be held in St. Louis abou
| May 1, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roose
| welt being the chairman of the preliminary
| committee on arrangements. The Organiza
| ton will be known as the World War Veter
ans association and its purpose will be tt
aid men discharged from the service to re
adjust themselves to the ways of peace and
ultimately to form a nationwide patriotic
society.
The gambling craze has grpped Berlin
since the signing of the armstice, and. the
fact of revolution and disorder is emphasized
by the statement of the police that they can
not stop the gambling IN the streets or else
where Residents Of the city are playing
games of chance, even roulette, on the oper
streets and in parts of the city the tables are
placed edge to edge along the sidev alks. II
the clubs, where membership is a mere
formality of title inasmuch as cards of mem
bership pressed upon every passerby, the
betting is extravagantly high and even on the
streets the 'Eagers are heavy.
81 Rear Admiral William SnoWden Sims, who
commanded the American naval forces il
European waters, has returned to this coun
| try; and tells for the first time of how hi
went abroad secretly just before America de
clared war against Germany to confer will
the high officers of the British navy as to thu
manner in which the United could best CO
operate in the war against Germany. He anC
his aide, Conf ander ]. V. Babcock, doffet
their uniforms, put Oh civilian clothes; and
under assumed names, sailed from the por
of New York on the steamship New York or
March 81. They received the news of Ameri
cas- declaration of war on board ship through
the wireless news service. New York Cit!
gave the returning admiral great welcome
on his arrival there after two years of wal
service.
John Armstrong Chaloner great grandson
of John Jacob Aston with an estate value a
million and half dollars, is now in New
York, his native city, after an absence of q
years during which time he has been an exile
from New York state to escape incarceration
in the Bloomingdale asylum for the insane tt
which he was committed in 1897 on the ap
plication of his brother. He returned to ap
! pear in cc.:=t as piaintih in a libel sui