Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-25

American army in Atlanta this week to
deliver an address in behalf of the Liberty
Loan, he told of the new super gas which |
American chemists had perfected and which
would have soon been Used upon the Germans
had the armistice not been signed just when
it was. General Sibert said that the new gas,
which is called methyl, would have brought
the German armies to complete disaster as it
is the most deadly gas that has been develop
ed since the war began.
Miss Margaret Carnegie, only daughter of
the multi-millionaire, Andrew Carnegie, was
married Tuesday to Ensign Roswell Miller of
the naval reserve, the wedding being one OF
the quietest ever celebrated in the family of
an American millionaire.
The huge ship Leviathan, which left Brest
on April 8 with about 7, 900 men of the Rain
bow division is expected in New York harbor
on Friday the 25th. The Siboney, which is
due at New York on the twenty-seventh of
this month has on board headquarters men
of the One Hundred and Sixth Field signal
battalion which is made up of Georgia,
Florida and Alabama troops. They will come
| to Camp Gordon.
Britain has adopted the American method
of dealing with alien Bolshevist agitators The
| first batch of about a hundred is being de-
! ported to Odessa. ii there is any threat of
hostility toward the landing ships the boats
will be sent in under guard of guns of the
British fleet. The agitators will be turned
loose on the beach. France continues her
policy of quietly arresting revolutionary agi-
tators.
Workmens, Fisherman's and Soldiers
councils being formed in Denmark and
are agitating for general strike in favor of
radical governmental changes Communistic
government is being widely preached and
working agreements of labor organizations
IIryith NJ hahn oil to lone
Sir William Orpen, who has painted Foch
and Haig and other military heroes and
members of the peace conference, will paint
the scene when the Germans sign the peace
treaty.
That worldwide child welfare campaign
be given first place in the international peace
program of the Red Cross is the recommended
ton of the group of eminent children's
specialists who are in France attending the
Cannes conference at which the groundwork
for extending Red Cross activities through
the world must be laid
Regardless of racial or national Jealous
les and prejudceS, the sympathies of all peO-
pies are International concerning children"
declared Dr. William P. Lucas, of the Univer-
sity of California in expressing the sentiment
of the conference. Dr. L. Emmett Holt of
New York, presented a report from the sec
ton on child welfare that they desire equality
Of opportunity for every child of every coun
try and of whatever social condition.
|. Premier Clemenceau, too, will write a
book after the peace conference is over. LAS
soon as the peace problems have been solv-
ed" he said recently, "and l have finished
my task, l shall take rest that, after fifty
years of politics, I think I have we'll earned
And, in my retirement, 1 shall write a book
which perhaps one will read but which
I, at all events, shall be glad to have writ
ten" 1t has been stated by those close to
Premier Clemenceau that it was his earneCt
desire to finish his present task and retire
The guilds of Venice have presented to the
city of New York Golfer of iron silver and
enamel containing the banner of st. Mark:
The casket represents the highest skill of
Venetian artfcers, noted the world over The
gift was brought to New York by Angelo
Menocci and Ilario Neri, delegates of the AS
ISOLATION of Venetian Industries The Golfer
is accompanied by a letter from Filippi Grim
AMI mayor of Venice, to John F. Hylan, mayor
of New York
petition asking for the punishment of
the Germans responsible for the deportation
of women from Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing
in the spring of 1916, will be handed in to
the peace conference soon. 1t is signed by
$1,000 women including Nine. CASTOR Cal
mette and Mrs. Anna Roosevelt.
years old, of Chicago, philanthropist and
president of the Worlds Columbia exposi-
ton of 1898, died at Army Base Hospital No
5, in New York, few days ago, after being
run over by an army ambulance while cross
ing Madison avenue at Forty-seventh street
When the accident occurred Mr.. Higginbo-
than was on his way from the RitZ-Carlton
hotel, where he was staying, to the headquar-
ters of the Illinois Soldiers Relief association
at No. 107 East Thirty-fourth street, to greet
od sra
Upon recommendation of Herbert Hoover,
President Wilson has named Julius H.
Barnes, president of the Federal Grain cor
poration, as wheat director for the United
States. This position is created now for the
first time. Mr.. Barnes will direct the ham
ding of the whole Of the enormous 1919
wheat crop, and will administer the billion
dollar fund appropriated by congress to take
care of the crop under the government guar
anteed price.
Army airplanes and captive balloons will
cover portions of the national forests of Cali
fornia Arizona, New Mexico, and other states
this summer, to aid in detecting and sup
pressing forest fires. In compliance with an
order from Secretary Baker directing the air
service to cooperate with the forest service
of the United States department of agricul-
ture in this work. conferences are under way
to determine where and to what extent the
air scouts will supplement the forest rangers,
American dairy cattle are to follow Amer |
can soldiers to France. One hundred and
four Holstein- Friesian cows-42 pure breds
to leave this country shortly on a specially
equipped transport. Passports" have been