Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-18
CURRENT EVENTS

For the first time within five years, owing
to the war. the International Council OF Wom-
en- will meet next month in Berne SWltzer-
land and a number OF prominent American
women have already sailed to take part in
the proceedings of the council The meeting
will be held May 5-12, and delegates are ex-
| pected from all the leading nations or the
| world. 1t is even probable that Germany,
| Austria and Russia will be represented, and
! various problems affecting these nations Will
be discussed. The American delegates who
are on their way to the meeting are Jane
Adams, OF Hull House, Chicago; Jeanette
| Rankin, former congresswoman from Mon
| tana; Mrs Louis F. Post, wife of the assist
ant secretary of labor of the United States;
DR.. Alice Hamilton, of Chicago, recently ap-
pointed as a member of Harvard faculty, the
| first woman to hold such position; Mrs. Ed
win Meade and Miss Emily Walsh, of Boston;
Mrs. Florence Kelly, of the National Con-
sumers league Miss Emily Bach and Miss
Julia Lathrop, of the U. S. Children's bureau;
and Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, of Washing
| ton.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is being mention
ed as probable candidate for the vice presi-
dency of the United States OF the Republican
ticket, but recently, in response to request
| of Seattle parents of soldiers and sailors that
he become a candidate he answered that,
while deeply appreciative Of the honor i'm
piled, he wished to request that no organiza-
ton be formed to advocate his candidacy for
| vice president.
In discussing criticism of the recently
ganized League of Women Voters which was
formed at the jubilee convention of the Ma
| tional Suffrage Association in st. Louis few
weeks ago. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, of New
| York, said that the lewly-formed league is
not a political party based on sex and that
| 1t has no intention of placing candidates in
the field. The purpose of the league, she con-
tinues, is not to dabble in party conventions
| but to use it's power in ballot contests for all
| elective positions.
Approximately 100 ships are now crossing
and recrossing the Atlantic in the great task
of bringing back lone the American SOL
diers in France; and, ir order to expedite the
movement of overseas troops as much as pos
sible additional ships are being fitted out
for this service. The plan is to increase the
| homeward movement of men to 900, 900 and
| more each month; and, at this rate, the last
of the expeditionary forces may be out of
| Europe by the end of the summer. To some
| extent these plans are contingent upon the
| happenings IT the peace conference, of course.
In this connection it is interesting to note
| that OF the ships noWs in the transport serv-
| ice more than 100 are vessels Communicated
| or built during the war;
Carter Glass, secretary of the treasury who
Is touring the country IL the interest of the
|
| lanta on May l, and plans are urdel way for
welcome and greeting from states in all of
| the Sixth district. The governors Of each
| state, members of congress, bankers repre-
! -entat1ves, newspaper editors and other men
prominent in the states of the district will go
Atlanta to hear him.
The war gardeners lave been put into q
! book by Charles Lathrop Pack, President Of
| the National War Garden commission, who
| written Toto y
record of the Win-the-War activity Of the
cit! farmer The book is for Libraries and
private circulation and is not for sale.
That the American farmer is beginning to
share with the hired man the increased pros
perity that came to him last year, is indicated
b ythe statement from the department OF
agriculture that farm wages this year will
jump beyond the billion-dollar mark. In the
| days before the war the hired hand earned
approximately only half of this amount.
Compared with the wages of five years ago,
| those of last year show an increase OF II
per cent. The increased pay Of this year will
go to the hands on six million seven hundred
and seventeen thousand farms, the number
of farms in the United States, according to
the agricultural department figures.
In order to attract more men from the
| South and West, Princeton university has in
stituted a sweeping series of academic re-
| forms in it's curriculum and entrance require
ments. The academic department hereafter
| will grant but two degrees, Bachelor or Arts
and Bachelor of Science, the John G. Green
School of Science to continue to- award the
degree of Civil Engineer. The reconstruct
ton plan will wipe out high and archaic clas-
steal requirements leading to the A. B. de-
gree, these being blamed for the dearth Of
Southern and Western students.
Attorney General Palmer has accepted an
| address Joint ms n
the Georgia Bar association and the South
| Carolina Bar association at Tybee Island,
near Savannah on May 81.
Credit for firing the first shot in the war
| between Germany and the United States has
been given to the freight steamer Mongolia,
of the American line, which, on April 10,
| 1917, encountered and sunk a German sub
marine off the British coast.
Sir Robert Borden, Sir George Foster, C.
J. Doherty and Arthur Sifton have been
| chosen as Canadas plenipotentiaries to sign
| the peace treaty King George of England
| who will sign as the chief representative of
the United Kingdom and Ireland the over
seas dominioins and India, will be request
| ed to issue commissions to the four Cana
| dians at an early date.
Six hundred Shorthorn cattle of the very
| best breed have been presenteds by the Roy
| al Agricultural society, of Great Britain, to
| the people of Belgium, and three hundred
| of them have already reached farms in the
vicinity of Bruges The remainder will fol-
low in a few weeks. The cattle, which are
valued at 100000, will be followed by 9TH
ers, after which cattle will be sent to Ser
bia and France.