Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-22
CURRENT EVENTS
become commanders in the legion, according
to dispatches from Paris.

to dispatches from Paris.
To prove the financial solvency of Germany
and to offset her growing propaganda to
prove she cannot pay the price of war because
she is ruined nation, the French newspapers
have presented clear proof of her ability to
pay by quoting reports OF 15r solveDcy from
German sources. One paper, lie Gaulois,''
reminds the public that Germany is a rich
nation, as follows:
cit is true that the war was a burden to
Germany. But nation that couples second
place in the rank Of nationa! wea!th-the
United States holding first place--can not be
admitted to bankruptcy to escape the finan-
cial obligations that she has so madly and
so criminally incurred Moreover, Germany
is the further away from bankruptcy because
of the fact that during the four bloody years
of the wars continuance she had recourse
only to internal loans, and as the blockade
prevented her from making the purchases
outside her own territories, as the Allies did,
the greater part of her fortune and of her
revenues remains within her borders
Mrs Leonard Wood, wife of Major General
Wood, has been chosen to head the Women's
Roosevelt Memorial association which has
started campaign to raise funds for the pur-
chase of the house where the late Colonel
Roosevelt was born. The house will be re-
stored and the interior reproduced in the
olden way, and will be used as a meeting
place for classes in patriotic education for
foreigners.
The first contingent of General Haller's
Polish troops has started across Germany.
They were accompanied by officers detailed
from the United States army the French,
British and Italian officers, who will see that
a proper relationship is maintained between
the troops and the Germans.
Premier LlOVd George achieved a new viz
tory for himself in his recent address before
the British house of commons in wh:cE aa
defended his action as Britains delegate to
the peace conference, but it is believed in
British political circles that the premier
who, in the course of his address, launched
brutally frank, sometimes ironical and alto
gether severe attack against his old friend
and adviser Lord Northciffe, now faces
bitter fight for his policies with Northcliffe
arrayer against him with all his great power
The campaign recently started in New
York City to break up illicit traffic in drugs,
which, through the connvance of physicians
and drug clerks had grown to an amazing de-
gree, has resulted in the establishment of
municipal clinic for drug addcts. Daily long
lines of victims of the drug habit assemble
at the doors of the clinic and the doctor APP
portions out to ach one the smallest amount
of the drug possible, the plan being to reduce
the doses gradually and If possible aid in
wiping out the habit.
The state of Nebraska has recently re-
pealed the anti-cigarette law which has been
in force there for the past several years. The
news is particularly gratifying to the thou
sands of Nebraska men who are now return
ing from the army where the cigarette has
been recognized institution
President Wilson will remain in Paris only
for the opening meeting Of the peace confer
ence at Versailles on April 25, according to, I
Partisan newspapers; and will sail for the
United States on April 27 or 2S. After hif 4
departure Colonel House will act for him.
Viscount Ishii, the Japanese ambassador tc
the United States, will leave this country for
Toxic early in May. The Japanese embassy
states that Viscount Ishii is returning to
Japan only for conference with his govern
ment and that recent international develop
ments have nothing to do with the trip.
Brigadier General w. P Richardson, the
new commander of the American forces in
North Russia, has reported the military situa-
ton satisfactory in his first official dispatch
since landing on the Murmansk coast. The
message, sent to General Pershing and relay
ed by him to the war department, was dated
April g about two weeks after the mu-
tinous conduct of Company /, Three Hundred
and Thirty-ninth infantry, which refused to
go to the front from Archangel.
Enrico Caruso, the worlds greatest tenor
singer, who opened the Metropolitan Grand
Opera season in Atlanta Monday, celebrates
this year the silver jubilee year of his career.
Just twenty-five years ago he decided not to
listen to his Italian teacher of singing, who
boldly told him that his voice would never
amount to anything. He continued his work
and is today the living proof of the old theory
that success is won only by overcoming obsta-
cles and much Encouragement.
committee has been appointed in New
York to find means of checking the opera
lions Of financial fakirs who are Iersuading
people to part with their Liberty bonds at
less than market value or in exchange for
worthless securities. The members of the
committee are representatives from the New
York State Chamber of Commerce. the Fed
eral Reserve bank, the Merchants Assoca-
ton, the American Bankers Association, the
Investment Bankers Association, the New
York Stock Exchange and other organizations.
According to a leading Chinese journal, the
opium industry, banshed from China for the
protection of the empire, has been transferred
to Japan, from which country the drug is sys-
tematically distributed into China, the Japan
csc postoffices in China being the main agen-
cies of distribution. In this way, the Chinese
paper says, tons of morphine are still being
imported into China and tens of millions of
yen are annually transferred from China into
Japan.
The great Krupp ordnance factories at Es-
sen, where over 900 men and women
were at work less than five months ago, are
absolutely deserted now The miles of great
factories, which were turning out gun
every As minutes and 1000 shells an hour,
are silent and desolate, and empty of human