Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-05-30

/ He was just 23 years old, the youngest pilot
in the Chicago-CleVeland service.
More than 400 women registered in At
lanta Monday in order to qualify to vote
in the next city primary, the city executive
committee at a recent meeting having decided
to grant primary suffrage to the women of
the city. Each paid her poll tax of 81, and
complied with the law requiring the stating
of her age. Many of Atlantas most promi-
nent women were among those registering.
Several thousand more expected to regis
| ter before the books close,
japanese newspapers are declaring that the
real reason why Ambassador Ishii, Japan1s
| representative to the United States, returned
| to Toxic is because he was displeased at not
! being made a delegate to the peace confer
| enee. Ishii was urged for a place on the peace
delegation, too, by Uchida, foreign minister,
| but Premier Hara would not appoint him be-
cause Ishii was foreign minister to the Okuma
| ministry and Hara catered to the Satsuma
men. Just bit of Japanese politics! He
was persuaded to stay in America for the pur-
pose of comforting with Wilson on the race
question, but failed in this because Wilson
returned too quickly to Paris. Then Ishii
! went home, too.
If the electorate of Ohio refuess to ratify
the national prohibition amendment at it's
general election next November the opera
| tien of the amendment will be suspended
Throughout the United States at least until
the Maine election, in 'eptember, 1920, ac-
| cording to the Statement of Theodore A. :
Bell, of San Francisco, attorney for the Cali
fornia Grape Protective association.
| The referendum to place the measure on.
1 the ballot has been started in ten states"
| Mr.. Bell said. "Forty-five states ratified the
amendment through their legislatures and
| three declined to do That means that
the measure is held UP in ten states by the
referendum, leaving but thirty-fve where
! final ratification has been effected, whereas
thifty-six are necessary to make it opera
| tive eff Ohio, which will be the first state
to vote on the referendum, ratifies it, the
necessary thirty-six will have been gained
But if it does not, the amendment will be
suspended.
The Victor Chapman prize, founded in
| memory of the son of John Jay Chapman,
who was one of the first Americans to fight
for France, by enlisting in the foreign Lee
| gion and who later was killed when mem
| Der of the Lafayette Escadrille, has been
awarded this year to Bernard Fay, who is
| preparing thesis "The Intellectual Re-
lations Between France and the United
! States" M. Fay will study at Harvard
! during the year 1919-1920.
England's labor crisis passed-for the
present, at least-with the adoption by the
industrial congress, of the joint commit
| tees report recommending eight-hour
| working day, minimum wage and per-
| manent industrial council to settle wage
disputes This, according to views in we'll
| informed labor circles, is the significance
of what took place under cloud of tobacco
smoke in the famous Central hall, West
minister, few hundred yards from the
house of parliament. In the conference sat
| nearly 500 delegates representing practi-
cally all the large employing interests of
| Great Britain and about seven million work.
ers.
| While the labor situation may be far from
| being completely adjusted it is generally ac-
cepted that immediate danger of national
| upheaVal, which seemed near the last few
weeks, has been removed. s-1,.
| Labor, by arbitration, has won as much
and in many instances more than it could J
have hoped to win by nationwide strike
a strike which cautious thinkers admitted
might provide an opportunity for Bolshevism.
Weighing and measuring tests of children
| were held in 1851 communities during the
| children's year campaign instituted by the
| United States children's bureau to reduce the
infant mortality rate. To this total should be
added many records coming from rural Sec
lions not listed as postofices' One-third of
the total communities having postofices in
the United States held tests.
Nine million dollars to complete the fund
| for the $10,000,0O0 Victory Memorial build
| ing at Washington will be sought in a ma
| tional canvass, which will begin June % and
continue week. President Wilson has
| heartily Endorsed the project, which calls for
an important structure, designed to be the
| most beautiful in the world. Congress has
| provided site and officials of the George
| Washington Memorial association are organ
| izing the machinery for the canvass.
| After five round trips across the Atlantic
| the hospital ship Mercy has brought home the
| last of the sick and wounded men of the
| American army in France with the exception
| of about 100 stretcher cases, and these will
| return general transports. The Mercy
| lost only five by death in all her trips.
Orders issued ten days ago relieving the
| Fourth and Fifth American divisions from
| been suspended because of the present I'M
| certain conditions in the peace situation. The
| suspension orders reached Coblenz on Tues
| day, but were not made public at once.
| Marked activity among the Third armys five
| divisions continues.
Airplanes are being used in transport
| ing official papers from Paris to the army of
| occupation in Germany. On the first trip Of 4
| this kind last week. the airplanes made the
| trip in less than five hours and with only one
| relay.
| Switzerland is concluding with Germany a.
| new commercial convention by which she will
| obtain German coal in exchange for Swiss
| cattle and produce. At the same time nego-
/ tiations have begun by Swiss concern to
purchase German colliery near Bochum.
4 The commander-in-chief of the Afghan