Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-10-31

One of the Philippine Islands would be
made anarchists penal colony, to which
persons convicted of attempting to overthrow
the government would be deported, under
bill introduced by Senator Mcclellan, Demo-
crat of Tennessee, a member of the Senate
committee investigating the steel strike. Sen
ator Mcclellan introduced another bill prOvid-
ing for the deportation of aliens within five
years unless they become naturalized.
Should the coal miners win their point it
would mean, according to the most cOnserVa-
tive estimates of both Federal investigators
and of the mine operators, an extra annual
tax upon industrial and domestic America of
more than one billion dollars.
"a separate department of aeronautics is
tactical necessity. Marshal Foch, Field Mar
shall Haig and General Ludendorff agree that
before the mobilization of armies can be eff
fected in the next a great conflict will
occur in the air 1t is only the nation that
can clear the air of enemy forces that will be
able to launch campaign with it's land and
naval forces.''
Such was the keynote of the testimony of
Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell
before the Senate Committee on Military At
fairs, which is to report Senator News bill
Tor the establishment of a separate depart
ment of aerOnautics.
Senator Miles Poindexter, of Washington,
has announced his candidacy for the Repub-
lican nomination for the Presidency in 1920.
The first woman to sit in the English par
lament in all probability, will be the Amer1-
can-bOrn Viscountess Aston, who has accept
ed the invitation of the Plymouth Unionists
to become a candidate for the house of COM
mons for the seat in Plymouth vacated by
the elevation of her husband to the house
of lords. AS Plymouth is known to be safe
Unionist seat the prospects are excellent for
the election of the Viscountess, who has &C
copied the invitation to stand.
The Svenska Dagbladt which is published
in Stockholm, Sweden, says that it has learned
from what it considers unusually we'll in
formed source that the Archduke Joseph of
Austria will be elected King of Hun
gary. His popularity and authority the pa
per states, are growing steadily with the pop
ulatiOn, and his cOnsOrt Princess Augustine
of Bavaria, also enjoys great popularity as
the result of her self-sacrificing work for the
Red Gross during the war, and the subse-
quent period of unrest. If the Entente OBJ
jects to the assumption of the throne by this
Hapsburg Archduke, the thousand year old
crown of Hungary will be offered, it is stated,
to a foreign Prince, probably of the English
royal family. resumption of the throne
by the late Emperor Charles is considered out
of the question.
The gravity of the financial condition Of
| the German nation has been frankly admitted
| by the German government in public ses-
| sion of the National Council. Government
representatives stated that the national debt
was already 172 0O0,000,000 marks and that
| it would rise to 100000, 100000 marks by
| April 1, 1920, after all credits under the bud
get had been realized upon. Germany's pre-
war debt amounted to 5,000,00O,0OO marks.
A government representative declared that 1t
! would cost Germany as much to wind up the
war as it did to conduct the four years hos
| tilities.
The Congress of Spanish Employers, sitting
at Barcelona, Spain, has declared a general
lockout of workmen throughout Spain. The
lockout order will be effective Tuesday, No
vember 4. The Minister of the Interior
in announcing the decision of the Congress
of Employers said it was an act of provoca-
ton against the workers and expressed the
hope that the employers would cooperate
with the government in establishing industrial
peace and not carry out the measure.
"At moment when the workers are ask
| ing nothing" he added, ''the action of the
employers is foolish