Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-03-25

many" he says "They make the edicts and
Chancellor Scheidemann and his colleagues
willingly sign them"
Decision of the war department to proceed
with the purchase Of the sites of fifteen army
camps and thirteen balloon and flying fields
over the country is announced by Acting
Secretary CroWell. Less than @15,GG0.00n
will be involved Mr.. Croweu said, ala Il will
not be necessary to await action by con-
gress, as the department now has the nee
essary funds. With these purchases COM
pleted the army will have thirty training
camps, includir 6 the original 16 environments
constructed for the training of the national
army, and 1 8 aviation centers, most of which
will be in the southeastern states, Texas and
California. The few fields to be retained in
the north will be regarded as summer flying
centers only. TWenty-seven camps and ff-
teen aviation fields will be abandoned, Or
ders already have gone out for the abandon
ment Of twenty of the camps, including near
ly all of the national guards training
tiers set up after the United States declared
On Germany. Construction work on the
27 camps, according war department fig
ures, represents a cost of approximately
$110, 900, 900, of which S43,0OO,O00 was
spent on the four embarkation environments
Mills, New York. and Merritt, New Jersey,
and Stuart and Hill, Newport News.
Mayor Frederick T. Woodman of Los An
bride for the protection of vice. George
Brown and George Henderson were indicted
on charge of giving a bride in connection
with the same Transaction.
The situation in Egypt is becoming worse
and at the present time is distinctly grave,
Reuter- dspdtcl from Cairo says. General AL
lenby, the commander il Palestine, will reach
Cairo Tuesday. The large forces of troops at
ready in Egypt are being reinforced. large
80 po1 r11i, hove 10
heira provi1 ce, lower Egypt, from the west
and are robbing towns and villages. The
situation is not regarded as presenting any
military danger.
Joseph E. Rutherford, president of the In
ternational Bible Students association
which was founded by the late Pastor Rus
sell, and seven other members of the asso-
citation who were convicted recently in the
federal court in Brooklyn, on a charge of
violating the espionage act were ordered re-
leased by the United States circuit court of
appeals in $40 900 bail each last week pend
ing the hearing of 4 writ of error
'"The first result to be obtained is peace
and the quickest peace possible said David
Lloyd-George the British premier, in state
ment printed in Paris last week. Cali in
ternal events in every country, allied or en-
envy" continued the premier "are dependent
upon that peace, which. we expect and desire
to come at the earliest possible moment
Pending this, every one is living in a state
of expectation and uncertainty, Commerce
and industry are kept in kind of staguation
which can only engender disorders shall,
then remain in Paris, unless something I'M
expected arises, until the text ofathe peace
preiminaries is definitely drafted and ready
for submission to the German delegation, not,
let me say for discussion, but simply for
signature"
Our valued comic artist, Mr.. H. c. Fisher,
has taken to a new line of artistic expression
as our readers may have observed in his car
toon-ette-"The Bolsheviki' like all of
this distinguished cartoonist's work the
genesis of a remarkable human vice is re-
fiected in this series Cf comic drawings. tits
really amazing to what petty ends violence
may be directed Gun-toting in the South is
a subject that has commanded the attention
of nearly half hundred newspaper editors
during the past fortnight their attention