Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-04-15

Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer mas
ordered the release Of 1900 enemy aliens
detained in New York during the war. These
do not include German and Austrian sub
jects in internment camps, but are for the
most part person who failed to register as
enemy alien or who violated minor regula-
tions.
The renting problem has become so acute
in New York City that the state legislature,
now in session at Albany, is preparing to pass
a law to prevent profteering. Indeed, the
situation is so acute that many families taGs
the prospect of being houseless. Not only are
they paying, in many instances, one-haEf or
their total incomes for roofs over their heads,
but there actually no apartments to be
had. There are three families to every two
apartments in Greater New York, and the
population is increasing by 10000 annually
With building operations at a standstill, the
lanords are having it all their own way, and
even the pending legislation is not preventing
their auctioning off their apartments to the
highest bidder at exorbitant amounts.
Kotaro Mochizuki, member of the jap
anese parliament, stated recently while in
Seattle, Washington, that J. P Morgan and
other American fnanciers have promised to
join Japanese capitalists in the organization
of new steamship corporation, the venture
to require investment of probably $780,
600 900 of Acknowledgements money. Steam
Acknowledgements line, will operate over all
lanes of ocean traffic.
The Farmers National council has asked
the Federal Trade commission to make public
it's war cost production figures Of 10000 COM
panies, to show the fair increased prices due
to the war. The council says that it will
reassure the public that no prohteering will
be permitted if the trade commissions find
ings are made public. The commission has
IN
the ground that costs are somewhat lower
now and that publication of the higher fg-
ures would tend to keep prices up, 1t is
claimed.
Eugene V. Debs, Socialist leader sentenced
to ten years for violation Of the espionage
act, has agreed to go to prison without fur
their effort to delay the carrying out OF his
sentence. He has been taken to the Mounds
Vile, W. Va federal prison.
| The body of Edith Cavell, the English
nurse executed by the Germans in Brussels
| in 1915, will be removed to England and the
Refinement of the body in English soil
| will be made the occasion of great public
| ceremonial. r.-
| The possibility of feeding Russia on condi-
| ton of the cessation of hostilit1es in that
country will be considered by an international
neutral commission which Herbert Hoover
mas appointed, aCCOFuluS W dispatches lAuAl
| Copenhagen, which say that DR.. FrltdtJof
Nansen, head of the Norwegian food mission
in the United States, has been asked to head
the international investigating commission.
The cost of carrying out such program is
estimated at $50,000,000 per month.
| The body of Representative William p
! Borland of Missouri, who died Of pneumonia
! on February 2, near Coblenz, Germany, while
on a tour Of investigation into military al
| fairs, has reached the United States, the
cargo ship, the Eastern Light, bringing 1t
| over 1t was met at Hoboken and the cofhn,
enshrouded in the Stars and Stripes, was
taken to Kansas City, Representative Bor-
lands home, military escort accompanying
the casket. -a.. .s
"Wet' partisans in the state OF Michigan
are demanding a recount of votes cast in the
! recent election in which Michigan went dry,
according to unofficial figures. Antl-prohlol-
/ tionists charge that wholesale fraudulent re-
ports have been made by the dry forces IN
number of instances" and declare that an
| accurate count of the ballot will show that
Michigan voted wet" by 10000 majority.
The after effects of the war will be felt
! in sporting circle as elsewhere as sporting or
| carnations of the allied nations expect TO
prohibit any competition with Germans or
Austrians The Amateur Athletic assocla-
| ton of Great Britain is following the LEAD OF
| the governing body for lawn tennis IN tnat
| county in passing rules against SUCH compeu-
ton and the French Olympic committee has
already ruled against competition with en-
envy athletes ALSO JAS the United states VIII
| probably follow suit, there will doubtless pS
| no olympic carnival of sports for all nations
next year at Antwerp as proposed, the meet
| to become instead an inter-all1ed analr.
| Will allied troops be sent into Germany to
maintain order there in the interest Oh All
Europe? Paris dispatches say that at the
latest session of the German cabinet council
the government considered the possibility OF
making an appeal to the allied armies for
heID The French newspaper, IL Ecla1r, says
that it is understood that General HumDert'
former commander of the French Thlrd army
will be appointed commander of the allied
troops in Central Europe"
Senator George F. Thompson, of Niagara,
who electrified the New York assembly by
declaring that he had been offered brides 10
act favorably on the Carson-Martln increased
trolley fare bill testified before the New YORK
senate judiciary committee later that Rlcnard
H. Burke, of New York, had told MIN tnaC ne
could become governor of the state ana tnat
traction interests would raise a $500, 900 cam
paign fund for him. Senator Thompson men
toned Ex-Governor Charles S. Whitman in
his charges and Theodore P. Shonts also as
we'll as others.
Shall the kaiser receive actual bodily pun
ishment for his crimes against civilization
or shall the allied nations content themselves
merely with moral indictment OF sseVeral
paragraphs in the final report Of the COM
mittee on responsibilities for the war OF the
Deace conference? 1t may be necessary to
have a roll call of the plenary conference OF
nations to determine the matter, some or the