Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-18

Whether or not the SQuatly lILtle
home on Pennington avenue, Hart
ford, Conn, with it's ugly roof
quoting the Hartford real estate
spectators who want 100000 for
the property that was sold to them
for $55,O00-is saved as a shrine to
one Of this country's greatest hu-
morists, the move by the Society of
Connecticut Artists, which has now
reached nationwide scope, mas given
birth to a Mark Twain renaissance
and "reminiscences Libraries through
out New England report increased IN
terest in his books, while apparently
every one who ever saw him or heard
him or met him is popping up with
brand new" anecdotes-the very lat
est being a traffic officer on one Of
Hartford's main corners who mournS
the fact that nobody seems to men
ton the great practical charity OF the
alleged cynic.
But the saving Of the home is now
virtually assured. The storm Of pro-
test against destruction of the birth
place of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
that was born of bit of newspaper
til it has enlisted the efforts of Phi
lander P. Claxton, United States
commissioner of education. He hopes
to designate a Mark Twain week"
which teachers will tell of the life
and books of the humorist, and per-
haps instill in the minds of Amer:-
cas- children that poets and heroes
and humorists are more precious to
us than gold
In Hartford Mark Twain lived a
Happy residence" among such
friends as Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Charles Dudley Warner, Charles Hop
kins Clark and others. He even
DILL n
rich and Howells here. claiming that
in few years Hartford would BE
suburb of both Boston and New
York Out in the ugly rooted
house" where Hartford spectators
intend to build the Mark Twain
famous and Immortal troop of Boys
conceived in his own experience and
mothered in his brain.
at Washington the senate adopted
the house resolution prviding for
the appointment Of commission to
arrange for the tercentenary cele-
bration at Plymouth, Mass, of the
landing Of the Pilgrims, and APP
propriating 100000 to be used for
that purpose in connection with
similar amount to be appropriated
luton, which now goes to the presi-
dent, the commission is to consist
of seven members, three appointed
by the president of the senate and
four by the Speaker of the house.
In acknowledgment of attentions
shown the Belgian royal party during
their stay in this country last Octo-
Der, j. NJ. Nye, secret service opera
tive attached to the party from the
state department, received from King
| Albert an autographed picture of the
Belgian monarch.
The photograph is in a silver frame
surmounted by miniature crown.
| The inscription reads:
ITO Mr.. Nye, in memory of a Won
| derful time in America and with
grateful thanks for his affectionate
care"
Mr.. Nye accompanied King Albert
and his suite on their tour Of the
country as the special representative
of the department Of state, charged
with the safety Of the royal visitors.
Additional taxes amounting to
S2G7,260,000 have been assessed
against big corporations in the last
nine months as a result of an audit
of their tax returns, Internal Reve-
nue. Commissioner Williams Informed
congress recently in asking for ST.
! 5000 to pay the expenses of this
| work.
He said that the audit had not yet
been brought up to date, indicating
sums.
DR.. Pasticci. a noted chemist of
Rome, Italy, has discovered meth
Cd Of cheaply producing liquid hydro
gen. It may be used in driving auto
mobiles, one gallon being suff1cient
for $50 miles. 1t may also be utl-
lized in railroad locomotives and in
the engines of ocean steamers, ne
declares, according to dispatches
from Berlin.
A dispatch from Washington
states that bills authorizing the
treasury to coin special 50-cent pieces
in commemoration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of the ADMISSION
of Maine and Alabama to statehood
were signed recently by President
Wilson.
Twenty-four hours as Mayor of
Fayetteville with a hostile board
of aldermen was enough for Mayor
Charles Rankin, and after holding
the Office once around the clock he
handed in his resignation. Rankin
charged that the board of aldermen
had taken over all of his functions.
Fish freezing is now being I'M
dertallen in Japan for the first time.
The tremendous rise in the cost of
living is causing Japanese officials
and business men to give serious at
tentiOn to conservation OF the food
supply, and the establishment of
three of these refrigerating plants is
striking example of how effective
ly they are handling the problem.
The capacity OF each Of these plants
is about 5000 pounds daily.