Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-12
CURRENT EVENTS

London via Rotterdam. In England,
they are expected to be better fed
than is possible in Vienna. They are
mostly children of the socalled brain
workers." such as teachers, profess
sors, physicians authors and must
clans. Further departures of parties
of children are to follow.
Many thousands Of Viennese chill
dren have already been sent to Swe-
den, Denmark, the Netherlands and
Switzerland and a number also to
Italy, but the British benefaction
finds the greatest interest here, since
every one feels that this means
more than even resumption of diplo-
matte or commercial relationship
return to those friendly relations
which always existed between Eng
land and Austria before the war.
Announcement was made in, At
lantic City, N. j., to officials of the
third Pan-American Aeronautical
convention by officials of plans that
have been made by which 500 aero
planes for carrying mail and express
will go into immediate service in the
United States, and of orders to be
filled before the end of 1928 that will
bring 1000 planes into the service.
The new enterprise has $15,000,000
capital, and orders from commercial
to keep all the machines busy for
six months, the announcement said.
The country has been laid out into
ten zones. The first will shortly be
tween New York, Cleveland and Chi
cago. The headquarters have been
established in Cleveland. One zone
will be developed at time.
cit will cost less to establish an
aerial transport system around the
world than it would to build a rail
road from New York to Chicago"
said Col. John D. Carmody, United
States air service, in charge of the
army delegation attending the con-
gress. "That estimate is based on
actual figures"
The center of the upward move
ment in the, value of the mark lies
in New York, declares the Deutsche
Tageszeitung, a Berlin newspaper.
The newspaper asserts that more
than a million marks worth of Ger
man twelve-month treasury notes
have been taken up in the United
States, and declares that not even
Germanys shattered power of pro-
duction has been able to shake Amer
ica's faith in the ultimate recovery
of German exchange.
The newspaper further says that
the foreign financial world evidently
has come to the conclusion that the
United States will impress upon
Great Britain and France the neces-
sity for an adjustment of their repa-
rations claims to a figure within Ger
man means.
The Post urges that the time now
the sterilization of the mark and the
fixing of the relation of the paper
mark and the gold mark.
Shoes with uppers of leather made
from the skins of sharks and por-
poiSes will soon be on the market
if tests now being made by the
United States bureau of standards
in cooperation with the National
Boot and Shoe Manufacturers asso-
citation shall prove their dura bility
as compared with those of calfskin
and coWhide.
The state senate at Boston re-
veto the bill fixing the alcoholic con-
tent of beer at not more than 2.75
per cent.
The vote was, yes IA, no %.
Before the measure went to the
governor the senate was recorded
&c to in its favor.
The Delaware legislature adjourn
Anthony Federal suffrage amend
ment. There was a test vote when
Representative Lyons attempted to
force the house into committee of
the whole to consider the suffrage
ratification resolution. Mr.. Lyons
motion was lost by "a votes to 10.
After being defeated by the lower
house the resolution was passed by
the senate on May 5, but, fearing a
second defeat, suffrage advocates
succeeded in preventing it being sent.
to the house until last Friday
President Wilson had telegraphed
three Democratic members of the
Delaware legislature urging that ev-
cry Democrat vote for the suffrage
amendment.
May 1 not, as a Democrat" the
t7rest in the suffrage amendment and
my judgment that it would be of
the greatest service to the party if
every Democrat in the Delaware leg
1slature voted for it?"
Long years of friction with their
ne1ghbors in western Canada, and a
FEELING that the Dominion govern
ment has not kept faith with them.
has led some 5000 Mennonite settlers
of Manitoba and Saskatchewan to
seek homes in the state of Missis-
sippi.
Provincial educational relations
have been the chief source of conten-
ton between the authorities and the
Mennonites since the latter were
practically invited to enter Canada
as immigrants upward of twenty
years ago, with the guarantee that
they would not be called upon for
military service in contravention of
the tenets of their faith. This
pledge has been kept by the Domin-
ion government, but the provincial
governments demand that the Men
nonites comply with the laws of the
country in all other respects, includ-
ing education in the English Ian
guage and payment of public school
assessments.
The colony which is now seeking
new homes, comprises the strictest
of the Mennonite sect, living in COM
plete subsection to their bishops and
eschewing intercourse with all out
siders, whose influence they consider
communicating.
Western Canadian newspapers ex-
press the opinion that, though the
Mennonites have in all matters been
peaceful people, except for their
passive resistance Of the school laws,
the country will not regret their de-
parture, as they cannot be assimilat-
ed into full Canadian citizenship.
The Lake Placid inn was almost
destroyed by fire recently. 1t had
opened for the season on Memorial
day, and about a score of guests es-
capped when the alarm was given.
The inn was a rambling three-story
frame structure situated on a com
handing height between Mirror Lake
and Lake Placid, New York, and had
long been a popular resort.
There are two trees in the United
States that own themselves and the
ground on which they stand. One
of these is an oak at Athens, Ga, the
other a sycamore at Coney Creek,
KY. The former stood on the land
of Colonel w. H. Jackson, who in
his old age recorded deed as fol-
II, w. H. Jackson, of the county
of Clarke, state of Georgia, of the
one part, and this oak tree-(giving
the location)-of the county of
Clarke, of the other part, witness,
that the said w. H. Jackson, for and
in consideration of the great affection
which he bears said tree and his de-
sire to see it protected, has conveyed
and by these presents, does con-
sion of itself, and the. land within