Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-05
CURRENT EVENTS

for power to her water resources,
Maurice CasenaVe, chairman of the
French high commission to the Unit
ed States, informed the New York
section of the Societe de CHIME In
dustrielle. Great success had marked
the French effort to replace coal by
water power, DIR. Casenave said, and
added:
THE total water power available
in France is calculated at 1o,0O0.-
900 horse power a year. Before the
war only about 100000 horse power
actually was obtained from this
get 100000 horse power. This
would mean that France would no
longer be tributary to any foreign
power
He said that his country was re-
lying on canals rather than rail-
due to the German destruction Of
French lines of communication, and
said that expectation Of potash to
this country, while not now great,
will increase gradually,
In introducinig Joseph H; Choate;
Foundation, Inc. DR.. Marston T.
Bogert, who presided. said that this
country will never be safe without
a synthetic dye industry. since. chem
ical warfare, now SO important a
branch of war, depends upon it.
THE chief argument against the
bill now pending in congress is to
protect the American dye industry
and must. be helped to her feet" he
said. THAT lie is fostered by ev..
cry German with the interests Of
his country at heart"
According to information received
for Constantinople the Armenian
patriarch has received letter from
Adana saying that the Armenians
there held a meeting May at
which protest was made against the
alleged failure of the French to
supply adequate protection for the
Christians in Cilicia.
Word reaches us from Toxic which
states that a feature of the financial
depression in Japan is the increase
of dishonored bills in the, Toxic
clearing house, reports showing that
to $4,000 against IS, 900 in March.
May figures show a daily increase
over those Of April. The number
of bills dishonored in Osaka is three
times that in Toxic.
Under the caption, "Who Lost the
War;" the Berlin Vorwarts publishes
t two documents signed by FIELD Mar
Ludendorff, former quartermaster
general, dated October, 1918, asking
the German government to make
peace Immediately. Ludendorff's re-
quest was dated Oct. | and that Of
"They say they were stabbed in
the back by the Socialists" says the
Vorwarts, which then asks the ques-
ton, who lost the war"
The British Empire Steel corpora
poration, a recent merger of steel
and shipping interests capitalized at
under the laws of Nova Scotia, It
was announced. It's registered Of
flee will be at Sydney, N. S.
Writing of accidents to persons
employed in industrial plants, DR.. G.
Widmer says in Therapie der Gegen-
wart (Berlin), that the inbred ex-
perience of countless ages enables
and only when we focus our con-
seriousness on the reaction to the oc-
currence is injury liable to result.
Emperor Yoshihito, of Japan, suf-
fered a physical and mental collapse
about April 1, according to THE
Honolulu Pacific Commercial Adver-
tiser," quoting a source unofficial
vices said the emperor was suffer-
ing from locomotor ataxia or sim
liar disease.
Plans for establishing a regency
have been discarded, the, Adver-
Users informant said, because it
"Oulu ICNChA IiAO ASeNA SOAAHANAOAA "
his health.
A new and delicious edible vege-
table for the American table, pre-
pared in the same manner as aspa-
ragus, according to the bureau OF
pant industry of the United States
department Of agriculture, is the ten
der sprout of the bamboo plant. Ne
buchadnezzar, jocularly asserts the
department, deserves no credit for
is grass-eating exploits as natives
in the Far East were eating grass in
the form Of edible bamboo sprouts
long before the autocrat of Baby
lonian royalty hit upon the simple
method of reducing the high cost of
living.
TT probably is news to most
Americans to learn that there are
several bamboo plantations of I'M
doubted value already established in
Georgia and Louisiana" says the
writer Bamboo, according to
scientists, is not tree, but a giant
grass. 1t grows like asparagus, the
new plants forming from the origi-
nal roots. The bamboo sprout shoots
up at the incredible rate of a foot
a day, and when mature has a stem
four inches in diameter and fifty feet
high. 1t requires no cultivation.
The grown timber has an infinite
number of industrial uses owing to
. the light composition of the wood