Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-08
CURRENT EVENTS

ment at washington animated that
it was the intention of the govern
ment to go into the business of re-
filming oil on it's own account.
AS a result of the contract the
navy will receive as by-product 49,
$4,000 gallons OF gasoline, which
is expected to meet the demands OF
the navy and other government de-
partments, at a price approximately
the cost of manufacturing and trans
portation. By this arrangement the
navy will obtain gasoline at prices
ranging from twenty to twenty-five
cents a gallon, making saving of
gasoline alone under the contracts Of
$1,580,000.
By a modification If it's specifica-
tions the navy ESs been able to avoid
decreasing the amount OF American
oil available for commercial pur-
poses by utilizing a large amount of
crude Mexican oil hitherto regarded
as unavailable.
The high cost of timber and news
print paper is due in no small meas
ure to defamation of the forests Of
the east, Secretary Meredith of the
Interior informed the senate in
transmitting a report of the forest
service.
Scarcity of timber in the east
cause of high prices" said the sec
retary's letter. But the facts re-
main that three-fifths of the original
timber of the United States is gone
and that we are using timber four
times as fast as we are growing it,
The report estimated that 2,215
billion feet of timber is left in the
United States, and that there had
been no marked chance in the con-
centration of timber ownership dur
ing the last ten years.
Secretary Meredith Endorsed the
position taken by the forest service
that the fundamental need is a ma
tional policy of reforeStation, with
enlargement of the national forests
on wide scale and legislation which
will enable the forest service to CO.
operate effectively with the states in
stopping forest fires.
Mayor Cornell Schreiber's move to
make Toledo, Ohio, a city of tents to
take care of the hundreds unable to
find homes has met with a reverse
due to refusal of the government to
supply the tents.
The mayor received a reply re-
Gently saying that the government
has no canvas that can be used in
such manner.
The mayor has appealed to own
ers of vacant rooms to throw them
upon the market. -
Word reaches us from Ottawa that
after an all-night debate, parliament
NOlSu NY d. LlldJOIlIy VI 20 " I0JSCl
an amendment to the budget bill
calling for substantial reductions in
custom duties on necessities of life,
machinery and implements. The
amendment was supported by the
old line Liberal opposition and the
cross-benchers," representatives OF
the farmers party who recently left
the ranks Of the Union Coalitionists.
Because of bad grammar" Presi-
dent Wilson vetoed a bill to make
the interstate transportation of i'm
moral motion picture films a felony.
The president in his veto message
said the transportation of phrase In
the bill made it ambiguous.
The house on receiving the veto
message conducted an investigation
and found that an enrolling clerk
had transposed the phrase. The bill
as corrected" by the president was
repassed tonight by the house.
Military arrangements for the re-
opening of the plant of the National
India Rubber company have been
completed. The disposition of the
been on duty here since Governor
Beeckman declared the town in a
state of instruction will provide a
guard on all streets leading to the
factor.
Inquiry at various steamship Of
fees in Paris, revealed that there
will not be moro than 10000 Ameri-
can tourists coming to France il
the next three months, because OF
lack of accommodations, although
first estimates placed the minimum
at 100000. The government has
promised to give to the Paris hotel
owners four or five hotels occupied
July 1, to help take care of the
summer rush.
The tourist agencies believe the
senate will ratify the chamber of
dep p16 eso measure approprilating
5oteS in he devas 0r reons
otherswise facilitating tours to the
battlefields. A conference of gov
eminent officials. bankers, and hotel
owners will be held next autumn to
arrange for new hotels to be f1nan-
ced by joint cooperation of the gov
eminent and bankers.
After 1000 walters and mattresses
in 1,2OO small restaurants and
lunch rooms in the city of New
York, had struck for nine-hour
day. William Lehman, business
agent of local No. Of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees international
Alliance of America, asserted that
were still negotiating and 1000 more
expected to win before the end of
the week.
so far" said Mr.. Lehman, 1--WE
hotels or teading restaurants in the
Broadway theater district. The
matter of getting the walters and
Mattresses in these places under our
wing is something we are going to
take up after we have finished the
present strike.
1.-The 1000 still on strike are from
restaurants on Broadway, Lenox and
Sixth avenues and in side streets on
the west side"
According to message from
Washington, favorable report on a
bill prepared by the joint congress
sional committee providing increases
in the salaries of postal employees,
aggregating $33,000,000 for the first
office committee.
When Senator Townsend, 'Repub1i-
can, of Michigan, chairman of the
committee, presented the bill in the
senate, he gave notice that he would
ask for its consideration at the pres
endeavor to hold the senate in ses-
sion nights to discuss it.
An attempt to get immediate con-
sideration was blocked by Senator
Thomas, Democrat, of Colorado, who
refused unanimous consent and
under the rules.
On motion of Senator Kenyon, Re-
publican, of Iowa, the senate recon-
sidered, without a roll call, it's action
in passing the Nolan minimum wage
bill, setting minimum wage for
government employees
Senator Kenyon and other senators
said they thought some changes
should be made that the bill might
not work hardships on inmates of
old soldiers homes and on several
other classes.
The bill probably will be presented
for passage with amendments later.
The $2O,O00,0OO to be paid for in
creased teachers salaries has result
ed in a jump in the direct tax rate
of from $1.06 for every $1,000 of as
sessed valuation to $3.50, the highest
in thirty years. There must be $685.
100000 raised by direct tax this year,
as comma red to S14 Q00 0l0 Ia 1xaar.