Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-05
CURRENT EVENTS

American cities in 1919, an increase
of 5,736, or 22.4 per cent over the
previous year, according to figures
compiled by the National Automobile
ters in st. Louis.
One ray of sunshine found in the
statistics lies in the fact that more
than "A per cent of the stolen cars
centage Is slightly lower than that OF
1918.
ST. Louis was the only city Of the
nineteen which showed any decrease
in thefts. This is attributed to
stringent law enforcement. Neither
Atlanta or any other southern city
was included in the list of cities
given out.
American doughboys stationed in
Germany have started a boycott
against German merchants who adopt
profiteering TACTICS, according to the
Amer,oc News, a newspaper published
t aS the American army of 0o0uD"-
Robinson Crusoe's island not only
exists in reality, but is known to
the well-informed. Moreover. there
is a plant afoot to convert the scene
of the shipwrecked mariners adven-
lures into a summer resort.
The island of DeFoe's famous story
Is Juan Fernandez and Chilean pos
session. The government of that
South American nation, it is reported,
is now contemplating the establish
ment of a national park there, with
hotels and other attractions Of u
summer resort. The place is of extra
ordinary natural beauty. Crusoe's
cave. will be featured as one of the
wonders of the island.
An airplane SURPRISING in size any
machine that ever flew is now under
construction in England for expert
mental use as a troop train. While
the capacity of the huge aerial trans
port is not announced it is under
stood that it will accommodate q
complete fighting unit-including
light artillery.
The only wild monkeys on the Eu-
ropean continent are doomed to ex-
tinction. They are the historic apes
of Gibraltar, sometimes known as tho
Barbary apes of Glib. BY edict OF
the British commander of the great
fortress the monkeys must go. Just
how their determination will be car
ried out is not stated and various
opinions have been advanced that the
project may fall through, as many
governors in generations past have
ordered the Punishment of the
How the Banderlog ever establish
ed themselves in the Businesses of
the rocky mountain Of Tarik is
shrouded in superstition. One legend
holds that they came. from Morocco
through secret tunnel under the
straits, while another version mas
It that they were imported by the
Moors.
City, state and federal prohibition
laws to the contrary, 1877 defendants
among the PTS cases tried before
City Recorder johnson in the At
1anta police court one day this week
witt
duct arising from overindulgence in
the forbidden spirits. The figures are
said to constitute new record.
When arrested in Columbus, Ga,
recently. one-legged negro was
round to have a pint of moonshNe
liquor and a live chicken concealed
In the end of his unused trouser
leg.
On the sixth anniversary Of Ger
Of $4,000 people assembled in tae
Lustgarten, Berlin, last Sunday, ana
declared their intention Of never go
Ing to war again. Hundreds of war
cr1pples participated. The scene was
vastly different from the wild dem
and by many Of the same people
when the kaiser threw the world into
disorder.
Louisville municipal officials are
beginning to worry about getting
enough coal to heat the city's pub
lie schools next winter With ordi-
nary requirements of about 5000
made by mine operators although
sixty-three concerns were invited to
make prices on the seasons tonnage.
So critical do authorities in the
Kentucky metropolis. consider the
resentative to go to Washington in
the hope Of enlisting governmental
aid. No pronounced alarm at the
prospect of idle school buildings
next term has so far been reported
among Lou1sville's younger genera
ton, however.
Mount Katnal, in southwestern
Alaska, the most restless and power
full of North American volcanoes,
has awakened once more and is in
violent eruption, according to word
from officers on a steamer that re-
Gently returned from voyage in
A sullen pail Of smoke from the
belching mouth Of the huge crater
now spreads gloom over a radius of
forty miles and is disquieting re-
m1nder of the fearful eruption eight
years ago.
The Huns have been forced to re-
turn to Brussels and Louvain price
less works of art that were sent to
Germany as part Of the loot stolen
from Belgium. Under q provision of
the peace treaty the restoration of
Belg1um's lost treasures was made
compulsory and replacement has
now begun.
Six wings Of the famous Van Eyek
Lr1ptych, THE Alteration of the
Lamb" removed from Brussels to
the Kaiser Frederick museum, Ber-
lin, and six wings of the triptych,
THE Last Supper" seized in Lou,
vain, are among the first of the art
works restored.
A. Florida inventor, Robert Pent-
land, Of Jacksonville, has, solved a
problem that has baffled scientists
for centuries in devising a perpetual
calendar. By, means Of his unique
device, any date desired, from the
beginning OF the Christian era up
to the present day and on beyond
to, 1nftntty, can be ascertained by
rotating a circular disc.
The calendar, according to adj
vice received by the designers friends
In Atlanta recently, Is fully project
ed by patents. Gable dispatches not
long ago told how an italian had
worked out a similar idea.
QUlPS AND OUIDDIES
In the sweet silence of the twi-
light they honeyspooned upon the
beach.
Dearest" she murmured, tren-
bling, now that we are married L
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