Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-17
CURRENT EVENTS

Many cotton mills shut down before
noon. 1t was the hottest day in
forty years, according to the old
timers.
Under a provision Of the peace
treaty, Germany has been Instructed
to deliver to France 100000 par
tridges and 100000 peasants to re-
stock the area devastated by the
H + before they were driven out
is hardly one-eighth as large as
Georgia, a proportionate breeding
stock of game would give this state
4S,000,000 cartridges and 10000, 900
pheaSants.
Chicago has launched a drive to
who are shown by records at Wash
ington to have evaded the selective
service law. Department of justice
in the rest of the country are said
to be investigating all cases where
there seems to be any delinquency as
to serving in the army.
Because the gas company at In
dianapolis refused to fill the many
balloons which were to take part in
the International air races this fall.
to Chicago. It comes off in Sep
tember.
Brooklyn billboards and subway
stations were decorated few
nights ago by scores Of posters put
munist party of America. An auto
mobile hurried through the down
town district at about midnight and
the placards were posted in many
places, The advertisements urged
that all workmen throw down their
tools and show the American gov
eminent their power.
Call a general strike" urged the
posters. in flaming letters. "Stand
by soviet Russia. Down with the
capitalistic government of the Unit
Five million acres of good land in
Japan awaits cultivation by farmers
and now lies barren in spite of in
ducements offered by the Nippon
government. which exempts newly
opened land from taxation for forty
years in the hope of attracting set
tiers. These figures were issued re-
Gently by a California organization
as proof that it is unnecessary for
the Japanese to emigrate because
their country Is crowded.
A little army OF 1000 women q
the Republican party will stump
the country in the interests of Sena-
tor. Harding's presidential candidacy
this fall. The feminine spell-binders
will divide programs with masculine
orators in all states where the race
is close.
King Alphonso, monarch of Spain,
is greatly upset over the prospect of
a nation waning in manpower and
prestige. In a recent speech he de-
clared that more people died than
were born in Spain during. the last
few years, especially In big cities
like Madrid, Santa Cruz and Ten
eriffe.
responsibility of the people and
malaria are blamed for the dis
tressing situation by his highness
He fears his country is in peril of
disappearing.
AS a little token Of affection for
his wife. Charles II. sabin, president
of a big New York bank, last week
completed plans for building a ST.
100000 home. which will be pres
ent to his better half.
A "blue law wave is apparently
sweeping over Mexico, now that this
turbulent nation has promised to be
good. De la Huerta has decreed that
all gambling, which has heretofore
been licensed by the government, is
to be abolished and that cabarets in
Mexico City and elsewhere must shut
down. Furthermore, he plans to es-
tablish a dry belt along the Rio
Grande. This would put a desert"
some 200 yards wide between Mex
leo and Texas.
American army nurses from now
on will be ranked like officers in the
army with authority to wear the
proper insignia and to demand obedi-
ence from enlisted men and patients.
Pennsylvania has received a check
for $40,197.67 as the state transfer
tax upon that part Of the estate Of
Mr.. Carnegie died a year ago, and
the Home Trust company, New York,
executor, filed statements with Audi
tor General Snyder showing that his
estate was worth $31,355,937.29, and
that he had given away during his
siderable part had been in Pennsyl-
vania.
The only property left in Pennsyl-
vania which was taxable was given
as $1,227,612.94, consisting of stocks
and realty, and when this was veri-
fed by William c. Packer, of Pitts
burg, settlement was made.
In the old days the town crier was
recognized institution throughout
France. But when the art of print
ing came in the newspapers drove
the town crier out of business. There
are parts of France, however, where
the town crier still makes his an
nouncements, according to one Of the
members Of A company, Eighteenth
engineers. In an obscure little viii
lage near the town where this unit
was encamped there is an old man
who stands at the main street cor
ner and beats drum to attract the
attention of the populace when there
is news to be given out There is
hn
was signed the people of that village
learned Of 1t from the crier.
Eight hundred million spools, with
a market value of nearly $1,000, 900,
are turned out every year by the
spool factories in Maine. White birch
is the material used almost exclusive
ly in this industry. The machines for
require skilled men in their opera
ton. The spools drop from the
lathes at the rate of one each second
and must be perfectly uniform and
true. The finished spools are mar
keted largely in New York, Connects
cut and Rhode Island.
A sack of 1000 silver dollars re-
gently delivered to San Francisco
Dank had been in the vault Of the
were minted, October 81, 1891. The
bank figures that if the money had
been drawing interest from the date
1t was coined the sack would now be
worth $4,000 instead of $1,000.
French writer is distributing {
pamphlet showing that most of the
Atlantic coast Of the United States
was discovered by the French ex.
plorer Verazzant in 1924, and urgine
that in 1924 the 400th anniversary Of
the discovery be duly celebrated in
the United States, says the cargo
naut."
Inc Prince, of Monoco has discov-
cred an cephalopode. His find ia NOT q
new game of chance, although he
runs Monte Carlo. Neither is 1t a
prohibition drink or a disease. Ac-
cord1ng to the scientists, the cephalo-
pode is deep sea fish equipped with
electric lights. At least, it carries
two luminous headlights that let him
swim about in the darkest depths of
the sea. This particular specimen