Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-06
CURRENT EVENTS

L dAdLnd.
J. E. Lefevre, Charge d'Affaires of
the Panama legation at Washington,
has just received instructions by ca
BILE from the president of the Repub-
lie to get in touch with the larger
construction concerns in the United
States and ask them to send repre-
sentatives to Panama to discuss plans
for the road building program which
is to be inaugurated in the imme-
date future.
1t is estimated that the program
worked out by Panama officials in
wolves an annual expenditure of ST.
100000 and the sum of $1,500,000 will
be available to begin the work after
July / of this year. -Four, or five
years will be required to complete
the work mapped out.
Mr.. Lefevre will go to New York
with heads of the various, companies
which are interested in the work.
Sarcoma cancer apparently has
been cured by treatment with an cleo
trio needle, physicians at the Wo-
mems Homeopathic hospitah in
Philadelphia, announced recently. The
patient was Henry Ayres, seven years
was brought to the hospital May
rs with cancerous growth behind the
right eye. The eye was removed and
treatment was begun with the cleo
trio needle.
1.-The treatment is known as electro
I'VE applied the needle to all sur
rounding tissues, sealed the blood
vessels and apparently have pre-
vented the spread of the sarcoma
cells which cause the disease to be
carried from one part of the body
to the other.
LAS far as we know this is the
first time the electric needle has
been used in treating cancer. 1t is
apparently a success and we expect
to discharge the boy within a few
days as cured"
The dream of the alchemists of
the middle ages, who toiled over
transmitting base metal into gold,
may become true in this modern age.
Prof. Frederick Soddy, of the
chemistry department Of Oxford
university, in England says 1T is
quite possible to make gold from
ITO get gold from mercury, expel
from the atom of mercury one beta
particle which will make thallium
then one alpha-paftic1e, which will
turn the thallium into gold. To get
gold from lead, expel from the atom
VI ACdu O1lC cAPAld~ pal LAS1Ci "AA1SAl " III
turn it into mercury, and proceed as
before"
Investigators are already at work
testing the method. 1t sounds easy;
but what will be the result if men
learn to manufacture, gold? The
SO precious, will be changed into
baubles without value.
In a statement given out in Chi
cago: The Baptist Northern conven--
ton closed recently. BY a vote of
$50 to 1,422 the delegates refused to
censure the Rev. J. w. Brougher,
of Los Angeles, for marrying. Doug
dropping him as a member of the
executive committee, but adopted a
resolution urging more uniform di-
vorce law to do away with the scan
dal of easy divorce states"
The resolution also urged the Bap-
fist ministry ito hold rigidly to the
Scriptural standards regarding di-
vorce, and that they% carefully avoid
any action that would weaken the
influence of minister and church in
regard to this matter which all the
church seeks to promote"
A dispatch from Paris relates that
only four pieces of the jewels of
the late Gaby Deslys, which brought
$560,780 at auction, passed into the
hands of private individuals. Paris
jewe1ry firms bought the rest of the
dancers gems.
Among the four articles sold to
Gaby's personal friends is belt and
gold coins. With the money value
of the belt and clasp amounting to
1917 in American gold, which at pres
ent exchange rates ought to have
brought at least $500, the price paid
by the anonymous buyer was $500,
while the four articles so purchased
brought a total of $4,000.
ating by centrifugal force and US
ing no explosive, is being secretly
tested by army officials and other
governmental experts at the bureau
OF standards in Washington. The
weapon is said to have a capacity
of 1900 shots a minute against the
500 or 500 of the present types of
explosive gun.
The great advantage Of the cen
trifugal gun, army experts say, will
be in it's noiseless operation.
The gun consists Of rotating
barrel, approximately one-half inch
in diameter, attached to motor-driven
shafts, the speed of which is under
instant control. BY varying the
speed of the driving. shaft the oper-
ator controls the range.
At a distance of six inches from
the muzzle of the gun the projectiles
have penetrated seven inches of pine
wood.
London's welcome proved too much
for Mary Pickford. On a doctors ad-
vice she has gone to the country for
a few days to avoid the crowds at
the Ritz hotel, which now must seek
another spectacle until Monday, at
least. Douglas Fairbanks, looking
down to the crowd, said:
= rripH tho world c
sweetheart, but I did not know l
was to honeymoon with all the
world"
of yesterdays mobbing,. and her
husband, are spending the weekend
with the Duke and Duchess of
Sutherland at Sutton Court, Gull
ford.
Today in order to leave the hotel,
Douglas was compelled to carry his
wife through the crowd to wait
ing automobile, while dozen con-
the car started.
The treatment of women in Egypt
is the darkest phase of Egyptian life,
say G. N. Barnes, of London, and
member of parliament, who has re
Gently returned from tour of thai
country.
The men in Egypt, said Mr.. Barnes,
so far as sex relations were concern
ed, thought themselves the lords OF
creation. They could divorce their
wives at will, without whim or rea-
son, and it was not uncommon Tor
a man to have three wives.
I'm many houses" continued Mr.:
Barnes, II never saw woman, and
you can take it from me that the
position of the women lin Egypt is
absolutely one of serfdom and de-
pendence. They spend their lives in
miserable novels, in working in the
adjoining fields or in, getting water.
"They are the serfs Of the men
and as much beasts of burden as the
donkey and the camel. A people
which uses women folk in that way
are destined to be subject race
and do not deserve to govern"
An attachment for $4,000 against
the property of General Emfliano
Chamarror president Of Nicaragua
and former minister to the United
States. was signed by supreme court
Justice Tierney in an action by