Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-10
CURRENT EVENTS

Ill1ACoIp CO1hpd GU Win SI6dI6T new
York, $40 square kilometers (3O7.S
square miles,, Paris $50. London's
303 and Vienna's 275 square kilo-
meters. Greater Berlin now en-
braces eight townships, fifty-nine
villages and twenty-seven rural es-
tates.
According to figures made public
by the department of statistics, L.
015,8S3 immigrants entered Brazil
during dondha. the n Twelve years ending Pc
only 2,o62 were North Americans,
while there were 34,246 Germans and
1928 Japanese. Portuguese led
with 3S6,6S6; Spanish second, 212,-
1928; Italians third, 65,7O9 and Rus
sions fourth with 5O.692.
Babe Ruth, the mighty slugger Of
the New York American league base
ball club, pounded out his fortieth
and forty-first home-runs last
week in a 2. game with Detroit. The
clouting fifty circuit smashes this
season and if he does it, which
seems likely now, he will set up a
record probably destined to stand
forever, unless he breaks it him
self. Ruth hit twenty-nine home
his sensational work rivals that of
the presidential campaign and Geor-
gia's own baseball marvel, Ty Cobb,
IS practically in total eclipse.
Packing unruly prisoners in ice
so as to cool their refractory spirits
was a practice in vogue at the state
reformatory for women, Bedford, N.
Y, according to disclosures brought
out at the recent investigation held
In New York In connection with
prolonged riots at the institution.
The first Spanish warship to visit
Cuba since the war of the 'nineties
vas given 2 cordial welcome in Ha-
Alphonso XIII and it steamed into
the harbor almost twenty-five years
to a day after American tackles
blew Cevera's fleet out Of the wa
ter.
-, Official statistics just issued show
that 1,362S72 men of France gave
their lives to halt the Hun. If
these fallen fighters were to form
IN single Tile with less than stride
more. than 500 miles long, stretch
ing further than from Atlanta to
New York, would pass in review. If
they were to encanp twenty-seven
cblyouaes of. the, dead" as big as
match this, roll of death America
would have to lose 400 regiments at
full war. strength.
Cubans Of all ages and classas of
life have, contributed 500, 900 to the
Roosevelt Memorial fund and a
check for that amount was turned
over to the sponsors recently. Four
SPECIFIC laws have been passed by
the CUBAN government in honor of
americas former president.
petrif1ed fish, about fifty feet
long, has been discovered incased in
the rocks in Garfield county, Utah,
gu1tch, by Sheriff James Goulding, of
Garneld county, and T. w. Smith, of
Salt Lake, who have been prospect
ing In that section. Four years ago
near the same spot the fossil remains
OF a giant lizard were found. Gould
ing and Smith have offered their find
to the University Of Utah.
Nine. Bella Hartmann, young wild
DIV of an Austrian officer, has been
sentenced at Lindau to pay a fine of
10000 marks and serve one month in
jail, for smuggling. 1t is said she
defrauded the Berlin and Vienna au-
thorittes out of more than 100000
by means of small army of en-
ployes at Lake Constance who used
six automobiles, three motor boats
and other paraphernaNa in their
illicit business.
High cost Of living has never hit
Madagascar, Kendall K. Kay, former
California newspaper man, reports.
Best prime beef sells for IL cents
and rice for 1 IL cents, he said.
each and big Holsters for cents.
Like his cousin of opposite politi-
cal faith who preceded him as as
sistant secretary Of the navy and
as candidate for vice president,
with Jimmy Cox on the Democratic
national ticket, is not a believer in
race suicide.
T. R. was the father of five chill
dren-one girl and four boys--and
strenuous1y ADVOCATED large fami-
lies for others.
Franklin D. is likewise the father
of five-also one girl and four boys.
Whether the parallel in political
preferment is to continue, remains
with the voters in November to de-
eide. But on the standards Of good
citizenship and patriotism laid down
by Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin d.
Roosevelt meets the rz=jor specifi-
cations of his distinguished relative
the late president.
Paris has 10000 sabres for sale.
The clanking swords tina, that the
for centuries have been banned by
government decree. In their stead,
American magazine pfsrols, or "au-
tomatoes" will now be the style.
The Partisan constabulary are loath
port has it, and are .surrendering
thei rside arms reluctantly, even
though it is admitted that the sub
stitute weapon gives the gendarmes
a better chance in the event of a
tussle with their ancient enemies,
the Apaches.
A monument to Magellan, the ex-
plorer who discovered the straits
that now bear his name, will be un--
yelled in Punta Arenas, Chile, next
November, justA four hundred years
since the valiant voyager earned his
place in history. Punta Arenas, at
the extreme lower tip of the South
American continent, is the southern
most city in the world.
Aerial mail service between Lon
don and Paris has proved so sue
cessful that schedules have been eX-
tended to include two trips a day
each way.
Practically every day now, Presi-
dent Wilson may be seen riding in
an open auto in Rock Park, or on the
Virginia highway leading to Mt.
vernon. The latter Is mis-, 1aVOr1te
ride. The president wears a little
stiff brimmed straw hat which he
holds tightly with his right hand. He
looks much older than a year ago:
the lines in his face have greatly
deepened He still does only about
10 per cent Of a normal days work.
The cost of living. and .particu-
1arly the cost of food, continues to
mount. Figures gathered by the.
department Of labor show that on
June Is last the average family ex-
penditure was per cent higher than
on May Is; in May the expenditure
was per cent higher than in April;
and in April the expenditure was
5 per cent higher than in March.
Since January of this year the fam
lily expenses have increased 9 per
cent. The cost Of food since 1913
has gone up On an average Of more
than 100 per cent.
Under authority established by
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