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

The New York auxiliary of the
Southern Industrial Educational as
ISOLATION. of which Mrs. Algernon
Sidney Sullivan is president, is
starting d drive to raise funds to
carry on their educational and indus
trial work in the mountains Of the
south.
Miss Caroline T. Burkham is chair
man of the committee in charge of
the drive; and among those assist
ing her are Mrs. Henry w. Chappell,
Mrs. J. Lowrie Bell. Mrs. William
B. Leeds, Mrs. Frederick w. Rhine
lander and Mrs. Henry r. Sutphen.
Statistics taken during the war
show what high percentage Of liz
literacy prevails among the noun
tain youths who fought so bravely
in France. Today the illiterate
white voters are said to outnumber
the illiterate negro voters by 277,-
900.
Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw is treas
urer Of the organization and Mrs.
Juan Ceballos is assistant treas
According to dispatch from Bonn
bay, extremely distressful and pa
thet1c scenes. were enacted in the
train wreck on the Oudh and Rohilk-
when $50 passengers were either
killed or burned to death. Only a
few of the large number Of women
and children on the trains escaped
burning, while there were only three
survivors of three Hindu marriage
parties.
AS result of the collision the
gas installation caught fire and the
names spread rapidly. The unin-
1ured Indians fed terror stricken to
ed helplessly while the screaming
victims slowly roasted to death. The
medical arrangements aboard the
trains were totally inadequate to give
necessary assistance.
According to a dispatch from Par
IS, the congress of French Railway
workers voted to call an Immediate
general strike unless the following
demands are accepted; Nationalist
tlon of the railways, re-employment
or the strikers removed on account of
the Feoruary strike, abandonment of
!uuIcla! prosecutions and recogni-
tlon of the national union.
The congress has appealed to Pre-
mler Mlilerand to intervene in the
case or the dismissed men, but he re-
FUSED to do so. The congress calls
upon the people of France to uphold
IT'S decision in the interest of the re-
pubic. The date and charter Of the
strike will be determined If and
when the demands are refused.
A resolution appropriatine s4oo nm
for participation by the governmenr
in the celebration of the S00th an
nlversary of the landing of the PHI
m gr5mf at Mai prov H1s oTr and Ply.
house and sent to the senate.
appointment of a commission to
JON with state organizations in pro-
motlng the celebration and the issu-
aice OF celebration postage stamps
the funds appropriated 500 900
would be for improving the Pilgrim
Monument grounds at Provincetown
al ana nai to Or, erecting ri memorial tablets
100000 would be for restoring
plymouth Rock to it's original resi-
ing place and erecting memorials
at Pilgrim burial grounds.
Since the milling of copra was
commenced in the Dutch East Indies
in 1913, the amount available for ex-
proportion to the increase in the
amount of cocoanut oil. Such of
these products as were not sold TO
the mother country were largely pur-
Japan during, the years 1916-191S,
but the partial figures given for 1918
show that European countries are
again entering the market as pur-
chasers.
Elimination of the middle man in
the grain trade "in order to increase
the producers emolument to fair
profit, and at the same time reduce
the cost of living" is the object of
plan for huge combination of ce-
real growers being worked out by
the National Growers association in
convention at Kansas city. Repre-
sentatives of virtually every wheat
raising community in the United
States attending the convention vot-
ed unanimously to form the combi-
nation.
The tentative plan provides for To-
cal cooperative marketing associa-
tons, with headquarters in the mar
ket centers. Ownership of stock in
the terminal marketing associations
will be limited to the farmers join
ed in the local cooperative associa
tons.
District or terminal marketing or
CARNATIONS, in turn, will be merged
into national marketing association.
These organizations are intended to
be the channels through which all
products of Americas farms will
each the ultimate consumer. !