Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-07
CURRENT EVENTS

, While still startled by the sudden
news that the roulette wheel and all
the other familiar devices for flirting
with the goddess of chance had been
banned by government decree at all
gambling palaces within 100 kilo-
meters of Paris, people of the city
learned that steps were on foot to
put an end to the ancient and pic
turesque custom of settling affairs
of honor by duels.
Adjustment of gaming was recent
voted by the senate at a night ses-
sion. Almost simultaneously, several
deputies introduced a measure seek
ing to prohibit the duel. The law
would punish duelists by fine and i'm
responsible any one who acted as a
second or who published accounts of
any affair.
Ralph De Palma, famous Italian
speed king, was among a contingent
Of foreigners who became citizens of
the United States this week by
swearing allegiance before federal
judge in New York.
De Palma came to American when
he was ten years old and has been
under the impression that he was
an American citizen. His father, it
developed, had failed to take out his
final papers. The hero of the track
Is thirty-seven years old.
Dispatches from Copenhagen state
that an expedition will soon start
north in search of members Of the
exploring party Of Road Amundsen's
who have been missing since Octo-
Der. 1919. A sea captain who recent
ly rescued the crew of a Russian
vessel from an ice berg will head
the rescue party.
The practice followed by merchants
Of San Antonio, Tex, in SCATTERING
handbills from airplans over the
neighboring city of Austin may lead
to the stationing Of aerial policemen
by the latter municipality, according
to an Austin official.
The emmissaries of the San An
tonic merchants drop their cargoes OF
literature advertising their wares
without landing in Austin, 1t is
stated, thus rendering it Impossible
for the Austin authorities TO inter-
fere with the distribution,
Leadville and Goldfield in their
dizziest days we're tame IN comparl-
son with Constantinople of today, &C
cording to reports telling how the
Turkish capital has become the END
Of the trair' for all the Balkan
states and everything west OF Suez
on the Mediterranean. =, 4,,o
The city now combines ssd an wo Ihd
seaport, travellers say, with eau,
casfon oil men, miners, sheep anu
cattle kings. Greek war m1ll1ona1reS.
SYRIAN merchants and soldiers ano
sailors of a dozen nations spendlng
their money for champagne ana Tic
various other attractions ot1ereo'
Fees of $500 day to one l sEU ynao
$3.50 a day to another. and Soo'GIe eD
flat to a third were paid I IHT di0 Chi hi
cago's millionaire radical, and tne
nineteen other members OF the com
munist Labor Party Of America WHO
were found guilty this week OF con.
spring to oyerthr4w tF ne gdefendants
ana to serve penitentiary terms
ranging from one to five years.
The trial began May 10. kltt sS7sWt
court days were occupied IN SEM Tha
prosecution cost the state about $S'-
500 day.
Potatoes ere reported rotting on
the ground in the producing areas ga
on Long Island due to Cutting OF the
New York market by shipments from
New Jersey and dns sIsew y so 1S Syyshs
el and the prices is being
/ generally refused. Meanwhile, house
wives and restaurant patrons
are paying the old-ttme scale Cap.
bage and string beans are IN ABOUT
the same class as potatoes, II Is re-
ported.
An average Of nearly three per-
sons a day were killed by traffic in
New York during the month Of July
Automobiles brought death to, sew
enty-two, trolleys killed thirteen
and wagons killed two. Fatal high
way accidents throughout the state
totaled EOS for the month.
The Iroquois, an American steam
ship, is expected to arrive Ns al, at inst Gni
vessel to reach the city from the
Pacific via the Panama canal. The
Iroquois left Seattle on June for
it's 1o,O0o-nAle voyage.
Mexico will pay more than han l..
100000 pesos-aoo4t t Sooo'c so1die IN
Aho area now disSandlng From Villas
former army, an official of the Mex
lean government announces.
The former rebel chief has asked
Provisional President de Ia Huerta
for schoolbooks, pencils, chalk and
similar~supplies, for use in establish
ing schools in his part of the coun-
try. He says that any money sent
him for this purpose will be well
come.
Compulsory military service has
been abolished in, Germany by a bill
recently passed by the reichstag:
This was one of the pr provisions no d OF
layed so long in carrying out their
agreement that stern pressure was
brought to bear upon German rep
resentatives at the recent Spa con-
ference.
Ohio now has, five nominees on
five tickets in the presidential and
dition to Governor Cox. Democratic
standard bearer, and Senator Hard
ing, the Republican candidate. the
Rev. Aaron S. Watkins. Of German
town, is prohibition candidate; Max
8. Hayes. Of Cleveland. is the Farm
president: and Richard c. Barnum is
the Single Tax party's nominee for
the same office,
Three of Ohio's aspirants for high
American Offices. are editors and
publishers. the fourth Is the head
of a book publishing company and
the fifth is a Methodist clergyman.
The Single Taxer is probably the
tallest of the five. He stands six
feet eight inches high.
In 1917, the cost rose to more than
100000, the report showed, due to
LnS AaSI IIidC IHe AttIAoh o SIaIeSiHoH
did more talking that year than
usual. Upwards Of 1,500,000,000 print
ed pages were devoted to recording
many miles Of oratory and the like
during the last three years congress
has been in session.
Four years. strenuous service with
out bite of meat or a drop Of tea
constituted the experience Of many
Czecho-Slovak soldiers who stopped
recently at Honolulu while on their
way home after fighting almost con-
tinuously since the war began at a
salary of 81 per month.
"Glass eyes while you wait" can
now be obtained in London. says the