Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-17
CURRENT EVENTS OF. INTEREST


News from Washington relates
that Secretary of War Baker aSsur-
ed General Pershing that no objec-
ton to the generals retirement from
or President Wilson. Mr.. Bakers let
ter to General Pershing says:
II have received your letter Of
June with regard to the possibility
of your relinquishing military duty
within the next few months. I am
to aid us in the reorganization con-
templated by the recent act of con-
gress, the Importance of which, OF
course, is very great. In this work
your knowledge of the qualifications
of officers viii lbe indispensable, and
as the single list for promotion is a
project which you earnestly recon-
mended to congress, it will help US
all to have your aid in instituting it..
Your. military life has been &C
the country entitle you to choose
with the utmost freedom the &C
tivities and interests to which you
should devote your time, and should
you adhere to your present wish
to retire, I feel quite sure the presi-
expressed. Both the country and the
president will know that should any
emergency arise after you have re-
tired, your country's call will find you
ready to respond"
Large numbers of former Ameri-
can soldiers, finding conditions in
America unsatisfactory, are return
ing to France seeking employment,
and finding work for them is prov1d-
ing a serious problem for officials of
the American Legion in Paris. Some
have taken places as laborers at COM
paratively small wages, and legion
officials say that "doughboys" should
be warned not to return to France
unless they are we'll provided with
money to defray expenses while find
ing jobs, which are scarce at pres
ent.
"Since early in March," said Ar
thus W. Kiping, adiutant of Paris
post. American Legion, there has
American officers. and soldiers com
ing to France. Many of these men
are without money, they have small
prospects of finding work and their
knowledge of the French language is
rudimentary. Efforts are being made
to induce these men to return to
America, but some refuse to do this,
and the legion has been forced to
organize an employment service,
which has succeeded in finding places
for ninety-five men in the last forty
days. The return of Americans
visable."
Plans for celebrating the six
death in September, 1921, are now
under way, it was announced at
meeting Of the Dante League of
America at the National Arts club
last evening. Historical pageants
and possibly motion pictures depict
ing the life Of Florence in Dante's
time will be shown here and in 9TH
funds has been appointed.
Gathering potato bugs by the
bushel has been discovered as an
tients in the Fulton State hospital
VINO are suffering from dementia
and need to be taken out for exer-
else. They delight in the work, and
equipped with tin cans and sticks
sthey go down the rows cleaning
them up in great style. On one thir-
ty-three-acre patch of potatoes they
got nine bushels of bugs in two
days. The bugs this year are so
large that Paris green does not kill
them and the only safe way to get
rid of them is to gather them and
burn them.-Warrensbur (Mo)
Start ournal.
Since May 1 there has been de-
ta1ned IN quarantine at this port
Ciriaco Garcillan, of Spain, a victim
of leprosy. This fact became known
recently when the immigration Off
Gals at Ellis Island received an
order directing that Eliza Garcia
Iarc1llan, wife of the afflicted man.
be deported with her husband.
/. Garclllan and his wife lived for a
time in New York, but where or
how long the authorities would not
make public. Recently they sailed
Tor Havana and upon arrival there
the Cuban health authorities found
the man was suffering from leprosy.
Ihey were not allowed to land and
deturned TO New York under Cuban
Monsterat, arriving on May l.
Garclllan is ,fifty-three years old,
When his wife learned that she could
accompany her husband back to
SPAN she cried. II would not care
to die in SPAIN" she said II want
with him" The couple were nIaced
on steamship which is to take
them back to their native land.
The discovery of the signature of
William Shakespeare, scraWled 314
years ago on the wall of the haunt
ed gallery" of Hampton Court, has
just DSSH IIldu0 III LOnuOH. snake
speare authorities pronounce it
authentic.
The disclosure was made when
Ernest Law, the court antiquarian,
was directing the renovations. On
the wall Of the old retiring room
he found, after cleaning it, the let
ter ''S," followed by il1egible letters,
concluding ''kespeare," and beneath
the rough sketch of a hand and the
date 1906.
It is matter of history. that the
Shakespeare company visited the
palace at the date set down, and
played Hamlet" before the then
king Christian, of Denmark. The
company dressed in the haunted
gallery" near the great hall where
the play was enacted.
The gallery, according to ancient
tradition, is haunted by the ghost
of Catherine Howard, one of Henry
Wits six wives, who was imprison-
ed there. History tells that she es-
capped from confinement while the
king was praying in his private
chapel, and that her flight was dis
covered by the court guards, who
dragged her screaming to the king,
interrupting his devotions.
1t was long said that Catherine
nightly walked the gallery, Shrek