Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-27
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

| DR.. Frederick H. Millener, foremost
wireless telephone expert of the
| country, is listening to catch signals
| that the people on the planet Mars
| may be hurting across a space OF
millions of miles to the people on the
earth. Mr.. Millener is stationed at
a lonely farm house in Omaha, Neb,
where none of the ordinary electric
| currents around a great city can in
terfere with his work. DR.. Millener
is surrounded by the apparatus of the
| most powerful wireless receiving
station in the world. His intensifiers
| will magnify even the faintest COM
motions among the waves of the air
until they break as a storm upon
the apparatus, which will make. a
permanent record of them and per-
| NIT their study at the leisure of the
scientists. The planet Mars is closer
to the earth just now than at any
other time of the year. DR.. Millener's
| instruments are tuned to a 100000
| meter wave length. A 2O,OO0-meter
| length of wave is an extremely long
one for wireless use on the earth:
And it is by the extreme length of
wave that DR.. Millener expects to
decide whether any signal which he
may record is from the earth or
from out in interplanetary space.
Wave lengths used on the earth are
known quantity. Waves OF other
lengths, according to DR.. Millener,
may come from another planet.
According to news received from
Washington an Investigation into the
causes of friction between whites
and blacks in the United States and
of the increasing discontent' among
the negroes would be authorized I'M
der a bill introduced today by Sena-
tor Spencer, Republican, of Missouri.
A commission of nine members,
three of whom would be negroes, and
an annual appropriation of $4,000
is proposed.
Information received from Ottawa,
Canada, states that a bill proposing
that dealers in German or Austrian
goods be required to advertise that
fact, passed it's second reading in
the senate after considerable debate.
The penalty for violation is SIX
months Imprisonment or $500 fine,
or both. The main purpose of the
jected to purchasing German goods
Among the latest news events got
ten direct from Washington it is said
that Secretary of the Navy Daniels
accepted from Major J. E. Wrench,
secretary of the English Speaking
union, check for 100000 to be used
for the erection of a monolith in New
York harbor to commemorate the part
American naval forces played in the
Dover patrol during the world war
Those present at the presentation
ceremony were Assistant Secretary
Roosevelt, Ronald G. Lindsay, coun-
sellor of the British embassy; Major
General Bethel, military attache, and
Admiral Niblack, chief of naval intel
ligence.
In handing the check to Mr.. Dan
iels, Major Wrench said that it rep
resented 'the good wishes of the
British people to the great American
navy" Mr.. Daniels, in accepting the
gift, dwelt upon the cooperation and
good fellowship of the American and
British navies during the war.
The monolith to be erected in New
York harbor will be an exact copy of
the obelisk already in course Of cree
ton on the cliffs of Dover, in Eng
land, and near Cape Blanc, in France
At meeting of the National
Academy of Science at the Cosmos
club. Washington, D. c., DIR. Charles
D. Walcott, president of the acad-
envy, announced that the institution
will erect a building as it's home and
headquarters here to cost s1,40u,-
900.
Carnegie corporation of New York
made possible erection of the build
ing through offering to the Nationar
Academy 100000 to build the
structure and endow the national