Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-29
CURRENT EVENTS OF. INTEREST

Congressional leaders in the move
ment for budgetary reform are to-
day attempting to correct an erro-
neous impression among great
adoption by congress of an execu-
tive budget system will, of itself,
effect a large reduction in. federal
expenditures and a corresponding re-
duction in taxation.
This belief has arisen from sew
eral widely published statements by
influential and constructive citizens
in which it was estimated in round
numbers the totaa saving that an
executive budget system, If adopt
ed, will bring about. Principal among
these statements was one by Rodger
Babson, nationally known statistical
expert, who declared that the gov
eminent would be operated at a de-
creased cost of $2,000,000,000 a year
under the proposed system of ad-
ministering national fiscal affairs.
midas poverty has a contribut-
ing factor in the high cost of mar
riages, according to Sumitraray Ram
akrisna Modak, of Bombay, who says
that if the Indian laborers have
money they will always spend it OH
marriages. For marriages they will
borrow money and mortgage their
property. and as a result they are
whether a family lives in poverty
during it's entire existence, if the
marriage ceremonies of the members
orately carried on"
Although 80 per cent of the In
dians are agriculturists, only 2 per
cent of these farmers are free from
debt. Every season they borrow for
tilling, harvesting and for market.
Ing, SO that they always work on
borrowed money The ia JooS
not sell in the market, but the pro-
duce is sold by money lenders. The
establishment of many industrial In
stitutions by missionary societies is
proving a practical solution of the
problem.-Detroit News
Any search and seizure by federal
prohibition agents that would amount
to trespass under constitutional law
is Illegal Federal Judge Clarence
w. Sessions, of Marquette, Mich,
stated during the trial of Ccalcucci
brothers, in connection with the Iron
River whisky rebellion
"A revenue agent could never in
wade my home or my premises with
out a search warrant unless 1 should
give him permission" the judge said
Bandits attacked a train few
nights ago on which Queen Victoria
of Spain and her brother, the Mar
quis of Carisbrooke. were travelling
from Madrid to Seville in an unsuc-
cessful attempt to carry off the royal
plate, which the queen was taking
with her.
The robbers, who were we'll armed
opened a regular fusillade when dis
covered, wounding two of the railway
men, one of them probably mortally
The bandits escaped in a two-horse
carriage, leaving no clew to thei1
identity.
According to statement by Com
missioner Williams, at Washington
despite the governments wartime
appeal for tax payments as a pa
triotic duty, more than 100000 firms
and individuals failed to make honest
returns under the revenue laws the
| last two years, the bureau of inter
nal revenue announced recently. In
a six months drive, which ended
February l. $19,O51, 900 in delinquent
taxes were collected.
Covington, KY, has the fever, too
OveraNs for firemen and khaki uni.
| forms for members of the police de.
partment is the plan of L. E. Bullock
safety commissioner, who stated he
would present it at the next meeting
of city commissioners. Police and
! firemen cannot afford to pay present
prices for uniforms" he said.