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

Atlantic City, N. j., few weeks
ago by two American airmen, late of
the Lafayette Escadrille. Each of
the men first donned a special flying
suit and metal helmet, both Of
which had been painted with the
compound. Mechanics then sprayed
eacfH with gasoline: Meanwhile the
with the preparation, was similarly
drenched with gasoline. Pilot and
passenger climbed into their cock
pits. AS the engine was started, a
torch was applied to airmen and air
craft. Roaring forward over the
smoking comet, the plane rose into
the air, and for five minutes horri-
| fed the spectators. At the end of
this time the flames died out, and
the plans was brought to earth.
made, airfnsn and airpIane were
| found to be unframed except for a
| coating of SCOT.
A delegation Of. 125 boys from
last week, in company with group
of bankers and business men from
| the Lone Star State, while touring
! the country IN search of knowledge
Gotham, including Chinatown, Grants
| tomb, the Great White Way and the
aquariam, the young Texans pro pro
| rotary of Agriculture Meredith
| made them a speech.
National prohibition is here, as
everybody knows, yet eight months
carloads of liquor were shipped from
| Louisville between May and July
| 26, according to railroad officials at
the Kentucky metropolis. Further
more, from August to August IA
thirty carloads were shipped. The
four cars a day, it is reported. Most
of the consignments of wet goods go
to New York and other esatern cities,
it is said.
The danger Of wild animals in the
United States may not seem to be
very great, but the government
nevertheless, employs q force Of 500
| mense sums every year in the cam
paign. The fighting forces are or
ganized under the bureau of biologi-
| cal survey of the agricultural de-
partment. Last year $4,000 wild
| animals were killed under their di-
! tiers are constantly employed in the
| work. This warfare, it is estimated.
saved at least 100000 worth of
| stock on the farms throughout the
country iast year In single a sec.
in diameter it is reported that TWEEN
ty-five sheep a day were killed by
coyotesA The loss of cattle, colts,
pigs and sheep in the Far West
due to wild animals amounts every
year to tens of thousands Of dol
lars.
The gigantic treasure that Amer
lea gave to the winning of the war
is wildly summarized in the speech
Governor Cox delivered at Camp
his statements:
"The cost of the United States
was more than $1,000,000 an hour
for over two years. The total ex-
pense of $4,000, 100000 was almost
equal to the total disbursements of
1891 to 1918. 1t was sufficient to
have, run the revolutionary war for
more than one thousand years at
| the rate Of expenditure which that
lures alone, so experts claim, APP
proach the volume of gold produced
in the United States from the dis
covery of America UP to the out
break of the European war"
The once famous battleship Iowa,
which played no small part in the
destruction of Cervera's fleet at San
! tiago, is being prepared at the Phila,,
delphia Navy Yard for what naval
! officers say will be one of the most
! unique target experiments ever at
| tempted.
Proceeding unnamed. but under
| her own steam and controlled by
old seafghter will become the OBJ
| jective of the big guns Of the At
| lantic fleet superdreadnaughts in
! Chesapeake Bay late this summer.
| This will be the first time that Amer
| lean warships have used a moving
/ craft for a target except In actual
| war.
of fighting Americans who wrecked
the kaiser's tdreams-will be no more
ON August 81. At the end Of this
month the last unit Of the American
expeditionary forces ceases to exist.
| crosses the ocean to fight in France
| will be transferred and General Per-
/! shing will remain in charge in Amer
| lea until he retires to private life, In
| line with his recent announcement
!! On his staff will be all of the officers
| who guided the destiny of the world s
! greatest combat troops during the
| war.
| An inconspicuous young secretary
| to New York railroad magnate
! woke up one morning last week and
found that he had Inherited the com
| Portable little sum of $50,000,Q00.
He was Arthur T. Walker. and he
| had been looking after the clerical
affairs of the late Edward F. Searles,
| the man who figured prominently In
building up the Union Pacific rail
practically unknown to New York
| previous to his arrival as full
f1edged multi-millionaire.
Victor Hoffman, an Australian
sailor, has failed to make Uncle Sam
pay him $4,000 which he claimed
was due him because he and num-
Der of seamen were 1nterned here
were seized by the American govern
ment. A federal judge in New Or.
leans dismissed his damage suit last
week. Hoffman felt that the United
States should pay him and his com
panions for the time they had lost
The judge thought otherwise.
The United States Isl now short
something like 100000 dwellings
and apartments, meaning that up
wards of 25.O00,000 people are living
in makeshift homes today. So says
report just issued by the chief en-.
gineer of the United States housing
corporation. 1t may take five or six
years for some of the big cities tc
catch up with the demands Build.
ing work has been slowed down ire.
mendously by railroad strikes, in
ability to get steady labor and other
conditions.
Brazil has invited $500 German
immigrants to come to South Amer
lea and make their homes there, the
Brazilian government paying all
travelling expenses. In response to
the invitation, s428 Huns sailed from
Hamburg last week. If it is or
dained that Germans must come to
this side Of the Atlantic there will
probably be few Americans who will
lament the fact that they are head
ing 1000 miles or so south of the