Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-24
CURRENT EVENTS

AlCnOuSn lSOldleu IOI lllOuSdIloS VI
years, anthropologists assert the Es
kimo has developed mentally and
physically to such an extraordinary
degree that he can teach every race
many things. He developed theories
long ago that modern men are begin
ming to think about only now. He
has outstripped other races in that
he makes himself the playmate and
the educator of his own children. An
orphan among the Esllimos soon finds
home and is given the best of care
and education.
The Eskimo regards honesty as
paramount. He will never misrepre-
sent facts, and although he may want
to dispose of an article badly he
will rather depreciate it than run the
risk of over-praising. A man VINO
lies or deceives another is severely
punished
An Eskimo will not permit a fell
bowman to need for food or cloth
ing, once he has enough for himself
and his family. AYR, to the parka-
hooded men of the north, is unknown.
They decide differences by staging
dance-duels and out-singing each
other, and old men act as judges to
decide winners. In this way honor is
combating nature, fighting the wal
rus, the whale and the bear with
primitive weapons, the Eskimo dis
plays unusual GOODNESS and plans his
way out of danger with extreme self
ScSSion.-Detroit News
English as commonly written to-
day certainly seems to have lost
the purity and strength that it had
century ago. Then such masters
of the language as Cobbett, Coleridge,
De Quincy, or Hazlitt were journal
lists as we'll as poets or essayists,
and their leading articles lost moth
ing of effect on the public from
being literature.
The arrival of the age of steam,
electricity, and cheap postage was
followed by a change, not for the bet
ter, in the popular style of speak
to say as briefly and quickly as pos
sible, and don't bother about fine
ness of expression" became the gen
eral rule and practice.
The new millions of readers de-
manded that their reading be ex-
pressed in the language of every day
speech. The obligation of compress
ing conclusions about important mat
tiers into one thousand words, or few
er, is death, in the end to style. The
literary form favored is in touch
with the turned-up trousers fashion
of wearing ones clothing. 1t is free
and easy and crammed with linguistic
atrocities. Plural subjects are po1yS-
amously welded to singular verbs,
and Lindleys Murray, turns in his
grammar.-Spokane Spokesman.
Imagine an oil well within a mile
Of Manhattan! Commander Cleland
Davis U. S. n. (retired), of Engle
wood, claims oil in large quantities
flows under the Hudson River bed,
on the Jersey side, approximately OPP
posite the 130th street ferry. Com
nd hoc tn
partment of commerce and naviga-
ton for permission to prospect for
oil and make borings at his own ex-
pense in the river bed from Engle-
Legislation making all Mexico dry
is being prepared for presentation to
the next congress at the office of
Provisional President de la Huerta.
says the newspaper Universal"
"The provisional president has de-
newspaper, "as a means of accom-
plishing the regeneration of the In
dian and halfbreed races, which are
great consumers of alcohol"
The prosperity Of the sugar in
dustry was indicated recently in the
df Sdgnds T Of FH wH Large s.r extra Fra
filming company ordered a distribu-
ton of SIS share in cash as we'll as
the regular quarterly dividend of
l "a per cent on the common stock,
payable August 2 to holders of rec
dividend Of 1 IL per cent on the
preferred stock was declared, also
payable August 2.
The Cupey Sugar company declared
100000 common stock This is the
second dividend by the company. The
February. + he directors voted voted the
regular semi-annual payment Of
stock, all dividends being due Aug.
to stockholders of record July 10.
All weekly immigration records at
Ellis Island since the war were
broken last week. 1t was announced
today that 1851 aliens had been in
spected. inclqding 11,161 aateerage
eigners still await inspection. Nearly
all ships landing immigrants dur
ing the week brought larger per-
centage of men than of women and
migration rush as this since the
summer just preceding the outbreak
of the European war;" Superintend-
ent Baker said. "Of course, in the
pre-war days it was nothing to talk
about, when he had, $4,000 or 5000
a week There is abundant evidence
that immigration would go even
higher than before the war if we
mad the ShlpS TO carry the 1mml-
grants"
Felix M, Warburg, chairman of the
joint distribution committee of Amer
lean Funds for Jewish War Suffer-
ers, received a cablegram yesterday
confirming officially the report that
DR.. Israel Friendlander, professor of
Biblical literature at the Jewish
Theological summary here, and DR..
Bernard Cantor, associate of Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, of the Free syna-
gogue, were murdered in Ukrainia
July 8.
The murder of Dr. Friedlander and
DR.. Cantor was the first reported
here last Saturday. Mr.. Warburg
heard Sunday from the Jewish news
agency at Warsaw that the report
was true, but hoped for better news
until he received from the Warsaw
branch of the joint distribution com
m1ttee Wednesday a message confirm
ing the first report.
A dispatch from Berlin states the
memorandum dealing with Germany's
ability to pay the indemnities de-
manded, which the government hand
ed to the peace conference recently
to be used as a basis for the dis
cussions of the question at Spa,
sets forth that Germany's national
wealth before the war was $52,250,-
100000, whereas her wealth now is
not more than $23,750, 100000, from
which foreign debts of from $780,
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