Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-26
CURRENT EVENTS


ComtesseS, marquises and shopgirls
worked behind counters of the Trois
Quarters, one of the largest depart
ment stores in Paris, to aid the fund
for rebuilding the devastated regions
which is being collected under aus
pices of the French-American COM
mittee for the devastated regions
The owners of the Trois Quarters
gave all the profits from the two
days sale to the fund. By noon on
Tuesday line of tourists awaiting
a chance to enter the store was SO
long that special police service was
necessary to divert traffic from that
vicinity.
Leaders of society gayly donned
aprons and rumpled costly coiffures
with pencils, while official sales slips
jingled against gold bracelets. Mean
while tourists were invited to spend
their money to aid the French war
sufferers.
Among the women who sold goods
to aid the fund were Marquise de
Mobiles, Comtesse du Luart, Mines.
Edgar Stern. Jean Stern, Henry de
Sincay and Comtesse de Viel-Castel.
A statement given out at Washing
ton relates that governmental expen-
ditures from July 1, 1919, to May 81,
Expenditures were heaviest during
September, when $4,475,937,701 was
spent land lightest in y November,
when $611,301,764 left the treasury.
Exclusive i've Of eSgenS
charged to federal control of rail-
roads and the transportation act of
1920 was the largest single item OF
departmental expenditure.
The navy department stood third
in disbursements for the period WIN
a total of $723,717,269, and the de-
partment of labor last, with s5,964,-
246. white House expenses were list
ed as $6,702.S30 and congressional at
S17,681,120. Payments on the public
debt amounted to $14.846, 5o4,37
Ten thousand five hundred and
twenty-seven immigrants arrived at
New York in one week. The White
Star liner Baltic, from Liverpool ana
Queenstown, landed 1885 steerage
passengers at Ellis Island recently,
Of these the majority were Irish
girls, who are here, not as servants
but as stencgraphers, Office and fac
tory workers.
The immigrants coming to the
country now are of a higher standard
than those who came in the old days.
Forty-ive undesirable immigrants,
half of whom were of the enemy allen
and radical classes, brought to the
Ellis Island station from the Tar
west, were put on outgoing ships Tor
deportation to various european
countries.
A dead mans club, composed >ex-
cluSiVely of eX-SerYice men now liV-
ing but listed officially as killed in
action overseas, is proposed by Will
liam Writ, of Akron, Ohio. He sug-
gests the club adopt this slogan:
''NNo NOW ho hut won't lie
down.
Writ is having a hard time to
convince the government he isn't
dead and buried in France. Ais
name now is being chiselled from
the memorial bronze, tablet erected
here in a memorial building. Writ
estimates there are nearly 1000 ex-
service men now living whom the
war department records show were
killed and buried overseas.
A statement from WASHINGTON In
forms us that appointment of Ma
Jor General John A. Lejeune as ma
jor general commandment of the ma
rlne corps, to succeed Major General
George Barnett, was announced re-
Gently by Secretary Daniels.
General Lejeune commanded the
famous Second division when it
broke the German line in the Meuse-
'Argonne offensive and the secretary
said his appointment to command
the marine corps was in line with
the policy Of the department to re-
ward officers who served with distincs
ton during the war. y
General Lejeune will take charge
of the corps next week.
Science is working on machine
which will tell whether you are lying
or not. Prof. H. E. Burt, instructor
in psychology department of the
Ohio State university at Columbus,
istering his data to establish this
possibility.
The subject under observation has
his blood pressure and his inhaHng
and exhaling registered. Burt is
trying to determine the exact ratio
between inhaling and exhaling when
the subject is lying.
The breathing and blood pressure
of the person is more rapid when he
is prevaricatings Prof. Burt says.
According to news from Reno, Mrs.
Madeline Force Astor Dick. wife OF
William K. Dick. arrived there re-
Gently and leased a residence
Gave Up crust Fund Of 81, 900 900
to Marry Second Time
William K. Dick married Mrs.
Madeline Force Astor four years aft
err her first husband, Colonel. John
Jacob Astor, went down with the IT,
tanic. Four months after that TRACE
dy the present Mrs Dick gave birth
to a son, John Astor. One Of the
provisions of the will of her former
husband stipulated that she would
lose trust fund of 100000 inv the
event of her re-marr1age.
Despite this. she married Mr.. Dick
at Bar Harbor on June FL, 1915. So
ciety commented upon the sacrifice
for love of the bride in relinquishing
the trust fund.
In May, 1919. Mrs Dick gave birth
to another son.
Treasury officials at Washington
expedited payment of $50 to Michael
an employee of the Brook
lyn navy yard, for q new set OF false
teeth, which congress decided he was
to as result of an accident
in which he was struck on the head
Of teeth demolished. President Will
son approved a bill for payment of
the claim.
A reward of $4,000 with no
questions asked" was offered at East
N. Y, recently for recov-
cry of the, 100000 worth Of jewels
stolen from, the boudoir of Mrs. En-
rico Caruso.
The announcement was made by A.
c. BennetS representing a Manhat-
tan insurance company.
I'VE will pay the reward for the
return of, or information leading to
the recovery of all of the jewelry. A
reward will be paid for
any piece returned" he said.
The last of the famous houses as
ISOLATED with the name of President
Garfield disappeared recently at
Long Branch. N. j.. when fire de-
stroyed the shore cottage where the
president spent his last days. The
blaze Is believed to have started from
spontaneous combustion. The house
was owned by the Fidelity Trust
Fred Sells, a New York
broker, rented the place recently and
was to have moved into it.
After Garfield was shot. in Septem-
Der, 1881, his physician ordered him
30 have sea air. When he expressed
preference for Long Branch Charles