Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-21

according to the estimates of Ma
jor General Henry T. Allen, COM
mander of the American army of oc-
cupation.
In New York there are 382,039 peo-
pie who can neither read nor write
or who cannot speak English. These
statistics were revealed by the last
census and have started a campaign
to give this great army OF 1ll1terates
a chance to get an education.
A miscellaneous batch of ISL Reds,
I. w. WIS and Communists will soon
be tried in Chicago under the drastic
illinois law, following the recent con-
viction of William Bross Lloyd, the
millionaire radical, and twenty of his
incendiary colleagues.
Fear of a sugar famine this fall
is 3, thing of the past now, the author
tiles say, since the price of raw
sugar began to tumble. Fifteen cents
a mound, with a probable further re-
duction when the new Cuban crop
comes in, is predicted as about the
figure that housewives will pay over
the counter.
The German people are doing in
voluntary penance for the war In
more ways than one. Reports to-
day show that the residents of many
leading cities of the former kaiser's
domain are now forced to travel on
foot when they want to go any
where. Enormously increased cots
of operation have shut down the
trolley lines.
At least 1900 refrigerator cars
must be assembled between Buffalo
and Rochester by the New York
Central and Erie railroads in order
to handle successfully the peach
0f Sfofn which will
ripen in about ten days, according
to the public service commission. A
request has been forwarded to the
interstate commerce commission to
take steps to insure a minimum loss
in movement Of the fruit.
The original manuscript of Home
Sweet Home" is said to have been
buried in the grave with Miss Harry
Harden, of Athens, Ga. She was
John Howard Payne's sweetheart.
ence to her fathers wishes. After
she was separated from her lover
she shut herself in the old family
mansion, seeing none but few
members of the little church to
WHICH she belonged.-From the In
dependent.
The first snow storm in more than
decade swept San Trago, Chile, last
week.
About six inches of snow fell. The
fall was heavier than, any shown by
the records for more than twenty
years.
In the mountains the storm as
sumed blizzard proportions, with
drifts of six feet, interrupting COM
munications between the coast and
the cities of the central provinces.
Somebody murdered somebody else
on an average Of twice a week In
New. York during the first six
the trecords of the district attor-
ney. In this harvest of fifty-two
violent deaths, thirty-two were kill
ed with firearms, eleven by knives
or. daggers And and nine min by 61unt in in
first degree murder has been obtain
ed and sixteen Of the killings are
still unsettled.
In the vicinity Of Artesia in the
Whittier district, California, is 10
Gated the largest electric hatchery in
the world. This plant now has a ca
pacity of about 100000 eggs and a
weekly output capacity of about 3d.
900 chicks. During seven months of
the year this plant Is working at full
annual output will average close to
100000 chicks. 1t is here that the
first successful electro-incubation has
been achieved.
Uncle Sam is now paying more
than 5000 men and women to serve
as S1euths in various departments
of the government. These detectives
and investigators are recruited from
all walks of life and some of the
federal branches are constantly del
uged with applications from amb1-
tious young men who think they are
cut out for successful careers as
crime discoveries. The secret serV-
ice department, for instance, which
is the oldest wing of Uncle Sans
list of 10000.
immigration took a jump upward
during the past week. for in all, H.
1877 aliens were Inspected at New
York, and in addition, immigrants OF
three more steamships which arr1v-
ed here have yet to go through the
mill. The total of arrivals for the
week was 1904.
Inspection of the 1851 on the Ro--
chamb beau, 996 on the Niagara and
$40 on La Savoie was held up yes
terday because of the congestion on
Ellis Island. Commissioner Freder-
lex A. Wallis spent most of Friday
night preparing places for l,9OO de-
tanned Immigrants to sleep in the big
concourse where Inspections are held.
1t is not showing on Mars, ac-
cording to Camille Flammarion,
Frances veteran star gazer, who
has taken up the scientific cudgels
against American and British astron-
oners who thus explain the reap
pearance Of the vast white spot on
the planet.
M. Flammarion says the tempera-
ture there at this time of the year
is nearly as comfortable as it is at
Beauville or Atlantic City, and also
ridicules the idea that Martians
have found a new method OF signal a;
the spot is merely plateau higher
seen since 1879, due to atmospheric
obscurity.
Whist1ing is prohibited in the city
of Agana under penalty of five
dollar fine by order of Captain Gill
mer, governor of Guam and COM
mandant of the United States Naval
station here. The order reads:
entirely unnecessary and irritating
noise which must be discontinued 1t
is therefore ordered and decreed
that no person shall whistle within
the limits of the city of Agana. The
penalty for violation of the order
snail pc all eAecuLlYe Aue "ot " GA
coed S."
Captain Gilmer has full author
ity in making the laws of Guam.
this perhaps being the only United
States possession where one man
has the power. :
Canada's 1920 wheat crop has been
estimated by o;cials of the agrf.
cultural department at 262.338, 900
bushels against the final estimate of
93,26o,000 bushels last year. The
pat crop is expected to be 496,966,0 900
bushels this year against 394, $4,000
bushels in 1919. Barley also shows
substantial increase, this years fig
ures being 63,438,500 bushels against
last years figures of 56,3Ss.4o bush
els.
based on the actual conditions Of the
crops July 81.
The total yield of hay and clover
Is estimated at 12,S53,900 tons and
probably will fall somewhat short Of
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