Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-04

geliSm with business, meets in Rome
on Saturday and Sunday, September
IL and II.
Word of welcome relief from sky
high shoe prices comes from New
England. Fred A. Howard, a chem
is reported to have invented q solu..
ton which will double the life of
leather. He is veteran in the shoe
making game.
Two prominent political names fig
ured in the Atlanta news of the
week John Holder was fined SIS
in police court for 'idling and loiter,,
as an actor in an amateur musical
comedy. However, 1t happened that
this John Holder was a negro and
that Hiram Johnson was a fictitious
character.
A seat on the New York stock ex.
a member, sold for 100000 last week.
A famine in bananas in Valdosta,
thriving metropolis of Lowndes coun-
ty, in south Georgia, was broken last
week by the arrival of carload Of
the popular fruit.
Savannah, Ga, has started to raise
a fund of 100000 to advertise ~, rs e
American and European trade.
Atlanta's building program hustled
along at the rate of more than $l,0OV,.
600 a month during the first eIgnt
months Of this year. Stat1stlcs SNOW
that the total of building permats IS
gust gust Stood at SO, O,0oO-topping
all previous records.
A new mineral substance, resem-
bling asbestos, has been touna IN
an eight-foot vein, near Coaloale,
New Officials of the federal bureau
of mines have indicated their lnteh-
tion of sending experts to STUDY tns
the new substance is excellent for in
suiation and is also a good poNsher
for diamonds, rubies and other pre-
cious stones. 1t will also serve as
soap, being 50 gritty 1t Will cut
grease. 1t is also said to be nre-
1roof. Although resembling asbestos
it is said to be too light for as
bestos.
The bulletin of the international
Institute of Agriculture, giving es-
Inmates Of the 1920 wheat crop, says
Hungary reports 100000 tons within
the treaty frontiers.
No definite estimates nave peen re-
ceiyed from other countries, but the
crop is reported to be good In Bul-
garia. Denmark, France, Serbia, LUX
embourg, Holland, Rumania and
Sweden; average in Germany, Czech-
oslovakia, Poland, Scotland and Ire
land. and below the average in Eng
land and Wales.
If the Socialist ticket should win
in the fall election there would be
no difficulty about getting Eugene
Debs, candidate for president, out Of
the Atlanta penitentiary, Seymour
Stedman, the vice presidential cand1-
date, announces.
eff the Socialists have a majority
in the electoral college can be in
augurated president in Debs' stead
and can then, by virtue of my office,
pardon Debs, restoring him to his
rights, including his right to be pres
ident. Or the inauguration can be
held in Atlanta penitentiary and
Debs can pardon himself.
Owing to the strike of all munich
pal employees, including grave dig
gers, no buria1s took place at Sara.
gosa, Spain, recently. The clergy OF
the diocese placed it's services at the
disposal of the authorities, and
funeral ceremonies began later.
The Scottish national dry CAM
patgn was opened last week and will
continue to the end of the year.
The 1000 voting areas through
out Scotland are concerned, though
ESQ voting areas already are dry,
chiefly owing to the action of the
landed proprietors.
If 10 per cent OF the citizens de-
clare for a ballot it will be taken
in due course on three options-no
licenses. fewer licenses OF no change.
Millions of rats are overrunning
Abertillery,. England, and nelghbor-
leaving a Baptist church in Ti1lery
street on a recent Sunday an army
of rats ran among them. One woman
collapsed.
Ali means have been tried to keep
Shooting, dogs and cats have been
used, but the rats have not only sur,
vived, but also thrived. The medical
officer of health, DR.. Ba1lie Smith
says the rats are of two kinds
brown and black.
The black rats as a rule keep tc
the sewers, but the brown rats clint
nything-telegraph poles and rair
and gas pipes. They swarm every
Aberti1lery district council that ex-
per rat destroyers should be en-
| ployed, but the local staff having
stated that they could do better than
the experts, the matter has been left
to them with discretionary power tc
call in help if necessary.-Indianapo-
lis News.
According to the census taken on
January 81, 1920, the republic of Aus.
tria in it's present territorial limits
has a population Of 6,067,43 Com
pared with the corresponding figure
| for 1910 the census of 1920 shows
loss of 1909, or 3.o per cent. The
t ton O. Of 1,8s2,oo5 in 1926, shows &
loss of 189,493 or 9.3 per cent. Ter
other cities with population of TO-.
900 or more each have gained 2O,14o
or 4.3 per cent, while the smaller
cities of the country districts show
The Vienna Arbeiter-zeitung Of
July 8, 1920, estimates the number
of Austrians killed in battle at 160,
| 900 to 100000, and places the tota
loss due directly or indirectly to the
war at 814.461.
The National Board of Farm Organ
| izations announces that a nationa
Borrowers of the United States, with
headquarters in Washington. was
under way. The new organization
will represent 1000 farm loan asso
Citations organized under the fedora
farm loan act.
The movement is due to the crisis
facing the federal loan system, the
activities of which, it is claimed, are
paralyZed because of litigation pend
ing in the United States supreme
| court.
The association is to be organized
on a voluntary basis by local farm
loan associations which are to be
formed into state unions as soor
as conventions can be held. A ma
tional convention will be called as
soon as ten state unions have beer
organized.
Another attempt by Henry Sulli-
van Of Lowell, Mass, to swim the
English Channel from Dover to
Calais ended in failure this week
Sullivan started on the swim at SAC
o'clock and was in the water fol
eighteen hours. Owing to the rough
sea he was forced then to abandon
his attempt when only three miles
| Off the French coast
In 1913 Sullivan swan to within
six miles Of France, starting from
| D0uar