Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-14


a New York paper last week. This
item would no doubt stir up quite
a commotion in the Empire state
were it not for the fact that the
Georgia" referred to is many
thousand miles distant from Dixie.
In this connection, it might be re-
membered that a desolate land sit
uated at the last outpost of civiliza-
ton in the Antarctic Circle is
known as South Georgia"
American Investors, large and
small showed their lasting faith in
the future of the French Republic by
notwithstanding the new 100000
900 loan asked to help Uncle Sam
valiant ally meet it's half of the
French-Anglo loan of $500,000,00O,
which natures next month. Within
scription books were opened in the
office of j. P. Morgan & Co., in
New York last week, a nationwide
response furnished more than the
amount needed.
After meeting last week, the
southern division of the American
Red Cross With hea tbnT saors in
has led the south in work done
this year by that organization.
Ceremonies COMMUNICATING the
Battle of the Marine were held at
Meaux and Rheims in France on
September 3. Three Marshals of
France, fifty generals, the Ameri-
can ambassador and representa-
| tives of the American Legion at
| tended.
According to an Athlone dispatch
American mining engineers have
discovered good deposits in the hills
near Horseleap, County Westmeath
Ireland.
A bulletin just issued by the u
S. department of agriculture says
that from present indications Geor-
gia. will be one of the next states
Already 1854 square miles have
been released, and 300 watts are in
use. 1t is expected that many of
the high grade animals that will be
show this fall will remain in the
state
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight
champion of the world, retained his
! crown last week when he knocked
out Billy Miske in the third round
of a ten.round bout. Another hap
pening of the sport world last week
slugger on the New York AMERICAN
baseball team. crashed out his for
ty-seventh home run of the season
This stands as by far the highest
mark in the history of the game.
A hat brush SO small and light
that it can be carried inside the hat
has been put on sale in Paris. The
1t is fastened into the hat. 1t has
two forms, one of soft bristles fol
felt hats, one of plush for sill
hats, one Of plush for silk hats, anc
neither style weighs more that hall
an ounce.
ud Exports r1s 10. of oo eeigarettes in Jun!
per, cent over those of June, 1918
and for the twelve months ended
with June, 17,547,371, 900, an in
crease of % per cent over the pre-
cedlng twelve months and go pei
cent above those of two years ago
according to figures given out last
week.
Cigar and cheroot exports II
June amounted to 4,325,000 de-
crease of At per cent from June
66,S74,oOO, a gain of more thu
per cent over the same period last
year and 346 per cent over those "a
two years ago.
Shipments of leaf tobacco total.
ed 2S,o41,o64 pounds, a decline OF
II per cent from June, 1919, and for
amounted to 632,773,62O pounds ar
increase Of ~ per cent over those
OF the preceding year and 119 pc,
cent ahead of the exports of two
years ago.
Courses in elementary science are
the United Provinces of India. 4
year OF work in agriculture will be
the highest of the six years Of
science planned, so that 'the school.
boys of a population of 50,000,0O(
may be instructed in an art which
is the direct means of livelihood fol
three-fourths of this population"
Organization necessary to assur,
building of Louisiana's share of tn,
Lone Star Trail has been perfected
and efforts will be made to have
similar action taken by other states
T T6n4ug fbe which rdea it is proposed t.
~ The highway is to pass through
North Central Louisiana, the OBJ
Jective points being st. Augustine
Fla. and Los Angeles Cal. After
cation of Texas will be taken up and
pushed a thousand miles. or more
across that state, and then the east
end will be taken up through the
states of mississippi, Alabama ant
Florida: and finally the great west
ern division will be completed
through New Mexico, Arizona ant
California.
In England they now test would.
be avIators by seeing how long they
are able to hold their breath This
test is to obtain an idea of the
stability of the central respiratory
Lancet (London) explains the sys-
tenn as follows:
A stop watch and a nose clip are
az the apparatus required, while
the precise instructions as to car
~ simple. The time the man can
hold his breath before the newt
able and forceful sensation of the
need to breathe compeIs him to give
way is noted: The average time in
seconds, the minimum being forty
i've seconds. Nearly all cases with
a time record as short as this were
rejected on medical grounds apart
from this test.
Most copper mines have been
found through pure luck. The Calu-
met lode, the greatest of them ali
while vigorously stirring the soil OF
the backyard of it's owner, who kept
boarding house, the pig uncol cred
preh1storic Indian cache. This
was pile of buried copper which
was worth a fortune in itself. But
it also led to the examination of
the rock beneath, in which veins of
the metal were found.
:. Because of the Increased cost Of
living throughout the world. the
Mexican government has decided to
raise the salaries Of its diplomatic
representatives abroad so per cent,
Inns Inns increase will affect both lega-
tlon and consular employees.
Hereafter diplomatic appointments
| viii be signed by officials of the
foreign office instead of by the pres
dent as heretofore. New appoin-
their respective posts within uoe 'hirt fv
instead Of sixty days. This latter
REFORM has been introduced. it is
sald, because in the past many
| alpIomats have shown a tendency
~ 1Inger at home while they were
Profits running into millions of