Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-29
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Information received from Wash
ington states legislation providing
for national system of civil serv-
ice pensions, was completed recently
with the adoption by the senate Of
the conference report on the Ster-
government employees at the age Of
seventy is provided with the retire
ment Of mechanics and artisans at
sixty-five and railway postal clerks,
mail carriers and one or two other
special classifications at sixty-two.
Pensions ranging up to $72O year
are to be given to individuals of long
service out Of a fund provided for by
direct appropriation Of the govern
ment and by assessments from sal
aries.
Reports of the discovery Of gold
in northeastern Siberia have reach
ed Nome, Alaska, and many boats
are awaiting the opening OF naVlga-
! ton in readiness to carry stamped
erS" to the new fields.
Ice is reported broken five miles
out in Bering Strait from Nome, and
the schooner Polar Bear has been
hauled out considerable distance.
her launching so that she may get
an early start for Siberia.
|, The Ming tombs, near Pekin, are
ISIQ6 most famed LOInDS OIL CuIud' puL
In the matter of tomb building the
emperor of the Three Kingdoms,
220-265, A. D., greatly exceeded the
Mings. He ordered his son to build
for him ~ tombs. so that his enc
tmies would not know which contained
his body.
Another Chinese emperor built
peopled and garrisoned a city near
tomb he had built to contain his own
body. The tombs of the kings of the
six Kingdoms" in Shantung, though
now only earthen pyramids. terraced
with little fields, have the air of the
pyramids
The Manchus followed the Chinese
customs and law in respect to their
ancestors. Solemn juniper forests in
close their Sepulchers, which are ap-
preached through magnificent PAL
lous, and preceded by stately build
ings.
There are five imperial Manchu
burial places. The ooiginal is al
Hsin-King, Eastern Manchuria. and
E~is called the Yung Ling. Two are al
Mukden and two in the region OF
Pekin.
Jewels valued at S1,500,000 the
property of Prince William of WED
and other German noblemen, which
were seized by Swedish customs au-
thorities last August when they were
brought into this country by air
fixture of the gems was claimed on
the ground they had been struggled
into Sweden. The court held the
charge of smuggling had not been
proved.
The honor system of handling con-
victs is a failure, according to
statement issued by Warden Everett
Tertiary at Joliet. Ill. The warden
said that under the honor system
prisoners were given position OF
trust without showing conclusively
that they were entitled to such posi-
tions, while under the merit system
the reverse was true.
Governor James P. Goodrich and
the state courts were charged. with
failure to do their duty by Judge A.
B. Anderson in United States district
court of Indianapolis, after he had
Sentenced several persons who. plead
ed guilty to theft of automobiles and
transporting them in interstate
| traffic.
The national congress of the Sons
Eof the American Revolution adopted
a resolution favoring passage of
Federal immigration law that will
place burden of proof on the 1mm1-
grant as to his desirability for enter
| ing this country, in order that unde-
sirables may be barred The resolu-
ton was presented by the Ohio So
ciety.
| Fifty-one freight cars loaded with
3,060,000 pounds of sugar are being
sought in the railroad yards in
| Chicago by federal agents.
1t is said the sugar has been
shifted around on side tracks for
two weeks and, according to infor-
nation in the hands of District At
| torney Charles F. Clyne, no attempt
has been made to unload the cars,
! Sugar is being sold at 81 cents
4 mound retail.