Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-05-13
CURRENT events OF INTEREST

Five hundred pages of "Mademoi-
selIe de Maupin," a French classic by
Gautier, published in 1886, but re-
garded by the New York Society for
the Suppression of Vice as obscene"
| were read by Justice McAvoy and
the members of the jury recently.
The reading formed a part of the
trial of the suit brought by Raymond
society for $4,000 damages for false
arrest. Mr.. Halsey was arrested at
the instance of John E. Summer,
head of the society, after the latter
had bought a copy of the book from
and later won $1,000 damages. The
appellate division reversed this de-
cision.
There were only one or two audi
tors in the court room aside from
those on duty. F. V. Valentine, at
torney for the plaintiff, read the book
aloud, while the members Of the jury
and Justice McAvoy followed him in
the copies before them.
Mr.. Valentine made no pretense at
monotone, while the jury followed
listlessly. One giggle an hour was
about the rate of the jury's respon-
siveness to the humor of the book.
The court attendants were seemingly
asleep from about the three hun
ureQIn page.
Twenty-three persons were injur-
ed, sixteen of them so severely they
were taken to a hospital, when a
ed on the upper West Side. New York
City, recently.
The driver Of the bus. according
to the police, in trying to avoid col
swerved toward the curb. striking
the truck a glancing blow: The bus
then toppled over on the sidewalk.
The majority of the injured were
women.
The Argentine government does
not contemplate limiting or prohib-
iting the expectation of wheat at
minister of agriculture, declared
when his attention was called to the
heavy export movement which
threatens to exhaust the exportable
surplus before the new crop is
ready.
The price of wheat has risen to 27
pesos a ton, a new record figure.
The government is negotiating with
the millers to find a means of re-
ducing the cost of bread.
Woman suffrage was revived in
Delaware when the state senate
adopted a resolution of ratification.
II to 6. After rejecting a substi.
tute offered by Senator Gormley, pro
viding for a referendum at the next
election on the subject, the senate
adopted the resolution of Senator
Walker, ratifying the Susan B. An
thony suffrage amendment. Senators
Brown and Palmer, both of Sussex
who voted against ratification, while
Senator Price, of Smyrna, Kent
county, was the only Democrat to
support the resolution.
The vote follows: For ratification:
Senators Robertson. Highfield, wal
Bennett, Long and President Pro-
Tenn. Short, Republicans; and Price,
Democratic. Against: Senators
Gormley, Latta, Hollett and Murphy
Democrats; and Brown and Palmer
Republicans-6.
There was a big demonstration by
women suffragists in the senate
chamber following the announce
ment of the vote.
American battIeships were kept
on this side of the Atlantic during
the war as reserve force In pc
half Of the allies in the event that
the German fleet should escape from
it's base and reach the high seas de-
spite the British blockade. This pol
icy was agreed among the allies and
fully understood by Great Britain.
This was the statement recently or
AuHlrdl WlllldIl .. bSISOll, ICLll GU
before the senate subcommittee on
naval affairs that is investigating
the charges of Rear Admiral Sims.
Admiral Benson was chief of naval
operations at the navy department
during the war.
1T would have been ill-advised TO
send battleships to the other side
unless absolutely necessary" Ad-
miral Benson declared. "The object
in keeping the fleet on this side was
not to defend the coast from attack,
but to hold in reserve force that
could meet the German fleet in case
it broke through and drove the Brit
ish from the seas"
A dispatch from London states
that great number of Russian bour-
geoisie who fled from south Russia
to Asia Minor persisted during q
storm in the Black sea, according to
a wireless dispatch from Moscow.
Fourteen ships laden with refuses
were lost.
Hunters are searching for two wild
bears which invaded the village of
Chelsea, on the Hudson river, not
far from Poughkeepsie, and caused
a panic while the people were re-
turning from church. Residents
were frightened from the streets.
The bears walked leisurely along
the road and disappeared into the
swamp