Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-25
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

From the dust of more than 1900 years
studous modern Roman has rescued a
pen-portrait of Jesus Christ. 1t was
drawn in one Of the letters that Publius
Lentulus, who was a Roman Pro-Consul IN
Palestine and knew the Saviour in Nazareth,
wrote to a friend in Italy.
There has appeared here man of
strange virture," Publius Lentulus drote.
His disciples call Him The Son of God.
He cures the sic kand raises the dead to
life He is a very handsome man and
worthy of all our attention. His hair is
blond and covers His shoulders inc separate
curls and is parted in the middle, after the
fashion of the people of Nazareth. His fore
head is smooth and serene, without marks
or wrinkles His countenance is pink; His
nose is we'll formed His beard, Of the same
color as his hair, is parted in the middle"
The advent of Christmas brought the let
ter quoted to the, mind of an old profess
sor in Rome. He translated it into modern
Italian and sent it to some of his learned
friends as historical curiosity. 1t seems
to verify the belief that the Saviour had a
very light complexion and light hair, as
many old artists depicted Him.
Expert antiquarians and students of his
tory pronounced the letters of Publius
Lentulus to be entirely genuine For CEN
turtles they were forgotten save by students
OF Latin and ancient Rome.
Net earnings of the American Tobacco Com
pany for 1919 amounted to $15,o22,687, a de-
crease of s1,574.o46 compared with the pre-
viouS year.
This left $31.S3 applicable to dividends on
each share of the common stock, against $33.42
in 1913.
Total sales amounted to $146,o2573o, an in
crease of S1553,6o2. The company's total in
come of s18,722128 shows a decrease of s312,-
633.
Though scores of towns have this winter
voted dry for the first times in decades,
the town of Newbury, Mass, shattered all
records recently when it cast "wet" ma
jority for the first time since it was incor-
porated 2S5 years ago. The vote was: Yes,
81; no, As. Last year; which was closer than
the average, it was: Yes, so; no, "A.
Paris reports the yacht belonging to Ma
poleon III, which for some time has been a
pontoon has been sold to Marseiles for
10000 francs. 1t will be dismantled This
yacht bore the name of Eagle and upon it
Empress Eugene sailed to inaugurate the
Suez canal.
Subsequently the boat passed into private
hands and was renamed the Rapid, and it is
now known as the Swallow.
According to dispatch from Adana, Asia
Minor the Armenians here have closed there
shops and informed the French that they
will send armed Armenians to the relief of
Hadpin, northwest of Marash, where the
Turks are reported terroriztng the populace,
if the French do not dispatch troops there.
The village of Romlo and Yerebaker have
been overrun and the Armenian inhabitants
have flew to Hadjin.
A telegram from Miss Edith Colt, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, one of the American relief work
ers says all is well there, but that the popu-
lace expects to be cut off from communica-
ton shortly. Both the French and the Turks
say the Americans will be safe in Hadjin.
Advocates of the adjustment of the death
penalty for capital crimes overwhelmed oppo-
sition at hearing before the joint codes COM
mittees of the legislature at Albany, N. Y.
on the Boylan-Pellett bill, which would do
away with the electric chair.
The abolition measure, according to Sen
ator Boylan, who introduced the bill will be
reported later. That there is little chance
of it being enacted into law is indicated by
the fact that while the hearing going OH
men in the state architects Office were pre-
pairing plans for a new death house at Sing
Sing prison.
Scores of officials of civil and humanitarian
interests appeared before the committee in
favor of the Boylan-Pellett measure. Only
one person. James Holl Long, representing
| the Massachusetts Civic Alliance, appeared
in opposition. Women took an active par:
in the hearing.
| One suggestion made was that the pardon
power, now vested in the governor, be trans
ferred to the court of appeals.