Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-08-12
CURRENT EVENTS

city Is short just 102,170 apartments.
One year from next December the
number Of home seekers will be in
creased to $4,000 or more unless
building operations are pushed on
wholesale scale, the experts figure.
The same authorities claim that 49,
900 out of 100000 families will be
evicted from their premises by court
Gotham is apparently badly fluster-
ed about its predictment.
Japan, with a population increas-
Ing at the rate of 100000 a year, is
worrying it's food supply even more
than other countries.
Japan has ample living space for
it's people but cannot produce enough
for them, particularly rice. The
government is said to be losing $780,
100000, a year importing, rice from
Indo-China, in spite of utilizing every
of Formosa and in Corea. In For
mosa, 100000 Chinese laborers are
used in cultivating the grain crop.
There is still dangerous short
to the report Of the United states
shows that the output of soft coal
for the month fell 100000 tons
short of the tonnage mined in July,
last year. The certainty Of short
age is strengthened, the report in
dicates, by the fact that shipments
so far. this. year total only little
more than 6,S14 tons as against 49,
$4,000 tons for last year.
The decrease last month is attrib-
uted to the miners strike in the Illi-
nois district.
Two Of Germany's most formidable
EnI he
Westfalen, which were allocated to
Great Britain under the peace treaty,
surrendered at Rosyth, England, last
week, after steaming from their
hiding place, Kiel, during the war.
The Regensberg, another Hun dread
naught, surrendered to France at
the port of Brest at about the same
time.
A woman, Mrs. Harriet May Mills,
OF Onondaga, has been nominated
on the Democratic ticket selected at
the party's recent convention at
Saratoga Springs. =
The new German government is at
this very moment trying to lay the
foundation Of the intentional spy sys-
tenn, which proved so invaluable dur
ing the war.
Net daring, at the present to, in
vade the allied countries themselves,
the German government Is sending
the first spies to neutral countries,
where they are not so carefully
watched.
Proof was found by the capture of
! a confessed agent.
Porto Rico has a rat population of
$500, 000-two to each inhabitant-
and it costs the island $15,O00,000 an
nually to support them.
This is the estimate Of Major G.
M. Corrupt, of the United States pub
lie health service, chief quarantine
officer for Porto Rico.
Each rat, according to Major Cor
put, consumes provisions or dam
ages crops and property to the ex-
tent of IS monthly.
Unless the membership of the
house of representatives is increased
from 435 to at least 500 to meet the
| increased population shown by the
1920 census, ten states will lose one
or more representatives, according to
Representative Siege1, of New York,
chairman of the census committee,
which will frame the new apportion-
ment bill. Those states are:
Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, which
will lose two congressman each, and
Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland
Nebraska, Vermont and Virginia
which will lose one congressman
each.
Mr.. siegel explains that if the
| present figure, it will be necessary
to increase the population basis in
each congressional district. beyond
the 2l1,000 or major portion thereof
! now fixed. If this is done, he says
the ten states named will lose one
or more of the present districts be-
cause their populations have not in
creased in proportion to those OF
| other states.
Watches and jewelry are to be
transported to Paris by a newly es-
tablished aerial service, and from
Paris to London by the present com.
mercial air line. to avoid the trouble.
ice. '-- ''o- v
The fiftieth anniversary of the
establishment of the Third republic
Will be celebrated on September 4
next, and will be observed as a ma.
tl9nal holiday. The program Of the
t3n b,at ooi has not yet been drawn
wish that they be organized on an
! elaborate scale and surpass the fetes
of July II.
Inc Hamingo, characterized as the
! BIRD OF Beauty and Mystery" will
be saved from extinction by an or
der IN council issued by the govern
ment OF the Bahama Islands, the Ma
| tlonal Geographic society announced
| today.
! Complete protection is given the
birds which nest in tile marshes of
the islands.
1t was estimated that since 1901
the ~9umber of the birds on the
Islands had been reduced from 10000
to about 1000 by sponge fishermen,
who killed them for food.
A bundle Of manuscripts and let
! tiers belonging to the Duke of MARI
! borough, relating to expeditions pro-
| jected against Canada and Nova SEQ
tia in 1907, were sold at auction here
today for $50 pounds sterling. At
the same sale a second folio Shake
speare realized $50 pounds.
A single wolf has been known to
valued at $4,000. In the spring of
1919 mountain lion was killed in
| Wyoming, which in one month de-
stroyed $1,000 worth of live stock. In
| less than three months six coyotes
slew 800 sheep in Texas, valued at
$4,000.
They live high, these marauders
of the western range. A yearly es-
! innate of the loss in New Mexico
showed that 3 per cent of the cattle
or $4,000 head, and 10000 sheep
had gone to feed predatory animals.
of live stock. Remember also that
before poisoning campaigns were
| planned, rodents, such as prairie
Gogs, squirrels and rabbits ate $780,
900 worth of food crops and the de-
predations Of. house rats even, ex-
I ceedcd a total of more than $780,
| coo, 900. You can see what hole
even the small animals gnaw in the
national food supply.
With 1884 flights and a total of
10000 passengers carried during the
first year of civil flying in England
there was Tut one fatal accident.
Announcement of this, made at the
| internati0na, air show, caused much
comment and led Controller Gener9A
of Civil Avit&ticn Major General S!r
| R. K. Skyes to say.
eve have conquered the air"
| Henry Stewart, SeVenty-tnree
years old, passed through st. johns.