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

occasion when the Hun navy ven
tured to leave the safety of its own
harbor during the war, passed
the Panama canal last week.
He was en- route to New Zealand,
where he will serve as governor.
Uncle Sam seems to be in fairly
good shape financially, judging from
the excess reserve accounts of the
nations banks, as indicated in Of
ficial statements issued last Sat
urday. For the second time in a
month decided excess was shown.
bringing total reserves up to $685.
942,820. Both short and long-term
loans are beginning to enjoy easier
interest, the report shows.
1t costs about $4,000 a day to
try to keep the nation dry, accord
ing TO Federal Commissioner John
F. Kramer. of Washington, who says
that enforcement of the dry" law
is practically paying for itself at
maintains. The prohibition payroll
for the year, including a sum cover
ing enforcement Of the narcotic laws,
will be about $8,500,000, of which
$2,oOO,O00 will be paid for guarding
the 100000 gallons Of bonded n
quor stored in government ware
houses.
The president of Brazil last week
signed decree revoking the ban
ishment Of the former imperial fam
lily of that nation, all Of whom have
been barred. from visiting their ma
tive land since the South American
country became republic. AbolS
twenty members of the family will
thus be restrained and it will be
possible to bury the bodies of the
late emperor and empress in the
homeland. The presidents decision
seemed popular with the people.
Berlin's troubles seem to be in
creasing, if anything. Though called
upon to pay crushing taxes instead
OF bleeding vanquished nations for
the cost of the war, as the kaiser
predicted, there are not enough jobs
20 20 60 around 1n> the nations capital
number Of people without employ
ment in Berlin on July Is was All
l4S. as against 320,126 on July l.
Jump of more than $4,000 In about
two weeks.
The New York cotton exchange
celebrated it's fftieth birthday On
tuesday Luz Of this week. There was a
bears" who are usually deadly enc
mics on the floor of the great mar
ket Joined in concentrating the
haif-century milepost. The only two
living charter members Of the ex-
change were present.
About twenty alleged protiteers
nave been summarily jailed in Ma
drid, Spain for selling olive oil above
the price fixed by the government.
In thirty-eight Massachusetts cities
there was about one woman to every
four men registered in the state cleo
ton held on last Tuesday. Out of a
total Of 571,841 qualified voters, 31O,-
$40 were of the feminine sex.
Thirty-four million immigrants
have landed on Americas shores in
the last century, Washington fig
ures show. And in that time the ma
ton has increased ninety-seven mil
lion, according to the same authority.
Officials believe that even with the
great decrease in immigration dur
ing the war, arrivals from other
countries will figure at close to forty
per cent Of the increase in Americas
census during the ten years ending
with 1920.
New York is still in the throes Of
an acute housing shortage and vari-
Gus experts are advancing all sorts
Of remedies to relieve the situation.
Office buildings and apartments are
Do4IIS DullJ Ill IGdI IulHUcIS OIl a CO-
operative basis, the tenants owning
their quarters instead Of paying rent,
yet it Is estimated that more than
400, 900 people lack adequate accom-
modations. New Workers look back
with sorrow to 1914 when there were
$4,000 empty apartments In the city
and landlords were delighted to give
one months rent free in order to OBJ
tain a tenant.
ATo-. vox1, an
nounces that the dreadnought Ten
nessee, which is almost completed,
will put to sea about Sept. 10: She
will 60 to Newport News to take on
torpedoes. The vessel will then
make six weeks cruise along, the
November the acceptance trials are
to be held.
The 1880 ton dreadnought has
a speed of twenty-one knots an
hour, her combination Or turbines
and dynamos developing 27,000
horse power. The Tennessee will
sail in December to join the Pacific
fleet.
It is estimated that the players
and directors Of motion pictures in
$5,OOO,OO0 year in income tax.
"On account Of the war" says the
Deutsche Buecherei, the leading Ger
man trade paper for the publishing
he11 40 magazines had fbt to
old and prominent periodicals, for
instance the Zeitschrift fuer Philos-
ophie und Philosophisvhe Kritik
Margarine for Philosophy and Phil
Osophical Criticism), of which 165
m gSps5 SaG sD yolu e tTs z six
schrift fuer Privates. and Oeffent-
liches Recht magazine for Civil
and Constitutional Law, that had
existed for forty5two years the
Urinary Magazine), etc.
"since January last eighty-two
magazines have gone out Of exist
ence.
One hundred thousand dollars in
counterfeit American gold coins are
being circulated, in Tampico, accord
quoted in a Tampico despatch
Important petroleum discoveries
according to official advices re-
ceived in Washington. Adequate leg
islation has been adopted by the
SalVadorean congress SO that the in
dustry in that country will not fall
into into the tangle that besets the Mex
A new law has been enacted pro-
viding for government ownership Of
all petroleum deposits. The presi-
dent of the republic is empowered
under certain conditions to grant
concessions for oil development and
to approve the transfer Of conces-
sions from one party to another. The
owner Of the surface land has the
first right for concessions on his
property.
The supply Of teachers in Kansas
this year will be greater than any
time since before the war, it was
said recently at the office of the
state superintendent. The Inquiries
coming in from teachers are far
greater than the inquiries coming
from boards seeking teachers, it was
said.
All the London daily newspapers,
except Lord Northcliffe's Daily
Mali and Evening News" will in
crease their prices on September 20