Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-03-23
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, it was announced
recently, has become actively identified with
the project of raising a national victory me-
mortal building in Washington in commem-
Grafton of achievements of armed forces
and civilians of the United States in the
war. She has accepted the honorary presi-
dency of the George Washington Mem orial
5sociation, which has general charge of the
lterprise Tor which it is planned to raise
100000.
Without vote the house refused to
amend the army reorganization bill so as
20 make General Pershing the permanent
chief of staff. In doing it approved the
secretary of war TO make the selection
Representative rong (Kan.), Republi-
can, offering the ~-nendment, declared that
without it Pershing's experience in the
management of the army will be lost" but
Representative Greene (VtD, Republican,
and Representative Caldwell IN. W, DEM
crat contended that the secretary of war
should be free to choose ''the chief military
adviser"
C. S. Barrett, chairman of the question
naire committee of the national board Of
farm organizations which is preparing Sc
ries Of interrogatiOns to be submitted to
aspirants for the presidency, announced that
the work probably would be completed
shortly.
There was no intention, he said, to offer
questions with double meaning to lay
traps for candidates, and the elimination of
such pitfalls from proposed questions took
much of the committees time.
"It is the wish and intention of the COM
mittee," Mr. Barrett said, "to produce some
thing to which all patriotic citizens will
wi llingly subscribe. We are not initiating
a campaign to punish certain politicians
We are trying to establish a constructive
program and we hope that candidate,
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presidency, will be found who is willing to
ndorse our views
Two American Methodist mission schools
in Korea have been ordered closed by the
governor general according to dispatches re-
ceived by the local newspapers at Toxic, ia
PAN
The edict closing the schools, which were
presided over by H. D. Appenzeller and Miss
B. A. Smith, says that they failed to prevent
the students from celebrating Korean In
dependence day, despite the governments
strict prohibition against such celebration.
Jeanne Ousset, who weighed eight ounces
when she and twin brother born to
Mrs. Louis Ousset, of 229 East Thirty fifth
street, New York, sixteen days ago, is thriv-
ing. She tipped the scales recently at three
quarters of pound.
Doctors pronounce the case unparalleled
three-quarters of a pound at birth, died.
and there was no expectation that Jeanne
would long survive. The infant is perfectly
formed and save for her tininess, seems
normal in every way. DIR. Henry Koplif, of
80 East SiXty-second street. an authority
on obstetrics, said the nearest approach in
medical records was the case of baby
weighing a trifle less than a pound, who
lived.
According to a dispatch from Honolulu
Japanese emigration will hereafter be direct
ed more to South America than to the United
States, said Toxic wireless message, quot
ing M. Nagata, president of the immigration
Association Of Toxic, picked up recently by
the Japanese cruiser Yakumo, here on her
way home from a cruise in the eastern Pa
cific with number of naval cadets.
The message said it was planned to es-
tab1ish Japanese colony in Brazil, and that
Mr.. Nagata expected to visit South America
in the interests of Japanese emigrants. Lead
ing Japanese in Honolulu said they believed
a number of Japanese would go from Hawaii
to Brazil.
The Excelsr, a Mexico City newspaper,
says in it's issue of Sunday that orders have
been sent to Mexican consuls in the United
States "to refuse to wise passports of all
Americans belonging to the Association for
the Protection of American Rights in Mexico
The association, the newspaper declares,
"devotes it's activities to a formidable cam
paign against the Mexican government, which
has list of all members of the association. )"
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