Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-23

for the new crop is at hand, to ald III
the suppression of the great evil.
Efforts to have the New York leg
islature permit the trapping o.
beaver for their furs in the Aoiroaoo
dack region are to be made IN IotCe
this winter by the Guides assocld-
tons, land owners of private pre-
serves and other organizations. IL "a
claimed that there are enough peaV-
err in the woods country to permlt
slaughter of 5000 for their Iurs IN, on
nually without diminishing the Sup'
ply.
New York farm brokers say
black to the farm" movement mas
set in as a result of the after-War IN
dustrial reaction and the laying OIL
of thousands of workers in city rae
tories.
Serious times are in prospect foi
Denmark unless there is some VIZ
of obtaining American coal tins VIZ
ter, reports American Minister ~
seph c.. Crew to the department o.
commerce from Copenhagen. In hn
report Mr.. Crew asserts that prom
nent persons in the business and IN
duStrial circles of Copenhagen naW
repeatedly asked the American ies,n
ton to use it's influence to OBTAIN
sufficient coal from this country TO-
the period just ahead. Without II
| these persons foresee not only tll'
shutting down of industries, unem,,
ployment, and the consequent socla
unrest, but privation and suffering
among all classes of people from lacH
of fuel
According to Information form
Washington, the center of popuia'
ton of the United States for th'
new census again will remain in mon
roe county, Ind. This time, 1t Is 10,
Gated from six to eight miles du'
| ga ct of BlOOmin gtOn
Ten years ago the population CEN
ter was located first by census ex,
perts on a farm eight miles east OF
Bloomington. Markers were erectef
over the country sent reporters and
photographers here. Three weeks
| later the census bureau revised It's
| figures, and located the center on
!. factory site within the city of Bloom.
/ ington, where it has remained until
| now.
Twenty years ago the center was
near Columbus, Ind, and this viii
be the first time in the history OF
the United States that. the drift has
There have been plentiful rain.
is generally believed that this will
be one of the best agricultural years
Persia has had for decade, reports
American Minister Caldwell from Te'
heran. Prices of roodstuffs. how.
ever. remain very high. and it Is
hoped that there will be such plen:
| tifuI crops that food can be had al
lappreciably lower prices.
The peasants are opposed to limo.
vations, and it is with the greatest
even try modern methods or tools,
However. the wealthy propr1etors
are, from time to time, bringing out
modern farming implements from
Europe and America, and it Is ex'
pected that it will not be many years
of modern implements.
Very many English women who
were widowed by the war are find-
rying again. statistics show. official
| figures given by the ministry of pen1
sions show at what rate these mar.
riages are being celebrated, as PEN
sions are withdrawn when widows
remarry.
Of 10000 officers widows to whom
pensions were granted there still re-
main 800, and they are marrying at
the rate of ten month.
Pensions were given to 224,700
mems widows; 100000 are still re-
ceiving them, and they are marrying
at the rate of 1000 month. If the
rate continues, all will be remarked
by the end of 1927.
Thirty thousand former service
men are expected to attend the Sec
ond annual convention of the Amer
lean Legion Cleveland, o., on Sep
TENDER q. % and 20
/ The convention. which will take
up problems of nationwide interest,
will also provide opportunity for
scores of reunions of divisions and
smaller units, Visitors will include
many distinguished men.
Homine pigeons that saw service
with the army, in France and many
5000 birds, are in training for the
greatest racing contest of the kind
ever arranged on September 25. st.
Louis will be the goal Signal office
men from the army and fancierS in
many cities have entered birds for
the event.
The pigeons will be shipped to va
rious points. some of them. distint
| 500 niles, and will be released on the
day of the race. Frank P. Luck.
president of the International FEEDER
alton of American Homing Pigeon
ing a gold prize to the owner Of the
pair of birds making the best fight.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children, New York, has
moved to the country. At Inwood-on-
the-Hudson they have taken over the
House of Mercy as a temporary
headquarters. 1t has been remodeled
and will accommodate 200 children.
Here. in the midst Of eight acres, the
children who have been abused by
parents or guardians to such an ex-
tent that the law has had to inter.
vene will get an opportunity to live
real life and look to hopeful fu-
ture.