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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
MAY
RENEW HIS FIGHT
FOR PEACE TREATY
Lloyd George Believed to
Have Notified Wilson That
Reducing Britain's Votes
Would Be Unacceptable

WASHINGTON, Jan. President
Wilson has re-entered the peace
treaty fight, in the opinion of well
informed senators to whom Senator
Hitchcock today told details of his
talk with J. p, Tumulty, the presi-
dents secretary late yesterday.
Mr. Tumulty said he called on SEN
ator Hitchcock to get information for
the president, Senators cannot I'M
derstand why President Wilson wants
information concerning a matter of
which he said he had washed his
hands, unless he intends to take it
up again.
The presidents interest in devel-
opments in the senate is due, it was
learned, to recent events in London,
where the utmost concern is now be-
ing manifested over the proposal to
make the American voting strength in
the League of Nations equal to that
of the British empire.
Premier Lloyd George, who re-
Gently made a speech championing
the right of Canada and Australia
to separate votes in the league, is
understood to have communicated
his views to this government about
the same time, pointing out that the
reservation on this subject, proposed
by Senator Lenroot, and made part
of the Lodge reservations, would
cause trouble. It DISTINGUISHES the
colonies, Lloyd George is said to
have informed this government, add
ing that Great Britain feels con-
strained to oppose any measure which
would deny the self-goyerning Bril-
tannic nations of the right to look
after their own interests in the
league.
The Lenroot reservation now
threatens to become the crux of the
treaty fight, displacing article ten as
the obstacle to an agreement.
This was indicated by statements
today of leading mild reservation
senators. AZ.
They said that Democrats have
offered definite proposal on article
ten and other points in dispute. The
article ten compromise suggested by
the Democrats is acceptable, the. res
ervationists said, but, they added, the
Democrats demanded far too much in
return. They want the Lenroot res
ervation eliminated in return for an
agreement to support the Lodge res
ervation on article ten with slight
unimportant changes in phraseology.
Republican senators declared they
will not yield on the Lenroot reserr
walton. They cannot agree to Amer
lean entrance. into any combination
where they claim this government is
an danger Of being oyerwhe lnih gly
outvoted on vital matters, they said.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
BANKS
PAY DIVIDENDS
FROM FULL TILLS

The greatest business year in At
lanta's history was closed by Atlanta
banks with the payment of dividends
aggregating nearly 100000, some of
which have been paid already and
the others being scheduled for early
meetings Of the directors.
In the order Of their age the banks
and their dividends are as follows:
Atlanta National, with a capitalize
ton of 100000 has sent checks to
its stockholders for it's customary
semi annual dividend of per cent,
max ag a payment Of 100000. The
Atlanta National, states Robert F.
Maddox, president, has had a splen-
did year, with greatly increased de-
posits; savings increased to more
than $5,000,000; and with business
good and cotton bringing a good price
he sees for Georgia and the south a
continuance of prosperity,
Lowry National, with a capitaliza-
ton of $1,000,000. on Wednesday
mailed checks to its stockholders for
it's customary quarterly dividend of
8 per cent, making a payment of
| $4,000. The Lowry Nationals de-
pOSIIS uuIIuS 1910 t1lICI6oSSu Ii OLll
S13,000,Oo0 to $20,OO0,000,
Citizens and Southern, formerly
Third Nationally. with a capitaliza-
ton of $2,O00,000 has paid it's Gus
tomarE quarterly dividend Of. 3 per
cent, amounting to $4,000. Frank
Hawkins, chairman of the board
states that the deposits of the Citi-
zens and, Southern in Atlanta alone
fnave increased over sSs000,000 since
/ the consolidation on September ~,
and in all four banks have increased
over $10,000,000s In addition to div
| idends, the Citizens and Southern
paid $4,000 to employees as al share
in profits and -,S124 600 to savings de-
lpositors in interest payments.
! Fourth National with a capitaliza-
ton of $600, 600, is expected TO pay
its customary semi-annual dividend
LOT 6 per cent when the directors hold
their annual meeting next Tuesday
and review the. years business. This
!, dividend Win amount to $4,000. In
Aaddition. the Fourth National paid
more than $40. coo TO employees as
share efF>profits. lis deposits have
increased by leaps and bounds, be-
ing near (the $25,OOo!e00 mark,
Central Ia.nn ll,ISt cQtp FORA
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
OFFICIALS AWAIT
NEW YEAR LIQUOR
DEATH REPORTS


CHICAGO, Jan. Il Authorities
throughout the country today grave
ly awaited reports from New Years
eve revels for confirmation or refu-
tation of their predictions that the
wave of deaths from alcohol poison
ing which took a toll of approxi-
mately 125 lives during the Christ-
mas holidays would be repeat ted.
Early today there was sightSevi-
dence that celebrator of the arrival
of the new year had not proflted by
knowledge gained OF the effects of
drinking outlawed liquor. The more
pessimistic officials pointed out,
however, that it would probably re-
quire full day for the serious con
sequences generally to become ap-
parent.
Chicopee, Mass, and the. Connecti-
cut valley, with fifty deaths, today
ill led all localities that suffered
"A the Christmas flood of fake
tsky. In Chicago thirty two
II Iaths attributable to wood alcohol
poisoning had occurred since Deem
Der l, according to Peter M. Hoff-
man, Cook county coroner. AZ
Fully awakened to the dangers of
consuming the poisonous beverage,
city, state and federal officers from
New York to San Francisco today
were directing their efforts toward
eliminating sales of the liquid. Sew
eral states attorneys announced their
intention to ask for death penalties
for vendors. of the poison if murder
indictments were obtained.
In New York, San Francisco. Chi
cago, Memphis, Tenn; New Haven,
Conn. and number of other cities,
alleged sellers of the poisonous liz
our were under arrest.
Whisky substitutes intended for
New Years celebrators at San Fran
cisco contained crude oil, en1balming
fluid, oil of peppermint and oil Of
carmine, chemical analysis revealed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
Summons for Summit
Woman in Brown Case

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, Jan. 1.
A summons was issued today for
the return here of Miss Gladys Sum-
nit, of Battle Creek, whose story to
authorities duplicating her room
mate, Mrs. Cecil Vester, caused a
warrant to be issued for the latter
charging completely in the murder Of
J. Stanley Brown. Miss Summit is
being recalled, it was announced, as a
witness at the hearing to be given
Mrs. Vester on Saturday, the ac-
cused woman having been arraigned
late yesterday and entered a plea
of not guilty.
officers said Ben Sorenson, a sol
der at Camp Custer, might also be
requested to testify at the hearing.
Sorenson, Mrs. Vester declared, could
support the alibi she had set up
claiming she was in Battle Creek on
December 23, the, night Brown was
shot TO death
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
Captain Deter Takes
Stand in Own Beha !

NEW YORK, Jan, 1.-CaptSS.
Karl w. Deter, on trial for alleged
iuhuman. treatment Of military pris-
oners while he was head of the de-
partment of criminal investigation
in the American camp at LeMans,
France, entered a general denial OF
the charges when he took the stand.
Deter blamed any inhuman prac-
tees that may have occurred upon
his subordinates, many of whom, he
said, were guilty of deliberate dis
obedience of orders.
He named Leonard D. Mahan, a
former lieutenant under him, as
instigator of much OF the trouble
which caused Investigations result
ing in DetZer's arrest
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
Four Killed, One Hurt
In Car at Crossing

HOMEWORK, ILL., Jan. -Four
persons were killed and one hurt
here today when an Illinois Central
passenger train struck an automo-
bile.
John Casper, driver of The auto
mobile. was the only person in the
machine who escaped instant death.
Those killed were:
Mrs. John Casper, Mrs. j, K. Book
mis-, Mrs M. Slosman afld Mabel
Slossman. her four-y ear-old daugh-
ter. eAll the victims lived ii Chicago
Heights. s.s,
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
Baby Is Drowned in
-Four Inches Of Water

NEW YORK, Jan. Love for a
Christmas doll caused the drowning
of a one-year-oId baby in four inches
of water in pail during the voy-
age of the steamship Nieuw Am
sterdam, which arrived from Hol-
land today. sT
Mrs. Jan Pustus, who is on her
way to Des Moines, Ia, with her
husband and family, bathed Jan, Jr.,
at his bedtime the day after Christ
mas and put him in his bunk with
the doll Santa Claus left When he
toured the ship. Then the family
went to dinner, leaving baby asleep.
The bath pail was inadvertently left
beside the bunk.
Jan, Jr., awoke and started playing
with Santa's gift. The doll fell out
of the bunk and Jan reached for
it. He fell headfrst into the pail.
The water covered his face and he
could not eXtricate himself. When
the family returned from dinner he
was dead.
The baby was buried the next day,
his father cutting the rope which
sent the little body into the sea
The passengers. made UP a purse of
several hundred dollars for the
family.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
Saw White Deer

ROSENBERG, Ore.--A snow-white
deear, a freak of the animal Kingdom
seldom seen in this vicinity, has
been observed by a number of hunts
ers in the Yellow Creek mountain re-
gion. The animal has created such
a. surprise taht he has been able to
get away before being killed, all
thong he has benz soht at several
times
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02

GOO, has paid to its stockholders the
customary seni-annual dividend of
per cent. amounting to $4,000. In
addition, it paid it's employees a sub
stantial share in profits amounting
to nearly $40, 600. Its deposits like
wise have greatly Increased.
Fulton National, with a capitaliza-
ton of 100000, has paid it's custo-
mary seni-annual dividend of 3 per
cent, amounting to $4,000, and has
substantially increased it's undivided
profits, as well as having a splendid
years business, ana making plans for
its magnificent new. Nome to be built
/ on Marietta street adjoining the Citil
gems and Southern flank building.
Besides the above dividends
clearing house banksg the Trust
pany of Georgia on Wednesday,
ed checks to its stockholdeI
jTS paM
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
] Maude Moore Released

lAsUNlAFILLE, Tenn, Jan. r.
Afaude Moore, alleged slayer of Lee
Roy y. Harth, who was convicted in
the Knox county criminal court, the
Jury returning a verdict of guilty
81 murder in the first degree, with
mitigating circumstances and recon-
henaing a sentence OF twenty -one
ears i'm the penitentiary, was re-
BASED "Wednesday on bond fixed
ii S10,OO0s
The defSndant was given new
EtM sFRr6ay. 81
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
now To KILL BOIL
NEEVIL DISCOVERED
5Yij.s. GOVERNMENT
Department Of Agriculture
Announces That Any Far
mer Can Reduce His DAM
age to Negligible Point
100000 Bales Destroyed
Rv Boil MeeViI This Year

SNTfi following statement by the
frop eSimate bureau for Georgia,
Hhows Wat the damage done by
NE bon mose-,.ist Aiqi this state
| Tie adpj INT of the boil weevil
Georsio WAS largely coincident
~ ne breaking out of the war
in ElEope. War conditions were
responsible efor cut of some $780,
600 acres in 1915. The actual val
ne of the damage during that sea-
son, as reported by the United
State bureau of crop estimates,
was the loss of about twenty-siX
pounds per acre in the southwest
ern section, meaning the loss of
approximately $4,000 bales. The
next season the weevil extended
his damage across our. southern
section and increased the damage
IN the southwest to about sixty
pounds per acre. The loss due to
reduction in acreage and reduction
in yield was about 100000 bales
during the season. In 1917 the
weevil extended his scope with
the result of a loss in production
of about lao, 900 bales. It was not
until the season 1918, however,
that enough territory was under
severe infestation to very greatly
affect the state average. This
ear the boil weevil cut the yield
in the southern section from 20
to 25 per cent and was becoming
active well up the state. During
the season of 1919 the damage
from the, weevil was terrific, rum
hing from 100000 to 100000 bales.
The state has most decidedly not
recovered from the weevil, al
though acreage reaction has set in
and the farmers in the southern
section have learned to make cot
ton in spite Of him and are grad
ually increasing their yield"
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02
Joe Webb and Roy Dicker-
son SfiII at Large, While
Dick hester Is Back With
Chaingyang

h CONVINCED that Joe webb and Roy
DjckersoY b, two of the three con
WIGS WHIP staged a sensational escape
from the Fulton county chaingang
Tuesday morning, have succeeded
in leaving this immediate vicinity,
the COUNTY police, with Immediate
sid in ! sight from Uncle Sam, are
using t)he telegraph wires to extend
tPelr y ct outside the state. ..
Offl9ials directing the pursuit
scout the idea that the fugitives
held UP W,dH. DuPree,s of 9 Clifton
streetf on Wednesday night. Mr..
DuPrEe, while driving a Ford car
on Simpson street near the Hightow-
ef rpad, was stopped by two men
and frelieved of $12 and his machine
at he point of reyolvers. The high
WaYmen fired several shots in his
d1r4 ction as they drove away.
ccording to the theory of the
COUNTY police, the conVicts were far
oIt side the city limits Of Atlanta
Wlken Wednesday nights holdup oc-
clttrred. After abandoning their
stH5Ien automobile at BarnesviAe
Wednesday, afternoon, the police be-
ll6ve, the fugitives continued their
Tight away from the city. DECKER
Son has relatives in Alabama and
Arkansas, while Webb has family
Connections in north Georgia. and
tennessee, and the police believe
tyheir quarry will endeavor to reach
tkheir friends.
Jester Back on Job
In the meantime, Dick" Jester,
convicted automobile thief, thee third
member of the trio figuring In the
Harihg escape, was back at work on
the county changing, again wear
ing stripes and shacl<les. On the
AFTERNOON Of the day the hreaF was
made, Jester was recaptured VIII an
unwittingly asked a squad Of his
pHrsuers to carry hinl to Atlanta in
eir automobile. His sweetheart
re was the attractiq pyed
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02

ne was the attractiC
Is downfall.
The robbery of the ]
|2stoffice on Tussda.
eyed TO have been /.
e fugitives, presum
I ne time they discard,
Aripes fox citizens /.
-. {. : -. -. !. =.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1920-01-02

III following statement by the
Ilfrop esimate bureau for Georgia,
IEhows NAT the damage done by
E e bon w ~ .,.Ajt9 this state
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
important Discovery.

For many years MT William W. Ellsworth was connected with the Century Magazine, and that brought him into contact with many interest ing people. In his book of remints- cences, "A Golden Age of Authors" he tells an amusing anecdote of Tim- othy Cole, the engraver.
 Cole is a simple man, says MT. Ells- worth, of great kindliness, who has had at various times some interesting notions about food. Years ago, when Horace Fletcher was just beginning to publish his theories, made some good-natured fun of them, and de scribed the visit of guests to my house while my family was endeavoring to Fletcherize and the impatience of the guests when they did not have enough to eat. Some friend sent my screed to Cole, then in Belgium, who took it very seriously. He wrote me of his great interest in food and gravely in- formed me of discovery that he had the color of the skin was affected by food. He was accustomed to eat for long time only one kind of food, and once he went swimming with his son, who suddenly cried out, "Why, father, you're turning green!"
 "Sure enough" wrote Mir. Cole, T looked at my body and observed a green tinge. The spinach said, for I had been making my sole diet of spinach for six months. I must change my foodp"
 Whereupon he ate beets, and at the end of another six months found his body in a healthy, ruddy state. which he felt was owing to the beets.
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
Valuable Motion Pictures.

Motion pictures of construction work in which a large public build ing appears to arise from the ground like magic, being completed in the ten minutes duration of the film, are being shown before various engineer ing societies by government repre- sentatives. The structure is the In dustrial building of the United States bureau of standards. and the pictures were made by exposing a short lengtA4 of film every day during the ten months of work on the building. The effect of running these short exposures together in single picture is an amaz- ing condensation of time, making in- cidentally a highly instructive and intensive study of modern building methods. - Popular Mechanics Maga- zine.
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
Sheep on the Hillside.

Sometimes as you ride along through the mountains, you will see a whole side of the hill covered with what looks like gray rocks. But after you watch it awhile you see that it is moving, and everyone knows that rocks would be pretty funny things if they started to move around all by themselves. These ''rocks" are really sheep and they are having a fine time eating little grass hidden in among the sagebrush. Over at one side of the flock is usually splendid shepherd dog, who is always smiling. At least he seems to be smiling, because he has his mouth open just as though he were. He is watching to see that the little lambs and larger sheep do not wander too far away from the f1ock.-Christian Science Monitor.
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
JUNIOR RED CROSS
 ACTIVE IN EUROPE

Garden seeds for Polish orphans. milk for anaemic Greek babies, car penters' tools for Czecho- -Slovakian cripples-these are only a few of the gifts that young Americans are send ing to the war-crushed children Of the Old World.
 Through the Junior Red Cross the boys and girls of the. United States are giving a fresh start in life to little war orphans scattered all over Europe They have set up orphans homes in France, school colonies in Belgium and Montenegro, and day schools in AL bania.
 They are sending dozens of young Syrians, Montenegrins, and Albanians to American colleges in Constantinople and Beirut, and maintaining more than a hundred orphans of French soldiers at colleges and trade schools. In or phanages and farm schools up and down the peninsula of Italy there are nearly 800 wards of American Juniors
 Last winter a thousand French chill dren from the inadequate shelters of the devasted regions were sent by the Junior Red Cross to spend the cold months in warmer parts of France At the same time five thousand little Belgians were having hot lunch every day at Junior Red Cross school can- teens.
 American school children have al- ready ra6sed something like a million dollars for these enterprises, and they are still hard at work.
 In China, through campaigns of ed ucation, the Junior Req Cross Is help ing to combat widely prevalent blind ness and cholera.
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
Measuring Our Universe.

Astronomers are inclined to believe that our universe with its 3,000,000 stars is after all but part of space and that other universes may lie be- yond. Attempts have been made to measure the size of the so-called uni verse, but opinions differ very widely as to its dimensions. It is difficult to measure it by using so small a unit of measure as a mile. If we take the speed of light which travels 186,000 miles in a single second, for compari- son we will begin to gain some faint idea of the dimensions. Light speed ing along at this rate will travel in an hour 669, ,66O,OO0 miles. It is estimated that 1t would take light 30,OO0 years to travel across this space. Some as- tronomers even believe that it would take ten times as long or 100000 light years. The mind can scarcely grasp the idea that beyond this universe lie ssen greater voids.-Boy's Life.
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
lBOVE WISDOM OF SOLOMON
sreat Secrets of Nature Hidden From the Eyes of Even the Keen
 est of Mankind.

The queen of Sheba came to ask Solomon questions to test his wisdom. One question, tradition says, was as .ollows: Here is a large diamond which I wish to put on necklace. On )ne side a straight hole is drilled to he center of the stone-on another dde a straight hole is drilled to the center at right angles to the first low shall I string the diamond?"
 Solomon took the gem, sent a serv- mt to bring him a little slender worm rom a bush near by, attached a silk thread to the worm and let it crawl through the crooked hole, handed back he diamond with a salaam and said: 'Shucks, how easy!"
 Mrs. Sheba then said. q have here vial which I wish filled with water, put the liquid must not be taken from he waters that are upon the earth, TOT under the earth. nor in the hrma- nent above the earth"
 Solomon turned to a servant and whispered a command. The servant mounted a horse standing near, rode nim two miles at full run, brought him pack reeking with sweat. Solomon took the vial, caught the sweat in it, handed it to the queen with a bow and said, Come again." .t
 She then said, "I have a goose at home, and when 1t eats grass, the grass turns to feathers on it's back. I have a sheep and the grass 1t eats turns to wool on its back. l have a COW and when she eats grass, it turns to hair on her back-how do you ex- plain that, MT. Solomon?" And MT. Solomon could only strike the table with his fist and shout, ''This meeting IS ."-Charles D. Merrill.
Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
MhRKET INFLUENCED
 LARGELY BY SUPPLY
Lowest Prices Prevail After the
 Heaviest Shipments.
With Decreasing Stocks Prices Ad. vance, Sometimes Recovering Much of Early Q .ciine-carefuI
 Study Will Assist

The man engaged in either selling or buying perishable produce will do we'll to familiarize himself with the usual course of the market in such lines during a season. The natural market course, according to marketing experts of the United States department of az riculture, is somewhat as follows:
 It starts high with active movement even for inferior stock because the de mand has the sharp edge of novelty and appetite. The price gradually de clines and poor stock becomes harder to sell as the supply increases. Low est prices arrive soon after the heav- fest shipments begin, and a glut may occur, especially if many sections are shipping at once and there is much poor stock. Then, with a decreasing supply, prices advance, sometimes re- covering much of the early decline, but usually not reaching the opening prices because demand is far less keen at the end of long season. If the last of the shipments are inferior, as happens frequently with many perishable crops, the season may close at or near bot tom prices.
 The common or natural market de- velopments do not always take place as might be expected. Quite frequent ly superior quality Of the main crop or absence of general competition will bring higher prices in mid season. Un- expected shortage may cause the re- serve stock In storage to sell at high prices at the close of the season, espe- cially the less perishable crops like potatoes, onions, apples. cabbage, etc. Careful study of crop, shortage, sup ply, and shipment should enable a fairly good judgment to be made of the outcome. However, quickly per ishable short season crops like straw berries or melons are very irregular, and so 1t is difficult to form a reliable market Judgment of them.