Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-09-11
CURRENT EVENTS


supplies"
Mr.. Pack spoke before the meeting
o. the Society for the Protection of
New Hampshire Forests.
Two hundred war veterans, trained
at public expense, will enter upon
their new duties as teachers when
the public schools Of Ontario open
next month.
Entry of ex-soldiers into the teach
ing profession is regarded with great
favor by the education department,
which has been lamenting the fact
that the male school teacher has late
ly been fast disappearing.
When a seventh son is born in Ar
gentina the president Of the republic
becomes his godfather, according to
custom. Recently a seventh male
heir was baptized with brilliant
church ceremony at which the rank
resented President Irigoyen, who now
has a large family of godsons.
Old members of the Sac and Fox
Indian tribes are making prepara-
tons to hold their annual green corn
dance. The ceremony will be held
on the Greyeye farm and will last
three days.
Hundreds of bushels of green corn
have been stored in the tribes grana-
ries to be served as an offering. The
dance is held to give thanks to the
Great Father for a plentiful yield.
Komahtokemah will be master or
ceremonies and has called all of his
followers to be present.
Next to cotton, more puonds of jute
are manufactured each year than of
any other fiber. The jute industry
dates from 1924 when the East India
company shipped some samples TO
the Dundee fax manufacturers for
experimental use ra The and soon nn
it practically controlled the world
market for manufactured jute.
ROME, N. Y.-Home brewers are
making the hop growing district of
Central New York rich. There is
greater demand for hops--the flavor
ing ingredient of beer-than ever be-
fore and the greatest crop per acre
in the history Of the industry is now
maturing. 1t will run more than
1000 pounds to the acre, ana 81
pound is freely offered. A hop crop
costs Is cents a pound to produce,
SO that an acre will net about $1,000.
Some growers have 100 to 200 acres,
and the big growers look for a
profit for the season of from 100000
to 100000 each:
Notwithstanding the fact that
Charles Ponzi, whose get-rich-quick
scheme has startled the world, has
been called everything from petty
thief and crook to a million, dollar
have firm confidence in his integrity
and his financial ability.
There came to him this week from
New York a certified check for
$4,000, drawn on the Chase National
Bank of New York and signed by
L. - 90 Inif
ration of that city. Accompanying
the check was letter which said:
ITO assure you of the confidence
we feel in you will you kindly invest
the amount Of this check in our be-
half?"
soar in Hungary, the American dol
lar being quoted at $50. Even at this
Foreign exchange continues to
price it is not obtafnable, as all
supplies in the local market have
been bought up.
A statement by the finance minis
ter indicating that a levy on capital
was considered resulted in an ad-
vancing market, and there are ap-
prehensions that Hungarian money
will be converted into state bonds.
Statistics recently furnished by the
director of agriculture in Mexico give
2S4,942,883 kilos as the wheat crop
of 1918, and 387,522,320 kilos as the
returns from 1919, an increase of ap-
mated that the 1920 crop will yield
406,898,436 kilos, or an increase of 5
per cent over the 1919 crop.
Members of a party Of leading
grain men and bankers who traversed
the three prairie provinces of Canada
this month reported on their return
home that if the crop of 1921 pro-
duced as much money as the crop Of
1920 promised to do the three prairie
provinces will in two seasons yield
sufficient sum to pay the national
debt of the Dominion.
One of the bankers interviewed
was Mr.. George H. Prince, chairman
of the board Of the Merchants Bank
of st. Paul. He estimated the value
lars, and said that only about Is per
cent of the ti1lable area of the prov
inces was under cultivation. The
wheat crop of the year, he thought,
would be 250,000,000 bushels and the
area under crop he vas informed
ticipated that the United States
would aid materially in financing
western Canada, and that very large
quantities Of wheat raised here would
bemilled in Minneapolis.
Aluminium consumed in the United
States during recent year amounted
to 79,129,000 pounds. The production
in 1884 was $50 pounds.
The natives of sumatra were
greatly excited recently when the
Dutch governor forbade them to XIII
tigers under severe penalties. 1t was
hard to convince them of the neces-
sity to protect the terrible man-eater:
The most important industry OF
Sumatra is growing oil palm trees,
and it was threatened by the increase
of wild boars, which prefer the fruit
to all other food, killing the trees
with tehir tusks. The more tigers
killed the more wild boars there
were. The tiger likes wild boar
meat better than any other, although
it kills also cattle.
Under such circumstances, the
decided to protect the
tiger to save Sumatra's main IN
dustry.
The police announce that 10y, OO0
political refugees are living IN Wen.
ma. The majority OF them are
Ukrainians and Russians, with many
italians and Hungarians.'
Among the legislative proposals to
be submitted in the forthcoming seS-
sion of parliament in Australla VIII
be a bill to remove the disqual1nca-
ton against women offering them
selves as candidates for parliament
The fight in Nashville which
brought victory for the cause aase +S 0a
women's suffrage in America cost tne
National Woman's party $4,000, 1t Is
announced by the leaders of the cam n
paign. This amount was PAID 10
workers at the Tennessee capital ana
for ammunition in the way Of lit
erature and the like. AS the funds
are not all in hand, the suff rIas ,ans
are now busy getting SUBSCRIPTIONS
for the balance needed. e.,
six hundred passengers travelling
on the Denver and Rio Grande rail-
road were recently marooned Tor "a
dav or so, when seven miles OF track
and several bridges were washed
away by a great storm that swept
the countryside in the vicinity of Sa-
Ida. Col.
The little island of Malta, Brit
ish possession in the Mediterranean
sea, was severely shaken last week
by an earthquake. Many buildings