Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-10
CURRENT EVENTS OF INTEREST

A drawbridge on the state highway
between Searsport and Belfast, Me,
collapsed recently, dropping a four
ton truck into the water.
General Pershing, who is on a
motor tour of Maine, was to have
passed over the bridge about the
time the collapse occurred, but he
was advised of the break and d.
rected to reach this city by a detour.
Charles NJ. Foster. owner of the
truck, and Ralph Libby, both Of
bangor, escaped by Jumping when
the draw. gave way: Films. said to
be valued at $4,000, were lost with
the truck.
A dispatch from Genoa states that
by the government and the munich
pality to receive in a feys several
hundred delegates who will meet in
Genoa for the International Seamen's
Labor conferences.
According to the newspapers, one
of the most important delegations
will be that from the United States.
The American delegates, however,
will be present only as observers.
A gift of $4,000 from the West
inghouse Electric and Manufacture
ing company, bringing total UP to
100000, and thus swelling the
$4,000, 900. endowment fund to a new
mark of $1,304.2366.O7, was reported
by DIR. Frederic E. Sondern, presi-
dent of the New York Post Grad
late Medical School and Hospital
Other large gifts were $4,000 from
from w. D. Thornton and $1,000
from Charles H. Sabin.
Dr., Sondern announced that it
would be the goal Of the endowment
committee to raise an average of
$4,000 a week throughout the sum
mer months to insure a provisional
expansion of the institutions work.
A dispatch from San Salvador,
Salvador, states that ]. Andres
Urtecho, a prominent engineer, has
Teen nominated for the presidency Of
Nicaragua in opposition to the Lib.
eral party. Members of the latter or
SANITATION hope to receive encourage
!nent for their candidate from wash
ington, where a delegation of Iiber-
ais has been sent. Should this en-
couragement be withheld, however,
the Liberals. it is said in dispatches.
vii! vote for the reelection of Gen
Cral Chamorro.
An appeal for immigrant labor to
solve the farm help. problem has
peer oeen MAGE 4GL to Commissioner Fred
Gial. immigration inspector in St.
Louis, on behalf of the western
states. Mr.: Dunn called upon Com
missioner Wallis recently.
hit 1T seems pity he said, that
which might turn the tide of imni-
grafton from the cities to the coun-
try. There is a distressing need of
farm hands. Not day passes but
receive requests from wheat pro-
ducers asking for help and seeking
to find out If there is not some waS
Dy winch labor can be turned into
the fields. INV
THE lure of high wages and high
ne combined with shorter hours has
from the rural districts, even though
70 cents an hour is being paid f0r
harVesters.'' F1" "o1
The superintendent of mails at
the New York postoffice denied a re-
port that there had recently been q
oeclued increase in the number Of
PF f. post packages reported stolen.
by the load was being stolen from from
the postoffice stations as wei as on
route and that these thefts ware
co1 mn by temporary employees.
f. me superintendent said that so
t~l aS ne knew new it had been about
Te1aence were made for robbfng the
parcel post mails. At that time
several chauffeurs, who had been
81 g a1eh4 temporary Iy jobs, had been
III - tooolhS the mails, he said
he haan SAID that undoubtedly there had
Deen a big increase in the nostei
ItettS IN the last few years hut
added that in some sections re ~
10y 10y the mall has increased 500 per
cent over two or three wears 400 90 ~
the department has had difficIiltv "i IN
the work. '1lei u 40
g. according to information received
rom canada the farmers eovarn-
uleHt OF ontario has come to an end
WIN adjournment of the provincia1
t tgg As1atQre after a session in which
t tbG new United Farmers party had
onIngS largely its own way. Through
coalition with a small labor groin
ine farmers party constituted a ma
Jorlty or one Or two members over
the combined opposition of the old
ing conservatives and the Liberals.
-, Opposltlon to the new party during
spirit of give the farmers a chance"
ana only once was there a serious
nght over government measure. In
Inns case, bill to provide benefits
Tor perannuated public servants,
tng r,l party was divided against itself.
situation in Ontario expect a more
spirited opposition to the farmer-la-
Dor coalition at the next session.
When Queen Victoria, an English
princess, was bride it was with the
greatest difficulty that she could be
coaxed to go to a bull fight. And then
she went because she felt it to be her
queenly duty and as an adopted
Toros her majesty would turn her
head away when the horses were led
to their certain doom and when the
bulls received the coup de grace.
But time and familiarity have
worked wonders. At the gala bull
dressed in white and wearing the
mantilla and the ''rnanton de Ma