Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-29

-, According to a statement from
Washington the house bill increas
ing pensions of Civil war veterans
to $50 monthly and nd those Of veter-
passed recently by the senate and
now goes to conference. Senate
amendments make the increases ap-
plicable to 215 veterans of the MexI-
can war and 1876 widows of Next
can war veterans, as well as 73
widows of veterans of the War of
1912.
The present average pension OF
0 0eters s25 is $3.50 AZ and that Of wiz
about $65,250,OOO to the present pen
sion roll of $214,0OO,OOO. Last June
/ there were 271, 500 Civil war veterans
! and 336,375 widows and dependents
on the pension rolls.
The bill provides pensions up TO
| $50 monthly for disabled veterans.
The great commercial awakening
that has taken place in China shows
manufacturers are beginning to rec
ognize that in, China lie greater OPP
portunities than anywhere else in
the world. For the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1914. the. United States
imported nearly $40,0oO,000 and ex-
ported $25,0O0,0OO worth of merchan-
disc; but in 1919 our imports had
jumped to over $145, 100000 and the
exports to nearly $11O,O00.OoO.
The exodus of italian working
men returning to Italy has seriously
affected the silk industry in this
country, which is Handicapped by an
increasing shortage of skilled work.
men. Thousands are said to have
left the silk manufacturing center
of the United States.
Converse & Co. have been appoint
ed as exclusive selling agents for the
Lynchburg Cotton mills. Later this
! plant will be absorbed by the Con-
solidated Textile corporation.
A large and thoroughly up-to-date
mill in Somersworth, n. H., and to
cost $4,500,0O0, will be built at once,
reinforced concrete mushroom type.
Two units of $4,000 spindles and
| 800 looms will be set up in the new
plant. Oil will be used as fuel and
the power will be from electricity.
The Statesville, n. c., Cotton mills
! have added $250,000 to their capital
of $25O,O00.
Representatives here of the Brit
| lsh government professed ignorance
! of any investigation of reports that
| a plot was being Matched in New
rising in various British dependen-
cies. Cable dispatches received re-
! Gently from London stated that Brit
| ish officials were conducting an in
| quiry into constantly reiterated re.
ports that a conspiracy was afoot In
this city for revolts in Egypt, India
! Ireland and Canada.
One important British official SAID
his only knowledge of plot or in.
Vestigating was that carried in press
dispatches.
| Members of the Old Clothes club
who have been in good standing for
years and years, met yesterday ir
Newark, N. j., to protest against the
| spread of the movement and sent g
| delegation to the mayor to make thai
protest formal
The burden of the complaint OF
those who hitherto have had the priv
| ilege of wearing the cast-off clothine
of other persons, was, What we goin
to wear if they quit castin' them?"
This overall and old clothes move
| ment hits us harder than anyone
| else" the leader of the delega ton. g
well-known lounge lizard in one Of
! Newark's most popular flop houses,
told the mayor heretofore, every
spring, when folks began to clean up
we inherited a wardrobe sufficient tc
tide us over for the year. Now
they're wearing their old clothes and
our wardrobes are on the bum"