Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-01
CURRENT EVENTS

llOH d oCChNC o6OJ IAAS w WI " "a III
building in New York-tallest office
structure in the worlds to be en-
numbered by a mortgage.
1t has been announced that heirs
of the late F. w. Woolworth, found
err of a chain of and 10-cent stores,
had arranged to borrow $3,000,0 900 on
the structure to provide ready funds
to meet state and federal inheri-
lance taxes, which total $8,000,o00.
The Woo1worth building, 1872 feet
high and covering nearly an acre OF
land in lower Broadway. returns an
annual income of $1,55O,0Oo and is
valued by federal experts at &c.
100000.
According to information received
from London great propaganda is be-
ing conducted in Great Britain for
higher wages for the clergy of the
Church of England. In England the
Wears and bishops and the two arch
bishops are government employees and
are paid out of tithes and tax reve-
nue.. 1t is now being shown that the
income of many of these clergymen
is not only insufficient for them to
live properly, owing to the rising
cost of living, but that they cannot
AFFORD ole.
Each vicar is furnished a resi-
dence, his vicarage, free of rent, but
the law requires that this vicarage
must be in perfect repair when va
Gated. Vacation may mean either
transfer, resignation or death. Where
adaptation has set in owing to the
wears impoverishment, the bill for
repairs is of course high, as some
vicarages are of size and pretentious-
ness out of all proportion with the
community served.
A parson has just died, leaving
$4,000 insurance to his widow. Upon
the vacation of the vicarage the
house. was thoroughly rehabilitated,
and the widow was supplied with a
bill for $500, which took all of the
insurance money and necessitated
the sale of nearly all her personal
property.
The engagement is announced of
Mr.. Frank w: Getty, of the London
staff of the New York Times, and
da Bara, actress. The engagement is
the termination of a rapid romance
Mr.. Getty met Miss .Bara aboard the
steamship Vestris when returning
here from a vacation at his home
in Winchester, Mass. They arrived
in Liverpool recently.
In some parts of Austria, and espe-
OkS1A1y HI Tic lilly toward
Hungary, there exists the extraordi-
nary custom of eating arsenic, one
of the most deadly poisons. There,
however, the peasants are so accus-
toned to its use that they are able
to take huge quantities without any
markable beauty of their women folk
is entirely due to constant drugging
with arsenic.-Indianapo News.
Secretaries Daniels and Payne will
go to Alaska next month to studs
conditions relating to their respec-
tive departments. While the timer
ary has not been decided it is un-
derstood the cabinet officers will
speed at least month in the terri
tory They will leave Seattle July
on a destroyer.
Secretary Daniels will go primarily
to study the availability of govern
ment coal lands for operation for
naval use, an appropriation of ST.
10000 for that purpose having been
included in the last naval appropria-
ton.
Secretary Payne will study numer-
Gus questions involved in the devel-
opment of Alaskan resources and in
dustry, particularly in. relation to
Concentrations recently submitted
S@Him by an advisory committee of
officials of the interior department
According to a paper on behalf of
pro protection published by the
state horticultural Society of Kan
Sas, the bird population of that state
IS 256,OOO,O00, which every year eat
enough insects to fill 48O trains of
fifty box cars each-24,OO0 cars of a
minimum weight of $4,000 pounds to
the car. These insect trains would
De long enough to reach from Okla
mona to Nebras ska. Reduced to
POUNDS, II Is figured that the birds
pounds of insects. 1t is hard TO COR
ce1Ye the dollars and cents value Of
the insect eating birds to the KAN
sas farmer.
frederick Gimble, first vice presi-
uent; Joseph J. Dowdell, general
mIerchand1se manager, and Charles
D. D., SsIiawter, buyer. Of New York,
Jointly Gna INDICTED with Gimbel Bros,
me- IN on a charge Of Lever act viola
ton, pleaded not guilty when ar
ratgned in federal court. Thev were I,
two weeks in which tn
change their plea or make any mo-
tlon counsel might desire. Mean
wnlte the bail of $1,000 each was
O., Probably the most famous of all
which regularly piloted ships into
Pelorus sound, New Zealand. and was
finally, after about thirty years. serv-
I Ice protected by special act of par
To initiate daylight for color COM
parsons an English artist has in
vented a concave reflector covered
with a checker-board arrangement of
piue, green and purple squares to bel
placed above an electric sign.
Germany is having a boom in mar
rtages. A recent copy of the Lokal
$viTH tel
and new fellowships
and clubs, of which the object is to
promote marriage, are springing up
The weaving of a genuine cashmere
shawl of ordinary pattern occupies
three weavers for three months and
the more elaborate and costly, from
twelve to fifteen months.
Peasants in the Swiss mountains
feet long, to converse with one an
other from distance.
1t is not generally known that
hen, when setting, turns her eggs
around once day.
A report, credited to an authorita-
tive source, reached New York from
London recently that Lady Hadfield,
the American-born wife of Sir Rob
ert Hadfield, ironmaster of Shelf
field, is living in Nevada. When
seen in London Sir Robert refused
to confirm or deny the, report. When
the cabled report was laid before
George w. Wickersham, brother of
Lady Hadfield, in his office at 40
Wall street, he said:
81 have no comment to make"
Lady Hadfield was Miss Frances
Bett Wickersham, and is a daughter
of Colonel Samuel w. Wickersham,
of Philadelphia. In 1894 she was
married to Sir Robert, who was
knighted in 1908 and raised to a
baronetcy in 1917. They have no
children to inherit their extensive
country seat in Sheffield. or their
London residence in Carlton House
terrace.
The Near East relief, formerly the
on Armenian and Syrian
relief, with national headquarters at
1 Madison avenue, announced recent
ly that $15,395,362 had been raised
by the organization between July l,
1919 and June 1890, A report