Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-24
Bull Fight Fans

Sailors of the American warships who were
entertained in Lisbon, Spain when the Amer
lean squadron visited Portugal, the other day,
saw a Portuguese bull fight and Justify
cheered for one of the bulls.
A Portuguese bull fight is more display
of splendid Workmanship and skillful feints
than cruel sport, such the Spanish bull
fight There is no bloodshed. The bulls are
merely leased by the bull fighters and others
who pierce his pride with their tormenting
darts. The horns OF the bulls are covered
with leather balls so that they can do no
great damage, and the proof Of the skill Of
the horseman is never to let his horse be
touched by them. He makes his horse curvet
around the furious animal, occasionally place
ing his ''ferros' in the bulls neck.
After that a group OF peasants wearing
green and red caps advance into the ring and
each in turn tries to throw himself on the
bull, either between his horns or on his neck,
and to cling there despite the frantic at
tempt Of the animal to rid himself. If one
| succeeds in clfnging on, all the other peas
ants rush up and hang on to the bull until
he is reduced to impotence
The American boys cheered all this with
great enthusiasm, but the real outbreak came
when one bull leaped after one of his tor
mentors over wooden partition and into a
group of bull fighters, scattering them right
and left.
Roars of laughter filled the enormous cir
Gus and a laundering cheer and cries OF
Bull, bull, bull!" burst from the Threats OF
the Americans
The bull fighters suddenly forgot their
elegant attitude and studied poses and fled
in wild disorder while the amphitheater re-
sounded with the laughter and cheers Of the
Americans.
One of the womanly war tragedies in
Turkey is the lack of perfumes Turkish
women preserve their beauty by frequent
thing, the use of oil perfumes after the
bath and the drinking Of buttermilk by the
quart.
The war has reduced the manufacture OF
homemade perfumes and the Nationalist
! government has forbidden the Importation
of foreign perfumes under the head of lux.
uries. To make the best of a bad situation,
the women have increased their consump-.
ton Of buttermilk.
Not Heathens
In letter to "The Philadelphia Public
LEDGER" Mansooth K. Patel, of India, a
student of the University of Pennsylvania,
voices his objections to the American
of the word heather" as synonymous with
Oriental He says: ~
During the two years Of my studies in
this country I have been much panied to
hear the frequent and unlimited use of the
| undeserved epithet heather applied to the
people of the Orient. If by the word
heather we are asked to imagine people
who devoid of religious element, and
or ethics, then there 'heathens' every
where. Every human being is striving on
the upward path, harmonizing his diverted
influences and concentrating his noble de-
sires to the truth, which he can understand
in his own light. None of US is perfect.
Why, then, point finger of scorn at
others?
"Those enthusiasts who lavishly indulge
in using the term heather for the Oriental
people must not forget that the world owes
much to the Orient (and especially to India)~
for most of the highest forms of philoso-
phies and thoughts about God and other re"
ligious problems. We may hold on to our
own conceptions of what is right and what
is wrong, but in Judging others let us not
forget that a spirit of genuine appreciation
of other mems beliefs and attitude OF
sympathy will do us harm
Anarchy Rampant
Disquieting reports of "anarchistic condt-
tiOns in the State of Yucatan continue to arr
rive in Mexico City and further sanguinary
clashes between radicals and conservatives
are feared.
A second committee of Yucatan Journalists
has arrived here to present a memorial to
President Obregon asking that guarantees
be given and that federal forces be aug
mented Immediately in order to prevent
situation which is described serious from
becoming more threatening.
Members of the committee were quoted
in the newspapers here as saying that
virtual state of anarchy prevails in Yucatan
and that the only guaranty of protection is
good revolver and ability to use it.
The editors of three conservative neWspa-
pers in Merida, the state capital, have besa
the object of many attacks by the Socialists.
So serious have been the threats that the
newspaper offices are under constant guard.
Big Pistol .-.
A pistol capable of firing a one-pound
rocket and carrying 40 yards of half-inch
line has been invented for ocean life saving
purposes, says the Daily Mail
For normal purposes, each rocket, weigh
ing one pound, carries 140 yards of half-inch
line, but when occasion arises where great
er range is required, longer barrel, to take
a two-pound rocket, can be fixed to the pistol.
During test four shots fired in rapid sue
cession aimed to pass a line oyer
a dinghy moored 100 yards away. In each
case the line went true to the mark. To in
dictate how swiftly the transfer from che short
to the long barrel could be carried out, one
shot with the two-pOund rocket was fired
IN less than a minute the barrel of the pistol
was changed, and the rocket carrying three
quarter inch line was fired. Again the line
ran out straight and true, the distance thrown
being $50 yards.
In the past, it is pointed out, great
amount of the power Of rocket has been
lost in lifting it from the trough of the ordi-
nary appliance, but witt this pistol power is
!, 1iv,o poofn ict