Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-11-24

AIOullQ Tie WOIlQ
Tri-Weekly News Flashes From All Over
the Earth
Thank Boil Weevil
Thanksgiving joy reigns supreme in the
hearts of Chester, S. c., housewives today.
Turkeys in plentiful numbers-fattened on
boil weevils-are selling for 20 cents a
pound.
Cotton planters finding that turkeys would
feed on boil weevils, raised an over-supply
of the big birds this year.
Panama Monument
monument commemorative OF theodore
Roosevelt is to be erected on Ancon Hill,
overlooking the Panama canal in whose con-
struction he took such a great part.
The idea, which was originated by j. H
Grieser, Canal Zone swimming director, has
been approved by the authorities.
Oldest Citizen
Mrs Lucy Matilda Kennedy, Savannah's
oldest citizen celebrated her 109th birthday
last week.
Mrs Kennedy is the only known Georgia
" oman living, who, during the Civil War,
shaved her head, donned a uniform and
fought side by side with her husband.
She attributes her long life to sane living.
"Dn't live too fast" and Hold your head
UP and die hard" are her notices.
The aged woman has more than two-score
descendants.
Praises Harding
Thursday Admiral Sir Cyprian A. G..
Bridge, noted naval authority, in letter to
1.-THE London Times proclaims President
Harding as one of the great men Of modern
times, enormously superior to Bismarck,
and superior even to the illustrious Cavour.'
He declares that the American plan for linz
iting navies is statesmanlike because it is
equitable and practicable, and points out
that if it is intended that the American navy
shall eventually equal that Of Great Britain
it is almost a concession, SINCE had the
American 1916 program been maintained
1--WE should either have been surpassed in
naval strength or been compelled to expend
our latest expensive building program
Admiral Bridge concludes: president
Harding has done more than any one man
to save civilization from destruction by war,
or, even if there is no war, from bankruptcy,
due to the increasing pecuniary cost of naval
forces
Eggs Up
Eggs, secretary of Labor DAVIS says, are
"going sky high and likewise turkey.
These two commodities, contrary to the gen"
eral trend of foodstuff prices, are being
boosted prior to holiday demands, Mr.. Davis
ness of the storage warehouse people"
t'When the warehouse people get all the
eggs gathered in, they jack up the price I'M
til nobody can buy but tho rich," Secretary
Davis declared
Trouble for Reds
Driven to desperation by the oppression
and cruelty of the Bolshevist soldiery sta
toned in eastern Karelia, the men in that
region are rapidly organizing an army with
~ in+n NJ Irixy fh0 rnHQ
from the district, say Finnish dispatches.
Under the Finnish Russian peace treaty
signed at Dorpat, the east Karelians were
allowed to determine by plebiscite whether
they would belong to Finland or to Russia,
but the Bolsheviki have repeatedly prevents
ed any vote from being taken.
Last month, according to the stories told
by fugitives, the Bolsheviki plundered the
villages, drove the men into the surrounding
forests and maltreated the women. The
Karelians are now confronting the Bolshe-
wiki with an organized force of 5000 men
against which the reds are concentrating
more than 5000.
In an urgent appeal sent to the Finnish
government the leaders of the Kareian force
declare that they know that humiliation
awaits them, but they ask Finland to help
them or force the Soviet government to cease
it's campaign of terror.
Food Fines
Hard times soon may come to those in
Germany whose main joy in life is good food
and drink. In law being drafted by the Ba-
varian government and subject to federal APP
prevail, fines up to 10000 marks (normally
$23, 000) and prison sentences UP to five
years, are to be imposed upon those who in
dulge in excessive eating and drinking OF
i Jrmit it on their premises. Hotels and
restaurants as we'll as private homes come
within the scope of the law.
Expel Christians
According to the Angora newspapers,
Noureddine Pasha, commander of the Sec
ond Nationalist army of Turkey, recently orr
dered the deportation of all the Christians
in his district The Mussulman population
protested to the national assembly against
this act of cruelty, declaring that the Chris
tians in this region were "honest, God-fear-
ing people, who at all times maintained the
best of relations with their Mussulman
neighbours"
The national assembly instructed Musta-
pha Renal Pasha to have the deportation
order rescinded and this was done by the
Nationalist command r-in-chief without con-
sulting Noureddine Pasha. The result was
that the Christians remained I'M their viii
lagos, but fifty-eight Of the Turks who sign
ed the protest to the assembly were co~rr.
i artialed by the blood-thirsty general. This
provoked new questions in parliament and
4~oureddine was Immediately dismissed.
Chinese Superstition
The New York department of health re-
ceived a request from President Hsu Shin
Chang, of China, fGr permission to disinter
the bodies of 800 or more Chinese, buried
cemetery, Queens, so that they may be re-
hnrind in THAR cniritc