Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-20
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Cheaper Divorces

Cheaper Divorces
There are compensations in Gary, Ind,
when wages are cut. Lawyers have announc-
ed there that they had reduced their fee for
divorce cases from 500 to $50.
This came as the browning incident of a
week of price cutting by Gary merchants and
professional men, following the cutting by 80
to SO per cent of the incomes of families de-
pendent upon pay checks from the steel mills
there-and Gary depends about rs per cent
upon the steel mills.
First there came announcements from GER
tain owners Of renting property, apartments
and houses, of reductions ranging from IS
to $40 a month Then the restaurants and
lunch rooms Topped off to Is cents on every
order except those already selling for cents.
The merchant talors and clothing dealers
made cuts ranging from $40 to $25 gar
ment The doctors and dentists agreed on
reductions and the physicians made their
call rates So instead of So.
Among the spectacular announcements of
reductions was that of furniture retail
house which asserted in newspaper inter-
views that it's stock had been reduced in
markings by $3O,000 and that most of this
| represented losses from wholesale prices.
Labor Movement
There is movement on foot to establish
a world labor internationale. The British
Labor party has summoned a conference to
be held in London early in October at which
it is proposed to prepare machinery for the
creation of a labor international on lines
sufficiently broad to admit not only the
Moscow or lied Internationale, but the
brotherhood affiliated to the American Fed.
Grafton of Labor.
A Socialist committee appointed at Wen.
ma already has agreed to send rem Hata-
| tive to the conference.
Harding Quilt
The Harding front porch autographed
| bed quilt, the suggestion of Mrs. Harding,
has been finished and is on exhibition in q
| downtown store window at Marion, Ohio.
1t is pink and white the blocks forming
an attractive design. The white blocks are
autographed with the names of President
and Mrs. Harding, William Howard Taft,
Woodrow Wilson, Vice President and Mrs.
| Calvin Coolidge, Secretary of State Hughes,
Senator Lodge, Elhu Root and many prom
inent authors and moving picture and stage
stars.
The quilt will be sold and the money de-
rived used to establish the Harding Charity
| Ward in a local hospital.
New Wood
| Bagasse, the sugar cane stalk from which
| the juice has been extracted, is being made
| into building material by manufacturing
| company at Marrero, La, across the Missis-
| sippi river from New Orleans. 1t is said to
| be virtually substitute for lumber, and it's
promoters claim it to be superior in some
! respects
The product is being manufactured in
| boards twelve feet wide and 500 feet long,
! one board containing enough material to
build three bungalows. Strips are later cut
| into required dimensions. Discovery of
use for bagasse is said to have developed
during the war in an investigation of insu-
ating board.
| Useful Music
Stimulated by photograph music, night
Ln,T1
/ have increased their speed and accuracy.
Postmaster E. A. sPurdy announced, at Ehe
conclusion of tests covering a months
period.
1--WE have found that classical and popular
records abolished worry during the grave
yard shift, from p. m. to a. m" Mr..
Purdy said.
Zeppelin for U. S.
The American and British governments
may arrange to transfer one of Great
Britain's remaining airships to American
ownership to replace the wrecked ZR-2, 1t
is reported. 1t is said the American govern
ment, prior to contracting for the ZR-2, con-
sdered the desirability of obtaining OF
the former German Zeppelins.
| When the German air fighters were turned
over to the Allies, Italy, France and England
received one each, and America none. Great
Britains Zeppelin, the LII, is now the larg-
est rigid airship in existence.
Friars Celebration
The Dominican Frlars, remarks THE Ways
Of the World,' columnist of 1.-THE London
Morning Post" celebrated the Tooth ami
! versary Of the formation of their English
province by the laying the foundation stone
of a new institution at Oxford, They arrang-
ed the event with the coincidence Of the
Tooth anniversary of the death of their
founder, st. Dominic, at Bologna, on August
6, 1921. Though only fifty-one when he
died, Dominic had accomplished many not
able results by his missions to Spain and
] France.
ceticism and, gathering around him an ever
growing band of like-minded followers,
Dominic eventually founded the first house
of his Order at Toulouse. He lived to see
his order extended to sixty houses in eight
provinces.
Glory Passes
| Fast fading under the ravages of time, the
dimming memories of the old Hawaiian mon
archy-once so splendid-are being swept
rapidly into oblivion by many agencies.
| One particularly disastrous day to the ves-
| tiges of the old dynasty witnessed many pos
sessions of the late Queen Liliuokalani, last
! of the native monarchs, pass under the auc-
| tioneer's hammer recently and the spectacu-
| lar destruction by fire that night of the his
toric Aniahau palace once the residence Of
princes of the royal blood and also famed as
the haunt of Robert Louis Stevenson during
his stay in the Hawaiian islands.
| The bathtub of "Queen Liz brought $3.50.
| A large bowl of native design was sold to
an iron moder. A tall, spindly shaving stand
was sold for 10 cents to a Chinese. Furni-
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