Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-21

rate totals to be announced on the business
of 1920.
Crowns Stolen
The recent theft from the royal armory
of two golden votive crowns of the Visigothic
King Swintia deprived Spain of one of her
greatest treasures, as only in the Cluny mu-
scum of Paris do similar specimens exist.
| Historians suppose that the two crowns
originally were part of the treasure OF the
old cathedral of Toledo before the present
building was constructed 1t is believed they
were removed from the church when the
Arab invasion occurred and buried in sep
| ulcher in the hamlet of Guarrazar, in the
vicinity of Toledo where they were discov.
cred after six centuries.
Later, when Isabel II was on the throne,
two peasant women came to her and offered
her the crowns and other articles which nave
now been stolen from the royal armory
Those Bolshevilzi
Choice of a home is not permitted in the
land of the Bolsheviki, according to reports
from Russia. Everything belongs to the
government which assigns living quarters
Special barracks have been assigned to
persons from America, as Soviet authorities
consider them unreliable rebels that must be
kept apart from others. Everybody knows
| these Americans by their sad faces and dis
NAL silence. They do not answer if spoken
to in Russian, but their faces brighten if some
| one appears who knows English, and espe-
| cially the American vernacular.
Don't you speak English?" is their first
question, followed by the inevitable second
"Is there any way to get back to American?
But there is way out, for Russia is locked
| from within.
| Concerning Stamps
| Specializing the possibility of new is
| sue of stamps as a result Of eX-Emperor
| Karls dash for the Hungarian throne, Doug
! las B. Armstrong writes to the London Daily
Express that Hungary's political vicissitudes
| since the armistice are. already wildly re-
| corded in the stamp album.
| The encarmined imprint "Koztarsasag"
| (republic), following the flight of the empe-
ror and empress to Switzerland, was i'm
posed on the postal issues of the erstwhile
| Hungarian kingdom until such time as the
obsolete designation "Kir" (imperiaD could
! be erased from the dies themselves. The
same stamps in due course were reissued
bearing the inscription, Magyar Posta,'
| only.
A further overprint reading Magyar
| Tanacs Koztarsasag" Hungarian Soviet Re-
| public) was struck with the advent of the
red republic under Bella Kun on the contem-
| porary postage stamps, which, however, late
gave placa to bizarre series Of definite
| character adorned with the effigies of Karl
Marx and other Socialist leaders.
| The printing of these grotesque labels had
| to be suspended after a few weeks, thus re-
moving what the promoters had looked to
as source of considerable revenue, in view
| of the worldwide demand by collectors.
After the seizure of the main stocks of post
age stamps by the Bolsheviki it became nee
essary to distinguish those current in the
areas under allied occupation, and to this
end local Overprints were applied at Arads
Barabya and Temesvar by the French Ser
bian and Rumanan authorities and at Sege-
din by the anti-Boshevist government of
Count Hardy.
For France
Hugh G. Wallace the retiring American
Ambassador to France, on behalf of the
American committee having its erection in
charge, formally rendered the Marine memo
rial, the gift of America to France, to Presi-
dent Milerand in the Elysee palace this
week. The statue, which is being designed
by Frederick MacMonnies, the American
sculptor will be erected near Meaux. 1t will
| be as large as the Statue of Liberty in New
York harbor.
"I present to the government and people
of France in the name of the whole Ameri-
| can people, the monument which is to rise
to commemorate the victory of the Marne,"
said Mr.. Wallace. "Four millions of my
countryfne1 directly Joined in the gift
Ambassador Wallace handed to President
Millerand a letter from Thomas w. Lamont,
of New York, the originator of the memorial.
formally rendering the gift.
Friend of Tobacco
Tobacco is the least harmful of the -four
social poisons," tea, Coffee tobacco and al
cohol, according to Sir James Camille, the
eminent surgeon, speaking in London.
t'Smoke the same amount of tobacco every
day." said Sir James, land the heart will
become accustomed to certain amount. If
one smokes less one day than another he
feels the effect as much as if he had smoked
more"
He said three days abstinence from smok-
ing would entirely free the system from nic-
otine. Sir James condemned the cigarette.
Arctic Expedition
Another expedition into the Arctic regions
in two or three years is planned by Vilhjah-
muir Stefansson, the explorer. he announced
at Pasadena CAL at the residence of Ernest
de Koven Leffingwell, also an explorer,
where he is a guest.
Despite the discovery of the North Pole.
Stefansson said, there remains much room
for exploration in the Arctic.
"The center of the ice-bound regions of the
north never has been reached by man" he
said. "The North Pole region is $50 miles
from the edge of the icy area, while the CEN
ter is 500 miles from the edge We are Gen.
terjng our interest on getting to the center
| and finding out what is there. I have no
theories. 1t may be land or ice."