Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-05-07
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Frances Money
The question whether Frances financial
crisis cannot be tied over by the printing
press is being seriously discussed by French
fnanciers and statesmen.
1t is argued that an increase in paper cir
culation if it further debates the franc will
at the same time bring to France the bene-r
fit Germany is now enjoying from the low
value of he mark-that is, an immense
profit on exports sold in foreign money, and
a consequent automatic equilibrium in her
foreign financial transactions.
1t is also asserted that the increased is
sue of bank notes being solely intended for
the restoration of the devastated regions
that is to say for investment rather than
for the payment of expenses of administra-
tion-need not necessarily depreciate the
franc.
The issue would be considered merely as
a. provisional one that would be withdrawn
in proportion as amounts are collected from
Germany On reparations account. The
French treasury, it is argued, can take cara
of all other demands upon it when opcs re-
lieved of the pressing burden OF RECONSTRUCT
ton.
The government has not received the
suggestion with much favor. 'N'
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Demon Wanted
LIVERPOOL.-The following advertise.
ment has appeared in a local paper WANT
ed-Manag eress Immediately to take charge
Of catering department; must be domineer-
ing autocratic and absolutely fearless of an
arbitrary staff; in short, a perfect demon"
A golf club inserted the advertisement.
ArmiStiCe Car
The railroad car in which the armistice
ending the World War was signed has been
transported to the Army Museum in the In
valides in Paris. 1t is an ordinary dining
car, transformed into an office. The cabi-
net, table and chairs are arranged in it ex-
actly as they stood on the morning OF
November II, 1919
Soldier Prince '2
Prince Henry, the third son of the king
and queen of England, who attained his ma
iOrity on March 81, is destined for milf
tary career. Although thrust somewhat in
the background by his older brothers, the
Prince of Wales and the Duke of York,
Prince Henry is immensely popular with
the public.
In stature he excels his brothers and is
fond of sports and outdoor life. In pur-
suance of his inclination to be a soldier, he
went through the army class at Elton and
afterward studied at Sandhurst, the Eng
lish West Point. =
Last August the prince was gazetted a
second lieutenant of the Kings Royal Rifles.
and at present is attached to the Thirteenth"
Hussars at Aldershot.
Til Harems Pass
The Turkish harem is quickly passing as
part of the Turkish home. Poverty and:
the need for house room are the causes. ~
The Turkish pashas, effendes, beys and all
the Well-to-do of other days whose homes
were divided into the harem and the harem->
ilk, that is, one-half of a mansion or palace~
for the women and the other for men, are.
parting with this luxury they have parted
with their carriages, horses, jewels and
lands. The peasants still keep division OF
their houses for the privacy of their wives
and daughters and children. ~
Many Turkish women deplore the necessity
which compels them to live like the poor
European They declare that they vera
happier when living apart, that the honfs:'
was easier to manage and their husbandss"
too -.
In Constantinople the majority of the PRIV.
ate houses show this division, but the
chance to rent one side of the house, else
the acquisitions of allied troops, has cause.
ed families to live together in only one-haH
of their home.
Foreigners are getting for the first time
a peep into +Ie more arstocratic of these.
old homes, until now hidden in the mystery
OF protecting garden walls, ldJtlced WINDOWS
and huge gates or doorways. The visit often
reveals a charming interior, with room.
walls and Ceilings decorated with fresco
paintings and mosaics showing charming
view of mosques mountains, seas, forests, or
rovers of the old empire.
Belgians Re-enforced
Louis Loucher, French minister Of the
Liberated Regions, recently arrived in Brus-
sells and Immediately conferred with M.
Jasper, the foreign minister, to whom he inn
parted the plan for further occupation of Ger
man territory in the eventuality of. the nom ,
payment by Germany Of the PREPARATIONS due
May 1.
NJ Loucher declared that the Belgians
need not fear call for mobilization of addi-
tional classes, as the military measures would
be completed without asking either the Bel
gians or the Br'tis17 for additional troops, be- ,
yond nominal participation. It is learned,
however, that the Belgian troops of occupa- ,
ton in the Rhineland have been REINFORCED
during the last forty-eight hours.
Railway Jam
The opening of free trade in grain be-
tween the peasantry and the cities of Russia
has brought about such utter state OF
chaos in the railway services that an official
decree, issued April Is in Moscow, orders
sentences of five years in concentration