Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-02
Around the World
Chapel on Wheels
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the Earth.

Chapel on Wheels
A number of district conferences OF
Northwest Methodist Episcopal churches adj
vocate a chapel-on-wheels campaign this
summer to cover vast area OF territory
where the population is scattered. There
are hundreds of hamlets, agricultural COM
munities and isolated places where the gos-
pei is not now heard.
The mounted chapels are to be con-
structed on trucks equipped with living
quarters for the parson, a platform in the
rear from which services may be conducted.
In the equipment will be included graphic
phone with gospel records portable organ.
books of songs and Bibles for collective
reading.
The first of these wheeled churches will
leave here early in May for the lumber
camps above Snoqualmie. The pastor in
charge of the first chapel will be a student
from the College of Puget Sound (Tacoma)
Theological school.
Rat Killers
The young woman who jumps on chair
and shrieks when she sees mouse will be
amazed to learn that Miss Anna Mae Wright
and Mrs D. M. Staples, of Nashville, Tenn,
are busily engaged in killing rats and are
making money out of it.
These two-said to be the first profess
sional women rat killers in history-are
Virginians of good birth and education.
They started their new vocation in Nash
vile and will soon go to New York.
Miss Wright and Mrs Staples use barium
carbonate as poison, following suggestions
of the United States public health depart
ment. Their method is this: They visit a
big warehouse or place of business and by
quoting statistics prove that rats are waste
full, costly and menace to health. Then,
having made contract, Mrs. Staples and
Miss Wright set bait-sausages, tomatoes
cheese-full of barium carbonate. The rats
after eating seek a secluded spot outside
and give UP the ghost.
The female Pied Pipers will bait pub
lie market place gratis. Thus they intend
to travel from city to city, seeing America.
Aged Elephant
Tillie, huge circus elephant, recently
celebrated her one hundred and sixth birth
day by being the guest of honor at birth
day party held for her in the state house
yard at Columbus, Ohio. The party was att
tended by the state and city officials
Tillie took part in the festivities and ate
her plate and cup and saucer and even the
key to the city (made of bread), presented
to her by Mayor Thomas Prof. AIonzo
futile, of the law department of Ohio State
University presented the elephant an hon
orary law degree on behalf Of the law
alumni Of Columbus. The diploma was
made Of molasses.
Tillie trumpeted once and showed her
appreciation by devouring this token of
esteem. A birthday cake 2x4 feet and con-
tanning 106 candles featured Titles table.
Many of the city's most prominent BUSH
ness and professional men attended the
luncheon in Titles honor.
The wireless telephone boom in America
is filling much space in the newspapers 1t
will be reproduced in this country if as Ia
expected, the government restrictions are re-
moved or modified soon. Godfrey Isaacs,
managing director of the Marconi company.
said that the company has extensive plans
to popularize the wireless telephone in
Great Britain.
The company intends to rent to private
persons portable receiving instruments,
"tool7proof," at about the same cost as the
ordinary telephone service Subscribers to
the wireless will receive important political
speeches, concerts and so on, from a CEN
trail broadcasting station.
so far the company does not intend to
rent private sending apparatus said Mr..
tsaacs. 1--WE do not want to see a radio
epidemic here. In America the boom is
rather premature; the equipment in use
there Is rather primitive and not such az
we would like to see employed here"
Murder Plot
The Berlin police believe they have dis
covered the existence of an international
Armenian murder band, whose members
are pledged to take revenge on Turks i'm
volved in Armenian atrocities. This suspi-
cion is founded on the investigation of the
murder of two former Turkish officials,
Djemal Ami Bey and Eddin Chakir Both
were members of the Armenian Deportation
committee which directed deportations and
massacres in 1916
The police think the chief centers of the
Armenian organization are in New York,
Paris, Berlin, Geneva and Rome. They be-
lieve the funds for its support come from
America and that the headquarters Is in
America.
Several Armenians in Berlin have been
arrested Many Turks have reported that
they have received threatening letters from
Armenians.
Watch for Fire
Two good-looking school teachers Amy
Kross and Cora Thomas, Bellingham, Wash,
have been named to serve for two months
this summer at lone fire lookout station on
Sourdough mountain, north of here, in the
center Of an immense area Of forests
A lookout cage small cabin located at