Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-05-25
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the Earth
So have Mandoka's fifty-eight years roll
ed by, to be enriched as they took him past
his prime by the spectacle Of the survivors
Of his race adjusted to white mans world,
made prosperous by the industry Of their
farming and happy by the rewards of that
prosperity Mandoka himself has reared two
daughters and four sons. He has seen one
of the daughters married, and you find him
playing with little grandchild in the kitchen
of his farm home. The other daughter at
tends the little country school across the
fields. Three of his sons served in the United
States arl during the wa, one lighting in
France. Two have re-enlisted. The others are
blowing the fields near the paternal home.
Aside from these adjusted few, the only
evidences of the vanished glory which coll
ored Athens in the days of old are to be
seen when the business affairs OF Mandoka
and his people reach to ceremonlous heights.
For ordinary occasions Mandoka and his
people can discuss business with anyone.
But there are occasions of weight when gov
ernment-4l authority is invoked or ancient
claims must be adjusted.
For these occasions it Is not enough that
Mandoka can speak the English Language
like a white man. An interpreter must be
vequisitioned. Mandoka and the men of his
tribe who are interested speak with all the
elouuence of the council fire to that inter-
prefer and the white man must do likewise.
Only the interpreter addresses either party
directly. There is that in the American In
dian which removal from hut to farmhouse
cannot kill. He will hold his dignity in coun-
Gil to the end as memory, protest and
an example.
From the Dead
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who arrived in
Chicago this week accompanied by Lady
Doyle and their three children, exhibited two
letters he received from medium in Toledo
last night which, he said were from his son
Kingsel, who was killed in the war, and from
his mother, who is also dead.
That which he declared to be his mothers
letter had at the bottom a scrawled signature,
which, he said, was his mothers method Of
affixing her name to communications to him
before her death. This, he said, would have
been impossible for the medium, Mrs Ada
Bassinet, to have known
Another letter which was scrawled In PEN
Gil on ordinary notepad sheets came, he said,
from his dead son, Kingsley. It, too, was
signed, and said:
"It is bully to be with you on this trip.
Oscar and Uncle Will are here, too"
"It was utterly impossible" said Sir Ar
thur, "for this medium to know that Kings
ley had an Uncle Will, or that he was dead"
Sir Arthur said he would investigate the
possibilities of communicating with the spirits
of the departed by means of the RADIO during
his visit to Chicago.
Venus Next
The planet Mars-an old dying worlds
receiving altogether too much attention from
earthly scientists these days and nights, while
the up-and-coming young planet Venus Is
just waiting for chance to know US better.
This is the conclusion of Professor Svante
Arrhenius, Noble prize winner and one Of
Europe's foremost scientists and astronomers,
who lectured here on the prospect of wheed-
ling from the heavens the secrets of some Of
our celestial neighbors and especially Mars,
when the planet swings into closest proxim-
ity to the earth two years hence.
If scientists and long distance radio en-
thusiasts really wanted to communicate with
some celestial neighbor, Professor Arrhenius
said, they would not find Mars very cordial,
for the old fellow Is covered with hard frozen
sand and is so dry that its only rain Is me-
teoric dust. Perhaps a few sea weeds still
existed, he said, but 1t was highly improbable
that even low animal life could find enough
to sustain 1t. He described as fantastic" the
belief that so-called canals observed on the
planet were the work of engineers and at
tributed them to earthquake assures.
Venus, on the other hand, offered possibil-
tiles to the patient astronomer, Professor Ar
rhenius declared By patient" he meant
about billion years, he explained. At the
expiration of this period, he thought flour
1shing colony of intelligent beings might be
discovered on the bright little planet.
Everything on Venus is dripping wet" he
continued "The planet is covered by con-
slant rain clouds 10 kilometers thick, pre-
venting any rays from the sun penetrating
to the bottom of the air strata. Life on the
planet Of love is short and intense"
American Students.
Many American students are working their
way through French universities according
to report from the continental branch of
the American University union at Paris. re-
ceived by Professor J. w. Cunliffe, Of Column
bia university. Professor Cunliffe, secretary
of the union, which is backed by 80 American
colleges and universities, said that the orr
gan1zation has found positions of all sorts for
students who must supplement their incomes
by employment
Tutoring to prepare American boys and
girls for examinations at home, translating
books and articles, serving as travelling com
panions, giving English lessons to French
people, or earning board and lodging in ex-
change for English conversation" are some
of the ways by which the need is met Many
men lost their jobs as teachers in army
schools when the American soldiers left
CoblenZ.
Italian Suffrage.
Signor Modigliani, Socialist, has introduced
in the Rome Chamber of Deputies a bill pro-
vidng for full suffrage for women on equal
terms with men.
The Socialist deputy, Treves, introduced q
resolution lamenting the failure Of the
Genoa cOnference and urging tho oovarnyoau+