Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-06
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Big Fines

Big Fines
Fines aggregating $4,000 were imposed
on twelve wiretappers by Circuit Judge e.
G. Davis at Fort Lauderdale, Fla, this
week, after the men had pleaded guilty to a
specific charge of attempting to defraud E..
C. Peterline, of Grand Rapids, Mich.
The fines were imposed as follows: James
j. Knox and, E. J. Sellers, New York, $4,000
each; Thomas Tracy, Lexington, KY, and
William Fenton, Kansas City, $4,000 each;
Albert Ross, Detroit John Ford and John
Adams, Louisville Ky; Harold Rosen, Lynn,
Mass; William O'Flannagan, Huntington,
w. Va; Charles Bowden, Charlotte, NJ c.,
$500 each, and Harold Moore, Portland.
Ore, and c. Watson, address refused, $1,000
each.
The cases grew out of the raid on build
ing equipped with overlapping parapherna.
liza here February /. The raid, participated
in by specially deputized citizens, resulted
from an investigation conducted by an off.
Ger sent here by Governor Hardee, after
citizens had complained they could get no
action from local officials. Sheriff A. G. Tur-
ner, of this (Broward) county, was subse-
quently suspended from office by the chief
executive.
bonds totaling $42,500. Watson, the oldest
of the band, eighty-two years, wept during
a lecture made by the court in passing the
sentences.
The cases were the second to be tried
under the states recently enacted law which
provides maximum penalty of $4,000 fine
and ten years Imprisonment for wiretappers
and confidence men.
About Dreams
Nv Of toll ck amA
head of the department of psychology in
Kings college, University of London, lin a
novel theory of dreams, rejected the claim
| of the psycho-analysts that they are always
| significant, that every part of them has
meaning which must be looked for in prirn.
| tive desires lurking in-the subconscious
mind He gave them much simpler sig
nifcance.
"The function Of dream is to guard
Sleep he said before the Institute of Hy.
giene. I'm sleep desires, cravings, anxieties,
the memories of earlier days, all of which
are the fundamental elements Of the mind,
! we'll up and strive toward consciousness
| while the main personality is in allegiance.
| If they reach consciousness, sleep is at an
end. This theory covers the entire ground Of
| all types of dreams"
| "Pussyfoot' Escapes
William E. ("Pussyfoot') Johnson, anti.
| liquor crusader, was guarded this week fol-
| lowing an attempt to bomb a meeting at
Green Bay, Wis, he was to address.
The bomb>was thrown into the Union Com
gregat1onal church, as an audience of 500
| were waiting for Johnson to appear.
| F. G. Walker saw smoke curling from the
| Internal machine, grabbed it and threw it out
Of door. The bomb proved "dud."
| Walker was slightly burned. Johnson adj
| dressed the meeting later.
Il have no fears" he said, pointing to his
eye, which was blinded during demonstra.
| ton against him in England
| Radio Spreads
| Linking the soi-disant "centers of culture
| IN the enlightened but effete east"-to quote
( from the Congressional Record-with the
main streets and crossroads hamlets in the
| outlying provinces the Community set
promises to become one Of the most popular
and useful forms of radio.
The village keeper of the Golfers draws
upon the fund set aside for public welfare
and uplift," radio receiving set is purchased
and Installed in the town hail. and Hiram
and Maggie and the children, driving in by
Ford from the peach orchards and truck
farms in the remote rural districts, are given
an opportunity to hear Chicago grand opera,
the latest hits from the Follies or possibly
an address from Washington on cooperation
between the banker and the farmer.
Unbellevers may argue that Hiram and
Maggie, knowing more about improved meth
DDS for raising perfect peaches than aesthetic
values will not appreciate grand opera. They
may De right. E
But it stands to reason that Hiram and
Maggie's children, subjected to the refining
influences of classical music at tender and
and impressionable age, will in the course Of
time learn to demand the best in art and
music. They will know when the inimitabIe
Gall1-Curci flats a note or has sour even
Ing, and will instinctively perceive that red
flannels are not worn in the best circles
1t is this knowledge that will make democ-
racy safe for America.
By bringing the advantages of the city to
the rural sections, radio may help to solve
the world-old problem of how to keep the
children on the farm.
1t the time ever comes when each commu-
nifty has its own radio set, and theatrical en-
terta1nments, classical music and instructive
talks are transmitted by radio from the large
cities to distant hamlets in every state, there
will no longer be any reason for young Reu.
ben to desert the old homestead and seek the
pleasures of life in the big city He will find
sufficient entertainment in the hamlet to
make him content and the bright lights and
glddy cabarets will cease to lure-perhaps.
The police commissioner of New York has
Ilfted the ban on smoking by women in pub
Tic as suddenly as he clamped it down when
he learned that Alderman McGuinness' anti
smoking ordinance never had been passed by
the board of aldermen or Signed by Mayor
Hylan.
Daniel w. F. Mccoy, an employe in the
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