Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-10
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Mountain Climber

Mountain Climber
Brgadier General Charles Granville Bruce,
who, despite his fifty-fve years, has accept
ed the leadership of next years ascent of
Mount Everest, is man of remarkable at
tainments He was shot through both legs
at Gallipoi and, as he himself describes
the event, che rolled down the hill like a
shot rabbit" but, being an irrepressible OPP
timist, he recovered. His personal strength
is such that he could at one time raise and
hold out at arms length full-grown per-
son as he sat in a chair. Stories of his
strength, his practical jokes and of other
more serious exploits, are common property
throughout northern India, where he has
commanded Guryha regiment for years.
His passion has always been mountains
eering. More than once he brought one or
his Gurkhas home with him. One ne took
with him to Switzerland, where the Gurk-
has uncanny skill in scrambling up impos-
sible places produced great shaking OF
heads among the Swiss guides who had new
er before seen anything like it. Should he
be compelled to leave the final peak to
younger men, his vigor and thoroughnsss as
an organizer and his experience as leader
of men will be invaluable, his frlends say.
Water Power
The Italian government has just author
lied loan of 200,000,000 lire ($lO,0OO,-
O0O) to society which has been organlz-
ing to utilize the vast water power available
| in Catania, in southern Italy
It is expected to develop electrical ener-
gy to the amount of about 100000 horse
power by utilizing natural basins along the
rivers, and that This will enable the develop
ment of many industries. About 50O COM
&ad 10
this great hydro-electric enterprise, which
eventually will require about $25,0OO,OOO
capital.
Barrage Victims
General Percin, in book describing morc
than 200 battles in France and Belgium
during the World War, concludes from data
collected by him that $4,000 French soldiers
were killed by their own artillery through
defective liaisonn The losses he says, were
higher by SO per cent in the French army
than in the German army. The losses or the
French infantry, he finds, were comparative
Iy four times greater than the losses OF the
artillery. He fixes the French losses from
the enemy's fire at 100000 killed ana
wounded.
General Percin was military governor OF
the fortress of Lille Just after the outbreak
of the war. He evacuated the fortress on
orders received from the government when
| the Germans approached the frontier, ana
was for long time supposed by the general
public to have evacuated the place OF his
| own volition. A lively controversy between
his friends and adversaries has been going on
ever since as to whether he was badly treat
ed by the general staff. He has severely
! criticized the conduct Of the war in the heid
| by the French staff.
| French Labor
bill to regulate the importation OF for.
| eign labor into France will shortly be laid
| before the chamber, reports the Paris COR ,
respondent of "The Times" The bill provides
| for the creation of special department.
under the ministry for foreign affairs, theT
business of which it will be to draw on for
eign labor without depriving the home work.
ers of employment.
| It is estimated that the country can now
employ 100000 foreign workmen, COM
pared with 500, 900 before the war. The great
majority of immigrant laborers would be
| sent on the land, the remainder being re-
uuired by the binding trades, mines and
other branches of industry
| Although there is a case for precaution-
airy measures such as those provided In the
| bill, there is at present minimum or UNI
| employment in France The figures for the
week ending October 20 show that the to-
tai number of men and women out OF works
| in the country has been reduced to 49,
| 400, rs per cent of whom are in the Seine
| department. which includes Paris.
| The last official information issued, re-
marks "The Times" showed that there we're
approximately, 1,423,O00 unemployed in the
United Kingdom on October Fl.
Battle Signs
The first of the 240 boundary stones be-
| ing erected by the Touring club of France
along the line where the German advance
was checked in 1918 has been placed at
Chateau-Thierry, according to Reuter- dis
patch from Paris in the Westminster Ca
Zette"
| Standing five feet high, the stone is Of
| Alsatan granite and bears the words:
"Here the invader was thrown back in
1913"
On the sides of the stone are sculptured
the figures of gas mask and wine flask,
two of the accessories that helped the allies
to gain the victory.
Obsolete Furniture
Dozens of mahogany, walnut and teak
wood bars, tables and fixtures from saloons
raided in the Detroit district since the ad-
vent of prohibition, display of highly poll
ished and costly wood valued at upward or
$30 900, may be chopped into firewood and
distributed among Detroit poor. Or these
bars and tables, over which thousands OF
elbows have been crooked and that in years
past have been made to glisten by constant
application of towels in the hands of white
aproned attendants, may be converted into
benches for august judges or into pulpits
behind which clergymen will stand and voice
the arguments for saloCnless world.
While state and city prohibitic7 forces are
making up heir minds which course to pur--
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