Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-17
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Fifteen Honeymoons

On her first trip to Bermuda, inaugurating
the restoration of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet company's service to the islands, the
steamship Araguaya sailed from North river
with fifteen bridal couples on board, and as
| the ship pulled away from her pier the
decks were shoWered with rice by friends
| and relatives on the pier.
| The Araguaya sailed an hour ahead Of the
steamer Fort Hamilton, of the Furness-
| Witty, rival line, ana there will be
| friendly contest to see which ship is the first
| to arrive in Bermuda.
| French Stacker?
M Vilgrain, French food administrator
during the war, was arrested recently by or
| ders of a court-martial in connection with
| wounds he received in 1914
| The arrest followed an Interpolation by
Deputy Battle in the Chamber Of Deputies ia
Paris who charged Vilgrain with having un-
lawfully mutiated himself at the beginning
| of the war so as to escape his military obliga-
! ton. Migrants explanation was that a
man in a French uniform attacked him and
during the struggle Migrants own revolver
was fired, the bullet wounding him In the
| hand.
| A dispatch from Paris last Saturday said
| the Chamber of Deputies commission,
| which had been investigating grain deals In
| its report censured Vilgrain for alleged use
| of his official prestige to his own advantage
| in the purchase of grain.
| Against CarnivaIs
The German government has been asked
to forbid the annual pre-Lent carnivals
which four days are held in virtually every
south German and Rhineland city.
Complaint is made that the carnival sea-
son is too frivolous and impoverishes the
population, which cannot refrain from par
! ticipating.
| During these carnivals the whole popula-
tlon or country and city parade the streets,
/ dance, throw confetti, blow whistles and
| feast. 1t is necessary to purchase tickets
| for the restaurants in advance, and all stores
are closed for the four days.
ut is impossible to keep aloof from the
merriment of these carnivals," said resi-
dent of Cologne, where the merriest of the
merry carnfvals once was held. "The peo-
pie dress up Enthusiastically and celebrate with
utter disregard for strangers. gloomy
countenance is the cue for bombardment
| OF confetti, of ribboned paper, until it's own
er laughs and joins the frolickers."
| The compliments declare this is no timd
! for frivolity in Germany, and that it would
waste money which will be sorely needed.
| number Of municipalities forbade the
| carnivals on their own accounts last year.
but preparations for scores of celebrations
this year prompted the appeal direct to the
central government.
Gut Off Pay
The Council of Peoples Commissars OF
MOSCOW, has published a decree annulling
the former practice of paying all unemploy-
| &c or disabled workers both in money and
| food.
! By the new decree, only those workers in
| industries for three years past will receive
an allowance which, for the first class, will
be full minimum pay, and for the second
class, one-half of the minimum pay. The
government is not making any unemploy-
ment allowance for the thousands of govern
ent employees now being discharged.
Frozen Tragedy
Boys hunting muskrats near Kearny, N.
j., found the skeleton of a man frozen into
cake Of ice. A few feet away a mans coat
was frozen in the middle of another cake Of
1ce Beyond that another ice cake con-
tanning another coat and nearby was one
which contained a shoe. Another had a hat
| in it,
The authorities in Kearny brought the
five cakes of ice to the morgue there AS
soon as the cakes melt they will endeavor to
identify the skeleton.
Little "Ironsides"
forty-inch model of the United States
Frigate Constitution, conforming exactly in
every detail and proportion to the original
"Old Ironsides" that is spending her last
long furlough nesting against a dock in
! the Charlestown Navy Yard, has been added
to the famous collection of miniature ships
housed in the Old State House in Boston.
This little Constitution cost Lieutenant
Colonel William F. Spicer, of the Marine
Corps, eight years Of work.
The ship has been pronounced perfect n
line, in sheer, in proportion and in every de-
tail OF her intricate rigging. Colonel Spicer
used 675 blocks in making the tackle and
1882 bitches in the ratlines. Two pieces
Mexican mahogany make the hull. The
four guns are wooden, carefully chosen so
that their weight would not be too great to
permit the sailing of the vessel. The upper
works are Of lighter wood, the sails are Of
silk and every one is to scale.
Colonel Spicer said he made the model be-
cause he '1oved the old frigate."
Pope's Gift
The pope sent the bishops of Ger
many 100000 lire (3,850,00O marks) for
distribution among the necessitous persons
of the middle classes at Christmas, accord
ing to statement in the "Berliner Zeitung''
quoted by the Berlin correspondent of s'The
Times"
The pope was led to take this step by
reading report sent him by Cardinal Bert.
ram, the archbishop Of Breslau in which at
tention was drawn to the straits in which
many educated persons with small incomes
lind themselves. The cardinal pointed out
that whereas in some sort of proportion to
the rise in the cost of living, the incomes of
many educated persons have remained sta
tionery and are often totally insufficient
even to maintain life. It is discreditable to
the wealthy classes of Germany that it
should be left to the charity of Benedict XIV
to relieve the distress of their less fortunate
fellow countrymen.
Storm Signal
When flock Of "alguaciles" fly into your