Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-06-15
Around the World
Tn-Weekly NewS Flashes From All Over
the Earth.
Passing the Buck


Out in Hawaii a major general and
rear admiral are kept from going to the
same dinner because their respective de-
partments cannot agree as to which should
go first.
Secretary of War Weeks is graduate
of the Naval academy and he ought to
know. He says Major General Summerall
outranks Rear Admiral Simpson. But Act
ing Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt was a
colonel in the army and he ought to know.
He says it's the other way round. so the
dinner question is still unsolVed.
They put it up to the lawyers. The
Judge advocate general of the army says
General Summerall wins by the length OF
a spur. The judge advocate general OF the
navy maintains the army officer should dip
his flag to the navy.
Messrs Weeks and Roosevelt are think
ing of passing the buck to the president.
Cascara Bark
A half million dollars was the value OF
this seasons cascara bark, harvested by
Grays Harbor folks, Washington. 1t is the
peeled leather-like skin of the barberry
tree stripped by settlers and city jewellers,
who spend six weeks each spring In the
swampy forests near here.
Six years ago this bark gathering indus
try was a babe, the few who attempted to
sell the peeled bark getting from 3 to 4
cents per pound for it-not knowing just
how to properly cure and pack it.
Then came the drug famine. The whole
sale price which has gradually been rising
is now Is cents per pound and sklllful
stripers make $40 to SIS per day. With
a knife an incision is made near the ground
and a piece of bark once loosened there
may be pulled from the tree upward for
ten to fifteen feet. Taking but part OF
mir
Much of the bark harvesting Is done
over week-ends ~ school boys. One load
brought here re@ently in farm wagon
REPRESENTED ten days work for Two sturdy
lads and sold for $50.
This years total bark crop is estimated
at ESQ tons.
The supply Of cascara bark is limited
Although barberry trees are found in CALI
fornia, oregon and other states, they are
not as numerous as here. The local supply
is being rapidly depleted, each year the
gatherers going further into the swampy
depths Of the forests. The bark reneWs u
self in time, but the second growth is not
as desirable as the old and contains less
pungent medicinal sap.
MANY kinds of medicines, flavors ana
drugs are made from the barberry bark
and it is used around the world.
G.. f. Bolin, of Cheyenne, Wyo., stands six
feet five inches in his bare feet. When ne
puts on his shoes, naturally, he looks tailers
He wears a Wyoming mustache, double
breasted black sombrero and totes two guns,
one on the right side and the other on the
left.
He breezed into New York City by way OF
the Grand Central terminal, and the first thing
he did after adjusting his guns was to amDle
over to one of the young women in charge
of the Travellers Aid desk and tell her ne
wanted to be conducted to the Hotel NC
A1pin.
The young woman got glimpse or the
two guns and didn't wait to inquire whether
friend Bolin. of Cheyenne, was nervous about
travelling alone in New York. She just nat
urally didn't want anything to happen that
Brother Bolin might construe as an overt act
and cause him to draw one or either or MS
cannons So she telephoned to Manager Car
ney, of the McAlpin, and Manager Carney
assigned young Mister Eddie Kraemer TO go
I'D to the Grand Central and deliver TWO
Gun Bolin to the hotel
Mr. Eddie Kraemer is the McAlpfns cham
pion athlete; but when he caught sight OF the
Cheyenne giant he nearly tainted.
care you the man that needs protectlon
in this he-man's town." said Eddie.
Gle doesn't need protection" said the
Travellers Aid matron. 81 didn't think 1t
we'll to trust him alone on the streets Win
those two guns"
When eddie got to the McAlpin he paid the
taxi man. He says he thought it better, I'M
der the circumstances. to relieve Mr.. BoIln OF
that little Formally.