Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-03-04
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Battle Markers

where American troops participated in en-
gagements was requested Of congress by the
war department. If established, the commits
sion probably would expend $4,000 during
the next five years in erecting permanent
markers, Budget Director Dawes said, in a
letter accompanying the request of the de-
partment to Speaker Gillett.
American battlefelds in France and Bel
GUM, according to Mr.. Dawes, who based
his statement on information furnished him
by the war department, have been designated
by large number of markers, Showing the
performance of but five six divisions"
Most of the markers, the letter continues
were erected by the divisions before they re-
turned home, are Of temporary construction,
with no funds provided for upkeep and are
of little architectural beauty" In few in
stances, Mr.. Dawes said, the markers give
historical information of doubtful accuracy
Tentative plans of the war department. the
speaker was informed, contemplate an erec-
ton of permanent memorials of eight relief
maps in bronze, fifty outline sketch maps in
bronze, twelve special markers with ten
bronze tablets.
In addition to the $4,000 needed for
their construction, $4,000 would be needed
annually for their upkeep, said Mr.. Dawes,
adding that an appropriation of $125,OO0
would be needed for the work undertaken
during the first two years.
= Good Roads
The Bureau of Public Roads of the Unit
ed states department. Of agriculture estimate
the total expenditure for construction and
maintenance of roads in the country in 1921
to be $500, 600, 900. The sources of this fund
are approximately as follows: Motor-vehicle
revenue, 10 per cent; state road bonds 7
Der cent; local road bonds, SS per cent:
state taxes and appropriations, IL per cent;
federal aid, IA per cent; county township
and district taxes and assessments IA per
cent; and miscellaneous, 1 per cent.
Treasure Hunt
A treasure hunt to recover $50, 100000 in
gold, silver and jewels, said to be part of the
plumber OF an insurrection in Peru in the
early part of the nineteenth century, has been
proposed to Prof. Homer r. Dill of the Uni.
versity of Iowa, by Frederick Mason a news
paper correspondent of Augusta, Me.
Prof. Dill is to cruise in the South Seas
next year for museum material, and Mason
has offered to get him maps and charts show.
ing the exact location of the treasure. Mason
says he can obtain them from Mrs James
Brown, widow of sea captain, who died
three years ago.
{ According to Mason, Brown claimed to
nave helped in 1850 to transfer the treasure
from Cocos Island, about $50 miles south
west OF Panama, to its present location. He
used to say he was the only man in the world
who knew where it was buried ~
Several companies have been formed in the
last five years to recover the treasure One
or two of the expeditions are said to have
found the island, but had no further success.
Starts Term
Gladys Rogers, alias Gladys Harris the
young woman who was recently convicted of
stealing diamond ring from an Atlanta
JeWelry store and who made sensational es-
cape from the courthouse while waiting to
be taken back to the tower, was Sunday
frnHrH &hOk A.
where she will serve sentence of from one
to three years.
The young woman made her escape from
the courthouse by locking the court bailiff
IN room. She was captured two days later
at the Terminal station.
Doukhobours Talk
The Doukhobours of Canada otherwise
known as the Christian Community of Uni.
versal Brotherhood, merely expressed a theo.
ret1cal advocacy of massacre of their chill
dren and aged, according to the explanation
now offered by Peter Veregin president of
the band, in letter to the press. He ex-
presses some alarm at the apparent indigna-
tion of Canadians over the announcement Of
the sect some days ago that the members
were contemplating migration to escape tax.
alton, in which event it might be found
necessary to kill off children and aged per.
sons who impeded the progress of the wan
derers
After apologizing to the Canadian public,
particularly the women, the Doukhobour
chieftain explains that the children of the
colony are on the verge of starvation, being
deprived of milk through the forced sale of
COWS in 1920 for the payment of taxes. He
protests against income tax collections total
ling $4,000, claiming earnings of individual
members to be within exemption limits
The letter concludes with a plea for off.
cial inquiry to the end that the Doukhobours
be reimbursed for the roads they have built.
and asks for a $4,000 loan ITO be spent in
irrigation.
Indian jazz
Jazz has been adopted by Names frontier
tribe of Indians, who have discarded the OBJ
solete and monotonous tom-tom for the
white mans more modern music.
A band of the Passamaquoddies will reach
PASSPORT soon to give their first concert and
furnish jazz music for dance to follow at
the armory, and the copper-colored aborig-
mes will visit many eastern Maine towns to
present their novel entertainment.
Professor Bennett N. Frances, called the
best solo clarinet player in Maine, has gath
cred together the best Indian musicians Of
this 155-year-old tribe on banks of border
River st. Croix, five miles from here, and
not only does the Passamaquoddy Indian
brass band give free open air concert, but
have vaudeville acts for their white friends,
including juggling, singing and dancing.
musical acts, negro and Irish comedians and
an old-time minstrel opening that should
prove novelty to many. =.
The Passamaquoddies have always been
musical, and nearly thirty-five years ago.
their first brass band was organized, known
as the first genuine Indian band in the en-
tire country. 1t was through the earnest ef-