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TIIE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS, FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913.
California Minister Declares His
Country Will Not Stand for
Discrimination.
“(Yrtainly Japan will fight if nec
essary to protect the rights of her
Subjects, no matter where they are.
And she will not stand for unfair
discrimination.”
So said /the Rev. Joseph K. Inaza-
wa. pastor of the Japanese Presby
terian Church of Los Angeles, a com
missioner to the. General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church. U. S. A.,
in session here.
“Rut” hastily added the Rev. In-
qizuwa, “I do not believe there will
( ver be the necessity for appeal to
arms. This great American nation
and the nation of Japan arc too
closely allied on the broad principles
of Christianity to permit a cruel
and disastrous war over a question
that might so easily be settled by
agreement or arbitration.
The Rev. Mr. Inazawa, with his
wife, a native Californian, will sail
in a few weeks for Japan for a va
cation of several months. He has not
seen his ative land in a quarter of
a century, having cast his lot on
the west coast of America exactly 25
years ago.
"It's 25 or this side of the Pacific
and 25 on the other,” he expressed
it Friday morning in conversation
. with a Georgian reporter. Five years
of his life in America were spent in
the San Francisco Theological Sem
inary. Twenty years he has spent
in evangelistic work among the Jap
anese of his State, working in many
of the principal cities and the rural
districts.
One of the indorsers of tlie Rev.
Mr. Inzawa, commending his work
and bespeaking the kindly considera
tion of Christians everywhere, is the
Rev. Hugh K. Walker, formerly pas
tor of Immanuel Presbyterian Church
of Los Angeles, now of Atlanta. In
fact, he bears the reputation of hav
ing done a great work among the
Japanese who have taken up their
residence in California. His church
has granted him leave of absence to
visit the home land.
Wife Raps Alien Bill.
' Mrs. Inazawa, who is a woman of
very strong conviction, thoroughly
sympathetic in ail her husband's ac
tivities, was even more pronounced
in her view that the Japanese were
being wrongly treated in the matter
of the anti-alien land bill.
Mrs. Inazawa said:
"It just so happens that the Leg
islature this year is strongly - in fa-
/ vor of that kind of attitude. Rut you
would be surprised to know the
strength of the sentiment against
Governor Johnson and his followers,
the advocates of the bill.
"It is not so much the actual text
of the law," she continued, ‘‘as it
is the spirit that is behind it. There
is an indisputable feeling that Japan
Is being ufairly treated, ad you can
rest assured that Japa will not al
low her subjects to be discriminated
against. Rut our hope lies in the
fact that there is such a strong feel
ing against the bill.
"The Japanese are a hyper-sensi
tive people, you know; their honor
is supreme. There is all the differ
ence in the world between the Japa
nese and the Chinese.”
Roth the Los- Angeles preacher and
his wife made it very clear that the
Japanese could not be kicked around
as had been the case with the Chin
aman. And as for a “yellow peril,”
they hooted the idea.
Mr. Inazawa was asked what pro
gress the Japanese military compa
nies in California were making in
their daily drills and maneuvers.
Japs Have No Militia.
"If there is a company of Japs or
ganized ad drilling in military man
euvers in the whole State of Cali
fornia. i do not know. it. And I
am certain if there were any such,
I would know. There has never beei.
a greater injustice done my people
than the circulated reports that they
were organized already to fight the
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SMITH’S MEXICAN ARMY
CAREER WAS THRILLING
Two Years in Mexico Jungles
Dodging His Pursuers Made
Wreck of Atlanta Fugitive.
Continued From Page 1.
for an opportunity to spirit him acjross
• the border.
Hamilton confided his intention '•
I no one. He kept his plans to hims If.
Only those officials with whom it was
absolutely necessary for him to deal
possessed any hint that he was fol
lowing a trail into war-torn Mc:i o
with the certainty of a bloodhound.
His task was made the easier in
that his quarry, sickened and wastei
was anxious to get away from thfl
brigands by whom he virtually was
held a captive for debt. But the end
would have been the same in any
event. Of this Hamilton is sure. The
capture might have taken a lit*ie
longer, but it would have come finally.
Twenty-three months have passed
since J. Wylie Smith, dealer in fren
zied finance, abruptly let fall his me
teoric speculations and in a night
fled Atlanta.
And for 23 months charges of for
geries amounting to $150,000 have
hung over his head. Detective* traced
the fleeing speculator from point to
point throughout the United States
and at last down into the jungles and
mountains of Mexico.
Then came reports that he had
joined the Mexican revolution; that
he was fighting with the rebel troops;
that he had been captured and
thrown into prison, where he lay for
months at a time, the victim of
wounds and disease.
That Smith’s life was as spectacu
lar during his absence as it had been
throughout his mad dash as head of
the Uommercfal Loan and Trust
Company in Atlanta is certain. And
when, although a member of the rebel
army and not extraditable, he gave
himself up to the officers of the law
and permitted himself to be brought
back to Atlanta for trial, the abrupt
ending of the second chapter of this
man’s amazing life comes as unex
pectedly as did his disappearance.
Smith a Pitiable Figure.
Now the man hunt is ended and
Smith is lying in the Tower, a morose
and silent wreck of his former self.
Hardship and privation suffered on
the battlefield and in Mexican prisons
have claimed their toll. Smith’s skin
is withered and turned by the sun to
a dark brown. His fingers twitch
nervously and IDs one-time upright
form has become stooped. The khaki
uniform of the Mexican rebels, which
he still wore upon his arrival in At
lanta with Police Officer T. M. Ham
ilton. was dirty and threadbare. The
figure of the speculator is a bit pit
iable.
And now that he has been thrown
into the Tower. Smith has excluded
himself from the world, until the
time when he shall be brought into
court to answer the charges against
him.
He will explain neither his sudden
disappearance nor his amazing re
turn. Neither will he unveil his life
during his absence, or tell of th ?
thrilling deeds in which he partici
pated.
"I am sick,” he replies to all in
quirers. "I want to rest, not talk.”
And so he lies in his cell day and
night nursing an unhealed wound re
ceived on the field of battle, and per
haps dreaming of the times when as
a guerrilla in the Mexican jungles he
laughed to scorn the law' in \vho?e
clutches he now finds himself.
Disappeared Overnight.
It w as on the night of June 14, 1911,
that the erstwhile head of the Com
mercial company locked his desk in a
dingy back office over a store at 29 1-2
Whitehall Street and became com
pletely lost to Atlanta. Not until the
following morning did the fact of his
shortage become known, One by on 3
his creditors came into the little of
fice. and with each fresh arrival an
other chapter was written into the
story of the failure. Before noon the
total of Smith’s unpaid obligations
dawned upon his creditors and the
community.
Among the losers were business
men. contractors, merchants, milli
ners, dressmakers, farmers, laborers,
mechanics, and. in fact, members of
almost every profession and trade.
Smith had made a clean sweep and
excluded no one who desired to ben
efit by the rich harvest which it was
understood he was reaping for those
who placed their money with him.
Among those who are reported to
have lost in Smith’s operations were
such men as Frank M. Myers, Jr.,
president of the Commercial compa
ny; Judge Simmons, J. L. Sims, of
Hapeville; James Slallings, R. L.
Morris, Guy Thurman, I)r. I). E. Dew
berry. S. J. Collier, W. F. Brandt and
others. The individual amounts are
ild to have run from a -few hundred
dollars up to as high as $20,000. One
business woman w ho had made a suc
cess in the city deposited $1,500 with
the operator, only to lose the entire
amount.
Method of Operation Perilous.
Smith s method of operation was a
perilous one. despite the fact that he
pursued It for several months before
it finally sent him from the city a
fugitive. He is said to have acted
as agent between persons who wanted
to borrow and persons who wanted to
lend money at a profitable rate of in-
teVest. He would go to a person
financially well fixed, it is alleged,
with the Information that he had a
customer who desired to borrow a
large sum of money. After declaring
that the investment would be per
fectly safe. Smith would Induce the
person to let him take the money,
giving notes in return as security for
the amount. These notes later would
prove worthless.
Other notes given out by Smith
proved to be forgeries. One of them,
for $400, bore the signature of M. M.
Anderson. Another note wav on By-
rum Huie, teller of the American
National Bank, for $370, w hich proved
a forgery. There were many others.
It was on these forged notes that
charges were placed against the oper
ator.
Speculations in stock, in which
Smith is said to have engaged, arc
given as the cause for his venturing
beyond the law.
Most pathetic of all affected by
the departure of Smith was the oper
ator’s own wife-and adopted child.
In the Smith home at 249 Pulliam
Street, Mrs. Smith, herself an invalid,
became prostrated when she learned
of her husband’s disappearance. De
spite this, however, she remained
loyal to him.
Still Believed in Him.
"No matter what they sa> about
my husband,” she declared at the
time, “I still believe in him. He al
ways ha** been so upright I can’t be
lieve that he has done anything
wrong.”
As she uttered those words, Smith
was fleeing from Atlanta, leaving in
his wake a sheaf of warrants suffi
cient, if upheld in a court of law, to
send him to prison for many years.
Quickly by telegraph and telephone
the entire country was notified of the
speculator's disappearance. In the
messages he was described as 50
years old. 5 feet 9 inches tall; blue
eyes, blonde hair, a thin face with
hollow cheeks and weight close to 125
pounds.
Several arrests were made in the
cat*e during the week that followed iisj
origin. Berry Smith, a step-brother
of the missing man, was taken into!
custody on suspicion of knowing,
something of Smith's whereabout^..j
but to no avail.
Smith had disappeared from iden
tity and for several months his ob
literation remained complete. Half
a year later he was located by the
Pinkerton detectives who had been
put on the case. Smith was reported
to be in Mexico. He had joined the
rebel forces and was fighting under
a foreign sun for a cause in which
he could not have felt an interest.
Captured by Enemy.
Just whether he joined in this per
ilous undertaking to rid his mind of
the financial troubles with which it
must have been burdened or because
of the love of excitement w'hich he
had exhibited so clearly in Atlanta ie
a point tor conjecture. It is safe to
say that Smith proved a brave and
reckless soldier.
After a desperate battle near the
Mexican provincial capital of Chihua-j
hua, Smith was captured and thrown*
into prison in that city. He was
wounded severely and the filth of the
Mexican jail soon brought disease
into his body. Lack'of medical at
tention caused the soldier’s wound to
become affected, and even now. as he
lies in the Tower, the wound is still
open and painful—a hitter reminder
of his former days.
While in the Chihuahua prison,
Smith was locate^ by the Pinkerton
detectives who had been trailing him
They immediately set about getting
extradition papers to take the fugi
tive back to justice, but the arm of
the law* w'as foiled. Before extradi
tion could be arranged between the
State Department at Washington and
the American Ambassador at Mexico
City, the Madero revolutionists bad
captured Chihuahua and released
Smith from the jail, on condition that
he join the rebel army.
Smith agreed to this proposition,
and, despite his weakened condition,
followed the Mexican flag again to
the battlefield, leaving his pursuers
behind him, baffled. However, Smith’s
strength was slowly ebbing from him.
Never Could Extradite Him.
Frequently during the later period
of his Mexican career, Gmith was
arrested by the Pinkerton men. hut
in each instance they failed to ex
tradite him owing to his miHitary
connections.
At one time he was placed under
arrest In Jaurez. Smith then was
under the command of the Mexican
rebel general, Antonio Rojas/ and a
warm personal friend of that official.
It was in the Uhihuahua prison
where General Rojas was confined
with Smith that the friendship was
made fast. Upon his arrest in
Juarez his release was ordered im
mediately by the Mexican general
and a day or so later the army with
Smith in it moved southward into
the interior of Mexico, leaving the
detectives again without their quar
ry.
Smith appeared in Juarez the next
time with the Diaz rebels a week
ago. His physical condition had lie-
come completely broken down. He
was a wrecked man.
It was then that he listened to
the pleas of the detectives that he
return to Atlanta and face the charges j ™
against him. He consented to meet | &
Mr. Hamilton and after a long con
ference crossed the border to El
Paso, Texas, and gave himself up.
Of his own free w ill Smith stepped i gr;
on a train which bore him to Atlanta | 8h
and when he stepped down into this
■ity he still w as a free man. Willing - !
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CABLE
NEWS
WASHINGTON, May 16.—A recital
of the> brutalities which, it is al
leged, punctuate the daily life of
est Virginia miners has been sub
mitted by Mother Mary Jones, "guar
dian angel of the mine men,” to Sen
ator Kern, author of the resolution to
investigate conditions in the Paint
Creek district. ^
"1 saw' a woman named Silvia,”
she says, "who had boon so terribly
kicked by the Baldwin mine guards
wln n she was about to become a
mother that her child was born dead.
I miw three married women and a
single girl of seventeen y, are xub-
mitted to indignities inconceivable in
this tree country while they were
penned in the West Virginia bastile.”
l.v I 10 gave himself into the custody
of the detectives who were waiting
tor him at the station and resigned
himself to the law. Had he chosen
to remain in Mexico he would never
have been placed under arrest. As
a soldier of Diaz he was beyond
reach of the laws of the United
States.
Important Events From All
Over the Old World Told in a
Few Short Lines.
French Flyer Held in England.
LONDON, May 16.—Because he
flew Into British air without a per
mit from the English Government,
Marcel G. Brlndejono Des Moulinais.
the French aviator who reached this
city Sunday after making a 450-mile
flight from Bremen, Germany, to-day
was arraigned in Bow Street Court
and put under $200 bond not to re
peat the offense.
Hull House Model for Germany.
BERLIN, May 10—Berlin is to
have a second social settlement as
evidence of the influence of Ameri
can-English methods in Germany.
The first settlement, founded tw<>
years ago by Friedrich Siegmund-
Sehultze and modeled after Hull
House. awakened great interest
throughout Germany, and many re
quests are coming to him for trained
workers to tound settlements in othel
cities.
Cornell Man Tells
Students to Borrow
ITHACA, N. V., May 16.—That a
needy student would do better to
borrow the money to pay for his col
lege education than attempt to work
his way through was said by Prof.
G. VY. Cavanaugh of Cornell Univer
sity in addressing a group of stu
dents.
"The big problem for you working
students,” he said. “Is how to get the
social contact with your fellow whi:h
you lose by spending several hurs
a day waiting on table or doing other
work. Moreover, you run a risk of
ruining your health by overwork and
undoreatlng.” Prof. Cavanaugh ad
vised the students either to work oc-
fore coming to college or borrow the
money.
TWO SURVIVORS OF SCOTT
POLAR PARTY LAND IN U. S,
SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 16.—Frank
Debenham and Charles S. Wright
members of the Scott Antarctic ex
pedition, arrived on the liner Tahiti
to-day from Australia. Wright, was
a member of the party that discov
ered Scott and his companions. He
brought back two of the dogs used
in the recent trip.
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