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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913.
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John Early, Noted
As Leper, Is Insane
Man Who Guarded Colony Is Himself
Put In Cell, Raving
Mad.
SEATTLE, July 26.—John Farly, who
was called In Washington a few years
ago a leper, and who more recently was
a guard at the Federal leper colony at
Diamond Point Station, has lost his
mind and Is himself under guard at the
colony.
Early has been under watch for sev
eral months, officials at the station be
lieving his mind was not right. Some
time ago. It was reported, he became
violent and was locked up to protect
himself and the unfortunates at the
colony.
When Early was first adjudged a leper
by the District Health Officer, he was
Isolated in a camp on the lowlands of
the Eastern branch. After a long fight
with the local authorities and another
with the Pension Office for an allowance
as a veteran of the Spanlsh-American
war, he was permitted to slip unosten
tatiously away to New York.
Woman to Run for
Council in Chicago
“Bath House John” and “Hinky
Dink” to Have Rival in
First Ward.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Mrs. Anna Car
lo- Bias! is a candidate to represent the
First Ward In the City Council.
For many years she has been a leader
among the thousands of Italians who
live In the First Ward, and she has lent
her aid. admitted as important, to
“Hinky Dink” Kenna and “Bathhouse
John” Coughlin, who. from time imme
morial, have been returned to the Coun
cil by the First Ward quite as a matter
of course.
“But they have been Aldermen long
enough,” said Mrs. Celia Palmer, quot
ing Mrs. Blasi, her mother. “Thousands
of working men and women, Italian,
German, Bohemian and of other nation
alities, have urged her to run.”
Gets 7,109 Words
On Back of Postal
Albanian Athlete Proves To Be a
Wizard When it Cor es to
Fine Writing.
BOSTON, July 26.—Joseph S. A. Ber-
tasso, Albanian, athlete and “small let
ter champion,” maintains he is the
“finest writer in the world,” and from
the records available It appears that
his claim is well founded.
Bertasso lays claim to tne unusual
art of engrossing legibly, on the back of
an ordinary postal card, more man one-
quarter of the words to be found in the
most modern unabridged dictionaries,
and that by so doing he has more than
doubled the record of any other “fine”
or “small” writer in the world.
Bertasso’s record Is 7,109 words, writ
ten with an ordinary pen, on the back |
of an ordinary postal card, In seven
hours and fifteen minutes. ' \
$25,000 To Be Spent
On Nickel Problem
Massachusetts Institute to Investi
gate How Far Five Cents Should
Carry Passenger.
BOSTON, July 26.—The Massachu
setts Institute of Technology will
spend $5,000 annually for five years,
the gift of an anonymous benefactor,
to determine how far a street rail
way can carry a passenger with rea
sonable profit for a nickel. Incident
ally it may use some of the money
to investigate the conflicting claims
of the Boston Elevated and the citi
zens of Ward 26. The railroad com
pany declared it can not afford a 5-
cent fare to Hyde Park and the citi
zens there say it can and should.
Shrinks Three Inches
During Long Illnjess
Patient Hurt in Auto Accident Loses
in Height Each Month Spent
in Bed.
PORTERVILLE, CAL., July 26.—When
George Crittenden, an attorney, got out
of bed to-day for the first time since
he was Injured in an automobile acci
dent two months ago. he found that he
had lost 3 inches in height. This unex
pected sequel 4 of his recovery is the
more extraordinary because it is well
known that the human body gains in
length while lying prone. A man
normally taller in the morning than at
night.
Harvard Planning to
Start Kindergarten
University to Experiment in Edu
cation of Children From 4 to 6
Years of Age.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., July 26.—
Harvard plans to establish an experi
mental kindergarten next fall with
children from 4 to 6 years of age.
The faculty of the department of ed
ucation will be In charge.
The proposal Is to accept *about 100
students of either sex at a tuition tee
of $100. They will be carried through
to the age of 9 years.
PHDNE DAK
JUST A DISEASE
DOCTORS FIND
Dementia Telephonica, Recently
Discovered Malady, Is Superin
duced by “Line Is Busy.”
ATLANTANS ARE AFFLICTED
Operators at Ivy Exchange De
clare That They Had Known of
It for Years.
"Number, please?”
The voice came over the wire. It
was sweet and poft and dreamy-like.
But the voice in answer was not.
“Gimme Main 100, and darn quick,
too,” it growled. Of course, it came
from a man.
”ThiS is the ninth time I’ve rung
’em,” he raved on. “You tell me
they’re busy, and I know they ain’t.
They’ve got no right to be busy.”
And his voice went up and out with
a shriek.
The little incident is just as was
recorded by a pretty switchboard op
erator in an Atlanta exchange. The
man in question was not a brute. He
wa? merely a victim of Dementia Tel
ephonica.
Yes, there is such a disease, and
business men are acutely susceptible
to its visitations. The Journal of the
American Medical Association in a
recent number discusses* the new dis
ease* and pours out its sympathy on a
certain victim whose case is men
tioned and analyzed.
Wrong Number Cne Cause.
The telephone dementia, it seems,
usually seizes its victim about the
fourth or fifth time he has been told
that a number is busy, and then finds
out that it was nothing of the kind.
Sometimes it comes over the suffer
er, causing him to see red and to talk
blue, when he calls once, twice, then
three times, and finds each time that
the poor little “hello” girl has given
him the wrong number.
Then, again, it is caused when a
busy man calls a number time and
again, and gets no response. Always
the pymptoms react to the injury of
the girl on the switchboard. She is
sworn at, she is greeted with language
that would melt the wires were there
not insulation in parts.
The girls in the Atlanta exchange
say they understand now, and do not
pay any attention to It. The men do
not mean it.
A girl on the Ivy exchange was
asked yesterday .Just what she thought
of the scientific discovery of the dis
ease.
“Huh,” she snorted—if a pretty girl
can snort—“are the wise ones Just
finding that out? Why we knew all
the time that there was something
like this, although we didn’t know
how to call it. The best treatment
we know is, when they rave, to pull
out the plug and let them talk to
themselves. And to ourselves we
murmur, ‘poor fellow.’ Or maybe it’s
a woman.”
Maybe it is a woman. The medical
men say that women are susceptible
as well as men, and as violently de
moniac when they succumb.
The medical men who say they have
made a discovery in the disease, at
tach a serious significance to it. In
stances of permanent aberration have
resulted, they declaj-e. in their pa
pers. Men who are calm under cir
cumstances that would drive a Job
to drink become insane when the tel
ephone responds not. \
Diseases Develops in Germany.
The malady first was noted scien
tifically when a lawyer was put on
trial in Berlin, accused of slander
ing the postoffice, which also controls
the telephone in the land of the Kai
ser and of government ownership.
The lawyer lost his patience after he
had called his number three times in
the course of three-quarters of an
. hour. The girl told him that “Num-
I ber ITndsoweiter" was busy. Later he
| found that it hadn't been, and he ex-
I ploded.
The medical expert of the court be
fore which the lawyer was taken tes
tified that the defendant was of a
highly nervous temperament, and that
he had heard of men going insane
from telephone vexation. And so de
mentia telephonica became a subject
for research, and was put in the doc
tor’s books.
A plunge into the question revealed
the fact that telephone dementia has
its sources in the brains of the tele
phone girls themselves, those sweet,
unperturbed creatures. Professor
Hugo Munsterberg, the great psychol
ogist of Harvard, who once lived in
Germany, recently tried the brain
force of 1,000 telephone girls, and
found that many became mixed in
their numbers after an hour.
But it Is only the patrons who be
come violent. No person, not even a
baseball umpire, the embodiment of
phlegm and stolidity, is exempt, the
doctors say.
And so if you wax wroth when the
central tells you nine times “Number
busy.” if you get no answer from your
number after call upon call, if you
swear at the girl when she gives you
\the wrong number, then you've got it.
Elinor Glyn's Hero,'
‘Baby Paul' to Wed
Boston Girl Will Marry Man Around
Whose Adventures ’Three
Weeks’ Was Written.
BOSTON. July 26.—“Baby Paul,” of
“Three Weeks,” is to become a bride-
groorr^ Miss Elizabeth Golden, of
Boston, Is to be the bride.
Clairmont Jocelyn Preston Arnot is
the name by which Elinor Glyn’s hero
is known in London, although as
plain Paul Allen he has had some un
romantic adventures in New York.
As “Prince Paul de Clairmont” he is
known In both cities.
“We will be married on September
1,” said Miss Golden yesterday. “We
have known each other a year. Yes,
I have means of my own* but Paul
will support himself.”
Uncle Sam Enters
Moving Picture Field
Films Are Being Made to Aid Work
of Reclaiming Lands
in West.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—Through
the award of contracts for several
thousand feet of motion picture films
it has become known that the United
States Government is engaged in the
moving picture business on a large
scale. ,
The enterprise is being carried on
by the Reclamation Service in its
camps in the West, a number of
which have been established for
great Irrigation projects and other
engineering work. The "movies'’ fur
nish their part in the general scheme
to keep the workmen and their fam
ilies, isolated from the world, con
tented and happy.
Corsets Accepted
As Bank Pledge
Burlington Financiers Take Dainty
Article as Collateral for
Loan of $2.
BURLINGTON, N. J., July 26.—In
the steel vault of the Mechanics' Na
tional Bank reposes an oblong pack
age tied with pink baby ribbon.
The parcel, the center of much gig
gling interest among the bank clerks,
contains the oddest collateral ever
deposited with a New Jersey banking
institution as security on a loan.
Within the folds of paper and rib-
bo s is a pair of corsets, avowed value
$6.25, on which a young woman, lack
ing railroad fare to Philadelphia, in
her extremity yesterday borrowed $2
from the bank.
Woman's Right Costs
Her $10 as Speeder
Judge Tells Her That In Present Day
She Must Be Treated
Like Man.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Equality of the
rights of woman was recognized by
Municipal Judge .Tv yesterday, with
the result that Mrs. R. W. Hood, 4414
Christiana avenue, was fined $10 and
costs for speeding. Mrs. Hood admit
ted traveling 31 miles an hour July 9.
“In this age of woman suffrage I
must treat you as I do the men,” said
the Judge.
Although Mrs. Hood Insisted she
was “not in sympathy with woman
suffrage,” she was ordered to pay.
Colonists at Arden
Now Going to ‘Roost'
Sinclair’s Followers Desert Homes on
Ground for Bungalows Built
In Tree Tops.
ARDEN, DEL., July 26.—“Well,
good night, folks; I’m going to roost.”
That may be a commonly used sen
tence before long in the Arden colony,
made famous by Upton Sinclair and
his associates. Sleeping in the tree
tops, as monkeys and certain tribes
of savages do, is the latest develop
ment of the back to nature idea as
practiced in the colony.
It started when two of the colonists,
using a lot of lumber bequeathed by
Mr. Sinclair when he left, constructed
an aerial bungalow with four poplar
trees as corner posts.
Lightning Rips Shoe
From Wearer's Foot
Man Escapes Physical Injury Save in
Small Burn—Son Nearby Is
Not Touched.
DENVER, July 26.—O. M. Simpson, a
laborer, was knocked down and made
unconscious for several minutes when
struck by a lightning bolt in the after
noon. His twelve-year-old son, Vernon,
sitting a few inches away with his back
to his father, was not touched.
The lightning struck with sufficient
force to tear Simpson’s shoes to shreds,
but this is about the only evidence left
of the visit of the electrical freak, with
the exception of a burn about the size
of a dime on Simpson's rigkt foot.
Is |
Roosevelt Vaudeville
Star, British Report
Dr. Lyman Abbott Dclares Story
That Fellow-Editor Will Go On
Stage Is Nonsense.
Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 26.—The London
Daily Sketch prints a statement that
Colonel Roosevelt has signed a con
tract for a tour of the Australian
vaudeville circuit at $2,000 a week to
lecture on sociological subjects.
“He has been booked by Hugh Mc
Intosh, the noted Australian fight
promoter, who Is governing director
of Harry Rickard’s circuit,” it adds.
“The former President is to appear in
talks of fifteen to thirty minutes.
“A tour on these lines would cer
tainly mean the capacity of the
house.”
Dr. Lyman Abbott, when asked last
night about this report, said:
“You may be sure this is absolute
nonsense.”
STRAW HATS FOR POLICE.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Straw hats and
soft white shirts as a uniform for the
police when the thermometer climbs
over the boiling point were urged b>
i “Mrs.” Belle Squire in a letter re
ceived by the City Council.
has opposed the Indictment of the single other suspect,
the negro Jim Conley. The enthralled interest of a
public has been pitched about the question: I» Le«
Frank guilty?
FRANK DRAMA’S CENTRAL FIGURE.
Even the pitiful figure of the little factory gir.,
mysteriously slain, has become subordinate in Interest
to that of Frank. The young man's own personality,
his steadfastly loyal and loving family, his friends wh®
affirm his innocence in the face of a dark suspicion,
all have become factors in making Frank the central
figure of the crime drama.
At the last moment efforts have been made by
Frank’s counsel to have the case continued until fall,
but the Indications are that Judge Roan will order the
trial to go on Monday.
A hundred ramifications have sprung out of the
case, each one entailing bitterness, aligning factions,
engendering a deeper mystery. Many persona, even
before the trial, are ready to express a belief of Frank'*
guilt. As many are firm in the conviction that he if»
innocent. But the great bulk of the public views the
case through a haze of speculation and doubt which
is as impenetrable as on the first day.
LEGAL BALENT BRILLIANT.
Everybody is in one of the three classes. It is like
ly that no one lives in Atlanta who is indifferent to
the case, which has been the central topic of news and
of conversation since the day the body of Mary Phagan
was found.
The trial will be an event worthy of all the Inter
est with which the public has invested it. The array
of legal talent is most imposing. Already the defense
and the prosecution have met in skirmishes, in the
courts and in the newspapers. They were skirmishes
so hard fought and bitter as to hold out the promise
P RINCIPAL figures in Atlanta’s most noted criminal case. Two pictures of
Mary Phagan, the little factory girl, whose slaying has proved South’s
most baffling mystery, are shown, while below is Leo Frank, superintendent of
the National Pencil Factory, where her body was found, who is accused of her
murder, and about whose guilt or innocence brilliant legal battle will be fought.
Most Bitter Legal Battle in
History of Atlanta Courts
Is Expected—Case Will
Probably Last for Weeks.
A FTER three months of mystery in the deatli of
Mary Phagan, a climax is at hand more tense,
more dramatic, more breathlessly interesting to
Atlanta and all Georgia than any situation of fiction.
Leo M. Frank, employer of the little girl whose tsagio
death, April 26, stirred a State, will be brought to trial
Monday on the charge that he killed her.
Frank’s trial Is the crowning event of the hundred
thrilling circumstances surrounding the tragedy.
Whatever the outcome, regardless of Frank’s convlo-
tion or acquittal, the incidents that follow the trial wilt
come as an anti climax. The prosecution has cast al
most all its chances for solving the mystery into the
case it has prepared against Frank. Its heavy guns
are trained against the factory superintendent. It
Chronology of Phagan Case
April 27—Body of Mary Phagan found in factory.
Arthur Mullinax arrested. Newt Lee arrested.
April 28—J. M. Gantt arrested. Geron Bailey ar
rested. Leo Frank held.
April 29—Pinkertons declare Lee guilty. Eliminate
Gantt, Mullinax and Bailey.
May 1—Coroner issues commitment against Lee
and Frank. Jim Conley, negro sweeper, arrested.
May 8—Coroner's verdict orders Frank and Lee
held for grand jury.
May 12—Burns put on case, through agency of T.
B. Felder.
May 23—Grand jury considers case. Dictograph
scandals revealed. A. S. Colyar accuses T. B.
Felder of attempts to corrupt policeman. Frank In
dicted. Conley says he wrote notes at Frank’s dic
tation, April 25. Newt Lee indicted.
May 25—Mrs. Mima Formby says Frank asked
her for room night of killing.
May 30—Conley says he helped Frank dispose of
body. Re-enacts crime at factory.
June 6—Conley denies he confessed killing to A.
S. Colyar.
June 15—Mrs. Frank, In statement to Sunday
American, stands by her husband.
July 10—W. H. Mincey’s statement first published,
that he heard Conley boast of kilting.
July 15—E. F. Holloway, factory employee, says
he was told of negro’s boast just after killing.
July 23—Frank says he is ready for trial. Search
for Will Green, Conley’s companion, said to have
seen killing. $
Frederick Upham Adams Shows
Why This Country May Have to
Repel Yellow Invader Seeking a
New Empire at Its Very Doors.
“War or Humiliation Confronts
U. S. as Result of Applying the
Monroe Doctrine as Threat and
Not as Firmly Enforced Policy.
“Others Will Take Up Task We
Decline—We Are Responsible
for the Lamentable Condition of
Affairs To-day in Mexico.”
By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.
“The time is coming when the
United States will be forced to
fight Japan on Japanese soil in
North America.”
In varying phrase this startling
prediction was repeatedly made to me
during a recent protracted tour of
Mexico and Central America. It was
first uttered, practically as above
quoted, by President Francisco I. Ma
dera In the course of a long inter
view in the Castle of Chapultepec.
This prediction was repeated to me
by a President of a Central American
republic who shall be nameless, since
he has thus far escaped assassination
or overthrow by revolution. It was
also voiced by an American of high I
reputation and keen judgment, who
has been a student of Latin American
sJfairs for more than a generation.
U. S. Diplomacy Scored.
The ignorance and indifference of
the American people concerning Mex
ico and Central America, coupled
with the ignorance and stupidity
which has marked ,our diplomatic in
tercourse with. them, constitute a
menace of dire portent.
The Danger Zone.
As a result of years of diplomatic
Imbecility we have made of this great
section a danger zone. We have cre
ated at our very doors conditions
which promise ,war with any of the
great commercial nations we now
count as friends, or the alternative of
abandoning a Monroe Doctrine.
We are responsible for the lamenta
ble condition of affairs in Mexico; for
the chronic conditions of military des
potism and recurrent revolutions
which afflict Central America.
These conditions are the direct re
sult of applying the Monroe Doctrine
as a threat and not as a just and
firmly enforced policy. And what is
the fruit now ripening? The certainty
that some other nation will take up
the task which we decline. That will
mean war or humiliation.
Let us consider the interest of Ja
pan in this matter.
Japan and Central America.
It is a reasonable certainty that
Japan has not spread her cards on
the table in the pending controversy
over the California anti-alien legis
lation. It may be assumed that Japan
has no immediate expectation that its
people will be permitted unrestricted
immigration to the United States and
the rights of naturalization. Japan
knows that it is not within the power
of our National Congress to control or
change the alien land laws of any
Btata.
The wise men of Japan know all
\his and more, but they have some
concrete motive in demanding some
thing which they know will not be
granted. What Japan desires and
will fight for is an outlet for her sur
plus population.
In her land-hunger Japan wrested
Formosa from China and tried to win
from Russia the bleak plains of Man
churia, but there is nothing that
Japan really wants on the Asiatic
coasts to her west.
Her eyes are turned to the east.
They are fixed, not on California or
any part or parcel of the United
States, but on Mexico and Central
America, the neglected and semi-sav
age wards of our Monroe Doctrine.
Like Home to Japanese.
For 30 years the Japanese have
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Mystery of Months Is Still Unsolved