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NOTICE IT ywu tm-v* airy ditBruTty in buying HeaW« San day American anywhere in the Sooth notify Circatattan Manager. HeaavTa Sunday Ameri can. Atlanta.. Ga. SUN ICAN you l m i7- Copyright, ISIS, by The Georgian Company- ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913. PRICE FIVE CENTS. 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 Continued on Page 2, Column 7. FRANK FIGHTS FOR LIFE MONDAY +•+ +•+ +•+ +«•!• +»•(• +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Dorsey Ready to Avenge Mary Phagan +•4* +•+ +•+ 4-*+ +•+ +•+ +•+ •>*•+ +•+ Mystery of Months Is Still Unsolved