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TTEAKST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27,
TITANIC COURT STRUGGLE
PREDICTED IN TRANK CASE
Continued From Page 1.
that the trial will bo a titanic fight.
Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey,
Frank Hooper and Assistant Solicitor
Stephens will conduct the ca?e again.**
Frank. The three are known as ag
gressive, tireless lawyers. The Solic
itor General has put Into the State’s
case all the energy for which he is
noted.
At the very first he took charge of
the case with a masterful hand, and
when the mystery eeemed beyond /so
lution he set an army of detectives to
work Through all the stress of a
veering public opinion, he has held
firmly to the course he had set, defi
ant. obviously preparing for the great
fight of his career as a public prose
cutor. In most of the preliminar>
legal battles, erpeclally in his hardest
fight against the Indictment of Con
ley, h© has been successful.
The Solicitor General, from the evi
dence in hia hands, believes in the
guilt of Frank. He will defend his
conviction to the end.
The defenpe presents a corps of at-
tornevs who are reputed to be as able
criminal lawyers as the South can
produce. Luther Z Rosser, county
attorney, is the towering figure of the
deftjise. He is a pitiless questioner
of witnesses and cross-examinations
which he conducts are generally pro
ductive of significant results. The
defense will build its greatest hope, it
is expected, on the charge that Jim
Conley killed the Phagan girl Jim
Conley will be one of the witnesses
against Frank, and all the force, all
the ruthless power of Luther Rosser’s
questions will be brought into play
against the negro. The public ex
pects a wonderful psychological dem
onstration or> the hour the negro
takes the stand.
Aroold Striking Figure.
\o less powerful as a criminal law
yer is Reuben R. Arnold, who was re
tained by the defense to co-operate
with Mr. Rosser. Arnold is a brilliant
lawyer, and always a spectacular und
compelling figure in the criminal cases
with which he is connected. Asso
ciated with Rossor and Arnold in the
case will be Herbert Haas and Sam
Boorstln, who were employed by the
Frank family when Leo Frank first
was arrested, and who have been
zealous in conducting the score of in
vestigations that were made neces
sary by the unexpected turns which
Incidents took time after timj
The trial will be called Monday
morning in the Superior Court room
on the first floor of the courthouse, at
South Pryor and Hunter streets. The
room, which is the largest available
to the Stata courts, is expected to be
all too small for the crowd that will
come, eagerly curious and expectant.
A strict police supervision of the
crowds will he necessary, and ar
rangements already are being made
by court officials to prevent conges
tion or disturbance.
Special deputies will be employed
for the occasion, and altogether It is
expected that twenty officers will
guard the courtroom. The little army
will be in charge of Deputy Sheriff
Miner, who will be stationed at the
mMn entrance. According to the
plan, all principals in the case, all
who are interested as lawyers, rela
tives. witnesses and press represen
tatives, will be admitted before any
spectators are allowed to enter. Afte»*
them the spectators will be admitted,
one by one. until the seats in the room
are filled. Then the doors will be
locked.
It has been sugested In the Sheriff’s
office that every person admitted to
the courtroom will be searched for
firearms. but whether this course
will be followed has not been decided.
Postponement Unlikely.
Judge L. S. Roan will preside at the
trial. He announced in a telegram
from Covington, where he is spending
a short vacation, that the case will
be called Monday morning, without
fail. There Is little probability that
an attempt will he made to obtain a
postponement, although it haR been
hinted that there are one or two
causes which might tend to bring
about delay. One is excesive heat,
another the fact that certain attor
neys in the case are engaged simul
taneously in other litigation hardly
less important. But the court officials
and all who are Interested vitally are
ready to scout the idea of a postpone
ment „
The ground thus is laid for what is
confidently expected to be the great
est battle of Atlanta’s legal history.
A mysterious death, a chain of dam
aging circumstances pointing to the
guilt of the accused, a coterie of law
yers for the defense who are given to
surprises and who are known for in
exhaustible resources, a Solicitor who
1* determined and a fighter—every
thing points to a great struggle.
Considerable difficulty will h© en
tailed at the first, it is expected, when
the Jury must be drawn. From indl-
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cations. It is likely that the prelimi
nary Jockeying will consume the first
day of the trial, or even more. So
widespread has been gossip concern
ing the Phagan can©, so thoroughly
have citizens of Atlanta had the de
tails recalled, so much has it become
a part of the city’s lif«- that men will
be hard to find, it is expected, who
will be willing to view the evidence
coolly, without prejudice or without
bias. Then, too, the lawyers, know
ing the men from whom the Jury must
be picked, will select the men with the
utmost care.
The defense, it has been announced,
will ask that a Jury he selected from
the Grand J^iry venire. Whether this
request will be granted is altogether
in the discretion of the trial Judge.
It is expected, however, that It will
be refused unless significant reasons
are brought to bear by the defense.
Trial Will Last Days.
Then the case will start. Evidence
probably will not be taken until the
morning or afternoon of the second
day It will be taken slowly, in great
detail, at such length as to Insure a
trial of many days’ duration, if tne
b ngth of time consumed in examining
the witnesses at the Coroner’s inquest
is any indication.
Surprises will come, surely. It is
likely that most of the surprises will
be those of tho defense, the public
generally crediting that aide with
more evidence hitherto hidden than
the prosecution.
The State’s caHo has been perpet
ually before the public. The agencies
of the State have been crossed at
times, and out of the antagonism has
grow’n publicity that was not good for
the privacy of the prosecution a line
of attack. Tho defense, on the other
hand, has kept quiet. When the Mln-
cey affidavit was published last week,
favoring the defense, it came as a
surprise to the public, and led every
one to expect further surprises.
The Frank trial absorbs the public
Interest for more than one reason.
The revolting nature of the crime by
which Mary Phagan went to her
death, the mystery surrounding its
circumstances, the uncertainty that
came with new revelations day after
day, pointing first to one and then ;o
another suspect, the final centering
of all suspicion on the two prisoners—
Prank and Conley—the charges and
countercharges that have been ban
died back and forth—all make the
case one to attract and to hold the
Interest of every man or woman who
can hear or read.
At Factory Short Tim©.
Mary Phagan, an employee of the
National Pencil Factory, was a girl 14
years old. Her father was dead, and
she lived with her mother and her
stepfather. W. J Coleman, at No. 146
Lindsay street. This is in that sub
urban section of Atlanta known as
Bellwood. She was a gay, friendly,
lovable girl, well liked by the children
of the neighborhood and by the grown
folks as well, according to every rev
elation of her personality that has
come since her death.
The little girl had worked for some
time, straitened circumstances of th
family driving her to that necessity.
She had been employed at the pencil
factory on South Forsyth street only
a short time.
Saturday afternoon, April 26. she
went to the factory to draw her week
ly pay. It was the day of the Con
federate Memorial parade. Forsyth
street was deserted. The factory was
quiet. The little girl went alone to
the big building at about 12:10 or
12:15 o’clock, according to the state
ment of the street car men who took
from her home to the down town sec
tion.
Watchman Finds Body.
Early Sunday morning, at about 3
o’clock, Newt Lee, the negro watch
man at the factory building, found the
. girl’s body in a dark coi ner of the
* basement, bloody from a dozen cuts
and bruises. The clothes were torn,
and every evidence pointed to the
fact that there had been a struggle
in which the little girl fought vainly
against her assailant. Her neck was
discolored, where a rope had been
used to lower her body down an ele
vator shaft from the first floor.
Later, on the third floor, in the
bathroom of the factory, blood,
strands of hair and other evidences of
a Struggle wcro found, pointing to the
fact that the child had there been at
tacked first.
Few men were In the factory build
ing between the last time Mary Pha-
gan was seen alive and the hour her
body was found by the night watch
man. The men were Leo Frank, the
factory superintendent; Jim Conley, a
negro sweeper; Newt Lee, the negro
night watchman; John Gantt, a for
mer employee of the company who en
tered with Frank’s permission, that
he might get a pair of shoes he had
left behind, and two workers. Harry
Denham and Arthur White, who were
on the fourth floor and who remain
ed in the building until 3 o’clock. At
that time Frank, who had left the
building at 1 o’clock, came in and let
them out. Frank was alone in the
factory until 4 o’clock, by his own ad
mission. When Cdnley came in, or
when he left, no one knows.
Newt Lee Suspected.
After the first discovery of the body
suspicion fell on Newt Lee, who ha I
reported the discovery of the body. He
was arrested. The negro, frightened
to within an inch of his life, protested
his innocence. The police were not
satisfied that he was the murderer,
and began the search.
Information came thick and fast
and of every variety. The first tangi
ble statement was from Ed Sentell. a
grocery man, who said he had seen
Mary Phagan walking by the side of a
tall young man as late a» 12:30 o’clock
Saturday night. Later he identified
the young man as Arthur Mullinax. a
street car worker. Mullinax was ar
rested.
Develpornents came fresh with
every hour that day. Gantt, the young
man who was in the factory late Sat
urday afternoon, was arrested on sus
picion. which deepened when it was
announced that he had been in love
with Mary Phagan.
Monday morning following the dis
covery of the. body an inquest was
held, and as a result of revelations
that he had been alone in the factory
building much of Saturday afternoon.
Superintendent Frank was arrested
on suspicion. Detectives asserted their
conviction that the guilt lay between
I^ee and Frank. Gantt and Mullinax,
proving alibis, were released.
The third day of the mystery a
young man named Paul Bowen was
arrested in Houston. Tex., on the
charge that he had killed Mary Pha
gan. It is said that he had acted in a
suspicious manner upon being con
fronted with news of the girl’s death.
He was arrested by the Houston po
lice. but later was released when he
established an alibL Uut of his ar-
Washington Society Trembles
^••1*
‘Fairest Girl’ Turns Author TOWNS ARE ALL
•!•*+ +•+ +•+ +•+
Miss Hinckley Writes Experience
Miss Gladys Hinckley, called “the most beautiful girl in
America, ” who has written her experiences in Washington society
Brilliant Young Woman Will Tell Heal Facts of
jife in the Capital’s Whirl.
WASHINGTON. July 26.—Society
1h waiting, it can’t be said eagerly,
for the publication of Miss Gladys
Hinckley^s book. “My Experience in
Society." in fact, it I'' v hie pet - d
that there are not a few of the Cap
ital’s four hundred who would breathe
with more ease if they were assured
that the girl called by the Russian
Ambassador “the most beautiful girl
in America" had decided to forego her
literary career.
So far Miss Hinckley has been able
to keep secret Just what her book
will reveal, though all society has
know n she has been working on it for
monthH.
The young author, she is Just 20,
has had a decidedly Interesting ca
reer since her debut a couple of years
ago. Tier beauty made her admired,
but her caustic wit has made her
feared.
She is a deep student and is known
to be fearless in expressing her view's.
Realizing this, the society set is ex
pecting a pretty frank statement of
Miss Hinckley’s experiences, and
there is no great Joy in the expecta
tion.
Miss Hinckley does not hive to
write for a livelihood. She has a'for
tune in her own name, while society
momentarily expects the announce
ment of her engagement to young
Jerome Bonaparte.
Asks Governor to j
Stop Papa's Drinking! J
Girl’s Appeal Touches Heart of Ore
gon’s Chief Executive, Who Or
ders Investigation.
Magical Development of Section!
Is Aided by Gainesville and
Northwestern Road.
Magical development in the lum
ber sections of the North Georgia
mountains lias caught in its tide not
only Robertstown, about whose
growth a story appeared recently in
The Sunday American, but neighbor
ing towns as well—Helen, Brookton,
Clermont and Cleveland.
It Is at Helen that the overnight
town was built, and not at Roberts
town. as the story had it. Helen,
named for the daughter of the presi
dent of the new railroad into that
section, was laid down in the prime
val forest, and now is a town with
electric-lighted hotel and residences,
waterworks and all the appurten
ances of a modem city.
The new railroad is the Gainesville
and Northwestern Railroad, which
now has in operation 37 miles of
track well constructed and laid with
60-pound rail, with mgdern depots
being completed along the line of
road between Gainesville and North
Helen. Robertstown, an old settle
ment, now is known as North Helen,
the name being changed by the rail
road company.
The trains are operated by a tele
phone system, and are imposing af
fairs with their 75-ton locomotives.
Stops are made at sixteen stations
along the line.
rest grew a scandal In the Houston
police circles.
That Lee killed the girl was assured
by the detectives for several days. By
the side of the girl’s body had been
found several dirty scraps of paper,
on which were written almost unde
cipherable words. They were sup-
posedl> from the unfortunate girl.
One note was as follows:
"Ho said he wood love me laid down
like the night witch did it, but that
long. tall, black negro did it by his-
self.”
The other was:
“Mama, that negro hired down here
did this I went to get water and he
pushed me down this hole a long tall
negro black that has it woke long
lean tall negro 1 write while play with
me.’*.
Experts declared positively that
these notes were in Lee’s handwrit
ing.
The inquest, stretching through
several clays, was productive of one
result, at least. The bulk of the sus
picion veered to Frank. The negro
Lee made a number of candid state
ments which afterward were found to
be true, and thus much of the suspi
cion against him lightened.
Elevator Boy Arrested.
Testimony tending to show that
Geron Bailey, a negro elevator boy
in the factory's employ, hud been seen
lurking around the building the fatal
Saturday evening, brought about his
arrest. Lee and Bailey still are held
in the Tower, although suspicion
against them is negligible.
Fntil several days after the body of
the unfortunate girl was found no one
had thought of Conley as a man to
be suspected. But while the inquest
over Mary Phagan’? body was in
progress E. F. Holloway, an employee
of the factory, found the negro
sweeper in a secluded spot on the
fourth floor washing a bloody shirr.
He told detectives, and Conley was
arrested oti suspicion.
Days passed, days that were full of
theories and iptcul&tion, but produc
tive of no real result. Eyes were
turned to Frank as the guilty person,
with an inconsiderable number of peo
ple suspecting Newt I.ree.
On May 25 came a statement from
a woman named Mrs. Mima Form by,
the keeper of a rooming house. Mrs.
Formby declared that the night of the
murder Frank had telephoned her
with the request that she rent him a
room for himself and a girl. She de
clared in her statement that she re
fused him; that he insisted, later be
coming desperate and announcing
that it was a matter almost of life
and death with him. The statement
was pretty generally discredited by
the public.
Conley Admit* Writing Notes.
After three weeks Frank was in
dicted by the Grand Jury.
Then came a startling and unex
pected thing. Jim Conley, silent un
der a siege of questions, suddenly is-
f
sued an affidavit, in which he de
clared that he had written the notes
at Frank's dictation, on Friday before
the Sunday on which the girl's body
was found.
Not until then was Conley suspected
with any degree of strength. But
when the affidavit came, with its in
conceivable charge that Frank had
plotted the death of the girl more
than a day before he kUled her, Con
ley was suspected of having had a
hand in the murder. It was recalled
that Mary Phagan’s visit to the fac
tory had not been anticipated Friday,
and that there w’ould have been no
reason for a murder plot. Conley, it
seemed, had destroyed himself.
The next day he issued a revised
affidavit, declaring that he wrote the
notes on the morning of Saturday, the
day before the body was found. Then
came his third affidavit, that he had
dragged the body of the girl to the
cellar, where it was found, at the in
stance of Frank.
Tho three affidavits semed to con
tradict one another, and to make
charges that were unbelievable. It
was not until then that suspicion
against the negro solidified.
Public speculation and doubt deep
ened. Then, after two weeks, it de
veloped that W. H. Mlncey, a school
teacher, in conversation with a negro
on the afternoon of April 26, when the
murder occurred, had ben told by the
negro:
“Go away. I’ve killed a girl this
evening. I don’t want to kill anybody
else.”
M«ncey Identifies Conley.
He identified this negro as Con
ley.
Against every statement and every
affidavit that has been published,
charges of untruthfuiness and mis
apprehension have been made by one
side or the other. Mincey’s statement
has been attacked. Conley’s affidavits
are declared false, Mrs. Formby’*
declaration is said to be without
foundation. Refutations come for
every bit of evidence, revealing plain
ly that the trial itself will be a fight
of veracity and of reasonableness of
testimony.
And so the case stands to-day.
Brilliant detective talent has been en
gaged. Pinkertons were first retained
to reinforce the local detectives, and
later the Burns men were called in.
But out of that incident grew another
scandal, another of the unpleasant in
cidental features that have made the
Phagan case the most notable of
Georgia’s crime annals, even beyond
the fact that It is the greatest mys
tery.
Last week It was announced that
the Pinkertons believed Frank inno
cent, after weeks of announcing that
he was guilty. Later the declaration
came that they had not made the
statement. This incident was value
less in unfolding the mystery, but is
indicative of the turmoil in which the
* case has been from the first.
‘Valueless’ Land
Worth Thousands
Farmer Awakens to Knowledge De
spised Acres Are Desired
by Lumber Company.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANS, July
26.—Ten acres of plow land in a little
canyon for which he never expected
to get $100 has been found by J. W.
Smith, known hereabouts as “Buffalo’’
Smith, to hold a fortune for him. The
ten acres are covered with old walnut
trees, the only grove of the kind with-
in miles of this city.
Several years ago Smith rented his
ranch, which included the canyon of
walnut trees, and went to Idaho. Sev
eral months ago a timber hunter for
a w'alnut mill learned of the gro/o
and tried to buy the land.
The man’s insistence aroused
Smith's curiosity and he came back
to look it over. Smith had a survey
made of the patch and is now dicker
ing with the walnut mill for a sale.
The last offer was for $10,000 for the
patch. He is holding out for more.
PROMOTER TO FIX CAVERN
TO RIVAL MAMMOTH CAVE
SPRINGFIELD, MO., July 26.—The
sale of Fisher's Cave, one of the most
beautiful of the natural caves of the
Ozarks, to H. E. Peterson, of Utah,
is announced. Peterson will at once
wire the cavern for electricity. He
believes the cave’s marvels superior
to those of Mammoth Cave. The cav
ern extends a mile Into the hillside,
and contains a navigable river, which
is the longest subterranean stream in
the State. Robert Smith, the former
owner, has made a reputation as
“cave farmer,” and every year has
earned large profits from the sale of
mushrooms, rhubarb and frog legs.
PAUL REVERE IN AUTO
WARNS VILLAGERS OF FIRE
CANTON, OHIO, July 26.—A mod
ern Paul Revere, in an auto, rode
through the village of Freeburg. east
of Canton, tooting his horn frantic
ally and shouting “Fire” w’lth all his
might.
The villagers awoke to ?ee part of
their little town in flames. They
formed a bucket brigade and fought
the fire all night long. A part of the
Alliance fire department came to aid
them, but it could get no water.
The general store and barn of Lief
& Hahn was destroyed and several
dwellings were badly damaged. The
total loss was estimated at $10,000.
BONES OF INDIAN PRINCESS
UNEARTHED BY GRADING
SALEM, OREG„ July 26.—What is
believed to be the skeleton of an In
dian princess has been unearthed by
workmen grading in front of property
near State street. The bones were
in an upright position, and around
them w'ere quantities of beads and
other rare Indian ornaments. Near
the bones was a stone foot which is
believed to have been the totem of the
tribe.
The woman was at least 100 years
of age.
ILLINOIS FARMERS OFFER
BOUNTY FOR CHINCH BUGS
ST LOUIS, July 26.—Farmers in Ma
coupin County, Illinois, are making a
profit out of a pest by taking advan
tage of one of the strangest “bounty” of
fers ever made.
Macoupin County business men or
ganized a committee whch offered $2 a
bushel for all chinch bugs sent in by
farmers to the committee headquarters
at Carlinville.
An even bushel measure is estimated
to contain about 8,200,000 Each pair
will produce from 200 to 400 bugs.
ELEVATOR BOY FINDS
DIAMOND IN CHEAP CIGAR
SAN FRANCISCO. July 26—John
Orin. elevator man in the Harding
Building, smokes tw’o-for-a-nickel
cigars.
Yesterday, as he bit off the end
of a cigar, his teeth struck some
thing hard. Orin investigated and,
as he looked at the frayed end of his
moderately-priced perfecto, he found
himself staring at the polished facets
of a perfectly good little diamond
weighing one-half carat.
“DEAD" MAN RETURNS HOME.
CHICO, CAU July 26.—Richard
Crittenden, miner, who left this city
ten years ago for French Gulch
Shasta County, and Who was a year
afterward reported dead, gave ht-»
friends a shock by appearing and
shaking hands with them.
SALEM, OREG.. July 26.—The faith
of a little girl in the power of the
Governor to make everybody stop
selling her papa “drinks" so her mam
ma will have money with which to
buy clothes, is graphically portrayed
in a letter received bv Governor West
from a little girl living in a email
Oregon coast town. The letter says;
“Mr. West, Dear Governor:
“I am a little girl, 12 years old.
My papa is a hard w'orking man and
he is not very well, but what I am
trying to tell you is that oftentimes
he gives the hotels for drink what we
need at home, oh, so bad, and they sell
it to him on Sunuay, too, and it makes
us all so unhappy. My dear mamma
can not go to church She has no
clothes to wear like she us»ed to have.
Oh, I wish you could do something
for us. He is often so cross to my
mother.
“I tried to earn enough to buy my*
mother some clothes. It is such hard
work to earn money when you are
so small.”
TOD.S.ISSEE
JAP CONQUEST OF MEXICO
Beauty a State of
Mind, Says Doctor
Homely Girls May Remedy Defects
by Concentration on Ideal
of Pulchritude.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Dr. C. Frank
lin Leavitt has made public a lesson
in winning a husband by suggestion.
“A woman has two weapons—
thought and action. When she is pos
sessed of a ‘going mind’ she is almost
irresistible. A woman with power
wins the man she wants,
"The first lesson to all unattractive
women should be to picture them
selves in a receptive attitude toward
men. From childhood they should be
taught to meet the opposite sex with
out fear and bashfulness. Fear gives
a shock.
“Thoughts properly directed can
change the physical being. From
concentration on a subject fifteen
minutes a day women have become
beautiful. They should suggest to
themselves at intervals that they are
beautiful.
“Married women should take ‘treat
ments’ to retain the affections of their
husbands. Going back to the old days
of honeymoon attraction she is able
to keep her husband interested.”
Conscience Hurts
•m
Few U, S. Employees
Amount Returned by Those Whom
Error or Fraud Benefits Is
Decidedly Small.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—Fewer
penitents tortured by the “still small
voice” confessed and surrendered
“conscience money” to the Federal
Government during the fiscal year
1913 than for many years. The "con
science fund” received during the
twelve months ended June 30 totaled
only $2,814.44, the lowest amount
since 1901 and comparable with a
hundred year average of $4,200.
That fund is the only official index
to the scruples, but no Treasury of
ficial attempts to explain the decrease
in restitution of money received from
the Government by fraud or error.
During the last hundred years the
Government has received conscience
contributions aggregating nearly a
half million dollars, the. exact figures
up to June 30 last being $434,615.69.
Baltimorean Exiled
By Servant Problem
Society Leader Prefers His American
Home, but Goes Abroad to
Get Service.
BALTIMORE, July 26.—Samuel 8.
Keyser, whom Baltimore society gave
such a warm welcome last winter when
he returned to his native city after an
absence of 15 years, has sold his big
house at No. 609 Washington Place and
will again go abroad to live, driven
hence by the complexities of the serv
ant problem.
In London Mr. Keyser maintained a
beautiful home, but Baltimore, according
to his oft-repeated statement since his
return, is the ideal place to live.
GARBAGE MAN HIDES FACT
HE IS BLIND FOR 2 YEARS
DENVER, July 26—For two years
Edward Dormer ha? worked faith
fully as a garbage collector and has
a good record. City officials In the
sanitary department who employed
him did not know he was blind until
recently.
He as able to get about with the
ease of one with clear vision, but Is
very sensitive about his affliction.
City sanitary officials were dum-
founded when they learned of Dor
mer's affliction. He has not lost a
day since hi? employment and will
be allowed to retain his position.
PURSE OF MOURNER IS
STOLEN FROM GRAVE’S SIDE
SHELBYVILLE. IND.. July 26.—
Mrs. O. L. Adams, of this city, when
decorating the grave of a relative at
Forest Hill Cemetery, hung her
pocketbook, containing jewels valued
at $500, on the tombstone.
She went away, leaving the purse
hanging on the stone. When she re
membered where she had left it and
returned the purse had disappeared.
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ORNAMENTS CAPITOL
Continued From Pag© 1.
been investigating Mexico and Cen
tral America, and there can be no
doubt of the favorable nature of the
reports to Tokio. Nature produced
there a section so much like Japan
that its visiting natives feel at once
at home. This marvelously fertile
country has been given up for cen
turies to the rapacity of Spanish con
querors and native despots.
Japan awoke half a century ago,
and since then has astounded the
world by its superb advancement. In
that half-century the principal con
tribution of Central America to the
world were “revolutions” which gave
picturesque material for comic operas
and plots for grotesque fiction.
Mexico for centuries has been the
victim of military adventurers and
political plunderers, and looks back
with longing to the Interim during
which Porflrio Diaz ruled as the most
absolute despot in modern history.
The United States would not make
a move to remedy these conditions
and interpose the Monroe Doctrine in
the way of any other power, with
the result that the world still con
tains a vast and practically undevel
oped tract of land perfectly suited to
the expansion needs of Japan.
Hail Japan a* a David.
The stand taken by Japan against
the United States and its demand for
a recognition of its equality has met
with the enthusiastic approval of the
jingo political factions in all of our
“Monroe Doctrine Republics.” All
anti-American factions in Mexico and
Central America acclaim Japan the
David who will humiliate the dollar-
hunting Goliah.
In recent years the Japanese have
sedulously conducted a campaign cal
culated to win the favor of the ruling
officials of the Monroe Doctrine zone,
and have lost no opportunity to fan
the anti-American sentiment.
This hatred of the United States
does not flow from any act. It arises
and is fed by the very fact that we
still proclaim the sovereignty of a
Monroe Doctrine, which implies that
the republics affected by it are in
ferior and are therefore entitled to
our protection against the world and
against themselves.
Their contempt arises from the fact
that we have not enforced the detest
ed doctrine.
What does Japan now say to the
anti-American factions of our Mon
roe Doctrine republics? She says:
“We also are classed as inferiors by
the United States, whose Declaration
of Independence asserts that all men
are created equal. Let us co-operate
to resent these insults.”
Birthplace of Japan.
But, a far closer tie than a lust for
revenge binds the peoples of the
American tropics to Japan.
Millions of the natives of Mexico
and Central America are Japanese in
all save name!
This Is a startling statement, but
it is absolutely true. Scores of so-
called Indian tribes scattered all the
way from Northern Mexico to Costa
Rica speak languages derived directly
from the Japanese, look like Japa
nese and follow closely the primitive
arts and customs of the Japanese.
It is a moot question with archaeol
ogists whether Japan was settled
from Mexico or whether Mexico was
settled from Japan. There are cogent
reasons for the belief that the birth
place of the Japanese race was in
Mexico, or Central America, and that
some great war or great migration
resulted in a pilgrimage northward
to Alaska and thence to Japan.
The reader should understand that
strictly speaking there is no such
thing as a Mexican nationality. This
applies to all of the Monroe Doctrine
republics. The upper and ruling class
is of Spanish descent or strain from
inter-marriage with the innumerable
branches of the native stock. This
native stock is cs-lled “Indian,” but
millions of them are not Indians.
There are hundreds of these so-
called Indian tribes. They speak as
many different languages. They con
stitute the endrmous majority of the
population, but they play almost no
part in the Government.
Different Class of Indians.
The Spanish who came with and
who followed Cortez naturally inter
married with the more aggressive and
best-favored of the native races. The
Indians who inhabited the present
territoty of the United States bore
absolutely no relation to those in
Mexico and Central America, who
reared wonderful cities whose ruins
still attest their advancement and
their Japanese origin.
There are at least ten known tribes
In Mexico where an A?iatic Japanese
can make himself readily understood.
There is one so-called Indian tribe in
Mexico in which a vocabulary of 2.000
words contains not less than 1,600
which are pure Japanese.
The observing stranger who walks
for the first time the streets of Mex
ico City. Orizaba, Guatemala City or
w'ho penetrates into the interior of
these countries can not fail to note
that a large share of the natives bear
on their faces the plain proof of their
kinship to the subjects of the Mikado
The physiognomy of many of the up
per classes reveals a fine blending of
the distinctive facial lines of the
Spaniard and the Japanese.
Mikado's Subjects Welcome.
There is an intuitive recognition
by the people of their kinship to the
Japanese. The door? of most of these
republics are open to subjects of the
Mikado. The school children are
taught to respect the military prow
ess of a race deemed inferior by a
world who did not awake to the truth
until the little Jap conquered Russia.
The school children of Mexico are also
taught that their country defeated the
United States in its attempt to annex
their soil.
A f?w years ago I witnessed a mili
tary parade in Mexico City in honor
of her independence. A company of
marines from a Japanese cruiser was
in line. Flowers were strewn in their
path. A half million people greeted
them as if they were their saviors. All
along the line arose the affectionate
salutation of “Brothers." I did notf
understand it; I doubt if they under
stood it, but back of it all was a racial
intuition.
It is a matter of history that Mexico
stood ready to deed to Japan a naval
base in Magdalena Bay. Had not the
United States intervened Japan might
now posses? all of the Mexican terri
tory of Lower California.
Japan Moves Steadily. f
I do not say that Japan contem
plates at present the actual occupa
tion or military conquest of any of
these countries. This is not within her
probable power, but Japan Is moving
steadily for the settlement and devel
opment of these neglected and revo
lution-desolated republics.
The Japanese will naturally take
possession of fields of enterprise once
possessed by detested Americans.
Thus the doors are opened for the re
incarnation in tropical America of the
old Japan which has slumbered
through the ages.
Its vigorou? Asiatic offspring can
pour 20.000,1)04) of its people into it and
create the richest and most beautiful
empire the world has ever known.
We could do the same thing, but w&
seem to have "more important mat
ters to attend to.”
DYING MEXICAN WRITES
HE’LL SEE FRIEND BELOW
TACOMA, July 26.—While the
.street? were crowded with merry
makers. a Mexican, who gave his
name as Joe Moonlight, and Joseph
Porter, members of a troupe of cow
boys performing here, were shot by
an unidentified negro. The Mexican
will die.
The Mexican, lying on a cot in the
hospital, lighted a cigarette, called
for a pencil and paper and wrote:
“Good-by, Dave; will see you be
low.” Tho message was addressed to
Dave Porter, National City, Cal. ,
COMPLETES 72D YEAR IN
SERVICE OF SINGLE FIRM
KENOSHA, WIS., July 26.—George
Yule, veteran wagonmaker, has Just
completed seventy-two years of con
tinuous service with one firm here.
He became superintendent of the *
wagon factory more than sixty years
ago, a position he held for thirty
years. For twenty years he was vice
president .and is now the active head
of the company. Although 90. Presi
dent Yule is one of the first officials
to reach the office in the morning.
WOMAN MARRIES BROTHER
OF DIVORCED HUSBAND
TAYLORSVILLE, ILL., July 26.—
Monroe Nave, 24, and Mrs. Gracey
Nave, 30, were married by Rev. John
Score, pastor of Clayton Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. Mrs. Nave
told Deputy Recorder Otto Preiss, who
issued the license, she had been di
vorced from Monroe Nave’s elder
brother in Hillsboro, Ill.
To Overcome Sunburn,
Tan, Freckles, Wrinkles
(From Outdoor Life.)
If you are freckled, tanned or sun
burnt. dab a liberal amount of mer-
colized wax on the face and allow it
to remain over night. When you
wash off the wax in the morning,
fine, flaky, almost invisible particles
of cuticle come with it. Repeating
this daily, the entire outer skin is
absorbed, but so gradually, there's
not the slightest hurt or inconven
ience. Even the stubbornest freckles
f field to this treatment. The under -
ying skin which forms the new com
plexion Is so fresh and youthful-look
ing you’ll marvel at the transforma
tion. It’s the only thing I know to
actually discard an aged, faded,
muddy or blotchy complexion. It is
fine for a discolored neck. One ounce
of mercolized wax, procurable at any
> drug store, is sufficient in most cases.
If sun and wind make you squint
and frown, you’re bound to cultivate
wrinkles and crow’s feet. To over
come these quickly, bathe the face in
a solution made by dissolving an
ounce of powdered saxolite in a half
pint witch hazel.
EXCURSIONS
Two great tours East and West;
special trains, exclusive ships; all ex
pense paid; best hotels. On August 9
Southern Merchants’ Tour (free to
merchants) visiting Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee and
I^ake Michigan An eight-day ex
pense-paid trip for only $49.75 (ticket
good for thirty days). August 16. Our
great 5,000-mile circle tour of Cin
cinnati. Detroit, Buffalo, Niagara
Falls. Great Gorge, Toronto; Thou
sand Islands, Montreal, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Atlanti© City,
Washington, Baltimore and Savan
nah, with steamer trips on takes,
river and ocean. An eighteen-day
expense-paid trip for only $88 85
(tickets good for thirty days, with
stop-overs).* Special trains on both
tours leave Atlanta, BirmiR-t^am.
Chattanooga and Knoxville. Xjmlted
and select party. Special cars for
ladies alone. Write to-day fqr reser
vation and full particulars. J. F. Mc
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WASHINGTON, July 26—Many
persons admired a wonderfully per
fect face of a woman on one of the
columns of the White House portico.
The picture Is high, beyond the reach
of any freak artist, and is the acci
dental alignment of various coverings
of kalsomine and stucco. The mouth,
nose, lips, neck, crown of hair and
Psyche knot are as artistic as if made
by a modeler.
GIRLS’ GARB SHOCKING.
MADISON, WIS., July 26.—Frater
nity men here have been shocked into
a state of nervousness by the specta
cle of girls in one-piece bathing suits
diving from piers in front of fraterni
ty houses.
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