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VOL. I. NO. 17.
Copyright, 1*18, by
The Georgian Company.
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ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1913.
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
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Frederick Upham Adams Shows
Why This Country May Have to
Repel Yellow Invader Seeking a
New Empire at Its Very Doors.!
John Early, Noted
As Leper, Is Insane
M»n Who Guarded Colony la 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 oolony at
Diamond Point Station, has lost his
mind and Is himself under guard at the
colony.
Early has been under watoh 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 Offioe for an allowance
as a veteran of the Spanish-American
war, he was permitted to slip unosten-
tatiously away to New York,
Golfers Go 35 Miles
In Just 1,087 Strokes
“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.”
Cy 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
te,ro 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
tepubllc who shall be nameless, since
he has thus far escaped assassination
or overthrow by revolution. It was
also voiced by an American of high
reputation and keen judgment, who
has been a student of Latin American
affairs for more than a generation.
Ur 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 ot
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-
Isult 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
'‘hat some other nation will take up
'•he task w'hieh we decline. That will
Tian 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
State.
The wise men of Japan know all
this 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
I states, but on Mexico and Central
I America, the neglected and semi-sav-
r age wards of our Monroe Doctrine.
Like Home to Japanese,
f■ I For 30 years the Japanese have
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Experts Play From Maidstone to Lit
tleton on the Sea
on a Wager.
E
JUST A DISEASE
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.
Elinor Glyn’s Hero,
‘Baby Paul’ to Wed
FRANK FIGHTS FOR LIFE MONDAY
Boston Girl Will Marry Man Around !
Whose Adventures ‘Three
Weeks’ Was Written.
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BOSTON. July 26.—“Baby Paul,” of
“Three Weeks,” is to become a bride
groom. 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.
,r W> 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.”
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Special Cable to The American.
LONDON, July 26.—To cover
miles In 1.087 strokes is a feat tha*
two golfers accomplished in playing
from Maidstone to Littleton-on-the-
Sea.
How this came about a well-known
golfer offered to bet Neville Foster,
of the Ashdown Forest Golf Club, and
W. Warman, of the Newton Green
Golf Club, that they could not play
from Forest row to Crow borough
over the woodlahd heather and hills,
a distance of eight miles, in 351)
strokes. The bet was taken and the
task accomplished in 184 strokes.
Waiters Back of Bill
To Prevent‘Tipping’
Measure Provides Fine for Both ‘Tip
per’ and Recipient of Bounty, and
Reward for Informer.
ST. LOUIS, July 26.—An ordinance
to end “tipping” has been passed by
the City Council and will now go to
the Houre of Delegates, where it Is
expected it will be speedily adopted,
and, with the signature of the May
or, become a law.
This ordinance has had the back
ing of the union waiters of St. Louis,
who are now striking in the principal
hotels and restaurants. The bill pro
vides a fine of from $10 to $50 for
each offense, both the “tipper” and re
cipient of the “tip” being subject to
fine, and the informer to receive half
of the fine.
Shrinks Three Inches
During Long Illness
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 of his recovery is the
n\ore extraordinary because it is well
known that the human body gains in
length while lying prone. A man la
normally taller in the morning than at
night.
Suffragists Plan
National Campaign
Women Who Now Possess Franchise
Will Aid Movement In All
Other States.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—Plans for
a widespread campaign for “votes for
I women” to be carried into all the
States of the Union not now having
suffrage will be laid at a conference
of the National Council of Woman
Voters here August 13, 14 and 16. An- j
nouncement to this effect w r as made
to-day at the congressional commit
I tee headquarters of the council.
“Number, please?”
The voice came over the wire. It
was sweet and toft 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
wap 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 dlscusse.*' the new dls- 1
eas~ and pours out Its sympathy on a
certain victim whose case is men
tioned and analyzed.
Wrong Number One 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 wan 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.
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.
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
ber Undsowelter” was busy. Later he
found that it hadn’t been, and he ex
ploded. e
The medical exp* rt 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.
Porter Charlton
Makes ’Xmas Date
Dorsey Ready to Avenge Mary Phagan
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Mystery ot Months Is Still Unsolved
P RINCIPAL figures in Atlanta’s most noted criminal case. Two pictures of
Mary Phagan, the little factory girl, whoso 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 he fought.
American Ordered Extradited to Italy
Confident He Will Be Back
In Few Months.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 26.—
Porter Charlton, the young man who
has been ordered extradited to Italy
to stand trial for the murder of his
wife, seems to be apparently uncon
cerned about the outcome of the trial,
and openly stated that he would be
back In America again for Christmas
Although the United States Govern
ment has ordered him sent back to
Italy, he confidently told a friend yes
terday that he w’ould soon return.
“Don’t you worry," he is reported as
saying. “I’ll make an engagement
with you next Christmas at Church
ill’s.”
Corsets Accepted
As Bank Pledge
Burlington Financiers Take Dainty
Article as Collateral for
Loan of $2.
Railroads ‘Rotten,
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- j
gling interest among the bank clerks, j
contains the oddest collateral ever
deposited with a New Jersey banking
institution as security on a loan.
Within the folds of paper and rib-
bc s is a pair of corsets, avowed value
$6.25, on which a young woman, lack
ing railroad fure to Philadelphia, in
her extremity yesterday borrowed $2
from the bank.
Most Bitter Legal Battle in
History of Atlanta Courts
Is Expected—Case Will
Probably Last for Weeks.
A FTER three month* of mystery in the death of
Mary I'hagun, 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 tragic
j death, April 26, stirred a State, will be brought to trial
Monday mi the charge that he killed her.
Frank’s trial Is the crowning event of the hundred
thrilling circumstances surrounding the tragedy,
j Whatever the outcome, regardless of Frank's convic-
j tion or acquittal, the incidents that follow the trial will
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
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- j
tence before long in the Arden colony, *
made famous by Upton Sinc lair and j
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, instructed
an aerial bungalow with four poplar
trees as corner posts.
Imperator' Is Too
Small, Says Captain
Greatest Vessel Afloat Is Already
Fully Booked for Next Two
Voyages West.
Says Lafollette
Lightning Rips Shoe
; From Wearer’s Foot
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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 bum about the size j
Senate Declares That Mellen’s Case
Is Typical of Entire Sys
tem in Nation.
MADISON. WIS., July 26.—Senator
LaFollette, In the current issue of
his weekly paper, praises the men who
caused an investigation of the New
Haven Railroad and disclosures that
led to the resignation of Charles 3.
Mellen as its president. In an edi
torial, under the captain of “Rot
ten.” Mr. LaFoIlette says:
“The passing of Mellen is of no
consequence. He was morally the
agent of Morgan in the execution of
plans operated on all of the big sys
tems. The history of the New Haven
merger is the history of every merger.
The whole system Is rotten.”
Investigations by the interstate
Commerce Commission in other rail
roads would cause more resignations.
Special Cable to The American.
PLYMOUTH, July 26—“The Impera
tor is too small; we want larger ves
sels,” exclaimed Captain Ruser, when,
after landing the greatest ship in the
world at this port to-day, he was told
that the Imperator is already fully
booked for her next two westward trips.
The Imperator proceeded from here
to Cherbourg and Hamburg. On the
way over there were three days of
such extreme heat that many expe
rienced stokers were unable to work.
The average speed for the voyage was
22.5 knots and the best single day’s run
was 540 miles.
Labor Secretary
Asks 3 Autos of U. S.
Wilson Wants $5,000 Touring Car,
$2,500 Electric and $1,500 Truck
for Department.
WASHINGTON, July 26.—A stir
was caused in the House to-day when
it became known that Secretary of
Labor William B. Wilson has asked
Congress for a $5,000 touring car for
his personal use, a $2,500 electric au
tomobile to b eused for personal ami
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
Dally 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 it' ,
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 las*
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
official purposes and a $1,500 electric j i
of a dime on Simpson's right Tool
l said- Mr. LaFoiiette.
when the thermometer climbs
1 rnpk f,,r thf nffirtnl hnsln*-.hh nf thi»l oV * r ,he boiling point were urged b>
truck rot the official business oi int • X]rH r< ]).* s fire in .< letter re j
I new Department of Labor. I reived by the L»>y Council.
Chronology of Phagan Case
April 27—Body of Mary Phagan found in factory.
Arthur Mulllnax 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. 8. 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. JVlincey’s statement first published,
that he heard Conley boast of killing.
July 15—E. F. Holloway, factory employee, says
he was told of negro's boast just after killing.
July 23—Frank says ne is ready for trial. Search
for Will Green, Conley s companion, said to nave
seen killing. ,
ha* opposed the indictment of the single other suspect,
the negro Jim Conley. The enthralled interest of a
public lias been pitched about tlie question: Is Leo
Frank guilty?
FRANK DRAMA’S CENTRAL FIGURE.
Even the pitiful figure of the little factory girt,
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 who
affirm his innocence in the face of a dark suspicion,
all have become factors in making Frank the central
figure of the crime drdma.
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 persons, even
before the trial, are ready to express a belief of Frank’s
guilt. As many are firm in the conviction that he is
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 TALENT 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 mot in skirmishes, in the
courts iukI in the ne\vspai>ers. They were skirmishes
so hard fought and bitter as to hold out the promise
EriTicx ren
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