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Z A HKARRT'S SUNDAY AMKKICAN, ATLANTA, UA„ WINDAT, «MJUJ Zl, 1!I13. TITANIC COURT STRUGGLE PREDICTED IN FRANK CASE Continued From Page 1. that the trial will be a titanic fight. Solicitor General Hugh M. Dor»ey, Frank Hooper and Assistant Solicitor Stephens will conduct the cane against Frank. The three are known a* ag gressive. tireleps 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 seemed beyond so lution he set an army of detectives to work Through all the stresa 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 preliminary legal battles, especially in hi® hardest fight against the indictment of Con ley. he has been successful. The Solicitor General, from the evi dence in his hands, believes In th** guilt of Frank. He will defend his conviction to the end. The defence presents a corps of at torneys who are reputed to be as abl* criminal lawyers as the South can produce. Luther Z Rosser, county attorney, 1s the towering figure of the defense He Is 6 pitiless questioner of witnesses and cross-examination* w hich 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 .*x- pects a wonderful psychological dem onstration on the hour the negro takes the stand. Arnold Striking Figure. No less powerful as a criminal law yer is Reuben R. Arnold, who was re tained by the defense to co-operate with Mr. Rcsser. Arnold Is a brilliant law yer, and always a spectacular and compelling figure in the criminal cases with which he l? connected. Asso ciated with Rosser and Arnold In the case will be Herbert Haas and Pam Boorstin, who were employed by the Frank fam’lv 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 w r hlch Incidents took time after time. The trial will he called Monday morning in the Superior Court room on the first floor of the courthouse, at South Pryor and Hunter ."treets. The roqm, which is the largest available to the Stat? courts, is expected to be all too small for the crowd that will come, eagerly curious and expectant. A strict police supervision of tne crowds will be 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 1“ 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 main 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 f*psctators are allowed to enter. Afte»* them the ppectators will be admitted, one by one. until the seats In the room are filled. Then the doors will he 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, j Postponement Unlikely. Judge L. S. Roan will preside at the trial. He announced in a telegram from Covington, w'here he Is spending a short vacation, that the case will be called Monday morning, without fall There Is little probability that an attempt will he made to obtain a postponement, although It has been hinted that there are one or two causes w'hlch might tend to bring • bout delay. One is exceslvo 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 he the great est battle of Atlanta's legal history. A mysterious death, a chain of dam aging circumstances pointing to the grullt of the accused, a coterie of law yers for the defense who are given to •urprises and who are known for in exhaustible resource*, a Solicitor who Is determined and a fighter—every thing points to a great struggle Considerable difficulty will he en tailed at the first. It Is expected, when the Jury must be drawn. From Indi 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 case so thoroughly have citizens of Atlanta had the de- Don't Be j “Grouchy” I just because your stomach has “gone back” on you. There’s a splendid chance for it to “come back" with the aid of HOSTETTER’S STOMACH BITTERS It soother and tones the tired nerves, promotes ; bowel regularity, aids di gestion and will help you J back to health. Try it. tails recalled, so muen has It become a part of the city’s life that men will he hard to find, it In expected, who will be willing to view the evidence coolly, without prejudice or without bias. Than, 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 be selected from the Grand Jury venire. Whether this request will be granted Is altogether In the discretion of the trial Judge. It Is expected, however, that It will he refused unless significant reasons are brought to bear by the defense. Trial Will Last Days. Then the case will start. Kv1den~o probably will not be taken until th ; 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 the length of time consumed in examining the witnesses at the Coroner’s inquest in any Indication. Surprises will come, surely. It Is likely that most of the surprises will •he those of the defense, the public generally crediting that side with more evidence hitherto hidden than the prosecution. The State's case has been perpet ually before the public. The agencies of the State have been crossed at times, and out of the antagonism has grown publicity that was not good fo*- the privacy of the prosecution's line of attack. The defense, on the other hand, has kept quiet. When the Mln- cey affidavit w r as published last week, favoring the defense, it came as a surprise to the public, and igd 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 circumstn nces, the uncertainty that came with new' revelations day after day, pointing first to one and then to another suspect, the final centering of nil suspicion on the two prisoners— I Frank 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 Time. 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. 14»> 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 heT personality that has come since her death. The little girl had worked for some time, straitened circumstances of the 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, sh.i went to the factory to draw her week ly pay. It was tne day of the Con federate Memorial parade. Forsyth street was deserted. The factory wan quiet. The little girl went alone to the big building at about 12:10 or 12:16 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, f Early Sunday morning, at about 3 o’clock. Newt Lee, the negro watch- mnn at the factory building, found the girl’s body in a dark corner of the basement, bloody from a dozen cut* and bruises. The clothes were torn, and every evidence pointed to the fact that there had been a struggle In w'hlch the little girl fought vainly against her assailant Her neck was discolored, where a rope had beer, used to lower her body down an ele vator shaft from the first floor. I*ater, on the third floor. In the bathroom of the factory, blood, strands of hair and other evidences of a struggle were 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, w ho wer. 1 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 Conley ca^ne in, or when he left, no one knows. Newt Lee Suspected. After the first discovery of the body suspicion fell on Newt Lee. who had 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 groceryman, who said he had seen Mary Phagan walking by the side of a tall young man as late as 12:30 o’clock Saturday night. Later he identified the young man as Arthur Mullinax. a street car worker. Mullinax was ar rested. Develpoments came fresh with •very 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 w’as 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 L*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 alibi. Out of his ar 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. Washington Society Trembles +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ r*+ ‘Fairest Girl’ Turns Author +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ Miss Hinckley Writes Experience Miss Gladys Hinckley, called “the most beautiful girl in America,” who has written her experiences in Washington society TEST IF SIN'S HEAT TO HELP Asks Governor to Stop Papa's Drinking Girl's Appeal Touches Heart of Ore gon’s Chief Executive, Whc Or- j ders Investigation. Agriculture May Be Revolution ized in 25 Years, Declares Ex pert, Who Has New Theory. CHICAGO, July 26.—Startling changes In existing theories regarding the sun and its effect on the earth are made by Professor Edwin B. Fros*, director of the Yerkes Observatory a* Williams Bay, Wls. He says that nu merical values regarding the equiva lent In horsepower or other units of the amount of radiation received from the sun. as given in the best school and college textbooks as well as in most of the cyclopedias and dictiona ries, should be reduced 20 to 30 per | cent. Professor Frost asserts that meas ures and estimates by the late Profes- fior S. P. I>arigley were too high— 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 hv Governor West from a little girl living in « small Oregon coast town. The letter says'; “Mr. West. Dear Governor: “I am a little girl. 12 years old My papa is a hard working man and he is not very w'ell, but what I am trving to tell you Is that oftentimes he gives the hotels for dflnk what we need at home, oh, so bad, and they sell it to him on Suncay, too, and It makes us all so unhappy. My dear mamma can not go to church She has no clothes to wear like she u?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 w’ork to earn money w’hen you are so small.” Beauty a State of Mind, Says Doctor Baby, Shut in Coop, Fights Off Chickens Fowls Pick at Eighteen-Month-Old Girl, Who Is Rescued by Hu mane Society Officer. CHICAGO, July 26.—Rosa Ruben- steln, 1245 Waller street, an 18- month-old baby girl, shared an or dinary sized wire-covered coop with five chickens at 632 Maxwell street yesterday. Her eyes w r ere large with fright and she was at the end of the coop keeping the chickens away with a small stick. The fowls w*ere pecking at her bare legs. Charles H. Brayne, an officer of the Illinois Humane Society, made the discovery in making a trip through the West Side ghetto. Brayne removed the child. The girl’s mother. Mrs. Jennie Rubenstein, ar rived shortly. She told Brayne she left the child in the coop. 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 J2.814.44, 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. Right to “Damn" Not Man’s Alone Indiana Judge Invests Woman With Privilege to Swear Upon nearly 50 per cent too high—and that the theory of the "solar constant” should be revised; that It la not a constant, but a variable; In other words, our sun is a variable star like hundreds and thousands of others in the sky. Absorption to Increase. Other facts set forth are that, be ginning in the summer of 1912, there has been a decided Increase in ab sorption and that when the sun spots are numerous the radiation received from the sun is relatively high. In about four years the spots will be numerous. The belief is also expressed that eventually it may be possible to de termine general weather conditions six months or longer In advance by careful observations of solar condi tions, and tnat the advance forecast* w’lll revolutionize the agriculture of the world. Professor Frost, however, thinks it may be 25 years or longer before long-distance forecasts on the lines mentioned will he possible. Lo cal scientists who have read the arti cle of Professor Frost say it Is most valuable. Useful In Time. "It Is a highly interesting article to the layman and scientist alike," sail Professor Henry J. Cox. in charge cf he Chicago Weather Bureau. “The subject of the earth’s absorption of the sun’s heat is one which ha® In terested the Government to a great degree. We haven’t reached the point Of Ufllhf the figures set forth by Pro fessor Frost, but I feel sure that we will be able to In time. Professo- Kimball has been making observa tions along these lines at Mount Weather.” 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 * Few U.S, Employees Amount Returned by Those Whom Error or Fraud Benefits Is Decidedly Small. Brilliant Young Woman Will Toll Beal Facts of Life in the Capital’s Whirl. WASHINGTON. July 26.—Society Is waiting, It can’t be said eagerly, for the publication of Miss Gladys Hinckley’s hook, “My Experience in Society.” In fact, it is whispered 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 w'hat her book will reveal, though all society has known she has been working on it for months. The young author, she is Just 20. has had a decidedly interesting ca reer since her debut a couple of years ago. Her 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 views. 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 have 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. on which were written almost unde cipherable words. They were sup posedly from the unfortunate girl. One note was as follows: “He said he wood love me laid down like the night witch did it, but that long, tall, black negro did it by hls- self.” The other was: “Mama, that negro hired down here did this I went to get watet and ho 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 days, 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 he 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, had 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. Until several days after the body of the unfortunate girl was found no one had thought of Conley as a man lo be suspected. But while the inquest over Mary Phagan’? body was In progress E. F. Holloway, an employe** of the factory, found the negro sweeper in a secluded spot on the fourth floor washing a bloody shirt. He told detectives, and Conley was arrested on suspicion. Days passed, days that were full of theories and speculation, but produc tive of no real result Eyes were turned to Frank as the guilty person, with an inconsiderable number ot peo ple suspecting Newt Lee. 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 Admits Wntinfl 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 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 ohaYge that Frank had plotted the death of the girl more than a day before he killed 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 would 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. The 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. Mincey, 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.” Mincey Identifies Conley. He identified this qegro as Con ley. Against every statement and every' affidavit that has been published, charges of untruthfulness 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. Form by’s declaration is said to be without foundation. Refutations come for every bit of evidence, revealing plain ly that the trial itself will he 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 erfme 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 first. Deacon Newlywed Hazed After Wedding Members of Congregation Take Bridegroom to Lonesome Field and Lash Him to Tree. KANSAS CITY. July 26.—Walter Stratton, 35 years old, a deacon in the Roanoke Boulevard Christian Church here, who was married re cently to Miss Alta Barber, of Hum boldt, Kans., was “kidnaped” from his bride by men members of the congre gation at the clo*e of church services the other night and severely hazed. Members of the hazing party said they sought "to punish” Deacon Stratton for going outside the church circle for a bride. The hazers met Mr. and Mrs. Strat ton at the church door. While two of them guarded Mrs. Stratton, the others took Stratton to a pasture a mile away and tied him to a tree. 300,000 to Mend Missouri Roads Governor and All Other State Offi cials to Wield Shovels for Two Days. JEFFERSON CITY. MO., July 26- Governor Major has announced that he will Issue a proclamation soon setting apart two days in August when every able-bodied resident in the rural dis tricts and towns of the State will be asked to render personal assistance in improving the highways. The Governor estimates that at least 300,000 men will respond Many will furnish teams and machinery. “The work of 300.000 earnest m<m for two days will be equivalent to 600.000 days of work, to say nothing of the teams that will be supplied.’’ the Gov ernor said. “Many boys, too, will turn out and aid the good cause." Governor Major himself proposes to wield a pick and shovel for the two days on some highway near Jefferson City, and he will expect every State official to do the same. SOLDIER'S WIDOW LIVES TWO YEARS ON $95 INCOME| HASTINGS. 'MICH., July 36.— 1 The death of Mrs. Lottie Malloy, an old set tler, revealed the fact that she existed two years and three months on the sum of $95. She and her husband resided ' on a farm at Leach l*ake, north of town, j until they went to the Soldiers’ Home ! in Grand Rapids, where Malloy died . two years ago. j Provocation. EVANSVILLE, IND., July 26.— Judge McCoy, of the City Court, to day decided that a woman had a le gal right to say “damn." Miss Kate Graham had an argument with hei landlord several days ago over the rent, and, according to her story in court, she used these words to the landlord: "I will not pay you a damned cent until I find out whether the house is condemned.” Mrs. Graham was arrested, but dis charged, the court holding that under the circumstances she was justified in using the word “damn.” Woman Sues Road For a Stolen Kiss Says She Fought Engineer In Effort to Retain It and Demands $1,999. SEATTLE, July 26.—To what extent a railroad is responsible for the actions of its employees is involved in a suit filed in the Snohomish County Superior Court by Mrs., -Charles Nelson, who asks $1,999 damages from the Great Northern Railroad Company for a kiss Imprinted upon her cheek by George Thome, a locomotive engineer Mrs. Nelson charges Thorne seated himself beside her. put his arm around her and kissed her She says she fought him off. and he tore her w'rap during the struggle. 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 official® in ih*’ .sanitary department who employed him did not know' he was blind until recently. He as able to get about with the ease of one wdth 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. MOTOR RACES TUESDAY, July 29 8:15 P. M. Continued From Page 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 "revolution*” w-hieh pave 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 w'hich Porfirio 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 as a David. The stand taken by Japan against the United States and its demand for a recognition of its equality has met w'ith 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 lu9t 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 tribe® 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 w-ar 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 called “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 enormous majority of the population, but they play almost no part in the Government. Different Class of Indians. The Spanish who came with and who follow’ed Cortez naturally inter married w ith the more aggressive and BI, 10 l THt5 I WEEK NORMAN FRI EDEN WALD’S Hilarious Musical Farce COMEDY, THE GIRL FROM DUBLIN The liveliest, most tuneful and up-to-the-minute musical comedy show of the season. 1 1-2 HOURS OF FUN. PRETTY GIRLS. GREAT SCENIC EFFECTS. 20—FUN MAKERS—20. SPLENDID VAUDEVILLE. TUNEFUL MUSICAL NUMBERS. Daily Matinees. Night Shows at 7:30 and 9. BARGAIN PRICES. best-favored of the native races. The Indians w’ho inhabited the present terrttoty of the Uni tec* States bore absolutely no relation to those in Mexico and Central America, who reared wonderful cities w nose ruins still attest their advancement and their Japanese origin. There are at least ten known tribes in Mexico where an Asiatic Japanese can make himself readily understood. There is one so-called Indian tribe in Mexico in w'hich a vocabulary of 2.000 words contains not less than 1,600 w’hlch 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 phare 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 clasps reveals a fine blending of the distinctive facial lines of the Spaniard and the Japanese. I 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 soft. A f3W’ years ago I witnessed a mili tary parade in Mexico City in honor of her independence. A company of marine? from a Japanese cruiser was In line. Flow’ers were strewn In their path. A half million people greeted them as if they w’ere their saviors. All along the line arose the affectionate salutation of “Brothers.” I did not 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. 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 cf these neglected and revo lution-desolated republics. The Japanese will naturally tak** possession of fields of enterprise once* possessed by d tested \ Thus the doors are opened for the re incarnation in tropical America of the old Japan which has slumbered through the ages. Its vigorous* Asiatic offspring can pour 20.000/100 of its j • it md create the richest and most beautiful empire the w'orld ha« ever known. We could do the same thing, but we seem to have “more tmportant mat ters to attend to.” Baltimorean Exiled By Servant Problem Society Leader Prefers His American Home, but Goes Abroad to Get Service. BALTIMORE, July 26—Samuel S. 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