Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1913-06-08
new angle To THE
JAP QUESTION
Elevator Conductor In Wa
shington Office Building
Says Negroes Are Be
hind Yellow Men.
TO GUST WHITE MAN
Jean Dean Has 1t All 'DOped Out
And Knows Exactly What
Will Take Place.
(By SIDNEY ESPEY.)

| Washington office building, with a
new angle to the Japanese question.
He says the negroes, of the United
States are conspiring to rise in their
might upon the declaration of war
by Japan and assist from within while
the Japs effects from without the
lasting confusion and possibility the
utter humiliation of white men in
! the pleasant area now known as the
United States CT America.
In addition to being skipper of the
owl life, Jean Deau also is by way
OF being a sort Of night time philoso-
pher. He wears a blue uniform and
beaked cap and pilots his latticeWork
wrought iron dreadnought up and
down its dreary shaft from early can
die light until dewey morn when his
relief, the day conductor. is due. And
while he is waiting midnight sons
from the ground floor to their cliff
dwelling office Jean Deau medtates
on his scheme of things After the
"wafetees" grow fewer and fewer and
so Jean Deau has time to do more
medtating on this thing of schemes,
the civilized world, than when he is
being queried as to the number of
errors Honus Cobb made in the sea-
son of 1899 when he was playing in
the Red Headed League. and for other
odd and choice bits of gossip.
There always is draft blowing
J through the corridors and the elevator
shaft Of the structure in which Jean
Deau works and watts and does his
+ medtating and upon the wings of
: these drafts come strange visions.
; The latest of them is this new angle
on the Japanese situation
Jean Deau is sure of it, He told
! me of his suspicious quite sometime
: ago when first he set to work on the
case. He worked on it with all the
:, indcfatigability of Burns detective
looking for mistakes in judgement on
} the part OF the metropolitan police
: He began to watch the negro porterS
, and women who worked in the build
!, ing. Did a porter come to work in
the shank of the evening with a long
: face Jean Deau was convicted that
trouble was brewing. DID the por-
/ ening he knew that some further in
shaw thrills Or whatever i is the
quiry against the white race had been
successfully planned and was ready
to be put into execution at the drop
of the hat, or the parasol or the Rick
shaw thrills or whatever it is the
Japanese drop when they get ready
J to do anything. Possibly it is a line
to the State Department or possibly
a shell inside the Golden Gate.
Well, Jean Deau has it all worked
going to take place and the manner of
its performance. Now he is meditat
!, ing on the ethical question of whether
or not he should throw mis- own safety
to the winds, turn State S evidence
and tip off the Administration. He
has no doubt but what the vengeance
of the allies would be more effective
than the protection Of the government,
should he turn informer by divulgling
the result of his meditations. but he
feels that ii is his clear duty as a CT
oil III n
to give the benefit of his deductions
to the federal government. You can't
keep good man or an inspired idea
down.
This is what Jean Deau has "doped
out" Throughout the United States
move and have their being, some ten
million negroes. 1t has been but
short time since this people was en-
anticipated from previous condition
of servitude which certain Massachu-
sets abolitionists found very hard
for the celered people 10 bear. So.
says Jean Deau, having been now set
at liberty, they are anxious to try
their mettle. Now among these neg
roes. says Jean Deau, are some brave
spirits, some really great leaders.
They are armed, he says, too, there
Is scarcely man among EN- who
does not belong to some Masonic
lodge or sick mutual insurance socie-
ty Belonging 10 these organizations.
the negroes have arms and uniforms
No one knows, he says how many tons
of ammunition are hidden away in the
swamps of the South and the Yastnes-
! sees of Natche-Under-the Hill. The.