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hours of work and improve the conditions
of the men. We have already done this
in many of the factories. by giving Ger
tain privileges and a decrease of taxation
to the owners, provided they give their
men fair hours of work and wages. We
also expect to improve the wages and
hours of the men at work on the estates,
to increase our educational facilities and
TO develop the country in every possible
way.
How about the lands of Mexico" |
understand that. they are owned by a
very few families?'
THAT is true, replied President Ma
dero. land it is one of the great him
ORANGES to our development. We are do
ing what we can to change that. and /
believe that we shall gradually bring
about the division of the large estates
and be able to distribute the lands among
multitude of small holders. You must
remember however that the lands are
legally owned by those who hold them,
and that the government is not now rich
enough to buy much land for subdivision.
We can force some changes by in
creased taxation. and we are trying to
find way in which the government can
aid the large landowners in the colonial
ton and development of their properties.
I'VE hope, also. to distribute the public
lands to small holders.
The government now owns over 10
100000 acres, and this amount will be
increased by millions of acres which have
been granted under concessions to men
who have not carried out the stipula-
tons under which the tracts were con-
coded. All such lands will be taken back
by the state and they will be open 10
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IT OF MEXICO

shall have country of great industries.
covered with a network of railroads. The
cities will grow and outside them there
Will be thousands of landholders where
there are hundreds now
Will there be more people,
Naturally so. This country will sup
port several times it's present population.
/ suppose that the soil of the United
States could easily feed A0O,o0O,OO0. and
doubt not that the time will come when
Mexico will be able to keep 1O0,OOO0O I'm
prosperity. We have now only 1o,O0O.Ut'.
and the country could easily support
eight times that many.
In closing my interview. | referred to
the troubles of being president in time
of revolution, and asked Senior Madero
how he liked his job. He replied:
LAS to my job, it is not an easy one.
but / did not expect that when l became
a candidate for the presidency. l en-
tered the struggle because / thought
could do something for the Mexican peo-
pie. and that l am trying to do. Our
ideas and aims here are much higher
than many people suppose. They say
that the revolution. which brought about
the present administration. was merely
fight for the loaves and fishes mat
is not So We are fighting TO make
better Mexico and better Mex
leans, and to give every Mexican his
rights under the law. We are endeavor-
ing to improve the economic and social
conditions of the nation. and that ac-
cording to the law. This is a great AMI
bition and 1t will take time to make ii
success. We have already done some
thing and we shall do more. That, iecl,
is my job. and I expect to continue at II
for the remainder of my term, when, l
assure you, ! shall be glad TO turn II
over to my successor.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
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grant. We have large working class,
whose wants are few and whose wages
are comparatively low. With them, the
more eXtraIagant outsider can hardly
compete. The kind of Immigration We
especially need just now is men with
capital and brains. who will come here
and develop the country, employing the
labor we have. This would raise wages
and better the conditions of the people.
DO you want American capital?''
Eyes. we want all that we can get, and
we can, ! believe. make such investments
more profitable for you here than they
will be anywhere else. A large part of
the industries of Mexico, including the
farms, oil lands and mines. are owned by
Americans, and most of such invest
ments are paying well.
But are they SAFE? | asked.
Perfectly so.'' replied the president
but they will all be remedied in the near
future and all claims for damages will
be euuitably settled. Our claim commits
sion has already passed upon over 200
claims for indemnity, and has referred
them to our treasury department for ac-
ton.
How about Americans in Mexico? Are
their lives safe.
Il think so. In the revolution troubles
our people have been careful to protect
foreigners and their property. and only
the fewest of foreigners have been in
jIred and very few Americans. The
Mexicans are friendly to Americans, and
they want them to come here and help
develop the country.
What should be the relations of Next
co and uhe United States?'
They are friendly now and they should
continue so. We have here a statue of
George Washington which your govern
ment gave Mexico. We are two sister
republics and each is trying to develop
the resources which the good Lord has
given his respective nation. We ought to
be amicable and to work hand in hand
Have you anything to say. through me,
to the United Statesc
only that my feelings toward your peo-
pie are friendly. and I hope that our re-
Ia tons as independent nations may be-
come closer and closer. We are neigh
bors-nay, more, sisters-and We ought to
work togo ner along the lines of mutual
What is your idea of the Mexico OF the
future? Suppose you could look forward
twenty years, what might Mexico be-?
THAT is a big question. In twenty
wears from now we shall have a nation
far advanced along the lines of educa-
tionaI and political development. We
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had to pull him back. When he discov-
cred that he was not prize winner ne
went back to the studios and cried like
a child. The students are generally more
charitable and rejoice in another's good
fortune as If it were their own For
the last four years the medal has been
won by the girls of the school fen-
nine awakening seems TO have taken
place in the studio as we'll as the mart.
The students receive training not only
along lines of life and antique study
there are water color. portrait and COM
position classes. The latter is undoubt-
eddy the most interesting, for in it the
students may give expression to their
own individuality and personality to
greatest extent. Such subjects as 'The
Toiler.'' Inspiration or THE Vampire"
are given to the students once week.
They are supposed to bring to class one
or more original treatments. These
sketches are hung and criticised No
two are alike. and it furnishes great in
tereSt to examine these diversified col
lections of individual conceptions of "a
single idea.
The portrait class develops versatility
school that looks like a miniature prop
erty room of q theater Soldier uniforms,
colonial costumes and gay cavalier hats
are ready to bedeck the models and turn
them into handsome, romantic figures of
the past, worthy to be immortalized on
canvas.
The water-color class has done some
fine things as the walls of the classroom
testify. The pupils We're lately at work
on a bowl of Taft roses. and the beauty
of the buff and blush of the water-color
roses We'd with those in the jar. The an
tiuue classes work in charcoal reproduce
ing the ancient masterpieces of PhtdfaS.
1t is in this class that the beginners are
placed. When they have accomplished a
worthy copy of one of the old figures or
heads. they may take their place among
the other students.
The life class more nearly approaches
the professional than any other in the
school. by virtue of its models, who come
over from New York. Last year there
was a beautiful young Italian model, who
came very often. He was perfectly form
ed and could hold the most trying poses
for an almost impossible time. Reggie.
as he was called. went abroad every year
to study the old paintings and statuary,
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ID Paris and of studios in old world
Florence, overlooking the blue
Mediterranean--in such substance Is
the routine of the Corcoran Art School
absorbed Such art atmosphere has not
developed, however, that the students
are enveloped in Bohemianism The
dreams only serve to stimulate the use
of oils and brushes toward materiaii-
zation Of these individual conceptions
of Utopia. and they are aware that
epergv and zest are Of more worth
as aids.
They are beginning now to bend thelr
energies toward the production OF the
masterpieces that will win the prizes
this coming spring. The production m
cludes a panel of four pieces, two LIE
studies and two antiques, and the prizes
are medals of gold. silver and bronze.
The award of these prizes and various
honorable mentions forms the exercises
at the close of the school year. 1t Is
a very gala and social event, when
pupils, faculty and friends gather to
see the fortunate ones honored. The
students are in ignorance or the prize
winners. for their names are not given
out before the exercises. SO each waits
hreathlessly. with hope until the last.
:: :.
pathetic story is told in connection
with one of the students who was deal
and dumb In one of his classes ne
wrote along the margin of his sketch
.nd asked the instructor If there was
anv chance for him to win prize. The
teacher nodded his head yes, meaning
TO imply that there was a chance. The
how. however. took it to mean that he
would win prize. On the night of the
awards he appeared at the gallery fault
Iesslv attired in evening clothes to fully
bear with dignity the honor which would
be bestowed upon him. At this function
which is held in the Corcoran Art Gal
lery, the faculty sits on the landing OF
the staircase and reads the names OF
the winners. AT the reading of each
name the deaf and dumb student would
rush forward up the stairs. thinking thai
1t was his. and each time mis- friends
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The Worrying Age.

MRS. BENJAMIN GUINNESS at one
IVA OF her dinner parties in New York
made an epigram upon old maids.
when an unmarried young woman.
said Mrs. Guinness, smiling-"when an
unmarried young woman gets to be twep-
ty-five I've often noticed that she begins
to call old maids bachelor girls"
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EX-PRESIDENT Thought
IL Revolution Would Last
Only a Short Time. and
That He Would Be a Victor
What He Planned for Mex
ico-Dividing the Estate
What Madero Thought of
His Position-American Cap
ital and American Claims.
Copyrighted. 1919, 10y Frank u Csrpenter.>
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RECENTLY return
ed from an inter
view with the pres
ident of the Mex
can republic. The
audience was ar
ranged through the
United States en-
bassy. The hour
fixed was 40
pm. a n d I n G
place was the ma
tional palace. This
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settlement in small tracts. We have
a commission which is now making plans
for such settlements. We have also geo.
logical engineers who are prospecting
such lands. and surveying them with re-
gard to their irrigation by artesian wells
and in other ways
How about immigration? Does Mexico
encourage it,"
Yes, but at present there are few OPP
portunities here for the ordinary immi-
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lean costumes. They had on tight en-
brOdered trousers and roundabou jackets
and sombreros loaded with gold and sill
Yer braid There We're also the people of
the lowest classes and even the poems.
There were at least a score of Indians in
blankets, each of whom had a great
sombrero. which he rested on his knees
or laid over his feet, as he sat there and
waited. Most of the peasants were i'm
their bare feet, except for the sandals or
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palace is one of the largest build
in"s on the North American con-
tinent. 1t covers almost ten acres.
standing on the same site where Monte
yuma had his palace and where later
on. Cortez lived. II Is near the great ca
thedral. facing the Plaza de la Constitu-
rion. and in the very heart of the city
The palace contains the executive Of
fees of the government and those OF five
of the cabinet ministers. 1t has also the
senate chambeT. the national museum
and some scientific bureaus II consists
Of large rooms, running around courts
or patios with floors of stone 1t has
three entrances from the front. and over
It's main gate hangs the liberty bell of
Mexico. Rhich was first rung by a parish
priest the night of the 10th of September.
1910. to call the people to arms to fight
for their rights. and which is now rung
~ midnight on every anniversary of that
night by the president himself
Ii was through this gate that I came
INTO the palace, passing the armed
soldiers at the entrance. Inside | met
the chief officer of the presidents
guard and by him was directed to tn.
second floor. where / found several hun
ufed people awaiting the president My
heart fell as | looked, for with all that
crowd To be received my chance for a
good, long newspaper talk with his ex-
celIency. Senior Don Francisco Madero
seemed very slim. However, / gave nv
caro- To the officials at the door of the
lobby and took seat with the crowd
rs iooked over tbs waiting throng
Zach of whom had some matter of one
ilnd or other To present To the presi
dent was impressed with the dernoc-
Iacy or Mexico. The people were of all
classes and conditions of men and of
much more varied conditions than co,Jd
be seen in "A similar crowd at tbe Wiz
House. There We're two score nf 60
tieInen ana ladies, representing. mo
rich. The men wore silk hats and frock
coats ana were as carefully dressed as II
they were to be received at tn. court of
Berlin. There were women in silks, wear
ing broad brimmed hats. trimmed with
ostrich feathers. and with gloves on
their hands and jewels galore There
were people OF the middle classes sub
Stant1aI merchants in business suits and
nice-lOoking women asld girls modestly
clothed. On one sofa L saw three ladies
IN black one was sixty more years
nf age Next her was a buxom woman of
thirty, while further on sat IA girl of six
teen. All of these had black shawls over
their heads. Further ON were two girls
in black. who seemed in deep mourning.
Their costumes were So black they We're
striking. There not bit of white 10
he seen anywhere except in the pale
1uc of their ivory skins and in the silver
buckles on the high-heeled black slippers
which peeped out below their black skirts.
There was no lace al the throat or the
wrists. and their black hats were loaded
with black ostrich feathers
And then there were haciendados, or
rich farmers. who came i'll typical Mex
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After waiting a while with this crowd,
the maior-domo or aid-de-camp of the
president, handsome young officer in
side and silver spurs on his heels, stepped
forth and called out Senior Carpenter.
and II seemed to me that, as foreigner,
| was 10 be preferred over the others L
came to the front and was told that my
interview had been arranged for. This
man admitted me into a smaller reception
ROOM and then let in others until the
room was filled by those who We're en-
titled to special audiences. Later on
there was a second wedding out and at
last found myself in the presidents own
room with only score of others. includ-
ing the pretty girls in black gowns, two
of the Indians in their bare feet, couple
of sombrero- hated haciendados and
half dozen statesmen.
, This room faced the plaza, and stepped
out of the window on to the balcony to
see the president come up in state. His
exec lency lived three miles away at
Chapultepec, where was the summer pal
are of MonteZuma, and he drove in in
his motor car every Friday afternoon for
this audience. lust beneath me was "A
company of soldiers guarding the en-
trance. and beyond them great crowd
had gathered TO watch the president pass.
AS the clock on the cathedral struck five
| SAW brown limousine with front
shaped like torpedo fly over the plaza.
The chauffeur was in livery. and beside
him were two officers in uniform, while in
the closed glass cage behind the president
SAD. The machine came along at the rate
of thirty miles an hour. and it did so
the trumpeter blew "A blast on his bugle
the soldiers presented arms and the mot
ley crowd threw up their hats and yelled
Viva. Viva! Viva Madero!
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1t was perhaps fifteen minutes after
this that the door of the reception room
opened and the president entered. AS he
did so every one arose. and remained
standing while he was in the room
was surprised at his appearance. / had
been told that he was by no means
imposing. and that his features bore few
of the marks of the great statesman or
ruler. The reality was worse than | had
imagined. Let me tell you just how he
looked. He is. | judge, about forty years
of age. and he impresSes one as "a weak
ling. He is not more than I'VE feet tall
and when We stood side by side had to
look down for | am eight inches taller.
military. and of the twenty men in the
room. lie seemed to me the slightest and
weakest. lie weighs. | judge. about l3U
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MEXICo CITY.
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PETER MILLER FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM

prosperous business man. perhaps,
who had dropped Ia ont OF morbid
curinNity
Nuw and then. prompt. ht some
word from the prosecutor or a
statement from witness Miller
starts from his chair lie shotes
his lawyer into the background lie
takes things into his own hands.
and the court sc.s shat this man
has learned out Of books during
the years he has spent behind the
bars. For Peter Miller has read
Aud nov be- knows the Law. and
chemistry and science. and many
other things u IL not given 10 most
men TO know
Boy Changes Sides.
II waH the testimony Of the boy.
Taylor. that proved 50 damaging
in Millcrs first trial. and conyic
ton. which he afterward carried to
the supreme court and had re-.
yorscd
Aftcr tes'iitinE that Miller had
used him in several rohbcrics. the
i7yesrold boy afterwards said his
testimony had been obtained by the
police with third degree methods.
and that u Was all false He then
went over To Millcrs side.
II wRs announced just before the
opening ~ this trial that he had
sEain switched and would help the
state
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FRIEDMAN
TOGlVE OUT
SERUM NOW

ug rnued f'ress Isas "re
HERtIN. Jan. - Spurned to &C
ton bv piracy of his tub'fenloaif
cure by German savauts Who are N
VcstiEaiinE t.. Dr Frederick Franz
Frcdmann announced here today
that be viii formally submit, soui"
% his turtle serum culture to gov
eminent experts for tests.
friedman has consented 90 public
use ~ his cnrc as result Of his
belief that he ia ~ imminent danger
~ LOSING all credit for the discot
ery. Dr PiurShostl bacterioio.
gist who formerly worked with
Friedman last night gave a bot,l.
~ what he says is Friedman
serum to Dr Held % Pittsburg. -
and tvo bottles TO - Prescott sling
son OF Cleveland o. TO be taken io
the United States for use there
ur Friedman said these cultures
were not the perfected one he ir
uow uslng. but an EARLIER one. whi,ii
he says is dangerous TO use.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1913-01-23
WHEN MADAME SHOPS, SHE
SURE DOES 1T UP In STYLE

Madame Sarah Reruhardf. he
worlds creates. ana oldest actress.
will on Friday look over she goods
az certain stores of Seattle This
act is generally known a. shopping
But will Madame 20 shOpriGe
90. non. nom
Ze shops viii come - Madame
SaFah's palatial private car
stands on o switch near the uuiver.
siiy campus. far from the mad.
ding crowd II Is not meet that
Madame live In the cry with ordi-
nary mCrta<
From thr private car has come
forth the edict 20 shopkeepers OF
Seattle that II Is Madame pleas.
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~ tnit~si rrtss i.rassi Wire
TACOMA. Jan . Wi'hou, stint
or objection on the part OF the
siat"'s altorncy The testimony ~
Wills Taylor as to tho method ia
which HE supposed confession vas
forced from his llpH by Captain 90
Detectives Trnnant 81 Seattle ~
today going 20 the jury 10 the ease
of Peter Miller charged With bur
glary here
rs his ruling today that all tcsil.
mony tending 20 sh0w that third
degree methods acre used hy the
Seattle authorities TO force tho boy
10 make discriminating statements
against himself and Miller Wiil be
admitted na evidence In the pres.
"ut trial Judge Chapman has sane.
toned the firing ~ The dcfeuse's q
must damaging guns
Peter Nilirr. MAKING his last
stand 30 the fight he has conducted
since hiss arrest nearly four years
ago. Is an interesting figure
sHoVEs HIS LAWYER
INTO BACKGROUND
Calm. clean shayen. well dressed,
and with keen eyes hat are alert
10 take In every Happening In the
court room. miller sits behind bis
counsel Judge NJ Glasgow ~ Sc.
attic. Ono would easily mistake
him for one ot the spectators "a
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mo WORSE FATE THAN TO BE MARRIED To
AMERICAN WOMAN" SAYS TITLED BACH

sAN FRANCISCO Cal. Won Kuhlman bocbeor
German haron diplomat racopty
ateI stay n the Orient
promptly startled tho
TO injury con " "'' '''''
an American
covering added. ~ 7 ''
Women ore Illogical nconaoqucnt rnustworhy For
M'inNar of tho diplomatic ls Heator
Women lacking that sense
moral duty which holds high plane After This rhot the
b"iNu t"'ii"d himself
steamer a fresh start
ihe be epoled Amor
i n@u have made her goddess
~ ,''W In Germany
"' n,n n1 eqnals by lecfinr them undor thumbs
"'I continued the
t'+'H Is Of hon1t
than | '' ''' '"'
he 'ao according rassenrcrs on steamer talked
'' WE iH Inf
aDOI' VINO refused his
mere 20 VINO Tried o uct him
op01aJ' training stood hiu
H H accounts are rue Baron Kuhman had =
ha N.eh e arrived - San Francisco be- neither wncd dued
HomIed he was len The his
As.n his regiment in Bavaria, o which he is captain
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REDISTRICT
FIGHT LOST
ONCE MORE

OLY MpIA. Jan. 2G.- Reapportion-
mont lor Representatives for the
state legislature will be dominated
bv the COW counties again.
An effort by Representatives Zed.
nich aud Murphine to secure for Sc
attic aud King county representa-
tiou according To population. was
killed To the house today 10y vote
of 2q to 65.
rhcv introduced Joint rcsolu-
tion which declared for rcapportion-
m'nt according to the provisions of
the state constitution The consti.
tuition provides that members Of the
legislature be elected from districts
be sed on the population
The resolution was brought up for
a vote N once The test proved the
Gov counties To be well organ
izod sud ready to force n reappor.
tiunmcnt favorable to- the thiuly
populated districts
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SINGLE TAX
ISSUE TO co
ON BALLOTS

Voters of Seattle viii have a
chance to say whether they want
the single tax
This was decided this morning
when Superior Judge Albertsou
granted the writ Of mandamus ask.
ed for by Councilman Erickson.
Mary OMeara and others TO compel
city Comptroller Carroll TO put on
the ballot for the March election
the question OF the single tax
This order from Judge Albertsin
ends n long fight that the advocates
of the single tax have been making
TO get the question before the
voters.
An ordinance introduced by Coma.
Gilman Erickson which called for
les submission TO the voters. was
passed by the council on November
~ Last Monday a resolution in.
troduced by Councilman Goddard.
which rcscindcd the Erickson ordl
nance. was passed at the council
meeting. after a hot fight by a vote
of . to T.