Theodore Roosevelt publishes an article in Collier's magazine defending the Mormons, in response to an ongoing anti-Mormon campaign in national magazines. April–May: Mexican Revolution. The Battle of Ciudad Juárez brings war to the doorstep of the Mormon Colonies in Mexico in the Casas Grandes valley. June 9: The Hotel Utah opens across from Temple Square in Salt Lake City. August: James E. Talmage denounces the Michigan relics as fakes. September 16: A photographer threatens to publicly display unauthorized photographs of the interior of the Salt Lake Temple unless the church pays $100,000. Instead president Joseph F. Smith arranges the church to publish a book containing its own such photos. October: A Victim of the Mormons (Danish: Mormonens Offer) a Danish silent film directed by August Blom is released. The film was controversial for demonizing the Mormon religion, and its box-office success is cited for initiating a decade of anti-Mormon propaganda films in America. October 26: Stake missionaries are first called, in the Granite Utah Stake. November 29: The M.I.A. Scouts are created as the first official LDS organization of the Boy Scouts of America. 1912 Summer: Mormon colonies in Mexico are evacuated due to anti-American sentiment during the Mexican Revolution, and many of their citizens leave for the United States and never return. Some colonists did eventually return, but today only Colonia Juárez and Colonia Dublan in the Casas Grandes river valley remain active. September 30: James E. Talmage's The House of the Lord published. It is the first book to have official photographs of temple interiors. September: The first LDS seminary opens with religious classes for students from Granite High School in Salt Lake City, Utah. November 8: The Correlation Committee is organized to help eliminate redundancy in LDS Church auxiliaries. Publication of Riders of the Purple Sage, by Zane Grey. It is his best known novel and played a significant role in shaping the formula of the popular Western genre. However it contains unflattering portrayals and stereotyping of Mormon polygamists. 1913 May 21: The Boy Scouts of America program is officially adopted for use in the LDS Church. October 1: Joseph F. Smith dedicates the Seagull Monument in the Temple Square of Salt Lake City, Utah. One Hundred Years of Mormonism premiers. Maori Agricultural College is created in New Zealand by the LDS Church. 1915 January: Relief Society Magazine begins publication for LDS women. April 27: Home Evening