Newspaper Page Text
2D
Conductor Becomes Millionaire—Peddler Grows
Rich—“Higher-Ups” Levy Tribute on Those
. Under them—Factories and Mines Looted by
Bandits.
-48 well to remember that the Mexi-,
tan army has a higher ratio of gen
’l‘ll! and colonels and majors than
any other military organization on
Barth. Nearly all the robberies of
sPaymasters so frequent in the ol re
i'flon are committed by Carranzistas.
. PREYING ON FOREIGNERS.
{? “The point is that there are 167,000
firmed men preying indiscriminately
pon natives and foreigners in Mex
€o. The men at the top get the
: rgest share of the swag, make no
istake about that. Carranza is re
uted to have $15,000,000 on deposit in
lean banks. Hls son-in-law, Gen.
wral Aguilar, has suddenly become
,floflh $4,000,000. Villa has cleaned
+up about §18,000,000, {)ill"t of which he
ghgl used to finance his raids and to
‘buy such luxuries as SB,OOO bath tubs
:l.lld other things of that sort that a
{bandit' king needs to maintain his
: e. The rest is on deposit in
b, ks In El Paso, St. Louls, New
" York and elsewhere, but none of it in
sis own name.
4 “General Pablo Gonzales, a Carran
general and presidential candidate,
ho was a rallroad conductor prior to
914, now a candidate for the presi
ency, is reputed to be worth $6,000,-
000, 2; owns extensive properties in
‘San tonio, held under various
] General Enriquez, civil gove
as Chibuahua, formerly a com
‘ n laborer, is now worth $500,000,
{eneral Carasca, in command at Ma
(gatlan, a few years ago a porter earn
'uu.so week, is worth $500,000 now.
eral Tturbide, a poor clerk a few
Years ago, is now well to do.
# ~PEDDLER NOW RICH,
/ “General Calles, former governor of
nora, now In command of the troops
' and consequently the real ruler,
‘saved more than a million dollars in
:‘;: years out of a government salary.
! son, 21 years old, is alreaay a
volonel. General Manzo, recently a
lbnklt peddler, is now worth several
ibzndnd thousand dollars. General
F cisco Murguia, formerly a poor
armer (a former dictator of Chinna
ua) is worth $1,600,000. Alvarado,
'who cleaned out Yucatan, is a mil
! ionaire.
. “The minor bands pick up what
ever they can, hesitating at no atroc
fty. Men have been murdered for an
Jd straw hat In Mexico, In aca
neta, Territory of Tepic, In April,
#lB, I saw the body of a poor man
ho had been murdered for his new
traw hat, costing $1.25. The two
f Jarranzists who shot him openly
| ted that the sole object of the
erime was to get the hat. They were
ot even arrested. A man suspected
having a revolver is already con
ed to death; for a revolver m an
hat is needed to set a Mexican up in
- &7ar
6—
j :
AN SIS
Season 19194920
AmelitaGalli -Carci - - Oct. 20
Carolina Lazzari - - - Nov. 7
Charles Hackett - - - Nov. 7
John McCormack - « - Nov. 27
Mary Garden - - - - Dec. 15
TosxchaSeidel - - - - Jan. 9
Josef Hofmann - - - Jan. 28
« Emmy Destinn - - - - Feb. 16
Rudolph Ganz - - - - Eeb. 16
Pasquale Amato - - - Mar. 15
Orders o«'rnmpm;:;"omnll.xurr recesoed
nowe and will be taken ecare of smmediately
:‘r‘uu prices: $6, SB, $lO and sl2, plus war
i);rhrfir‘*‘lhn
Lans Sulter Misecal Juceau
Management of Colebrated Artists
Offices: Cable Building
e Phone vy SO
Continued From Page 1
rthe bandit business; while a revolver
‘andv a good Stetson nat together eon
stitutes him a general,
TORTURE TO EXTORT MONEY.
“Torture {s often resorted to, some
times to extort money and sometlnes
out of pure fiendishness, In this con
‘nection I should like to mention that
a large proportion of Mexicans, offi
‘rers ag well as men, are dope fiends.
They smoke mariguana, which Is
‘made from the leco weed familiar
to cattlemen in the Southwest, which
has an effect like hasheesh. They
will not go into battle without a doze
of mariguana, which imparts a sort
of false courage. In fact, the march
ing song of the Carranzistas is “The
Tumblebug,” a free translation of the
first of the hundred verses of which
one is as ofllows:
“ can not march longer
Because there s lacking
Mariguana to smoke., .
“The results of bandit rule are ap
palling. Mexico is sunk to the ut
termost depths of degradation and
'misery. The greater number of the
stores in Mexico under the Diaz re
gime have been looted bare and now
stand empty and deserted, with win
dows broken and the buudln‘l more
or less wrecked, The same thing ap
plies’ to factories. Such industries as
Mexico once had ae now irreparably
damaged. Many manufacturing
plants have been destroyed; many
others are not operated because Car
ranza or some other chieftain would
seize the product. One copper mine,
representing an investment of $1,600,~
000 near Chihuahua City, was wan
tonly destroyed the present year This
happens to be one of many instances
of destruction that came under my
personal observation,
“Mven the plants which might be
operated so far as other obstacles are
concerned cannot obtain labor. The
peons would rather join Carranza's
army or some other bandit gang and
take chances on getting a share of
the loot than to earn a living by
honest work. HKven the farmers do
not put in more than enough crops
to afford their families a bare ex
istence because of the certaintye that
the whole would be confiscated,
DYING OF STARVATION,
“As a direct consequence of this
almost complete stoppage of usetul
labor, the annual death rate from
starvation or from disease due to mol
putrition is 100,000, 1 myself saw in
fourteen months or 1917-18 no fewer,
than five thousand persons dead or
dying from starvation or from dis
eases they were too weak from lack
of food to resist, On one occulon‘
while journeying in the State of Vera
Cruz 1 was called into a hovel in
which three elderly persons were dy
HEARST'S SUNDAY AMERICAN — A Newspaper for People Who Think — SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1919
ing of starvation. Next door seven
children lay on the floor too weak to
move, also: dying of starvation. In
Tepie, especlally, people are dylng
like flies from starvation,
“Disease rages unchecked. Doctors
are few and far between, Drugs are
almost unobtainable, and the people
have no money to buy them if they
were to be had, Paludismo claims its
victims by thousands. So, also, does
tuberculosis, Typhus and typhoid
fever are very prevalent,
COUNTRY I 8 FILTHY.
“Po say that the country from end
to end is filthy fails to convey an
adequate idea of its condition, Sani
tary conveniences are primitive in
the )arger places. In the smaller
towns and villages there are not
even outhouses, The streets are used
instead, and the streets are never
cleaned. So far as that is concerned
the streets of the zapltal itself are
rarely cleaned, and some of them
never are. 'The pavements in 19?8
were broken up and are in ruind,
“In this welter of filth many people
live the year around. They never
sleep under a roof, but lie in heaps
in doorways in such rags as they
wear during the day. Vietims of the
most loathsome diseases squat along
the streets to peddle articles of food
and trifles, Beggars swarm every
where, clutching at the clothing of
‘pn.‘merw-hy and begging for the love
of the Holy Mary for a cent to save
them from starvation. Gaunt women,
almost naked, enter the restaurants
to beg for bones from the plates of
customers. Children, too, thl smaller
ones totally naked, the larfer ones
wearing a few rags, also roam
through dining rooms foraging for
seraps,
“All are indescribably filthy, for
the lower class Mexican never bathes,
nor even washes his hands. All are
simply alive with vermin. In street
ears you will see vermin. You can
not ride in ecar or cab without get
ting vermin on you. You must pick
them off the bed before retiring. No
wonder typhus is rampant. I was
stricken with the disease nine days
after arriving in Mexico City,
EVERYTHING IN RUIN.
“Many churches are in ruins; the
priests have been killed or expelled;
the nuns—heaven only knows what
their fate has been. Valuahle paint
ings stolen from the churches have
been offered in little shons for a
trifle. Many of the churches were
turned into barracks or into stables
and defiled in such other ways as de
praved ingenuity suggested. In Me
rida, the eapital of Yueatan, Alvarado
gave orders even to break the bells.
Nothing is left of venerable cathe
drals but the walls and these have
been punched full of holes. In Sonora
Governor Calles would not allow a
child te he baptized. He lost no op
portunity to show his hatred of all
religion. He offered to rent a church
to be used as a market in Hermosillo
for B 0 pesos a day.
“The railroads are in utter ruin,
There is only one line upon which
aleeping car #dervice 1s maintained
regularly and these cars are generally
reserved for the use of army officers
hetween Mexico City and Monterev,
All upholstering has been torn off
the seats of day coaches and the
wooden hulks swarm with vermin,
One must often wait for days to
board a train, and when at last the
train appears it takes a whole day
or more to cover a distance that
should bhe run in a few hours,
“Judging from what has heen pub
lished about Russia conditions ecan
hardly be worse there, if, indeel,
they are as bad as in Mexico. And It
must not be forgotten that Carranza
is the original bolshevist, j
2} See This Federal
w@ ee Ihis redera
\ @
A 7 Electric
\ o
|4% Washing
N\ . 3 fi(fi N .
AN <l Mach
R T(‘E..‘l SO aC Ine
{b‘ @ .4du(;llly doing tlho
e e = i s
Rt S Bl
‘ ‘ BB [ficcmic| Power Co.’s office on
CHcAod Marietta St.
Xj @ Call Main 875 or 887 for
y free demonstration in
;‘ ¢ your home.
i ® [' e )
\f el\ % R
b A\ -
s 3“ P B
X ; . Puts a Federal Electric
‘ Washing Machine in your
| . ¥ \~ home. Balance a-little-at
Free Demonstration g LI Snbotas v o
Walker Electric & Plumbing Co.
Plumbing, Heating and Electrical Contractors
91 PETERS STREET
Ferrero Explains l‘
Causes of Unrest
requisition foodstuffs and provisions
from the city shops have ho notion
whatever of the enormous debe the
state is contracting to buy wheat as
European governments are now do
ing, pay!ng three prices and then re
selling the bread to their own peo
ple at half price, as England, France
and Italy are at present forced to do.‘
NATURAL EXASPERATION. |
The unrest of the people is not due
to any apprehension for the future,
but to a natural exasperation against
the present, which they find has none
of the happy features they expected
peace to offer, Also in many cases
these riots and this general dissatis
faction are due to the ever Increas
ing suspicion that whilst the masses
are meeting with all sorts of diffi
culties to make ends meets, a few
privileged plutocrats are amassing’
millions and hoarding gold, |
It is this distrust of the rich, this
growing antagonism for the pluto
cratic clags, which is breeding the
belief that it is the wealthy few who
started the war to further their in
terests and their ambitions. We find,
this belief in the cities among the’
working classes who call the pluto-|
crats “capitalists,” and we find it in.
the rural districts where the farmers
call their employers “the gentry.”
But in the cities and in the fields it
can not be denied that this thought
is gaining belief in spite of its ab
surdity. To understand its origin,
we must realize that the masses of
all Burope were theown into the fur
nace of war without a clear knowl
edge of its reason, its genesis, its ne
cessity,
THE “PEOPLE’S WAR.”
It has been said and repeated that
the world war was the people’'s war,
But it has not been said that this
war has been the first and only “peo
ple's war” ever recorded in history—
that it has been fought by all the
peoples—that its deep rooted rea
sons must be sought in the squabble
and rivalries of BHuropean rulers as
far back as the first dismemberment
of Poland and which the events of
the nineteenth century have enlarged
and embittered, while the masses of
the world up 40 1914 were kept se
verely in ignoranee of their very ex
istence. Because the great, the ter
rible contradiction of the wonrld war
i dd d :
Dixies gmlesf Dry Cleaner & Dyer
Besides the thoroughness with
which we cleanse your garments
: we've also a service that pleases
our customers.
Suburbanites enjoy our prompt
mail order delivery and for those in
the city—a phone call will bring our
wagon to your door.
We pay the return charges on omut
of town orders of $2.00 or more.
Stoddard Dry Cleaning Works
126 Penchtiree. Phones: Ivy 43, Atlanta 43,
Continued From Page 1.
lies in the fact that it has been the
'war of an ‘“elite” (privileged caste)
which events ‘have enlarged beyond
control of the very caste which smrt-‘
ed it, \
Whoever is acquainted with the
‘history of the nineteenth century
knows very well that this contradic
tion goes back to the French revo
lution and is the last and more for
midablé complication of the conrra
dlctory impulse which the revolution
has given to the events of a whole
century.
But who knows history? Very few,
even among stlatesmen, Europe will
not find its salvation until it realizes
this contradiction. Then and then
only it will be eclear that the only
dolution is to abolish such rivalries,
such frictions, such hatreds.
i MORE SACRIFICES.
All European states have already
asked their people to make the great
est effort possible to produce and to
save, In some cases the limit has
even been passed. Today it is nec
essary to give the people its due. No
more sacrifices can be asked of the
people,
This chaotic confusion of two dis
ciplines, of work and of war, can not
last. To bring back prosperity it is
necessary to demobilize quickly and
fill the workshops and the fields with
the millions of men who are yet un
der arms. Price fixing, legal and ille
gal requisitions, new laws, promiscu
ous looting, will not achieve any
thing.
Our enemies won practically every
battle for four and a half years and
ended by losing the war in three
months because America threw
2,000,000 fresh men into the battle,
The German government labored un
lder the delusion that patriotic exal
tation, terror and the concealment of
the truth would induce their men to
fight on till death for the sake of
that privileged caste which was pur
suing its own individual ends. 1
.~ We should remember the wisdom
’of the ancient dictum, “learn from
your enemy.” Above all, we should
learn not to defy God Hime If. ‘
' The entire world is on a new basis.|
In the flames of war have perished
the old false thrones of divine rights
of kings, of the superiority of caste,
of the right of the few to enjoy any
privileges not belonging to all
. .
Jewish Emigrants in
¢ .
Palestine Movement
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.--The preparations
for the migration of Jews from all over
the world to the land of their dreams
has begun. Even from America a con
siderable exodus is in progress. arronged
by the Zionist Organization of America.
The Chicago branch of the Zioiuews has
received quel/lonnalres in English ‘and+in
Hebrew - for “those intending to settie in
Palestine. The applicant is asked his
nativity, family history and trade, when
he vx’;cts to emigrate and the capital he
will @ able to provide.
It is expected the first party of emi
grants from Chicago will leave soon after
the national convention of the Zionists
Organization, to be held in September.
THREE BLOCHS T
FROM FIVE POINT S ; e B AL
el | Ny
o=—== mmmmm= OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT
f Agents ior "y
Cole’s Original Hot Blast Heaters and Down Draft Ranges
Here We ___ TERMS---GET YOURS:NOW
Are séf
{ok c g
":f'. : S ——————— S—— g i
A ne A \ / . B )
553 Map on left shows location of /4’, M :’,__. \ R
_— e it 123 RS/ ) our store, beyond the Hurt P Y AN
ey g A Building, at 158 Edgewood Ave, // 7Adl @I g
FENNZ THY <8 (near corner of Piedmont Ave.) LB [ )
TN WU o | three blocks from Five Points; [, '\ g ',‘/, )
'“’n', e out of the high reat zome. No _[' N¥ pi ,?', //i
g sl o connection with any other store. Wi\io> S g g/ (o
A Gl There's only one establishment \ > /&\\ ] t‘tq ,«' g
e where youll find Ed & Al Vg o N TRt 27Ty
eO] fi Matthews (Themselves), and \ L OTJ“}Z@
FTTN & there’'s only one Cole's Original *zJ‘,o BL ,gfi'fi\"’
[ 55E0 FIVE Hot Blast Heater and Down 7 3 <
POINTS Draft Range. L% ET-% L 5
T e € p \‘gfi
R i b s, UEL sA
Complete Stocks Now Ready for Inspection.
Early Purchase Advised, Delivery Made When
Desired, All Sizes, to Heat One to Ten Rooms,
for House, Office or Store, S3O to sllO. Terms
. Handsome
/?‘-‘, Durable
Terms AQ
CARD
2 -‘;‘- Sawitary
- - E..'M
ey PSRN b
e Hesry
= '——"“ i
IR Y“‘
e LAY 2]
Aervy E
u_}g--—- e
Lining BAEE 1B
r&fl "V\ .:‘( l ‘ 1 )
; \(\W‘ RN
R_Be Lgt gl
=T ).,_3.'; \3,(;\:‘ Ad Deer
Sy p», T e
.'.Lt‘ /‘v‘\l : L o \\\;AE \
‘ Y \
i
TERMS
Our Warehouse Is Now Full, Select Your Stove This
Week and Have It Ready for Cold Weather. Terms
i
[ 3
Terms ”! @%(‘“
B
’Nfim
1R R [P
;‘:"', ‘_3[[ ':,,
o ol t‘\‘\:\ o T
R 5," N
\3 ) a 3
. »‘iitrb;vf’ "
JNQT PO
/4 R e
iy ®
Terms Furniture—R ugs—Stoves?l:ms
BEWO
ffl UMat hewfi@%fv_’fl" |
. . 9. .
Girl Tries to End
. . . .
Life With Hairpin
HAGERSTOWN, Md.,, Aug. 30--Cath
erine Foster, the young Rockwood, Pa.,
girl who was arrested here last week at
the Western Marylamd Railway station at
the request of her mother, who stated
that she had run away from home, at
tempted to commit suicide in jail, where
she is being held pending the arrival of
her mother, X
Using a lipeca of stout cord and a
large hairpin, the girl attempted to choke
herself to death and wag in thr art of
twisting the cord about her neck when
8 UepulYy ®BNGean vaw b Ve o e
naasine her: or', s ag ) s $ 1
took the cord from her. Miss Foster de
clares she will 10U return tu .0y wod.
We have made great prep
arations (o serve you efficiently
—+to help you solve your heat
ing problem for next winter.
Save fuel and be entirely eom
fortable with a Cole’s Orginal
Hot Blast Heater (or Down
Draft Range). Burns anything
but Stone Mountain roek. Holds
fire, you bet! Easy to start and
keep going the way you want
it
We are ready—it remains for
you to come in early and avoid
the rush later. Come Monday
—it is not a day too soon Cail
us up—lvy 1474, Atlanta 53.
A word to the wise—have your
old stoves and your chimney in
spected and repaired this week.
Get your repair man on the job
soon, Don't, don't, DON'T neg
lect & careful inspection of your
chimneys-—soon.
. .
Anti-Auto Thief Ass’n
. . .
Formed in Missouri
(By International News Service.)
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 80.—Auto
mobile thieves who contemplate visiting
Kansas City to ply their trade, beware.
The ‘Vigilantes” of the Xansas City
Traffic Safety League will. get them,
'-.’n a conference between Mayor James
Cowgill and E, O. Mofratt, the presi
dent of the league, plaus were discussed
and outlined whereby an organization
gimilar to: the Anti-Horse Thief Associa
tion will be formed to protect ownera
from car thieves, All automobiles wiil
be stenciled in such a way that stolen
cars from Kansas City found in other
towns will be readily recognized dy the
disfigurements.
OUR REMARKABLE GUARANTEE
“COLE'S HOT BLAST i, -
Makes Your Coal Pile Last™ 1%
1. We guaraaiee a saving of+ones
third in fuci overany lower draft stove
of the ssme size, with softcoal, lignite
or slack. -
2. We gvarmatee Cole’s Hot Blastto
use less hard coal for heating a given
space than any base burner made with
same size fire pot, i
3. We guarantee that theroomscan
be hested from one t 0 two hours 3:
morning with the fuel putia thes
tbe evening before. ¥ \
4. We guarapteethat the stéve-will
holdfirewith softcoal orhard coal from .
Ssturday evening to Monday morning.
5. Weguarantees ueniform heat day
aad aight with soft coal, hard coal.or
lignite. © W
6. We gnarantee every stove to-ve.
msin sabsolutely air-tight as long
28 used. y
7. We guarantee the feed door to
be smoke and dust proof.
8. We guarantee the anti-puffing
draft to preveat puffing.
The above guarantee is made with the
understanding that the stove be operated
according to directions. and connected up
with a good flue. ®
A
‘g i.rv-
A Terms
| o 4 ;
G =\
'(J -
.. .”}
N\ -7
\ Yot Y
) \’T‘;' ‘;/,-h/‘_‘\ L,,! \.
J d;”;‘d‘\?
.J' %