El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-28
Observation-Disclosures
Fort stockton Editor Studies Men
From the Front office Chairs
Little Talks With Men.
NEWSPAPER office is the


- NEWSPAPER office is the
n finest place in the world TO
4 \ study human nature" E.
Barry. editor of the Fort Stockton.
Tex, Pioneer opined, while ne was here
with Mrs. Barry Saturday. Big or
little city, it is only a larger or smaller
collection of individual units" said Mr..
Barry, and human nature is the same
the world over At Fort Stockton We
have the same group of characters that
you have here, the town joker, Ins
town liar, the man who does much
good without saying anything about
it, and all of the other personal ele-
ments of a growing town. From my
observation here, FL PasO is no dir
ferent from the smaller cities of east
Texas, except that there is a larger
collection of individual groups, but hui
man nature is the same the country
over I came to Fort Stockton from
Kentucky and it is the same there as It
IS here We are all great big family
after all, and that is why I enjoy get
ting out paper in a real, live, grow
ing American community
"a man in Military Mexico is not
shot for lack of patriotism or neglect
of duty, but for failing to have SIS or
good watch on him." L W HOffecker
says a former lieutenant in the fed
eral army IS now working IN FL PaS0s
and he has been telling me about the
executions which occurred while he
was in command of a company. He
said that when a man was arrested as
a suspect, the first thing ne was asked
was not whether he was guilty or in
nOcent, but if ne had SIS in his pocket.
shoe or sock If not, he was ordered
to be executed and was executed with
all the military ceremonies II ne had
the necessary $25, he was told to get
out between days and fake execution
was held with a board wrapped in a.
blanket as the principal A good watch
would answer the same purpose as the
cash, and the officer said that many
an execution was held in which only
poor, unOffend1ng plank was shot full
Of holes, after which the officer in
charge of the squad reported that the
prisoner had been executed and buried.
Each of the squad got a peso for keep
ing his mouth shut, and that was the
end Of the incident"
1T is remarkable what actual experf-
ence will do to develop the military
training" Col Eduardo Hay chief OF
staff to the Sonora state governor said
while he was here Saturday. Gen
ObregOn and the other commanders in
Sonora have had little OF no military
training in a technical sense. Yet they
executed maneuverS during the en-
gagementS before Guaymas. which
would have been a credit to the finely
trained American army officer. These
men have the spirit of the American
officer and the men who are fighting
under them seem to have caught the
spirit, and they fight as units and not
as dumb animals, as do the federal SOL
dters Put there IS OF { thing in which
the federal soldiers must be watched.
That is in cunning They have enough
indian in their blood to be sly, crafty
fellows and they seem never to sleep.
The Sonora state troops have the ad-
vantage in the fact that they are fight
ing in a country which they know. and
they hold the country back Of them
while OJeda and his men have been
forced to fight in a hostile country, and
against the great odds The Sonora
state troops viii win. for they believe
that they are fighting for a principle.
while the federals are fighting because
there is a corporal back of every ten
men with his gun aimed at them, ready
to shoot the first man who makes a
move toward deserving"