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The Washington herald., 1913-01-12

Jimmy Mulligan will coach the West
ern High School track team. in conjunc-
ton with his work at Georgetown. Coach
Mulligan will devote little of his time
every Afternoon to the Red and White
track squad, and with fair material TO
work with. Jimmy will turn out a win
ming team.
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Good Discipline.

D V. D. CONWAY. president OF the
: Descendants of the Signers. all OF
whom are lineally descended from the
slgners OF the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence, said the other day in Fredericks-
burg:
las the Fourth approaches. | think
with delight Of the splendid parades that
will honor the day in a thousand cities
These parades will show fine drilling on
the part Of our militia. Our American
militia is, you know, the best in the
world.
How strict il Is, During the annual
encampment of our Virginia militia q
private was riding one hot day on a
trolley car with his uniform coat UNI
buttoned. This caused sergeant on the
smokers seat behind 10 say:
Button up that coat! Haven't you
got any sense of military decency at all?
But here a gentleman on the left In
terfered. saying TO the sergeant:
How dare you give commands with q
cigar I'm your mouth? I'm MAJ. Fftzhugh
Calhoun.
AT this point an elderly gentleman,
with white military mustache. leaned
over and murmured in the majors ear:
Col Brewster Fairfax is sorry 10 re-
mind you. sir. that 10 scold a sergeant
in the presence OF a private is a military
offense hard TO overlook
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fight a constitution uncompromisingly.
The scandal Of Mecklenburg has gone too
far for that. Mecklenburg's plight Is
known all over the empire. and the left
reichstag parties have repeatedly beg
ged the imperial government to inter-
vene, and force the powers that be in
Mecklenburg to grant constitutionalism
The reichstag conservative and center
always oppose such proposals. and the
bundesrat rejects them on the ground
that the empire cannot NEEDLE with the
internal affairs Of federated states.
Since 1907 Mecklenburgs grand dukes
have been steadily vowing that they
would grant a constitution. They have
had four tries, and each time have been
beaten by the opposition from the es-
tates. The ''landtag," which Is not par
lament but is college Of representa-
tives of ''ritterschaft" and ''landschaft."
simply throws out the bills. The 1908
constitutional bill provided for regular
diet with control over finance, and the
right Of accepting or rejecting any law.
1t further provided for separation Of the
grand dukes private property from the
state property. At present the two are
one. This constitution was conservative
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duchies are each divided territorially
into three sections The first is called
the domains. In the domains the SOW
ereign owns all the land. and he is also
unlimited ruler. with executive, legis-
lative and with final judicial power.
The second part is called the ritter
schaft." The ritterschaft is composed Of
all the immortal landed estates. The
third is the 'Landschaft," composed of
the towns.
The ritterschaft and landschaft are
the estate Of the realm. The autocrats
autocracy does not embrace either rit-
terschaft or landschaft. Over these
areas there is an organized though non
representative government which limits
the grand dukes will. This government
is carried on by body known as the
''Country's Union" IT is elected by the
estates. The ordinary population has no
vote. The voters are the seven hundred
landowners and the municipal executives
Of forty-nine towns. Each landed es-
tate owned by q single proprietor has
one vote. and each whole town has also
only one vote.
Under this system every Mecklenbur-
gian who lives on the domains is abso-
lutely subject to the dukes autocratic
will. and every Mecklenburgian who lives
on a private estate or in town Is subject
10 the despotic will OF the duke, acting
with the despotic will of 743 individuals
who are responsible TO no one and can
not be got rid Of. The country 10
equally divided between the two des-
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in any foreign speculation. and especially
when the title comes from foreigner.
On the other hand. Mexico is now to
take the part Of our great west. 1t is to
be the frontier Of the United States, and
with settled conditions the big estates
will gradually be divided. Many Of them
will go into the hands Of bona fide de-
velopment companies and will be acces-
sible to American settlers. Such will be
the Mexican part OF the Imperial valley
which is to have its share Of the waters
OF the Colorado river for irrigation: The
lands there are as rich as the valley of
the Nile and quite equal to those now be-
ing worked In the United States.
There are also large tracts of lowlands
near the coast. which will be opened to
the growing Of coffee and bananas and
other tropical fruits, and there are al
ready some profitable tropical estates
operated by American syndicates Just
before the revolutionary troubles began
American planters were coming in by the
hundreds. and settling the coast lands
near the Caribbean sea. Many had hold
ings near Tampico. others had bought
timber lands farther south. some We're
prospecting for petroleum and some were
looking up rubber investments.
| say there We're many Of these invest
ors. The term is only comparative. The
permanent American residents of Mexi-
co at that time were not more than
10000, which is a small number COM
pared with the total population here,
which is about sixteen millions. Today
thousands of these Americans have left.
Others have stayed and sent their fami
lies home, and still others have given UP
in despair on account of the unsettled
conditions. Indeed. doubt that there are
more than fifteen or twenty thousand
Americans living in Mexico today.
There is no opportunity for a young
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paid on monthly installments. Most of
such companies have failed, and many or
them have been fakes pure and simple.
The bona fide capitalists here are salts
fed with 10 or 10 per cent profit and
If there were many investments which
would net them 100 per cent they would
grab them. This is so not only OF mines.
but Of tropical agriculture, and IL Is safe
per cent profit within five or ten years
is q fraud.
One OF the most careful observers Of
is Charles NJ. Pepper. who was
long a correspondent Of the Chicago Tri-
bune. In report to Congress he stated
that no American school teacher. clerk.
day laborer. seamStress or college pro-
lessor, who had only few hundred dol
lars Of savings. had any right to risk
them I'm a Mexican stock company. espe-
cially in those relating to tropical plan
tations. He advised them to take their
little hordes. and throw them into the
sea and leave a record of the place where
the bubbles came up for their grandchil-
dren rather than to put them into such
companies with the hope that they would
ever come back to them their grand
children.
One of our consul generals says that no
American. and especially no one with
small savings. should invest in Mexico
without a report from parties whom he
knows to be reliable Better still would
il be for him to come here TO see before
he buys. Big names do not always mean
reliability of statement and the so-called
government concessions for the invest
ment OF capital lapse If the development
stipulated in them fails. When one buys
real estate at home he always looks into
the title, and the same should be done
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potisms. In Mecklenburg-Schw AZ
per cent OF land is domain, and ruled
automatically by the duke, and the re-
mainder is under the grand duke, to-
gether with the two estates. In Neck
lenburg- Schwerin o-thirds of the area
is domain, and is ruled despotically by
the duke. Further quaint anomalies in
rules.
The town of Neustrelitz stands entirely.
outside the state organization The port
of Rostock has long had certain con.
stitutional privileges which the rest of
Mecklenburg is signing for. and, f1naIlys
there is the independent Meckienburg-
Strelitz principally of Ratzeburg. Rate
burg lies separated from the rest OF
the duchy between Schwerin, Schleswig-
Holstein and Lubbock. Though it counts
only $4,000 inhabitants, It has a com
plete constitution, with twenty-one full
blown congressman. and 1T is free from
both the despOtism of the autocrat
grand duke and from the despotism of
the oligarch:al estates.
Such is the quaint country which is now
demanding a constitution. The constitu-
ton is wanted for various reasons. In
the first place. the two Mecklenburgs are
considerable countries. Schwerin has
go, 900 inhabitants and Strelitz has 1OO,-
900. Secondly the people are highly dis
contented Mecklenburg does not flourish
Formerly multitudes of Mecklenburgers
emigrated At one time the emigration
rate was 10 per 1000 annually. Alone
among German states the population has
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practically ceased to increase. In 1871
1900 the population of Germany in
creased 81 per cent, but that of
the two Mecklenburgs increased only
8 per cent. That Is because agriculture
and industry are backward, and because
Mecklenburgers who see the contrast be-
tween their political backwardness and
the rest OF Germany disappear from their
native land as fast as they can.
; The last reason is that Mecklenburgs
finances are in chaotic disorder and can
not be put in order without a constitution
rejoices In three separate
budgets. The domains have their budget,
the estates have their budget, and there
is third budget common to domains and
estates. The autocrat grand duke has to
maintain himself and to finance practi-
cally the Whole cost of government out
of the revenues OF the domains, and as he
never has enough money he is obliged an
nually to beg subsidies from the purse
proud estates. And the purse-proud es-
tates either refuse the money or try to
impose conditions which are highly dis
tasteful to an autocrat with q sense OF
his position.
Every one wishes to have Mecklen-
burgs political chaos replaced by a con-
stitution. The population wants it, the
grand dukes want it, even the estates
saw they want 1t, but by this they mean
they want constitution which will con-
Arm their present privileges. The ''rit-
terschaft' want to remain bosses on
their own estates. They cannot, however.
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portant states which are ruled auto
cratically is a puzzle. But everything
Mecklenburgian is puzzling. In Meek
lenburg you find what otherwise you
find only in Asia, a single country with
two equal rulers.
The Grand Duchy Of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin and the Grand Duchy OF Meek
lenburg-Streitz are essentially one state,
and they have been politically united
since 1855. but they have two independ-
ent grand dukes. courts, court chamber
lains, court doctors and court chimney
sweeps, and when their only legislature
(which is not representative meets II
is opened in the names OF two grand
dukes. The personalities of these two
rulers are amiable and nowise despotlc.
The autocrat of Meckienburg-Schwe
the larger state. is Grand Duke Fried
rich Franz aged thirty, who married
nine years ago a daughter OF Cumber-
lands duke. a sister of the Ernst August
who has just carried off Kaiser Will
helms daughter. His sister Is the Ger
man crown princess. The autocrat of
Mecklenburg- Streiitz is Grand Duke
Adolf Friedrich George August victor
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The PIucky Captain.

THE late Bishop Doane in Fourth OF
: July address in Albany. once urged
his hearers to fight against socialism AS
their ancestors had fought against the
British.
Put up a good stiff fight" said the
bishop, land the pluck OF these miser-
able socialists will be no better than that
of Capt. Scraggs-
Capt Scraggs saw active service once.
The engagement was pretty stin. In
fact, Ii looked hopeless to the captain.
However. he said cheerily to his men:
my brave fellows. fight like heroes
till your ammunitions gone; then run for
your lives. I've got a sore foot. SO III
start now. Au revoir. my hearties.
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drollest political-social anomaly OF this
old world, and will terminate the fun
niest OF political feuds- For two and
forty years-or since Immediately after
the Franco-German war-Mecklenburg
has been trying to get constitution
and there are perverse. incredulous men
Who vow that she will still be just get
ring II Immediately after the next
Franco-German war
The circumstance that in an empire
based economically upon universal suf-
fsAGo there should be two relatively i'm.
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The CubiStS.

JOB +. HEDGES. while auctioning on
} in New York the .'misapplied art
pictures that caricatured the futurists
and cubists. told a cubist story.
when i was a boy" he said. If
youngsters parents saw him drawing
neutrality-suspicious. and hexagons and tri-
angles they would exclaim:
Aha. Well make a mathematician
Of him"
But nowadays when a lads parents
find him making tetrahedrons and poly
CONS they say:
''Our SON will win immortal fame a.
an artist"
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The CoRN IssSHEELED BY HAND

man here without capital. and 1t seems
to me there will be but little for long
time to come. The common labor Is
done by the Indian. who works for one
third or one-fifth what the ordinary day
laborer Of the United States receives,
and the wages of mechanics are not one
third those Of the United States. There
are no chances for clerks or petty book
keepers. There are many young Mexi-
cans who can keep books, and they can
sell goods as well as we can and will
do it at one-third our wages.
1t is only skilled labor and special
ability that command high prices. I
refer to such professions as engineering
and those Of the electrical and mining
experts. Such men are in demand, and
IL they can speak Spanish they can find
plenty to do.
AS to professional men, Mexico has it's
own doctors and lawyers. 1t has a smat
tering of native dentists, but there are
many American dentists who are doing
well. Said one Of these to me the other
day:
II made $1,000 the first Year ] came
here and my receipts now are about a
thousand dollars month. l can charge
bigger prices than at home and I have
gotten as much as a hundred dollars for
a full set Of teeth upon rubber. When
ever I administer gas I charge $40 for
pulling a TOOTH although when I yank
out half a dozen l reduce that rate to
s. for each tooth after the first. In gold
filings my prices are S. and upward, ac-
cording to the size Of the cavity and
the bank account Of the man who has
his teeth filled. l get big money for
hridgework, and l have made $500 and
upward out of a single mouth.
This dentist spoke Spanish and he had
picked up the language after coming to
Mexico.
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UROPES only au-
tocracy. the dual
Duchy of Meek :
lenburg : Schwerin
and Mecklen burg
StrolitZ. looks like
getting a consti-
tuition at last.
Herewith, now
that Turkey and
Russia have popu-
lar representation.
will vanish the
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A> settIer who has a few hundred or a
few thousand dollars and for the man
who has saved some money and hopes
70 plant it where 1T will breed gold
dollars more rapidly than the rabbits
OF Australia bring forth their young
To such Mexico has been painted az
an Ell Dorado, whose treasure vaults
may be opened as easily as was the
cave of the Forty Thieves to our old
friend Ali Baba, and also as Garden
Of Eden. where you may SOW conee'
eocoanuts and bananas and then lie In
The shade OF the trees until the fruit
drops into your mouth.
The truth is far different. Just now.
In these days OF rebellion. briganoaSe
and political unrest. there is no cnance
at all for the small man. When the
country Is quiet and peace has returned
IL will be different, and. as | shall
show farther on. the opportunities Tor
large profits will probably be greater
than in the United States Mexico Is
ready for a mighty development and
there are millions of American dollars
which will roll down over the border
as soon as our capitalists can be sure
Of the consuls tells me that during the
last years of the Diaz regime new
money was coming in by the tens OF
thousands of dollars day. This
money was damned back by the revo-
Iutionary troubles and 1T only awaits
stable conditions to break forth in a
tidal wave over the republic. II this
il so it will pay the big man and
the little man to keep his eyes upon
Mexico.
But. as I have suggested. it will pay
the small man to watch out have
been looking into the results OF the small
investments OF the past. Americans tell
me Of thousands Of our people who have
put their little savings into Mexican stock
companies and have gotten nothing back.
This is the verdict of our consuls. OF
mining engineers and Of American bust
ness men who have travelled over the
country The opportunities are here. but
the field has been largely exploited by
fake companies and stock-jobbing syndi-
Gates These men, by promising enor-
nous returns. have persuaded the small
man to invest what he had and to mort
sage his future for additional sums, to be
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FRdIFE.NcAM CIRCLE COr1ES OUR. CHEWING GUN
EAPF1NG TE. IRE: AND The G11AYuE Rs1BBER
f1AHlT liz WhICIf&6ooo 600 ARE INXESTED

would act as a prescription clerk in a
drug store, he must have diploma from
the Mexican authorities. and. as to school
teachers. they can do nothing here with
out understanding and being able to read
and write Spanish There are openings
for good American stenographers who
can translate and also take down their
notes in Spanish and English, but many
OF the typewriting places are now being
filled with native girls who are trained in
the female schools Of Mexico City. /
find such girls acting as private secre-
taries In most Of the government offices,
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As a rule it is almost impossible to get
along here with nothing but English. and
contrary to the general belief, the Span
ish language Is not easy to learn. One
can pick up a smattering within few
months. but to get a good working
knowledge it requires a year or so Of
hard study. There are some professions
in which one must have Spanish to enter.
This Is so of the physician, who cannot
issue a death certificate without he has
government diploma, and Of the attor-
ney, who has to pass a regular govern
ment examination. If an American
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Drollest Political An
omaly in the Old World
Will Vanish and Fun
niest Political Feud In
Recent History Termi-
nate if, as Now Seems
Probable, the Dual
Duchy of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin and Mecklen- .
burg-Strelitz Gets Rep
rescntative Govern
ment, After AZ Years
Agitation Therefor
Comic Opera State
Whose Two Archducal
Autocrats Resemble
Nothing so Much as the
Twin Rulers in Gilbert
and Sullivan's Condo
hers They Have
Despotic Power
Throughout Part of
Their Domain.
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and nearly every professional man has
one or more OF them.
With the coming OF peace there is sure
to be a rise in Mexican lands. ! am told
that real estate values during the past
five years have risen from 300 to 800 per-
cent. and that there will be q radical in
crease as soon as conditions are stable.
There Is q big movement here for div1d-
ing the large estates. and such properties
are now sold all the way from 50 cents
to So per acre, according to their charac-
ter and improvements. In case one
wishes to engage In stock raising ne
needs q considerable tract. The pastur-
age on the highlands L. thin, and the
in our country. At present the cattle are
poorly fed, and they are usually small
1t is estimated that II costs less than IS
in gold to fatten a steer. l am told that
there is money in sheep and goat raising.
and that swine do very we'll and never
have cholera.
AS to grain farming. there is plenty Of
room for scientific agriculture. Corn
grows everywhere but the average Is
less than fifteen bushels per acre, where
as 1t might be as much as in the best
parts OF the states. There is a big local
demand for corn. The present methods
are rude. and the corn in shelled out by
hand. Still it IL the staple food OF two
thirds OF the people. and the price for
a number of years past has been double
that of the United States. 1t is the same
with wheat, Mexico not raising near
enough of either grain to feed her own
people.
The methods OF wheat growing are ex-
ceedingly crude On the smaller farms the
grain is cut by hand. and in some places
thrashed out by driving oxen over IL. In the
state of Sonora every locality has its
thrashing pits. These are about thirty or
forty feet in diameter and one or two feet
deep. The bottoms OF such pits are
pounded smooth and treated SO that they
are as hard as IL covered with concrete.
The wheat is thrown into the pit and the
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that he will push through the constitution
at all costs. The result Is that the two
fntermarried states do not agree. and
Strelitz is even thinking OF giving notice
to Schwerin to terminate the union.
Either both states will get a constitution
or they will part and go their own ways.
That Is the present position, which now
looks on the eve of solution.
tCopyrigbt. 1913 BY Curtis BROWN
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AUTOCRAT GRAND DUKE ADOLF
STREI.FTZ,
Who In being asked 10 give back the
81, OOO, 900 Of his peoples money
which his predecessor sent abroad for
Investment.
Ernest Adalbert Gustav Wellington. who
was born in 184S, and is married 70
princess of Anhalt. They are both high
~ inoffensiye autocrats, and one OF them
boasts considerable skill at checkers
The autocracy of these autocrats Is
paradox. inasmuch as while the auto
Gratis WELD universal power in part of
their domains. in the other parts they
have no power at all. The Gilbertian
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HIS letter Is de-
voted to the small
man In Mexico. 1t
is not for the rail-
road magnate or
I h e millionaire
capitalist nor the
skilled mining or
civil engineer who
is sent down over
the border with
money to burn. 1t
Is for the would
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GRAND DUKE FRIED
RICH FRANZ OF SIECKLENBURG-
SCHWERIN.
He IL only thirty. and . brother OF the
Crown Princess Of Germany.
enough; it was based on the Prussian
three-class election system.
Nevertheless, though the landschaft ac-
copied it the other estate. the ritterschaft.
threw it out That was after two years
feud. The most the ritterschaft would
consent to was "a further development
OF the state organization on the basis OF
the estates" In other words, the nit
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Spsc4a Correspondence of The Star.
BERLIN, June % 1919
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Fake Syndicates and
How They Take in the
Public-Good Advice
From Une1e Sans
Agents Chances for
Y,oun g Men = Big
Money for Dentists.
Tropical Agriculture.
The Risk in Rubber.
Something A b Ut
Guayule = Chicle, or
How Mexico Is Work
ing Uncle Sans Jaws.
Copyrighted. 1sfs. By Frank O. csrpenter.)
apsot.l Correspondence Of The Star
SAN LUIS POTOSI. Mexico.
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Copyrighted, 1ef3. By Frank q. caTpenfer.)
Special Cbrrespondence Of The Star
SAN JJyIa P0TOSy Mexjco