Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1914-05-08
H UERTES RECRUITING
METHODS


these days means that to be a mill.
tiaman. Hucrta is rapidly militar-
izing every group of men. in every
walk of life, that he can clap his
attention on.
Three months ago the national
agricultural school. in the surburhs
of the capital was quiet, easy-go-
ing institution with its thousands
of students, gathered from the
farms all over the land paying at
tention to nothing else than agri-
culture. Today it looks like bar
racks. The professors have been
converted into captains, majors
and lieutenants and they wear mill
tary uniforms in the class rooms.
The students have been put into
soldiers uniforms and nave been
supplied with rifles, which they
are forced to use in practice.
Life in the dormatorics has been
put on a military basis and day
and night the big school farm is
patrolled by farmer boy scntinols.
The boys in the night schools,
business colleges and even private
schools are being drilled, by orders
of the president" Not a few Of
the professors in these schools have
resigned their positions rather
than become officers in the army.
The professors who remain may Of
ten be SEEN in the boulevards of
the capital. drilling under the in
structions Of real army instruct
or. their boy students. title chaps
as tender in years as ten, may be
seen IN these groups, learning how
to carry their rifles and hoU to
maneuver at the orders of q pro-
fessor captain.
The law students have been
formed into a brigade of their
own. Two or three of the leading
law instructors in Mexico have re-
signed their positions because the:
felt they had been Inundated by
the demand that they become q
part of the Mexican army.
The medical students medical
students are alike all over the
wOTld-wcrc too much for even
Huerta. At time when no one in
the capital dared to raise his voice
against Hucrta these medical stu
dents astUunded the government
and the populace by making a
demonstration against the removal
of the head of the national school
by Huerta. and the substitution OF
n military hcud. This demonstra-
tion occurred on a visiting day
when several members Of Huerta's s
cabinet were present.
The police were called and tho
doors Of the school closed. Huerta,
who usually knows what action to
take against the slightest sign of
opposition of his plans was puzzled
in this case. lie hcsitatcd to order
the execution OF the ring-lradcr
for the same reason, he hesitatcd
to cause their arrest on the grounds
of treason. Finally he solved the
whole thing by closing the school
for two Tonths. Whereupon the
irrcprcssible medical students held
another demonstration Of joy be-
cause School was out" II Presi-
dent Wilson were to order that all
the clerks and secretaries OF the
postoflice department, for instance,
be formed into a military com.
pany and were to be drilled, he
would cause similar CONSERVATION
to that which followed such an or.
der by iIuerta the other day. iiucr'
ta's order extended to every gov.
ernmcnt Office in the capital ant
every day on some Of the many
drill grounds around the capita
some company of whitc.handcd
tender-footed young clerks may bt
seen hiking or swinging guns in the
hot sun.
1t was some months ago TIM
Huerta ordered that the 1900
city policemen In the caI,ital b'
Quilted with rifles, organized OF
military basis and drilled daily
There Is nothing In the world mild
er than a policeman In Mexico City
and the idea of being converted in
to soldipFa did mt annpol IN fhnro