The Detroit times., 1914-07-02
What Good Does IT Do, Wee
Had Dirt for 800 Yearszr
Ask Citizens of Sanitary
Activities In Vera Cruz
TOO MUCH PEPPER
IN YANKEE MUSIC
And Strangest of All, Big Bland
Soldiers Dance Instead Of
Listening Placidly
BY WILLIAM @. SHEPHERD

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(Stdf Correspondent .Unttsd Press.
VERA CRUZ. June 22.--(B maj
to New York)-These nervous. mad.
astonishing Americans!
They can't be quiet, no matter how
rot II is. They won't rest in the mid.
die of the day, no matter where the
thermometer stands. They won't ~
peacefully under the portales OF IA I
evening and listen. placidly, to tho
music; instead, they insist on danc<f
ing What a mad people has come
down upon from the north! NI
So say the Mexicans in Vera Cru@<{
The upper class folks-who thin
they really are very upper, indeed n
and look down upon Americans 4 NJ
vulgarly healthy and vulgarly acf IN
-shrug their shoulders, politely Ar1<<[
stay away from the portaIes and the[
open air concerts. The lower clan3I
folks show signs Of worry and aston
| ishment
Now there was the case OF the dogs
Tor instance It's true. OF course, that
vera Cruz had great many eior2-
and tnat scores OF tramp dogs ram
from table TO table In the porfales
during eating hours and begged, with
the rest OF the beggars But Vera.
Cruz had gotten along for three cen.1
turtles with its dogs and II could have
gotten along three centuries more.
only this person Gen. Funston had to
nnd something for his soldiers to do.
ana he set them to work chasing all
, dogs who didn't wear muzzles and
shooting them on the spot. He didnss
even permit his soldiers 10 IN Af,7r-
wire loops around their necks and
drag them of to some out-of-the-wav
place to be killed. M
True, the dogs are gone. bur A
looks very much as II this Senior
Funston only issued the dog order
so that he could give his nervous
restless soldiers something that
would keep their hands full. He s,1c.
ceeded, all right, IL that was what he
wanted. for his soldiers chase dox4
In the hot SUM- from one corner to tho
city TO the other. and, besides. they
chase them all night, too. When Won
talk like this, II you're a Mexican.
you end by Struggling your Shoulders.
lhelplessly, as IL you gave up the con
lundrum
And. IL you're very high Mexican.
| who, before the Americans came,
were accustomed TO dine at the Dilf
gencias' hotel, you talk about what
the mad Americans did there. Inst
10 keep his men busy---his nerv0u4
restless men, who never take siesta4
at midday and who. for play. punch.
each other with terrible blows--zhe
put them to cleaning up the motel.
Isn't II the best hotel. I'M town? Isr.f
| II 200 years old? Haven't the rre&<-
est Mexicans during the past two cen
turies, dined there. contented?
What II Inspector MacManus d{6
go into the kitchen and find
chicken and fish heads hid -
In aud out of the way COZ
What you don't see doesn't hurt
Suppose he did run his knife b
through the cracks In the kftchsn,
table tops and dig out--well. matter
that had been in the cracks for many
years and then make the hotel pao-
pie cover all their table tops with
zinc? What good does It do?
Walters will be walters. They were
all born In dobe houses, anyway. ana
they never will know how TO serve
gentle folks and It's hopeless TO try
TO teach them. We upper class Mex.
leans have been trying to teach them
for the past two centuries and we've
failed Why worry, as these Ameri-
cans do? This. person Funston. reat-
ly doesn't care, either. He's only do
ing It TO keep his soldiers busy. his
! mad animal soldiers. who run around
with massive smiles on their blond
faces.
And then there's the band music IA
! talk about II you're an upper crust
Mexican who has been often to Eu-
rope you'll talk about that. too.
(Confinued on Pare Trrn.l .L ~,