Evening journal., 1914-07-02
JUST
Cannot BE QUIET
No Matter How Hot in Vera
Cruz, Soldiers Clean
Up Place
GEN. FUNSTON HAS
DOGS ROUNDED UP
~ WILIiAM @. sHEPHERD.


Unitod Press STAFF Correspondent.
VERA CRUZ. June - Cby mail TO
New York; These nervous, mad,
astonishing Americansl
They can't be quiet, no matter how
lot it is. They won't rest in the
middle Of the day, no matter where
the thermometer stands. They won't
sit peacefully under the portalcs Of an
evening and listen. placidly, to the
music: instead they insist on dane
ing What a mad people has come
down upon as from the northl
So say the Mexlcans in Vera Cruz
The upper class folks-w think
they really are very upper, indeed,
and look down upon Americans as
vulgarly healthy and yulgarly active
-shrug their shoulders, politely and
stay away from the pOrtales and the
open air concerts The lower class
folks show signs of worry and as
tonighment
Now there was the case of the
dogs. for instance. IT'S true, Of
course. that Vera Cruz had a great
many dogs and that scores of tramp
dogs ran from table to table in the
p0rtalcs during eating hours
and begged. with the rest of the beg
gers But Vera Cruz had gotten
along for three centuries with It's
dogs and IL could have gotten along
three centuries moro. Only this per-
fon Gen. Funston had 10 find some
thing for his soldiers 10 do and he
sci them TO work chasing all dogs
who didn't wear muzzles aud shoot
ms them on the spot lie didn't even
permit his soldiers TO throw wire
loops around their necks and drag
them OFF to some out-of7the-way place
TO be killed
True. the dogs are gone. but it
looks very much as if this Senor Fun
stOn only issued the dog order so that
he could give his nervous. restless
soldiers something that would keep
their hands full. He succeeded, all
right. II that was what he wanted,
for his soldiers chased dogs in the
lot sun. from one corner of the city
TO the other. and, besides, they chased
them all night too. When you talk
like this. If you're a Mexican. you
euo by Struggling your shoulders,
helplessly, as If you gave up the
conundrum
And. If you're very high Mexican,
who. before the Americans came,
we're accustomed to dine at the Dill
Gcncias Hotel, you talk about what
tho mad Americans did there. Just
to keep his men busy his nervous,
restless men, who never take sicstas
AT midday and who. for play, punch
each other with terrible hlows-he
| put them TO cleaning up the hotel
Isn't a. the best hotel In town2 Isn't
| 10 200 yearsold? Haven't the greatest
Mexicans during the past two CEN
| turtles, dined there, contented2
What if Inspector MacManus did
"a into the kitchen and find chicken
and fish heads hidden i'm out of the
way corners? What you don't see
doesn't hurt YOU Suppose he did
run his knife blade through the
cracks I'm the. kitchen table tops and
dis out-well. matter that had been
In the cracks for many years and
then make the hotel people cover all
their table tops with zinc? What
good does IL do?
Walters will be walters They
we're all born i'm dObe houses any
way. and they never will know how TO
serve gentle folks and it's hopeless
10 try TO teach them We upper
class Mexicans have been trying TO
teach them for the past two centuries
ana we've failed Why worry. as
these Americans do? This person
! Funston. really doesn't care, either
| He's only doing it TO keep his sol
diers busy his mad animal soldiers
, who run around with massive smiles
on their blond faces.
And then there's the band music
/ to talk about If you're an upper
crust Mexican who has been often
to Europe, you'll talk about that, too
What extraordinary musicians
! They don't look as if they knew one
uote from another. They cut theu
hair short They have massive
chests and no one ever blow horns
as they do They can play LA Pa
Iona" though: yes, indeed they can
But they put the joy of living int,
it. not the pleasure of sorrow. (Which
means that they're not much giveI
tC incoming around in their musicl
utA it AoN hNoiAl9 ohu "iiph1 "h'
VNacious They belong TO a new
virile nation. while we Mexicans ar
Ole and highly developed and complei
in our emotions They're Huns
wore Greeks. No wonder thei
general has a hard time keeping then
husy with dogs and dirt in restaur
ants.
That's the way you'd talk II yol
4 were a Mexican IN Vera Cruz.
I know. Because I've just pu
Z down In what I've written a conver
I sation which I overheard. in Spanisl
Il between two MeXicans business me
y In cafe.
To the upper class MeXicans
4 man of the lower classes" in ever
n country in the world lis a - peol