Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-04-28
HUfRTA TURNS PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
INTO NURSERIES FOR HIS DWINDLING ARMY

professors who remain may often be
seen in the boulevards of the capital
drilling under the instruction of a
real army instructor their boy stu
dents. Little chaps as tender in
years as 10, may be seen in these
groups learning how to carry their
rifles and how to maneuyer at the
orders of professor captain. three
of the leading law instructors.
The law students have been form
ed into brigade of their own. Two
or three in Mexico have resigned
their positions because they had been
hnmiliated by the demand that they
become part of the Mexican army.
4 The medical students-medical stu
dents are alike the world over-were
too much even for Huerta AT time
when no one in the capital dared to
raise his voice against Huerta, these
medical students astounded the gov.
ernment and the populace by making
demonstration against the removal
of the head of the national school by
Huerta. and the substitution OF a
military head This demonstration
occurred on visiting day when sew
eral members of Huertas cabinet
were present.
The police were called and the
doors of the school were closed.
Huerta. who usually knows what ac-
tion to take against the slightest
sign of opposition of his plans, was
puzzled in this case He hesitated
to order the execution of the ring
leaders; for the same reason. he hes
itated to cause their arrest on the
grounds of treason Finally. he
solved the whole thing by closing
/ the school for two months Where
upon the irresponsible medical stu
dents held another demonstration OF
/ Joy because school was out" II
] President Wilson we're to order that
all the clerks and secretaries in the
postofiice department. for instance,
be formed into military company
and were to be drilled, he would
cause similar CONSERVATION to that
which followed such an order by HUI
erta the other day. Huerta's order
extended TO every government office
in the capital and every day on
some of the many drill grounds
around the capital some company OF
white-handed, tender-footed young
clerks may be seen hiking to swing
ing guns in the hot sun.
It was some months ago that Hu.
erta ordered that the 1000 city po
lieemen in the capital be outfitted
with rifles, organized on a military
basis and drilled daily. There is
nothing in the world milder than a
policeman in Mexico City. and the
idea of being converted into soldiers
did not appeal to them, especially as
it didn't mean any increase in sal
aries. There was some talk of 0
strike and it was even said that, in
retaliation, the police force hat
joined a plot against Huerta, bui
these projects died down and now
any day, companies of policemen
carrying rifles and ammunition belts
and looking exactly like soldiers, ma!
be seen marching away to some su
burban drill ground. All of these
soldiers" which Huerta has gained
by militarizing the government de
partments, the schools and the po
lice have yielded him an Increase,
force of perhaps 5000 lighting men il
the capital. And the beauty of Il is
they don't cost him anything asid'
from the expense Of uniforms an,
rifles. for they receive no arm
wages or rations. In all these mat
ters Huerta is pronting by the mis-
takes Of Madero During the tel
days OF lighting in the capital befor
Madero was overthrow every polio,
I man disappeared from the streets
There we're s.ooo Of them al tn
time. greater number than the so
. diers engagea on both sides. an
} whoever had been able TO gather N
policemen together and control ther
, Would have heen able 10 hold lh