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CITIES VILLA CONTROLS
FILLED WITH VICE DENS
Juarez Gambling Halls and Other Vicious Places
Crowded With Dregs of American Slums-
All Pay Toll to Villa.

direction Of Juarez avenue and I was
surprised at the lack of interest among
the crowd in the Gale de Concrete
Nobody stirred In the direction from
which came the sound.
'Shootings are too common here
about to Jar the case hardened nerves
of the people Of Juarez,' said the moving
picture man, the other pilot Of the night,
as we entered the keno palace. There
must have been 200 persons seated at
the tables. Not a chair was vacant A
hundred men and women were standing.
The apparatus of the Diamond Keno
Palace was made in New York city. 1t
Is said to have cost $500, 900. The rake
of to villa from this one enterprise is
said to- average over 81 900 a night. Half
of the players were women. mostly girls
who Ia drifted over the line after
American cities had abolished their red
light districts. Their companions were
generally Mexicans of the low caste,
haIfbreed variety.
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GOVERNORS REVIEW
BATTLESHIP FLEET
See Attack Of Torpedo Boat
FlOtilla Repealed by
Dreadnoughts.
GOV. WHITMAN ARRIVES

BosToS, Aug. 25.-The Governors OF
day saw a review Of a United states
battle feet, saw the ships and
tcpe an attack by a iotilla OF torpedo
5oat ~destroyers. The review OF the fleet
followed n forenoon session at the State
House. from which point they went to
the navy yard in automobiles and then
boarded the Wyoming for the trip down
;he harbor.
Aboard the Wyoming they had
luncheon. After the review they were
taken to a point near Gloucester. landed
and went to the home OF John Hays
Hammond. The day ended with a din
ner at the Eastern Yacht Club, at which
they were the guests OF the Boston
Chamber of Commerce.
Cows. whitman of New York. Curtis
of Maine and Goldsborough of Maryland
arrived to-day. o Byrne of South
Dakota presided at the session and the
frst speaker was Gov. Hammond OF
Minnesota, who spoke on the power Of
Governors. Following his remarks there
was a general discussion and then Gov.
Whitman of New York spoke interest
.ngly on conservation.
The Governors and their parties left
Boston at ~ o'clock for the navy yard
and at IL As the Wyoming sailed. Sec
rotary Daniels was aboard also. and as
the ship steamed way the yard battery
fred a salute of nineteen guns. The
Wyoming stopped OF Boston light.
Meantime the ~destroyers and battleships
were under way. the twenty-five de-
stroyers passing in double column 800
yards east of the Wyoming.
The ten dreadnoughts steamed by at
ten knots. each ship firing its nineteen
gun salute to the Secretary. and as the
Arkansas came abreast the reviewing
ship they turned column right. heading
east. The Wyoming then proceeded east
at fifteen knots. coming abreast OF the
centre of the squadron and then
manpuvred the line of battleships gradu-
ally eastward and northward.
II was while these were
holding the attention Of the Governors
and their friends that the destroyer
tiotilla suddenly shot into view at full
speed In an attack or the east side Of
the battleship line from ahead. Theo-
~retically the big ships countered the at
tack and as a result the destroyers drew
off to the south. keeping the Wyoming
between the battleship squadron and the
d~estroyers. All the destroyers were emit
ing huge volumes OF black smoke from
their tunnels, furnishing an effective
screen behind which n battle fleet could
successfully pull up on a foe.
After the destroyers had vanished
the Wyoming. the battTeshlps forming
an escort. steamed to Gloucester. from
which point the squadron headed for
" 1-.tt a.. - -
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MANY EXILED BY VILLA.
Families Of Men Executed Expelled
From Mexico

FL P,so. Aug. ga reign OF terror
exists in Chihuahua city, Torreon n
other points controlled by Villa, accord
ing to arrivals from those places.
Among the exiles who arrived was
Mrs. Arellano Gonzales. wife of the ex-
Governor of Chihuahua and = sister-in-
law Of eX-Gov. Abram Gonzales. She
confirms the execution of her husband
by villa and says she went to Villas
home and begged "Mrs. villa" TO inter-
cede. hut the woman shut the door in
her face.
ATong others expelled was Mrs.
Algustiu Labansat and family from
Calhudhua. Mrs. Labansat Is the wife
OF an eN-chief of police in the State
capital. Her husband, II Is said. is now
a Carranza follower. When the order
Tor her expulsion came she was given
twenty -four hours in which to leave the
cry Mrs. Tepita Charoon. who was
also expelled, got two hours in which to
depart
The families Of the twenty-five politi-
ca Prisoners executed by villa two
weeks ago in Chihuahua n Torreon
nave been ordered out OF Mexico and
are now waiting for funds TO get TO the
hori'r. Even families friendly with the
men cSc'uted have been warned to leave
TIE country.
Travellers from Torreon say that villa
has gwen orders that no man who has
ever made d dollar Of the villa treasury
can leave the country now.
Dozens oc Mexican merchants who
nave sold supplies 70 the villa army are
erected hy this order and are afraid to
ieavr their homes.
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The purpose of Mr.. Rockefeller to
Influence the public press Is clearly
shown by the employment OF m expert
enced publicity expert as a member "
his personal staff" the report con-
tiuucs, and H. indicated by his ev dent
interest in the ownership or control Of
a number OF publications. of which we
have records dating from the in Iuiry
OF his secretary regarding the Pueblo
star journal in May. 1918. e. the ex-
teHsive conferences regarding n loan OF
Sl25,0o0 to finance the Nations Bust
ness, the organ Of the National Cham
her Of Commerce, which was established
ard given a semi tiicial status through
the instrumentalities Of the Secretary
Of Commerce and Labor with the SAM
ton OF a former President OF tho
United states"
STATE c~onstlbularies. similar TO that Of
Pennsylvania, are denounced in the re-
port as a nerace to honest labor,
Congress Is asked to enact a statute
prohibiting. under severe penalties. the
transportation Of men from State 10
Sate either under arms or for the pur-
pose Of arming them as guards or AZ
agents either Of employers or Of em-
ployses. besides a statute prohibiting
the shipment in interstate commerce Of
cannon, gatling guns and guns OF sim
!l1r character, which are not capable OK
personal use, when consigned to any n
except military agencies OF the State or
Federal Governments.
Discussing the difficulties that con.
front wage carners in collecting labor
claims and securing redress for minor
~gricvunc.s. the report recommends the
establishment either by States or munic.
qualities Of industrial courts similar to
those which have PROVED to he SuCC, So
mi in European countries. II also rec.
DIS that commissioners of labor or
= the industrial commissioner OF the sew
,ral States should he directed 20 prose.
cute such claims vigorously.
ON the legal status of trade unions
and the law relating to industrial dis
putes the report says:
The general effect Of the decisions
~ American courts has been 10 restrict
the activities of LABOR organizations and
deprive them OF their most effective
weapons, namely, the boycott and the
power Of p,Ckcting. while on the other
hand N" weapons Of employers, namely.
the power " arbitrary DISCHARGE, Of
blackl!st!ng and Of bringing in strike
, breakers. have been maintained and
legislative attempt 10 restrict the en-
! ployerN' powers ave generally been de
/ clarcd unconstitutional by the courts
Furthermore, an additional weapon has
been placed in the hands of the en-.
, ploycrs by many courts in the form II
sweeping injunrtions. which render pun
! ishahle acts which would otherwise bl
legal. and also result in effect in denrlv-
ing the workers of the right to jury
trial.
important steps have been taken 10
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deal with tais situation by the enact
ment of the Clay ton act, applying to the
Federal jurisdiction. and by the passage
OF laws in Massachusetts and New YORK
which define the rights OF parties en-
gagged In industrial disputes. The ac-
tual effect Of the Clayton act cannot
be ascertained until 1t has been tested
In the courts, but eminent legal authori-
ties have expressed grave doubts that
1t will accomplish the desired results.
At any rate. 1t does not seem to remove
the root of the existing injustice. and,
Furthermore, in all the states except
New York and Massachusetts the grave
and uncertain situation already de-
scribed exists. This situation must be
corrected"
\ detailed plan for a permanent ma
tional mediation commission to he ap.
pointed by the President in disputes
involving interstate m is out
lined and urged upon Congress. Mem
bers, the number OF which IL not named.
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WALSH REPORT ATTACKS
Carnegie Board Also Charged With Being a Menace to
National Welfare-College Professors Said to Be
Dominated by Power of Wealth.

were dropped from the positions tie
had occupied and no valid reason for
such action was made public. Both
were witnesses before the commission
and made statements based upon their
W expert knowledge and experience
which were given wide publicity.
zone was a professor of Ian in "A
state university, who mad acted as coun-
sci for the strikers in Colorado. the
other a professor of economics, who had
not only been active in fights in behalf
OF child labor legislation and otner pro-
gressive measures but had recently pub
lished a work comparing the income paid
for property ownership with the income
paid for all classes of service
In the union educational campaign
the report charges "Mr. Rockefeller
planned to utilize literature containing
statements which were known to him at
the time to be untrue and m~isleadinL
tas for example the numerous misstate-
ments in the Sermon to Young Men
OF DR.. Newell Dwight Hills. including
the statement that the Colorado opera
tors offered to recognize toe miners
union). and also literature containing
statements which constituted n malicious
libel upon a large body of American
citizens-for example. the following
statement of Prof. John j Stevenson :
Labor unions defy the law but are ever
ready to demand its protection their
principles are no better than those OF
tho India Thugs, who practised robbery
and murder in the name Of the goddess
Cali
1T is alleged also that the invest.
cation Of Industrial relations is not
being mad in good faith, as It's dire
tor states that he will not now nor
hereafter make public his findings re-
sarding a most important part Of his
investigation, namely. the investigation
In Colorado.
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Speaking OF large foundations the re-
port says:
Two groups OF Foundations namely.
the Rockefeller and Carnegie Fuunda-
tions, together have funds amounting
to at least $3.50, 900, 900. yielding an an
nual evenue Of al least $4,000, 600,
which is al least twice as great as the
appropriations Of the Federal Govern
ment for similar purposes, namely, edu-
cation and social service.
The funds of these foundations are
exempt from taxation, Yet dur.ng the
lives Of the founders are subject to their
dictation for any purpose other than
commercial profit. In the case of the
Rockefeller group of foundations the
absolute control OF the funds and NJ tho
activities of the institutions now n in
perpetuity rests with Mr., Rockefeller,
his son. and whomsoever they may op.
point as their successors,
THE extent of the possible influence
OF these foundations and private en-
dowments of institutions for education
and public service Is shown by n large
amount of evidence in the possession
OF the commission. The following exam
pies may he cited The adoption of a
definite line of policy by the Bureau of
Municipal Research of New York to
meet the conditions imposed by M
Rockefeller in connection with proposed
contributions.
The abandonment by several colleges
and universities of sectarian affiliations
and charter clauses relating TO religion
In order to secure e~ndowments from the
Carnegie corporation and pensions for
professors from the Carnegie Founda
tion for the Advancement of Teaching"
Alleged Control Of Colleges.
Charging that apart from these
foundations there is developing \ de-
gree of control over the teachings OF
professors in our colleges and universi.
ties which constitutes "a most serious
menace" the report adds
In June OF this year two professors,
known throughout their professions ms
men of great talent and high characte,
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would be appointed for six years. Where
official mediation of a strike fails, a
board of mediation would be appointed
consisting of three persons. one to be
selected by the commission and one by
each of the parties. No power to COM
pei arbitration should be given to such
a commission. says the report.
Toe enactment of legislation provid-
ing that within six months from the
time of entry all immigrants shall be
required, under penalty OF deportation.
either to declare their intention to be-
come citizens by taking out their first
papers or to definitely register theme
selves with the proper authority as
alien tourists, and further providing
that all immigrants who have failed
TO take u their first papers at thu
end of two yeads all be deported. as
shall all who fail TO take out thei"
second papers when they become ell
gible, deportation in each case to act
as a bar to future entry.
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Utpoute villa Rules.

Gu next stop was In the Turf Ex-
change. fIipolite villa himself was
seated within the cashiers desk. He
directed the proceedings from a chair
tilted against the wall.
There were four faro tables running
and at least ten roulette tables. A
hanCeiQn informed us that Dffutt paid
villa $50 a day for the privilege OF
operating the faro tables m a him
In addition a 20 per cent. share in the
profits of the poo,room, which ran each
afternoon.
wonder II the members OF the New
England Pre sbyterlan synod, who met
in Hartford, Conn. to commend the
policy Of the Wilson Administration and
resolved. I'VE rejoice in a ~pational
policy in harmony with the spirit OF
the Gospel which has done so much
for Christian America" had any real
ization that their action meant the
stamp of approval upon Juarez and all
that IL represents. They surely were
blind to the real character of the Mexi-
can uprising. else they would have in
vestigated first and proclaimed after
ward.
We visited among other places the
White House Bar, at Duke and Fayles
streets. Juarcz also the big b.. & l..
par, on inc 'alle de Cornerclo. Then
there was the Rio Grande saloon. the
Tivoli Hotel and the Mont Carlo Hotel,
and other resorts Of high and low de-
gree. Forbidding angles met the eye.
and led to still darker corners up
dismal alleys. where Mexicans were
being stultiied 10 brute level In their
native drinks Of ''pulque' and 'mescal."
81 wish | had three reels OF what we
saw in Juarez tonight" said the NOV
ing picture man. ut might do the trick
with the great American public
The FL Paso official said: 1--WE
need holiness and decision in Washing
ton. That is quite enough"
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ACCUSED OF MAIL THEFT.
Letter Carrier Held In $1,000 Bail
ny I. =. Conn issI0ner.

P'3or Petersen, a letter carrier as
'F''i 10 station T., at Third avenue
ana l"''h street, was held by United
STATE Commissioner H%oughton yester-
org II $500 bail on "A charge OF riflng
Tie wl..
''.'f-on, according to Post ONCE In
" 'r Robert J. Pollit, owns property
~ \.'''y stream, L. l., works as a
'..f - an apartment house when he
: 'i i1'y md sends two OF his children
'' o. work, but in spite OF his In
'' 'i income was SO hungry for money
~ .' us saId TO have stolen 50 from a
'', g's"u him to deliver.
letter contained marked money
'." ''4 been mailed by Post Office In
p. .''. Iullt \ number Of other let
,'a ..-.n g through the office had pre-
N.' l!stpp. AIRED.
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ACTOR UP ON AUTO CHARGE.
Engiishmnn, with Monkeys Aid
Fails to Prove Innocence,

Albert Neuwald, Fl, an actor OF SO
West Forty-ninth street, his sister and
her pet monkey, failed yesterday to
prove, with the aid OF a tape measure,
that the automobile in which they were
riding did not stop eight feet from a car
at broadway and Duane street. Police
man Landes then handed the young
actor "A m
When arraigned In the Tombs court
before Magistrate rockingham. Neu-
wald said he was an Englishman and
rame to this country only a short time
ago, Hereafter he would be more care
full, he said, He was warned by the
Magistrate and received a suspended
sentence.
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Mrs, Flora Wupperman Obcyed direc-
tons To appear In the Supreme Court
yesterday and testify In supplementary
proceedings affecting her husband.
Adolph f.. Wupperman, or go 10 Ludlow
street jail, She Insisted that her. orig
inal testimony that n bank deposit of
s. 1000 made for her by her husband
was Obtained as a loci from his mother
was true.
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The foliotcing article on the
Mexican situation is the tueiJth
Of a series by Rdymon q. Carroll
rhich ,oiH appear daily in THE
Sun. Mr.. Carroll has made a
thorough investigation OF the sit
udtion as regards the reroiution,
its cause and result thus far and
the effect Of the policy OF the
Wilson Administration on the ciril
uur.
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On a recent Sunday the writer was In
Naco and counted 107 automobiles from
different points in Arizona. as far north
as Wilcox, as far west as Tucson and
as far east as Paradise. Some of the
cars came In with ten and twelve pas
rye All this was a development OF
the last two years Toward night the
streets of Naco on the American side
Of the line were filled with drunken
cowboys. American and Mexican. and
their yelling was sufficient to cause the
captain Of a nearby American cavalry
troop to keep his men under arms for
fear Of a riot.
The authorities In Naco, Arlz.. are
powerless to prevent these wee kly occur
rences. Some OF the residents have APP
realed to Washington, stating the facts,
and in return have been informed that
the American Government has no con-
troll over the selling of liquor and gam
bling carried on in old Mexico.
Naco is not much OF a place at best,
hut n the vice conditions now develop
ing on the Mexican side attain fun
growth II bids fair to become another
Juarez,
Nogales. II anything. is worse OF thar
Naco. It's rel light district Is about a
mile south Of the line, at a little town
called Ranchito, Many American cow
boys who have gone there have been
drugged and robbed One of the worst
dives on the border is a. place at Nogales
called the Hotel de Paris which is
run by n Mexican under protection OF
Maytorena.
One might 60 on indefinitely describ-
ing the frightful conditions that exist
just over the line In Mexico. Every
week or so MOUNTED bandits ride In on
the gambling halls and rob them, seize
the young women found around the
saloons and carry them away. \ num-
Der OF the Mexican chiefs of police have
been executed in the summary manner
in which alleged Justice is dealt out by
the so-called Constitutionalists.
Conditions in the Carranza controlled
cities OF Matamoras, Nueva. Laredo
Piedras Negras and Aqua Prieta. the
first three across the line from different
Texas towns and the latter named op,
posite Douelas. Ariz, do not reveal the
dspravity of the villa controlled towns
of Nacp, NOgales and Juarez.
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ongre Is urged to enact a statute
providing that all Incorporated non-pront
making bodies whose present charters
empower them to perform more IMAM a
single specific function and whose fuNds
exceed 800, 600 900 shall be compelled
to secure a Federal charter. with Iimi-
tations.
Congress IL further urged to make
provision for a thorough Investigation or
all endowed institutions, both secular ana
religious. whose property holdings or m
conn exceeds a moderate mount. IL IS
recommend ID also that governmental
activity along the lines OF education ana
social service should be increased as
the only effective means OF counteract-
ing the iu1u.nce OF the foundations as
long as they are permitted 10 exist.
The report says regarding concentra-
ton Of wealth
THE control Of manufacturing, min
ing and transportation industries is 10
an increasing degree passing into the
haads OF great corporations through
stock ownership, and control OF credit is
centralized in a comparatively small
number OF enormously powerful man
cial institutions. These financial insti-
buttons are In turn dominated by a small
number of powerful fnanciers.
with few exceptions each of the great
basic Industries is dominated ny "A SIN
gle large corporation. and where this is
not true the control Of the Industry
through stock ownership in supposedly
Independent corporations and through
credit is almost II not quite as potent,
an such corporations, In spite of the
large number OF stockholders, h con
troll through actual stock ownership
rests with a small number Of persons.
For example, in the United states Steel
Corporation. which had in 1871 approx
mately 100. 900 shareholders, 10 per
cont. of the stockholders held 81 per
cent. Of the stock. While the nal con
troll rested with a single private bank
ing house. Similarly in the American
Tobacco Company. before the dissolu-
ton ten stockholders owned 80 per cent
OF the stock.
Almost without exception the en-.
ployees OF the large corporations are
u~norganized. as a result of the active
and aggressive ~'non-union' policy Of tn,
corporation arrangements. Further
more, the labor policy of he large cor
po%ratiors almost inevitably determines
the labor policy of the entire industry,
"The corporations controlled by 81,
financial groups and affiliated interest!
employ 2.65l.6St wag earners and hav,
a total q pitalization OF sl9.S75. 200. 600
These groups control 2S per cent, of tn,
wage earners engaged in the industries
covered by the report. The Morgan
First National Bank group alone con
trolls corporations employing 7S5,4g
wage earners,"
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Worst Vice in World.

There is one border vice as yet CON
fined TO Mexicans, This IL the use OF a
terrible drug called %marihuana. Co
caine, opium and morphine are nursery
tonics compared with m%arihuana. one
who takes it become instantly mad and
proceeds 10 do whatever Is in the mind,
with an insane courage. An educated
Mexican informed the writer thai two
thirds Of the frightful crimes OF Mex
leo are directly traceable TO m%arihuana
he even suggested that villa was al
occasional user OF the drug.
The following imperial mandate from
CarranZa. directed at the American Gov
ermnent, conveys n fairly accurate pic
ture Of the mentality of the First
CHIEF:
81 invite you solemnly to suspend the
hostile acts already initiated. ordering
your forces To evacuate all places which
they hold in their power in the port Of
Vera Cruz"
Xapata, the "Scourge of the South,
when told there might be American inter
v%ention, said:
~ hate the cursed 'gringoes' most of
all. Let them dare enter Mexico, and
We will drive them bhCk in disorder,
They are women, 1t Is no longer Uncle
Sam 1t is Aunt sam, Zapata fears not
the Northern invader"
And this low beast has tortured white
Ien and women, and he actually be-
lieves that the United States is afraid
Of him. He Is one of the so-called
Constitutionalist leaders, His sackine
of Cuatla reads like the early atrocities
of the Apache Indians in Arizona, YET
for the cause OF human liberty he Is
supposed to represent 10, 900 Americans
resident In Mexico deserted by the Wilson
Administration
tC0pyright BY The Philadelphia Public
Led1er.)