The Washington herald., 1916-06-11
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER

Frank T. Evans, son of the famous Fighting
Bob Evans, who has general charge OF the en-
rollment for the naval training cruise for civil
ians this summer, tells that fully half OF
the men who have enlisted for the cruise have
never been salt water and many OF them
have never even it.
A large number of applicants come from
ities way in the interior Of the country. Dur
ng the last week men have enlisted from Den
yer, Tucson, Boise City, and Kansas City
Which proves that the lure of the sea is quite
great inland it is on the coast
) This fondness of hinterlanders for anything
onneeted with the is evinced in literature
George Doran the publisher, tells that sea
| tories have better sale in interior cities than
| nywhere else. Men who have never seen any
bigger body of water than comes from arte
san we'll flows through an irrigation ditch
are fascinated by them.
! lot of heavy swes have enlisted for this
cruise, particularly that week of it to be devoted
TO motor-boat maneuvers Among them are
Harold S. Vanderbilt, brother of the Duchess
! of Marlborough Vincent Astor head of the
family and of the great Astor estates;
Ogden M. Reid, owner Of the New York Trib-
lune; George F. Baker, jr. the famous banker;
Thomas w. Slocum, millionaire yachtsman, and
Herman Oelrichs, of the famous steamship
manager.
Some who had more nerve than good
taste good Judgment, sent to one of the
womens clubs delegates here list Of maxims
in use in other countries concerning women
and asked her either to read them to the con-
lvention post them up.
| She did neither but she frothed at the mouth
and showed me the list. AS near as | can re-
member they are as follows:
Spanish rnaxiu1. "The
loses his wife" Another Spanish saying is that
Women and mules obey better when caressed
than when coerced."
The Arabs have this proverb: Always con-
suit your wife, but do as you please"
I The Chinese say: "The tongue Of woman
is dagger and she never lets it grow rusty
The spirit Of woman is of quicksilver and her
heart is wax"
A Persian philosopher wrote When you 20
to war say prayer; when you go to sea two
prayers; when you get married pray all the
time"
1t was left for gallant Frenchman to hand
out the finishing knock He is quoted as say
ling: Where there dogs there are feas;
where there is bread there are mice; where
there's woman there's the devil" All of
which should be supplemented by the old Eng
lush saying: "A woman a dog and walnut
tree; the more you beat them the better they
be"
I see that United States Senator Fall has
concerning affairs in Mexico A month or so
ago. Senator Fall put his foot in it in letter
TO Senator Gallinger and was sharply taken to
out the country. He promptly subsidized but
now he has broken out again in the same old
place.
In an interview to newspaper correspond
ent, he asserts that the Carranza troops have
not even had a clash with the Villa followers
since the Columbus raid
This is rank nonsense. I personally know
better, as l was at the Carranza HEADQUARTERS
at Queretaro all through that trouble. The Car
rama r.. troops . had ten fights with the Villistas
10 every one that the American troops had and
killed or captured ten times as many of Villas
bandits. l saw the reports come in from the
they did. WHAT
i I was also with Gen. Oregon when he re-
celved word OF a fight with Villistas in which
heard him wire back the order for the prisoner
to be ken to the American commander for
Identification as one of the Columbus raiders
He also classes Carranza and Villa together
and says they are both bandits Carranza is
no more OF bandit than George Washington
principles and fighting for what he believes to
be right as he it. Whether you agree
with his viewpoint or not, every one who knows
the First Chief knows that his big problem right
now is the suppression of brigandage Common
sense shows that the only way he can make his
government permanent is by its suppression and
the suoJugation of Zapata and Villa and their
followers. ~
It's only too true that a large part of Car
Tanzas army is made up of former brigands and
bandits, and to certain extent they are little
better now. Also that the operations of the
evolutionary armies have been frequently con-
Carranza encourages it. It's because he couldn't
help himself. He has and is doing all in his
power to stamp, it out l. know of about dozen zen
instances of where he had men shot for pil-
laying, and that is only small percentage Of
Tense. All of Carranzas commanders have in
structions to shoot any one soldier or civilian.
caught stealing That is the general law through.
out Mexico today. All the time I was in Mex
leo City, there hardly night passed that
Cen Gonzales, the military governor, did not
have hrlng squad out to execute not political
prisoners, but bandits, thieves, counterfeiters,
and pulque sellers.
Things are bad enough in unhappy Mexico as
they without United States Senator mis-
representing them.