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fortune that he is discouraged. lie is
afraid t. make II move. The Po,andcr
has made a move IN coming 10 this
,ountry ana he has got tn" habit. He
has the initiative 81 u pioneer. the
Willingness To make al sacrifices for
an end which he believed can he
reached.
ou the AUTOMOBILES road along tho
CONNECTICUT River route 10 historic
South Decrticld is ut II point II
waste ut land covered with brush and
hricrs. which no one for n long time
thought If any value. Some time aGo
"A rolandcr bought a parcel of ii. TN
II he put up II little ~cuhhyho.c Of II
house. Then he went To work cutting
the brush and digging out the Siuinps.
\ corral for pigs was made out of
brush and stakes, That il how thc
Io.andcr begins. With a quiet, logged
persistence H." goes to work, undc-
TERED 10y prlvatiuns aud never doubt
ing the ultimate result. In Il few years
he has a farm worth $3.50 an acre for
onion or tobacco culture ana il making
money hand over fist.
OF course. the Pole and other imni-
grants like him are not very common
yet in the back regions of tho hill
country. They are oniv beginning to
creep in. But. as the better land in
the valleys is taken up, they push
more and more into the hills. They
are great homc-gctters. They will put
up with all sorts of crowding in the
mill town, but once started with q little
cap.'l they break loose for "A home
stead of their own on which tn take
up the farming life to which they have
been accustomed in the old country.
Where the poor white and the Pole
seem To he on n level the advantage is
all on the side of the Pole. lie may he
living in II miserable shack. His chill
drcn may he unkcmpt and his wife
AN ugly slattcrn. lie may. in short.
20 without many of the d%ecencies Of
life, but the big end OF the bet is on
him every time nevertheless. And the
great reason for this lies in his splen-
did vitality, which is like the vitality
of the first New England pioneers.
The poor white of tho New England
hills is of II different strain: he belongs
To IA high strung race which has be-
come, in n sense, played out.
It should not be understood from
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the Hardships of Native New E
Stranded in the Berkshire Hills

produce and pcrpctuate the declining
stock. Under these circumstances,
there are many portions of the hill
country of New England where civili-
zation has gone 81 steadily ba 'kward
that the w~rctchetness and poverty are
difficult to imagine. Children are found
who have never heard the maine Of
Christ, who have never seen n railroad
and who n imagine what a city is
like.
The Rev, Charles j, Sniffen Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, who is at
the head OF "A great movement To re-
lievc the distress among the poor Of
the hill towns in western Massichu-
sets. said not long 2 in addressing
I city congregation:
You people who havc good jobs and
comfortable homes can have no con-
c, pt!on OF the hardships which these
people endure. And when ! say COM
Portable homes | want you to under
stand that ! consider the mar who has
$l2 a week on which to support II wife
and five children a man in comfortable
circumstances. II you should offer $40
"A week Ia n nan with six children
''''cN ''NF t'' p''b'' '''' ''''
slider his fortune made. He is not
bothered about the standard of living,
He is bothered about the necessities of
life. lie earns "A dollar 3lere, a dollar
serc. wherever there IL a chance to
work. II he gets sick IT is all up with
his family
Nr. Sniffen's work Is done by per-
sonai visitation. He journeys from
house to house-and the houses are
sometimes several miles apart--getting
acquainted with the people and aiding
and relieving them where he Is able to
do SO. According to Mr.. Sniffcn, these
poor people are not physically or men
tally degenerate. hut they have been 81
crushed by circumstances that to many
they would seem feeble minded. Their
minds and bodies have been arrested in
development by lack Of proper nour-
ishment. They are bad farmers be-
cause they have neither time nor
money to learn to DO good ones. Op.
portunity has paused them, untIl they
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I'll the hill country of western Massa-
chusctts and New Hampshire and YER
mont became sprinklcd with little
towns which seemed to rival in pros
perity the more fertile plains below.
History teaches that physical difficult
ties are often a great incentive to If
fort, producing sturdy character and
hence results commensurate with those
obtained where environment is alto
Gether favorable. As is well known.
the New England Puritan derived a
large part of his strength OF character
from the continual overcoming of OBJ
stac.'s In his battle Of life. So the
pioneers al the New England Hill coun-
try were men of splendid physique and
great energy of mind and body.
changed. The real West was opened
and became preeminent in agriculture
and stock raising, The railroad made
Western produce so cheap In New Eng
land markets that the New England
hill farm could not compete at u profit
C%oincident with this change came an
other. New England became less and
less agricultural and more and more
a manufacturing region. All this had
its effect on the inhabitants Of the hill
towns. whose younger generations left
tha Gamma IN ira, thoir fnrtnnnp in tho
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Is a positive shock TO nave her whip
out a photograph OF two husky twin
babies and tell You that they are her
grandchlldr"r. Tho little grand
daughter Of Mrs. I,nhert Gould shaw.
whose name has been 50 long known
IN civic work in boston. will probably
lao found at Atlantic Ciiy during the
convention answering to the name or
Isabella Lee.
II is ackuoWi rdged VII regret 10y
the National Wumin suffrage Assoc
citation that not ali the members of
the board have children. In spite OF
"a report in some ant!-suffraGc circles
recently that Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, the president. was not getting
along happily with her son. she has
no son. neither has sNe "A daughter.
But when her husband was living they
made MP for their chi,dlessness by a.
ways having lots Of Young people
about the house, Rarely did they sit
down L. II meal without YOUNG faces
about the board. And Dr. ANN
seemed to have tin" To accept any ~
the numerous offers 90 marriage she
has had i'm spite of her strong minded
ness. all through her life has been
rIothcring youthful relatives. There
are four nlcccs and nephews to whom
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.\Jut Anna has been a mother these
macy years.
Mr.. James W. Morrison, tn" re-
CordinS secretary, has thrc" children
cat In her chicago home. Mrs. Walter
MrNab Miller. tn" n"st auditor. H. n
mother and granimu,hcr. There are
a few other children in national board
circles.
What is the rcaS n of the notable
Influx ui mothers into the suffrage
ranks Haven't they enough TO 10 in
tn" home without kitiug around the
county To conventions and talking at
street meetings and invading l.ccisla-
lures? Wei. IN" s~uffraG.sts have -
plausible explanation. Thoy say that
mother, are realizing more and more
that they can't keep their children SAT"
and healthy without having a hand IN
the making of the laws.
'Ev,rYthinG that happens IS TcaChing
them this truth" say Mrs. Raymond
Brown. legislative expert along with
Mrs. l.didldw for the New York State
Woman suffrage party. why. this
i%nfan'ii" paralysis epidemic, sad and
dreadful as II is, has had its blessed
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Efforts to Rel ieve

nous in New England history. good old
Puritan names that smack of the May
flower and the days of the carly set
tiers. names similar 10 those OF the
pity OF 1t. the tragedy.
The writer got his first inkl!nG into
the lives OF these poverty stricken de-
scendants OF a sturdy race about ten
years ago on a walking trip through
the Berkshire hills. About 4 o'clock
one afternoon he anne on a human
habitation far up OF the side OF a
mountain. The sight gave him a de-
cided shock. The house was a rough
shacklike structure. rudely con-
structed OF odds and ends OF boards
and packing cases. In the yard were
several unkempt children. and a
slatternly woman stood in the door.
1t was one OF many dwellings to be
found in the hills OF New England.
Think OF the wretchedness o. such
a family. Think OF their plight in
winter. when the mercury drops to
twenty or thirty degrees below zero,
as 10 not uncommon. Then shift your
pity for a while from the Southern
mountaincer to the poor white OF New
England.
How has it come about that New
England should have In its midst a
class Of people so destitute and so de-
void OF all the re fncments Of modern
civilization? For explanation We must
turn back q bit to the history Of the
region.
When FIRST settled, New England was
IN agricultural region. Little by little
people pushed westward, as opportu-
nifty along the coast became fettered.
The mountain regions In tho west and
aseth became the homes Of many. ua.
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cffcc; in n way: II has opened the
eyes of many u young mother to her
need of the vote. ! could nainc a num-
Der Of young ome down in Long
Island who. indifferent To the vote be-
fore. have come tn see through this
visitation how nearly 1t touches them
and theirs. and how they must have
1t If they would properly protect their
little ones"
And 50. because they want pure
water for their children. clean streets
for their " and other children to
play in. good schools. good milk. a
peaceful land and right influences for
the boys and girls when they grow
older young married womeu are fast
turning suffrage contentious into
mothers congr, sscs. with n broader
scope and wider vision than The moth
crs' congresses ~ old.
\ C|leancut issue confronts the moth
crs and other women who will take
part in his convention. For "A long
time the National Association has ia
vorcd both. national and state action
in getting the vote. 1t has worked in
tn" various States where women
sought Ia Inc cn7rauchiscd hv roforcn-
dum a measure presented to the Leg
i~SliturC and when passed 10y that body
given to the voters for their accept
ancc o. rejection; and IT has had u
congressional committee in Washing
ton pressing the Susan i. anthony
Federal amendment on Congress.
Maybe students II suffrage history
will recall how Alice iaul. who was
E.id of tho Nationals congressional
committee "A few years ago. reheiled
because the National was too slow for
her and started the Congressional
Union. whose startling achievements
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1oA4Bsst child. ..


a real doll that though his is
getting a big girl now she still insists
on having John at her SIDE at meal
time.
Delegate Mrs. Lewis Jerome John
son Of Massachusetts, has two little
sons. Mrs. Robert German Fuller OF
Dover. Mas. VIII leave four young
Fu.lers at home Nn'r she takes the
train for the convention. Mrs. .Angu
Taylor, first vice-president of the .\ll-
bama Equal Suffrage Association. has
several children besides her baby
Frank. and the head OF the Columbia
Equa. Suffrage Association. in the
same state. is another young mother.
y Southern sunragist who Is active rs
a speaker and debater IL Mrs. Char.cs
Cotton Harold OF Macon. Ga. who
nnds time IN the intervals ~ running
the bebb county SUFFRAGE campaign to
take care OF three children who. juds-
ing from their photographs, are as
strong ana rat and healthy az II their
mother never stepped oots.dc her
nome.
Mrs. Joel Spinssrn. wife OF the
University professor OF thht
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7 n the last ten years many articles
and many books have been writ
ten about poor whites OF the
Southern mountains. The motion
pictures. too. have portrayed them with
great v!vldness. Their il%literacy. their
poverty. their undernourished bodies,
their proneness to settle disputes with
the Ane-all these things have been
Tod over and over again. until the
poor white Of the Southern mountains
has come 10 be thought of as a be-
ing without parallel In American his
tory.
indeed, many students OF social
evolution in the United States have
gone further. seeking to show the
o~ackwardness Of the Southern States
oy comparing the state Of these poor
whites. as they are called. with con-
d''ions in New England. q region
which still retains its reputation for
progress and reform and high ideals
IN government and social usage.
Curiously enough. however, there
mas come to be in New England a
striking counterpart OF the Southern
all billies who have attracted 20 much
'f'-n'!on. No John Fox, Jr., has yet
appeared to portray them in a New
England Trail Of the Lonesome Pine"
No New York Newspaper men have
travelled among them to get their
story for the Sunday supplements.
but the poor whites Of New England
are without question more numerous
'hsn the uncivlixsd hill 6lliss Of the
south. and their conditions In many
ways far more pitiabls. They are
poor-desperateiy poor-and they have
lap'sd into an ignorance and . help
'sssness which deserves the pity OF
the world.
They are not immigrants-far from
IT, 9Asy are o|d timers. dssoenaants Of
cd New Dnsikhd stock. Thsir namss
~ ~ 1aass that hsve teesGse -
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1916-12-24
TambiGn i:SpimoSa Mirrl"S lrthaja
Dor la iona lihrc

n.rr>r rn r>ta riIh!a que N'iiN'a-
yu E,pino>a Mir"IrS. -nDoruad"r ca
rranriSia DC GoahuiIa. r>Id tr&ba-
iaudu con cmprno. de- arurri" con
rtro~ @obrrnadorrs. para Io-rar que
- drrrrtr Il r>tabIrtimirnt" Il" una
lnna .ihrc on toda la fr"nlrra dr Me
yirn Ion los E>taIoS lnId"S.
E.>pinoSa Mirc.rS y suS ro.":aS
rr.,nu cue 81 rnmrrrJo .tr los E>ta-
lado> Iur dominan rrrihiria I'M gran
lupuir con IL creation Il" la IONA
neutral. prro parrcr que han cnrGn
trade una funrtc ~oprSirIdn "n Ia
rranha para ial fin, purs 81 Primer
JEFF" dice que i" harau murha iaiia
= III -abirrno Ia, ~proiuctoS Il" la
A..uana~. miXimr ru r>toS m"m'II-
jos ,ir -,an.i"- apura'tonHS.
Los -ea"rnadorr- iut"rr>ai"> "n
ri ~prnyrrto son al i" Sonora. Ad".-
.ro IL, Ia liurrta: Il H.: chihuahua.
ArmIlfo G;unziIrl: 81 m"nrionaio f.
a.uo-a Mirrlr>. y t.. d" TamauIlpas.
liIrurio TrriO.
Ell CORRESPONSAl~
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Nicto dice que ruG una equINocaci6n

En- una cnIrcvista de- las que man
dan va cscrita> los Ministries ca
rranri>tas j los ~peri6diros para que
las publiquen. dice Rafael Nietc que
Ia prisi6n del Gefentp de Banco de
Londrcs Y Mexico So dcbi6 a una ma
IA Interpretation de una Orden Dc
IA Secretaria de Hacienda.
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UNA SIMPLE
PRUEBA

pise-e q p.sGe pr e.
pg.o. II las.l V".o R-he
u.p al p.:ac cNGLaAs e.
p-.o !Gp-cad!Ga, 81 IA
TllE Is deCoLoC pl.lG7. eSt1
R-rty como RTlorG-;EiA
tome yrecluciOaes Y co
r1.I 81 mai :. gu!e-e s2iva-
(. pylO LaGs- Q.e c:rEcA.
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GASPA

81 .!rne caspa solo IS
cost &C mas . Hs'ayS
t.yw1o pUA que 81 Qlrte
CaLFJ
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REPORTED MENCANS PREPARE
 TO ATTACK ON THE BORDER

WASHINGTON April 8-"I think we are on warm trail said Secretary of War Baker today when discuss ing the chase after Villa to newspaper men, T hope we shall have good reports soon further statement in answer to questions This the first official utterance of the secretary in the matter and is taken to mean that he expects the capture of the bandit soon The censorship IS so strict that the public newspaper people say have no real idea as to how the affair progressing Itis general y believed however that Villa is no nearer to capture now than he was when the United States troops first started out It is stated semiociay that General Fun ston has taken particular to keep the line of possible retreat to United States territory open for the American troops in the event that general Mexican uprising be- came fact The officials all state though that Carranza is acting with perfect loyalty and that better feeling in stead of worse may be expected between the two peoples as a result of the invasion.
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CHICAGO CABBY BURNS
 UP HIS CARRIAGES

Special to Gateway by United Press)
 CHICAGO, March 2S.-Discouraged by taxicab competition and unable to sell his old fashioned cabs ana car riages even for song, Abel Deming poured kerosene upon them and burn ed them up. Deming has been rich and poor several times since he came here during the Worlds Fair. In 1893 Deming was flat broke except for his horses. He sold them, came to Chicago and, working at odd jobs, saved his money and bought a horse and cab. The horse and cab became a livery stable and then fortune smiled and coins jingled merrily into his pockets. Then the race course lured him and Deming rubbed elbows with John W. Gates and John Drake Then the bubble burst when the fair was over and the race course saw Deming no more. A few years passed and Deming still carried passengers through the streets of Chicago until one day a snOrting automobile whiz-
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STILL EXPECT TO CATCH THE ELUSIVE VILLA SOON
@ % % < * % % % q $ . .
 *WHAT THE DUTIES *' * OF MAYOR ARE *'

Seward accepted the chance to elect it's governing body under the law en- acted by the Territorial legislature and much speculation is now being indulged in as to the manner in which the independently elected officials will act. There is a rumOr about town that salaries are to be cut, for in- stance, but many are wondering how the mayor will get along. There is clearly defined section of the new law which tells what the duties of the mayor will be but, before quoting the law, it might be of interest to say that one of the officials of the dying council who made his job fat by his friendship for some of the council men is now saying that some of the officials were paid too much. The section of the law relating to the mayoral duties is as follows:
 Section 4. It shall be the duty of the mayor so elected to preside az meetings of the common council to approve or disapprove of all ordi- nances or resolutions passed by the common council; to sign all warrants drawn on the city treasury and 70 exercise a general supervision over the affairs of the city in which he has been elected.
 The mayor shall be the executive head of the city. He shall have authority to veto any ordinance or resolution passed by the common council, and any ordinance or resOlu- ton so vetoed shall be returned to the common council at the next regular meeting, together with a statement from the mayor giving the reasons for his veto. Any ordinance so vetoed by the mayor may be pass ed by a majority of the common coun- eli, in which ease it shall become ef- fective without the signature of the mayor. If the mayor neither signs nor vetoes an ordinance or resolution before the next regular meeting of the common council after its passage it shall become effective without his signature.
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PATROLMAN IS KILLED
 AND ANOTHER DISAPPEARS

ST. LOUIS, April 8. - John Me Kenna, a motor cycle patrOlman, was killed last night after he had arrested four automobile bandits and William A. Dillon, another patrolman, who followed the robbers has disappeared. The case of Dillon is one of the mos' remarkable in the criminal records of the city. After the shooting of Me Kenna he took an automobile and followed the one driven by the mur- derers. The last seen of him was
 when he chased them at breakneck speed into an alley The authorities believe that they shot the pluclky patrolman and hid his body away. No trace of either car has been found.
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DELEGATES TO LEAVE
 SEATTLE ABOUT TENTH

Some of the delegates to the Re- publican convention will leave Seattle for Seward about the tenth, according to word received from W. A. Gilmore, delegate from Nome and candidate four years ago for congress. Judge c. D. Murane is expected to come here with the delegates although not a delegate himself. Rumor says the former district judge is going to be deeply interested in politics this year Judging from reports in the papers of the coast Shackleford will also be at the convention here on the week after next.
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BATTLING AT FORCES

LONDON April 8.-The German crown prince has thrown large forces across Forges brook in the effort to squeeze the French out of Bethncourt Forges short distance east of Bethncourt which is surrounded on three sides by the Teutons who apparently intend to de- vote all their attention to that quarter for the present The information now coming shows the struggle around the Verdun positions be the most terrible of the whole war Surprise is expressed in military circles that the enemy can afford to concentrate such tremendous forces at one point while holding the rest of the lines with sut cient strength The newspapers calling for more de- termined action by the allies in other quarters to relieve the Verdun pressure but the government is drowning down all criticism Jores message to the soldiers de- lending Verdun has been circulated everywhere.
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best reports. While he was a child his parents moved Co the state of Chihuahua, the scene of the greates, activities of Villas rfe-a state that trembled with fear at his name, yet whose people benefited by his gen erosity.
 While Villa was in his early teens his parents died and left in his charge an older sister. a beautiful, dark-eyed senOrita whom Villa loved.
 This very devotion to his sister led Villa into open conflict with the pow CT then in control of Mexico. Hurdles, the rowing armed policemen of Mexi- co, were wont to carry away for the magistrates of the government any pretty woman who declined their aV- tentions.
 Villa returned home one day from his blow to find his sister gone-and in that moment of discovery was born Mexico's fury, Rancho, The Tiger"
 Villa at once suspected the magis-  trate of the town. He seized his re- volver, mounted a swift horse and, compelling a priest to ride with him, started in pursuit. All day and all night they rode, and at 4 o'clock one morning, almost a week later they caught up with the party.
 At the point of Villas revolver the priest performed the marriage cere- mOny, the Magistrate signed his own death warrant, and m less than five minutes the magistrate was dead and Villa rode for the mountains of Chihuahua, a fugitive from justice.
 Thus began the career of the man who caused more trouble for two gov . ernments than any other one man in history He was outIawed, and a ! price was placed on his head Kind red spirits focked to his banner, 'and for eighteen years they defed the rurales, raiding, pillaging, numbering. ! pIundering.
 Villas rifle carried AS notches worthless obituaries of urales who sought to capture him and win the re- ward. But his friends of those days stoutly assert that never did Villa rob or steal from anyone who was of his people, the peon class. And always with them he was generous and open handed, a free-giver and a kind man. In the foothills of the mountains lay a typical Mexican village. Its inhabitants had often heard of the
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WOODBRIDGE GETS
 SIX YEARS IN PEN

FAIRBANKS, April 8. - WOOIC- ridge was sentenced to six years in the penitentiary today by Judge Bun nell for rape of a half breed girl who was under age. In sentencing him the judge said he believed the sentence was just. c. Myers was sen fenced to five years for obtaining money under false pretenses. Carl Johansen was given eight months for larceny.
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zed past his cab. At the age of T, Deming is left with but a meager part of the money he once had. He tried to sell his carriages, offering to part with an outfit worth $25,OOO new, for $5,2OO but there were no takers, so Deming drew his carriages from their storage shed, poured a can of gasoline over them and touched a match to the relics of the heyday of the horse.