The Washington herald., 1916-06-27
SEEN AND HEARD
BY GEORGE MINER

tHdt WllllC he Sdlle up 10 SpenQ a month or so
in New York he decided it was best for him to
go back on the same boat he came up on. This
was only couple of days before the National
Guard was called out and trouble broke loose
| met him in the Equitable Building hour
or so before he sailed and, believe me, he was
a pretty blue Mexican He could read the signs
the day he arrived. That's why he took the next
ship back
He made attempt to conceal what he
thought about the effect OF that note He was
thoroughly convinced that Carranza had spilled
the beans. OF course he is loyal Mexican and
high official of the Consttutionalist govern
ment, being the manager of the Comision Regu-
ladora, but it very easy to see that he be-
heved very grave mistake had been made in
threatening the United States MI Rendon
knows the United States well, all about its
power and wealth The average high-class Mex
lean is not very well posted. Even Senior Car
ranza has some illusions concerning this country
that he would be better off without
SO Mr.. Rendon steamed back to the blister
ing hot plains of Yucatan, fully believing that
war and Intervention at hand that the very
thing was coming which he has been fighting
steadily against for FIVE years and to prevent
which one of his brothers gave up his life
"Of course, struggle with the United States
would be hopeless" said he. ITO be sure, our
SOlulSlS dIc dill veterans ana we have IN the held
now larger army than the United States has in
its regular establishment
But that's all we have. We have no NUM-
tions OF war and in case OF a conflict with the
United States would have no way Of getting
sny. The whole world knows that we have to
import everything Of that nature as we have
no plants to manufacture it. After the munitions
on hand are shot away our army is defenseless.
There is only answer to that
so many of my countrymen, hearing it
stated that our army is bigger than the United
States army, don't stop to think any further
They argue that surely would then win
! That's what is all so sad. We have so many
things to fght-not only dictators and bandits
and now possibly foreign foc-but the great
est of all our enemies is ignorance If Mexico
did not have to fight ignorance all the time she
would be peaceful and prosperous at this mo-
ment"
Mr.. William Hughes, OF San Francisco, who
recently arrived in New York on his way to
Alaska from Germany, where he has been for the
past year, says that experiments by German
professors to discover food substitutes form one
OF the chief subjects discussed in the press there
Much ado made over discovery by a GER
tain wellknown scientist, Prot lido Dammer,
that a mixture of dried blackberry and straw
berry leaves can be made into tea that cannot be
distinguished from the finest even by experts
Perhaps that's the secret OF Tom Lipton 5
wealth. To be sure, a simple knight like Sir
Thomas does not have strawberry leaves on his
coronet-they only for ears-but if Sir
Thomas could lift cup Of tea made out Of
. shamrocks I'll bet they would make an earl OF
him and let him have any kind Of leaves he
wanted on his crown, fig leaves if that were
only the place to wear them.
Mr.. Hughes says they are making a coffee
! OF chicory, acorns and malt which is verv
passable substitute and causes no COMPLAINT
whatever and very little comment This he
attributes to the fact that the majority OF Ger
man people drank adulterated coffee before the
war and didn't know it.
The same thing happened to US at the time
OF the civil war. During the four years of strife
dealers got in the way Of adulterating coffee verv
extensively Chicory and many other substitutes
were used. The people got so accustomed to
adulterated coffee, there was little other to be
had. that they acquired taste and liking for it.
So universal had this liking become that for ten
or fifteen years after the war closed the great
/ majority Of Americans insisted on having chicory
IN their coffee. Pure coffee did not please at all
1t was pronounced bitter and strong and this
great cofee-drinking nation had to acquire its
taste for coffee all over again.
Paterson, n. J., is complaining bitterly of a
rat plague with which it is afflicted and similar
reports come from several New England towns
Why not adopt the methods used in some
European countries that have successfully solved
the rat problem? In Denmark, the government
pays penny head for dead rodents and the
schoolboys make their pocket money in catching
them. Consequently rats are scarce there In
France, they put them in big pound and feed
them up till they sleek and fat. Then thew
have grand killing by means of gas The skins
are IN fine condition and are used to make kid"
gloves OF and photograph frames. The rat in
dustry brings in quite a considerable revenue to
the state and it pays ten centimes head for
them.
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