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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
What the Seventh Boys
Found at MaderO

The discrepancy between the real
facts and the popular notion about who
needed protection along the Border rap
idly became apparent. A company of
the 7th Infantry, detailed to guard the
pumping station at Madero, Border
town with large Mexican population,
was among the first to find it out The
company met barricaded doors on Next
can shacks and streets empty of Next
cans. Those who ventured out did so in
fear and trembling. These bad men
were harmless as rabbits.
The explanation of their fears was the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

to get on long before. SO when the mill
tia officers began to lay out their regi-
mental and company streets and to build
water and drainage systems to supply
the camp they ran against this kind of
snag: The real estate boomers had an
ticipated the coming of the troops and
laid out future streets. And they siren
uously objected to the soldiers building
water lines that would not later serve
the prospective occupants of mythical
houses on the lots laid out where the
soldiers encamped.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
In the Mexican Quarter When New York Is on Guard

The principal setback to real estate
booms in Texas is lack Of irrigation, al
though the soil is so fertile that any
body could have bean garden around
his tent if he had the foresight to sprin-
kle some of the beans about and sprin-
kle the ground with water. He could
have a crop of his own in ten days. Many
irrigation enterprises had failed. But
one prospered like "war bride" when
the troops arrived.
Irrigating sweltering soldiers by
punching holes in an overhead water
pipe and calling it a shower bath-25
cents for the privilege of standing be-
meath it for a few minutes-proved a
most profitable business for Texans who
had little regard for a soldiers pay
check of SIS a month.
That thing happened day after day.
1t occurred on big ranch for which the
government was paying high acreage
for camping purposes for regiments on
the hike. And the owner of the ranch,
it NAV be stated, was one of those who
Joined in the plea for protection. The
soldiers, however, we're not the only
ones who were victimiZed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

lizing in New York and other states last
June Texas had mobilization, too. 1t
was not quite as well organized, but it
was infinitely more effective. No call
was needed for the one except the silent
call of cash. Real estate spectators,
boom town takers, petty gamblers, sales
men of every useless article imaginable
and of articles that should have been
useful but were utterly useless at dou-
BILE the price, country store and saloon
keepers whose cash receipts never to-
tailed three-sixty day in their lives
these and host of others of varying
degrees of technique and resourceful-
ness modified in Texas.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

The Seventh company left them with
different impression. One of the medl-
cal officers broke down the barriers of
fear by treating the Mexican youngsters
who were ill. Pretty soon all the chill
dren took liking to the New Workers
and the liking spread to the Mexican
elders. Confidence was restored. Gifts
came for "El captain" and the children
in the streets called 'ello" to the men,
Front doors were opened and life became
worth while.
1--WE found out later" said one of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

company on his return, chat before the
Texas troops left they had fired off all
their surplus cartridges across the Rio
Grande. We also were told by the MeXi-
cans that the Texas soldiers used to take
pot shots at cattle across the river, and
when the Mexican women came down to
wash the militia and Rangers often tried
to shoot holes IN their clothes pans from
across the river"
There was a real estate boom on when
the troops arrived. That is, it had tried
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
A Land Boom That SAT Up
and Took Notice

The New York militia had to learn all
mat after they spread their tents at
@eAlen, Pharr and Mission. They came
|" md out very soon and convincingly
mat Texas needed protection against its
oSn' They also realized before many
aOurs that Texas had one or two other
meas in mind when it set up that wall.
IN expiring real estate boom threatened
" drop dead at some convenient loca-
uon; life was getting so monotonous for
ne Rangers that they were thinking of
gong into the movies. and storekeepers
so merchants were discussing whether
would not be wise to pack up their
sooos and call quits.
substantially, this is what happened:
while the National Guard was mobi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10

fact that a Texas regiment had been
camped at Madero just before the Sew
enth arrived. What the Texas troops
wanted they took, and made no bones
about methods. Respect for Mexican?
Bah. Every Mexican in the town had
been terrorized by the Texas militia
when the Seventh marched up the street
to take their places. In the Mexican
eyes they were just more "soldados,"
more terrorizers, more pilferers, mean
ing more misery in their miserable lives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Everybody Grew Wealthy
EXCEPT the Soldier

If McAllen, Pharr and Mission had
been Goldfelds more than half GEN.
tury ago, boom times could not have
doomed better. Everybody grew
wealthy except the soldier. The soldier
first grew indignant, then reconciled,
and now he is biding his time.
Outside of getting my job back"
said one of the militiamen coming North
on troop train, my principal ambition
in life Just now is to meet in New York
a guy who admits he's from Texas.
Don't ask me any more"
Which brings up peculiar circum-
stance remarked by great many re-
turning soldiers. One of the officers of
the military police in Texas expressed
it this way:
whenever we met white man in
Texas mean white not in relation to
the color of his skin, but the way he
treated the soldiers who came down to
protect him-before we could get word
in edgewise this man would be apollo
giving for being in Texas. 1t was like
hunting a needle in the proverbial hay
stack to find white man who admit
ted being born and raised and living in
Texas because he wanted to be there.
All the white folk explained that they
simply had to come down from Iowa or
Nebraska or some place else far removed
from Texas"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Raising a Crop of "COme-
Ons" by Irrigation

One land owner who had miles and
miles of barren waste which ne called
a citrus development, criss-crossed by
irrigation bitches, used to organize cx-
cursions of "trippers" called
"come-ons"-to whom he intended to
sell land. Before they arrived ne would
get the pumps working down at Madero
and flood the dried-out bitches so that
the "trippers" would think they were
getting irrigated land. The next time
they came the place would be dry as
dust.
Immediately after the troops arrived
at McAllen, Pharr and Mission the price
of everything sky-rocketed upward with
a startling whiz, and the size, quality
and quantity diminished in the same pro-
portion. The regulation sector of pie
suddenly became anamic and shrivelled
away to morsel; the tumbler of pop"
was succeeded by its little brother
glasses; the ice-cream scoops developed
a remarkable facility for contraction,
and so on to infinity. Not only that, but
newspapers for which the soldiers sub
scribed and which were sent to them
with name and address affixed on pas
ter somehow got out of the mailbags
and were sold again to other soldiers in
a McAllen drugstore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
The "MOVie" Texan and the
Texan as He Is

Well, it had one or two elements OF
truth in it. Life on the Border was per-
lous, but not for the Texans. 1t was
perilOus exclusively for MeXicans. There
we're bad men" all about, but they were
not the Mexicans. They dressed up just
Ike ferocious moving picture bad men
Six-shooter, sombrero, bandanna and
sl-but they called themselves Texas
Rangers. II was true that it was fool
hardy to move about singly. 1t was
suicidal for Mexicans to move about sin
gy in the vicinity of the Rangers or the
Texas militia camps. Otherwise life
went on as usual.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
The Rio Grande, a Stream
with the WHnderIuSf

1.-THE Rio Grande," remarked one Of
the Seventh Regiment outfit, suggesting
something that he hoped would happen
to Texas, "has wandering disposition.
You leave 1t here when you go to sleep
and you wake up to find it has wandered
afield. When we first went down to
Texas and were detailed to river patrol
the Rio Grande used to scare the fellows
to death. During the night it would take
a notion to change its course and lop off
an acre or two of its bank. 1t would
make continuous splash, and the out
post first thought it was Villa and his
bandits fording the river for another
raid.
Now, that's a grand idea. Wouldn't
it just be fine if some dark night the Rio
Grande should go on tear and cut such
a swath that Texas would wake up in
the morning and find itself part of Mex
leo, south of the stream, instead of safe
ly ensconced on the north? But, be-
lieve me, it sounds too good to be true"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
From Whom Did Texas
Desire Protection?

Tho Border states walled for protec-
,on half q dozen months ago. The wall
that Texas set up echoed long and loud
m PENNSYLVANIA Avenue, Washington,
n E. and the Border got protection. A
ht Of folks who had never seen a cactus
nlsnt or mesQuit bush had an idea
that Texas and its border fellows feared
what might befall them from across the
Rio Grande. Take it right from the
Border soldiers, that was a badly mis-
taken notion.
II was true that Texas wanted pro-
lection. But that was a joker in dis
guise. Uncle Sam should have first IN
CURED. Protection from what?' be-
cause it is a difficult task to persuade
any National Guardsmen who did the
protecting that Texas sought anything
but protection against Texans.
Prior to the first few weeks OF last
july the militia-and a great many
other people as well-thought that lie
on the Border must be frightfully per-
ilous. They were filled with the idea
that Mexicans were inherently, intul-
lively and instinctively bad men; that 1t
was absolutely foolhardy to 60 singly
through the Mexican settlements even
in Texas. A soldier on the Border must
never go unarmed, and by all means ne
must keep his right hand near his 'hol-
ster when a "Greaser" moved about in
his vicinity. All that was for Northern
consumption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
"Mexicans Are More Peaceful
than Our Own Citizens"

Down on the Rio Grande," said an
officer of the Seventh, 1--WE met few
Texas white people. And what do you
think one woman said? We'll, sir she
said, we're mighty glad to see the New
York troops come down. Not that we
fear the Mexicans. We're right here on
the line and the .Mexicans about are
more peaceful than our own citizens.
We're glad to see you because we are
afraid of the Texas troops and the Texas
Rangers
This sentiment was summed up in
similar way by another:
eve are glad of the experience" he
said. eve won't forget it. And we
won't forget Texas and Texans. We
built up their towns, we spent hundreds
of thousands of dollars there. We found
the Mexicans on this side peaceful peo-
pie. And it is my opinion and the opin-
ion of this regiment, as well as that Of
the others still in the service, that if
Uncle Sam wants to clean up Mexico he's
got to start on this side of the Rio
Grande, and the first ones he'll need to
tackle are right down there in Texas"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
An Officer Tells How He
liked Ii Down There"

The officer referred principally to the
Texas Rangers and the other people in
Texas whom they did not regard as
white" The best and safest place for
the Rangers, the militiamen think, is in
the movies, where their costumes would
be more apropos. Then the cattle of
peaceable, law-abiding Mexicans across
the Rio Grande would be safe from dep
relation from this side, and Mexicans
who came across to collect their bills
would stand more chance of returning
alive.
An officer Of one of the New York reg
iments recently returned from Border
service called at the White House to
pay his respects to the Presidents sec
rotary.
How did you like it down there"
inquired Mr.. Tumulty.
"Well," said the officer, smiling good
naturally, eff Uncle Sam has any notion
of establishing penal colony, | can Sug-
gest no more suitable location"
The officers expression was the mild
est one of which there is record in the
writer's notebook.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
That If Yon List to the
returned Ne1c York
GuQrdSman, Looms
Large among the Duties
Of the WatcherS at the
Border-7he Pretty Art
Of Shooting Up Mexican
Women Who Come DoaCn
70 the Rio Gr0nde to
Wash Their Clothes

~ ONE political prognosticators may
have been little surprised that
- the Border voted for President
wilson's re-election. State militiamen
Who have been kept out of war-and
anne of them out of jobs-can account
for the surprise with some enlightening
,.bvs and wherefores. Take Texas, for
.rsmple: 1t is next to impossible to. re-
h,e what the guardsmen say and think
.bout the southernmost edge of the Lone
Star State. Newspaper publishers don't
use asbestos paper. Enough can be re-
Ascted BY imuendo, however, to indl-
cate a great many things that people
have never realized about conditions
.ong the Rio Grande.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Helping the GuardSmen into
the Guard House

The military police got to know the
Texans better than anybody else, it
seems. 1t was their duty among others
to enforce &c. o. 7" and &c. o. a." the
other names for the water-wagon rule
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-10
Life on the Border Vas
Perilous, of Course, but
Chiefly for Mexicans,
Who Barricaded Their
Doors Till the Northern
Troops Abbeared-7hen
1t Vas Gifts for Ell
Captain" and a Gradual
Restoration of Conf
dence and Good VII

in the New York division. The writer
was told that although these Texans
knew that the men would get thirty
days hard labor and the guardhouse for
violation of the orders they organized
Hunting parties" and "blind-tigers"
and "boot-legged' for the soldiers at all
hours of the day and night, in order to
sell them wood-alcohol colored with
chemicals.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-08
HISS HARRINGTON
TALKS TO MOTHERS
FIRST MEETING OF BABY WEEK"
HELD LAST NIGHT AT M'KIN.
LEY SCHOOL.
large Number Of Mothers Hear Inter
estin9 Address on premature
Care and Baby Hygiene"

The first meeting Of the baby
week. the observance of which is gen-
eral through the United States this
week. was held last night. when Miss
Ruth Harrington. II. y, Of the Ohio
Valley General hospital. gave an in
t"resting talk to a large number Of the
mothers OF Wheeling at the Mckinley
school on the South Side. The week
is being observed On this city under
the auspices Of the Womans club.
Miss Harrington spoke last night
ON Premature Care and Baby Nv
Eiene.' and suggested TO the mothers
many secrets in the raising of The
baby that were new To them.
Miss Harrington from Bos.
Ton. where she spent many years in
the welfare work. and is interested i'm
the baby first movement.
The Eighteenth street chanel has
been chosen as the place for the next
meeting. which will be- held on Thurs.
day afternoon. Miss Elizabeth RunCee
OF tho Florence Crittonden home will
speak and has chosen as her tonic
the Care Of the Baby" on Thursday
evening a meeting will be held ar Tho
Kings Daughters Day Nursery on the
South Side. This meeting will also
be addressed by Miss Rungee.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-08
HAS
NOT HURT BUSINESS
WAS STATEMENT BEFORE THE
MONTHLY MEETING OF MEMS
CLUB LAST NIGHT.
Attorney Charles NJ. Earhart Princi-
pal Speaker al Thomson Church
Social Hour Enjoyed.

That prohibition has not hurt bust
ness. or increased taxes. but has
caused industrial awakening. fewer
arrests, especially those for drunken
ness was the statements made bv
Charics NJ Earhart. attorney for the
a~nt-saloon league before the Thorn
son Mems club last night. The coca
sion was h monthly meeting OF the
club.
u was made Intensely interesting
too. by the solos of MT. Emil Aucre-
manr. and recita;ions by Mr.. T.. n.
Beideman. Other business OF the
meeting vas entirely routine.
In his address Mr.. Earhart read
communications from substantial bus
mess men throughout the state. i'm
which they said that their business
conditions had become better instea.
of worse. and that their former bus
mess had been surpassed. Industrial
conditions all over the state. said Mr..
Earhart. were decidedly on the mend
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-08
PRESBYTERIANS
DISCUSS FINANCE
MINISTERS AND lAYmEN HEAR
ADDRESS BY DR.. A. =. m'oAR.
RAH OF CHICAGO.
Meetings Were Held Yesterday at
First United Presbyterian Church
and at Bridgeport.

Church finance and efficiency. were
topics discussed yesterday afternoon
by ministers and laymen OF the Pres
byterian and United Presbyterian
churches OF Wheeling and vicinity, AZ
the First United Presbyterian church.
and in the evening az the Kirkwood
Presbyterian church at bridgeport.
These meetings were held under the
auspices OF the Presbyterian ministers
Of the Ohio Valley Ministerial Union
and were addressed by DR.. \. r. Nc
Garrah Of Chicago. a noted authority
on church finance and efficiency.
Several interesting addresses were
given yesterday by visiting ministers
at the First United Presbyterian
church. and a number OF suggestions.
hat would better the financial Condi-
tion Of the churches was made. No
action whatever was taken at the
afternoon meeting and following the
discussions the meeting was adjourned
until evening. in he kirkwood Pres
byterian church.
The meeting held at the Kirkwood
Presbyterian church was attended by
large delegations from Martins Ferry.
Bellaire and Shadyside Presbyterian
churches and from the United Pres.
bA NeElau dud fTt~uNltflan CnurtNeS OF
Wheeling. This meeting was an open
one and was addressed by DR.. NECTAR.
rah. The following ministers from
out Of town were in attendance al
me meetings yesterday
Rev. n. NJ. Hosack. OF Newell. ".
Va.
Rev. II 6 Mcmillan. OF Holidays
Cove.
Rev. +. =. Carson. OF Warwood.
Rev. W. W. Dinsmore. Of Dallas.
Rev. II. \. Reidel. Jr.. Of West Alex.
ander.
Rev. a.. r. Nicklen. of Sherrard
Rev. l. c. Yeakel. OF West Liberty.
Rov. John Conrad. OF New Martins
willie.
Rev. j. l.. SlaEle. Of Mound~villc.
Re. j.. l.. Reed. Of \ens. Ohio.
Rev. J. n. Lowthrr. Of Bellaire.
Rev. b X. King. Of Bellairc.
Rev. J. W. Neel. 81 bridgeport.
Rev. f. g. Nesbir. Of Martins Ferry
Rev. y. T.. Morris. OF Roneys Point
Rev j. w. Mccormick. OF Bellairc
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-08
LOCAL RED CROSS
BRANCH is ACTIV Z
MEETING TO REVIVE INTEREST
IN SOCIETY HERE HELD
YESTERDAY.
Reorganization is Deferred Until Later
Date, However-Nationai
Speakers Coming.

A meeting for reviving interest IN
the local Red Cross chapter was held
yesterday in the offices OF the Asso-
ciated Charities. The session was
presided over by Prof. W. B. Elliott.
and was well attended. The work OF
reorganization vas not actually taken
up yesterday. but the meeting vas d
step in the right direction and IL Is
quite likely that within the near future
the local branch will nave . cor
sanized.
II is planned TO have some OF the
national workers come here within the
near future. when II is likely the local
organization will De- revived. one OF
the men that may come to this mee,-
ing. for which the date has not as vet
been set. is Ernest Z. Bicknell. who IS
director general of the civilian relief
committee.
Interesting papers -ere read by per
sons in attendance yesterday. and
statistics taken from the Red Cross
magazine show that at present there
are enrolled 5000 graduate nurses
who are doing Red Cross work. The
membership fee into this organization
is small. and any person who desires
may become a member. They have
emergency organizations in every state
n are affiliated with local charities.
One Of the most notable works OF this
organization is the sale OF Christmas
seals. the proceeds Of which are used
10 combat tuberculosis.
The amount OF money expended by
this association reached the enormous
total OF S1u.2SG.O04 .39 since 1905. OF
this amount more than $4,000. uOO va
expended in relief for The sufferers
in the san Francisco earthquake. over
$4,000. 900 in The Ohio flood relief and
over si.G0O.uuu in European war relief
and for combating tynhus fever.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-03-08
SONGS OF SUNSHINE
by the
BARD.
(Fogler McKinsey)
THE OASIS
THE OASIS


through the dark desert of ~ day
4 sudden song along the way.
y burst 't sun, "a smiling flower.
] ~ cooling sweetness OF a shower.
Nht sd beyond IA, roaring drums
our iImI OF aH oasis comes.
And thirsty for the .uv, uI uf,
We ttn1 o. JOB the midst of s.rIfe.
\ parc" ,ucck,red with ru. -cr,.
VI GRIM" and borrow. suffering. -r.tI.
Ih' -"ru'd chronicles that spell
some u~"lEhbur heaven cor has he'll
Ana ihru 80 som" long cpl4mu'@ vua
\ .i'l" N'r~" 90 Pee "a friend
MIDST tl this ptll uf human th.uL=
A hiId DOB the oasis sing
lN. clouds are heavy n..r uar heads.
lN" dNf turns dark. around as tread
lI" WDHr1 footed tH..uE .H4. ru..
' labor with o. heart pf U..f
uN' e wine blown uuI tr Iur.
4 huE rHmos whistIIur a. tune
And through bits CHEEKY Itr I4, .gu
j. u'l'd and thy suuhpams ftlL
Across th. dreaming world ,r time.
10 every land and every CLINE.
] nus Some oasis soon afu.4re
Amid fn" desert OF oar tears
n loving word. re- kindly EIttrs.
n uttlc touch of Uf,~ romano.
3 lower. e. child. "a song 90 tree.
$50 love from shadows sets U- fr..
~''"uyrlgut 1916. southern Press
~y~ulIHaftl.