Arizona republican., 1916-04-01

ders are to keep within one hundred feet of your next door neighbor. You blow along wallowing in the ruts, histing up over the high centers and keeping your eyes right on the road while your four armed guards, perched on top of the load, keep their looks moving around the country Every train of trucks has a bunch of motor cycle riders
 Motorcycles Make Good
 Those motorcycles are sure making good There are over fifty of them in service every day. The way they pull out of sand and hit it up across that rough stuff makes you feel glad to belong to the United States, where they are made. They are all Harley-D Day. idsons and Indians.
 ''It takes three days to make the trip i from Columbus to Casas Grandes. You move on schedule, like a train. The stations are Columbus, Gibson's ranch, 1 Bocas Grandes, Espilla, Ascuncion, the big Mormon colony where some of tlse finest building l ever saw are aban- doned, Big Bend, Frederico and Casas Grandes.
 'The road is all in that flat rolling country till you get to Frederico. and there it starts to- climb. There aren't any stretches more than mile where the road is good. It's bumpy and rot ten, but the drivers feel that every bump is a problem and they solve them as they come Now, the engineers arc busy scraping the bumps off, so we will have better luck from now on
 The Auto Trucks
 "The trucks are of three makes, Packards. Jeffery quads and Whites. ! They are all giving fine service, and l never knew of one of them going or the bad. If one breaks down, you have chains, hook on and haul it to the next | station, where the most complete re- pair shops are to be found
 'The touring cars for the officers are Dodge, Eight Cadillacs and Fords and they go anywhere. When you go an officer aboard and he wants to z, somewhere in hurry, you don't stor for anything
 'Bowen's aeroplane is the only ont that has had an accident. The res haven't done anything Spectacular, bu
 
 Sabra One of the First
 Sabra left Columbus with the frs truck train on March 16. He has mad number of trips, driving day an, night over the roads, and with hi | quick wit and keen ability to observ has gathered much interesting knowl ledge. The truck drivers, he says, ar mostly factory men, who are unde contract to teach enlisted men to drive He and a few others are employed out right, on their sheer ability to push tn noses of their trucks over any kind c soil that the Mexican desert present.
 t"Of course the world isn't told etery WITH GEN PERISH .. I - 1 thing that goes on south of the line
 he pursued, "and I don't blame ther for having censors. At the front. ther are just two newspapermen, one fror the Associated Press and the othe from the New York Herald. The bi bunch of correspondents is hung up a Columbus, and you ought to see ho' . they try to get in. l believe there al thirty moving picture outfits at Colum bus, and they are the sorest bunch 1 ever saw. Can't get anything but sold I ierS loafing around, detraininS an trucks moving out of town. , U. s. Has Deep Purpose
 "The United States is not just goin
 to chase Villa It is going to organiz very carefully, district down ther big enough to hold the army, and kee 5 it safe so that if Villa sympathizel
 from the CarranZa armies get hostil
 nothing will interfere with the bushes Y in hand.
 !. When it is all over, the world wi D say that Uncle Sam did a good jo even if he was little late gettir I started. It is better to be late tha u have everything all riled up.' , Sabra is all for going back He mac = good with q vengeance, especially comparison with the green chauffeur n from the factories. The pay is goo f and the knowledge that he. is servir il his country is very satisfying. , q don't know when they will cal turc Villa" said Johnny in conclusio n but I believe he has about ten n twelve thousand men. They are q IT scattered out and not nearly so We q equipped as our men,