The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-21
Stolid Russian Moujiks
 Till Fertile Mexican Soil
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much like the sociable doggie who met a porcupine The invisible souvenirs or this cactus roses cordiality remained with me for many days. I am not sure but still have them rowing through my anatomy.
 There was also flea who became passenger on our return trip. I have never known which to blame since for certain phenomena, the cactus needles or the flea.
 We reached the wild crest of our last mountain about o'clock and suddenly saw Ensenada snuggled far below at the edge of a crescent-shaped bay. It was the first Mexican city l had glimpsed which was not border town, and I was wild to explore it.
 ENSENADA CLEANED UP
 Soon I saw it was not the wild. crude place I had imagined all Mexican town lets to be- The hotel where our party stopped over night was pretty wooden building with a gay garden and neat rooms saw no porcelain bathtubs, but they did have electric light sup plemented, so the German proprietor toid us. by gas made on the premises.
 Instead of strange mixtures of meal and red pepper, we had for dinner steak, juicy and fine, with French fried pota toes and hot biscuits!
 There are apparently two Mexicos.
 One Is represented by Juarez, across the bridge from Fl Paso, Tex.--dusty and hot under glaring sun, its melo- dramatic poverty in vivid contrast to the ta wdry gayety of it's bull ring and gam bling houses, dance halls, cock pits and drinking hels
 Ensenada is a paradise of coolness and cleanliness compared to Juarez. Unpre- tentious. if you like, but not unambi- tious The wooden houses are neat, the children have shoes and stockings. the men, women, boys and girls wear clothes from the states, the little church is clean and decorated according to the or nate Mexican standards.
 It was crammed when I saw 1t with little girls in white communion dresses and veils who piled armfuls of flowers upon the altar in celebration of some spring fiesta A contrast indeed to the ! dusty old wooden floored cathedral ol Juarez with it's piteous saints and stil | more piteous worshpers on their knees 1 barefooted and in rags
 CHINESE KEEP SHOPS In Ensenada the only thing approach, l ing gambling house was tent set witf i a few gaming tables. There was nc i fight, and when l asked the lone watch man when the playing would commence 1 he shrugged his shoulder and said 'Manana.' I believe this word alon'
 would carry you comfortably throughou1 | Mexico.
 Ensenada has a movie made of nic'
 cream colored stucco, and If Senol David Goldbaum Padilla. who fur l nishes the entertainment there, would only buy an up-to- date film or two. in
 stead of the 10-year-old relic We saw he would be hailed as the David Belasct of Mexico.
 q There are no department stores in En
 senada, as we understand the term
 Most of the shops are of modesty-
 mong doc, mong doo!-and kept by Chi
 nese, who have not progressed ia
 enough into modern methods to sell loca
 souvenir postcards. You can't buy al
 Ensenada card in Ensenada, though the.
 import few comics from Fourteenth
 street.
 We now come to Col. Esteban Cantu
 governor and military commander of tn
 northern district of Lower California | Republic of Mexico, whose office ha
 only been recently confirmed by MT. V Carranza The governor is slim younl : man of 37. with blond pompadour an
 blue-gray eyes. He is graduate 0
 Chapultepec university. the West Poin of Mexico, and one of the importan
 military academies of the world
 HE CHOSE SAN DIEGO He was one of the subordinate officer
 of the governor formerly in power-a | old man whose watchword was mana