The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-06


town and a place Where we might get
out and stretch our legs and partake
OF refreshment-usualy liquid refresh
men,.
They were pathetic places, some of
those New Mexican and Arizona set
Elements. There were no paved
streets and stores and movie shows
and public buildings Even wood
seemed at a premium Everything
was built Of mud mud and stucco.
Some OF them seemed the dwelling
places of lost nation--dreary unat.
.traetive spots set down in the i'm.
mcsnity of sun.baked nature-w where
a fearful blast OF heated air had
passed over at some time or other
and baked everything soulless even
the duileycd, listless. down,at.the.
heel dis.spirited people, Take a great
chunk of clay mud say twenty or
thirty feet square and ten or twelve
feet high hollow il out inside and
cut through q few added doors and
intoxicated windows lay some rafters
across teh top on which straw was
spread to make thcm waterproof for
the VIC; season. lei the sun take the
whole INTO a dun-coiored disiointed
Mass Then lay few mats around
and trim it with an appropriate quota
OF ragged. dirty. lousy-headea chill.
dren, and YOU have a hazy idea Of the
habitations where thousands Of these
American MeXioans pursue their lives
liberties and paltry happinesses
1t was in the afterglow of the
hreaihless evenings when all the
southwestern world was sinking into
night that the pathos OF these civil
zation-lost people hit me hardest
There were no street lights dowr
there. No movie fronts gllttered
When the sun sank. the day wa.
done. and an awful loneliness crept
over the world. On the benches be
fore the doors of these miserabl,
novels. these quiet dark.skinned fam
/ lilies gathered and stOically watched
the Limited grow from a wisp o
smoke on the east to a tiny dot of rec
from the signal of the last car. Of
VA AtlN iNfAA NiA2tro NtNNt AlktI on
train had passed the world must hav,
been very very quiet: the stiffness
very lonesome The world for then
could only mean the mesas. the noun
tains and the sky. day after day tn,
same. the future hopeless for all tina
1t held which the white man cherishe
and which makes for JOY the life an,
comfort of civilization For the VIC
men-babies and work and age an,
death: for the men; the endless strug
gle with tantalizing nature TO max
!. her give the stringy weedy little crop
that kept starvation from the famll
J mt.-vague wonderlngs at III
. which they cauld never understand
sand, feas. drought and bad ba
whiskey Surely these quiet sulIe
! people must wonder at times wher
the train comes from and what IN
world is like over the horizon in whic
; IT, disappears. But scheme OF thing
I which even we cannot hope to under
d. stand either. has decreed that thi
S shall be their existence. Truly tn
{ world at times is very very added,
i When We stopped at the Fred Tla
a vey eating places to get some solac
r out Of life. Indian squaws sought I
@ have speech with us and remove frol
us small plttances of the stuff tia
d is the root of all evil in exchange Il
d baskets, bead.work and pottery TIL;
d u.s. think they were sQuaws. n,
:. having taken the trouble to brir
r their corsets along. il being difIicu
n at times to prove Il. There are CIV
3. IDENTIFY no BARRIERS down in this sout
L western country consequently Il
y men are greatly at a disadvantage
@ At Los Vegas, Arizona there was OF
p old woman shall never forget. 81
y was certainly alive when Sodom al
IS Gomorrah got into difficulty and
n certainly the only bath she had ev
Il had Mas when she proved she was
q good swimmer and kept afoat UNI
Ie the Ark locked and the folks in q
s. land OF Nod closed down their NJ
m brellas and breathed In relief that n
sr rain was over She was the color
a a Creme cigar after It's been droppl
N into cuspidor and she was wrinkle
a until you wondered Just how big 81