Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-18
THE PATRIOTIC PRINTER AND THE MYSTIFIED
 MEXICANS

But for the fact that a Mexican in terpretOr works in the composing room
 of The Review office, President Will son might well be contemplating
 fresh and fercer complications with Mexico in his weekend retirement on
 the Massachusetts shore where he is
 now considering those most delicate questions of the Imprisonment of
 American consuls by the bOlshevik and
 the double duty on oil threatened by Carranza. Small and simple causes
 often have far reaching and tangled
 effects
 In The Review office works a print
 CT of the old school. a master crafts
 man. steady. industrious, modest, un- assuming. polite, inclined even to tim
 idity in talking about or taking part in stirring affairs. In fact, most print
 CTS of the old school are inclined to
 be cynics upon matters that the street corner orators rave the lOudest about.
 These printers. they weigh the ponderous and forid generalities Of the writers and statesmen. letter for letter in its process of formation into
 the whole. So they are given to glimpse deeper in to the construction of the fabric than those who swiftly scan its finished sentences.
 Well. this printer man of the retir- ing disposition, met friend the other day and absorbed a drink or two of a forbidden beverage and fared forth upon the streets a changed man. ln- stead of lodging public issues. he sought them. Instead of avoiding eX- citement, peril and consciousness, he hunted for them in the highways and byways. And, as is usually the case. he found them. In a side street he chanced upon two Mexicans dressed fin the regulation Mexican peOn soldier uniform of bright blue overalls with bid and tucker attached. They seemed to be strangers in the community. Only a few days before a GOzen or so Mex ican soldiers had been rounded up near Bisbee on this side of the line and taken to Douglas for return to old Mexico. So to this ordinarily peaceful printers disordered mind and under standing these strangers appeared to be the remnants of that invading army who had escaped the roundup and now the peace and safety of the town. Strong waters and intense patriotism often walk hand in hand This small and rOtund printer ap- preached these large and ferocious looking foreigners and. taking them each by an arm. marched without pre- fix or preamble. straight to The Re view office for further orders
 The foreman called a chapel meet ing and international questions were discussed pro and con. Finally. when the captives were led to fear the worst. the above mentioned interpreter was called into the council He questioned the strangers and found that they were simple and peaceful citizens of No gales and here on business they were able to satisfactorily explain.
 The printer who had conducted this trench raid unaided and alone, waved his hands in disgust. made remarks that will not be reproduced here, and went away. The Mexicans turned to the foreman: Are we still under arrest?" they inquired. Hell. no, replied the foreman. Get out of here. quick" And the visitors from No gales who had crossed for moment the fantastic orbit of the printer man. also went away.
 AIS well that ends well President Wilson has enough troubles right now without this fresh one 70 veX his soul