The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-04-30
ny JACK NEVILLE

III Jtth NEVILLE
american Newspaperman and In
v~stigator who has lived for years
In Mexico. aud Who has Just spent
four months there on special de-
tail for The starr
Copyright. 1918. by y. q. ~
CuAuTi.t. Mckee. April 30
The death ~ Imiisro Ispsta
removes Mesieo's most ruthless
dcstructionisi and implRoabio en-
c'-y ~ rcser'u'k-cre-sFrs.'F.
Now. or TIE wree.4gs e. b.
empire, where tho rebel cties
laughed ~ eiyilixssion. AID play.
I'd his huge Boishevtk Jot<r ON
100000 confidinE workers, Gen
crai Pablo Gonzales In placing
firm underpinninE for freedom
and progress.
Here. In IN. worlds richest garden
spot. where exploited humanity haH
been kept poorest. and where "a pat"
gave" his half savage followers IN"
land only 90 commander all crops
mere VA" ir"h ~ w "" =,
In centuries. enjoying the fruits o.
his toll and supporting. instead OF
hating government
Mexico has no more dramatic or
~ 80. go. 80, ,ro,, the heel
prints OF a barbarian.
y. -. 1.c,,.lana
-, rx
S'"'''" W ~
Eseortrd by s"'a'rrs' 'a'ns
on trains ana h"fseos.s. : am
lev days age. '" W. $3.50
OF Mes'sos n'""a % "a
h'nai "h''" we s'
held out r'"sr i's'' 49,. ~, s..
when ne ha" .""' Ss" 49,
MS irf"si""~ ''''e. '" '"'
"ss'e" wy A..
seh'~sed eAe"' ~" r""' ~"
mus. an" "" -. -
danger ~ 'nr "s"" =. ~.
our ouk'cs s'" -.
i"g aus w" '" .s,,.s.
s"s" ,,,,-s, s.~n~r
e" ""e a, -.
no"k"'''' VI"
party s"'
a Efisried inalan nefx"@h' ."'" 'io
of an'bneeade~ Here a ~n"'" feS'-
ment had been Annihiia'ea ~ .4I'a.
,is'as last year there 'fo"p o. -
federais had been wif-ed out. Ana tnr-
Their along a handful % soldiers hah
cut their way thru 200 INDIANS iaNs
New Years day.
Tcn miles beyond the n'"ody portals
40 drew rein. below Us swept 'ne
sunny plain of NoreloA WITH towers
~ ruinei sugar mills. OF chureh."
and haronlai estates rising above The
,rcea
Smiling poems were planting the
fields Their wives looked et Va un-
afraid Children, half naked. ronpcd
KiecfuiIy.
These were the people. most ~
shem surrendered zapasisfaz who
year ago. With hunger and ase-old
hatred. werc committing unsreatshie
atrocities under the savage guidance
OF the former plantation rsirrup-boy.
Gonxalex. q man with vision. han
wrought the sranrsorma'ion---wish
rlows In place OF guns. bread instead
Of hatchery.
I talked with him af his hcadauar-
'era--a heavy. quiet man with
piercing tack r,ea talked With
Cot ixnaeio Sanchez Sicra. graduate
% a Chicago school OF medicine. and
with Gen, tliznndo. former American
cayalryman and miner in Nevada
and Alaska
These ihrre men. American'scd.
progressive. forcsishtfd. are convert
ing pfincipality Win I"o'"oo souls
into the frm bui~ars OF a reEener-
ascd Mexico
Here. said sonzaicH Win VICE
sweep OF MS mana. where the soii "
the richest IN fhe world. us tincrs
have always been keps poorest ana
most miserable
Ihey are now having 'her nss'
chance. IL IL hard Tor anyone but
them 10 comprehend Just what tha'
means-hrcad enough. freedom. nap
piness
Before ! went out among the pco-
pie Gonzalez told me ths history OK
MofrioH and the snriano Inulsns--
one OF tyranny OF the hacicndados.
OF destruction ny Iapata. OF MS own
practical plans OF reconstructlon.
lie told mo OF the richness OF
Morcior soil, with'two heavy crops a
t.MH ~ ~ a.