The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-16
KENOSHAN HOME
FROM FAR EAST
M. 0. Myrick Has Returned
from Tour of the
South Seas.
VISITED BAIT FIELDS

Balboa, when he found "the peaceful
sea-" and the coolies raised to the
seventh stratum of Niryana by two
yen tips from American millionaires,
M. O. Myrick has returned to his home
at rs North Ridge street, Kenosha. In
his tour of Central America and the
orient he has visited poems in the
novels Of Mexico and priests on the
crest of the Sacred Mountain; he has
bargained with shop-keepers in Shang-
hal, re-fought the Russian Waterloo
with brown men at Port Arthur, and
talked politics with Inconsistent Cal
ifornians" on the rim of the Golden
Gate.
"The more / see of the orient" he
marked to a friend today, "the more
thankful / am that someone, some war
or something made Wisconsin a de-
cent place to live in"
When urged to explain he continued:
well, in Japan, for instance, they
seem to have no olfactory nerves and if
they have them they're paralyzed The
Japs are Clearly enough about their
persons but their cities are horrible.
They don't seem to know the first prin-
ciples Of sanitation or to have any
desire to learn them. They live in a
stencil that makes the tannery-smell
seem fragrance and the worst of it is
they love it.
"Outside of that" he added they're
clever folks, intellectual but tricky,
maybe bit dishonest. This is es-
uecially true of the men. The women
are dark haired and beautiful"
Sees Giant Locks at Gatun.
There are people who insist that
Lansing, Michigan, is the greatest sur
gical operation on record. Mr.. My
rick disagrees with them. He nom
mates for that niche in the hall of
fame cutting the Panama Canal.
cit is the most perfect piece of en-
gineering in the world" was his COM
ment this morning. "a man presses
button in richly furnished office
and almost by magic great steamers
are lifted by the locks and towed by
locomotives through the narrow chan
mel that connects the Atlantic and the
Pacific Everything is so nicely ar
ranged that there is hardly foot's
variation in the courses taken by the
many liners that pass the Panama
Canal"
The Kenoshan visited Panama after
a brief stay at Limon, a port just
north of Christobel on the Caribbean
q Sea From there he made "side-trip"
to San Jose, where he found the Costa
Ricans interesting but very like
''grown-ur children,p iealeus of their
reedom hut hardly knowing exactly
how to use it.
When the fruit-ship on which he
was sailing had been loaded with a
cargo containing $4,000 punches of
bananas, Mr.. Myrick embarked at Lii
mon for Panama, Ell Paso, and Old
Mexico.
Poems Cursed by Pulka.
While along the border he forgot
bout bandits and rebels long enough
to risk detour into the villages of
northern Mexico.
"The poems, Mexican peasants" he
declares, care four hundred years be-
hind Americans. Their cities are
hardly worthy of the name. They have
five or six good blocks with few i'm
posing business houses and the rest
of them are novels reeking with squat
or and want The people seem to
work just enough to keep themselves
alive. Many of them seem to spend
most of their time sitting on the
ground in front of their huts with a
stick of sugar-cane to chew on or a
bowl of pulka at their sides"
Pulka is Mexican moonshine. Mr.
Myrick says that it and an inmate lazi-
ness are responsible for the wretched
social and Industrial conditions in
Mexico which have made it the bat
tleground of revolutionists for the last
fifty years, or, to be more accurate,
since Cortez conquered the Aztecs and
leoted the halls Of the Montezumas.
From the "oldest cathedral in Am
erica" wooden chapel covered with
vines and cryptic carvings, the Ke-
noshan went into the mountains where
the cliff-dwellers still live on the
perlous heights.
"Their homes are not houses or
even huts," he stated this morning.
"They're just dug-outs in the side Of
hill made dark by curtains of leaves
and branches The men who live there
make their living by selling fuel from
the mountains to villagers IL the val
ley. The wood some of it prickly and
thorny, is carried from the hills on
the backs Of burros and dunkeys driv-
en- by men in homespun clothes and
handmade sombreros."
"CalifOrnians Are Inconsistent"
From Ell Paso Mr.. Myrick went to
Santa Barbara, California, for short
visit with his brother, G. W. Myrick
of that city. He reports that the
Californians are strangely inconsist-
emit
"They want someone to do all their
work for them" he says, "and yet they
complain constantly about, the way the
state is over-run with Cinnamon, laps
and Mexicans and wonder why the
government doesn't do something to
restrict immigration. AS ! watched
vAem and studied their ways of doing
aAings I couldn't help but ask who'd
do their work for them if all Of the
'chinks and greasers, as they call
them, should be deported, as some of
them suggest"