South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-20


secn through the eyes OF a south Bend man IL
contained in n letter received by The NeWs-Timcs
from Or. ,. ~. Bertclng who i "A
trip which embraced swing throughout that
section. An interesting description Of "A gigantic
irrigation project about TO be completed In which
Charles Bertcng Of the physician and IA civil
engineer. - taking part il also included
The doctors letter follows:
St.I great boundIess with its expansive
pains that feed the nation, its arid deserts which
need but the touch Of magic wand 10 turn them
grazing fields for millions Of cattle and
sheep into myriads Of smaller truck farms to supply
markets berries vegetables-into vast
orchards that shall give millions upon millions Of
Of luscious fruit-apples pears. apricots.
west still holds good and will for decades 10 come.
FORTUNES.
need not tell you Of Kansas. the state Of 10000
acre ranches-you have heard OF il beforehand do
not touch upon the oil fields Of Texas and Oklahoma
where fortunes made and lost night, where
Indians coming into their with their enOr
nous royalties-where il Is not uncommon for the
native 10 six seven ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS they
are painted red. But, oil is too much OF a specula
ton for the ordinary sane TO invest his hard
farms and orchards and alfalfa fields. where after
few years il is not unusual realize from 1900
TO $500 acre year. You it does require
many acres TO assure the ordinary man competency
for lne-incomes beyond the dreams Of avarce.
THE REGION OF THE PUEBLOS.
We spent several days at Santa Fe New Mexico
the oldest established municipal government the
United States dating back TO 1910, slightly As
after the discovery OF America 10 years earlier
grim fathers landed Plymouth Rock The cathedral
dates back the time but Miguel chapel
dates back even further than that-and in it is a
Spanish bell cast in the 18th century This OF course
the region of the Pueblos-pueblo being the Span
ish word village and the Indians this region
pursued farming and cattle raising and lived In built
up structures sometimes two and three stories high
Indians Pueblo Indians. Among
Pueblo Indians there were Of course divisions
nations. Hopi Navajoes. many
others. CoranadO. OF the earliest of the Spanish
,.o,o,stado res or copouerors like ,,Do Cortez too
rffaH hrh g
heartess Cruelties and subjugatOns impeled by the
gold. jusufying his actions by pretense
verting the Indians to Christianity. Wherever the
Franciscan Fathers however were permitted to nego-
Pueblo Indians directly the good eff
fects OF Christianity and civilization became manifest
FOR IN almost every Pueblo one hnds either the
ruins intact churches and chapels What these
sanity men did for the Indians be justly
described.
West Of the Mississippi from Kansas City to the
coast from Buenos Aires up through Uruguay and
Bolivia up through Mexico and even to San Fran
cisco. the every days journal found
chapcs and community houses of this adventurous
order-adventurous not for gold but for the
What the Jesus did for Christianity and civiliza-
ton from the mouth of the 5. Lawrence up through
Canada, touching Marquette did. our own St.
Joseph county and the far northwest that the Fran
ciscans did for the west when Mexcos northern
boundary almost reached Dodge City Kans including
New Mexico and Arizona, extended even o Ore
gOn-ncuding what is California.
SPANISH NEVER DIFFERENTIATED
Perhaps we Americans so called, may consider
selves civizers than the Spaniards especially
IN educational methods, and we attach
great Odum to the methods of the Spanish conquer
it remains fact Spanish exterrnin-
Rted, whereas did eNterminate-not only with fire
and sword. but with weapon far harmful which
killed body and soul-fre water-whsky.
taken half the pains civilize the Indians
that took with the southern slaves
81 fair dealing and good sportsmanship would not
Doc desecrated with the infamy o ruthless war
fare and determination 1t to our credit to
have given vent TO the motto: 80 good Indian but
dead Indiar"
say what ,e may it is a fact acknowledged by every
sldent ol history that while the Spaniard in way
another has lost an his possessions indeibIy there
this world his manners and customs
MS language. his laws his architecture-modihed by
native needs his reIgion-and, ne indeed must have
courage To- say I'VE could have done better" The
Spautard had ms day-onward empire marched
westward -lac.usIons Of New Mexico Arizona. Nevada
and California were not conquests-GOd fOrbid-just
benevolent assmilauons, nevertheless sense con-
quests camouhaged by such diplomacy treaty.
compensation and sometimes even coercion. Can you
blame the Latin American for suspeCtng professed
friendship
whether rightly wrongly from the American the
Latin American has suffered Even as he was
the conqueror of the American Aborignes in
turn became his conquerors and yet there today
in our country under the stars and Stripes the
glorious emblem liberty" and flair dealing anna
into Mexico with FIRE and sword. under the pre-
pup -enbuo' s7snQB 5unoeIIoo SURPRISES 20 esuel
assimilate it,
\ BEAUTIFUL PHENOMENON.
From Santa Fe we FASTENED onward to Albuquerque
ON this stretch of Journey rained part Of the
time When the finally clouds we
witnessed most thrilling phenomenon. The dark
rain clouds parted forming immense crevce. the
sun still unseen sent flood OF silvery rays
US the entrance to an unknown wOrd-then gradually
there issued from this infinite distance a form re
sembing an eagle or angel with outspread wings
Truly We held our breaths and asked ourselves.
The Judgment Day be like this?"
Along the railroad the internationally famous
Rio Grande have seen 1t dry at FL PasO. but here