Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-07-15
NEXT MEXICAN
PRESIDENT TO
Be FRIENDLY
Executive Elect Was
One of Is Children
In Poor Family; Is
Self-E
BY CLARENCE DUB0SE
Chief Of Associated Press Bureau,
Mexico City

MEXICO CITY, July 14.-PE
Mexico's president-elect, Gen. Alvaro
Oregon, has an extensive first hand
knowledge Of the United States.
He has been there more ana has
had more contacts with Americans
in their homeland than any other
president OF Mexico. This %acqlaint-
ance with the neighboring nation and
with its citizens as individuals IS
expected 20 have an important bear
ing upon the official relations Of the
countries.
President Gales has had some close
American contacts, too. He has an
American ~son-in-law. Thomas A. Rob-
inson. who was born in Michigan,
flew in France, studied at Columbia,
lived in New York. came TO Mexico
City. went into business, and married
the presidents daughter. Ernestina
Gales. No president Of Mexico has
ever had friendlier relations with an
American ambassador than Gales has
had with Morrow since they first
b~reakfasted together on ham and
eggs.
McNab His Friend
The president-to-be calls the
American military attache SANDY"
Everybody who knows Col. Alexander
McNab very we'll calls him SANDY"
/ Oregon has known the colonel for
years. They were pals on the border
when McNab vas stationed at No
gales close 10 Obregon's Mexican
home. III ever before a president of
/ Mexico was thick enough with a U.
s. military attache 70 call him
SANDY" history has lost all record
or Il.
Oregon. who was elected July l
10 take office Dec. / for a six year
term. succeeding Gales. also pre-
/ coded Gales in office, having been
president from 1920 to 1924. lie is
the only man since Porfirio Diaz,
who was dictator thirty years. TO be
twice elected president OF Mexico.
Obregon is a soldier, farmer, poet,
business man, politician, historian,
~esyayfst. In youth he was a day
laborer and a hired hand on a farm.
Like Gales, he was nee a country
school teacher.
Was Poor Boy
He was a poor boy. the youngest
Of n family Of eighteen children, and
Z grew up tW lMt FiAAhEN VI hNoAo
bampo. state Of Sonora. He is a self
! made man in every way. He educated
himself while doing manual labor for
less than fifty cents a day. He made
himself a soldier, and one Of the
best Mexico has known. He has
gained a comfortable store Of the
worlds goods, Is probably the big
, gest farmer in the country, and is a
political power second to none in his
land.
One Of his close American friends
is Harry Chandelier, publisher of the
Los Angeles Times. They have been
| associated IN business. AT different
times when in the United States OBJ
/ RECON talked with President Wilson
and with various Washington Off
Gals. During the World wa:, in
! Washington TO discuss import and ex-
port restrictions as they affected
I Mexico. Obregon conferred a good
deal with Herbert Hoover, and has
publicly expressed his admiration of
him.
ObregOn Brave
When ObreEon vas President Car
ranza's secretary of war, he visited
the United States officially. Brig.
Gen. Frank Mccoy, then ". $. mill
tary attachce at Mexico City. was as
signed TO set as his aide during the
tour. Gen. Ohregon visited U. s.
training camps, munitions factories
and ship yards. and received a review
! Continued on page two.)