The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1916, Page 1

nnn VILLAGE oF CoLVvuMb This remarkable photograph shows the exact scene of the Villa bandit attack. Here is seen the camp of the 13th regiment of U. S. troopers, just outside the village of Columbus, N. M., which is also pictured. border in the night, fired buildings in Columbus, shot American citizens as they fled from their burning homes, and stole cavalry horses before the troopers, who were sleeping, were aroused. bandits were killed and the bandits fled across the border with the troopers in hot pursuit WHERE UG CAVALIVYY HORSES wher eroLEN The bandits, crossing the In a pitched battle that followed troopers and J. TROOPS NOW IN MEXICO tert: REMARKABLE PICTURE SHOWING EXACT SCENE OF MEXICAN BANDIT VILLA’S ATTACK, SKIRMISH AND FLIGHT Should Uncle Sam TakeOver Mexico? VOLUME 18 Editor's Note: The following article om the Mexican sitaation, with at rom the pen of Mobert F. Paine, (Or ‘Super Pen,” the + Magarine bh: Just should say, .) Paine be a veteran Scripps newspaper organization. Everybody . widience ts 5,000,000 This inctudes the cireulation of The Seattle % which any of | appear, most of them mot under his signature ESOLUTIONS like the one Senator Fall introduced Washington the other day appear to be rather hysterial ican matters without indulg Mexico ing in hysterics in some de We will invade Mexico but} we don’t want to acquire any- thing, roars Fall And, in the next breath, he! calls for 500,000 volunteers as backing for the regular army No man is 80 To put me in the fashion, qualified to set it will the editor of The Star forth so accurate kindly permit me to throw a} fa. oa dana the particular fit of my own?/T— famous war (We will —Editor.) respondent If there ever were a burden |" pecompenie’s (VE : rides la and his army Gat ee ea man was Lf John Reed for a king.upon himself, NEW YORK, March 15.—W soe will the American soldiers be | in fight. ing Villa and his bands of guerilla Mexte it is Mexico. Here {= what he “We Americans are state of anarchy and war, they) consider ‘greasers’ as treacherous In war, the common people | '**?. of Mexico are robbed and) courage that Anglo-Saxons do not! R.F.PAINE- slaughtered by a Villa, a Za-|know—a Latin courage that leads pata or any other scoundrel who can control a band of cut-|them to throw themselves In the face of forlorn hopes, fired by ig some enthusiasm or led by some without reason by the families of a Diaz, a Huerta, or a *! In peace, they are robbed, oppressed and often executed » © many an Amer an soldier would not have the . : recklessness to Ko. of it, even were they permitted to try it & defaulters and paupers, under the thumb of Wall st | ancestral references of the very worst. Mexico is a dying| nation. IT IS THE STRO EARTH FOR A PLACE ON looters of Mexico rely to enable them to hold they’ve got and to get more, but it is hi the common people of Mexico will enthusiastically turn out and fight and die for a government, de facto, constitutional,! trom making other atte hereditary or whatnot, under which they are hopeless, poor| fect the capture of the They are without hope of self-government, and incapable “| have seen barefooted treet to the mounted by hine guns pumping m of bul- Financially, the Mexicans are a nation of bankrupts, Eugenically, they are largely a nation of mongrels, with| “ armed except for sticks le - "y namite sewed up in cowskins, ST CANDIDATE ON] Witch’ they threw by hand THE LIST OF WHITE] over the corral wall. MEN’S BURDENS. “Four times they did this un- If the present invasion of Mexico finally results in an til they had succeeded in blow nexation of Mexico to the United States, it 1 be a perfect! {ng the er ciean hakters " have godsend to the pe e of Mexico 4 > of a flinty “Native pride” (Mex.) is great obstacle to this, it the face ie said and machine guns en vege i enched on the top It is the sentiment upon which the actual rulers and| he other seven at omplieh appalling enth | ont the time only a to what ily probable th tied th ta to et However, “native pride” often goeth before a fall. “For us fighting Note the recent case of the Philippines. We purchased guertila fighters, ineffective in the| safely at those Filipinos, body, soul and breeches, and didn’t hesitate field, to lick such notions as “native pride” and self-government out of them, because, being dead ones; nationally, like the jn. mexico. It means the hardest | M an arn ‘exicans, they were properly the white man’s burden. | po HOUSEWIVES, SAVE 20 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR—GEO. W. PERKINS, FINANCIER, TELLS HOW YOU GAN DO IT EORGE W. PERKINS, who made millions by helping to build up the great United States steel trust, recently threw over most of his business cares for a period to tackle the role: m of reducing the constantly mounting high-cost-of-living in New York. That Perkins REALLY SUCCEEDED is evidenced by iy fact that one of the heads of the United States department of agricul- ture said his work is FAR AND AWAY THE BEST ever done in this line! TWENTY CENTS ON THE DOLLAR ts what Perkins says YOU can save if vou will follow his findings. NEW YORK, March Perk rae ae turn to America of a w “ is coming 1 tchel increase in _ ha € n laurels ing ha ked cost For the n ed rmula has brougt 1 € un Ave bounty, 1 ae mean th as to buy great less developed than cost up of econor rbout Pe ric er } ~ clothes a cht up “Therefore it seem bvious that by put G. W. Perkins And th art the ir ting these on a ientific basis, we can at cline is all that is yet visible, economists once effect the greatest single saving of “ay which we as a people are capable +H is time now, if ever there was atime, “In tackling this subject, we decided to to put the kitchen on a business basi leave nothing to chance, so we worked out “The Mexicans have a sort ot | ae + did not deter the others | opregnable year ia} has to say | about our dash across the border When Mexicans are not in a Gucltwad So are in a state of slavery. cowards, In that we make a mis-| lar hero from thelr midst) of Euro: | largely a question of opposing| by Francis ut extremely annoying to| Hurst of th |nounced te It is to be no joke, this raid|them this morning. They reported of. atadt havide, been made t The Seattle Star jas : THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS3 EDITION SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1916. ONE CENT wppt™ erate 42” emu GEN, FUNSTON ADMITS | BY. R. F. PAINE | TERRIBLE PERIL BIG ARMY BILL A ; ohn Reed Tells Something U. S. Regulars Now to Be but it seems almost impossible for any one to consider Mex J of Warfare in 8 Mir) f Immediately Increased to E r itho & 100,000. 4 gree. WONDERFUL FIGHTERS PASSES UNANIMOUSLY} Ameri PREPAREDNESS NOTE SAN ANTONIO, March 15.—Maj. Gen. Fred Funston admitted this afternoon that Col. Dodd’s cavalry flue dave to concentrate sn {command had probably crossed the border into Mexico. The United Press asked him to confirm reports of * ee Pecaet: cane nee |cavalry fighting on the Mexican side. Funston replied : “Dodd has probably crossed, but he’s out of communi- half of trenches In Europe fer end’ tattie, |cation with concentration points at the place of crossing, which was about 90 miles from Columbus, in a If they bore the brunt of i u is any hard fighting, about straight line from the town. one-fifth would be killed, 5 wounded ond captured, if i Funston also said: “The report that our cavalry has been in an engagement is interesting, and may be there was any delay in re inforcing them, there would |true. Frankly, | am out of touch with Col. Dodd’s column. He will get into wireless communication with eSteat und possitic. caret ||Gen. Pershing before evening, I expect, and then I'll hear details. fighting so soon after mination of the remainder. ing were unexpected. It is possible that word of operations along the may have seeped back thru the Ee telegraph operators not under censorship before it reached me. Only Columbus itself is under censorship.” | DEMING, N. M., March 15 (By telephone to El Paso).—American troops have not yet crossed the WASHINGTON, March 15.— The Hay-Chamberiain resolu tion, Increasing the size of the regular army to its full strength |border into Mexico, according to automobilists arriving from Columbus at noon today. Camp had been of 100,000 men was adopted to- beoken, however, and the expedition was ready, when they left the town, to move at a minute’s notice. The day by the senate The measu’ La Ascenscion to join the bandit. m during the Carranza garrison at Paloma, earlier reported evacuated by the Carranzista authorities, revolted and declared for Villa, according to new unconfirmed reports. The story was that the mutinous troops had started toward “Evscecees2 IRONCLAD CENSORSHIP CLAPPED UPON BORDER _ Instead of the usual four. He sald he was against long en listments, and that, in the present ie : | bo c case, he felt sure recruits could be| EL PASO, March 15.—Military censorship has been border had already been crossed. BY H. D. JACOBS ! Officers at Ft. Bliss refuse to discuss rumors that the ore ytaine > te Unconfirmed rumors insist that anti-American feelin, ‘4 vole Feo peggy seca "™ | thrown so closely around Columbus and the border country jamong the common Carranza soldiers is growing. " The senate enjoyed unlimited de-| today that it is impossible to ascertain troop movements, altho} Juarez is excited over a shooting today which Carranza |Gallinger ‘called f or en ie many believe the expedition has started officials attributed to drunken men. At no time did the 2x- {t was passed unantme Control of the telegraph and telephone has been taken|citement become very great Another view of the affair was Senator man 4 squad of soldiers, acting under orders from Brig. | that few soldiers cried out “Vive la Villa,” whereupon) 9a Pog teagiees = ott ened gag ay A long distance telephone call to Columbus loyalists fired on them and silenced their shouts. No casual- a 5 ea plc an ought a reply from “Central” that she was under|ties were reported Twelve thousand regulars could censorship as well as everybody else there Lieut. Schallent military censor, visited El Paso be sent to Mexico. They would be \ censored Columbus dispatch from a United Press cor-|telegraph offices 1s a report that the strict censor ideal piece in gt tr yee al cl) respondent told of preparations to establish a base of opera ship in effect at Columbus would be extended to this city. mate rthermore, they have been 3 ; igi dicate 3 i well trained in guerilla warfare 4 ms for the pursuit. Railroad switches and bridges are Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing’s orders were for him to cross being built* by army engineers the border when ready. MORMONS ARE SAFE | Troop movements were not mentioned Gen. Pershing is keeping in wireless touch with Maj. Gen, EL PASO, March 15.—-The Amer. Villa have arrive of operations there. asas Grandes, Bishe Mormon chur He heard fi motor lorries. n The United Press correspondent’s message was timed m/9:30 a. m. today, but it does not necessarily contradict rumors cause newspapermen were not Latest reports concerning the whereabouts of Villa said ne was in Galena district. Gen. Gutierrez, Carranza army leader, is due to leave Juarez for Chihuahua at once to lead ing in the vi v was “he expected to be permitted to enter Mexico with the vanguard.! (Continued on page the problems of distributing our informa Perkins tion before we wasted time looking for “In it are ‘big business’ principles brought knowledge that we might be able to dis- down and trapped for the kitchen.” seminate. In addition to these circulars Chairman “There are 5,000,000 people in New Perkins and his committee have printed a York. Of these 1,000,000 are school chil- series of supplemental booklets on the dren economic preparation of left-overs, meat- “Therefore we decided that if we could substitutes, fish and vegetables Each of put our information in the hands of every them contains hundreds of tested recipes school child in New York, it would reac! And these recipes are tested!” said practically every family in New York. The Perkins. “They are tested by an average board of education agreed to such a scheme housewife who has to support her family and the problem of distributing our propa- on an average salary ganda was solved with no cost “Every recipe printed in our book was “Of each circular, we printed 800,000 tried out by Mrs. Selma Kihlgren, who has copies. These were sent to each school, a little home down on the East Side and where they were distributed to the pupils. whose husband gets $12 a week. Any Then the teacher asked them to take the recipe that she found to be impractical circular home.” was tossed at once into the discard. The circular bore this caption “We decided that if we were really going “MAKI A DOLLAR EARN 20 to help reduce the high-cost-of-living, we CENTS FOR YOU yuld make no better start than by having The subject of Circular Number One Workable recipe was “How to Buy.” ; In this and the other nine circulars all Tomorrow the first of the ar- in a famously successful business career i r —. crystallized and made clear for housewives. telling housewives how to buy I worked harder a Koes in m ue & their food and save 20 cents on them applicable to daily, human needs BAIT ae é BAT shin saveril wotked on. an. elficiency sheet’ CURT). Goren, (Matin oi printed for the U. S. Steel Corporation!” laughed The Star. Mrs. Selma Kihigren Testing the Perkins Recipes in Her Tiny Kitchen on the East Side of New York The censor permitted mention, however, of the arrival| Funston. It is expected the advance guards will dash upon and miserable. — in Mexico {#|{can Mormons reported menaced He the aero squadron from San Antonio with its consort of | Guzman, a small Mexican town, and establish their first base | Nee i