INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, JULY 24, 1919 PAGE SIX ioCoil 13 in./ sV ......—"• S. THOMPSON & SOM national credit is gone, and tl ajgn oil interests are, despite the apparent friendly attitude of Pelaez, menaced. As an indication of tl)e Afjth of the people, latest- reports estimate the yearly death rate in Mexico Heavy Polarine Oil Oily is 21,000, while the reported birth is 7,500. It is believed, how,-ver, aie only thr.t a correct census would sho-w ^rsr-^r birth rate, although the 7,50'" Stanolind Tractor Oil •h:r,r-p. is official. We defy Sears & Roebuck or Savage & v.io .a present time all reliable re­ ports coming out of Mexico indicate Company ihe precarious condition of the Carran-" Extra Heavy Polarine Oil y. Ti government. Carranza has been the past three years probably flurlnaf most lier.d of a state ^ro-Gorrnnn in the western hmisphere^ OpfinTy Pro-Geman. rf We will sell you a bill of goods and make no Until recently his attitude has been Stanolind Tractor Oil has Extra Heavy Polarine Oil or Heavy unfriendly to the United States, and ,r. charge for delivery. when he thought Germany was winning Polarine Oil is recommended. been found, through severe he made no efforts to conceal his 5 lbs. of sugar Worth .60 for .25 and thorough tests, to be the Any Standard Oil representative sympathy for the Teutons. Legislation 1 pr. Men's Black Cotton Socks Worth .35 for-.18 that was passed during the war will be glad to show you the chart best lubricant for more than r.nci which was directed against the 3 doz. Can Rubbers Worth .45 for .35 of Tractor lubrication, prepared ailied oil holdings in the Tampico country one-half of the tractors made. 1 lb. Creamery Butter Worth -65 for .40 by our Engineering Staff. It indicates is generally believed, in private as 3 Packages of Soda Worth .45 for .30 well as official circles, to have been specifically which of these This oil is one of great durability. inspired by German interests and representatives 2 Quarts Indian Head Grape Juice Worth .80 for .50 three oils the Standard Oil Engineers in Mexico. Protests ngainst It stands the high temperature ^2 lb. Early Flower Japan Tea Worth .40 for .30 have found will give the this legislation have been filed by the developed in a tractor engine without 4 Bottles of Bluing Worth .60 for .40 best results in your particular American, British and French governments. in body. change 10 lb. Navy Beans Worth 1.25 for .90 tractor. 8'iice he developed his anti-American 1 lb. Paraffin Wax Worth .20 for .15 f-ttitude Carranza has fanned It has the correct body to thoroughly his We have just published a 100-page 2 Bottles Ammonia Worth .30 for .25 supporters with the slogan of "LatinAmerican lubricate the remotest frictional book "Tractors and Tractor Lubrication," Solidarity" against the great 2 Cans Red Seal Lye Worth .30 for .20 surfaces, eliminating scored cylinders prepared by our engineering republic, and today the most northern 3 Cans Ready Made Soup Worth .45 for .25 renorally developed trait in the majority staff, which you will find a and undue wear. 2 lbs. Best Rice of Mexicans in federal controlled Worth -30 for .25 valuable reference book, and we is that of anti-Americanism. t. 'itory Worth .25 for 4 Boxes Matches .20 Where mechanical conditions or believe it will save you many days furthermore, reports from authentic And sourcete show that Mexico t! Ifiv design make it desirable to use a' of tractor idleness with the resultant TOTAL to a g'-eft extent, relapsed into a 5.75 $4.88 slightly heavier, or slightly lighter, money loss. It's free to you r.te of semi-civilization. oil than Stanolind Tractor Oil, for the asking. Address Standard Oil Company, 910 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, III. S. E. THOMPSON & SON ."• O .7 7Z 7 1751 (Indiana) Interesting Phase cf Present Life is Proletariat's Passion for Theaters PHONE 128 and Concerts. SEBELSNOW RULE CaiTuuzista "Sympatirizei'sTo gain "coTTtrol Mexico. As to the first or federal forces supporting of the oil fields while the European London.—One of the most interesting Carranza, it is, as already war was actively under way. phases cf life in Russia since the HALF OF MEXICO pointed out, the official claim of the Allies Like Meixuerio. revolution h: been the p:%sion for present Mexican, or Carranza, government, music displayed by the masses of the Under Guillermo Meixuerio, in the that this force numbers 120,000 is? people. Albert" Coates, an Englishman state of Oaxaca, is another rebel force men. It is a conscript army to a who has just returned from Petrograd, of several thousand well organized great extent and it Is small and inefficient where for years he was one of the men. Carranza has made desperate SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA for two reasons, the first being Official Information Shows Carranza but ineffectual efforts to dislodge Meixuerio, principal conductors of the Imperial Under the Direction and Control of Archbishop Dowling Carranza's inability to enforce conscription, who is easily one of his most opera, says the Russian proletariat Barely Clings to Control and the second the fact that feared opponents, and whose record is throngs theaters and concerts. he is unable properly to equip, train, COLLEGIATE, ACADEMIC AND Over Rest. such as to win the sympathetic approval Thi? educate-l music-loving public of or maintain necessary discipline. of the allies. Meixuerio is a fullblooded former \vs has almost entirely disappeared, COMMERCIAL COURSES Owing to these two conditions, over Zapotec, a lawyer, and a man Mr. Coa.es says. The one that HAS ONLY 60,000 TROOPS which Carranza appears to have no of fine education. has taken its place is a new public control, the federal army of Mexico is A College Combining Finest Catholic Training Next in importance among the rebel consisting of work people, peasants, today at its maximum strength. It is with Military Discipline groups is that commanded by Felix soldiers and sailors. an army poorly organized and poorly Diaz. Under Diaz, according to official "I thoroughly realized during the DESIGNATED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT equipped. Of this army a large proportion President Is Too Weak to Keep Order Information, there are approximately revolution," he went on, "the force of AS AN "HONOR SCHOOL" is held In or near Mexico City, as Bandits Harass Whole Country 5,000 men. The Diaz forces, the proverb, 'Music hath charms to leaving the remainder, numbering less Splendid Buildings, Grounds, Library. Athletics and Equipment —Industry Snuffed Out and however, unlike those under Pelaez, soothe the savage breast,' for whatever than a full division, according to the Over One Thousand Students from Twenty-eight Angeles and Meixuerio, are loosely organized Morale at Low Ebb. the 'people' do in the political and American organization, to guard and States Registered Last Year and are said to be in great social sphere—and their record is pretty maintain supremacy in the states of need of ammunition and other war materials. bad—at concerts and at the opera New York.—The Mexican problem For Catalogue address VERY REV. H. MOYNIHAN, D.D. President Nuevo Leon, eastern Coahuila, southern Despite this handicap, however, they sit as reverently as though they was never more toublesome. Conditions Durango, Hildago, San Luis Potosl, the Feliclstas, as the Diaz rebels were in church, and listen with the In that revolution-racked land Guanajuato, Queretaro, Michoacan, are known, continue to be a force, rapt expression of children to whom were never more chaotic than they are Jalisco, Tepic, Zacatecas, Guerrero, and all the efforts of Carranza- to fairyland is suddenly revealed. today. Carranza now controls little Colima, Chiapas, Campeachy, Yucatan, break up the organization have failed. "It has often happened that after a more than one-half of Mexican territory Tabasco, Quintana Roo, and the eastern Subscribe for The Press The Feliclstas are operating in the concert some simple peasant has risen and his hold on that is not at all or Atlantic edge of the state of state of Tamaulipas in the north and and formally thanked me and the orchestra secure. Opposed to him are six organized Vera Cruz, which territory on paper remains in part of Hidalgo, Puebla, and Vera for the pleasure we have rebel organizations, not Including Ti* ifTTr« under federal control. Cruz in the south. The southern Felicista given them." the Sonora Yaquls, while everywhere The big transcontinental stretch of area forms the center link in his authority is hampered and his rebel-controlled territory, which averages the rebel ocean- barrier. troops harassed by organized banditry. more than 100 miles in width, and The state of Morelos and small parts which forms an unbroken barrier from of the states of Mexico and Guerrero Bearing upon actual conditions in ocean to ocean, completely separates form the area in which the famous Mexico, the New York Times has come the federal-controlled states of the Zapatistas are and have been operating into possession of certain information, south—Chiapas, Campeachy, Yucatan, for the last seven years. As now in the official possession of the Tabasco, part of Vera Cruz and Quintana for Cantu, in Lower California, the United States government. Verification Roo—from the states or parts of situation there can be dismissed with of these statements which follow states over which Carranza still holds a word. Cantu is in absolute control is to be found in the archives of the sway in the north. of that part of Mexico, and Carranza government in Washington. Villa Forces Strongest. is making no effort to interfere with Carranza has officially claimed that Of the organized opposition groups the independent state that Cantu has he Is supported by a regular army of which are seeking to overthrow Carranza, set up. 120.000 well disciplined and well the most powerful is that which Smuggle Arms In. •equipped troops. This statement is is operating in Chihuahua and neighboring not borne out by the facts in the case, The seventh of Carranza's troubles states under Angeles and Villa. the truth of the matter is that his are the Yaquis of western Sonora. The Vlllistas, as this force is popularly firmed forces number not more than They are operating in bandit groups known, is not the unorganized, 60,000 officers and enlisted men, who and number probably several thousand. poorly equipped, and undisciplined sire poorly equipped, whose morale Is Like the Villistas, they are armed and force that a great many people in this, Jit low ebb, yet upon whose loyalty depends equipped by smuggling from the United country think it is. It is, on the other Carranza's sway over a people States. The Yaquis are among the hfjnd, probably the best organized and who number more than 115,000,000. hardest and best fighters in Mexico, Today the Coahuila "chieftain" is ex,ercising equipped military organization in Mexico. and little if any effort is being made authority in those parts of It numbers 10,000 men commanded by the federal government to restore by Angeles, the French trained Mexico not under rebel or bandit order in that part of Sonora under rebel leader, with Villa second In command. domination as a dictator and through their domination. the promulgation of executive decrees. It is well equipped ^with rifles Lastly, the bandits. Official reports end is said to have*a fairly well organized Of the great American border-line Car"ranza prove that everywhere in Mexico the artillery arm, and the Villistas is in control of not much more outlaw bands are to be found. Their fire the best ammunition, which, as a than one-third, while the whole of number is unknown, but they are rule, is American made and is smuggled southern Mexico Is severed from "federal powerful enough to hold the attention 5rande "by control" by a stretch of rebel-controlled ^across the Rio, "gun of a considerable part of Carranza's territory that on the Atlantic runners." hard-pressed little regular army of 60,000 The Angeles-Villa forces are today extends from the rich oil lands of Tam'pico men. practically in control of the entire almost to the City of Vera Cruz, Briefly, what precedes gives the lineup -and on the Pacific by the entire coast state#of Chihuahua, a large part of Durango, of the factions that are fighting Copyright ltlt tone of the great state of Oaxaca. the eastern part of Sonora, and for control of Mexico. by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. 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