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WHAT ONE SEES IN JUAREZ. Two men walked across the international brldKe connecting El Puho, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. One was ii stranger in the Southwest; the other was a native son, writes Robert K. Dickson in the Kunsas City Star. As their passport* were <?. K.'d by a Mexican immigration officer. the. stranger glanced about him keenly alert to his new environment and anxious to see it all. "Well," lie said, "we are in Mexico ?on foreign soil, itather a peculiar feeling." The native son grinned broadly. "So." he said. "We are not in Mexico. We are In Juar x." Ami thereby hangs a tale. Juarez is a city beautiful. It also is a city of ugliness, dirt and filth. It hi a city of commerce?one of the principal Mexican ports and the nice, ca for American tourists, who spend their money and time in a mad race tc "see it all" and who see little of it. It is a city of history, and the history is of many sorts. The two sides of Juarez are distinct as white ami black. The American tourist sees the Idack side, which is more prominent, and leaves with the impression that he lias seen Mexico. He has seen only that part of Mexico invaded by the American gambler and man with a past and exploited by both of them into a recking city o' license. Follow the Amerienn tourist as lie leaves K1 Paso, having obtained his ten day passport and submitted to the vaccination at the bridge. He leaves the street ear and goes immediately to the lirst saloon, the Central liar anil cafe, the largest and most respectable of the many saloon? in Juarez. lie has several drinks, amid much damning of the United States congress for its part in the eighteenth amendment, and goes intr the street again to see what he may see. He sees a good ileal of it at first, lint gradually viws one object a* a time and makes order out of th? confusion of humanity. Gambling having recently been resumed in Juarez, after the revolution settled down, he goes to the TivoP fiesta and looks about to pick hi." game. At present there are faro sliul poker, crap games and eliuck-a luck, but roulette has not been re opened. . Why. it is not known, bn* it probably will be in vogue again In a ma Iter of days. The crowds about t.he gaming tn bios are dense, men anil women? and the women are worse gambler* than the men. playing a larger gam' ? watch the dice and cards with in tense interest. Whites. negroes Mexicans and on occasional Orients' crowd about the tables and throv tbolr silver in response to the call o' the gamekeepers. No paper mono Is used In the games: the keeper, will change your bill, but silver only npnoars on the tables. At one stud poker table a M ox lea' deals. One eye stares vacantly am" flxodly*. the other follows his move ments, but It is difficult to know whether he is looking at yon or th? man to your right. lie deals witl one hand, throwim* the em-no eee.i.. ntcly to each plnyor with n motloi of the wrist, ami slaifflinR the rnrii with tho movements that mark hin as a veteran player?the faces C the cards never appear ahove th< surface of the tahle. The players ae eept their eanls and play the! ljands in absolute silenee. Speech srems to bo a erime. and the expres sions on the players' faees do no? indieate the trend of the lurk. The^ do not play with prim countenance they assume the expressions the< wore when they sat down at the tabic and hold them throughout the game After loslnp what money he eon Riders superfluous, the tourist poos out notieinp for the first time sovora' blind beppnrs alonp the pathway t? the street. A few more drinks in th various saloons, an hour in one or the enhnrets and he is ready to go haek to the United States. He hn* "seen Mexico," had his drinks and holds a passport entltllnp him to pe and come as he will between the two countries for a period of ten days Rut if he stays later than !> p. m. he must stay all niffht, and the hotels are not of the best in Juarez. Jaurez undohutedly is dirtier thai the averape American thinks possi l 'e. Few paved streets, a careless* I opulnce and the chaos of Americans' visits make It a city of tilth. To the siphtseer. however, it is a city bean tiful. The oldest church on tlv* American continent is located there, the bells in its towers still hung with strips of hide as they were In tho 1fith century, when the church was built. You can go to the doorway, if you will be quiet and restrain your curl osity. and see a large crowd at after, noon prayer, their voices shrill, low or heavy. The church is across from the market place, where the farmer and the manufacturer sit all day In the sun. selling when there is demand, but soliciting no trade. T.ittle tables throughout the town bear cakes of horrible color. swarming with tlies and presided over by a man or woman who looks upon sleep as superior to making a living. They arc well patronized, but not by the Americans. Your American, even on a spree, draws the line at some things In tlir* ooofio.. ? * ... pretty, one may see the better class of Mexicans. Some of the women are beautiful, haughty and graceful?it ij j only in the business section (gambling and drinking) where you see the slouehy female. Many ride in motor i ears, some in carriages, and arc gorgeously and tastefully dressed with j dainty parasols and vanity cases There you can see the old homes of ! the aristocracy. There you can even see the aristocracy, providing they are not taking their siestas, as the better classes do. Hut It is beautiful quaint, picturesque (naturally) and interesting to a high degree. Juarez has its restricted district, an almost separate town of one storv adobe huts and dusty streets. The heat becomes stifling in mid-afternoon and the Mexicans remain indoors, with windows and doors tightly closed, sleeping while the sun is at its worst ft MOVE FOR GOOD ROADS. Correspondent Indorses Sujcmtioii for State and County Effort. Kdltor Kurt Mill Times: A matter that should engage the attention anil interest of every public spirited citizen of the State was outlined hy Holmes Simons at a meeting of the Columbia Automotive Trade tssociation Monday, according to The State of Tuesday. The phin^ is to liuve all the puhlic roads in the State l?ut in good condition between August 1 5 and September t. so that they will sustain automobile travel throughout the winter months folowing This is to tic effected hy 1 lorot|gh organization and united effort. both State and county. It is thought hy those who are pressing the mutter that all good citizens will gladly give a day's work, while some will lend teams, wagons, tractors, etc., for putting the roads in good shape. is this not fen an hie? Is it not necessary? I low about our York county roads? I>o they not need attention and need it badly? Knthusiast 1<\ united effort will work wonders along this line. And, from the material standpoint, what will l?o of so much honcllt to all tho people as making it easy to k? from one part of the State or county to the other? It will he helpful to the farmer, the merchant, the pleasure-seeker. the teacher, tho preacher and all elasss of business men. likewise it will he of untold benefit to the farni,^ the store, lie factory, the church and tho school. While we are waiting for bonds to ho voted and sold, and the money expended In road DulldinK, let us take hold of this suggestion to unite our ITorls in making what roads we now have passable during the fall and winter months. There are more ways of showing our love of country than b\ easting our ballots on election?day, <r taking up arms when the time comes for such action. Itoth of these lutlcs should bo gladly performed. ne one roKiilm ly and intolllftcntly. the ollior bravely ami unllinehinRlv \hen ?1 nty demands it Hut* a tru3 a tut unselfish citizenship should find expression in many ways in tho neaeeful walks of life; and one of hrse ways is tilhnu up tho mud holo in front of one's door, euttinK nut tho tree or removim; soino other ol?strnotlon without expertinn any reward other than a uood eonselenee. 'utter travel for one's self and thrappi eolation of the puldie. Let us join with others in this movement, so thnt with ooneorted aetion intieh trend will he done and we shall have a fine lesson in voluntary union of unselfish effort J. \V. II. it. Knit Mill July Jl. Occasionally you see n small hoy or airl, nft< it naked, always dirty. Less often you see a man or woman, who stares at you with a very superior ex presslon When Juarez joined the revolt re ently it merely joined. A week hefore Jaiire/, joined the revolt. Hen. J fl. Kseohar, ertinm'ander of the Jiiurez. parrlson. said to a la rye audlenee: "I will have no dealings with the revolution." A ilay before Juarez :oined, Oeneral Kseohar said: "I am in-un nun .miiii wnii i nc furrauzn government." His garrison Join oil. and I'lM'oltar Join< (!, too. I>ni it is nil over The soldiers, if Ihoy know, do not care whom they represent. for there is no lighting and plenty of looting. whilo the police go thoir way arrostimr an occasional drunkard and rolling many cigarettes There is the lniil ring. with frcipiont lights. tin- market place, the churches I he gambling and drinking, hilt your Mexican citj'-cn is a pMi "f il " 1 I with no an l dionr are to live happily on very little. You Can't B< Real Tir ?seems to be the agrt Chevrolet and Maxwell who have the new G n? i v-uncner i ire on their rn Ami il.ct ^ ?') iis^' af is bigg< La T1m* IVak ?>r ThIh' IVrfW'lim FORT MILL TIMES, NO MOB IN SIGHT. Machine Gunners at Gnham, K. C., Shoot Down Citizen. Machine gunners froiu Durham, N. C.. ordered to Graham by Governor Blckett to protect three negroes accused of assaulting a white woman Saturday. Monday night tired into a group of men, killing James A Kay. It now transpires, according to th" verdict of the coroner'8 Jury, that no effort was being made to take the net aes from the Grahuin jail to lynch them. "We find no evidence whatevethat any attack was being made on the jail" was the closing sentence of the verdict of the coroner's Jury empaneled to hear the evidence in the case and arrive at a conclusion i.s to the death of James A. Kay. who ' mot his death by a gun shot wound, gun tired by some member" of the hnrham machine gnn company," the i.oii iiik iiu> uik iusivu mr iiu' uiij , overshadowing, for the time at least, the initial cause, the outraging of the womanhood of Alamance county >\ a negro on Saturday night. Feeling was Intense In the county scat of Alamance county Tuesday as a result of what was voiced in the coroner's hearing and out of it as an outraRp, evidence Introduced showing that not more than five peoj.le. two of them hoys, were together at the time the shooting occurred and not it single shot having been fired except those fired by the soldiers on guard at the jail Mqnday inght. The three negro defendants neither < f whom the out raged woman would identify as her assailant, in fact, made the statement in the case of each, when they were brought before her. that neither was guilty, were taken by the officers and men of the Durham machine gun company on a special train Tuesday morning it C. o'clock and carried to Raleigh. * .ion ni<; KNorc.il. Vice* President in Cabinet would Re Mistake*. Marshall Says. The vice president of the United States maintaining order in the senate with a gun across his knee was the idea advanced by Vice President Mar miuii Saturday night at San Oiego, f'al.. of whnt would ho necessary with the second olllcial of the nation n permanent member of the president's cabinet, as suggested by Senator I larding. "Bls-senslon would arise within the senate should its presiding officer be so closely in touch with the ndminis- ( tration as to be a permanent member of the cabinet," Mr. Marshall s.'bl. "The vice president would have to preside over the senate with a gun." Marshall declared the chief of the senate acts as a judge on questions affecting the destiny of nations. "1 hue ll'eially ?< sit with my eyes shut and politics lias no ro<)ir. in the reasoning of the senate executive when matters are presented." Pntts-llood Marriage. In the presence of a few of their friends. Miss Sadie Belle Potts and Willie Arthur llood were married In the study of the Baptist pastorium Sunday afternoon. July 18, at 3:30 .. . .ui rv, ml- nn-llHMI) IICIIIK performed by the licv, J. W. H. Oyehea, pastor of the young couple. The bridegroom is n promising young farmer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Hood of the t'lfeasant Valley section of Hancaster county, while the bride Is the attractive daughter of Mr. and Mrs. June Potts of the same section. Many friends wish for these young people happiness and prosperity as they start on life's Journey together. ????????????? | eat 'Em for e Wear sed opinion of Ford, owners around here oodyear All-Weather TIS. certainly must menu It holer they've bought ouo of 's ifs usually just a question until they're Imck for more I line for tlirlr other wlirclK. w Goodyear Clincher :r, better and stronger i* In sinrt one of your car. les Motor Co. DRT MILL, S. C, I ji ii?Lomlyrnr Heavy Tourist FORT MILL, S. 0. SCHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE EXAMINATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA The examination for the award of vacant scholarships in the University of South Carolina and for admission of new students will be held at the County Courthouse on Friday, July 9, at 9 a m. Applicants must not be legs than sixteen years of age. When scholarships are vacant after July 9, they will be awarded to those making the highest average at examination, provided they meet the conditions governing the award. Applicants for scholarships should write to President Currell for scholarship examination blanks. These blanks, properly filled out by the applicant, should be filed with President Currell by July 2. Scholarships are worth $100, free tuition and fees, total $158. The next session will open September 15, 1920. I Pop flirt How 1 ....v.iMaiivii aim CHiaiU^UI', address President W. S. CURRELL. Columbia, S. C. DR. A. L_. OXX , DENTIST Office hours, 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. (Dr. Spratt's office) Belk Building, Fort Mill, S. 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