Show INAUGURAl OF f RG I s J Noted Mexican rak Takes lakes Oa Oath tho of Office Before Huge Throngs i in the Capital Capita Of of f M Mexico il o oEL EL PASO Tex Dec 1 Well Well wishers of Mexico who came on onI J j I special trains from Arizona New Mexico and California to see General Obregon inaugurated as president were among persons persons closest to the front of the scene of activities in in the c capital pital at midnight when the general was declared president according to telegrams received here today The telegrams said the biggest patriotic pa- pa patriotic patriotic pa pa- demonstration Mexico ever everi i saw SW followed the inauguration tion cere cere- mony General Genera Obregon I later conferred I with men on a special train from Kansas City representing the I Kansas ansas i City Mexico Orient Railroad of Texas The new president pledged himself to give every possible assist assistance assistance ance anc t American capital 1 fo for the de de- e nl of fJ He He said ud aid he e would o C I. I len lend Jn t Ij railroad so se 0 as as to make through a-through a- a line from Kansas City it to Chihuahua C ilu hua Cit City EXICO CITY Dee Dec L Gen L Gen General M. M MEXICO 1 c eral who wh bec becomes mes president of l Ec ico today today today to to- day ha has pr prefaced faced his induction into office office- with tt-ith promises promises promises' o of the Immediate te institution tu tion of a a. program of ot social and civil reform that was said to be the basis for the revolution revolution revolution tion last summer which ultimately wept him Into power He has stated not only to the ilie press but in several Joint conferences with congress that Mexico must open its doors to foreigners of of good intent must protect capital must settle its International obligations In other words must get in hi tune with the tho world As the fundamental b basis for this adjustment he has asserted that Mexico must return to a normal mode of living in which petty ambitions ambitions ambitions ambi ambi- of ot individuals must be submerged submerged submerged sub sub- merged and Vital policies of ot social reform put Into practice EDUCATIONAL NEEDS He lie recognizes education of ot the thema ma masses ses as the real first need and If It his plans are carried out schools long neglected will be opened and school teachers long underpaid and andIn andIn andin In many cases not paid at all will willbe willbe be given employment The new president was born in 1880 in the state of Sonora From rom early childhood he ho was forced id to work for tor a living but h he has be become become become be- be come one ot the tho country's biggest industrial m men n. n He Hels is said to possess ss considerable wealth Revolutions in Mexico within the past few tew years years' made him first a military power in the nort north then a n sta staunch adherent qt of r. r Carranza whose succession to the tho presidency Is said to have been largely due to the military mill mili tary tart genius and energy of Obregon It was General Obregon wheat who at Celaya Celaya Celaya Ce- Ce laya inflicted what Is said said- to to be the only decisive e military defeat F Francisco Fran Pran- ran ran- cisco Villa the bandit ever suffered red With Carranza in power General Obregon was with many dl Ja tats tats' a l or Ks oc occupying oc- oc in including In g numerous official posts eluding that of minister 61 of r. r war wara CARRANZA INCIDENT When In inthe the fall of or 1919 Pre President l t J Carranza announced definitely he would retire from oW office e at the AR of ot his term on December I 1920 and that elections would would be he held d dIn In a a. regular and legal manner General General General Gen Gen- eral Obregon was the first to announce announce announce an an- his candidacy From rom his hacienda home in Sonora early this year ear he Issued a manifesto to which proclaimed him the l loader leader of QC the Ute Liberal Constitutionalist l party and announced a R. platform of reform upon which he purposed to make pi his campaign cam cam- lie He Immediately began bogan a tour of oC tho the republic Early in April General Obregon re retired retired retired re- re tired to his home homo in Sonora following following follow follow- ing published charges that the tho Carranza Carranza Car Car- ranza regime was attempting to embarrass embarrass embarrass em em- barrass his candidacy Almost coincident coincident colnel coin coln- el with this retirement came the tho deflection of Adolfo de la is Huma Huerta who as governor o of ot Sonora refused d to recognize the sovereignty so of President PresIdent President Pres Pres- ident Carranza in certain state affairs af at fairs This disagreement culminated early in May In open revolution resolution with which General Obregon and numerous of ot his political aids and large numbers num bers of followers became affiliated 1 Followed ed then In quick succession the march of the arm army of or the Ute north norl on Mexico City Cily And Its subsequent bloodless bloodies capture th the flight of ot Ires fres on on page 7 1 I It INAUGURAL from page 1 1 iza za and his cabinet and ando andoL loathe oL o the executive in a lonely hut hut r |