Show I WATCHFUL WAITING OF MEXICANS DONE IN JUAREZ City Opposite El Ei P Paso s 's Is IsMore IsMore IsMore More Spanish Than Spain Says Writer By By y ROBERT ROBERT M Special corre correspondent on Mexican border for tor The Telegram JUAREZ Mexico J July ly 22 On 22 On t the theother theother other side of the narrow narrow and nd muddy Rio Grande Grands are El P Paso so and the United States States States-El El Paso hot young and nd rich the United States busy doll dollar r m mad md d dand and h hurrying hurring rr Here is juarez Juarez cool In the shade shad of trees and mountains quiet and peaceful despite the 4 47 7 g guns ns tr tf trained tn ined d on it from irom the An American si side watchfully waiting wait watt ing All this is Mexico a picturesque country with a peo people le of s staking king In Individuality individuality individuality in- in whose present i iV but whose whosO past Is rich in ind d d Intellectual merit In El Paso vv ev everybody wa t Minor the a artist and end m BA BARto o come over to Juarez Juares The Jh py y white man W Who o crossed tr 1 l a.- a. bridge would be throN ea l lor or shot or both But we wanted to visit this us border town so with only American and Mexican soldiers and add a river no wider than the Marne Mare between us and 1 arez we started The American soldiers at at the El P Paso Pao fiO end nd of the bridge frisked us for fora a gun We had non none Then they frisked the flivver The flivver r had no gun We were allowed to proc proceed ed In a minute we had passed the armed guard on the Mexican l n end of the bridge and were in Mexico A Mexican customs customs cus cus- toms tonis official asked us If we ne had anything anything anything any any- thing dutiable We told him that we had not and he took our word for tor It H. As a border city Juarez lare Is not as Mexican as it might be In Its external appearance Except In parts of the business section Ju Juarez rez Is th Spanish In Inthe Inthe Inthe the business section on on the walls of looking buildings are such signs as Turkish bath grocery store store and French barber Even the bull ring a huge structure is partially disguised with advertisements advertisements advertise advertise- ments meats one of which hits th the eye with enormous et letters ItA STAVE HAVE VE YOU SEEN THE BIG KID We hadn't and we The big kid kidS kid kidby by the way is a w weighty personage who owns saloons In Juarez and El EI Paso The only things American left in Juarez are advertisements advertisements advertisements advertise advertise- ments and closed stores and nd saloons Juarez is Spanish Spanish more more Spanish even than Spain Sp In streets between adobe houses can be seen slowly moving Mexican men under enormous sombreros and women gliding along with equally large bur bur- dens dOlS on their heads little lithe horses some sauna active and well WE'll fed o others to tie the e o c of collapsing ng dust covered peons from the interior Who thio droop with their igar ts a ag al they shuffle thong along lon in ju raches leather s sandals bronz bronzed d Indi Indian ti faces softened d by black mat mah- till tilled tillas s that flow down over bl black ck g gar garments t- t ments beautiful senoritas whose h s every v rY movement of eye eje and supple body tode de denote denote de- de note the warmth and passi passion n o of or to a south southern country cm On Jho le outskirts is the c cm cemetery m tery Here ar are four foul gra es ltv s newly dug by municipal l prisoners sunning gunning themselves themselves them them- selves in t the e little bit of f shado at the rear i of bf n a t sq square J re adobe structure ture tuie whose whoso principal use seems stems to be as a backst backstop for prisoners who are arA stood up before it and sh shot Outside is a canvas stretcher sp spotted with blood inside a 8 coffin crate whose se stains how the first stIng resting place of the executed while the final Is being bein- pr prepared ea pared in a co com common cOin cOin- ninon n- n mon inon burying trench nearby The most mos interesting interestIng- feature of Juarez Juanez i is UI ti the e COm when S Senor n r Don A And Andres dr s Garcia a cla co coits consul s 's l and Gon Gen Gonzales army l leader are are r dispensing hospitality while on one of Gen Con Gonzales Gonzales' ry bands is giving an anThe impromptu concert The program is v varied ri ros d Los the th Me rexi l Mexican l an nation national l an anthem anthem an- an them and nd songs dear to th the hearts of of the Me Mexicans Indeed d if the threatened war between Mexico and the United States were a competition of notes between between be be- tween t the e military bands of th the two republics rel l Mexico o o. o would b be the vIctor for tor there Is music musiO in th the n Bo souls ls of th the people on this side of ot the Rio Grandel Grande |