Show W N LEI IE J RALLIED R illS bitS MEN lIES AND FOUGHT OV ON O AFTER LOSING sits illS ARM ARlit AT CELAYA By Ily RODNEY DUTCHER NEA LA Service Senke Writer WASHINGTON Oct 20 Alvaro 20 Alvaro Obregon one of the men In the present Mexican crisis and probably Mexico's next president has only one arm ann How he lost the other arm is isa Isa isa a good story Obregon was fighting for control of Mexico with the notorious bandit Villa At a time when operations cen ceo centered fared red at Celaya Celaa north of Mexico City the situation was as more or less precarious It was at Celaya that Obregon's arm armas was as blown off oU by a I. I bomb An witness eye recalling the incident says sas that the bomb tore Obregon's uniform to rags and covered ered his bus body with wounds It was wa-s feared that the commanding general would die In the morning marcin Obregon's officers came to their leader and told him that his soldiers were disheartened and in bad mental condition for a fight Rumors had spread that he was dead Obregon the arm now only a raw stump went out and mounted his horse and led a revitalized army anny to toa toa a I. I victory which turned the tide of the war If It the State Department had its way federal troops would be chasing Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman man into the mountains Just as Mexican troops arc are chasing the rebels below the Rio Grande Crande Assuming that Lowman is allowed to retain his Job a 1 few more months he will have every official in Wash Wash- Washington WashIngton Washington ington roaring for his gore just gore Just be because be- be because because cause Lowman tells t the truth as he sees It Just when it was WS supposed that Lowman man had been effectively gagged after aCter his frank on the sub sub- subject subject of prohibition which h fie ie e Is nominally supposed to enforce Low Low- Lowman Lowman Lowman man turned around and erupted in a anew anew anew new direction this time threatening to gum up a delicate international situation for the Department of State An Art extremely Important situa situa- situation tion too tos The worst of it was that Lowman uttered a few terrible words tend tend- tending tendIng tending ing to confirm what many persons retard regard as obvious ob facts but which the administration had been deny deny- ing The State Department had per per- perspired perspired perspired freely In attempts to In its notes to France on the tho new French tariffs that reciprocity had never been a part of this country's policy and that we never bargained o cr the tariff to the point where we would lower or raise ours when some other nation did as much for us 02 Lowman announced formally the raising of the tariff on certain minor articles of import front from France and then undertook to explain that this was because France had raised her tariffs He lie said The American policy polley Is one of reciprocity That's our policy They go up we go up they go down we come down downy Insofar as the tariff t. law concern concern- concerning concernIng concerning ing the commodities in question que was concerned Mr Lowman was dead right But practically what he did was wa-s to repudiate the whole basis o 01 the State Departments Department's contention against the new French tariffs If I France were to seize upon his words and flaunt them it would also have an excellent comeback against President President President dent Coolidge's explanation that our whole protest was against discrimination dis discrimination crimination for the new rates an an- announced announced and explained by Lowman were ere Just as much discrimination against France France- Insofar as they went ent as Frances France's new tariffs are against us It begins to look as If It Mr Lowman wouldn't be bo with us much longer His superiors including Secretary Mellon were embarrassed and ald had trouble smoothing things over with the State Department and now they're bereft of sleep wondering where Low Low- Lowman Lowman Lowman man will spill plU the beans next Speaking more seriously I the tariff row between the tho U U. S. S and France rance is fraught with alt all sorts of possibilities Whether the contentions ns of the State ate Department In its notes to France are arc tenable Unable or not they apparently must be maintained if 11 ife we e are arc to keep our protective tariff policy Intact It Is la fervently hoped that France will back down for this country dares not enter into a 1 reciprocal agreement with France on tariff rates lest leit every other foreign country also demand a similar arrangement with Ith us Involving Ing lower duties dulles The only alternative e if France sticks lIcks to her position is for this country to retaliate with higher tariff on imports from front France and this now seems bound to happen although such a I course may precipitate a tariff war warIn against In us the h consequences of oC which i can only be conjectured o Meanwhile the situation is giving I Ilow low loss tariff advocates In this country plenty of o ammunition Li lS of or o loyally l y change cn s 5 in Mexico General Francisco eo Serrano right was wan counted as a f of Calles top lop and Obregon bottom bollom hen nhen hen this picture was tak Uk taken taken en three years ago ajo Serrano was ex executed ox- ox by Calles' Calles order in the recent revolt re He lie was nas as a candidate for President President President dent against Obregon |