The day book. [volume], March 16, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 10

About The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917

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c AMERICANS AS VIEWED BY MEXICANS OUR
SOLDIERS LIKE LIFE TOO WELL TO DIE
t The Mexican viewpoint through the eyes of islas Allenda, one of the
greatest Mexican cartoonists. The land problem in Mexico is the thing that
is causing the present revolution. Allenda's great cartoon, here published,
is entitled "Dividing, the Land." It shows a landscape covered with graves,
and, underneath the cartoon, Allenda has written, "Mexico has 200,000
jlandholders," meaning that many new graves filled. The "2 mts. x 1" on the
tombstones is the Mexican equivalent jpjtjfhe old English saying, "Every
man will finally get his six feet of groujid
DjgOJejT athletes. They have been
edufcaed along the best lines of phys
ical culture. Their bull necks, their
bleeps', their ample chests, their thick
exercise their muscles, crampedbl thighs, their whole bodies show a
BY MIGUEL ORDORICA.
Vera Cruz, March 16. I have seen
the American bluejackets come
ashore to take their sea baths ancLtto
the long days passed on shipboard, ly
ing pn deck under the rays of a burn
big sun.
I had not imagined that muscular
development could reach such won
derful proportions. They are full-
hharmonious and magnificent develop
ment.
They are very young; they can
scarcely be over 25. Now I see them
jump into the sea. Expert swimmers,
they go long distances, playing like