What Manner of Man Is the New President of ? Alvaro Obregon, Who Is To Be Inaugurated Next Thursday, Has Proved Himself a Good Business Man and a Brave Soldier. Now He Must Show His Executive Ability. Mexican People Hope for Peace

A N INDIAN of the San x Juan stables. Pc« pic who lived in th< ALVARO OBREGON, who Teohbuacan North when Obregon .-wept By Sophie Treadwell * througl will be inaugurated Pres¬ STREET SCENE in the town of Guadalupe, near the after Villa tell of general devasta¬ NEW President takes the A man. ident of Mexico next Thurs- City of Mexico But he was a strong man tion. 11 believe Obregon, in Ria rule of Mexico Thursday. strong enough to wait. boo'k, remarks that he learned much A Alvaro Can from Sherman's march to Obregon. he, TYPICAL Indian home Knows How to Wait the sea.' as we say, get away with are tremendously expressive, with j The Mexicans who remember the*-* ¿* of the poorer sort in Here was the field for other tal¬ ;t? For being President of Mexico a certain curiously appealing qual¬ Mexico things are still incredulous before ents. There is no doubt that, in the order that came into the is no sinecure. Perhaps it could best ity. And his voice is alluring, country spite cf Obregon's so-called impul¬ six months ago. be listed as a risk. caressing. dency by the force of his own arm siveness, he knows perfectly how to A Man of In the last ten years of the three He can say "no" so indulgently and brain ; not by any emotional Yerí-atilit) wait. He knew how to wait until do not realize actual Preside!.*- since Diaz two one believes the favor granted. wave of popular demand. They that Obn & Villa eliminated himself by banditry, is a very versátil.« man, who can do I avu been murdered and one died, He dresses like a successful Amer¬ Obregon the politician i? a very until Zapata was killed, until Car¬ one thing one time and the opposite a in a ican business man.and make- clever manipulator. But he is not a practically prisoner, foreign ranza had played his string out ab- the next when the opposite is t:e money like one, too. cheap panderer to public opinion in demanded. land. solutely to the end and until the thing They do not ap¬ But if it isn't safe, any sense of the word. He has con¬ preciate the many sides to Obregon's particularly Difficult to Analyze skids were ready for Gonzales. Then being President of Mexico, yet it is victions and sticks to them, no mat¬ character, the variety of his talents. He began life as the youngest of once again, at the head of his Yaquis, nor the difference between everlastingly exciting. Probably no ter how they run counter to public Obreg;.' twenty children in a family prac¬ he rode into . the soldier, fighting to win, job in the world to-day available to favor and the fulfillment of his own tically without means. »As a boy he People were amazed at the swift¬ Obrcgoi:, the soldier and politic!a the ordinary man can so fulfill the ambitions. v. ho has won. did any and every sort of work that ness, completeness and orderliness of normal lust for power of the aver- The most striking proof of this is the last revolution. knew of came to hand. Then he rented a They Obregon's range talents is, in¬ «ige human being. that in a country where 12.000,000 deed, vpeak Sixty-three I remember an interview I had contrasts that have root Carranza, Upon the answer to these last two Languages their deep these State of , organized around refractory people, a power questions the stand or fall This Indian strain has produced with him when he first entered the in the race and its history.are com¬ depends himself the rebellion against Huer¬ they scarcely would recognize in any of the Obregon régime. Whether or some great men: Juarez, a pure capital. It was cabled back from plicated by the immediate last ten ta. He called himself "the First one not of their own blood. While not the situation is just, whether or Indiar ; Diaz, almost. Yet the great The Tribune and carried in the year?.these last ten years that not it is Chief." Obregon and also Villa the "Nos" cite Obregon's looks. He being handled not j mass of the Indians of Mexico are Mexican papers. His statements have destroyed the old order an.l with fairness but with tact, has were among the generals who sup¬ is purely a European type.Span¬ still, as the Russian? say, "people created quite a stir in Mexico City, created new hates. now nothing to do with it. The situ¬ him. ish, with perhaps a bit of Irish back ation is: in darkr.es«." More than and the Mexican reporters bom¬ The whole crop of debt?, dictates ported Grew to a Arnix somewhere. L\000;000 of them understand noth- barded him en masse. and disillusions that were the sierile Big Our Friendship this time the of Be that as it may. it their native dialect. Of the "Did you really say those things products of his predecessors has By Yaqui army Obregon's No President in Mexico a* force- he car sixty-three languages spoken in the the American paper quoted?" been inherited by Obregon. Obregon had grown like a herd in grew. Suddenly, swept this time endure without the .friend¬ a He them down the upon the Zapata army in Puebla, the of republic f.fty-two are Indian. "Why not?" All tho injustices, confusion?, round-up. led ship, backing, the United when and then came on to attack Villa. States. This may not be an Yet the Indians of Mexico "We thought maybe there was a promises, grouches and west coast to the capital. And agree¬ enjoy grievances able or a pleasant fact below the all the and civil mistake." have been and are now Huerta fled Obregon was outside, the Villa made his stand at Celaya. political rights of kept stewing Rio Grande. »\nd any one who citizens. "Why so?" dished up.piping hot.to Obregon. gates to receive the surrender of Here was fought the celebrated bat¬ knows of OF the typical beggars of Mexico, an all too common anything Mexico, her The constitutions of Mexico, since "We thought perhaps if you didn't A sort of inaugural banquet. what was left of the Federal army. tle in April, 1915, that ended Vil¬ ONE sighcirthf tragic historv. her sensitive char¬ the have been models want to deny, you might like to All the thwarted from Meanwhile, Villa, leader in the la's power and took from the vic¬ acter, must know that it is not. But independence, ambitions, it I the interview." North, had turned against the First torious Obregon an arm. the man in the is, for this moment anyway. » --gal phraseology. Her laws are modify the who never got in to strong Carranza Obregon only as a fighter, the man fact. among the most in the "Modify nothing." the Carranzistas who out. Chief. Obregon tried, by personal The loss of an arm camp. And when in 1917 the First of quick raids, sudden enlightened just got by Obregon onslaughts, The United States cannot to it up and nearly has not been Chief became the ruthless forward marches. flood on. '"¦"..rid. But her people, the mass of Finally one of the Mexican all disgruntled, all sore, all enduring mediation, patch without its advantage. constitutional Pres¬ They on jour-] knew nothing of the of the tifle of vast material achieve >r people, ar» still in the nalista said: ! an of watchful wait¬ got himself before a firing squad for Confirmed optimists who claim to ident, Obregon had the post of Min¬ Obregon helpless imposed period quiet plan and plot, of Obregon the ment in which she is being carried. of ignorar.ce and poverty, "My Genera:, hereafter when you ing -a hungry pack at the foot of his trouble. find good in every bad could find no ister of War. wise waiter. with« it oil. Mexico to-day produce- a conven¬ GO cent of while the land itself is fabuloui ;, are going to make important decla¬ the Presidential plum tree, where the Finally, however, peace better proof of their philosophy than The story of his military rise in per the world's supply. And Vet He Fell It is oil under ¡ich and brilliant in rations like won't be kind are now tion was brought about between all Obregon's lost arm. There is no these few year?, from a volunteer Mexico's soil, but its Insauty and this, you Obregonistaa busily occu¬ Carranza, the elected President out the leaders- at Aguas- to Minister of of brought by Anglo-Saxon money »r.ety. enough to make them to us first?" pied in the top branches. antagonistic doubt that this visible crippling has captain War, is set Mexico, behind him the the and work. calientes. This convention lasted army, "Mexico," said Baron von Hum- ".Surely," with a pood natu red contributed much to what popularity forth by Obregon himself in a thick treasury and all the ramifications of How Did He Rise? two months. The convention ended The American Urge ¦.oldt, "la a beggar aitting in 4 laugh, "if you ask me first." he has gained. Here is a general who volume called Six Thousand Kilo¬ a complicated governmental ma¬ How did Alvaro ti¬ no was Now, this terrible urge of Amer-' palace." Obregon get when Carranza said ho would has obviously suffered for his coun¬ meters of Campaign. chine, overthrown, uprooted, Easy to Have the cast dead and ica is not to be stopped by a dictate It is to II«e«- porter to be sacrificed and his own months. I saw the dinner served their rank through favor, and whc ses-ion of the capital the last time sincerely, very Obregon, who still remained loyal did his public actions as President it seems to them tía «R a complete order was maintained. truly, essential:j* good looking, robust r-i-ru, compatriot:! to be pleased. Yet he But I wasn't in on the catering o; to Carranza, fell back before Villa's have used it only to sign infiatet °f find favor «*ith his minister. Fur¬ Probably the record of crime in the unjust. juet forty, medium height, strong Stood by. the. This i: inactive vouchers, the sight of one who ha: cooking. much, however, ;;uperior army and remained thermore, Obregon felt that he had city was never lower. And through¬ Is Obr»aron tha ?".rastcjent «*<..wv looking, thick cheated. He has high Obregon is not a idol in h in : his not only really with his men popular tory for several months, reorganizing fought made Carranza, and this is always a out the country, now that Obregon- enough, self-contained enoagu .*. coloring; he-looks as though he en¬ «Mexico by any means. In the North, Obregon \* a Mexican of th« forcea. but has actually lost an arm doinf ism is established, respect for prop¬ accept his country's destiny? Or difficult feeling in any walk of life will his joya life. You are «war« first