Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-19

going full blast on the sidewalk, watt
ing q hot breath on every paSseroy.
This strikes us as sound advertising. "A
gas stove and heater store. A plumbing
store, with the basic instruments in
pink. purple and baby blue. We stare
through the windows. enchanted At a
lavender toilet seat with. cover OF mother
of-pearl. These Yankee plumbing sales
men know their customers.
The two persons out OF three not IN
native costume regale us with modern
American collars. the cheaper grades OF
suits from American clothing factories.
tight rayon frocks all but sweeping the
ground, near-silk stockings, close hitting
felt hats, extra high heels and legs
whose curves are subtly wrong. Every
man wears a felt hat out of difference
to the Winter season. The sun has no
such difference; on some OF these De-
cember days it is strong enough liter
ally to strike one down.
This. then, Is street corner IN our
city. 1t serves. I think, to give the pat
tern Of the whole-a confusing COCK
tail OF machines, Macmillan, colonial
facade and Tepoztlan. The Indians Stlll
provides color and vitality, but he
Shrinks before forces which descend
upon him primarily from the North.
Side by side on the same continent
the area known as Mexico and the area
known as the United States there we
are always referred to as the United
States Of North America" to distinguish
us from the United States OF MeXico)
have comningled and interpenetrated
one another for uncounted thousands OF
years. The Rio Grande Is less formi-
dable than its name, particularly in the
dry season.
According to the theory Of Paul
Radin,' the mound builders of the
Mississippi Valley came up from Mexico
Certainly migrating Indians came down
from the Great Plains upon the Mexi-
can plateau. We find the maize Gull
ture spread generally over North Amer
lea. Once Mexico held title to Texas
and most of the Far West. Our cowboy
fiction, our cowboys very habits, would
be something far less picturesque with
lies back Of both. 1t CLEANS in such
words as vamouse, hombre, corral, mesa
sombrero. mesquite, rodeo, remuda, re-
alta, bronco, nevada, poncho, no saoe
canyon. Nor should we forget that
Mexico and Spain fought the English
in Ohio and Florida, and so helped US
win the Revolution of 1776.
Drst Affects Millions.
MuIAOLlS Oh MeAlcanS nave CfuSScO LAC
Rio Grande to work for q time in mine
or field or on the range. Some have
drifted to the cities. Scores of thou
sands have gone back to their milpas
particularly since the market crash OF
1929. On June 80, 1928, there were
49,. 900 Mexicans in the United States
They constitute a migratory population
Of great importance to the American
food supply. They move, according tc
Paul s. Taylor, in seasonal cycles fol-
lowing the crops, thinning sugar heets
in May, chopping and picking cotton In
June, following the fruit IN the Sum
mer, harvesting grapes in the early Fall
and later walnuts and lettuce in the
Imperial Valley. Winter finds them
the whole family, of course-campine
beside their ramshackle fiivvers ir
Southern California. Their cycle ebbs
and flows from Pennsylvania, to Michi-
gan, to the Coast.
was constantly meeting in the most
outlandish places young men who hao
been In Chicago, Los Angeles and New
York. They recognized me instantly al
an American (Which the Indians, am
glad to say. often did not), and APP
preached with warming assortment OF
my native slsng. I found one youth who
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