The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-10-09
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hutched Out
The Truth
. MEXICO'S ECONOMY
Q TIED WITH u. S.
. NAZI PROPAGANDA
Q HITS AT UNITED STATES

. HITS AT UNITED STATES
This is probably the last of the
comment on Mexico.
Not that everything can be said in
a few columns-it couldn't-but the
fact is there are other things to talk
about, such as the war and things do
ing in the United States.
An outstanding fact is that Mexi-
can economy gets tied more closely to
U. S. economy every day. Mexico's
ups and downs will coincide with ours,
by and large.
Example: Mexicans do a lot of
work with tin. 1t has become a siza-
BILE industry. Such things as trays,
delightful masks, candle sticks, flow
ers and table plates are beautifully
made of tin.
Those who have come to make a
living working in tin now are up
against it. Their supply of tin is gone
or nearly gone. It's the war.
So it is with several things. cts
the war" is going to be quite say
ing.
X X X
l heard a big jobber talk to his
partner about closing out their line
of stoves which use bottled gas. He
feared they would be unable to get
tanks for the gas-and so, no tanks,
no stoves.
Lets get out while we can save
our investment" was this mans YER
dict.
A side light is that the stoves, as
well as the tanks for the gas are
shipped from the United States.
Somehow, things like that fit into the
Latin American good will picture and
need attention from that point of
view.
I'm afraid that lot of to-be-unem-
ployed Mexicans soon will be pointing
not-very friendly finger at the
United States, with accusations that
Uncle Sam is the cause of their
misery.
There are plenty of axis propa-
gandists to help stir up that feeling.
We're still long way behind the axis
in the matter of organized propa-
ganda in Mexico. And the axis has
no morals. 1t will gladly descend to
the vicious to hit and hurt the United
States. Sinarquismo is but one of the
axis weapons.
| wonder now many Americans
know that there is big music busi-
ness in Mexico-sheet music and
phonograph records. The records are
made in Mexico, by processes on
which American companies hold the
patents.
And there are scores of pieces of
music that are never heard in the
United States, but that undoubtedly
would be immensely popular.
Each of the Latin nations has it's
own type of music. Mexican music
even the rhumbas-is entirely diff
ferent from Cuban music, for ex-
doesn't have so much of the hysteri-
cal tempo.
Mexico welcomes the music of
other nations, including lot of
music from the United States, which
appears to make a real hit.
However, most of the jitterbug
dancing is done by tourists.
There is a big business done in
radios, nearly all of which are made
in the United States.
A friend of mine went all over
Mexico City looking for chill con
carne, which, if you're interested,
means chill with meat. He didn't find
any. They say, too, that there's no
chop suey in China. My friend had
to wait until he got back across the
chill con carne.
don't mean to imply that Mexico
doesn't have some hot dishes. 1t does.
There's a sauce called mole, in which
there are more than 25 ingredients.
Sometimes it takes days to prepare.
1t can be very hot, just as it can be
made more mildly.
1t is mistake to assume that all
MeXicans like hot dishes. They don't,
any more than do all Texans.
1t would be as true to say all MeXi-
cans like pastries. Many of them do
and bakery windows are filled with
tremendous assortments Of pastries.
How about pulque? Once it was
the common drink Of the peon. In the
old days pulque trains ran into Mex
leo City as milk trains run into New
York and Chicago. Now you see lit
tie evidence of pulque. Some, but not
much.
One Of the most Mexican of all
things in Mexico is the market place.
But you must be adept at bargaining
if you would get fair buy.-CMW.