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architecture are more enjoyed
after a good sleep and q good
breakfast at a comfortable cara
vansary.
The final one of our great
drives Is 10 PuebIa and Orizaba
and Fortin-pOssibly even on to
Cordoba and Vera Cruz-but
make your headquarters at Forth.
because located there is another
one Of those practical benefits, a
delightful hotel, with bathing pool
and with charming bungalows
quite as modern as anything In
Los Angeles or any progressive
American city.
These great drives herein
recommended and urged are not
ordinary motor trips. There are
plenty of little drives and very
pleasant and interesting ones, too.
that you can dash on in an after
noon in and around the City of
Mexico.
But these four great drives
and there will soon be a fifth one
over paved road 20 Oaxaca far to
the sOuth--are excursions deep
into the heart and soul Of the
country and OF the people Of
Mexico.
In these drives you see the
astounding geological construction
and physical geography OF the
land, you observe the amazing and
ever changing aspect of the coun-
try side and you note the i'm
mense variety OF climate and
vegetation and production.
Moreover, and perhaps most
important, you become acquainted
with the peOple-the real people
who live In the fields and forests
and labor on the farms and at
their local industries. and gather
at their market squares in the
small towns TO exchange their
products and sell their surpluses-
and to meet and greet each other
and to gossip and to talk
politics In their own simple but
shrewd way.
You find their products Inter
esting and useful. their art
original and beautiful, their man
ner dignified and independent.
their methods all too primitive but
clever and competent
These methods where primitive
are developing fast into more
modern technique under the edu-
cationAl processes of the new
regime.
THE Mexicans are a vigorous
) 4 race and they possess In
= marked degree the powerful quail
= tiles which excited the astonish-
= ment and admiration Of the
! invading SpanIards in the six
teenth century.
The Mexicans. 10 be sure. were
conquered by the Spanish, or
p rather by the armor and the guns
| and the war machines OF the
, Spanish. quite like many great
p races In Europe have recently
, been overcome by the surprising
and overwhelming mechanical d.
! visions OF the Germans.
For three hundred years the
mexicans were suppressed and eN-
, plotted under the iron rule Of
Spain and still they retained their
strong racial qualities. their indie
pendent character and their de-
termination to be free.
In 1921 they threw off the
: Spanish yoke and regained their
Independence and by a series of
revolutions since then have
acquired the full social and
political rights which are their
due.
I They are ready today to take
far greater place in power and
/ poIity than they occupied when
| Cortez found them in the six
I teenth century--masters of the
, vast Mexican plateau and dOmi-
, mating the northern continent.
} Their habits. their customs.
. their qualities, their character are
. not the relies of a great race that
IL past, but are the reviving and
stimulating germs of greatness TO
come.
: The days when European ma
, tons exploited the Americas are
forever past and gone.
: The days are here when the
western nations will dominate the
/ world.