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of Quetzalcoatl in human form caused some
of the superstitious natives TO welcome the
Spanish conqueror, Cortez, thinking he was
that god.
Sometimes Quetzalcoatl is represented as
wearing the beak of bird, sometimes he is
in the guise of the Morning Star. According
to Aztec mythology, the world must pass
through five eras. being completely destroyed
by the forces of Nature, at the end of each.
Four Of these caamities have already taken
place, they claim, civilization having been
destroyed by the sun (drought, by hurri-
canes by fiery rain and by a flood Our
present is the fifth and last so say the
ancient Aztec prophecies, and Will be tcrmi-
mated by earthquakes.
Quetzalcoatl. as the Wind God ruled the
second era, ending in hurricanes
When the Spaniards conquered Mexico in
1920, they commanded the priests TO bring
from the temples all the sacred manuscripts
or codices These were then piled up in the
public square and burned while the populace
wept and amented.
The dirty dogs-that is the Conqucrors!
Less than a dozen of these remarkable
manuscripts are now known to have escaped
destruction by the Spanish, although IT is
probable that others were hidden away by
Aztec families. Their exact age authorship
or place Of origin is unknown.
Neither is il known just how or when they
reached Europe. They merely turned up here
and there in the possession of famous men
Libraries, from whom they derived their
names; as the Paris, Madrid and Dresden
Goddess of the Maya; the Vienna codex the
Vaticanus 1878, CodeX Laud and others of the
Aztecs.
The Borgia manuscript was owned in the
18th century by the Italian Archbishop. Sta
fano Borgia. and was bequeathed by him TO
the College of Propaganda at the Vatican,
where it is now 1t is book of temple ritual
The manuscripts were made of deer-hide.
we'll cured and sewn together and spread with
fine white plaster upon which the artist
painted his pictures; or they were of paper
made from the fbres of various native plants
Most of these ancient books are or were
in Europe although our great libraries and
universities possess excellent copies in color.
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was associated with butterflies.
Maybe that's where our modern expr, ssion
of the social butterfly" originated; who
knows?
Mayauel was the Goddess of Drunkenness,
and also of Fertility. She had naturally a
large and enthusiastic following.
She represented the maguey plant from
the leaves of which the Aztecs brewcd that
most intoxicated drink, pulque.
And Mayauels family would make the Old
Woman in the Shoe look like a piller; for
Mayauel was credited with having 400 sons.
all associated with pulque-and with rabbits
Just figure out for yourself what her happy
home was like!
The rabbits are not explained bat it is a
fact that IL an Aztec were SAID 70 be as
drunk as 400 rabbits" there wasn't any more
to say just lay him away to sober up. While
If he were only "as drunk as 20 rabbits"
the evening yet young.
/ have always been tremendously inter-
osted in this picture that l present of the
God Of the Dance. The girl at the left is in
a true position induced by boogie-woogie
music This by the way. is from tho rare
ard beautiful Borgia manuscript, the original
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-24

as did their ancient forefathers
Mayauc the Goddess of Drunkenness. the
Pulque Goddess. is shown at the right of the
picture rising from maguey, or century
plant From this was made the potent ritual
drink of pulque.
Not every commoner was supposed to
drink pulque in those old days Of Mexico
but most of them without doubt bootlegged.
on Mayauers left sits a prince on his
throne, drinking from turquoise cup.
The upper central symbol means day and
n'2ht," since the ritual of puque drinking took
place just as day gave way to night.
The picture is from the Borgia Codex.
Quetzacoatl. THE Feathered Serpent"
was also known as the God of Learning the
Great King. That he actually lived and
left a profound impression upon the civliza-
ton Of his people, all chroniclers are agreed
He became a Legendary figure. the God
OF Civilization, the Wind God, the Priest
God who removed Co the countries on the
East Sea and there vanished and at his
death, his heart was said to have been changed
into the Morning Star. Thus he became as
ISOLATED with Venus.
1t is said that the legend Of the return
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TO attend TO their business!
Among the most popular of these deites
was Macuil Xochiu, Five Flower" some
times called Xochipilh the Flower Prince"
lie was important, too. because he gov
erned flowers, dancing games and gambling,
feasting and frivolity and what could be
more popular with everybody than these?
he was also the special patron Of princes.
and you know how gay and frivolous a prince
can be!
Anyway, people were always glad TO have
Nochipilli on hand. He was such a happy.
iun-Ioung and irresponsible little god that nc
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THE water color reproductions on this
page and their descriptions are by Mrs
Katharine Brdseye Lang. Mrs. Lang is one
OF the foremost authorities upon the an
cient civilizations OF Mexico and Central
America.
Ten years ago. so interested did she be-
come, that she decided 10 devote all her time
10 this subject She became the Secretary of
the Maya Society OF Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity. She was asked by the Carnegie Institu.
ton of Washington to make accurate repro
auctions OF all the Magyar and Aztec books
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of which is in the Vatican Library.
Lady Luck or, in this case, Mr..
Luck, was named Macuil Xochitl, and
was the God of Games, especially
games played with dice. The Aztecs,
and probably the Mayas before them,
were as familiar with the galloping
dominoes as the Roman soldiers
we're.
In fact, nobody knows how long
ago the cries of Come seven, come
eleven" Snake eyes," and so on,
burst forth from slaves of the cubes
Maybe the cavemen rolled dice
made of mastadon or even dinosaur
bones.
At any rate, the Aztecs thought
this game, and others, so important
that they must have presiding deity.
So, someway or other, they discov-
cred or devised old Macuil.
Here he is shown supervising a
game of "patolli," which the natives
~ CopfraI DIa,, tOIa,, t,,ct
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that have survived the ignorant and brutal de-
struction Of the Spanish gangsters who over
ran what is now America
She copied in its entirety the rare Codex
Laud, the beautiful original Of which is now
IN England where, in 1886, il found refuge in
the library of William Laud Archbishop Of
Canterbury.
Mrs Lang is not only profound student
OF our destroyed civilizations of Mexico and
Central America, but besides copying. she
also interprets the few enough records OF a
people the Conqustadores destroyed.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-05-24
BY MRS. KATHARINE BRDsEYE LANG

THE Aztecs worshiped a bewildering num-
Der of deities. These We're Of all grades
Of Importance.
There were three Great Gods the four
Creative Gods, Gods Of Fertility, Of Fire. of
Pulque the Planetary and Stellar Deities:
those Of the Earth, of Sin Of Death and a
host Of lesser variations Of all these
OF course there were feast-days and cele.
brations galore either 20 honor or to propi-
tiate them ALL
~ one can't help wondering how the Aztecs
ever got their homework done or had time
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
SEALS ENTERTAIN
CELLAR BEAVERS
BY UNITED PRESS

San Francisco's Seals, barely in
the first division of the Pacific
coast league, return to their home
field Tuesday to open a series with
the Portland Beavers, the cellar
club.
The Seals managed to take their
last series from the Oakland
Acorns, now in fifth place. and
look forward 10 a relatively easy
time with the northerners.
Sacramentos Senators, in first
place by two games over the Los
Angeles Angels, are fresh from a
series victory over the Seattle
RainierS and will open against Oak
land at Sacramento.
At San Diego the Padres will en-
tertain the Angels in what may be
the hottest series of the week. The
Padres are in third place, two
games behind Los Angeles, and
hope TO work up to the second
spot this week.
Last week the Padres split a six
game series with Portland and the
Angels took their series from Hol-
lyWood.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
BYRD SKATERS
RECORD AND PAR

PITTSBURGH, June 30-UP) -
Sam Byrd, who won a fair amount
of renoWn as an outfielder with
the New York Yankees and Gin
cinnati Reds, today appeared to be
on his way to considerably more
fame as professional golfer.
Byrd proved his major league
links status yesterday by firing an
amazing l0-under-par 1872 tc win
the Pennsylvania open champion
ship and break two records at
Shannopin country club.
He shattered the course competi-
tive record with his afternoon round
Of Ga and added SO in the morn
ing to set a new low score in the
29th renewal of the state open. His
card showed 10 brides and 26 in
par for the sc holes.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
Barnes Stornninq
bv RAY BARNES

carpenters can finish their work.
Lots of people begged me to go
to Brawley to open a rink" said
Zuckerman, but 1 figured it would
be better to be in the center OF
the valley.
Zuckerman counts on drawing
skaters from Holtville. Brawley
Calexico and the other outlying
towns as we'll as from the county
seat.
we will cater to schools, church.
es and other organizations" di-
vulged the rink manager, "and the
place will be run in an orderly
manner
The rink floor will be three feet
wider than the CaleXico floor and
is of maple wood Zuckerman said
that although the government is
shutting down on the manufacture
of steel skates, he will not be af-
fected for he has a large supply
on hand does all his own repairing
TRITE TRIVIA. According to
the rule book the official size for
softbalI bats is 81 inches in length
by two and one eighth inches in
diameter at the largest place on
the bludgeon. Allowance for pos
sible warping is one-sixteenth of
and inch. So if you fellows feel like
bringing in big baseball bat to
fool the boys with, remember If
you dood it you get a Whippin'
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
N. Y. STOCKS

NEW YORK. June 30 CUPl - Action
of Santa Fe directors in increasing the
common dividend from 81 to Sl.5o a
share today sent that stock up nearly
two points and brought an improved
tone into the stock list after early IT.
regularity.
Volume continued small and the stock
sales total for the month was the smallest
for a June since 1914 Transaction IN
the share list for the first hail OF 1872
also were the smallest for the period
since 1914.
Demand for Santa Fe was second only
10 New York Centre. which had the
largest sales volume. but remained un-
changed at the previous close OF ) santa
Fe common rose Ia points to 36h while
its preferred gained ~ points 10 63
Erie certificates were slightly higher
Pennsylvania railroad held steady whlle
Union acific lost more than a point on
profit-taking.
Steel shares rallied and were steady
TO firm late in the day with Bethlehem
The feature Chrysler recovered part OF
a 1-point decline and General Motors
showed a small net gain. Oils were firm
on the rise in gasoline and fuel oil prices
Voppers held steady TO firm in moderate
turnover Utilities were steady on aver
age. -.
AVERAGES: Industrial 1884, up II: Rail
21l7, unchanged; Utility HIS OF VI
and 65 stocks "a "a, up .O4.
Stock sales were 24S $50 shares comoar-
ed with 262. 293 yesterday. Curb stock
sales were 80, 740 shares against ~. 200
in the previous session.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
THE DAYS
SPORTS PARADE

too prideful of our records in
Olympic games and other sorts of
sports We must forget that and
take up the task of drilling boys in
contact games until they no longer
fear impact or injury"
I'VE have been too intent on be-
coming specialists" he continued.
"A man may be able to run 100
yards in 94 seconds and yet not be
worth a hoot as a soldier because
he hasn't been conditioned to the
point where he is willing to inca
pacitate another man And he
stops being a specialist and comes
face to face with violence"
NECESSARY
This aptitude for violence is not,
virtue Councilman would willingly
instill into the youth-it is a direct
product of necessity AS he explains,
the routine procedure is to drill a
boy through three hours a week
of diffident maneuvers. The boy
may find that his muscles are
frightened and his back is stronger,
but ne does not flnd that ne wants
to hurt other boys.
I'm Germany this training begins
at the age of 10. In Japan it begins
almost as early. The attitude of
the Axis youths is not one of ia
talism. 1t is one which has been
produced by conditioning. Well,
let's condition our boys the same
way. Let's teach them that they
must learn to slit throats, hit be-
low the belt and gouge eyes as well
as their opponents"
No. 1t isn't pretty speech, but
it is one which came from Jimmy's
heart AS well, IL Is one which will
keynote his lectures to high school
coaches of Louisiana at his L.S.U.
football clinic next month. For to
Councilman, as to all of us, football
as sport no longer is important.
What is important, and what will
remain important, is victory-final
and compelte.
To attain It. our youths must be
hard and tough.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
BY JACK GUENTHER

NEW YORK, June 80 CUP) -
The laughing boy of professional
football, James Gleeson Councilman,
ESQ, swept in and out of town with
his customary gusto again today
but this time he left the sport writ
ers something more meaty than
anecdotes 10 remember him by. In
stead of songs, jokes and patter,
the Chicago Cardinal chief passed
around a grim message
That message is this: The time
has passed when high school and
college coaches could prepare boys
through the cursory physical edu-
cation programs long accepted as
adequate No longer is it sufficient
as to tougher youths by making
them run, jump and hurdle. Start
ing as of now, these boys must be
made tough to the point where they
welcome violence.
LARGE ORDER ......................
That's a rather large order in a
nation which for decades has in
structed its boys to obey the codes
of sportsmanship and the rules of
the drawing room, but the big,
husky guy who has been an artists
agent, a prize fighter, a grid star
and almost everything you can
name believes that there are plenty
of instructors around who can fill
it
The question is: viii they be
permitted to fill 1t?
Il think they will" Jimmy said
today as he hammered the table
with his king-size fist. II think
that we can drop pretense for the
time being and concentrate on
equipping our young men for the
long and the nasty tasks they have
in front of them. We don't want
to send our boys out until they are
fit, do we? Well. then, let's tough
en- them mentally.
Lets not be squeamish. Let's
deluge the boys with violence to
the point where they become so
familiar with violence that they are
-eontsmptuous OF it. We have been
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
SERIES GOAT IN
COMEBACK SURGE

NEW YORK, June 3O-UP) -
Credit the fact that Mickey owen
is cne of baseballs all-time goats"
with a notable assist in the FASH
ioning of his baseball career. For
when he missed that famous
third strike" in the last world
series Gwen received reamS of pub
liclty that actually have helped the
Missouri born backstop to all
around improvement.
The ire Of the Flatbush fans was
focused on Owen last September
when Hugh Caseys low and sweep
ing curve bounced off the edge of
MS glove on what should have been
the deciding out. But Mickey re-
fused to alibi He decided instead
to atone in his own way. And that
there was method in his mildness
is to be seen in his current per-
formance for the flock.
RODE BENCH
During most of the Dodgers early
games owen rode the bench. 1t
wasn't until Brooklyn had dropped
four games in row on their first
western trip that owen was called
on to go behind the plate. But
since then-the date was May 5th
hes done the bulk of the back
stopping, turning in a notable job
while about 1t.
Owen has been rated a dead left
field hitter since he broke into the
majors in 1897. But today he has
supplemented his hitting with the
faculty of slicing the ball deftly to
right. This gives him the adVan-
tage of keeping the inner and cutter
defenses of the opposition from
knowing surely in advance the field
TO which he will hit.
owen connected for two singles in
five trips last night at Philadelphia
as Brooklyn beat the Phils 1913. and
raised his average to an even 300.
While he Is now hitting around
GO points above his 1941 mark,
Ovens defensive play has actually
become something TO watch. Every
throw to first by an infielder finds
him well down to a post back of
first to pick up possible overthrow.
He is equally alert in backing up
third. He committed only two err
rorS so far this year and has no
passed balls marked up against him.
Larry MacPhail gave the st.
Louis Cardinals $4,000 and pitcher
John Pfntar and catcher Gus Man
cuso for owen in 1910. Today Larry
says he wouldn't take double the
money for him.
THAT kid is easily the best
catcher in the National league" !"
says MacPhail, and he's going to
be the best in the coming world
series"
Brooklyn increased its National
league lead to 9h games over the
idle Cardinals with the victory over
the Phils before 8,0e6 Shibe Park
fans last night. ..g .. .--- =
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
l.. A. PRODUCE

LOS ANGELES. Calf June 30 CUP -
Asparagus: dull slightly weaker. Per
ID. colossal lie. select l0c, fey s-9c,
No. 2s 4-5c. ..--..
Bunched vegetables: slightly stronger
on radishes and spinach. slightly weaker
on onions. about steady on others. Per
crt: beets 2Iz -5 dob 90-S1; carrots 3 dO2
1890. ordinary SOC; green onions ? doz
SA-I. 75. sleeks 2 doz 81. SOILS; mustard
ooz S0-Soc: parsley doz S1.S0; rad
ishes small red 6 doz. s1-50-1.s0: sph >
ach doz 81 .50-1.75 fair 81 25, turnips
21s-3 doz 90-s1 fair 75c; per doz; ehard
$50. mint and wateHcress 4Oc.
Cantaloups: steady on best; Imperial
jbo 23s best S1.5o fair 81 .25; 27s. S1.50-
q: ordinary 81. SOIL IS: ass 81. 1927
ordinary Sl.50-2: std ass S1.50-2 ordinary
81 .25; Coachella jbo as S1.25-l.50 36s
81 49,. 25, ordinary 81 .25-1 so; ass 81. 75-
50 ordinary s1.25; std ass S1-1.50;
Honeyballs Imperial jbo 36s 81. 49,. 25
holdovers Sill 25 45s S2-2 50; holdoVers
81 25-l50: std 45s S1.50-2 ordinary 81 ..
Honeydews Imperial std 9s-12s anl iboS
6-ss 81. .50-1.75.
Watermelons: weaker. Imperial Klon-
dikes per ton truck lots 1920 Id avg.
few sales s40-45; carlots Imperial fair
quality 1918 ID avg S37 .50-3S; street
sales per ID 2k -23c.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
zIvIC UPSET BY
NORMAN RUBIO

NEWARK, N. j., June 30-(UP)-
Norman Rubio climbed several
notches of the local fistic ladder
last night by scoring a surprising
l0-round victory over Fritzie Zivic,
former welterweight champion from
Pittsburgh.
A crowd of 4,095 paid $1,000 to
watch Zivic a ST. pre-fight favorite,
win only the first and seventh
rounds. The sixth and 10th were
declared even as referee Joe Man
gold of Atlantic City, N. j., gave the
other six rounds to Rubio.
Rubio, an Albany, N. Y, boxer,
weighed only 146h to Zivic's 149 Ia
but was the aggressor throughout.
Zivic was best in the seventh when
he rocked Rubio with solid rights
to the head and body. In. the first
he opened a cut over Rubio's left
eye.
zivic received 35 per cent and
Rubio 25 per cent of the gate with
each of them donating five per
cent of the earnings to the navy
relief fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
TO TANGLE
BORDER CITY
jackson On Deck
For B lie easuers

They'll bring out theirefa-
vorite bats and all the tricks
of the game that they know
Wednesday night as the B
league all star softballers
play the first of a series of two
games with MeXical at Imperial.
Carl Jackson, City of El Centro
pitcher, has been assigned the start
ing duties and will be assisted be-
hind the plate by Roy Robertson,
Telephone company backstop.
PosseSsor of the best record of any
league chucker. Jackson will find
a heavy load on his shoulders as
he faces the Mexicali batters Jack
sons team now stands at the top
of the league with four wins and
one loss. He hurled in the first all
star game against Yuma last week
and gave up only six hits as the
Imperial Valley team triumphed by
five runs.
The game Wednesday at Imperial
and a return game the following
Wednesday in Mexicali may be re-
garded as preludes to an encounter
with a San Diego squad headed by
Joe Hurst, former dean of |. V.
mounSmen. and three or four for
mer valley players.
Hurst and associates are Sched-
uled to come to El Centro on July
10 for a game with the B stars,
proceeds of which will go to the
teams for replenishing diminishing
softball equipment.
This will be the first of the all
star games to be played in El Centro
stadium and is expected to draw
large crowd to see Hurst again in
action. 1t will also afford a compar-
ison between Foxy Joe and Jackson,
now the top man.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
l.. A. POULTRY
L. A. LIVESTOCK

LOS ANGELES, June 80 lUPl = Fed
eral State Market News Service.
Cattle salable 600. slow about steady
medium light steers 1918 25. common to
medium 105O-11. SO. few dairy type down
to 9.25; common grass heifers 10; COM
mon to medium cows S9.35, odd good
young cows 1925; Gamers and cutters
6. .25-7. rs; medium TO good bulls 9.5O-ll.
late Monday medium 10 good steers l.. 25-
ais Calves salable $50. steady; me-
dium TO good vealers 12-14, odd choice TO
Is: common TO mediu mcalveS 9.20-l2.
Hogs. salable 400 weak TO 15c lower;
soWs steady. good to choice 1S5-240 lbs
l5.l0-15. 35, top Is 45 on few 1920 lbs.
medium TO good 250-270 lbs l4.50-15; me-
dium to choice sows IL. 25-1S.25; GOOD
TO choice 60 ID feeder pigs 1880.
Sheep salable $50, strong: few good To
choice 96 lb wooled lambs ID. load me-
dium To choice ST. ID wooled lambs II.
shorn lambs l3 25: odd good shrn ewes
IN
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

They're changing the sign from
BOWLING to ROLLING out in
front of the former pin palace in
the center city town of Ell Centro.
Where once the large indented
spheres sped down hardwood alleys
toward the pin Pit. roller skaters
will amaze onlookers with their
skill and dexterity
Herman Zukerman, former oper-
ator of rink in Calexico, is the
guiding benius behind the new en-
terprise, which is scheduled to open
its doors during the latter part of
this week or the first of next week.
dependent on the speed with which
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30

T'he Acme team mas PROBABLY play
ed more games than any other
team in the league, usually having
at least one practice game besides
their weekly scheduled tilt.
The win threw Acme into undis-
puted second place after breaking
a deadlock with four other teams
for the spot behind the leading
City of Ell Centro team. City has
won four and lost one for a percent
age of 300 while the Acme team has
won four and lost two for .667
mark. l
Both teams made a number OF
errors, Acme being chalked with I
six and the Telephones with eight
The majority of the hits on both
sides were singles although Charles
Ostrander, Telephone short fielder,
connected for pair of triples in
three times at the plate. !,
LineScore:
Acme ...................... $3.50 322 O-13-1O-6
Telephone Co. - 410 010 q g. 8-8
Miller and Mccall, Williams; Aar-
on and Robertson.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-30
TIGER MANAGER
PROPOSES CHANGES

DETROIT, June 3O-UP) A
shortened season in 1943 and the
elimination of southern training
trips for major league clubs will be
proposed by the Detyoit Tigers
as wartime measure, general
manager Jack Zeller said today.
Zeller said he would urge the
changes at the annual midsummer
meeting of the American league club
owners in New York on July 6.
Two months should be slashed from
the season, zeller said, one at the
beginning and one at the end.