Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1930, Page 22

tions. Revolutions d¢ the land; federal taxes drained the revenues. in 1922, an amendment to the EDUCATION MAKES STRIDES IN MEXICO Every One, Even to Condemn- ed in Jail, Required to Attend New Schools. cation u the federal goyernment an the .avepr:.;nenc accepted it gladly. Ob- regon was the first to realize that the hope of Mexico lay in education. Seek Better Living Standards. This year the government's educa- tional program even though the budget was small, was more expansive and productive than in any year in the na- tion’s history. ‘The government is operating 4,000 rural scheols with a staff of 5,500 teach- ers. These schools, the cultural centers of small primitive communities, are striving first to lift the standard of liv- ing of the children and adults who at- tend them. Education is compulsory where there are schools, but the utmost The new Mexico, the Mexico of Ca ortes Gil and President-elect Rubio d “States Ambassador Morrow. 1o playing an important role and will play a_more important one in New World &ReEehn 1F bl s seies of dispatéhes ~ e nI s, : |ernment must first make friends; Clatea mesaantre S the Novth Americes | rigid discipline would excite animosity. fewspaper Alliance. This is the elghth “The states already maintained 7,000 T DAt . rural schools, many of which have been Y. improved through government propa- S A ————. | ganda, distributed principally by posters, MEXICO CITY, January 2 (N.A.| magazines and teams of experts who NA)—It is as impossible to escape | travel from one center to another, in- some kind of an education these days | sfl'uc(lngl "clfns"u (elch&l;s in intensive " courses lasting one month. in Mexico as it is to escape & shoe| COpiey SO Tiliets of seven experts, shine. It remains only to require every | un educator, a social worker, a physical street merchant to print an informative | director, an agronomist, a teacher of article upon his parchment tortillas (o':nnr;l:_:‘lsznd;::erl%!s-llcgfii;s'A;?_g{lte; ‘s\:‘d} com) oV z tional | an . pmg},’}:.:f_ S WSS etcatont | e kind” ‘of " tnstruction given the The army now has a manual of the | teachers. 3 cil as well as a manual of arms.| This traveling teachers’ college selects mry soldier must learn to read and |8 central community as a of oper- write. He learns his a b c's daily in a | ations, using the town as & laboratory. military manner. The man in jail must | Forty or fifty teachers from surrounding #9 to school, even if a firing squad is to | towns declare a vacation and attend. complete his education next week. | The headquarters town is the laboratory. And throughout the nation more than | The citizens are subjects for demonstra- 13,000 schools of one kind or another | tion. | freedom is granted the pupils. The gov- | in, are seeking to teach children and adults | the rudiments of reading, writing and | arithmetic, but chiefly the fundargentals of civilization, hygiene, cooking, agricul- ture and the elements of road building, bridge building and construction of | lines of communication. | Eight years ago there was not a| school in’the rural districts of Mexico | ‘WOl of the name. The burden of ‘Where is your bridge, Mr. Mayor? We have none, senor. Then let's build one. The class of teachers, the men and chil- dren of the town are taken to the stream or arroya. The teacher of small industries, assisted by the other experts, prepares plans for the bridge, the sim- plest, most rudimentary plans for crude masonry construction. With everybody co-operating the bridge is merrily built THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, townsmen learned to build a bridge by ,:ve and long curved seats of masonry imitation. . 200 or Towns Are Cleaned Up. y, Mr. Mayor, does your town smell so vilely? Why are so many per-~ logll ill?> Why do so many of your babies die? The social worker and the mflcll expert take charge of the prob- Filth means disease. Clean up. The town cleans up and the citizens and teachers are taught to keep ff clean. No-theory of hygiene is taught except the single precept. y haven't you telephones, Mr. Mayor? With your co-operation the public utilities will install them. The town turns out to string wire. ‘Your children have malnutrition, Mr, Mayor. Your diet is very bad. You need more and richer milk, green things, fresh meat. Contests are instituted for the peasant farmers and the good housewives. Small prizes are offered for the besf gardens and the best cook- g. When the teachers return to their communities after a month of such training they can teach higher stand- ards of living from the practical dem- onstrations flven by the Traveling Teacher's College. The government has joined hands, too, with 2,118 state schools, schools so impoverished they could not survive on their own revenues. These schools, for the most part, are in central communi- ties, where they can serve as labora- tories for more primitive schools in their regions. ‘To every school each month goes the government magazine, the Sower, with its revolutionary cover by Rivera or other great propaganda artists. It con- tains plans for simple construction projeéts, articles on hygiene, domestic sclence and other civilizing subjects, and m&Hr’Je! from the ministry of edu- cation and the President. Posters on subjects relating to improved standards of living also are broadcast to the schools for posting in public places by the teachers. On one of these posters are plans for | an open-air theater, one of the newest projects promulgated by the ministry of education. More than 500 open air theaters were built this year by the rural communities, under the super- vision of schoolmasters. The work is a fiesta, like a “bee” in the United States. D B assistants do not motor into the rural districts to attend the festive opening of a new theater. Roads are strewn with branches and flowers: trees are garlanded. Tables in the plaza are heaped with fruits and little cakes. It is an actual thing, this educational revolution. Indians in rural communities may be seen reading newspapers from the City of Mexico. In the plazas of 300 persons, de ‘upon the size of the wmmum!y‘.’mm Peasants’ Lives Are Dramatized. In these theaters are dramatized the lives of the peasants and the spirit of the revolution. “It is essential that we make the conscious of their freedom,” says M Saenz, undersecretary of educa- tion. “They have been oppressed so long it is dificult for them to realize they are free men. The dramatization of the revolution enlightens them.” Seldom a month passes that the minister of education or some of his in pale sunshine and «pore over Mexi- can and English books. It is very easy if one is not on his guard to be run down by a pedestrian reader. From the utterly uncivilised districts FROCKS Ensembles Sports Suits Erlemaid Frocks ¢/ Dance and Party Frocks ¢/ Street and Afternoon Dresses GREATLY of Mexico Indian boys are brought to the capital for a four-year intensive course in a government school. four years these from savages to fairly well educated boys. The contour of their faces and the light of their eyes change. Some- times it takes several months to put them at ease, but eventually they lose the capital ragged men, once peons, sit | THURSDAY, JANUARY m with gest. One boy- In the boys are converted with other boys and the master. These boys learn American gamek, printing, gardening, stock raising, | cheese making, hyglene and simple HOURS, 8:45"t0 6 DuLiN @ MARTIN inFreland from 1786 to 1810~ thelr self-conseloushess and enter the | academics befors they are returned to progra '—he can:| their tribes as teachers. About 200 boys now shake hands like a gentleman— |are in the school now; several hundred stood on a street corner every day for | have been returned to tribes as instruc- five weeks before he would associate | tors in the last three years. (Next—The Passing Show. (Copyright, 1929, by North American News- paper Alliance.) PHONE NAT'L 1293 N old pieces has been made pos Aible owing to the existence of- education fell upon the states by law, |in a few days. No theory of construction The project is simple, consisting of a but they could not fulfill their obliga- ' was introduced. The teachers and the platform of masonry against a hill or RED “c ED Fur-Trimmed Coats Untrimmed Coats Evening Wraps Sports Coats Millinery old records of design. %:o designo WoobpwarD & LoTHROP LI850 Gopigulictm S sntapas Tos0] DOWN STAIRS STORE Sketched Bowl, §27.50 Comport (7-in.), $18.50 Square Footed Goblets, $125 dos. Not Sketched Table Service: Tumblers, $100 dos. Finger Bowls, §125 dos. Tall Sherbets, $125 dos. All Sales Final—No Exchanges Friday is Remnant Day Remnant Day Merchandise is not returnable or exchangeable; not sent C. 0. D. or on approval; Phone or Mail Orders not accepted DuLiN @ MARTIN Connecticut Ave. ana l” Tweed sPofls Coats’ $7-50 Were $10 and $16.50 PARKING -SERVICE—CONNECTICUT AVENUE ENTRANCE 14 Sports Coats in tan, brown and gray. 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SLIB Again all eyes are focused on Auburn. What will Cord do for 19302 The record of Auburn under his management has been one of amazing progress. Always daring to pioneer—~to announce the unexpected. Always keeping ahead of competition. He just re- cently eclipsed all high-priced cars with his new Front Drive. Now what will Auburn announce? Auburn’s policy is different. Auburn thinks only of how to design, build and price the kind of motor cars that the public wants, WHEN they want them. Because 1929 was Auburn’s banner year, sales records broken month after month and the only manufacturer continually oversold, Auburn is in the position now to make the most sensational announcement for 1930, . Warrington Motor Car Company