Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1930, Page 36

THE EVEN! < ' JANUARY 9, 1930. MEXICAN CAPITAL IS CITY OF PALACES Earlier Rulers of Nation Sad- dled Many Expensive Struc- tures on Poor Workers. The new Mezico—the Mezico of Calles, Portes Gil and President-elect Rubio and United States Ambassador Morrow—is playing an important role and will play & more important ome in New World efairs. It is a different Mezico. How different is told in a series of dispatches written especially for The Star and asso- ciated newspapers of the North American Newspaper Alliance. This is the eleventh of the series. BY HUBERT W. KELLEY. MEXICO CITY, January 9.—City of | palaces and beggars! Carrara marble | glimmers in the vista of bleached adobe | and the sepia towers of venerable| churches. The half-naked burden-bearer, bowed under his huge load, trots in the shadow of colossal monuments. Two little chil- dren, wrapped in a flimsy shawl, sleep ether in the chill of evening on the cold steps of the gold and marble me- morial to the saintly patriot, Benito Juarez. ‘This is a city rich in treasures of architecture and art, yet the masses still are impoverished. The proletarian gesture really is relieving much of the ignorance and misery, but the scales remain woefully unbalanced. New hos- g:h.\s. playgrounds and prisons are ing built, economically enough, but sometimes the government must be taken to task by its advisers for plan- ning too elaborate and expensive build- 1!%! for administrative offices and public institutions. Government Complimented. Tt is not in the Mexican character, it seems sometimes, to be moderate. ‘One must starve or build palaces. Many visttors have complimented the gov- ernment upon the advanced methods emrloyed in the municipal prison, ich is quartered in a crumbling con- vent. “Brave!” cried the public works de- partment. “To make it complete we must have a new prison.” A few million dollars went into the budget for & new prison building when highways and ls were more urgent. Half the amount proposed, some busi- ness men said, was adequate for & new prison. But one must have a hand- carved prison in Mexico and a table ‘with gold legs for the warden. Happily enough, however, the prison item was scratched out, according to report, upon the advice of a certain financial adviser. It was President Diaz who built most of this city’s marble palaces upon the backs of the peons. And the buildings still stand; they must be maintained. Occasionally, in & moment of exalta- tion, the government has these build- ings further adorned with murals and statuary, employing the nation’s best artists for the purpose. ‘The beautiful Ministry of Education ‘Building, wherein the officials of the still undernourished school system sit, has been redecorated with dozens of murals by Diego Rivera and other art- ists_of his class. Even now a history of Mexico is being painted in the Na- tional Palace. Post Office Expensive. ‘The magnificent post office was built at & cost of $2,900,000. The monument to national independence on the Paseo de la Reform cost more than $2,000,000. But there is little maintenance cost for this. An “eternal fire” recently was ;&l};d :u-r its ]buse‘ but that is re- eled at negligible expense. The Communications and Public ‘Works Building, a splendid structure ornamented with stone griffons and lanterns and wrought-iron gateways, likewise was built at & epst of several millions. And there #8 me traversable highway to Vera Cruz, nor yet to San Luis Potosi, although the latter is under construction. ! Six million dollars is invested in the unfinished National Theater, the most beautiful structure of its kind on the continent. This phantom of the thea- ter stands in the heart of the city. It is & tragedy and yet the lovellest thing in the city of Mexico. The interior is sculpture. The composite of Maya, Mixtec, old Spanish and modern Mexican architecture—so say the cultivated. nder the great platform in the main itorfum $197,000 worth of German machinery lles in disuse. It was placed there to elevate the one-ton curtain of glass, created by Tiffany at a cost of $200,0¢ and also to slide @nd elevate form and the orchestra pit. The lobbles and subsidiary chambers of the palatial structure are all unfinished. One gropes through a maze of cob- webby girders and soiled concrete columns. Fiesta Buys Lamp, Occasionally the department of public works calls for $5,000,000 more to finish the structure, but fortunately for the progress of the country the request has been refused. Recently a fiesta was glven for funds to finish the building. A fund sufficient to place one globul electric l]amp was raised. 'The lam) without a companion to balance it, stands alone at the right of the main i approach. ‘The building, one must say in all truth, is not entirely wasted. An exhi- bition of art from the public schools now occupies one of the unfinished rooms. One may see the exquisite glass cur~ tain with its myriad colored prisms, representing the volcanoes, Popocateptl and Iztaccihuatl, in full blast, for the small tip of a peso, which the guide is required .to divide with the guard who | lounges at the door and grinds his cigarette stubs in the dust. The theater should be finished, yet it would be another tragedy for the people to ap- propriate the funds for it. They cannot eat_palaces. The ne! government 1is learnin SPECIAL!! Your ROOM HOUSE WIRED FOR ELECTRICITY | T Payments if Desired! < MUDDIMAN § 911 G St. N.W. Phone Nat. 0140-2622 (&” , Cold in Head, Chest or Throat? m Musterole well into your chest and ehrost = almost instantly you feel easier. Repeat the Musterole-rub once an hour for S oee what a glorious refief! * _Those good old-fashioned cold reme~ dies—oil of mustard, menthol, camphor —are mixed with other valuable ingre- dients in Musterole. . It _penetrates and stimulates blood circulation and helps to draw out infec- tion and pain. Used by millions for 20 years. Recommended by many doctors and nurses. Keep Musterole handy— jars, tubes. All druggists. * To Mothers—Musterole is also made in milder form for babies and small children. Ask for Chil- dren’s Musterole. unfinished; the great dome still is a skeleton of steel. The shining white stone of the struc- ture is alive with exquisite groups of " Luncheon and Dinner TOMORROW Serve Head Lettuce @\ Allow half a head of crisp lettuce to each member of your family. For lettucs is not @ relish but @ food—grown in living brimful of vitalized energy. sunlight, It is “packaged sunshine,” put up for you in Noature's loboratory by the blazing sun of the For West. It is full of vitamins eral salts, which promote health, ond min- strength and youthful vigor. To keep well eat @ generous serving every day. Iceberg head lettuce is now af ifs begt. It comes direct to you in iced ¢ ars from Arizona and the famous Imperial Valley. 1t reaches you as fresh, crisp and succulent os i plucked from your own garden. Your (i S ARIZONA azd CALIFORNIA — — massive edifice is a| economy. Aside from the occasional artistic spree suggested by the budget, the government's money is being spent economically and wisely. The new hos- pital here is thoroughly equipped, yet built with the simplest of materials. The vast Bal Buena playground for the proletariat was equipped with buildings of brick, stucco and adobe. The later Presidents all have aban- doned a?mllve residence in Chbapulte- pec Castle for simpler homes, not any more expensive than homes bullt by well-to-do American business men. Changes for Better. Conditions are changing for the bet- ter, but it is too late to cash in on the innumerable monuments and palaces which the conquistadores, old and new, have built upon the shoulders of the BEWARE THE COUGH FROM people. Beautiful, yes—but as tombs are beautiful. government strives, but the miserable ones still swarm around the palaces and the monuments, (Copyright, 1930, by North American News- paper Alllance ) SEIZE ALLEGED LIQUOR. 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National 0765 Movies After Billy Sunday. BUFFALO, N. Y., January 9 ) Billy Sunday is considering an offer of $10,000 a week to go into the movies. Open at 8:30 A.M. Every Business 3% Another comens Hundred | Thousand Paid on Savings Accou : COURE —dollar increase to our capital and surplus fund was recently made, to bet- The Columbia ter ;nab}e us to meetdyhe National Bank clientele, pending 911 F Street A growing bank must be a good one with which to do business. Are you a “Columbia” depositor? One Dollar or More Will Open a Savings Account Capitall and' Susplus “Coming events cast their shadows before” AVOID THAT FUTURE SHADOW* By refraining from over-indulgence You men who would keep trim and fit . . . you women who covet the tantalizing curves of the truly modern figure —when tempted to do yourself too well, light a Lucky instcad. Be moderate—be moderate in all things, even in smoking. Eat health- fully but not immoderately. When your eyes are bigger than your stomach, light a Lucky instead. Coming events cast their shadows before. Avoid that future shadow by avoiding over-indulgence, if you would maintain that lithe, youthful figure. Lucky Strike, the finest Cigarette you ever smoked, made of the finest tobacco —The Cream of the Crop—*IT’S ‘TOASTED.” Everyone knows that heat purifies and so “TOASTING” not only removes impurities but adds to the flavor and improves the taste. “It’'s toasted” *Be "Moderate! . . . Don’t jeopardize the modern form by drastic diets, harmful reducing girdles, fake reducing tablets or other quack “anti-fat” remedies condemned by the Medical profession! Millions of dollars each year are wasted on these ridiculous and dangerous postrums. Be Sensible! Be Moderate! We do not represent that smoking Lucky Strike Cigarettes will bring modern figures or cause the reduction of flesh. We-do declare that when tempted to do yourself too well, if you will “Reach for a Lucky” instead, you will thus avoid over-indulgence in things that cause excess weight and, by avoiding over-indulgence, maintain a modern, graceful form. TUNE IN—The Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra, every Saturday night, over a coast-to-coast network of the N. B. C. @ 1930, Tae American Tobacco Co., Mirs.