Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1930, Page 27

" ACCURSED MANANA - HANDICAPS MEXICO Business and Buying Power in Southern Republic Hurt by Procrastination. The new Mexico, the Mexico of Calles, Portes Gil and ' President-elect Ortiz Rubio and United States Ambassador Morrow. is playing an_important role and wiil play @ more important one in New World affairs. It is a diflerent Mezico, how different is told in a series ©f dispatches written especially for The Star and associated newspepers. This is the last of the series. BY HUBERT W. KELLY. MEXICO CITY, January 10.—Ameri- can industry is not thriving in Mexico for many reasons, none of which is that the government is in any measure op- posed to the well being of the American | : In Mexico. J One can verify this generality in smany authoritative bureaus of the| ‘ country if he has time to wait until | tomorrow or the mext day, just as he | f can verify any other generality in some bureau or another. | One can verify it from American | business men in the City of Mexico, too, just as one can verify from them any- thing else disagreeable. Their attitude depends somewhat, of course, on | whether the day is sunny or cloudy. But it would be treachery to quote anybody in the City of Mexico on busi~ ness conditions. It is treachery even to quote a man as having said that| he likes Will Rogers or Calles. Some- body who likes neither may some day win his way to Chapultepec. ‘Will Wait on License. So, senor, you have expressed your- gelf in the public prints as having liked my enemies? Then you shall wait a thousand mananas until your driver's license is issued. In extreme cases the professed enemy of the government might be sent to the fateful school of marksmanship, a walled inclosure near Bal Buena Field, ‘where many men with unbandaged eyes hn:nve looked upon Popo for the last e. No penalty so romantic, of course, would be imposed upon a foreigner by the present government. The pes- simistic foreigner simply is deported if he makes observations the man in pow- New Spring Fabrics, Colors Lovely quality flat crepes prints in tiny floral or modern treat- ments . . . lace . . . chiffon .. . in the new high shades . . . plenty of fashion greens . . . at. A. Youthful black crepe bolero frock, belted to suggest nor- mal walstline, $15. C. Green crepe frock, featur- triple bows achieving snug hipline ... & bow at each elbow. $15. er conceives to be “untrue”—that is, it the observations appear in the public prints. But, you say, Vasconcelos made them. And where Is Vasconcelos? The point is why American indust is not thriving in Mexico, if, indeed, it is not. In the first place, Mexico is not an industrial country. It is agricul- tural. The rural population produces all it needs, though sometimes not quite as much as it needs. In the latter case it does not buy what it lacks. It sim- ply does without. Beans, Maize and Maguey. The poor farmer plows with a wooden plow and burros or oxen, and raises some beans, maize and maguey. Fro) the maguey he gets his alcohol, his fab- rics and part of his food. Some rude adobe bricks, some palmetto thatch and a rock fence and, lo, his habitation is complete. ‘To digress, more fences have been built in Mexico in the last 400 years than anything else. The wretched mesa is patterned with fences, adobe fences, fences of round stones laid plumb with- out mortar, fences of brush and fences of cactus. There are thousands of miles of fences in Mexico. The labor wasted upon them would have veined the land with highways. American industry and other indus- try do not thrive in Mexico because, for one reason, every pair of hands is self-suflicient, every family is its own factory. There are metals in the hills, elec- tricity in the waterfalls, silicate for glass, guayule rubber for tires, fabrics and leather for uphoistering, ofl in abun- dance—but not a motor car is manufac- tured in Mexico. First, there is nobody to buy a motor car outside the cities. There are. only 60,000 passenger Cars and 15,000 motor trucks in the nation today. Thirty-five per cent of these are in the City of Mexico. No Demand for Machinery. ‘There is a foundry in Monterrey, but the demand for castings is very small. Virtually no machinery is manufactured because there is no demand for ma- chinery. In 10 years there may be & great de- mand for agricultural machinery. Lands are being reclaimed. The great Calles Dam in Aguas Calientes, for instance, will open more than 9,000 acres to irri- gation within & year, and soon after- ward & new dam on the border of Neuvo Leon will open other thousands. The projects will make great arid valleys fertile as the irrigation service is ex- tended. Ignorant farmers will not cultivate these lands. Eight agricultural schools in Mexico are making scientific farmers of barefoot boys from the chaparral. ‘The government is planning to invite many of the 2,000,000 Mexicans in the United States to return to the irrigated lands. Concessions will be made .them, . . . smart black . . . .$15 This Is the greatest event ever held in the Pin Money Dress Shop. Wonderful as have been the values pro- cured in these popular frocks during the two years of its service, never have we been able to achieve anything ap- proaching this 1930 event v+ ¢« « in diversity of selection ... in smartness and quality THE EVENING such as loans, protection from bandits and so on. This agricultural movement may open a market for American agricultural ma- itry | chinery in Mexico, but it will take a few years, even if the government remains stable. Business Men Afraid. Mexican and American business men still are afraid of Mexico. Today a fac- tory—tomorrow a pile of ruins. That has been the experience of too many in the last 20 years. American industries in many cases find it profitable to maintain branch houses in the City of Mexico, even though the exactions of the labor unions sometimes make employment a problem. The majority ' of employes must be Mexican, and many of them are unqualified to serve. And then, to- morrow, manana—accursed manana— it is not until then that anything can be done. Amerijcans who fly into Mexico to transact business in 10 days find them- selves lingering for a month, two months—sometimes interminably. American companies manufacturing motor cars, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners, radios, electrical household ap- piiances, all have branches in the city of Mexico, and, indeed, so they say on sunny days, do a flourishing business. Buying Power Small. ‘The mining and oil interests still are dissatisfied. They wait in vain for surance of perpetual subsoil rights. But the constitution says no. The govern- ment makes promises, offers to modify, but many large investors still walt in the City of Mexico for thelr titles. It is possible to sell in Mexico, but the buying power of the 15,000,000 or 16, 000,000 inhabitants—the population of Mexico varies considerably with the au- thority—Iis very small. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alliance.) 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This indent- ed bill of four dollars shall entitle the bearer hereof change payable in London in gold and silver at the rate of four shillings and sixpence” . The warning of death to counterfeiters is printed in bold type across the back. Mr. Shea received the old bill in a collection of old money, fractional cu; rency, including a hero medal of A to receive bills of ex-| drew Jackson, some old gold dollars, post office notes, half dimes, 3-cent pleces and old pennies from the estate of his brother-in-law, George B. Wilde, who recently died at Cornwell, Pa. Mr. Shea's collection has proved of much interest to officials of the Treasury. $150,000 HOTEL BURNS. LONG BEACH, N. January 10 (#). —Fire, believed to have been of incen- | diary origin, Tuesday night destroyed the Hotel Ambassador on Ocean avenue. The loss was estimated at $150,000. 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