Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1931, Page 12

A—12 THE EVENING STAR, W SHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931 MEXICO RAPIDLY ROUTING ILLITERAGY Book Learning Fad and = Teaching Are of Popu- lar Professions. MEXICO CITY.—Mexico is waging s winning war against illiteracy. Book Qearning become a fad, and school iteaching one of the ropublic’s most popular professions. The Mexican Jmasses of today have a much better acquantance with the three R's than Tthey had yesterd More youngsters ‘are now going to school, the old folk delight in sitting side by side with their children, and even grandchildren, in the rooms; working men ‘and women are eager to attend night school, nd the buck privates of the army are oud to be seen with scholastic phara- phernilia under their arms. The growth of elementary education in Mexico during the past half decade is revealed by figures compiled by the eau of National Statisiics. These ata show that the republic had only 9,015 school teachers in 1925, but that th re 42,310 pedeagogues ning. Distribution of Teachers. Of this latter number 21,182 taught in schoo’s maintained by 'State and municipal governments, 14,792 in fed- ent schools and 6,336 in In that year the numbered 1,662,371—slightly than 10 per cent of Mexico's and schools spreading le o stem. chool house Even primary seats of learning in villages eight days’ horseback ride from the nearest rail- road station have this equipment. Wireless has dramatized schooling for the country folk. It is a lot of fun for them to gather about the village schoolmaster or mistress and listen to their interpretation of the broadcast Jesson that the ministry of public edu- gives daily from its big stations City. : made each town school house a social center, for besides book learning, the ministry’s broadcasts in- clude musical programs, lectures on domestic science, dressmaking, etc., and folk tales for young and old. Embraces English Study. This craze for education has em- braced the study of English. The greatest of B second language is being taught and studied where. Al Mexicans of culture English well. Many natives of republic who have never been out h mtry speak and know that y well indeed. Several ~Ameri and Britishers L are making a good living teaching their native language to Mexicans. Such words and _phrases as “All right,” ") R and “Kid” are part ;0f the everycay vocabulary of numer- Yous Mexicans. It is not uncommon to find office girl employes reading Eng- lish language newspapers, magazines, sor books in street cars. | yaijresses may be found poring over /Englsh grammars and _dictionaries. And there are newsbpys who can make themselves understood in the idiom of | the United States and of the British Empire. (Copyright, 1931, by New York Sun Foreisn ! SUCCESSFUL NOVELIST INSISTS HE IS POET Pierre Benoit, Recently Elected to French Academy, Has Many Best Sellers. PARIS.—Although he has just been elected to the Prench Academy and ! although his books have brought him large sums, Pierre Benoit is not happy. He insists that he is a poet, in spite of the fact that all his best sellers have ! been novels and that it was as a novel- 1 4st that he was made an Agademician. In France today poems are somewhat of a drug in the markct and few pub- lishers will consider them unless pub- : lication is at the expense of the poet In order to publish his first collection s of poems—he has issued two—Pierre ! Benoit wrote a novel. It sold well. So } he wrote another, and so on, until now + his list runs to a score. But he insists i that he is & poet and nothing else. (Copyright, 1931. by New Yerk Forelgn Service.) Washington Watched Weather. Keeping a weather record appears to 4 exercise a special fascination for many 1 people and was pursued as a hobby Jong before days of organized me- teorology. The earliest daily weather ) Journal now ex'ant is une that was kept « by the Rev. William Merle in England during the years 1334-1337. George Washington kept a detailed account of the weather, along with the happenings of the day, his agricul- tural and other experiments, and a record of his guests, in his | attention to the weather was most par- ticular, and when away, he would have a record kept and on his return would incorporate it in his book. It is be- lieved that his purpose in keeping this weather record was to draw conclusions &5 to the best time for planting crops. | LOW-FARE Fares shown are Round Tri $1.25 BALTIMORE Every Saturday and Sunday Tickets good only In coaches on recular anl trains and sold Saturday good return Sunday night. Week-End Excursions $8.50 NEW YORK Good rxolng every Saturday. all day, until August 29, inclusive Returning until Sunday, 6:40 P. $5.00 NEW YORK 'NDAYS. July 26; Aug. ashington 12 Conches ready for occupancy 11 MOTOR SIGHTSEEING TOU Uptown, Sightseeing vi $8.00 NEW YORK Including all expenses. Ral Breakfast, Lunch. Slxhuennlr SeNBAY, JEhH i~. Washington . . . $10.00 BOSTON, Mass. Fare, Drive Lv. W $16.00 CHICAGO, SATURDAY. ngton to! 1. July 25 L. Was) 5 $3.50 $3.25 PHILADELPHIA CHESTER WILMINGTON AY August 2, 16, \ngton : LA SIGHTSEEING Afiernoon, 30 15 AM. TOURS $1.50 $6.00 PITTSBURGH SATURDAY, August 8 Lv. Washington...."........10:30 P. M. $10.50 CLEVELAND, Ohio SATURDAY, Ausust % 05 P.M. $12.00 CINCINNATI, Ohio INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. SATURDAY. Auscst = Lv. Washington Mneian Consult Agents PENNSYLVANI In off hours | sun | ‘Diary.” His | 11:00 A.M. U. S. STRENGTHENING FRENCH TIES AT COLONIAL EXPOSITION jC. Bascom Slemp Reports | American Success to State Department. “Maison de George Washing- | ton” Draws Appreciation | From Sponsors, He Says. | BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Political, economic and social rela- tions b tween France and the Umited States hava been strongly solidified by American participation in the Interna- tional Colonial Expositi at Paris. That is the burden of a personal repoit just submitted to the State Department in Washington by C. Bascom Slemp, Unit d States commissioner general to the exposition, who arrived here a day | or two ago on a brief leave of absence from his Parisian duties. At a moment | | when chief respopsibility for the eco- nomic_reg-neration of the world rests upon the shoulders of France and the | United States, &s _the outstanding money powers, Mr. Slemp thinks that the colonial show has come along at a critical mom: “The outside world,” said Coolidge’s former Whit>' House ai not fully conscious of the background | from which the French exgosition | | sprang. Its basic purpose is to turn| | the international spotlight on the fact | that France is now one of the great | colontal empires. It is desired to em- | | phasize that the French are a nation of | | 115,000,000 souls, consisting of 45.000,000 people in France_snd 70.000.000 others ree -;Vfi;ee//hqéf | . speaking | By don hewtd ordic tongues has become | The King's | l’D pay several cents a mile extraforthat Free Wheeling | sensation in my Studebaker —if I had to. But the jokeis, it doesn't cost memoney—itsavesmemoney. A Studebaker is swell when rynning along with the motor engaged, but it is those moments of momentum — those miles of Free Wheeling — which give memy grandest thrills . . . and these don't cost—they PAY. I sail along, manufacturing miles and money! About one mile in seven or six or five is free—because you save from a seventh to a fifth of your gas and oil. Seems to me ridick to buy a car without Free Wheeling— when you can get a real Free { WheelingStudebaker for $845! | This s the lowest priced Six with Free Wheeling as stand- ard equipment engineered from tip to tail to give you the ‘ fullest benefits of Free Wheel- | ing in its finest form. free wheeling ‘ originated by Studebaker 3845 af the factory ’ LEE D. BUTLER INCORPORATED ‘ 1132-34 Connecticut | Columbia 5050 Ave. OUTINGS Eastern Standard Time $4.00 ATLANTIC CITY SUNDAYS, Au Washington Week-End All-Expense Tour ATLANTIC CITY $11.00 or $12.50 According to Hotel Selccted SATURDAY. August 29 Lv. Washington. .. 3 M Returning Sunday Evening Week-End Excursion $5.50 ATLANTIC CITY Saturday and Sunday, Aug. Ly. Washington M. 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The exposition had yet another purpose, namely, to_ con- vince France's vast colonial population that the world recognizes it as a factor In the might and strength of the French people. Few Countries B;prmnud. “Thot 15 where, in a manner of speaking, the United States comes into the picture, at least from the standpoint | of French appreciation of our presence | at the exposition. Not many other for- | oign countries are represented there. The British, perhaps with a tactful de- sire, as the premier colonidl empire, not | to overshadow the Fr:nch on their home grounds, confined their participation to | a comparatively modest display and but symbolical, in this Yorktown Sesqui- centennial year, of the ties that first united_the American and French pe 1:s. Mount Vernon is one of Americ finest, types of colonial architecture. the ‘Maison de George Washington'— France’s offical title for our building — alliance and the memori-s of Lafayette, De Grasse, Rochambeau and all the rest of that memorable galaxy. v Exposition Is Success. “In public addresses, in private assur- ances, and in innumerable oth:r ways, French officials have proclaimed that the United States has dons more to make the ‘Exposition Coloniale Inter- nationale’ a success than any other country. ‘The exposition is an unde- building. Germany has no more col- onies to make & fuss about. The Neth- | erlands, Italy, Portugal and Japan are| about the only countries left with so- | called ‘for:ign dependencies,’ with the exception of the United States. The | French_sought, above all, for a truly | representative participation by our coun- try. “There was corresponding joy when Congr ss voted $250,000 for that pur- poce, later supplementing the appro- | priation with an additional $50,000. But the cup of French satisfaction was set | to overflowing when it was decided that the physical form of our participation should be a reproduction of Mount Ver- | non. The choice struck the French as | being particularly appropriate not only to the colonial motif of the exposition, | George Washington' is almost startling | Franco-American niable “success. Opened only in May, its prosperity was assured before July. Some 150,000 people a day poured through its gats at Vincennes, on the outskirts of Paris. Attendance is larg- est at night. Through the door of the ris Mount Vernon more than 10,000 visitors go in and out. American tour- ists flock there with the same sense of piety with which they pay homage at th> original site on the banks of the Potomac in Virginia. Their testimony is universal that the showing our cou: try is making at the exposition is de- lightful, dignified and impressiv>. The French and other European visitors nimously echo that sentiment. hanks to the skill of our archi- tects and builders, ‘the ‘Maison de If you're interested in the price of tires, read this advertisement. Never in history has tire mileage been priced so low. At amazingly low figures you can get rid of the hazard and worry of threadbare tires and set yourself for carefree driving for a long, long time. Goodyear Pathfinders are sturdy Supertwist balloons made to Goodyear standards, backed by Goodyear’s reputation. 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Every plece of furniture and deco- |ration at Mount Vernon has been mi- nutely and faithfully reproduced. That work was mainly under the direction of Ann Madison Washington of this city, a kinswoman of George Washing- ton. Under her superintendence, Grand | Rapids furniture factories turned out |an ‘interior’ that would deceive even "some members of the Ladies’ Patriotic Mount Vernon Association, who are in charge of the Nation's shrine here at | home. | Other Buildings Reproduced. | “The complex of outer buildings at- tached to the mansion is also repro- duced at the exposition, and good use | has been made of them. Instead of at- | tempting to make them an exact copy (except as to exterior) of the ones at Mount Vernon, we are utllizing them as places for exhibits, respectively, of the products and environments of 1Alr\ska, Hawalii, Porto Rico, the Philip- | pines, ' the Virgin Islands and our | American Indian reservations. In order not to let exposition visitors Tun away |with the idea that the ‘Maison de George Washington,’ Alaskan Eskimo |huts or Indian wigwams still typify | Yankee architecture, we have a nook in which imposing models of the Em- | pire State Building, the Chrysler sky- scraper and the Irving Trust Co. mammouth are displayed. We have in- |stalled an extensive collection of fac- that history, | similed documents figure in T in its resemblance to the historic origi- Louls XI's proclamation recognizing the American Republic. “The exposition will close its gates on November 1. By that time roundly 15,000,000 or 16,000,000 visitors will have clicked through its turnstiles. The French invested 150,000,000 francs in creating the plant. They have every reason already to reckon that from very standpoint it will turn out to have been a magnificent investment. The re- turn in American good will alone, they feel, was worth it all.” (Copyright, 1931) BRITISH PAY $100,000 YEARLY MOTOR FINES Type of Lawbreaking on Increase ‘With Only 3,000,000 Autos on Highways. LONDON.—With fewer than 3,000,- 000 motor vehicles on the roads of Great Britain today the chancellor of the exchequer can still reckon upon a steady income of more than $1,000,000 in fines from lawbreaking motorists in the course of a year. In fact, this type of lawbreaking is on the increase. ~As compared with 1929, the number of cases of reckless and dangerous driving | was 290,511, compared with 332,575 1ast | vear. |” Of last year's 78 gentences for im- | prisonment 56 were imposed for drunk- enness in charge of a motor | More than a third of all offenses | were committed in the metropolitan po- |lice area of London. But it must be | remembered that in this area is the | Breatest percentage of motor vehicles (Copyright, 1931. by New York 8un Foreign Service.) House Is All Front. 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