Evening Star Newspaper, March 18, 1935, Page 7

THE EVENING MEXICO RESISTS FGHT ON RELIGON Conflict Makes Country Turn Anew to Church, Observer Says. Mexico is not terrorized by its re- ligious conflict. and storles to that effect are 95 per cent inaccurate, says 8. L. A. Marshall, traveler and au- thority on the Southern republic, writ- ing in a series of articles copyrighted by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Under the mounting pressure of government opposition, however, Mexi- co is consciously becoming one of the most intensely religious nations on earth, the writer states. “This present manifestation of what amounts to an organized national opinion is unique in the prolonged struggle between church and state and is the consequence of an evolutionary shift in the character of government,” he writes. “Paralleling the course of Ameri- can Government, Mexico has moved steadily, 1 recent years, toward in- tensified centralism. The revolution’s old guard, in whose thinking there was a high degree of personal inde- pendence, has been superseded by a phalanx of bright young men of the Calles vintage, all of whom work hand in hand with Mexico City. Today the voice of President Cardenas is the voice of God to every state governor save one.” Only 375 churches are operating in the entire republic. Retains Faith. But whatever the state does to de- stroy religion, the Mexican sticks stolidly to the faith of his fathers. For every altar that has been razed in a cathedral, another has been raised in & workshop. In every bay of one factory visited in Mexico was the | 4 image of a saint. They defy the police to molest their images. Mexico is the greatest violator of its church law, because the constitution says there must be at least one cleric to every 50,000 population. The thunder over Mexico was re- leased more than a year ago when Secretary Bassols issued the blunt statement that sex education would be made compulsory in all Mexican schools. In some districts 60 per cent of the parents announced that children would be taken from the schools. Bas- sols dropped the sex education in|: favor of “social education,” but the fat was in the fire. He was forced to resign, and the whole matter lay dormant until Cardenas started cam- paigning for the presidency. Under his leadership, egged on by his secretary of agriculture, Tomas Garrido Canabal, the constitution was changed to make socialistic education compulsory. It was stipulated that all private schools must follow the dictates of the state—sudden death to the parochial schools. lowed. Pedagogues made their own interpretations of what the new order meant and began dishing out what- ever text matter fitted their fancy. The writer says he found 33 dif- ferent interpretations of the law in as many schools in nine states. The new text books, which are being rolled off the Mexican press by the thousands, are strictly atheistic, the theme of those for the lower grades being: “There is no being superior to man. |: God exists only in the human mind.” “The rhetoric of Mexico under President Cardenas is the language of proletarian revolution. Official ora- tory bristles with the verbiage of un- rest. Bookstore windows bulge with Marxist literature. the sickle adorn public buildings and political posters. “Diego Rivera in his latest work in | the National Palace vents his spleen against capitalism in‘a new spurt of venom.” In describing labor Mexico, Marshall says: “Unionism giv and unionism taketh away. Industry no longer is in authority over its men. The unions do the hiring. Only the union can fire him. “The outright surrender to labor not only explains the multiplicity of strikes under the new dualism, but is one of the precarious aspects of the political maneuvering by which the Cardenas government and the official political party contrive to appear vio- lently red, while acting palely pink.” Mexico looks upon the religious con- flict as historical. It will not admit that it is new. The administration in- sists that the teaching of socialism is not anti-religious * * * it is essentially pro-Mexican and pro-social justice. Denies Anti-Church Feeling. Quoting Emilio Portes Gil, former President of Mexico and now secretary of foreign affairs, the writer says Mex- ico is definitely not anti-religious, and that its socialistic education is not tending to turn the mind of the child against religion. “‘The fight that Catholicism main- tains with the Mexican government today is due solely to the rebellious at- titude of the Catholic clergy,’” Portes Gil is quoted as saying. The Mexicans argue that they have the right to impart such information as they see fit to their own children, Mexico has religions of all denomina- tions and, according to Portes Gil, they are all welcome. Portes Gil explains the socialistic education system as designed to prop- agate the “rational” or scientific view of life and natural phenomena, and to develop in the child a consciousness of the social equality of all Mexicans. “Undér the constitution,” he is quoted as saying, ‘“religion is a sub- ject to be taught by the parent in the home, and to receive institutional sup- port only from the church. There is no interference with religion so long as its protagonists do not preach dis- obedience to the political institutions of Mexico.” “Incessant labor disputes, a growing quixotic redicalism in official quarters conditions in Confusion fol- | : and the religlous strife that has blank- | eted nation with political unrest, thereby steadily reducing the volume of trade throughout Mexico and caus- ing a corresponding slump in collec- tions everywhere save in the mining areas, have multiplied discontent in a sector that during the past 14 years has had sufficient reason to applaud the revolution,” the writer says. Prosperity Claimed. Industry now employs about 15 per cent of the working population in Mexico. As it is generally under- stood in the United States that Mex- ico is topping the peak of an unprece- dented wave of prosperity, the writer says & survey among Mexican manu- facturers showed results to the con- trary. Northern Mexico, especially in the states of Sonora, Chihuahua and Du- rango, where the focal point of revo- lution has always been, seethes with rebellion, dissent and intrigue against the Cardenas government, Marshall says. He says he found rhany signs of the old revolutionary ferment. Business men and government em- ployes object that the President is sullying his high office by frittering his time on the picayune personal problems of the peon, while matters of state are neglected. Average citi- zens complain that their daily routine is disordered by strikes. Catholics are enraged by the President’s close friendship with Tomas Garrido Cana- bal, secretary of agriculture. But the greatest loss of strength by the Car- denas government can be traced to the religious issue, the writer says. Marshall sees it as a significant change in the nation’s politics that the troubles of the republic are not laid at the door of former President Calles and the National Revolutionary party. There is a story that Calles, the Iron Man of Mexico. followed a deliberate hands-off policy at the Queretaro convention, that the naming of Cardenas was none of his doing and that as clouds gather above the new administration the revolution's first chief plays a part of watchful waiting. “Camels are made from finer TOBACCOS...Turkish and The hammer and | Dom other popular brand.” ( R. ). RE 30th Anniversary Of Wedding Noted By Mrs. Roosevelt Cooks Scrambled Eggs for Family in Cele- bration. By the Associated Press. Embarked on the thirty-first year of married life, Mrs. Roosevelt still was wearing today the old-fashioned square-cut diamond ring aud the gold locket which Franklin D. Roosevelt gave her back in 1905. The ring still is worn in the orig- inal setting and the locket bears on it a dent made by the teeth of one of their children. Mrs. Roosevelt also continues to wear the gold watch which Mr. Roose- velt designed himself and gave her in the days when it was fashionable for women to wear watches pinned on their shirtwaists. The design con- tains the three feathers of the Roose- velt crest and a heart. 1 Sitting about a fire last night at the White House, the Chief Executive and Mrs. Roosevelt celebrated their thirtieth anniversary by eating scram- bled eggs cooked in a chafing dish which was one of their wedding presents. Mrs. Roosevelt cooked the eggs and served them. Only mem- bers of the family were present. A dinder, originally planned, was can- | celed because of the illness of the | President’s secretary, Col. Louis Mc- ‘Henry Howe. Both President and Mrs. Roosevelt congratulated their old friend on learning his condition had improved. Earlier in the afternoon, the family | slipped into White House limousines |and drove away to an unannounced | destination for a pienic. 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