Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. [23], No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, July 6, 1934 Page: 4 of 8
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SENTINEL
EVERY FRIDAY
H. HARDY, Owner, Editor and
Publlaber
hCated u Becond-Claas Matter at
Poet Office at CryaUl City. Texaa,
* the Act of March 8, 1878.
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Display Advertising per coL .80
Leenl Notice* nnd Until Adleta
Ic a word for each Insertion
Crystal City, Texas, July 6, 1934
No Critics For THis ..............
1 W VUUvO 1 v/1 X iUO LjCiHIC
uy ni* u« vnflpin ]
HJB NATION'S BIRTH-
DAY, JULY 4th, 1776
Our second president, John
poured out his very soul in
upper* of the Declamation of Inde-
ienc*‘ before the document was
red. We quote herewith:
“But whrtever may be our fate, be
tha* this Declaration will
It may cost treasure, and it
lay cost blood, but it will stand, and
pit will richly compensate for both,
igh the thick of the present, I
the brightness of the future, as
le sun in heaven. We shall make
(this a glorious, an immortal day.
lien we are in our graves, our chil-
iren will honor It. They will cele-
irate it with thankgiving, with fes-
tivity, with bonfires and illumina-
tions. On its annual return, they will
tears, copious, gushing tears,
It of subjection and slavery, not of
fony and distress, but of exulta-
tion, of gratitude and joy. Sir, be-
fore God, I believe the hour is
come. My judgment approves this
measure, and my whole heart is in
it. All that I have, and all that I am,
that I hope, in this life, I am
now reh^Y here to stake upon it.
And I leaveY^Uas I began, that, live
or die, survivetV. perish, I am for
the Declaration. It ih-->{ny living sen-
timent, and by the blessing of God
it shall be my dying sentiment.
“Independence now, and Independ I
ence forever!”
There is not a real American wiio
does not thrill at the story of how
colonial leaders affixed their signa-
tures to the Declaration of Inde-
lOwn, exists
lay VB SUture isolated
in a pr^MM^^^ld^the encircling
mountains enclosing the city as if to
guard its beauty and charm from
encroaching stagnation of the death-
less centuries that still subdue the
expanse of hidden Mexico. It is In-
deed amazing to reflect upon the
great contrast in life existing in
I Mexico City and beyond the moun-
tains, and this’
by the fact that,
of interior Mej
ing extended, tjie^
mentary education,
their ancestors had
for centuries. Mej
served for^Tiearly
one of the finest
(Continued oiv
V
NEW DEAL IN MEXICO
MAKES PROGRESS
(By Dale
Weekly.)
Miller in The Texas
Good News to Texans as well as to
Mexicans was the announcement
emanating from Mexico City a few
days ago that the Mexican Govern-
ment was planning to spend twenty
million pesos within the near fu-
ture in the construction of highways.
The McAllen Daily Press reports this
news item, deservedly “playing it
up” as important to the progress of
Texas also, since tourist travel from
. ,, , . . . . _ the United S: *es to Mexico will be
s -u, Texas.
birth to our mighty nation. Let
stimulate a greater spirit of patriot-
ism, and thereby deal telling blows
[ to those in America who seek to un-
Idermine our constitution.
-WGD---
ONE OUT OF TWENTY
Dllas Journal: One person out of
every twenty in the United States is
noyv on a federal payroll. There are
six million federal tax-eaters now.
If we say there are 120,000,000 of us
in all, that means 24,000,000 heads of
families. Then it is really more se-
rious than one in twenty.
Figuring in breadwinners of both
I sexes, the chances are that the ratio
is about one in five. Four earners,
that is to say, carry a tax-eater on
(heir backs.
Besides all that, we have the
states, the counties, the cities, the
i townships, the school districts, the
irrigation districts and so on. It
probably figures down to two earn-
with a tax-eater on their backs,
at is why The Journal believes
• that the public should be continual-
I ly warned not to get into the habit
of considering current temporary
measures as permanent. Sooner or
laer they must end—as they ought
to end.
-WGD-
TODAY AND TOMORROW
RUBBER.....from gas
The discovery by the research lab-
oratory of the Du Pont Company of
a way to make a substitute for rub-
ber out of gas is one more proof of
the value of pure science. Only
chemists familiar with every phase
of that complex science would have
dreamed of the possiibilty that you
can heat coal and limestone and
from the calcium carbine thus ob-
tained produce acetylene gas by add-
ing water, and then by adding salt
get a new chemical, chloroprene,
which coagulates into a substance
k which, while not real rubber, makes
Just as good automobile tires as rub-
,ber does.
Natural rubber is so cheap now
rthat it doesn’t pay to use this new
product. But if another war should
send rubber up to $2 a pound, as the
last one did, or even an eighth of
at price, the United States would
independent of the South Ameri-
can and East Indian rubber growers
Now almost the only things that
we have to impart are things we
could get along without in case of
Agar, such as coffee, tea and choco-
! late.
-WGD-
Greetings from Mrs. Ruth Webb,
lo is studying music in Saint Louis,
the course of lec-
she is privileged to
M wonderful con-
An apprecial * ;i< ventage of this
twenty million , jpropriation will be
devoted ti the completion of the
eagerly-aw. :.'d ni m.'iona! high-
way through - ted* an'*. ’* ‘ "rrey
to Mexico City, his tuttj oeeiv
in the process of 0 isttuclion fq
years, but its tortuoi coui .^thyi
the mountains of ini . tor Mca 7
taxed the ingenuity ,’id skill of en-
gineers to the utrmFor example,
one stretch of approximately thirty
miles in the eastern Sierras will re-
quire hundreds of bridges, culverts,
and embankments before the tread
erous passes will be conque.
Although the development
as and the Southwest is in
linked with practically
of development in Mexij
way construction progi
ularly indicative of tb
of Mexico’s “New Deal” tcJ
tion of the United States. T
national highway, compl
point south of Monterrey, lWlready
attracting thousands of American
tourists, and its completion*to the
Mexican capital, and thei.ee south
tp Central and even South America,
as is planned, will stimulate travel
in the Western Hemisphere to an ex-
tent never before remotely i im-
agined. The incomparable charm
and virgin beauty of Mexico has
only recently been realized by the
American tourist, and little encour-
agement to travel will be necessary
once travel is made convenient.
Completion of the Laredo-Monter-
rey highway southward to Mexico
City is of course the most important
project to which expenditure of the
appropriation should be directed,
but there are one or two other roads
in northern Mexico, the improve-
ment of which will mean much to
Texas. One of these is from Reynosa,
opposite McAllen in the Rio Grande
Valley, westward to Monterrey,
about two hundred miles distant.
Tourist travel now, directed through
Laredo, misses the lower Rio Grande
Valley; and, while the territory tra-
versed by the present highway is in-
teresting, the Magic Valley is one of
the show-places of Texas and should jg
be made available not only to the
thousands who come to Texas each
year for the express purpose of vis-
iting the Valley but likewise to those
who are en route to Monterrey and
are unable to vary their course by
several hundred miles to include the
Valley. Then, too, when the new
highway is completed, visitors to
Monterrey will be permitted to go,
one way and return the other and
thus .see much more of both Texas
and Mexico.
Another project, perhaps even
more important than the proposed k
Reynosa-Monterrey road, is the con-
templated highway from Browns-
ville, at the tip of the Valley, south-
ward to Victoria, capital of Tanjauli-
pas. This highway would amount
practically to a continuation of the
hug-the-coast highway in Texas,
and, when completed, would enable
the tourist to drive almost in a direct
line from the Texas coast southward
to the City of Mexico. The Browns-
ville-Victoria road would connect
with the international highway at
the Mexican city, and would provide,
another alternate route for travel A
and from our neighbor republic. '
Although tourist travel would
doubtless respond to the invitation
of these fine hi®ways more,quick-
ly than businesAi^ivity, the com-
uld
pletion of the:
mean m,
both
com-
soon aom
prehension of the ignorant masses of
the twentieth century.
This hidden Mexico, the land be-
yond the mountains whose human
animals are cast in the molds of
centuries, has repeatedly defied the
advances of education. But progress,
particularly in recent years, has
gone relentlessly forward neverthe-
less. Under the Constitution of 1917,
which supplanted the original docu-
ment promulgated sixty years be-
fore, education is secular, and all
States have fi%e primary schools
and laws provj^pg for compulsory
education. Pol|
gether with tH!
tination of the
well typified by
lana, hay
disturbances, to
^ditional procras-
fican people so
?f the word
jilitate
«s
popuTTm^^^^^^^^^Hfied
blnoWi^^^B^HPining
cent being con^Red or ignoral
dians or mestizos (half-breeds)
still converse in their guttera trib£
dialects. For centuries they havi
stubbornly resisted progress in a,
form, and it is a surprising fac^
even most of the mestizos a
less civilized than the Aztel
Montezuma’s time, who called so fu-
tively on their war god Mexitli
(from whom the name Mexico was
derived centuries later) to repel the
Spanish Invaders. Indeed, Cortez and
his Conquistadores found a civiliza-
tion in Tenochititlan four centuries
ago that would far surpass the cont-
rast
lolves itself
ithin Mexid
hile the col
tually a wild!
penetrable mi
the light of
lives of its siml_
city of Mexico is wffillil
lis that compares favora|^^^^
ture and education with^^^^w ^r
pretentious of European cap^ctncl
Cupped in a howl among rugg
snow-capped peaks, Mexico, D.
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WHO ARE YOU?
Are you the man who sits in your house
and let your voice travel by wire?
Or, are you the man who must go to the
neighbors, or to town to summon the
Doctor.
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ORANGES, 288*8, doz..........................
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