Friday. March [0, l96| SCARLET AND BLACK Page Seven rinnell Girlsviell About Eltperiences In Mexicofi Ell note: The two Stories below attempt to provide insight intu tl particular aspect of Mexicali life as seen by Grim lcll students. Lillllil Miller, ll juninr Spanish major, stlldicd and visited in Mexico City last summer and presents same observations 01‘ that city, and its people. Jeanne Kline, a freshman from iner on u church mission projec by Jeanne Kline Soon after arriving in Ale. andra, Mexico, 1 walked along} he narrow, rocky pathwayl ~lnch served ‘as a road tor the me or two cars in this small‘ illage or “pueblo" in west-cam} ral Mexico. One school, one iarkct, corn ticlds, sugar cane, ivesfock and many hurl‘os sugrldigmcts even h, ,he spam 0; lrc-mcly high costs of automo-,bouk rested the nature at this pueblo or 200 families and the small, dobe huts and smaller shacks, n which they live. We met wclz :oming and chccrful faces which lid not betray their hunger. lrourtccn young people and two dults had come (mm the Unit} .d states for three weeks of‘ nission work tor the Episcopal! lhurch, Our group, with the help t several local workmen, start» ~d constructing a home lor Sen-i r Pedro, the director of Ale-‘ andra’s “mternado,” which is . home for boys 6s16 who would‘ t have been able to go to chool had they stayed at their i After a grccting full ol Msx-, can warmth from Senor Pedro,.’ e Started (0 work. Soon the oys were back from school and‘ agcr to help lay bricks, it did‘ lot 529m {0 matter that that tructure might fall apart after- al‘d because of their scant nowledgc of brick laying; we ere having tun and getting cqllainted. I l l in the evening we sometimes danced, and Jesus, Senor Ped- ro‘s brother, would teach us typical Mexican steps. other tints we talked, sang or play— cd games with the little boys. , We began teaching the boys few English words. They raeticed hard at pronouncing e lctters, and soon were greets i g us with, “Good morning," nd “you're welcome," We had mutual agreement that if we .ught them English, they would ivc us guitar lessons and teach s {aticnzl songs like “Pancho illa," and “Benito Juarez.“ he)! also proudly sang their ational anthem and supplied us vith a Spanish translation ol the tar Spangled Banner. it was not so hard to remain— er all sixteen boys‘ names at- =r we had cmoycd many water— ights in the nearby river, or ushed a ’41 Chevy out onto e dirt road all together, or -incd in a comical attempt at atting out torillas. We found the‘peoplc very interested in the United states and had an occasion one week end to wander through the vil- lage and talk to a few peo- ple, oiie teenage girl showed me her hi it set and collection of Doris Day albums. A man asked me about Caryl Chess~ an and about segregation in the South. A few of the boys at the in. rnada asked why there wci-e cinonstrations in Mcxrco City. Alter church one night ame back to tmd a group of ariaches tmolc singers) ready . serenade us. The spirited usic of the guitars and mara- as made us realize the impor— music in their lives. of how well they ang, they loved to do it and ang loudly and with great feel- _ The night before we were to leave the pueblo to rcturn to the United states, we were given a fiesta. Everyone in own come. There were tacos tortillas, lestodas and all the typical Mexican foods besides reincinhrances for us. Thcrc was singing and danc. ig and brightly costumed chil. ran and adults showed us Ihe exican llat Dance and othcl‘ radilionnl Mexican dances The rd work put into the licsta amc as a surprise to us because 'was so different train the way t saying good—by in the United tates. , ... ~ ~ ,undcr South Pasadena, Calif., writes about her experiences last Sum» t in a rural Me; of Mexico. and enjoying their companion. ship, Two of our preconceived 1107 By Linda lllillcr , As one enters Mexico City} hc is immediately impressch with the great contrasts within the city. Fcrhaps it is due to a _ , rather vague system of zoningtwm, qumkly dispelled were that one sees such a variety otWhafoe goes on atva slow page. buildings and commer al'easiand that n“ Mencan load is interspersed with the l'csidcntidl‘hmv Although. duC to the 6X- :blies in Mexico, the number oi a few blocks. , . _ _ _ The family with whom i liv-‘cars in the City Is not largo m 'son with the population, cd could be termed middle cmillmi . _ _ _ class, They lived in a neighbor. the tl'afllc which does exist is hood called Narvarte. Narvart/s lust _as cjhflohc asvthat m an is one of the colonies into big City in the United States. which the city is divided and The atmosphere of the city which probably date ,back to the time of the Aztec conquest when each Aztec lineage occu— pied a detinite sector ot the‘ area. Between modern apart— mcnt buildings in Nal‘varte are humble littlc lndian shacks day is eaten around 2 p.m, which olten face a lly-riddcn‘with a light supper around a. market. ,Our tamily used no more sca— . . lsoning in cookin than would “A: 'ii‘igi'iiriiiisiiiiiimsst‘aiiiirf: an America? “nah, I "adid in the middle of Mexico City‘s Hhcm 2: recipe for gravy in downtown business district [return m" we °f Pusher" tacing the lighted glass tower, . (a WP“ °f 5‘6“” the tallest building in South i .The 95°91“ “’m‘ Wi‘mn .1 America, one would never ,hvcd were very modern in their dream am he was my “me ivicwpoints, They introduced me to many of their intcrcsting l l - . Lies: ft‘il‘gmctiiifhigiifs.‘ “med i triends. One at these had a spc- cial interest in the history of The Mexican family with his count and he would often whelm I stayed wanted many of tell us stories about Col'tez’s the same things that a middle conquest of the Aztecg Whh class family in this country typical cnthusmsm he would da- would want. but they rated them scribe cities and battles to us, in a different order of import— making them come alive. ance. Their automatic washer, several ahemmhs wm spent came before ally thought of an with the family ”We, who automatic water heats. Al- read the newspaper with uka though they had been trying to half hour in Spanish discussion get a telephone for years they of its contents for our benefit already had a new h i set. iand another half hour in English Mexico City is growing so fast so he could practice English. that the public utilities are hay» These sessions usually ended up ing trouble keeping pace. Build. being talks about the latest ing goes on throughout the scandalous murders, as he was city both day and night, The especially interested in criminal results are often very specter-,and divorce cases. ular with intricate mosaic‘ The Mexicans whom we met' fronts. had great pride in themselves Labor and materials for this andglheir country. They were sort of work are very absent ““0“ "m “'9 ”“1“" ‘0 ““' it is also not a luxury to cm—l Simian“ and hvvrem‘c MEX- ploy one or two faids. Those ”Dr The? “j“‘t‘? 5% an "h- who worked for om, family, provement in living standards were young lndian girls who‘ ““f‘ they k'WW “Mk 0th,“ did much hf the Work “many, things have been sacrificed in done by hm North American' progress toward this social un- houscwilc, l movement. The l‘nothcl‘ of our family Thus freed of many house. _ . . i. . hold chores. the mother of ‘5” °E a 1”“ “‘Cs‘dmt' “5 . . true that he became a rich man our farm] devoted much time i . h m the miysing or her children with Mexiccs money. but he Loving celebrations by nature, they gladly took almost any occ ion as an , rose for throw- ing a party. Thcsc parties rang~ ed from a birthday serenade a window in the middle of the night, to baptism select worker usually has a two-hour lunch break from 1 to 3, and then works until 7 pnmt 1910 revolution as the rcal be- ginning of progress in Mexico and have faith that Mexico will eventually solve her problems without losing her unioucn ss. ltlons about MCxlcan life which.. Both y l is bustling and energetic, and l sicstas are nare. A city oflice i ' words,” says Mills, “are mine, Thus the main meal of the ‘ ,built great lnghwavs, dams and. schools.” The people mark the 'Docl Reviews ', Cuban Books By noc Davenport Tu-o ol the most recent and 'Ontl'ovol'slai books about Cuba are "Listen, Yankee” by C. Wright Mills and ‘Ctlbar-Anat- lomy at a Revolullon" by Leo ‘Huberman and Paul M.’Sweczy, arc musts tor the Latin lAnie 'can Conference next week. , Both books are anatomies of ,thc 26th—of-July movement in ‘Cuba. The Hubel‘mcm-Sweezy is a succcsslul look at ,Cuba from the outside. Thci lMills book is a rather garbled attempt by a noanpanish speak- ing North American to express, in layman laguagc, the scnti»l ,mcnts of the Cubans from the} , inside. l ‘ "Listen, Yankee" is written' vas eight letters from “the poop; $0! Toll Sptbth Will Open Mic Esscntial background niatcri for the Latin American Calll‘cl cncc will be provided by Pro- fessor Sol Tax. a noted antlii'Ur pologist and educator, in speech Tuesday night entitlet’ “Indian Backgrounds in Lati America." The importance c. this pl‘ErCOnfCl'ence lecture lie in the fact that it will prov . a cultural basis upon which late. speeches dealing with pol and economic issues will cl t Tax, now teaching at rhc University of Chicago, recei- his PhB from the University {7‘ Wisconsin and his PhD from :ht. University of Chicago. He i president 01 the American .‘an- thropological association. iple cl Cuba” to the people of ‘lhc United States. "Most of the SPeC‘alizing in will anthr‘" pology in the field of social nnt' the arguments, the tone,‘ the interpretations, the tang and lfeeli ey arc in the main di- lrectly Cuban" Evidently, some ‘ ol the words and tongs got mix— > ed up because one notes a fate P miliarity with “The Power lEllte” which one wouldn't exp pect to find among most peas— ants and workcrs. it, however, we can assume that Mills partially succeeds in his purpose, “Listen, Yan— kee" is a very interesting book in that it rcllects what some of the Cubans think , and hope. One at the most interesting sections deals with the cultural future of the is- land. According to Mills, the Cubans want to make their country into a modern Grccce— cultural change or ”action an- a cultural and intellectual ccn- Ilhropology." Tax has dune field ter. The Cubans mm to work on the North American build a great university open Indians Darticuerh' the Fox to all people and all beliefs. ‘tribE. and on the Highland May? For example, they mm m glndians, for _wlnch he spent bring Chinese economists into {several years in Guatemala and dehhte with American cnbi- ,Mexico. He has also done work must; and print the ”suns in ‘in Algeria on prchistoiical prob- all languages {or all people 401% to discuss . . ' . Amen" P‘of. ' i . oiie pomt is made very clear' “ ‘ Ta“ mm W’ in be”, imam Yankee” and lications arc the books “Harlin “Anatomy.” The Cubans are for age at CunquESt” and “Penny tlic Cubans Thcv arc not for the Capitalism," and several am, lRussian Communists or the do: mdudmg .The Soda, 0r. 'South American Connnunists or . . , ,, gainzation of the Fox indians. thc American capitalists. Thcy “ , are for the betterment 0[ Cuba and The Fmdm“ ‘0 Milke ML“ and if they must deal with takes." He has lectured on Russia or China or the man in Special hoping 5L,Ch as “Nam, the moon to further Cuba's cco- Amman Indians Team” on ‘nomic and social progress, then diam of Kuatemamn 33;, “A“ ‘thev will do so eagerly. i ~Tlle revolution is not a war {thrépology and World Prob- lems." for killing and conquering. “Revolution is construction” is a them about which both books are built. 1 The general organization of l“Anat0m,‘/" is similar to that of “Listen, Yankee." it ‘BOOK REVIEWS Cont. p. a, col. 1 brations so large that many ol the guests had no idea whom the party was honoring, This type 0[ social liic centered mainly in the home, and was not just a way at wasting time but of being with one’s friends Buffet He'd rather wear a suit cleaned by EGWA CLEANERS Charlie thinks arsuit cleaned by us looks cvcii “newer than new.” who are we to argue with him? W’smeh'h West: Meir. it} 8: H SUPPER CLUB Dancing . . . . 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