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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
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Friday, May 21, 1954
MOUNTAIN SHRINE IN MEXICO
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Health Adiysory Gommittee
Of Medicdl-Sbciety Expands
! At board meeting of the
Marion County Health Depart
ment Thursday tt was. reported
that the - Marion-Polk County
Medical Society has expandeii its
One of the many shrines along the' mountainous road which
are supposed to protect the traveler through the pass between .
'Mexico City and Pueblo. Volcan Ixtaccihauatl, 17,338 feet in
' height, third highest mountain in Mexico, in the background.
ROME OF AMERICA
Old Spanish Town in Mexico
Visited by Salem Traveler
...... :Y;., By ADDYSE LANE
Through rugged, twisUng
mounUin roads, 84 miles from
Mexico City, lies the typical old
Spanish town of Puebla. The old
barogue city is frequently refer
red to as the "Rome of America."
At Puebla's forts of Loreto and
Guadalupe the invading French
forces were defeated in the bat
tle of the 5th of May, which all of
Mexico celebrated yesterday. Fire
works, bonfires and parades all
day long in the city . . . sky
rockets and floral swags decorat
ine the statuary along Juarez
avenue and dancing in the streets.
Puebla was founded in the
early 16th century and is one of
the few Mexican towns not orig
inally built by the Aztecs and
ultimately elaborated on by the
Snanish conquistadores. There is
savins about Puebla. that it was
"made by the Angels and inhab
ited by Nobles."
- There is a distant serenity sur
rounding the old town. Twilight
is the most beautiful part of the
day to approach any city, or to
leave it It adds romance and the
ethereal beauty of a thing partly
seen. It tips the mountains with
rose and lavender mists. And it
was from this perspective tnat 1
saw the dream of a lifetime, the
vision of Popocatepetl posed ma
: jestically above the city of Pu
ebla. J
Any person who has read and
dreamed of enchanting spots and
then had the surprisingly good
fortune to see them personally
can imagine my breathless won
der, standing on the old worn bat
tlements at the Fort of Loreto
and seeing as a living thing, the
sleeping greatness of ancient Po
pocatepetl. - '
Aztec legend believed Popocatepetl,-
which ' means ."Smoking
Mountain," to. have been, a god.
And from Its 18,000 feet into the
sky, Popo looks down on his wife,
the slightly lower volcano, Ixtac
cihuatl. She is covered with snow
now in May. The Indians call her
"The White Woman." Night be
gan to cover them both, and- a
cold wind whipped the black
clouds to and fro between them
and the enchanted spectator. They
became huge smoky blue guard
ians of the city, magnificent and
powerful.
The Cathedral in Puebla is re
garded as "the most beautiful in
the Americas." Its architecture
is Spanish Renaissance and was
begun in 1575, long before the
Cathedral of the Zocalo in Mexi
co Citv. In the Church of La Com-
pania, a few blocks down the
street from the Cathedral, lie the
remains of the legendary Prin
cess Mirrha, 'known throughout
Mexico as "La China Poblana."
It was she, who in the early 17th
century, was Drought as nostage
from her native China to Acapui
co. on the western shore of Mex
ico. She was sold to a responsible
captain there, who fell in love
with her and took her to Puebla.
Shortly after arriving at his
home, he eave her her freedom.
He sent for her Chinese clothes,
which she missed in the new,
stranee land. He Rave her jewels
and bought costly materials for a
new wardrobe for the little prin
cess. She designed her new dress
es utilizing what she had loved in
China and something of what she
saw the Indians wearing in the
Tillages.
She became known for her un
usual dress, and soon people be
gan copying her. She wore a red
flannel skirt, trimmed with de
signs of sequins, with about ten
inches of green satin near the
waistband. With this she wore an
embroidered white blouse and a
rebozo folded over the shoulders
and crossed in front And the
design of the little Princess from
China,' who came to' Mexico as a
hostage,' has become the typical
Mexican oress ;. -. ana national
feminine costume. Consequently,
the- Mexican peasant - skirt and
white blonse is part Chinese and
part Indian, in origin. The colors
of the Mexican flag, according to
some historians, are traced to tne
red, green, and white of the cos
tume designed La China Poblana.
Near- the first and oldest the
atre building in America, an old
rectangular building of crumbling
walls and creaking eats, ana a
staee that has held the "great
of Mexico through four centur
ies, is the "Sugar-cake House."
The Sugar-Cake is the most fam
ous residence in Puebla. It is
comparatively modern, built in
the- 18th century. "It derives its
name from the richly decorated
exterior which gives it the ap
pearance, from a distance, of an
elaboratelv-iced birthday cake.
And the architecture here is typ
ically Soanish Colonial '
In the Barrio del Parian, an old
colonial district which housed the
market and the euild of the spin-
nine wheel workers in the early
days, streets are lined with paint
ings; oils, water-colors, pastels,
charcoal drawings, tacked to the
walls of the tiny cube-like rooms
racing the narrow street And of
course the barrio now has a new
name: The Artist's District, a kind
of Mexican Greenwich Village.
Returning to Medco City, the
road twists through the sacred
city of the Naioa Indians, the
village of Cholula. Recent exca
vations in Cholula have uncovered
a pyramid larger at its base than
Cheops of Egypt From the moun
tain top road, looking down on
the village, the moonlight picked
up the spires of 23 churches.
counted them again when a cloud
had passed the moon. There were
26 spires this time. So many
churches have been built in Cho
lula that it is said there is one
for each day of the year. Some
have disproved the theory;, but it
seems almost logical when you
round the bend in the road and
come upon the forest of tall.
pointed cathedral towers outlined
in black against the blue-gray
sky. . .
Along the country roads were
the constant parades of goats, the
farmer prodding them with his
lone .bamboo pole; the great,
black bulls grazing beside the
highway; and the skinny little
burros overloaded . with great
bundles of straw and Dotterv iues.
All this under the sbadows ot
sleeping Popocatepetl
At the university grounds dur
ing the last month was an exhibit
of modern German industry, the
German Trade Fair. It has been
said that American manufacturers
wished to exhibit on the univers
ity land, but that the proposal
was negated by the president of
the university. In one way, the
German Fair was an American
exposition because It was primar
ily American capital which pro
vided the impetus for post-war
German industry.
Among exhibitors .were the im
posing units of the Krupp family
and the Borsig company. The
Mercedes-Benz cars held the spot
light; the Porsch combination car
for traveling, a- type of house
Ideas for
your summer
comfort
XPbr not nuke tti the Tnr
' you really do something vitb
your porch and terrace. Yon cut
add so much to the pleasure and .
comfort of turnmettime. living .
. by creating a place where the
family can relax, take it easy
and cool off. The June issue of
Better Homes & Gardens in
dixies 6 pages of ideal on bow
In get porch, lawn, and terrace
ready for summer. All in color.
Get it today ,
trailer built into the rear area of
station wagon; a modernized
inter-office , communication sys
tem operated by one telephone
and eliminating the PBX board;
and the precision made .watches
and clocks, for which the Rhine
land is famous.
German and Mexican flags flew
atop the university buildings, and
millions of people thronged into
the area to view new production
methods and to investigate pre
cision-type instruments. It is not
difficult to realize wny tne Mex
ican people are intensely inter
ested in modern mechanical
methods, because skilled crafts
manship is rare in Mexico, iiaoor
is cheap, but the skilled worker
is hardly available. -
I visited a new house under
construction in the Toluca dis
trict a new modern area opened
for housing recently. The ceiling
was to be a replica of the lava
stones found on the ground near
the volcanic areas. Four workmen
were in the room. Two were sit-
tine down near the window; the
Other two were quudiuk - piaster
on the celling. It was- dripping to
the floor and hardening. -Event
uallv. the other two pushed the
red stones into the spots of plas
ter and pushed them around until
they were -more, or .less .evenly
distributed. ' -.
The result was a crudely made
thing which looked more like
children had been playing with
mud pies and had thrown them
at the ceiling. Tnese men were
not carpenters or builders and did
not pretend to be. The owners
had decided upon a form of
hard-done "artistic" ceiling, and
they had apparently found two
or four men in the streets, naa
offered them five pesos each to
finish the ceiling, had told them
what they wanted and had let it
go at that They would nave naa
to pay more for a man who knew
what he was doing. -
And yet a mason or a carpen
ter in Mexico, semi-sKUiea, re
ceives less than 15 pesos a day,
A peso is 8 cents. Having the
necessary training .the Mexican
workman can be made as efficient
and capable as the similar work
man' of any other country. But
for most of the population, train-1
lng .programs are unobtainable.
Even public schooling is not for
the poor. It requires a financial
sum beyond the means of thei
lower economic class to enter a
child in school.
Under the new system, inaug
urated over the Easter holidays,
specifically the devaluation 01 the
peso, the government hopes in
time to industrialize the country.
On a long range plan, because it
will allow manufacturers to ex
port items 44 lower than at
the present time, it is hoped that
the increased return will make
possible sufficient money for ex
tensive training programs.
And industrial training pro
grams are what Mexico needs at
the present time; she needs them
badly .. . . along with better
schooling for the masses. Our
public schooling is of course what
makes America great; no coun
try, regardless of its resources,
can prosper with an ignorant
populace.
Time, the old elusive commod
ity, will prove the internal value
thing had- to be done; and the
government took a step. Whether
it was the correct one, tomorrow
will decide. For the American
tourist it is fine. But we are only
the summer visitants in a countrv
where its people must remain for
life and find their living in a
changing and precarious econ
Death Claims
John 0. Gcilef
SWEET HOME (JP) John D.
Galey, 48, who only the day be
fore had been appointed tem
porary circuit judge for Lane
County, died at his: office from
heart attack Thursday. . ..
Chairman of , the West Coast
Lumber Commission of the Na
tional War Labor . Board in
World War II, . Galey recently
bad been serving as temporary
circuit judge in Linn County. He
was (to.. have moved 1 to Lane
bench June 1. - 1 5
Galey, Vhose 'wife was in law
practice with him here, also was
Lebanon city attorney.
He came here from Portland
in 1947, and often served as an
arbitrator in labor disputes.
A graduate of the' University
of Oregon law school in 1931, he
practiced law in Portland until
World War II Before- joining
the -War Labor Board's lumber
commission, he was Portland rent
attorney for the Office of Price
Administration.
Surviving are' the widow; his
parents, . Mr. . , and . : Mrs. Henry
carter: , Galey , 01 Asmana;, . a
daughter', Ann, a student at Reed
College in Portland: and a son.
John Michael, in the Marines, at
San Diego... .,
public health advisory commit
tee ,
Members of the committee are
available" for consultation serv
ices with health department em
ployes . relating to special med
ical problems. .--...
Dr. Willard J. Stone pumic
health officer,' reported onv de
partmental . activities and com
municable E diseases. : - Measles
and mumps' led the disease list
After presentation 01 the pro
posed budget for the department
by Dr. Stone there was a discus
sion. . To . meet merit . system
standards for the personnel and
to carry on the present program,
It was said, several . financial
problems will have to bft-solved.
Mrs. Bernice.xeary. reported
the results of the 1954 audl&me-
ter program. There were 4,484
grade, school students tested.
with 240 children being referred
to their private physician. Re
ports, such as this one are .used
as a guide for the health depart
ment to plan their yearly activi
ties.. ; 'tr;'v ' J
; Dr. Dale Parker reported that
next week lan anufluoridation
hill will, be reintroduced to the
committee on interstate and for
eign commerce.- He read a tele
gram from-the American Dental
Association requesting all local
organizations who have endorsed
this public health movement to
write members 01 tnis commit
tee pledging ; their : support ior
fluoridation.-- .-. '
VAN FLEET CONFERS
IN JAPAN
: TOKYO W) Gen'. James A. Van
Fleet, former. U.S. 8th Army com
mander now on a fact-finding tour,
conferred Friday with Japan's
Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida
GOOD NEWS.
9 I SC
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Four Chosen In Drawing
' Mmot F. Jelke,' who (Was
sentenced March "7 last year
to three to six years in priSuti,
receives news at home -of his
atorney in Miami Beach,. Fla.,
of a reversal of that conviction.
:A New York appelate court set
aside the conviction and or
dered a new trial. ' (UP Tele
photo) '- .'.- '
One Salem-man and two men
from Albany have been selected
in the regional drawing prior to
the $100,000 Auto-Lite Family
Charity - drawing to be held in
New York Citj June I. , ' .-
The re$ottal drawing was con
ducted "putier the supervision of
the Cregonj iaic r Mutur Asso
ciation, and among 50 in Oregon
were included. Wade H. Dickin
son, 1638 South Commercial, Sa
lem; and from; Albany - W. C
Donohue, Z30 East Second ave
nue; T. W. Lambrecht, 1219 Elm:
and Mrs. W. R. Savage, 1007 East
Third.
Their names" are being for
warded to the national headquar
ters in New York city along
with' those- selected' in' the rest
of the United States! A national
committee will choose 25 who
will: be given the right to desig
nate recogniztsd. charities, to re
ceive a total of $100,000. Names
of the winners will be announced
on Auto Lite's CBS "Suspense"
television nrnffram. . . - 1
All regional "drawings have
been supervised by organizations
affiliated with the. American Au
tomobile Association, which will
oversee the national drawings.
i The- dealer establishments of
10 leading car manufacturers
Hereford Breeders
Sale Here October ?
Glen Martin of McCoy,', north
west of here.' announced that the
second annual Willamette Valley
Hereford Breeders sale would be
held at the state fairgrounds on
October 9. - ' -'.'.
: The sale will be limited this
year to 60 head and no more than
five heifers' will be" accepted from
any one breeder. The deadline for
entries is July 10.
Si Williams -of Hermiston has
been , named sale manager. .
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