WTRANSPORTATlON, EDUCATION, SAYS NRITER AFTER A VISIT From Ox-cart and Burro to Fleet of Airplanes Is Sudden Jump Typical of Mexico’s Emer- gence From Feudalism to 20th Century Civ- ilization—Many New Schools -~—~——---- N ‘ EDITOR'S NOTE: Max Stern made a thorough investigation of conditions In Mexico. This is the . filth ol’ a series of seven articles by Stern giving an interesilng picture or the new Mexico, By max srnnx. MEXICO CITY, Oct. :3.-—'i'wo great needs for Mexico are traits- portation and education. liut as in ' iother things, Mexico is waking up to . her needs. .VVith one-fourth the area. of the ‘ .United States, Mexico has one-twen— tieth as many miles of railroads and such little of railroad must scrtc four times as many people as a mile . in the states. And in education, woefully weak, being still icent illiterate. . Taking up the transportation problem first. great rich valleys are. isolated. Tabasco is a big hog-raising state. , yet its ncxtdoor neighbor, Yucatan. . imports most of its meat and lard from the United States. ‘ Gasoline is about. 40 cents a gal- lon in Mexico City, while a. few miles away are the second richest oil Wells in the world. Highways miunknown and in place ot‘ tracks the patient mule is still the chief common carrier. , Railroad Gamblcs. The Southern l'acttic is now gam- g‘r'bling at least $15,000,000 on Alex- Ico's future by spending that much to complete its West side system. ,By building 103 miles of track (through almost impassable moan» talus between Tcptc and liaQuc- Hmada near Guaralajara the railroad ,,w.lll open up an empire of wealth in . 16 river valleys in the west-coast thermal belt. . Besides every kind of agricultur- al product from their 513,000,000 . arable acres. the West coast states of Sinaloa, Narayit and Sonora have “bonanz copper and other mines, ‘water-power, hardwoods and fish- eries. , . It will add to Imperial Valley's yvinter tomato and melon crops illl,‘ output of thousands of new acres, , while cotton, coffee, sugar, tobacco, j bananas and other tropical products will begin to pour into the. states. Incidentally there will be a tlm t“- ‘day'l’ullmun service via hogan-s from San Francisco to Mexico t‘ity 1,", through the most Interesting and 3', populous part of Mexico. The Calles highway program inval- i.’ no ambitious. On the east side there is already under constitution .‘tho first auto highway from Mexico . City to the U. S. Via Laredo. A gas tax of three (-cIII:Ivos a ,,litre is being collected from Mexico's 27,000 gas—burning vehicles. The , national congress,tltis fall will make provision for financing a highway program. The government will put to work on the roads all federal employees ousted to make way for economy. . From ox-cart and burro to a deer 3‘ of airplanes is a sudden jump That is typical of Mexico's trilit'l‘K'dlt't' ' om feudalism to twentieth century viiizntion. The army has :15 plain-s and ~50 planes are now being- con- structedri Education presents a problem. Many Villages are without schools find teachers are source, but the I WOrk of building schbols, extending " Metrics and teaching the workers is per Mexico 230 BOARD MEMBER ,OETs CONTRACT EOR SCHOOL Bridgeport A w a r d 5 Contract for “Trade” Building D e s p i t e Ruling—Lowest Bid lllllliGlCl‘Olt'l‘, Oct. 2.—~Wlliiam Martin and Sons. contractors, rc- et-lvcd the general contract for Con- struction of the. new State Trude school at a meeting of the Board of Education yesterday. quoting $102,000, the lowest of 14 bids. Mr. Martin is a member of the. lcztrd of Education, and, according to tin. board rules, "No member 01' the board shall sell or contract for the sale of material, supplies or la- bor present bids for same. to the board. This rule shall apply to all IiI-IIIs. or partnerships 01' which it member of this board is a member and to any corporation in which n' member of this board is an owner of 10 per cent. or more of. its capl- tal stock or is an executive ollicer or director. Nor shall any member through an agent sell, or bid for work for the board.“ Objections to the award of the contract to Mr. Martin's lirm were trade by Mrs. Fannie, i. Crosby and Mrs. Sadie it. Locwlth. board mem- livis, but since the concern had sub- mitted the. lowest hid in competi- lltlll, and there was a difference of $1.200 between Martin's figure and that of tho ntvxt lowest bidder, W. it. Muirhcad and Son, award was made to Martin's company. No ob- ,Icctions had been entered by board members when the. same company was given the contract for remodel- ing Congress liigh school several months ago. Being hroadmlmied is all right. lint there is It danger. llroad stI'eaIIIs usually are very shallow. Life is made up of countless thin-rs which must be counted on. :Ind l‘IIrIIIcI's how to use their new 11w dom Is going on at a rapid rate. ,liaeientlu a School lI‘ive national agricultural colleges are to be. established next year. Ono ,school is now opcralihg at. Chaplngo, it great hacienda that was the pride of one of Diaz's must corrupt coun- try squirm. . To watch the 500 picked military students at their daily tasks Willi tractors. sprays, eic., is to realize a new day is dawning. 'l‘hcro (\l'l' now 2,000 national ru- ral schools. Plans have been Inade- l‘or 535-00 branch libinrics of which the‘rc are now 13,000 in operation. l‘oliiics has intert’crcd with cdu. rational progress, but if one is to judge by the spirit and mmsure by tho zeal he wIll Ilnd great hope for a progressive. enlightened and self‘ conscious Alexico‘in its new-found democratic ideals of education. vow ofi‘chShingles and Roofings are‘ successfully cover- No‘ltmwslsands of homes. ‘ ' l7ey combine the attractiveness of natural . mineral surfacings with fire and weather 11 and they are economical. AMA”? selling REX FLINTKOTE ASPHALT .u .. _ ul-‘b-‘tmwn They are successful b'e- P‘mfl’RLES and ROOFINGS because they are— ."a—Nt tilt 3‘ d KANTOWLTONHS. / ,, x._ AND SOLD ON THE BASIS OF MADESER VICE TO THE USER USE OUR ROOFING SERVICE Phone Norwalk 36 NE A. W. BURRITT COMPANY PORT, CON. ‘. streets. THE EVENING SENTINEL—SO. NORWALK, coNN. POKER PORTRAITS ‘rI-te SURVIVAL "It. I c.1935], (IIIIIIVAIOI AIINIIIIII OF THE FITTEST fl“ j I Ultitll, - II III“! I IIHIIIOIIRRRI . A OECIAREs CITY PLANNING NIII AIO_T_RAEEIC President of Packard ' Car Co. Says It Is the Only Solution~— Makes Survey The only real solution to the. prob. loans of traffic congestion is city planning. declares Alvan Macaulye, president of the Packard Motor Car Company. after a survey of iirst~ hand information from hundreds of cities in all sections of the country. The majority of. over 230 cities of over 10.000 population which havo been studied in detail hare traffic. problems which are stcadtly growing worse. under present methods of con- trol. The complete data and a com. prebensivc. analysis have been issued , by Mr. Macauley in a brochure, cn-' titled “City l’iannings and Antonio- bile Trni‘l‘ic Problems." "The outstanding fact revealed"; says Mr. Mucattiey. “is that the int—5 portant traffic streets of a large pro- portion of the. 233 cities studied are inadequate for either the moving traffic or stationary vehicles which must use them. There is no logical relation between the width of im- portant streets and traffic use of them in the majority of the two httn. dred odd cities, and this situation is particularly true of the older and smaller cities. In less than a quar- ter of the cities are the business streets wider than the main thor- oughfares; in throe-oights the busi- ness streets are equal in width to ‘the main thoroughfares. and in the remaining three-eights the business streets are narrower. In most of the cities the streets are. utterly inade- quate to provide parking space where it is most needed. Already a. third of the cities have widened some 01' their streets in order to accommo- date traffic, and in fully a half. traf- fic has become congested to such a degree that widening of streets in- volving enormous expenditures is now urgent. “What these conditions mean in accidents, transportation. cost of Ilv. ing. inconvenience. extra policing and many other economic and social burdens, cannot be estimated. These burdens comprise a congestion tax. which is borne by every citizen and which increases rapidly each year until it is further augmented by the cost of street widening. "While about half the cities report planning commissions. very few have taken these commissions and their plans with any degree of seriousness. While about a third of the cities have made some study of traffic con- ditions. very few have used traffic studies in planning street layout. and only about a fifth have any kind of plan for future street development. "The smaller cities can still pre- ‘vent the conditions which must oth- icrwise be inevitable, by making full 'use of the experience gained by the larger cities. It is cheaper and eas- ‘icr to plan than replan, to build than .to rebuild. The police officials and their advisors in many of the large cities have used commendable inzc- Inuity and patience in untying traffic tangles and inventing schemes for preventing them. But the end of such measures is near—what is now needed is engineering ability and not police pchr. When the cities and their traffic commissions begin t find that the traffic problem cannot be solved by putting drivers in jail. they will turn their attention to the SICEESS Earns His College Ex- penses a It (I' Saves $3,000 LEXINGTON, Ky., Oct. 2.—-I~‘our ycars‘ngo when Norman B. Daniel came to the l'nivcrslty of Kentucky CI. careful counting of his financial rcsources showed a. total of 82.67. llut the youth was determined to work his way through the school or law of the university. And he more than succeeded. For he not only paid all his school ex- penses, but had saved $3000. when he received his diploma. For the first five days of his col- lege career, despite his unceasing efforts to obtain work, Daniel fail,- ed to get even a square meal. He finally induced 8. Lexington lawyer to let him out tire grass in his yard in exchange for a good dinner. But it wasn't long until Daniel was holding down five jobs and go«- ing to school full time too. . He first got a job waiting on the table in a boarding house. Then to ‘,‘help pass the time away," he star- ted working in an ice cream parlor. But Daniel found he still had some spare time so he started dc- liverlng papers for the Lexington Lcudcr‘and working in a creamery. Four jobs are. three too many for most college students. but a. local garage needed a janitor, so Daniel got tip an hour earlier in the morn- ing and increased his list of posi- tions to five. He recently was elected to the Kentucky legislature and may run for Congress next year, although he will be only :35 years old. WANT NEW FUN PLANS. PAItIS,——Competltton between ho- tels of the Riveria towns is so keen that they are offering reward; to any one who will invent a new kind of fun for tourists. Fates, car- nivals and battles of flowers need to be strengthen by some new pas- time. The more expensive and biz- arre the new fun the better, it is said, and the competition is open to all nationalities. ing highways to take a. man from one city to another that we have given no thought to what happens when he gets there. 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