Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 218, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1926 — Page 23

DEC. 17, 1926

MEXICO’S SHOE ' , IMPORTS GRAPHIC • PROOFf GAINS Partly Answer, 'What'Have; Calles and Obregon Done for Country?’ Note: The following is the wwonti of two articles by a staff correspondent in Mexico Citv. dcacribiptr the real situation in the Mexican nation. By Max Stern MEXICO CITY, Dec. 17.—1n 1910 Mexico imported three million pairs of shoes. Last year there were twelve million pairs imported, not counting those manufactured for the first time in the Republic. In Mexico those wearing shoes belong to the middle-class. Hence this

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bit of vital statistics means the emergence of a middle class in this republic, a fact that alone should answer the question: What have Obregon and Calles done for the masses? President Calles appears to be on trial before the people of she United States. Forgetting his faults and his mistakes, even as we forget those of our own Presidents, here is a very brief outline of what two years of Calles have meant to his own country. He lias brought peace. Only a few roving bandit bands, besides a gang in Guanajuato and the excitable Yaquis in Sonora, give trouble. Mexico is about as safe as Chicago. At the same time he has reduced the army from 75,000 to 50,000 and its cost 40 per cent. lie has built 600 miles of Federal highways, and aided in the building of 520 more miles of State-built roads. He has established a national bank, to which the government has subscribed sixty-two million pesos, and which has issued as a first and last experiment eighteen million pesos in paper money. He has founded a

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series of agrarian subsidiary banks, which in turn will finance farmers’ cooperative "buncos ejidales’’ to bring credit to the 300 cooperatives now operating among the peasants. He is trying to take politics out of the ‘‘ejides’’ settlements. He has started five big agricultural schools and experiment farms, attended by 500 young peasants each, and which in three years will be self-supporting by virtue of the modern methods employed. His aim is to found twenty of these all over the republic. During his regime 2,000 rural schools have been established, the Indian villages, for the most part, donating the buildings and educational missionaries teaching the illiterate peons the three “r’s.” Beginning at the bottoTh he has spent most of the educational budget on elementary instead of university education. He has backed reclamation and irrigation plans to bring under water 1,600,000 acres a year with the help of America, British and Mexican companies. In this Obregon is an enthusiastic ally. He has applied as rigid economy

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to State affairs as possible, ousting federal employes and saving 90,000,000 pesos front the 1926 budget. He has attempted to apply sanitation. and under his regime infant mortality has been reduced in Mexico City 32 per cent. In a nation disorganized by fifteen years of war, graft and banditry, peoples by a broken iteasantry and under constant fire of criticism inside and out, this record can be called at least a beginning. If the United States sees hope for her own prosperity in the creation of a na-tion-full of buying Mexicans next door President Calles can be said, in spite of his mistakes, to be doing his part. “IDEALISM IN LIFE" “When the tilings men do are more Important than the men who 'do them a nation will die." said Dr. Frank Crane, Cincinnati minister, speaking on "Idealism in Modern Life” before the Christ Church Men’s Club at the Columbia Club, Thursday.

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