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Show People to People Program Pushed By Joe Weston The federal government should coordinate a huge people-to-people program to effect a cultural and economic fusion of the U.S. and Mexico, Joseph H. 1 Weston, Democratic candidate for the United States Senate, said this week in a campaign bulletin to party workers. "Every town and city in Mexico Mex-ico ought to be 'adopted' by a community of similar size in the U.S. and vice versa. Each should share its ideas, its cultural arts, its material advancements, with the other. "As an example, a luncheon service club of a city in the U.S. ought to go en masse to hold a meeting and spend three days to a week in its counterpart in Mexico, studying in the homes of the Mexican members of their organization, sharing the lives of those members. Then, in turn, they ought to open their homes and hospitality to their Mexican club counterparts for a similar return trip to those members in the United States. "Many libraries of municipalities municipali-ties and universities in Mexico cannot get enough books, and inasmuch as English is a required re-quired subject in most Mexican high schools, could make good use of our own surplus books in English. Every such institution in Mexico that is in need of books should be adopted by a club or social organization in the United States that would take on the project of steadily rounding up used books and sending them to its adopted Mexican Mex-ican library. "The people of Mexico are in need of many things that we take for granted, such as refrigeration and autos and packaging. If we could work out a program to help the Mexican market to absorb ab-sorb the used refrigerators and autos that are taken in today as trade-ins and wrecked by U.S. merchants to get them off the market, we would be doing a double service of strengthening our own market and of placing usable merchandise into hands of people who badly need it, at prices they can afford. The same thing goes for many other appliances, such as washing wash-ing machines. The used cardboard card-board cartons that the people of an average U.S. city throws away would be a Godsend to almost any community in Mexico." |
