Show Salt Lake City Mexican C olony Colony Unites To Promote Social an and d Civic Interest Editor note nou Is Ic the fourth In a a. o or stories that picture the life and customs cust of ot members or ot S Salt Lake foreign By Bor SHERMAN IAN DULLER Buenas Duenas dins dlos amigo To members of ot the Salt SaIL Lake City Mexican colony that means Good Goodday Goodday Goodday day friend and expresses the spirit of the pe people from below the Rio Grande Salt Lake City Mexicans manifest mani mani- test fest their desire for tor friendship and andR anda n R social life BCe in a number of clubs and organizations Twenty five Mexican young people people peo peo- plc have banded together in El EI Trovador club to promote the social and intellectual welfare a of their people Some members of the club are Nordic in descent but have an Interest in interest interest in- in terest in the Jan language ua e and customs of the southern land of sunshine and somnolence The Tho big day for the club comes once a n month when an entertainment entertainment entertainment entertain entertain- ment is given A banquet musical plays or readings may be featured The Tho Neighborhood house where the club meets becomes a bit of Old Mexico transplanted to Salt Lake LakeS City Chattering senoritas gay gny caballeros caballeros cabal- cabal leros and sedate senoras mingle in inthe inthe inthe the fun If It dinner is served there r I LaJ F 4 N 4 are frijoles tamales enchiladas and other delicacies of at the Mexican Mexican can table Officers of ot El EI Trovador club are arc Manual Garcia president Miss Christina vice president Mrs Leolla secretary and Edward treasurer The two major national holidays of at Mexico are celebrated locally under auspices of or the Mexican patriotic patriotic pa- pa committee The principal aim of at the 1 4 cf 15 Iv k I i r ra a i 1 t t 3 s I rt 4 4 4 J eW I I WL y I- I 1 kj k- k j 11 4 I is to promote celebrations of ot Mexican independence day September September September Sep Sep- 16 and Cinco de Mayo ayo May 5 Officers are Castello Martinez Martinez Martinez Mar Mar- president Santos Cabrera vice president Mayer treasurer Mr Garcia secretary and Tony Salazar vice secretary Local Mexicans are guided in their civic problems b by Hermen- Hermen guildo Robles consul for Salt Lake City 4 y- y fl j 1 c Dolores Garcia left Manuel Manuel Man Man- uel Garcia and Mrs l Florence members of El Trovador club express the spirit of Old Mexico l as they pose in native costumes in inthe inthe inthe the lower photo Raul and Rosa Garcia Mexican children children children chil chil- dren execute a difficult tango tango tango tan tan- go step in the upper picture take at least one great lesson we must learn to love the soil as a As a professor at the University of at Oregon said to me The real problem of at America lies in the cities Only a better method of or distribution and a willingness willingness wil wil- to make smaller profits profits- with a lowering of or the hours of labor labor can can ever take up the slack of unemployment But even these things can not answer the march of or the advancing machine We Va must develop a urban rural-urban type of or life liCe for millions of our people who arc are today crowded in cities and sufferIng suffering suffer suffer- ing from unemployment Other millions must find contentment and plenty in purely rural ties I believe all this to be true Our rural ancestors the ancestors the romantic pioneers we love to read and hear about were about were not true farmers and lovers of at the soil They were primarily primarily marily manly land Jand speculators New lands were new fortunes for tor them The perils of endless hard work of oC frontier frontier fron fron- tier life made them dream of the safety and comforts of or small town and city life liCe Tomorrows Tomorrow's pioneers will will will-be be fron- fron on hard roads with electric elec lights and bathrooms and power pow pow- er Cr machinery and motor cars and andr r radios dios So it is that the beautiful land landof landof landof of America gets a new chance to win the hearts of or men and women and make malee them truly truly- love lo its life life- giving soil It must become the good earth not earth not the relentless cruel Plenty for All AU AllIn AllIn In a lawyers lawyer's office in Spokane I listened to a new creed reed for AmerIcan American Amerlean Amer Amer- ican lean life liCe I had said that I could not keep pessimism from creeping into my view of at America My host answered I have only great hope for this country of oC ours Since the earliest age of man scarcity has forced the development of the acquisitive sense Necessity has developed fear and greed But there is no longer scarcity At last we know lenow how to create plenty for lor all all or of food and housing and clothing and leisure land and enjoyment We Ve can not change the nature of man but we can change the goal of life liCe and the symbols symbols symbols sym sym- bols and measures of success There will be no need for tor piling up for for- tunes There be plenty for lor all aU And in hamlets and on farms in cities and ranches stretching all the way from Washington D. D C. C to Washington ton state in the great northwest I have heard bits of this same new American creed The End |