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Show THE UTE SENTINEL Midvale, Utah, Friday, April 19, 1935 PAGE FIVE PAGE OF READING FOR THE FAMILY l, j S OF 1v1 E ICO ~~~~. ~~o.:~m!~~~!~.~·•.·~·!~~~ ~C;, ~ -EDTIME STOR~ l' ~ ~~ an inborn sense of design, and noth- Modern Plowing in a Mexican Wilderness. Prepared by National ~ogra.phic Society, Washington, D. C.-WNU Service. T HERE are in l.\1exico nearly 500 tribes and more than 200 languages, some differing from others as n:iuch as French from Chinese. Not until one has wandered about Mexico can one appreciate how incomplete was the Spanish conquest. Only isolated Spaniards and occasional marauding expeditions ever penetrated to southern Oaxaca and Guerrero. No wealthy monasteries, sure sign of Spanish infiltration. were ever founded there, and· the grandiose churches, so striking elsewhere in the republic, are conspicuously ab· sent. Since the coming of the Spaniards this region has remained commercia1ly, culturally and artistically a backwater. Traveling from the town of Oaxaca toward Acapulco on the Pacific coast, three men recently put afoot when their bus "decomposed" at Mitla, walked across four racial and linguistic frontiers-the Zapotec, Chatlno, Mixtec, and Negro. At Tlacolula they were close to yet another tribe, the l\1ixe, distantly related to the Mayas of Yucatan. Even so, they omitted the Amusgos (Am!shgos), Tlapanecos, and isolated colonies of Aztecs, aU of whom retain "islands" in Mixtec territory. Variety In Everything. The physical characteristics of Mexico are as varied as the civilizations. . Vegetation and scenery change with almost every league, the enormous variations in altitude enabling one to pass from subarctic to tropical climate in a single day. Sometimes within a few hours are seen eagles from the high mountains and parrots from the tropical jungle_ The white man seldom travels In this region. He is not only excellent bait for the numerous bandits on wilder stretches of the road, but an object of suspicion among quite well-intentioned Indians, who imagine he is searching for gold. They have never forgotten the Spaniards' quest for treasure, and to say you are collecting beetles or studying architecture is to them absurd. They are victims, too, of even stranger traditions, notably that the white man desires to fatten Indians and boil them for lubricating oil, or to steal native babies for similar ''reduction" as airplane fuel. For many reasons members of the party deemed it advisable to disguise tl1emselves and to travel as the poorest peons. They emerged from the market at Oaxaca In white and purple trousers, heavy leather sandals, and broad-brimmed hats. Over their shoulders and chiefly for use at night, they carried large woolen Oaxaca blankets. or serapes-blue, white and black. Their money was carried in stout leather belts, all of it in silver and copper coins, for bills are not accepted in villages where men cannot read their value. invested in two donkeys. Unfortunately, these proved too decrepit to carry both passengers and baggage-a fact not discovered until the bill had been footed and the pathetic animals had been hopefully baptized "Pegasus" and "Pul~ man." As the party dawdled out of the sleepy little town of Tlacolula, 1t was four o'clock in the afternoon, and afternoon was in the atmosphere. The market was deserted. Pigs and scraggy dogs of uncertain race and temper sprawled in the dust heaps. Only the grunting donkeys broke the stillness of siestatime. Soon men and animals were out in the plowed fields with the vnlage behind them, a blue-green gem on the sunburnt plain. All around, the horizon was bounded by lofty turquoise mountains. Here and there on the lower slopes stood big white churches with red domes like toy rubber bans sliced in half. In the foreground were vast fields of maguey, in regular lines--an army on parade. Even peanuts and beans, including special white beans, to be eaten on Fridays, are laid out in geometrical patterns, for the Mexican has True Ghost Stories By F amou.s People Copyright by Public Ledger. Inc. WNU Service. By ED WYNN C"medlan. u IN MY play, 'The Perfect Fool,' This lnnate artistic sense is specially evident in the hand-and-homemade pottery. Almost every village retains its particular style in pottery, and towns such as Guadalajara and Puebla have achieved a more than national reputation for their wares. The second night was passed at Ayoquezco, "The Place of Still Tortoises., Here the men slept on the stone Boor of a large earthquakeruined hacienda along with 15 peons of both sexes, who, swathed tn serapes and laid out in regular lines resembled recumbent effigies of knights in an ancient church. The following day they left the great Valley of Oaxaca, their trail keeping for a time to the Rio Atoyac; but where this river bends round a mighty limestone bluff the path scales a mountain, then descends abruptly to Sola de Vega. In four hours they climbed this pass, famed for rattlesnakes and tarantula spiders. Beyond Sola neither an automobile nor even an oxcart can pass. The precipitous trall to Juqulla ascends 2,800 feet, then drops nearly 7,700 feet. only to rise immediately another 8,000. These tremendous variations In altitude form a commercial, racial, and llngulstic barrier, beyond which the level of clvllizatlon falls considerably. Sola is nominally Zapotec. The next town is Chatlno. This high ••frontier" pass has typical changes of vegetation. First the travelers cllmbed through shaded banana groves and fields of sugar cane; then to a zone of cultivated maguey; then, at 6,000 feet, to a more temperate zone with oaks and other trees. Finally, perhaps a thousand feet higher, they entered a cool forest of long-leaf pine, the trees resplendent with white orchids. like candles on a Christmas tree, and gorge5-ms crimson flowers perched high in the upper branches. the headlines of the morning papers: 'Steamship Scythia making maiden voyage today.' "I finished the sentence, 'You are sailing on the steamship Scythia.' "Because I was annoyed by the man's antagonism to my work I added: " 'Moreover, you are going to have a bad voyage and you will never make another trip to Europe.' "'Four weeks later I received a letter from England. I read: "'We. the undersigned, take the privilege of writing to you. we believe this to be a matter of world Importance. "''We were ln the audience the night you told a man that his name was W. L. Cowen and that he wns sailing for Europe on the steamship Scythia. We, too, were saillng on the Scythia; we were being sent to England to do psychic research for the University of Pennsylvania. "'Afte1 your performance w~ went to see if there was a Mr. Cowen on the boat's passenger list. We found there was not, but the next morning we saw his name on the additional list• . That evening, we wanted to speak with him. to discuss youl" reading. but he was sit· tlng at the captain's table, and we decided to wait for a more opportune time. The following morning he was dead in his cabin. "'We want to. know it you had a psychic message that he would never take another trip to Europe.' ••I put the letter down. To this day, any time I hear of anyone sailing to Europe. the thought of that coincidence comes to me and makes me .shudder!' ...., DANNY USES HIS WITS Who hesitates because of fear May lose the thing he holds most dear. 1T HAPPENS over and over a.,.aln among l1 u man folks as weli as among the little people of the Green Forest and the Green Meadows. Perhaps it was because he had seen It happen mor·e than once that Danny Meadow Mouse acted as quickly as he did. If he had stopped to think about it fear might have prevented him from doing as be did His Great Claws Were Spread Ready to Seize Some One and That Spme One Was the Big Pickerel. and things might have turned out quite differently and not at all so fortunate. But Danny's wits are sharp and he has learned to use them quickly. There is nothing like danger to sharpen one's wits and Danny, as you know, is in danger a great part of the time. As he sat there peeping out of the little hole in the bank of the Smiling Pool where he had sought safety he was surrounded by danger and he knew it. It wasn't safe to lea\'e and it wasn't safe to remain. Could anyone possibly be in worse fix? He was doing his best to think of some way out of his troubles, when he saw the Big Pickerel which bad a few years ago, I performed what the public calls a mind-reading stunt. , "Before I began my act, I always made sure to tell the audience that I did not believe in mind reading, that my act was the result of four years' study and mental training. I had to memorize, to develop a code with my assistant, ot. 2,100 words. and to know the names of an famous generals, the capitals of all countries, the names of steamships. etc. "One evening after I, blindfolded, had been reading the numbers on bills for people. I heard In the creaky tones of an old gentleman's voice, some one challenglna me defiantly. "'You can't tell me what I have in my pocket.' ~·'An elderly gentleman 1n the audience says I cannot tell what he bas in his pocket,' I repeated. " 'How do you know I am elderly?' he retorted. "'You, sir,' I began in a portentous voice, 'have in your pocket a passport to Europe. • • Your name is W. L. Cowen; you are sailing late tonight on the steamship-' urn the meantime I was receiving by code, from my assistant In the aisle, the word Skythia. I knew that there bad been some error, Louiaiana'a Iris dPegasus" and upullman.'' that there was no steamship by that Botanists have determined that 'l'lle part.v set out for Tlacolula, name. As I groped for the right 80 distinct species of iris grow in t' ~ ...... ;n,n·•rl pon1· 1\Jitla, and there_ word, there fiashed throughmymlnd Louisiana. 1 .. ~...:.-.)+t+: :~ 1J4$ i ~~· f 9 _ By_T_H_O_R_N_T_O_N--W-.-B..::__U_R_G ES S llJil lWJ IS -.....~'n"//t/P been hiding under some lily pads, swim out in the middle of the SmilIng Pool and there stop close to the surface as if to enjoy the sun. Not two minutes later there was a sharp swishing sound in the air. Danny looked up to see a dark form shooting tut of the sky. It was Plunger the Osprey, often called Fish Hawk. His great claws were spread out to sejze some one and that some one was the Big Pickerel. "With a great splash Plunger struck the water and disappeared right where the Big Pickerel had been a second before. Grandfather Frog dived from his big green pad with a startled ''Chug-arum !" Snapper the Turtle sank from sight. Billy Mink disappeared. Reddy Fox stood up on his hind legs the better to see. \Vith a quick glance up to see that Redtail the Hawk was not watching, Danny· darted out of his hiding place and scurried along the bank of the Smiling Pool toward the Laughing Brook. Be knew that for a few minutes the attention ot everybody would be fixed on Plunger. He hoped that no one would notice a scared little Meado" Mouse. He heard the water falling from Plunger and the beating of hls great wings as he rose the air, but he didn't even glance to see if Plunger had caught the Big Pickerel. 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