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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Indians of Mexico Washington. D. C. are in Mexico nearly 500 and more than 200 some differing from others as much 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 absent Since the coming of the Spaniards this region has remained commercially, 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 lin: gulstic frontiers the Zapotec, Chatino, Mixtec, and Negro. At Tlacolula they were close to yet another tribe, the Mlxe, distantly related to the Mayas of Yucatan. Even so, they omitted the Amusgos (Amlshgos), Tlapanecos, and Isolated colonies of Aztecs, all 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 jfew hours are seen eagles from the high mountains and parrots from the tropical jungle. The route of the travelers is unlikely to attract tourists. There 13 no no road, no hotel, no bed, no butter or fresh vegetables, and the discomfort has recently increased since the virtual destruction by earthquake of nearly half the towns in the region, traversed. 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 Indians, who imagine he is searching itor 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 themselves and to travel as the poorest peons. They emerged from the market of Oaxaca In white and purple trousers, heavy leather sandals, and hats. Pegasus and Pullman. The party set out for Tlacolula, the railhead near Mitla, and these Invested tn 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 and Pegasus hopefully baptized Pullman." . . ; Chiefly , for the donkeys benefit, a donkey-driveguide, or porter was" engaged. It is doubtful whether he had ever driven, directed, or counseled : before, since by . trade he ' donkeys but he spoke Zawas a sandal-makea grandiloquent in and rejoiced potec tame, perhaps his chief claim to Under his auspices the : loaded with four tall were donkeys cylindrical baskets for the luggage. As the party dawdled out of the sleepy llttie town of Tlacalula, It was In the afternoon, and four ocl( afternoon was In the atmosphere. The market was deserted. Pigs and scrag gy dogs of uncertain race and temper r. sprawled in the dust heaps. Only ; the grunting donkeys broke the still ' ness of siestatime. Soon men and animals were out In the plowed fields with the village begem on the hind them, a sunburnt plain. , All around, the hori-eowas bounded by lofty turquoise mountains. ' Here and there on the lower slopes stood big white churches with red domes like toy rubber balls sliced in half. In the foreground were vast fields of maguey, in regular lines an army bn parade. THEBE y, 1 . well-intention-ed broad-brimme- d . . ; : r, . r; : , : blue-gree- n n : barking was heard, the canine concert which invariably preludes a Zapotec village, and that night the travelers slept on the earthen floor of a windowless adobe house, with a cat and three turkeys as companions. At 4 a. m. they rose and set forth again into the dark. Sunrise found them at the top of a low mountain pass. Before them stretched a wide valley still deep in purple shadow, and in the distance blue mountains with serrated crests bathed in pale golden light This was the Valley of Ocotlan, a branch of the great Valley' of Oaxaca, center of Zapotec civilization. By 10 p. m. distant WNU Service. rail--wa- Art Is the union of the real and Airplanes of the future will resemble winged rockets, according the Ideal, it is matter taking spirit, to M. Louis Breguet, the French air- It Is spirit taking form. The fast complane constructor. mercial planes, he says, will have a heavy wing, "loading 20 to 80 pounds per square foot, means for SALT LAKET NEWEST HOSTELRY Increasing the lift considerably, air and ground brakes, and powerful and light engines moderately supercharged. There will be a frequent nse of altitudes of flights not exceeding 13,000 feet. The machine also will have comfortable cabins heated, and when necessary, supplied with oxygen. 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Even peanuts and beans, Including special white beans, to be eaten on Fridays, are laid out in geometrical patterns, for the Mexican has an inborn sense of design, and nothing is too humble to be arranged with care and displayed as a work of art This Innate artistic sense Is specially evident in the 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. In the blazing noonday sun they set forth again across the treeless plain, its monotony relieved by giant candelabra cactus and many small artificial mounds, on one of which a man was actually sowing corn. Although this valley is still thickly populated, it is no center of civilization, as in the days when Mitla was built and pyramids or temples rose on nearly every hill. Though the party trudged on all day and well into the night. 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Characteristic, too, were the numerous pigs and turkeys, the former dressed in wooden triangles to prevent their prying into other peoples business, and the latter resplendent with gorgeous blue throats and heads and dazzling white plumage. Turkeys are always to the fore in SHUCk5.;cwfe vwwKooecs; wav 81C0FF-'N8vS- I NGVER.HURf 1 coeemsma j rnuff u&ifA lAYS'.T.WMttf rcoffee toposruMKioioofi forffiflEi Mexico. The second night was passed at The Place of Still TorAyoqqezco, Here the men slept on the toises. stone floor of a large earthquake-ruine- d hacienda along with 15 peons of both sexes, who, swathed in 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. Beyond Sola neither an automobile nor eveU an oxcart can pass. ; The precipitous trail 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 linguistic barrier, beyond which the level of civilization falls considerably. Sola is nominally Zapotec. The next town Is Chatino. This high frontier pass has typical changes of vegetation. First the travelers climbed 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. 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