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Show . 6r Arthur. Br Uban Mexico's Great Future "' A Long Ride -Ten New Commandments A New Gangster Killing DECENT visits to Mexico convince fx thlB writer that to belp In building Mexico's prosperity would be one way to build up United States prosperity. The Mexicans possess an empire of unsurpassed beauty, fertility, mineral and other wealth. The Mexican people peo-ple are hard, patient and skillful workers, and hundreds of thousands I of Mexicans could, and gladly would, I learn mechanical skilled trades, well paid. I Some of the billions that our bank- , ers lend so cheerfully to Europe, not always to get them back, could be lent I to greater advantage and more safely, ? to Mexico. To help In building a j greater and wealthier Mexico would J be to create new and rich markets i for the United States. ' Every new good road In Mexico j would mean many American autonio- J biles sold. Every Mexican, helped by s credit to attain prosperity, would mean a new customer for American made goods, pending the building up iiot all industries in Mexico. This Is the continent that interests us. And the nations that should have our sincere and generous co-operatlou. ara our nearest neighbors, Canada on the north, Mexico on the south. To build, north and south, with the aid of our unlimited wealth, the honor and deserved friendship of these two countries, would be to make this North American continent forever Invulnerable In-vulnerable to attack. Thls Is a land of long distance. To-, To-, day's run of 800 alios Is. an average trip. Presently, when the new high- way is built, from Seattle, along the Pacific, through Washington, Oregon, California, Mexico and on down to . Panama, you will be able to take a long ride out here. About one thousand miles. In a straight line, on perfect roads, is all you oan do at present The unemployment problem is vis- i lble, even on desert roads. Men seek- ' i ln work, walk wearily, the young V Loen carrying nothing. The older men, ! familiar with a hard life, carry heavy ( bundles, often' as big as the man, bed- f ilng, extra shoes, clothes, etc. Thoir lot Is made harder by the wave of i crime, which makes automobile drlv- ers afraid to carry their less fortunate ' fellow men. Stories of good-natured I drivers, robbed, or shot and robbed as a result, of "giving a lift" caused the majority to harden their hearts and I drive on.-" ! Will Hays, who knows what 99 per cent of Americans want, promulgates a new picture morale code to meet 1 the "talkie" emergency. The audiences of 22,000 theatres In this country, and -' 250,000,000 human being thct see ' American pictures weekly throughout , , s" the .world are not to be corrupted. '' riTVyinpathy with crime, no pre 4 mentation of crime heroes. Law must not be ridiculed. This includes in-cludes prohibition. Marriage and the home must be held sacred. Adultry never Justified. No white slavery, no sex abominations. abomina-tions. No ridiculing of religion or clergymen. clergy-men. No "pointed profanity." No obscenity, no dances including movements that could reasonably be called obscene. Cruelty to children and others, third degree torture, electrocutions, hangings, hang-ings, must be treated carefully Moses, coming down from the moun- tain, conld hardly do better. And the new code of morale Is accepted voluntarily volun-tarily by the motion picture industry. The motion picture magnates were wise when they selected Will Hays to keep them on the straight moral ;' path. V Without Interfering with Will Hays' moral code, It is permissible to tell of a new gangs teHnsIde-k tiling plan. Novelty has its charm. Charles M. Curry and Harry Morhan decided that the time had come to kill and rob their partner, Angelo Freni. They had Freni carry a shovel to an auomobile, telling him he was to dig - up some burled "soup," a high explos- ' rve to be used on a bank vault In the automobile they beat him to death, us ; they supposed, then burled him, using i ; the shovel to dig his grave. " 'I Freni, who had only pretended to ' ' be dead, and was put In a shallow hole, dug his way out, and the would-. would-. be killers confess. Freni, In the hospital. hos-pital. Is proud to be the only man ; ever dead, burled and self exhumed. ' His mates confess, and he must go to if I Jail with them later. They told all . ' about his crimes. That "honor among thieves" seems to lack essential qual-s qual-s lUes. I i - There is terrible waste In our 1 - squandering of oil resources. Compe-' Compe-' tltlve drilling, unnecessary number of "; f wells might be avoided by co-operation under government direction. I'i ' i the Santa Fe Springs oil region, about i i ' Los Angeles, at least $100,000(0u0 ,- ; might have been saved on needless , ' drilling alone and the waste of gas Is frightful, and thus far unavoidable. . Each 4,000 barrel well In Kettleman Hills pours out 100,000,000 cubic feet - -' 1 """!Ui daily, practically all wasted. O, 1930. bf Kin (Mm Spxiicm la4 |
