Pago I7_____THE MEXICAN VOICE_Sopt-Oct. 1939
/VOSOTROS MANUEL DE LA RAZA
TH.1T A SU!’MER
Having concluded a very hoctic s’ammür, vz.j como Lo you w’th many no -#-4doas, much nov/c, and plenty of^ articles.
Way back in the. cloep ero vices of our brain, wo romombor cool " Jenks Lake and give off an aporc-ciativo "ahhhh”... jonks Lako" ’ Mexican hoys Camp xza.s this yoar very interesting to as. First of all, it shov/o"1 us what an environment •'■.loos to a voting follow, and yzhat his hors, church and school training^contributes to hts personal It y. In our . st 5. mat I on, not moaning co slight anyone, the follows. of all ng's from ".Votes wire the most aggro solve, the •oost in-tolligcnt Wr:' the most outstanding as. a. group I Why? Foenuso at honie they bclongcc- to clubs, pnrticioat-oa in church activitios, group activities, playe on teams and v/oro in close contact with Jaysec and Collage lea h rs. Those loaders taught then the valuó of sportsmanship, group activity, and the need of an oducationl One can safely bat th-1 mor j successful follows por sano population as any otlnr community -/ill ba from WattsI'- ' *
kids ideas, opportunities, a chaqco to moot others of Mexican d)scon"t v.'ho arc worthwhile, and they will be -,ho same as Tom’s and Rev. Q’s boys! But, right now, those llvtlo kids will quit grammar school, go out to pick oranges,lemons, and twenty years f'or now they will still bo doing that. They will have the same- troubles, samo v/orrios, and suffer the same, prejudices their parents do. ’-Vliy? Bee.’use no one has taken an interest in them.* Yet in these tovrns there are kids boys and girls with.potential talents and with definite abili-tios. But they will never discover them. Because nobody is intorestod
OUR FUTURE
V/o fool that our greatest future is our own people. Clarified...club work, youth work, "Y” v/nrk. Community Chest work, Social work, t a "'.chi ng, and work on aur own interest, not a futui colored with money, ./ith glory, but a future that -'.''ll bring docj sb.ti3if-.c ti on in raising our generation into cl..- a, honest, in-tolligont,- and active citizens. And only we can do it!

IN CONTRAST
In contrast to the fellows woro the others from small drowns, shy, quiet, filled with thoughts and sexy clang thf-.t is common
among oar poorer uneducated people.
Young kids of fifteen v/ho wor/i in the sixth grade, and others of sixteen who had b on out of school several years. Kids who woreT Hollyivood ho.ireuts. Kids...'oub P.O op lo.. .many of whom look down on thorn, because of these habits, because of those habits, because of those faults! It's not their faults! Give any of these little
UNDERPRIVILEGED
At camp somu of our fellows were so umlcrprivilogad, that 1. was their first time a'ay from honb, their first time in cont-ac with those of Anglo-American dos-cant, other chai: chgir teachers. Ev. n the food soma wore given ‘vn nev/ to thorn. Ono group from a small town .had n.-var soon Jo'llo before! Soru follows had never oaten pancakes, nor French toast Prize comment v/as -when Dr. Sondo val said, ?,l enjoy seeing so man (Continued oh pago 18)