M&rch 1940
THE MEXICAN VOICE Page 3
- ALBERT DIAZ -
I This issue and we Hope many to ¡come, we are Introducing a new i^lter who will write a column on ' vzerything and nothing...opinions ¡.'miseá' and pans. Ke is Albert C. ¡'•’'az, ex-Feature Ed. of the Los p.^eles City College "Collegian,Jl ¡.^-Sports Editor, Music Editor of ;he '’PACE" magazine, a writer for a6 Belvedere Citizen, and now a counselor in his own public relations office dealing in immigration letters, translations, and a hiotary Public.
EXPERIMENTUM CRUCIS
tn Latin that means crucial experiment, paisanos, that is what tills column is. 31, this Is merely an experimento and if it works and I slay you with what I write then ' ‘it will continue to be published.In the Voz Chicana.
El querido editor of this publication suggested to us that we write and we quote his epistle, "7/rite something whimsical, entertaining, educational, inspiring, comment on life and letters and in other words write a darn good column of pot pourrl so as to balance with the serious literary efforts in the publication."
To do that we would have to be a combination Winchell, Steinbeck, Einstein, Pearson and Allen, and be as brainy as the knowledge masters of the Radio program."Information Piafase." Ve would have to possess the wit of a Benny, Allen, and a Hope. You know "jello again Jack," Sal Hepática Fred," and now what does Bob Hope advertise? Oh well it doesn’t make any dlffer-enc e.
TERRIBLE PLIGHT
By now you can see in what position we are in and what bur plight is. But did we refuse to write such a column as that? Nope, certainly not. our ego was somewhat elated ’cause, the editor thought so much of our abilities. (Si el supiera!) Like other aspiring journalists we hoped to write a column someday giving no thought whatsoever to the subject ratter. The idea Intrigued us so much that one day while parked in front of the Underwood, which by way of infori'iation isn’t completely paid yet, sipping a bottle of a drink which uses the phrase,’The pause that refreshes’ in its ads ¡ we thought up a title.
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¡ 0":!?. COLUMN IS BORN
■ Bueno, we said un dia we’ll wrjte a column and we shall call it "Moro or Less", provided somebody asks us to write one, of cour se. The thought never entered our minds that anybody would so when we thought up the title we never dreamed we would actually have to use it. Besides, when you’re drinking a coke and the picture of your gal is in front of you, you're liable to do anything. Especially if this girl means something to you and you mean a lot to her. (We think ue do even if you don't.)
WE ACCEPT OFFER	e
To get on with our talp tho... hero we are, as you can see, trying to write a column as tho editor of this mag asked. And though from where we sit our future is rather shaky, obsessed with the i-doa that here was our chance tc.be a columnist, we accepted. Much op our re jret, as ve have found out b;