govember-December 193^_____THE riEXICAN VOICE-----
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THE MEXICAN PEOPLE OF EL PASO SHOW US THE '/AY, (coat’d from p. 1)
used to be hifih. But El Paso has learned that price level doesn’t matter so lonfj as It is fairly un^” form. El Paso is a well ordered, progressive city from which many bigger towns could learn from.
POLITICAL rUGA'’OO
So far the Mexicans, a great many of 'hom are United States citizens, have not been active politically. That they will be is the prodi-ction of the informed A--erican professional and businessmen, who gane rail." are sympathetic with the ne’vcoLiors.
' If and when a politician, whether American or Koxican sets himself up as a candidate of the Mexican element--then El Pa.soans shudder to think what will happen.
CALLED "SPAriS-i”
True in Los Angeles of a generation ago there was a sizeable Mexican population that was in politics, with several Mexican-A-merican (artfully called ’'snaniish") politicos.
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True also Now Mexico today is Mexican, politically. There also the fiction of ’’Spanish" "prevails. But Texas is different. Here the more correct terr1, ?'-exican, is used--Snanlsh only for the language or the blood.
NEW URBAK TYPE
They have had to compete with Anglo-Saxon A- .arleans ..and Europeans. They have made-.good and they arc croating a new l*exican-A'-'orican urban type.
The large number of first generation Mexicans are completely bl-llngual. This has. been their edge on the Anorlcan youths, /ho with *a¿-:lo-Saxon stubbornness have failed to learn Spanish. The clerks in stores, office workers, waitresses, nearly all kinds of city workers are young Mexicans. The Mexican-Americans have invaded the professions. Several arc important lawyers with the respect of their Arori-can colleagues.
Such is the new generation in El Paso, young people who have been educated in American high schools-and colleges, who have the soft voices and the charming manners of the Me.x.ican better class and the Southern Amorican.
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EDITOR	Felix Gutierrez
323 E. Walnut St Monrovia, Calif.
BUSINESS MAM AGER Jcsso Aguirre 10313-?y Grandee Ave Los Angeles, Calif.
While the Mexican population of old Los Angeles was submerged by the influx of eastern American settlers, here the Mexican has the supremacy and is likely to retain it. Many of the newcomers here are of good Northern Mexlcarr ranch stock, light mestizos (tnat is Spanish-Indian blood) and here they have had a break.
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