Pag9^8„ __________THE MEXICAN VOICE ■ March 1940
HERE AND THERE WITH MEXICAN YOUTH ... - • -	- «wL .	■■	-	•	■■■	■	■'	I -I-	— —	——-	• *•*
. LOUIS DE LA VEGA Is sec^ata.r.V of Athletics.
COv.GH GALINDO la nqw gQlAE into his ninth year as r’jentor of the baseball team.
JOE ZAZUETA was elec Led nros-dent of the student body. His •.-other, William, h&ld the same t '«j-.tjon several years ago and was í?c of the very few ever re-elact-.<•, Joe was also president of the . Club, a service organization.
‘FULLERTON HIGH SCHOOL......
GLORIA ALVAREZ, TILLIE-ARI«S, and JOSIE HOLGUIN are members of the Scholarship Society.
FELIX CASTRO’ of the Junior College ./as accepted to the college Scholarship society.
DENVETt, COLORADO
ARTHUR1 ORT?JG.i completed a semester of all "A's” at St. Regis College. He is also editor of the school weekly.
From Texas we came across an article -written by a Mexican-Amerlean South, illustrating the thoughts of youth”in different parts of the Southwest. (This was. cut out from the Scholastic magazine.)
"Terraced grapes gro'-n purpl-*.*:**'* the sun;
Blue smoke rising slowly through the cold."
I live in the upper Rio Grande Valley, Mexico is to my west; a vast desort on my east. The irrigated crops aro cotton and alfalfa. My father is an old Mexican,who thinks in terms of cotton and alfalfa; and I, Raoul, his son, have always thought in teims óf grapes.
I do not know where I first read the abovo lines, or exactly why the phrase "Terraced grapes” should have stayed with me. Put allrhf my life, live wanted to grow grapes-----to touch them----to eat
them----co sell them in the market place.
Three years ago my own cotton dollars bought. 1.000 grape vines; I hi rod mon to help me v/hen the vines arrived. While two men made
holes for. "the plants, the other tv/o cane along behind, pruning and setting the vines. The next day I turned on the ./átor, and began, to ;wait fbr stand. Early in the munch of May, I saw the green ^shoots springj-hG .from all the Í.vines.	Rate in August I set a
:'¡tako' to each vine and tied the ¡vine to the stake. For the first :tir.e in uiy life I was happy,
though I hadn’t tasted a grape.
This, the fourth year, I replaced new stakes for the old ones, cul-¡tivated my vineyard, mostly by my ■own hand labor, and by July, I was ’selling grapes in the market place.
1 made one hundred gallons of grape juice, and sold them at one ■dollar and a half per gallon. I also sold fresh grapes at three cents a pound, totaling six thousand pounds.
For the first time in my life I deposited grape dollars, instead of cotton dollars, in the bank. And if yo'.i. sh uild visit 'Vest Texas you would see my own vineyard green and purple against the Texas sun.
Raoul Maldbnado, 18 .Fabens (Texas) H.3.