Southward From Nogales

Mexico, or that part of Mexico with which we are concerned, our neighboring states of Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit and Jalisco, is a land of strange and interesting contrasts. Here are deserts, great jagged mountain ranges, lush jungles, barren, sandy wastes, great rivers and an interminable shore line. Here you find remote villages completely untouched by the modernity of our changing civilization, villages that went to sleep several centuries ago and are content to remain that way. Here are great cities, modern as tomorrow, eagerly grasping the new, representing a tide of progress and advancement, a segiment of a great Republic and a great people at their very best. Here, perhaps more so than in all of Mexico, one sees a nation seizing technical knowledge and scientific learning to keep apace with other great nations in the world today. A farmer in an isolated village in the mountains may be using the same tools his forefathers have used for generations; yet here are great fertile valleys reclaimed by irrigation, expertly farmed with the latest and most efficient of equipment. Greater and greater are the yields of the generous land, adding to the wealth of the Republic and the well-being of the people.

OPPOSITE PAGE—“GUAYMAS, SONORA” BY RAY MANLEY. Two hundred sixty miles south of Nogales, Arizona, is the picturesque port of Guaymas, Sonora, on the Gulf of California. Guaymas is becoming increasingly popular as a fishing and winter resort now that the highway from Nogales is complete. Here in this bay in late spring is held La Fiesta de las Pescas (Fish Festival). One of the highlights of this fiesta is the parade of boats and fishing craft, all gaily lighted, carrying musicians and celebrants in festive dress. Guaymas is an important commercial fishing center, as well as a mecca for deep sea fishing enthusiasts.

Guadalajara, Jalisco City of Song and Romance-Mexico's proud and aristocratic lady.

There are schools today where there were no schools before. There are roads today where a few years ago there were only wandering trails. The past decade has seen miracles accomplished in these West Coast states, and the promises of the coming years are exciting to consider. The revolutions are over now, and the social unrest. The people of Mexico are coming into their own, demanding and securing benefits for themselves and their children through the orderly processes of a great Democracy. The progress we note along the West Coast of Mexico comes from the people and their inspired leaders. The will of the people has prevailed.

Above all, Mexico is people. Viva la gente! They enjoy their siestas and their fiestas, and have retained their charm and their friendliness. They respect their troubadors playing on the street corner as they admire the young engineer zealously striving to make his land a better place to live in. They have little patience for the false prophets spouting invective; they have great patience for a leader who makes mistakes if his heart is good and his intentions honest.

They enjoy their siestas and their fiestas, and have retained their charm and their friendliness. They respect their troubadors playing on the street corner as they admire the young engineer zealously striving to make his land a better place to live in. They have little patience for the false prophets spouting invective; they have great patience for a leader who makes mistakes if his heart is good and his intentions honest.

Mexicans are a patient people. They retain their customs and their old-world color, their gaiety and their picturesqueness. In a world of bustle and hurry, their manana spirit has much for which to be recommended. It is remarkable how much can be accomplished just by leaving it for tomorrow.

They retain their customs and their old-world color, their gaiety and their picturesqueness. In a world of bustle and hurry, their manana spirit has much for which to be recommended. It is remarkable how much can be accomplished just by leaving it for tomorrow.

Tomorrow? Let's say today, for today has arrived for the people of Mexico. Viva la gente!... R. C.

OPPOSITE PAGE"SHRIMP BOATS AT MAZATLAN" BY HERB MCLAUGHLIN. Mazatlan, one of the important ports on Mexico's West Coast, is in the state of Sinaloa. With the dredging of the harbor, Mazatlan is gaining in importance as a shipping center and is also the center of commercial fishing enterprises, notably shrimp. Mazatlecos, or citizens of Mazatlan, are proud of their Carnival (car-nee-vahl) which is held each year the week before Lent. The word "Mazatlan" is of Indian origin and means "hill where the deer are."