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...Texas . . , Mexicans do not ride in the so-called Jim Crow cars [TIME, Feb. 7]; they do not use the so-called Jim Crow toilets; they go to the same schools as all other Texans except Negroes . . . and Mexicans eat wherever they wish. True, one restaurant in one town did at one time put up a sign stating that Mexicans would not be served. Can you, or anyone else, hold that one is the total number of restaurants in the State of Texas...
Texas very definitely does not have "Jim Crow" law as applicable to Mexicans, and what segregation there is in the schools is for the reason of difference of language rather than for any feeling of superiority. There are different social strata among the Mexicans even as among the Texans, which the Texans, with all their recognition of the economic necessity of the various strata, recognize. But as to their lumping all Mexicans together in "extreme intolerable racial discrimination," that is a pure figment of imagination...
...well-behaved, is forever inferior to any light-skinned person. (Mexicans have practically no Negro blood; most of them are part or full-blooded Indians.) There are about a million people of Mexican extraction in Texas. In much of the State they are forced to ride in Jim Crow cars, use Jim Crow toilets, go to separate "Spik" schools and restaurants. Even Mexican consuls have been treated as if they were unfit to associate with any white Texan...
...Many Negro newspapers called the U.S.O. "Jim Crow...
...Charge Here? contains altogether 159 of the delicate lunacies, the scenes of bizarre domestic confusion exquisitely rendered with a crow quill pen which have made The New Yorker's George Price one of the most popular of U.S. comic artists. One industrious hobby ist is shown completing a parlor-sized steam engine right in the parlor it is sized to fit. His wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which...