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Rodolfo De La Garza, a historian, talks about his life in the Rio Grande Valley. He was born in 1906 in old Reynosa, he came to the US when he was four years old with his parents. He used to visit La Joya to look at it. Colliers magazine came out to write about the corruption in Hidalgo County. In 1927 he went to Sam Houston College, where he was the second Hispanic student. He then began teaching in 1929-30. He discusses the Good Government League against Baker's corruption allegations. De La Garza discusses the Battle of Ojo de Agua when General de la Rosa attacked, and the origin of the name referring to a spring. He discusses working as a proofreader for the Good Government League's newspaper. He discusses Milton West's push for a canal that was blocked by water pumping interests on the river. De La Garza and Reynaldo talk about the history of the school district in La Joya. The recording skips at 31:50 to another recording of a meeting ; https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/rgvoralhistories/1543/thumbnail.jpg

From initially pol'al motivations at its outbreak in 1910, the credos & ideals of the Mexican Revolution have broadened to include soc, econ, & cultural matters & changes. Developments in ideologies & events have been uneven. The main focus was on pol'al life from 1917 to 1933; from 1934 to 1940 it was on soc, esp agrarian reforms; there were major shifts toward balanced econ growth, including industrialism, from 1940 to the present. Militarism has waned. Under the Institutional Revolution, since 1940, a 2nd generation of leaders has accepted the often utopian objectives of earlier phases but has emphasized harmony, a directed economy, & national unities rather than class struggle & state socialism as bases for policy. Goals remain autodetermination, liberal democracy, big Gov, nationalism. Major revolutionary hopes, summarized in Articles 3, 27, & 123 of the 1917 Constitution, are being implemented, but by less doctrinaire means. Revolution has imperceptibly passed into normal evolution. Lack of predetermined ideology, plus alternatives, compromises, & contradictions in the original 1910-1927 credos of the Revolution have permitted a salutary flexibility & continuity of the Revolution. A main result of a half cent of varied programs has been to reshape society, creating a relatively open system. One effect has been to increase the middle sectors, with a dwindling of the proletarian base from an estimated 90% in pre- revolutionary days to about half that in 1960. As a process, the Revolution continues within stable frameworks. AA.

In this work, we read in some texts of Pedro Henríquez Ureña and Jose Vasconcelos reflections about the place of the book and the reading of a process of social transformation, that includes the period of the Athenian of Youth, in the emergency of the Mexican Revolution, until the years in which one of those young people of the Athenian, Vasconcelos, occupies one of the most important spaces, the one of the Secretariat of Public Education, and takes with himself several of its companions of route, among them, Henríquez Ureña. Those reflections become rich when we recovered several of the fundamental actions that they decide to carry out in the educative scope. ; En este trabajo, leemos en algunos textos de Pedro Henríquez Ureña y de José Vasconcelos reflexiones acerca del lugar del libro y de la lectura en el marco de un proceso de transformación social, que abarca el período del Ateneo dela Juventud, en la emergencia dela Revolución Mexicana, hasta los años en que uno de esos jóvenes del Ateneo, Vasconcelos, pasa a ocupar uno de los espacios de poder, el dela Secretaríade Educación Pública, y lleva consigo a varios de sus compañeros de ruta, entre ellos, Henríquez Ureña. Esas reflexiones se enriquecen cuando recuperamos varias de las acciones fundamentales que deciden llevar a cabo en el ámbito educativo.

From initially political motivations at its out break in 1910, the credos and ideals of the Mexican Revolution have broadened to include social, economic, and cultural mat ters and changes. Developments in ideologies and events have been uneven. The main focus was on political life from 1917 to 1933; from 1934 to 1940 it was on social, especially agrarian, reforms; there were major shifts toward balanced economic growth, including industrialism, from 1940 to the present. Militarism has waned. Under the Institutional Revolution, since 1940, a second generation of leaders has accepted the often utopian objectives of earlier phases but has emphasized harmony, a directed economy, and national unities rather than class struggle and state socialism as bases for policy. Goals remain autodetermination, liberal democracy, big government, nationalism. Major revolutionary hopes, summarized in Arti cles 3, 27, and 123 of the 1917 Constitution, are being imple mented, but by less doctrinaire means. Revolution has imper ceptibly passed into normal evolution. Lack of predetermined ideology, plus alternatives, compromises, and contradictions in the original 1910-1917 credos of the Revolution have per mitted a salutary flexibility and continuity of the Revolution. A main result of a half century of varied programs has been to reshape society, creating a relatively open system. One effect has been to increase the middle sectors, with a dwindling of the proletarian base from an estimated 90 per cent in pre- revolutionary days to about half that in 1960. As a process, the Revolution continues within stable frameworks.