MEXICAN SIX-YEAR PLAN

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1934, Page 22 (Supplement)

MEXICAN SIX-YEAR PLAN

EDUCATION FRONT ADVANCE. Russia takes her steps forward not in Seven League Boots but in Five-Year Plans, and every now and then she grows impatient and begins to cry, “Five Vears in Four.” / Mexico intends to profit by 5 Russia’s example, and the plan of national regeneration which she will launch next December requires six years of hard work. The scheme drafted by President Rodriguez calls for the ownership of the land by thos° who till it; a “strong advance on the educational front,” as the Russians would say, with a view to seeing every Mexican child in school; the building of good roads, and the bringing of water to a fertile but arid land by vast irrigation projects. As Mexico’s people are largely agricultural the plans to render their farms fruitful, accessible, and possessable, and to put education within the reach of all, should go far toward remoulding the country “nearer to the heart’s desire” for the vast majority of her citizens.