Z. M. Allison

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Z. M. ALLISON AUTHOR, LECTURER AND AUTHORITY ON THE LATIN AMERICAN REPUBLICS


Z. M. Allison
Z. M. Allison, traveller, export counsellor, aviation expert, author and lecturer, tells from his own observations the story of the Latin America of today.  Mr. Allison has travelled by boat, by rail, by plane and on horseback in the Republics to the south of us.  He is the author of numerous magazine articles and a book dealing with Latin America, a contributor to magazines of international circulation and influence.

Mr. Allison, an American by birth and ancestry, received his earlier schooling in Missouri, his native State, did graduate work in Holland, travelled extensively in Europe, spent considerable time in Egypt, and four years in Latin America.  He has the world viewpoint, is a fearless, forceful speaker and master of Spanish and French as well as of his native tongue.

Mr. Allison really understands Latin America.—Dr. La Brea, Uruguayan Consul.

A most enjoyable and instructive hour.—Oklahoma Branch, American Society of Engineers.


The one man we know who is able to write with skill and authority on aviation in Latin America.—
Aeronautics.

I wish all our women could hear Mr. Allison.—Viola Burgess, Program Chairman, Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs.

Able, energetic, well informed on all matters relating to foreign trade.—Chicago Association of Commerce.


Mr. Allison devoted the year 1931 to an intensive study of the people of Mexico.  He visited all parts of the Republic from the deserts of the northern States to the dense jungles of the south, living the life of the people, eating the Mexican's food, living in his home, mingling with all classes: in the cities and mountain villages; on the desert and in the jungle where the lush tropical vegetation grows over the ruins of a mighty civilization that flourished and perished thousands of years before the heyday of Egypt.

The impressions received were recorded with camera and pen.  High officials of the Mexican government cooperated.  The representatives of the United States Departments of Commerce and State rendered valuable aid.  The result is a series of travel talks illustrated with as fine a series of slides as one could wish.


THE WOMEN OF MEXICO
Senora Peon and her rich sister at home, at work and at play.

Maria is born in poverty and lives and dies as she was born.  Her wardrobe consists of underclothes, a cotton dress and a shawl.  She doesn't wear shoes.  She may be the proud owner of a pair of native sandals, but more likely walks bare-foot from the cradle to the grave.

What do these women get out of life?  If life consists of the multitude of things one possesses, the answer is, 'Nothing.'  But the American who learns to see with the eyes of affection and to understand with his heart soon forgets to feel sorry for Maria and learns to envy her.



THE FRUITS OF THE REVOLUTION
The poor peon who, in the good old days, worked with his hands, starved with his whole body and took off his hat in the presence of a Senor has achieved a new freedom.  What does he do with it?



GOVERNMENT BY AND FOR ORGANIZED LABOR
Can the Mexican labor government or any government by and for a class survive?  The constitution of 1917 written by and for labor gave the laborer and the agrarian everything they wanted.

Mexico is (on paper) a poor man's paradise.  There is a vast difference between a paper paradise and the real thing.



THE NEW MEXICO VERSUS THE OLD
There's a Mexico that's older than Egypt and a Mexico that's newer than next year's model.  There's good and bad and white and black and all the shades between in a long parade of pleasing blends and startling contrasts—contrasts that challenge credulity.



TRAVELOGUES
There are also illustrated travel talks dealing with Mexican art, architecture, education, recreation, public health, etc.