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Show alberta freshman 2 inter. p.t4 15 L But you had had a 1 i~;rsJ}tt)i~~~o/'1-i t around you ..• A Yes. Just a little. A~a-~----t-tR~Rk-ffi- I was a little worried-- I didn't quite think as much of Mexican people as I did after I went ther~eecause my Dad when he came to this country went to New Mexico and of course there's been a lot of travel back and forth over the border for years and the sanitary conditions L A L A L were horrible. And my father told how they didn't have running water. And when they workedin the fields, they ~ just used wherever they were as their relief stations. And so after he told us that, I didn't want to go Mexico, until I was really grown up. And I didn't go until I was retired. And then I went to Mexico. ~ How does this reflectonwhat you were learning at that time about Hitler:- ! don't know if it was. But I didn't have any ; I prejudice ~ except from my Dad about Mexi co.~nd,of course,hearing what Hitler was doing and weread books, I remember, about the atrocities ~going on there. During the war. Peole separated and we heard of torture and·A'' that sort of thing. I don't remember if that book was true or not,but it was frightening. Do you [know when--what book] ... Hhat was response of ... people around you? ANo, justin my own family. L Mother. A Well,we were • , 3 frightened by it and very upset to think that that wasas happening in the world. Just as we were when we heard about the Klu Klux Klan. '*..._,~i4.t ~ Frightening,too. Frightenig and disgusting at the same time. Because my folks were relly very tolerant of other people. L Must have been strange to think zt if different kind of world. A It was strange. Seemed almost as if you were talking about something t unreal) except that it hit the fmaily. You know, my father's folks. So you knew it was rea 1. L Brought it close to home. A Right when it hits your own family, you know that. L What were you doi n gin those years, 34, 35. A Teaching. A-nd when we were put on rations, sugar and things 1 ike that, The teachers tbat gave out th~ rationing books. Your meat was rationed. Y'our sugar was rationed. And after school, we would set up the tables with the form~~d people would come to school and we'd have the books, got all the information and gave them their coupons. L MEat and sugar was rationed during depressmon. A It was during the war. L Second Vorl d Var. A Yes. L And people would come to the school itself. n "-- n - .J - .r - - .. ·-- - |
