Show 4 I CUBAN ENERGY AWAKENED I Cuba is rapidly recoverIng from the devastation wrought by Spanish crn il ely and oppressIon As fast as the despoiled plantations are reclaimed and I the habitations rebuilt the misery md the discontent are passing I has been said that the best remedy I rem-edy for woe is work Cuba certainly I pased through ers of woe The I people were on the verge of despair Business as but a step from utter demoralization industry was paralyze par-alyze Death and despair stalked aboOt the island A change la come Is c011n The felds are putting forth the promise Df a bounteous harvest Houses are I springng up front the ashes of arson and fowers arc bloomIng on the blood soaked soIl There Is a hum of industry Indus-try a sIgn of energy that never before was noticed among that people indolent Indo-lent with the indolence of the tropics simpie wih childlike slmplcly un ambitious because of a hopeles struggle strug-gle for generations against tyranny and superior forc But the change Is taking place so rapidly that I Is noticeable Nor is it weU to look for any Instantaneous re habltaton of affairs In the island Nctwihstlnding the many far more avor le natural conditions presented timt reconstruction of Cuba will be as 1 uns In the south a work pf time And i is bound to be more lagging than It was In the south I Is hardy a fair comparison except a to he marked analog in the devastation and aufferingfpitnd in cachet theclose of 2 C r hosUUUes The Mertaldif rddM tE t tween the two cases lies 1n the proj nounced contrast In the chracter pC the peoprp ff tea Thtt one we for fUl earnest Amerlcan to rise frtiz1t crushing defeat and fate J w1i m a nd imo ebs andovahted i yea or wrrfare The other losse fr no such redeeming quaJlcJ And i the work of improvement Ia i viry marked Employment for the unemployed the circulation of money not as hari but in payment for productive lerv1c i5 the pathway to ubas masperity Professional beggarism must be die couraged Industry immune bn tncIU age This alone requlr the hltera ton of two prominent characterIstics I of the race The Cuban is a great hJrd I to say much and do little to plomlse aU things hike some POl Ilni I perform even less tha do smmetl poll I telans The Cuban character is larking lark-ing In many thIngs lrinclpa1y in that elastc recuperative power whIch Is w essentially American After the great fires In Boston and Chicago the echo oJ famug walls had hardly died away before signs appeared announcing the new location of this bunedout owners 01 tenants But that is not the Cuban way They ned encouragement With proper dIrecton i they cm be made prosperous But this i lies i1 the practical policy and 1bcni I treatment pursued by General Wood i rather than the military progra1me I mapped out by General Brooke Government work along profitable I hines would relieve distress and serve a far better purpose than doe the distribution I tributon of aims This need not invoice I In-voice the more tlman doubtful economic measure of the creation of work for the sake or furnishing paid employment Endless work Is actually needed much of which Is almost imperative which will prove an investment for the country coun-try and not an expense upon It Much I of this might be undertaken whim endless end-less heneft I could and should bo I undertaken chiefY as a means to an f I end I should serve as a brIdge acoss which a needy people might pass over a sea of troubles to a firm ground of honest industry and selfmalnten l ublc works new roads and the improvement im-provement of old ones Increased facilities faci ties for transportation would all aid I mightily In the rehabilitation of the Island and constitute a welInvested I working capital for the future |