Show ROOSEVELT J ASKP ASKS ASK P PORTO RICANS TO IO Governor Urges Economical cal Administration and Rehabilitation i 1 8 By ay W W. F F. F 0 OREILLY REILLY Y United Press Pres Stiff Staff Correspondent SAN AN JUAN Porto Feb eb 11 UP Ur Up Speaking In the Spanish he has acquired since his liln appointment is 13 goo governor IO of or Porto Rico Colonel Theodore Roosevelt lt deliverer delivered his 1115 first l message mesu e to tit thu island night night-a ht-a ht 1 O 60 word speech to the time fn Colonel Roosevelt fIt minced no J Words t He lie told of oe conditions as asIt asI asha ha It I a had li found foun them In lit his vI visits its lo to ent three seventy towns tons on the IB- IB Undo H Ii told of or the thc lank financial finan cial chal condition and tho the efforts to tor r recover Cor Co r from front tho economic chaos misused In fn part by y tho hurricane of or 1 1925 2 Ice Uc must have 0 not only high courage e h lie he said but ut clear r heads he Und rind a absolute frankness 4 musti must I i fee ce things as us the they are arc Th The governor u l recommended n rl two tuo general cn to tho the present economic lc problems economy In and rehabilitation If U the financial condition of the Insular departments la Is grave Krave ra c that of or the tho municipalities I Is desperate It declared In th the tho latter x ta-x tarrs 3 s are 1 Jr C unpaid and municipal em tm- must watt wait months l s a R. full year car before rec receiving re re- c their salaries Roosevelt Roos suggested the c cor passage I of or a a. municipal law which would consolidate several he departments rearrange th the governmental system of or the Islands Island's seventy seven mu mU- 8 There Ther I Is no hope of f balancing re- re e an and expenditures lt by tho the end nd ef of t the fisc fiscal I year Roosevelt said Bald mon Amons other requests of th this 5 sov- sov ol efnor were re thee c Funds Fund for a a. homestead lion Ion to bu buy unused rj 11 lands and turn them to unemployed farmers o over o r armel to work establishment of tire the farm bureaus cl creation alion of 1 m market r ct gardens near Porto Rican homes of gardening and Industrial courses In schools The University of or Porto Rico he raid maid has a a. great future as ns a ct Jn In point of I American and I American cultures and anti to realize thit in fn tho the future h he would woul t the from tho fh field entirely reorganizing tho the gov- gov board and adding to it a leading American educator and nl per per- haps a representative of or the Pan- Pan American m union |