Show us u.s. U U. S. S INTERVENTION BRINGS PEACE TO 10 SANTO DOMINGO Plans Are Made to End Po Po- Political 1 cal Insolvency of the Country to Th TM Tel r m. m l Br Bt A J SANTO DOMINGO GO CITY Feb 13 13 everyone everyone everyone every every- Peace peace confidently expected by has hns at last been one to be bo permanent established through tho intervention of ot the United States In Santo Domingo a n. country that has hns had approximately fifty president In seventy years ears not chosen without revo revo- revolution of ot whom was one lution or maintained government free freo from revolt Having gone a lon long wa nay a the financial l bankruptcy bank bank- I toward relieving of or the republic the tho United States is now through h Its temporary military occupation striving shriving to end enu nd the political insolvency of or the country How Hov long It will take to stra straighten out nut the political l tan tangle lo is one of ot the Capt Capt- H. H S. S uncertainties faced by Knapp U U. U S S. S N N. acting head of or the temporary military GOOD GOVERNMENT ENT The problems before CaP Captain Knapp as- as naval and marine officers and the establishment o of him are the on n n. substantial al good government go basis the tho evolution of ot a n. sound ou i educational educational educational edu edu- development of system rho he agriculture and the creation of or a system system transportation In the matter tem tern o of of or education A R. start has been made commission 1 by the appointment of oC a a. ouel headed b by Archbishop Adolfo Catholic primate Belasquez empowered empowered empowered em em- and other prominent powered to make an exhaustive study of the edu educational nee needs s of ot the tho people peo peo- There is a so called school chool S system system 8 tem In existence but those In a po position position position po- po to know kno say pay a there Is not a public school build building In In in the republic and es estimates estimates estimates es- es of ot illiteracy run as high as 90 30 per cent Teachers have drawn salaries salaries sala sala- ries rles from the government when they had no pupils to teach and subventions subventions sub en Hons are said to have been granted to private schools which existed only In name NEW HIGHWAY One of or the principal public improvements improvements improve improve- ments planned b by the military government government govern govern- I go ment is a great highway crossing the tho island land and connecting Santo Domingo o I City CIt on the south coast with Monte lonte Crist Cristl the most westerly port on the north coast This proposed highway would be more than Jhan O miles mile's long IonS and would tm traverse traverse the tho vast Cl ao re region region region re- re gion frequently described as the most wonderful undeveloped n agricultural area in the Caribbean The The- country was discovered b by Christopher Columbus and still sun for the most part hart partis hartis is virgin soil In the portions of the Cibao which are under cultivation cultivation tion the richest products of ot the thc Island cocoa and tobacco are produced I |