Show Porto Rico Is a Paradise Federal Judge Rodey T Tells ells Americans of Prosperity Pi and Prospects In Right Little Tight Little Island I New Nest York July 27 The The 1 Island of or Rico treated d as asa a child of or Uncle Saul Is Is' Is waxing tnt at Is prosperous smiling and happier than It c over ever r a was Everyone I Is doing well lI everyone f of nil any consequence at all rides around I In III mm ii his is automobile and I the he oat entire ire populace pop pop- ulace 8 seems C ml to realize that thai the lime walor- walor In he liLt little hit lilt of land inn Is If a 3 sort of nC I Helicon This refreshing hit bit of news nw was brought north norm h by Judge Qt f th the iho Supreme Su Su- preme mc Cou Court l H. H I. I L. L Rode who arrived at ar rived in iii Now Ne' e York from the district of or Porto 1111 this week we Judge Rodey Ro- Ro 1 dey iley rat at at on omi time the hf bench In Porto Rico for fm over a n year and amid during that time h he lie made malha a close study sLimily of oC the Lie Inland from a physical a as well WI WIus us a n political standpoint a to the treatment of Porto Potto Pot Por to tu Hicri by hy lh the United Mates J Judge Rodey I Is pa particularly qualified q d to tn ohI oh- oh Sc er e rye I In elC describing the til happy happ conditions In Porto Porte Rico Illco Judge Rodey grow grev enI enthusiastic en en- 1 He lie can call think of or Ill no part I of or Uncle Sams Sam's territory that Is better provided pro for or where there th the people are happier hoppler which means on at nt the same sam time more morl prosperous There I is II plenty of nf money being made In lii Porto Porte Rico ju Just t now and amid it tt Is IR piling Into great fortunes fort which after atter af at- ter lr awhile will h be heard from In Amrico Am Am- rico erica This money I Is coming oming out tilt of the wonderfully rich soil and Americans Amer mtr leans are arp not nol In laggards In the digging thereof The ThC advice at to o those e who ho have hn an sin unsettled 11 Ill Idea n of going to the he Island to locate Is take filon along a I little l mono money The h hu bustier has haq a chance In Porto Ri Rico Ri- Ri co 0 0 hut but it will vIli be hard world work and amid an uphill drive c without u a start Everyone on owns ons hl his own tit hit of land that that I Is tho those who want wont to 10 make Inon money ant and with lIh that land they place m I themselves oh III In comfortable positions Sugar i Is Iq the Ihl principal crop and anti the little farmers are jammed so full till of the cane that there not riot possibly bo lit a ft L larger yield Farmers owning little patches of or land 15 15 to 40 tO acres ncr do 10 do ry nicely Others Other who own as al much macli as o- DOO GOI acres are growing rich Then Iliac th there is il the orange and pineapple pie which grows well in Porto r Rico and the 1 Island land Is cool enough notwithstanding not not- not 11 withstanding w the nearness to the lie equa tor The COffe e plants dl destroyed tro d a afew afew few yn years rR a ago o b by a 0 lIa have IH been n restored by hy American enterprise p. p and amid in iii a few years will be l doing well aga again In The island Is pr peculiarly a n. farming place There 11 are no nil manufactories of an alt any con consequence The machinery mac for 01 or making sugar is bought hO In lit other countries cotta coun tries tries time the mo most t of it in T England and Scotland Sonic Some orders rs are arc given gi to tints firms In Philadelphia hilt but these ar are fut for Americans II The Flue Porto Rican people people peo pen lile anti and other o old III r residents on nit lne tue i Island Island l- l and go a abroad Judge Judg Ro Rodey e sa says th the Foraker law has ha worked wonders woner for oi 01 th the lie people in Porto Porte Rico This law last h has man ninny many splendid t len len- did provisions pro which have han tried out well wll One of them I is that no person shall l h be fI permitted to acquire aCIl more titan than acres of land The Flie wisdom of this provision lon can h bo be appreciated when It Il Is l known no n that lint th the American Tobacco company I is i very er IT ambitious in Porto Porte Rico Jl Jt has hag be been 11 said that thal th the tobacco trust holds con considerable land landby landh h but hut thus this matter matte has by proxy never lIP h been n gone gono into S There Is danger rot langE of Uncle spoil Sam I ing illEr mig this thi child of the sea ea A million and a half dollars Is sent ent down lown e there b the this each by treasury department year to 5 defray the l gO government expenses Some o of this mone money goes goeN for Cor or educational ln ed purposes and amid the rp rest t for Cor or the usual I expenses Involved In h by Govern rn memo ment No Nd tax Is levied 1 to make the hut 1 Island land sustaining self which Is IR just where Porto Porte Rico filer IM is being a n lit hit spoiled Our territories H In this Luls country had to In pay par taxes in their early days nys and Porto Forto Por For to Rico with sill nil Its Uti prosperity could do som something to h help lp itself along then the tho United States Slates would not muot ha have to 10 reduce lc the appropriation hut but more mol money could be lue expended for educational purposes R education Is IR the appealing cr cry In Porto Porte Rico There are arc man ninny good teachers on the tIme Island both American and amid Porto Porte Rican and the children are keen to to learn everything th they lucy C ca con a teach Under r Spanish rule th the children chil chit dren grew up url Illiterate but Lust such RuCh Is IH the thecae I case cae no more mere Judge Hoe Rodey says sa more mor money I Is js needed for school chool purposes S The teachers rs are ar arund und underpaid and after nel a n seasons season's devotion de to tn I Instruction they ff return north on a vacation and remain he lucre here re Something should be hI done OIW Inthe in inthe inthe the way of or decent recompense to tn keep them at ot their work Judge Rode Hode Rodey says Fays that one omme thing the Porto Pouto Ricans take vCr very ser to heart Is the till fact act that the they are refused citizenship citi h by ly this country countr Many of the thc proud old people hang their heads when something occurs to remind them of or this fact The They tel feel that thy they 01 are Intelligent J nn and are capable of or proving pro their worth as citizens of the United States The rho denial of this ambition has Q mitigated greatly a against insl the Ih- Ihen enthusiastic enthusiastic en en- lo love lOO lothe tile the they felt Il for the l United cited States te shortly after aCler th the clo close chose of the Spanish American h. war 1 In Iho those l' l days when the band played The Star Span Banner Ranner the plaza a was is-as filled with shouting people who sho In l their 1 a asni m m. m threw their ha hats ts wildly in the all air A And mid when till the natives went nt to 10 Spain S to visit relatives there was VOl u u. certain proud bearing about them which wit unmistakably snowed d United States patronage But this Is IR the ca case no more A feeling of keenest disappointment nt ha has dulled the enthusiasm of the Die natives nall yet tt they make e no protest pro Iwo le test lest t Spain has given I m them noth noth- I ing a g The fw 1 Island I Is coming corning to tn be quite modern rn There I Is a L goo good I street ear cam system a ft ra railway running arnim around ad ll tin the greater gre part of tiu till the shore and tim the t tel telephone tel tel- l- l ephone system could not lIot be better tetter The Thc police sy system tm Is good Active I young natives plc and span in lit neat khaki uniforms patrol the island from Crom one oath end nl to tilt the other othI anti and I keep p excellent excellent excel excel- 1 lent order There I is absolutely ly no chance for graft as IS there lucre wa was as under Spanish control neither r- r rin in the police system m nor any oth other 1 part of the municipal mu mu- I 11 I gO E government Th The lurid lund Is rather peculiar because of or the hi climate While Wh one side of the I Island Islan Is as is fertile as us it 1 Is jq possible to lin find soil to be be the other side requires irrigation The Ilie planters however know how ho hoto to irrigate In modern fashion Cash ash lou ion ion and nl th the dry sandy soil Is made to yield abundantly Judge node Rodey flodey ell was greatly surprised when then In iii settling up till estates In the court courtot ot of chancery h he learned of the magnitude magni tude lude of some of the Porto Pork Rican for for- tunes Some Som of them are large even e fur rul this country So Somehow O Othe the thu people In lii PortoRico under tinder wl wise c and favorable government gO enjoy living to the till full extent They are aro happy The lie climate Is delightful The They have vo p peace ac and quietness IU let everywhere everywhere every O where there is the appearance of luxury lux lux- ury and th the restful atmo atmosphere p of oC the tropics And the children n they are a happy lot IOL Before fol the lie war ar the thi children o of Porto Rico Hico were tere for the most part parl miserable mis mis- erable and astonishingly Ignorant Now Nou ow lh they 1103 are oro tulle finite different They are smiling 1111 and bright and the lh most 1110 vain little ones to l 1 be found any any- where wll This is i- probably because o of th their ir simplicity notwithstanding the he apparent incongruity I It t Is true that they can In he delighted most h by a n gift of M a lithe litle bit it of finery which trey tacy will through the we week iek anti and come corne out nut brilliant on Saturday evening when hen the hunt band plays on omu the thu plaza lh They hey promenade along the he plaza showing oft off their finery as merry and bright brightUs as Us u 51 society ty woman ut lit a fashionable hor horse show Rico Is a n great groat place to live l It li I Is a great place tt to prosper under tinder t Its now lIew and present ent government gO but UI those thop go there should hould l be e prepared lu to get a little farm farni of or their own even en If It is riot not planted it will 11 be a 11 gool good genii In Ine Investment In In- e vestment tm as Is some some- someNo New Noi York pc people ha have found Cound out Hit Some Seine of time the mail land on the Island nas risen 11 in value 11 from remit 50 to 30 an tin acres ure within the last few years ur I Judge Juge node Rodey tol told q of a n number of clerks who had banded together and arid andI I bought boug a small plantation which they are aie farming right along and antI making considerable le money of oC their r regular gular salaries And so o if one CIne Iq is ntH and likes farming Island 1 as Judge Rodey nolle Ito Ro- lle they dey sa says s Is a good place to live lin Tho Tue Un tr I cr 11 Language Baton I a J Japanese lun o statesman Ir Ia an address In London recently declared that In his judgment the Japanese ought to make malf In English their lan language Jug to the ev ex elusion of or the native e tongue and anel n a writer r In n a Yokohama paper quoted In the time NewYork New NewYork e York Times Time vigorously supports that Idoa Ordinarily one would that such a view to be hI a dream of an nit mI m- m I Nl 1st t but hut the fact is that there ther Is a I taI tal national tl tendency behind the lie Idea Is ix taught in nil all time the Japanese schools and It Is 11 not nol long lI ago KO O that one of or our citizens citizen after r a long stay In Ja Japan Ja- Ja pan returned fet and declared his belief that It t would not be h. many years yar before Enc Enc- leh lish became the tiit prevailing l language of or V Japan Should such a n result follow this pro pro- English movement nt It will l mark that pea peo- pic ilc as even ven snore more extraordinary than thun ant anything any any- t thing uig l g that thel their war wars l and th their lr commer cammer cial progress nave proved prO them to be Languages hn have often died with th the the- thede el decadence de do- cadence c of oC a r people anti and have always yr grown wn or changed e J but when was wasa a language ever ver officially anti and deliberately l abandoned Time Tile suppression of lun language u t. t has has' ort often n been beell tried The Normans Norman orman printed print print- ed Id tho the laws laWR of England Ingland In Norman French the language of or the thi court and anal the time gentry was Norman but the language of the soil soli persisted anti and grew grow into hut th nel h tongue of or today simply h by the force Coree of or in its own vitality The Time natural thing timing to expect In Japan where growth and vigor characterize the life ife of tim nation would h be he the spread of or orI I time the ht language e and not ll its It decay Hut Hilt the prospect of or a Q further r extension of Rug Hug fh Ih I is h. gratifying and It If time the do donot donot donot not extend their own language the they will extend X some lamp language for or already th they ar art are firma firmly established In Korea and their nce on the mainland i la 18 3 large C. C It I is u a long look ahead to of oC Eng Eng- lieu lIh ah as UI a 3 universal tongue but time the world WAS waa on th the Lie verge of that hunt achievement on one once when Latin LaUn waft vas th time the universal al lan language mu- rUl- rUl guage o of the learned and ond ever ver fut It 11 has las been n a dream of or the world that th tim time line would corn om when t time Hi- hp 11 il that tho t wax was wrought at It the Tower cf Cr Bab Babel l would b L bj overcome S i I J Public Sa ln Savings Sa s and ui ull Street Sit Present ent tendencies in the Ow investment In I world arc art strikingly tl reflected elle t In In th the lie I remarkable increase In savings sa bank bani I Il deposits l Il It js reported el th the clo- clo close o of oC business on July 9 deposits in inn Ina I n a single savings bank hank in ha had risen to Such an aggregate g e- e I gate att it is if said I is unprecedented In iii the history of oC san savings s In institutions Ul and the I l significant fact about the ex expansion ex- ex of or deposits Is th tile of savIngs sav- sav I Ings from front distant points where no such i depositories exist t. t mind and whet where surplus j money has hitherto been n put to other s F S Never evel In recent years rs did the ques- ques of oC color cult cut such uch a n wide swath as In the season just past and amid from rom reports received front from tho shopping In ui Parl Paris Interest t In favorite hues hue hanot has ha not Upper photo shows shown Mrs Mra WIlliam H. H Taft whose favorite color for ci ball gowns gown is pink Belou I is- is Mrs Herman another nH member of the thu color cult whose penchant Co for fat I white has been of oC long standing uses If It ar are so o general and local Il demands hi In the small tI iSis cannot absorb them Item It Is JI Idle to talk of oC an nn ebb bh lii iii In national pro prosperity and arid of ot a real famine In th the Inv Investment inn market This talk tall of or a depletion of or tho the country's coun- coun tr try's ry M n 1 lending r resources has haK been en based base largely lankly ply on un th the failure allure of states tates and to bonds and of or the railroad to rai money easily on new Issue of oC Railroad anS other r stocks have declined In value anti anU anti necessary In In tra facilities have c n by th time or of the ho pUblic to to turn Urn hut But this re- re does not een m to be bc L by Jack oC to In th the savoil sy sav- S oil A In ings banks al' al are handling unprecedented sums ala and th there rc are U no signs outside of Wall Vail str street et of or declining c earnings and ana financial stringency i S U ILls Js that hal the time governments government's gov gov- attitude toward to the thu rall- rall rOH road the tIme value lup of Ol |