Naturally it hasn't been all rapture and roses. Politicians resented this and wanted to know why they were being excluded. Dr. Wharton explained that politicians were not excluded, but politics was. Politicians were welcome, as citizens . That seemed to satisfy them-and those who came to scoff remained to pay.
Human nature goes on in Cuba, too.
Many of the humbler class who live on the outskirts of the town bitterly criticized the committee for paving the central streets first. The poor man was getting it in the neck as usual, said they. So arrangements were made to pave an entire circuit around the town. The house of every subscriber in Cardenas has a neat little Mil in script, tacked on the door. In Matanzas, capital of the province, the word Mil in bright yellow gleams on the front door of almost every home and shop.