The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-22
HAVANA No
LONGER A
PLAGUE SPOT
Brush pubIieist Summarizes
His Views Of Cuba and
Its Problems
tBy Associated Fress.i

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Ne" f0rk aIay ga Brifisi
leN q Cuba Is given hg svdnaf
hF09ks " -ondon. tae we'll knowi
rnsiisa puhilelst, Mho il now in Neg
ApFk ai1sF spending several montf
II 1aRa in behalf 0f The fondol
Z ines aif Bro0ks summarize 4.
some ~ TITS Impressions 0f tha Il
land and its proglem as follows
aAt most surprised ne was Il
iAa Iapa one of fha cleanesi apt
isealEhiest countries / have ever ANN,
aeFlss slis death rate Is the loves
R8l oAe IA the world and III was IN
I most 0ewiideTing t0 he forced II
leaiIze thaE Havana, with tAe tegrol
Eef WhQse hama all Enr0pe and Amer
isa aaFs Fang f5r three hundred years
ny hgN h9 longer d fever dem bnt nue
0i tle eh0laest and hest paffanize,
A.talSn resorts and tourists resorts fl
the west indies American energy
aRa e4alnple and Cuban a0cfli,y aua
seaa sense are ID De thanked fOr ihat
II americans had never done any.
t4lh4 eise iar Cuba thev would de.
serve Rer LASTING gratitude iof hav.
lH9 bile lle fear 0f dirt into tha CfI.
pan people h ii hot the Plat amend.
iheHt thaF Keeps title Cubans srotlr.
ine aRd Ellssling their streets ana III.
sfalilng water supplies ana sewage
sysfems N Us simply that thev baye
learned that such things xsy Nh
elase4Fes thousand times 0yer
sello# IeFeF .Jas become NOT merely
aAsoiefe 0Nt virtually impossible Hnd
\ ao hol believe that any questions of
saAltation win ever again oblige the
laltea states 70 take an active ln-
teresi III Cuban aaairs
island Is Prosperous
ihe island is prosperous and ao,
iHg rapidly ahead sIr. Bryce tbe
bfiIIsh ambassador ali Washington
declared few years aeO that no bet
fsr field for The expenditure of rau.
lta3 eohia be wished 10r and fne
statement Is even trner todag thani
Wien y was iifsi made CHba IA ouei
ol the most accessible ard N0tehfianv
ore of me Richest spots on earth.
fet at the same time one of the least
ltNefppea ahd THE most sparaelv paD-l
liatea 0hiy abont one.tBeBtietH afI
" area + under ans kind af cuiti.i
safion ana ifs people number not
fofe fHaH two millions. The east
sfn emil af me island, especiallp--and
" there that THE agricultural AHA
naastflai future ol Cuba lies-is a
lt9feheose 0t natural wealth CIamot-
hg F0r men highways and capital Ia
hdock it 4 IL possible for any weIl.
'Egahi1ea concern to 20 into what rs
iow an nneleared wilderness. and In
i've or siX years ID build up 4 praat
lid prosperous industry ia sugar.
timber ana fruit Sir William VAN
iofne ls driving ais railroad through
he lieaFt of tue island has opened
a4sRisfS mat were previously as
emote rom one another and as III.
Feessl9le ~ though they had bee1
nparated by continents instead II ,
4iomefeFs and "a Ii only B question
time before Nueritas and Andiia
the hofti coast and Santiago On
~ souin Desin to dispute the ascea-
Hcy 81 Havana.
uDa's Material Future Assured
iie m&teFial future oG Cuba, in
Tort take 10 IA \ thing assured /
here wtil be moments OF eombara.
Ne depression Of course there n \
ae RON hue 70 d short sugar crop u i
ng droath ann low ufices but aa !,
Y whole nothing. not evea politics
h stop THE rapid inward movement ,
Gnaah prosperity Much on the
her haIgd might b. 1ane to faefn. i.