The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-03
CUBA,S FUTURE
 DEPENDS UPON
 NEW STANDARDS

Havana, Cuba. Oct. 3.-Heroic doses or patriotism, self-administered by Cuba, have marked the course of treatment prescribed by. Major Gen eral F. H. Cro%vder since he began is d1agn osis last May of the evils that were ravaging the se1f-government organs of the island republic
 Taking their cue from the consult ing physician sent by President Hard ing, and with the causes of the decline III national credit and internal gov ernment efficiency made plain in the generaPs 18th memoranda, the assist ing Cuban doctors and nurses began drastic measures
 Through intellectual. commercial and patriotic organizations and by parade, manifestation, mass meeting, resolution and editorial the necessity for new standards of good government was made plain. Never in the course government, according to impartial observers, have the people received so intensive instructfon in patriotism the rights and obligations of self-gov- ernment, and tho scope of the PlaHt amendment to the constitution, which fixes the extent of the responsibilities assumed by the United States in Vouchtng for the Cuban Republic be- fore the nations of the world
 The events that marked a recent extraordinary council of the Veter- ans of Cuban Wars of Independence are typical of all the recently held
 
 Cuba was threatened with American intervention, which followed partial publication of the 18th Crowder mem oranda and his demand on August 30, that congress take quick action on emergency legislation, resulted in an $ call to the veterans.
 Eight major generals, 22 brigadier generals and two score colonels cap tains and heutenants assembled quick ly under the presidency of General Pedro Betancourt, secretary of agri- Zayas cabinet. All were ready, ac- corGing to local belief. again to take up arms in defense of Cuban indepen- denee, either against foreign invad- CTS or their own constitutional gov ernment, wherever the peril lay.
 Neither violent measures nor reso1u- tions were found necessary. A com~ mittee headed by Dr. Domingo Men the elder statesmen, instituted an in- quiry. They learned Cuba was in no immediate peril of renewed subju- gation and dispersed.
 President Zayas, reiterating pre- vious formal statements. told the committee, that while General Crow der's recommendations had been get ting f1rmer and ffrmer intervention hinted. The presidents sf tSae house and senate denied that congEess over had been subjected to foreign press ure, and declared that the five laws it was considering were the product of Cuban initiative and patriotism.
 The same assurances were given by President Zayas to the organizers of a great parade of Masons, which dei1ed recently before the chief executive. Similar statements were made at meetings of engineers. architects, bus inessmen and politicians.
 Exhaustive discussion of the po- litical and financial crises confronting the government and the scope of General Crowder's mission, resulted in attentive studies in news and editor ial columns of Cuba's relations to the United States as defined in the Platt Amendment. Despite furries of feel ing caused by partisan attacks on the Zayas administration for it's alleged cornpIaisance before Washington, and on the American congress for increas- ing the tariff on sugar, the general conclusion was reached that Cuba must save herself and that the United States was giving her full opportun- ity.
 In addition to the flood of newspa- per and oratorical comment, the re- form furry was marked by the publi- cation of books dealing with Cuban American relations. Among these are numbered ''The Peril of the Eagle" Under the Claw" and ''The Platt Amendment