The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-10-26
The crowasr Mi..iSh


Havana, Cuba, Oct. 22.-aOne man
Intervention" Is q phrase coined in
Cuba to describe the Crowder Mis-
sion. 1t has superseded Dollar Dip
lomacy" in Cuban attempts to an
alyze the latest innovation in the aPn
American policy Of the United States.
The recent departure Of the per-
sonal representative Of the American
president to Washington, there to
confer with his chief on future nego-
tiations, has furnished an opportuni-
ty to summarize the results he has
achieved during the twenty-five
months he has labored to unscramble
the Cuban situation.
The belief held in Washington ear
ly in 1920, that all was not well with
the Island Republic, crystallized into
certainty on December 81, Of that
year, when President Wilson named
Major General Enoch H. Crowder his
personal representative before Presi-
dent Mario G. Menocal. He was re-
appointed by President Harding on
March s, 1921. Except for visit to
Washington which lasted from Jan,
uary IL to February z, 1921, the for.
mer Judge advocate general has been
as strictly on the job as he was dur.
ing the critical months in which he
directed the formation Of the nation
al army in the United States.
Confronting him upon his arrival ir
Havana on January 6, 1921, aboard
the U. S. S. Minnesota, was a task
which can best be, Judged by outlin
ing what has been accomplished
Briefly, it includes:
Decongestion Of the Havana docks
with the removal to half hundre,
bonded warehouses Of goods valued
at more than 100000 which hae
been clogging the channels Of com
merce.
Pacific settlement of the Zayas-
Gomez presidential conflict which
otherwise might have brought OF
civil war.
Reduction of the Cuban bulge
from $130,000,O00 to $55,0O0, 900.
Partial reorganization Of govern
mental services, involving the elimi
nation Of nearly $4,000 useless EN-
ployees.
Reformation of the first Zayas cab
inet by the removal of seven of thu
nine members.
Reorganization of the national lot
terry by ending the illegal collection
of nearly '$10,000,000 yearly through
ticket juggling.
Enactment of five emergency laws
authorizing a $4,000, 900 foreign loar
with necessary new taxation) K
liquidate the country's floating in
debtedness; reorganizing the fedora
accounting system; providing for tn,
classification of the floating debt
suspending certain provisions Of tn
civil service and electoral codes t,
permit the reform cabinet member,
to weed the personnel of their depart
ments IN the interests Of honesty an,
y ispS9: and rpraxidipg meaps -ts
sweep vena1 ofiicials from the jus
dietary.
There remains to be enacted, after
the generals return from Washing.
ton, a banking law to cement to-
gether the shattered remnants Of the
old banking structure; measures to
regulate the nationwide gambling
evil; a constitutional amendment to
permit the formation of a federal dis
trict to include Havana and further
reforms in municipal government,
and additional safeguards against
election frauds.
When the Minnesota dropped an
Choir in Havana harbor her sole pas
senger found Cuba still baking at
paying the fiddler to whose strains
the whole country had whirled during
the dance Of the millions when war
time sugar prices had resulted in a
flood of gold, and both the govern
ment and the people had moved from
Easy Street to Profiteers' Row. The
bottom had dropped out of the sugar
market; the prosperity bubble had
burst under the noses of bankers,
merchants, planters and workers, and
when the Zayas administration took
Office on May 20, 1920, it found the
national treasury resembied Mother
Hubbard's cupboard and that the fid.
dler was still shy $50, ,0O0, 900 on hts
bill.
Confronted by a national crisis
General Crowder first devoted HIS at.
tention to decongesting the port; pre-
venting civil war by inducing the RI
val factions to submit their case t.
the courts and reducing the bulge
about 80 percent. Then he sat bacl
and gave the administration a yea
in which to show it's metal, meanwhil
gathering information on the variou
phases Of the republics activities.
During eleven months of watchfr
waiting, little was accomplished b
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