Evening star., 1926-05-23
CUBA'S GREAT PROGRESS
MARKED ON ANNIVERSARY
Republic, Launched by U. S. ON Own
Resources May 20, 1902, Reaches
Enviable Heights i'm "a Years.

Cuba supplies the United States with
most of the sugar used here. The to-
bacco industry of Cuba is another rich
source of revenue, and cattle raising
has become an important occupation.
Now there is every reason to believe
the hills are about to yield even
richer exports in iron and copper
Great quantities of iron ore have been
found so close to the surface that
mining expenses are comparatively
negligible.
In 1902 Havana was an orderly and
we'll managed but terribly crowded
city. Today 1t ranks with the beauti-
full capitals of the world. It's parks
are magnificent examples of tropical
development. and many of its resi-
dences are exquisite palaces of marble.
Lovely boulevards and avenues thread
Havana with arterial highways. The
public buildings are all attractive and
substantial, and some are gems of
perfection
Havana is not a city Of cabarets
and saloons, managed entirely for the
benefit of thirsty and pleasure seeking
Americans, as some persons in this
country are wont to believe. 1t is a
healthy, normal community of cul-
tured people, who have the same
visions and the same high ideals that
the better elements in this country
profess. 1t has been termed the
Paris Of the New World" and because
Of it's wonderful climate and enjoy
able life 1t is fast becoming the
Riviera Of the Caribbean"
The achievements of the island re
public have furnished added vindica
tion to the doctrine of the United
States that only as a confraternity Of
free and autonomous states Will the
nations of the Western hemisphere at
tain their greatest possibilities and
win their real triumphs.
Now, under the guidance of Gen.
Machado, Cuba has set out TO attain
even greater triumphs The govern
ment contempiates carrying forward a
tremendous building program. one of
the main features of which will be i'm
proving means of communication and
making the interior provinces easy of
access by motor highways.
great central highway is planned
which will bring the principal centers
of population and consumption in
ready intercommunication. But this
is to be done, President Machado has
declared, without subjecting the credit
Of the nation to unJustifled and un-
necessarily onerous obligations. Cuba
plans virtually to pay as she goes.
L HeIl, LOO, SuDd Is lOOklIlS 1uT"dEu To
the day-which the people confidently
believe Is coning-when the geo
graphic situation of Havana will make
it one of the worlds great storehouses
from which distribution may be made
easily throughout the Western Hem
isphere.
Gratitude for United States Aid.
Nor in preparing to put this pre-
tentious program into operation has
Cuba ever forgotten the nation that
helped so generously to make that
freedom possible. On his visit to the
United States last year President
Machado. in an address in New York
City, declared that the bonds of COM
mon affection and eternal contra
ternity between both peoples were
thus irrevocably sealed" on the fields
of Caney, on the hills of San Juan and
before Santiago.
In concluding that address the
newly elected President outlined in
the following words the spirit of mu
tual understanding and respect that
exists between the United States and
Cuba-a spirit that. it is hoped. will
exist to the same degree of sincerity
between all of the nations of the New
World in the near future. 1t is the
prophecy Of the future toward which
the United States is working, together
with the states of Latin America.
Gen. Machado said:
THE recent action Of the great
American nation i'll recognizing. by
the vote of an overwhelming majority
of its Senate, Cuba'S sovereignty over
the Isle of Pines is new and evident
proof of its purpose to deal justly with
it's sister nations of this continent.
both great and small. in order to main
tain good will among them and that
the incompatible benefits of peace
may be more and more fruitful.
avail myself of the fresh opportunity
which is offered to me on this occa-
sion to reiterate our gratitude to the
American people.
Tribute to United States Officials.
"If the endeavors of the Cuban Am.
bassador in Washington, DIR. Cosme
de la Torriente, in accordance with
the wishes of the government and the
hopes of the Cuban people, were
crowned with success, it was not only
because of the benevolent and just
sentiment of the members of the Sen
ate, but also because of the rectitude
of the very honorable President. Cal
vim Coolidge, and of the cooperation
of his illustrious Secretary of State
Mr.. Charles Evans Hughes, and his
eminent successor Mr.. Frank B. Kel.
logg. Some persons, taking an exag-
gerated view, may say that we should
not be grateful for what we receive
when It, is just, but history has taught
us until now by repeated examples
that when people are powerful and
are not compelled to yield by neces-
sity they are apt to put that which is
for their convenience before that
which is just. 1t is, therefore, inspir-
ing for the weak nations and for hui
manity, which in the end is the victim
of the excesses of force. to see that a
nation which possesses power, as You
do, voluntarily inclined toward jus
tice.
Cuba, which is almost within sight
of the coasts of the United States, but
confident of the rectitude of her neigh
Dor, whose tendencies are typified by
the personalities of Washington anan
Lincoln, is both able to and desirous
of cooperating with this great Nation
toward the realization of the great
work Of this, the American era The
E Pluribus Unum of the United States
may find a new and fruitful interpre-
tation in this century, when steam
and electricity have reduced and daily
shorten all distances.
''All the nations of Latin and Anglo
Saxon America, while maintaining
their frontiers and their separate in
ternational personalities, may COM
bine to develop their wealth and to
promote the well being and peace Of
their respective inhabitants. With
guarantees for territorial rights. with
the spirit of fraternal justice to settle
differences by means of arbitrators
with tranquility at home and with re-
spect for the obligations required. the
nations Of this continent may find in
their own territories and in the United
States the material resources for the