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JANUARY 1942

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UNIVERSITY OF p. R. OUR ISLAND WATCH TOWER

By Muna Lee

AN aspect on ENGLISH INSTRUCTION

By John V. Lawrence

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armistice day

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

One score and three years agoalmost all the nations of the

(Founded in 1938)

world were engaged in armed conflict and the forces of civili zation had been organized for

OLIVER SHAW, Managing Editor P. JUVENAL ROSA, Editorial Editor

slaughter and destruction. The

E. SANCHEZ ORTIZ, Editor

flower of the manhood of these

R. OLIVERA REYES, Art Director

nations and their resources were withdrawn from peaceful pur

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suits and

IN THIS ISSUE

pitted against each

other on the field of battle.

During that great conflict Puerto Rico offered to the Na tion marked evidence of its lo

January 1942 SHORT STORIES

Page No.

SOLITUDE

by Juan B. Huyke

yalty to the Flag and to the high principles for which it

5

stands.

8

eleventh day of November, and

Glorious was that

THE HIDDEN TRUTH

by Jorge Felices Jr

historical

solemn the hour when the Arm

THE CASE OF JACK RIOS

by E. Sanchez Ortiz

10

ENMITY AMONG THE CREW

by Ruben A. Pinedo

14

istice was signed and those hos tilities came to an end. Now, that uneasiness and unrest pre

vail among the peoples of the Americas because the scourge of

articles

AN ASPECT OF ENGLISH INSTRUCTION IN P. R.

by John V. Lawrence

war again threatens our peace and safety; it befits us to pay 9 reverent and grateful homage tothose who offered up their lives

HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW

in that mighty struggle, for the ideals of liberty and democracy, to champion which our Nation 15 entered the contest and succeed ed in being crowned by victory.

In remembrance of our fellow 7 citizens who so gallantly made 18-19 the supreme sacrifice in support

by Ventura Pinot

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THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO

by Muna Lee de Munoz Marin P. R. HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE

by Charles Rutledge Puerto Rican Department War Games DEPARTMENTS:

of our institutions and of our

Tugwell Heads Civilian Defense

Flag, let us elevate our thoughts to Almighty God, and pray that 23 the tragic event be not repeated,

Muhoz Marin and Caribbean Coordination

24 and that fraternal peace may

The Little T.V.A. goes into action

32 reign among all peoples for the

Land Authority Act in Operation

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Proposed Port Improvements School and University Notes Society Notes Vox Pop Verse

32 But at the same time, let us not flinch back from our hearty 12 cooperation in the defense meas 34 ures which are being under^ {Continued on po.ge 14) ^

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WHILE MARY SLEPT

By Alice A. Lowell James

Solitude

The Chinst-Child watched sweet Mary's face The ivhile she slept.

And for the woe that must claim his place The Christ-Child ivept.

By JUAN B. HUYKE the country? I work and rest, and between the two I meditate

<Translation from Spanish by Tilizabeth Kneipple Van Deusen)

"To meditate is to learn, is it not?"

the top of a mountain with his companion, whom he had led to

"And

what

a

great

many

things occur to the mind of one

the altar fifty years before who is accostumed to think! when both were young. He was Imagination is like an unbridled ■tall and I'obust, and still culti horse." vated the soil. He possessed "And what do you think of?", several acres of land on the I asked curiosly. mountain, where he had built his He seemed surprised at my tiny home, during the early days question, and smiled again with of his marriage.

I became acquanted with him on one of my frequent visits to the country, during my stay in Humacao. How it pleased me to hear from his lips the voice

of experience which teaches so many things! For that man knew a great deab a very great deal. He expressed his ideas in the simple language which he had learned in childhood; but, it

was pleasant to hear him, and above all, to see him. Any elo quence which his words lacked was provided for in his gestures, in his smile, in the movement of his ever restless hands.

"You know many things," I said to him one day. "Did you go to school?"

"No, my son. They had no

schools in my time.

"Then .. experiences of life..."

his agreeable smile of under standing.

"Well, you see, I think of the things of life and also of those that are not of the world. I think of God."

You who live in com-

panionship with other men, rarely give thought to Him. But we, yes. We live alone, and in our solitude we find Him, feel His company."

"Please explain to me, ' I begis thinking. He, who lives and thinks, learns.

"And you have meditated

much?"

.

,

.

"What else is there to do in

Where her soft hair trailed

To comfort her loith remembrance blest When his feet were nailed.

And laid his face on her face in sleep To prevent the team's

When the croiun of thoi'ns with his hlood should weep In the coming years.

"almost on the lowland, is my old friend Miguel. I neither see' him, but I know he is there, rea

dy to climb up here if I need him. He is good company!" • other

side, is

my

friend Lorenzo. He is the best of all. When he has a moment

to spare, he comes here to visit.

So you see—I am alone, and yet not alone."

"Why are they your friends?", I asked.

"And you enjoy solitude?"

"Do I enjoy it? I could not live without it. To live alone is

"I have baptized their children.

God did not give me any of my own. I like solitude. Each day

to be king.

I love it more."

Try it."

The countryman looked in all directions. Then, as he pointed out

different

places

on

the

mountainside, he said to me:

"Do you see that little, house which is scarcely visible among the trees that surround it? It is the nearest one to mine. There lives my old friend, Sico. I call him from here, my voice reach

"Perhaps. . ." The amiable old man looked at his wife. Then he said slowly: "Knowledge is not obtained from mere exist es his ears, and he answers me, ence." He became silent and in spite of the distance. We al smiled.

His little feet in her bosom pressed

"On the

"Of God?"

"Yes.

As a cross is made, To heal those ^oounds ivhicli forever more Should be on her laid.

a little."

An old countryman lived on

And on her breast made kisses /ottr,

With my question, I had in

terrupted the

old

man's

dis

course. He resumed what he was telling me in these words: "On the mountain live my fif

teen companions. firends.

All are good

In fact, they are too

good, for they come to see me without

my

returning

their

visits."

"Fifteen!"

"Just as you hear it!

For my

most never see each other, for I have ceased going down to the town; but we converse from time to time. I am not alto gether alone."

godsons are now grown up. and they also come to see. me. All

The old man rested a moment.

"Further away," he continued.

ly gradually, reply. 'With the pace of a snail!' They however,

of them say to me: 'How the time passes!' And I, who in my solitude, have seen \' t slip by on

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believe that time passes very rapidly."

"And it is true that you love solitude.", I repeated.

"As much as my life. Life without solitude is not life at all. But we do not often think of it that way. We are preoc

pmess.

One day, desirous of recalling the past, I returned to Humacao, there to exchange those

After a moment's pause, and fol lowing a great effort to appear serene, he continued: "All of them came to town.

friendly handclasps which warm

The first was my old friend Sico,

the very soul.

whose children wished to study more. 'Goodbye!' he said to me from his house, and I, from

With what plea

sure would I climb the mountain

to greet the humble countryman

also," I thought, as I viewed it

afar, was able to comprehend all

cupied with other things besides thoughts of life. However, soli

from the highway.

the

tude is happiness."

But that was not necessary.

Upon entering the town, my

'And your wife, does she also enjoy it?" I inquired desiring to hear all he had to say.

He replied at once: "My wife?

She thinks exactly as I do. She is like me. Here we sit in the

evening, and the hours pass in harmonious silence.

heart, overflowing with happi ness at the memory of all the joyful moments I had formerly

sadness

of

his

farewell.

Next, went my old friend Mi guel. Then Lorenzo, Antonio, Toribio.

The

town

attracted

them all, with its schools, its in dustries, and its diversions."

spent there, I heard a friendly

■ "I hardly ever saw them when

voice which called me affection

they lived on the mountainside,

ately:

but I knew that they were there, that they were very close to me.

'Don Juan! Don Juan!"

I looked towards a modest lit tle house and saw the person

When they came here, then I

be I confessed that such a life alone, without a single friend succeeded in interesting me." who had pronounced my name: whom I might call. The moun "There is no doubt that man was the old mountaineer, the friend tain seemed to be falling upon born to live in society, he said. of solitude.

And I followed them flee Our fellowmen attract us. ing from solitude, the solitude I stopped my automobile and Their struggles stimulate our stepped out to shake his hand. that I had previously enjoyed—

own efforts. The friend of soli tude lives contrary to the law of nature. Was it then, that this man had suffered a disillusion?

Had he fled, frightened from the

understood what it was to

Upon seeing me, two large tears

alas because it was not real soli

rolled down his cheeks.

tude!"

There

was a moment of slience, of emo

The old man

became

silent

tion..

once more.

wickedness of humanity? No. The old countryman had suffer

"Tell me about yourself," I said with some curiosity. "Do

eyes the struggle of an an an

ed no disillusions. Men had been kind to him. He knew how to cultivate good friendships—once I told him so. He did not need even to visit his friends to re ceive assurances of their friend

you live in town?"

ship. Then. ■ •

Whenever I encountered one of his 'friends' in town, I always asked for the old man who never

"Yes: he replied, wiping his eyes, "for some time now".

"But...

your love of soli

tude..."

"It stills exists, only..."

"Tell me. You interest me.'

"You will see. Things are not

came down from the mountain. as one imagine. I lived alone "He is the same as ever. He on the mountain-top. Alone fears people. He will only come and accompanied at the same down when he is dead." These time." were their replies.

The countryman looked off A long time passed. Upon into the distance, with eyes sad

coming to San Juan, I ceased and tired. There was the aban climbing the mountain, and lost doned mountain, which attract

sight of the good devotee of soli tude, who found in it his hapCaribben Revieiv

ed, with its enchantment, the simple soul of the old man.

I could see in his

guished spirit, which had lived a long life of illusion, only to be undone in the end.

"How terrible is solitude, that is, real solitude!" repeated the countryman staring at the ground.

"But in solitude," I objected, "you thought of God, felt the companionship of God."

The countryman smiled once more, his sweet smile of com

prehension, and replied:: "God

is

everywhere.

Here

as there, I am with Him, because he is in me.

And when He is

with us, we must dwell among men in order to help them, for there are still many who are not with God".

THE END

POSTMASTER EXPECTS

Puerto Rico's Historiol Importance

Without Parallel

MAIL INCRESE OF 407^

George G. De Pass, Postmas ter of San Juan, expects an in

crease of probably 409f in the

By CHARLES RUTLEDGE

volume of Christmas mail this

year over that of the last year.

Puerto Rico being the only

portion of the United States

the visits of Columbus to the Western Hemisphere.

Since the new addition was made to the Federal Building in 1936,

It is unusual that Aguadilla, and the consequent expansion of ever visited by Christopher Co where monuments stand to mark the Post Office, Mr. De Pass lumbus enjoys a position m the Columbus' call, has done nothing stated, postal receipts have al nation's historical background more to capitalize on the event most doubled —climbing from that it is without parallel. by way of advertizing itself in $840,000 to $600,000 in five The island is important to the the island. Yet Puerto Rico as years. Even more that ever be mainland as a strategic military a whole also is missing a golden therefore, the slogan "Do and naval base. It is important opportunity to forward itself fore, Your Shopping Early and avoid as a customer. It also is im before the remainder of the

portant as a producer of essen

tial commodities. None of these

United States.

points is unique, however. Other

Aguadilla's name — Little

Watering Place — is supposed islands, territories, possessions, have originated from the visit and nations have equal and to of the Great Navigator. Its many have more importance in monument, "El Ojo del Agua , one or all categories. at the intersection of Jose de

As the only portion of the Diego and Muhoz Rivera Streets, United States ever visited by is supposed to be the exact spot

Columbus, however, Puerto Rico where Columbus replenished the is immediately distinctive The water supply of his caravels claim cannot be touched by any from a spring which continues other section under the Stars to bubble forth. and Stripes.

The other marker at Aguadi It is a pity, therefore, that lla, a magnificent mai'ble cross, November nineteenths, which is situated on the bank of the mark the anniversaries, come Culebrinas River where Colum bus' men might have landed and go year in and year out with their small boats while search nothing done beyond declaring ing for the precious water. a routine holiday to celebrate

the occasion that could be com memorated in appropriately dis tinctive fashion.

Why not tell the world and why not impress the great fact on the main portion of the United States with an islandwide celebration in keeping with such a momentous even .

States sections, and cities on

the Christmas Rush", should be the motto of everyone in San Juan.

EXECUTIVE SECRETARY GALLARDO

Carlos Gallardo, Executive Se cretary of Puerto Rico since 1933, died November 20th in a Santurce Clinic where he had been under treatment. Gallar

do was born in San Juan, Sep tember 8, 1885; the son of Jose Gallardo and

Belen Lara. He

was a graduate from Harvard University with a B. A. degree,

1990, and studied civil engineer ing from

1909 to 1912. He

worked in the executive secre

A young soldier by the name tary's office from 1912 to 1928, of Juan Ponce de Leon, destined and as assistant executive se to become governor of Puerto cretary until 1933 when he be Rico and one of its most famous

men, was a member of the Co lumbus entourage, according to history.

As and old man he visited Flo

rida in search of a fountain of

youth, yet he probably is better

came full secretary. ments and let them stand (often without care) as mute testimo ny of tremendously important occasions.

A total of 448 years has pass

since that November 19. known in the United States for 1493, when Columbus set foot this interlude than for his great frantically through histoi y accomplishments in Puerto Rico. on Puerto Rico. There is no books and old records for events The reason lies in the fact event in United States history to celebrate by way of attraet- that Florida has capitalized on of so great an age or of more ino- as much attention as pos- its history, made something of importance. Some fitting cele e"ble Yet nothing that can be it, while Puerto Rico has been bration should be arranged to j ■ o-oes back as far or content to erect mere monu- mark the anniversary.

thf mtainland search long and

wild'Lve taken place without Carihbcn Revieiv

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THE With a short, uneven step, the man went through the door into

the office, tossing a quick glance over the desk, the green metal lic file and the old furniture. He suddenly seemed to feel a wave

of new, sparkling life, as if the sight of all these things that awaked his recollections gave

him new strength. Then he rushed his way through and

timidly opened the door that would lead him to Louis.

He stopped there, and readyly the other man uttered a cry

of surprise rising to embrace him.

HIDDEN

TRUTH

The other man paused for a to remember what he had just gone through. finement I could understand ma "She took the baby inside and ny things; funny things too. In came back to me," he went on. the first place, Charlotte.

"She explained that the child What's happened to her? She belonged to a neighbor, and she only visited me two or three was taking care of her. She times and then with much re was a darling, with blue eyes, luctance, as if she were afraid of curly dark haii% just like her

By JORGE FELICES JR.

minute, trying

me. Her family did the same, as if trying to avoid me, like a leper. This morning when I came out I swear that I thought I would die of plain happiness.

Suddenly I really turned insane.

I thought I hadn't time for any thing, and rushed to tell her the

"You," It's you!"—he nearly good news. They don't live cried while holding him in a where they used to, and I had to ask the neighbors, who looked strong embrace.

"Surpi'ised? Well, I'm not at me with suspiction".

A slight cloud of anxiety surprised by anything now.

Everything here looks the same.

Remember?"

"Yes. But tell me, how did

you happen to...?"

"To get out... ?"

He dropped into a chair in front of the desk covered with papers where his friend sat.

seemed to darken Louis' eyes.

What's' happened?"—he snap ped with impatience.

"This morning I was told I could leave". They said I was all right." Really, I never be

absent minded, faded, silent, as if hiding something. You know.

I'm not insane, don't you ? I could notice all the details. But you must know everything,

Louis. You are my best friend, my old pal. Tell me, what's hap pened, what's happening to Charlotte, to me, to everyone?"

Louis stood up, walking

Presently he had followed his

around the room slowly as if

trying to remember something. be planning an intimate confession. Finally, he answered

tion; but a deep feeling of mi sery filled his heart and a queer thought made him visualize that

slowly, while patting his friend

man searching in vain.

over the shoulder:

"Did you find her?" — he asked.

things, too strange in fact. I'm had moved and I ran there with even afraid that after all I might a queer feeling, as if time es The other man understood.

"Yes, I know. But go on.

"Then they invited me to come in, and all the time she looked

friend's words with close atten

"I've come because we must "Yes, at last. One of the have a long talk"—he began. neighbors told me where they "I've found many strange

still be... you know..."

mother." He added:

caped and the road extended endless. My presence in the house seemed to create chaos.

Mrs. Burke looked at me with

intense fright."You know? One of those mischievous looks that

hurt a man's feelings.

Char-

lote stood in the room as I came

"Oh, calm yourself, there is no mystery at all."

"But I want to know the truth.

That child, Louis, that child. To whom does she belongs?"

He Walked menacingly, and tried to grab Louis by the neck.

Then he stopped, humbly apolo gizing: 'Tm sorry. You must think I am still insane."

Then he bitterly repeated his question;

"Tell me the truth, I don't

in, and she had a baby in her

o^md if it's cruel.

arms. She caresed the tot as if

Charlotte..'?"

I seem to deviate from the nor mal course of things; but not

it were hers. When she saw me she pressed her to her chest suddenly and also looked at me

"Shut up", he said, "what new insanity were you going to

hopelessly gone. I had a sound

with terror. I suspected, God

mind, and I have the intimate

help me, that there was some

conviction that I was never cra

thing sinful in her soul!"

lieved I was crazy. Ever since that blow on my head I felt diz

zy sometimes, and on occasions

zy. In those two years of con-

"And then?"

Is it that

say?"

There was a moment of deep

silence, the two men looking at (Continued on page 30) Caribben Revieivr

■(in -(i^pQCt on ^n^Lhk Un5ttuction in p.n. lity to pronounce certain sounds in the English language, and

The educational system of Puerto Rico has labored for ma

By JOSEPH V. LAWRENCE

ny years to solve one of its out

h aving to spend a full school

standing problem — that of teaching both English and Span

year away from his family; the fact that some of the continental

room is that, just as most

ish in its schools.

teachers

the teacher's strong points be come the pupils' strong points,

Spanish, the first language of both teachers and pupils, has

presented only those basic prob lems that beset the English de

partments of the continental American schools: what meth ods to use for the obtaining of the best possible results, what

are

unable to

adapt

themselves to a change in envi

be placed on vocabulary, silent reading, language, phonetics, or oral reading and choral speaking those are only a few of the

Puerto Rico and made it neces

tain weaknesses in the langua

sary to assign the teaching of English to an increasingly large

To say that English can be taught effectively by continen tal Americans only, would be ex tremely illogical. The fact that the Puerto Rican teacher of En

glish is well-trained in the neces sary teaching methods and pos sesses a good basic knowledge of it to warrant his being ap

pointed to the position. And results have shown that there are some Puerto Rican teachers of English who has imparted to

pupils a knowledge of many problems in the teaching their English comparable to and, in of English in Puerto Rico.

Besides those problems of a some cases, better than that

curricula!- and pedagogical nat

ure, there has always existed the problem of personnel: the obtaining of a sufficient number of teachers well-versed enough in English to teach it effective

acquired by pupils from conti nental American teachers.

However, it cannot be denied that any Spanish-speaking indi vidual, unless he has been brought up in a home where both English and Spanish are

ly in the schools of the Island. spoken or has spent his chilhood This problem was partially solv and this early youth in the ed by the bringing in of a cer United States proper, must of tain number of continental Ame a necessity speak and write a ty rican teachers, for the payment pe of English that contains cer of whose salaries the Legisla tain errors and misconceptions. ture of Puerto Rico made a spe Among these may be included

ll appropriation. But this was

not enough. The wealth of op-

faulty construction, accent, lack of knowledge of certain basic

Lss on the Island ; the pangs of

idiomatic expressions, failure to recognize connotations, incor rect intonation, complete inabi

^ ir. of busiportunity m the field ^

homesickness which beset the

young continental teacher at Caribhen Revieiv

of

each individual pupil. Thus, the teacher of English who has cer

ers.

of whether greater stress should

class

gradual decrease in the number of English-speaking teachers in

be emphasized most, etc.

English, on the other hand, has presented numerous prob lems which, when solved, have proven to be the forerunners of a still greater number. The

glish and what part in Spanish,

the

so do the teachers' weak points

number of Puerto Rican teach

riculum should be taught in En

The sad truth in

ronmental conditions — all of these factors contributed to a

phases of the language should

question of what part of the cur

others.

become the special property of

ge transmits all of these weak points to the pupils, along with all of the good points he teaches them.

Recognizing this fact, the Department of Education, in January, 1939, initiated a correc tive program to see if it would not be possible to eliminate, or at least minimize, some of the Puerto Rican teachers' common

weaknesses in English.

This program called for the appointment of twenty conti nental American teachers to a

position

known

as

Field Assistant". was divided into

"English

The Island twenty dis

tricts, each one to be handled by one of the new appointees.

Some of these "districts" con sisted of a single school dis trict; others of two or more.

The duties of the English Field Assistant were to be the following:

1. To visit the teachers in the classroom:

a) to tabulate weaknesses in English. b) to confer

with

the

tea

cher visited.

2. To give classes to the tea chers of the district.

a) to clear up misconceptions. b) to eliminate common weak"

nesses, as seen during vi(Continued on page 31)

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THE CASE OF JACK RIGS Jack Rios was sitting upon the front door steps of an old coun

By E. Sanchez Ortiz

try house, gazing at the sea that

to kill him. In this Isle of Ench

Naturally Jack didn't expect to fire against his enemy without giving him a chance to explain.

was still shining under the tro pical horizon, leaving an aureo la of many coloured shades on

antment country folks are sus

He professed a different school

picious and crafty.

of life.

the sky. The old house was si tuated on the top of a hill, seve ral miles from the-seaboard. Far off to the west, Jack could see a huge battle-ship that was en

tering" the harbor, and over the mountains, eternally covered with green grass, he could hear

"Perhaps an enemy of mine is looking for trouble", he said.

"This is the place where anybody

"Good evening."

"Good evening."

The two men exchanged those

could take a chance and commit

simple words watching each

a crime and then let justice take

other's movements.

its course!", he exclaimed. "But what kind of justice do we have

"I heard a shot from that hill while I was hunting wild ani mals and I though my friend had committed suicide." the vi sitor said. A distance of about thirty feet divided each man.

in this country, anyway?" he added. "I will look around once

more, and by God if I get hold the roar of the bombers that pa of that coward he ain't going to trol the sea. It was late in the "Not exactly", Jack replied. afternoon. The sky was blue, profane this place anymore."

"I was tracing the person who After inspecting the place iranslucid; the deep waters of once more, inside and out, gazing dared to fire against me. I was the Caribbean Sea, our Mare lucky not to get hurt. The back N 0 s t r u m, were Quiet and all the corners underneath the of a person seldom makes a good smoothly bathing the seashore. building not a single sign, not Jack was a short, fleshy man with a bald head, dark, peercing

a foot-print was found of the misterious person who fired the

target."

"Pedro Martinez", he called

his enemy by his name,"you are no hunter at all! I know what

eyes and ruddy complexion. He

shot.

was also known as Jack the Jiba-

"This devil must have long you are looking for around wings like the bombers to fly so here." The visitor became aware rapidly and disappear from this of the fact that country folk are place. Perhaps the earth has not afraid of anything, of any

ro. He was dreaming while he heard the clash of swords and the roar of beaten drums at the distance; he imagined the siege of San Juan staged several cen

turies ago on Morro Castle

gi-ounds by the Dutch fleet. He thought of his only enemy back in the city, the man he shot at a cockfight because he tried to play a dirty trick on him.

Suddenly the quietness of the house was interrupted by the

sharp, quick shot of a firearm.

Jack immediately turned his head and looked toward the end of the balcony of the house where he believed the firing

eaten the monster."

weapons, especially when they

The nightingales that were know that enemies are around. scared .and frightened by the

Martinez started to explain once more, but Jack pulled his gun

firing were flying over the trees in a nearby forest. As night was out and stopped him before he approaching, the hours seemed reached the doorsteps of the house. more longer and dull.

"Put your dirty hands up, you A man was coming down a the

ysllow cat!". Jack demanded.

The so called hunter lifted both

traveller as one of his friends

arms up, but he tried to pull his

who once betrayed him in the

city, at a cockfight. When the

gun once more. Jack fired his pistol. The man fell on the

visitor

ground.

hill. Jack looked again towards

the road

and recognized

started

towards

the

house, Jack became more suspi started. He pulled his heavy gun cious, realizing that he had been out and walked to the right end followed to this lonely spot. of the dwelling searching for

"So this is the man I've been

the unknown person that fired

looking for!", he said. "He

After he was sure that the

visitor was dead, Jack stepped out and climbed a steep hill, wal king dejectedly through a dense

forest. When he arrived at the doesn't even take care to cover top of the hill, he reached a Jack could still smell the himself from a counter-attack. beautiful clearing from which smoke of the firearm that was I reckon this is the man who fi he could see the green valleys below. The sea was smooth, the used to fire against him, perhaps red on my back."

the shot. He could see no one.

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â&#x2013; darkness of the night was slowly â&#x2013; covering the fields. Jack decided to go back to town at dawn.

When he returned near the en trance of the old house, he once more observed the face of the dead man. He hated to remove

could remain no longer without

the heavy body from the ground, but he thought that he could take

mediate arrest and a chai'ge of murder, the disgrace of his fa mily! He remembered that du

reporting the case to the Police.

He had not the courage to re main for a few more hours as a

fugitive from Justice, the same justice that he distrusted. He believed that this meant his im

no chances in touching it.

Jack realized that no witnesses

confidence in himself, in justice,

the Supreme Justice which he believed could be imposed, even though there were no human

justice to enforce the law.

"I was compelled to kill this devil in self-defense, and I shall

prove that to the Judge! Jack exclaimed.

Deep into the heart of this honest man, the feeling of com fort and satisfaction that had

prevailed for over forty years while he lived with his fami

ly in the country at a nearby

farm, was suddenly changed for the desperate thought that he

king all the time about the long journey that awaited him at dawn. He had no food, and no

he helped the big boss, the presi

water to carry with him for the long journey. But he could no longer remain alone in this

dent of the controlling political

place.

ring the past electoral campaign

could be produced to testify that somebody intended to kill him before he met this man. No evi dence could be produced to show that the visitor came to the mountain to follow him and kill him. However, Jack had full

and laid himself on a bead. He could hear the hours pass while an old alarm clock struck them of in the darkness of the night.

He smoked several cigars; he felt tired, restless, annoyed, thin

party; that he also could look to

He started at dawn walking

him, for the help needed in this

many miles along a barren coun try, before he reached the green

case. He had seen that done in hundred of cases before.

Jack left the body where it

fields covered with sugar cane.

The task seemed interminable.

fell. He observed that the dead

For two days and two nights he

man was still holding rigidly the end of his gun, the same weapon

travelled mile after mile. He was

with which he was sure his ene

my intended to kill him.

Grasping

the

enemy's

gun

tired and sweating under a tor rid sun, until he reached a small country house near the road. He

was hungry and thirsty. He fell

carefully with a handkerchief on

on the ground, facing it. A stran

the right hand. Jack examined it. There was only one bullet fired. He put the gun back into

ge country girl rushed out of

the hand of the dead hunter. But

the

house . and

poured

some

water on the face of the travel

ler. Jack opened his eyes; he ma

he noticed instantly that this

naged to sit down. He asked for

man was no hunter at all. He had no birds nor wild animals with him, nor a dog.

of fresh water and exclaimed: "Where is the Chief of Police

It was dark now. Jack lighted a cigar. He rushed into the house

some water. He drank two pots

Office?"

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SCHOOLS AND UNIVERSITY NOTES GENERAL OBJECTIVES OF THE TECHNICAL DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF

terial and complete reorganiza tion of the rest. It is our pur

EDUCATION

a curriculum workshop where these proposed changes may be

The Department of Education announces the aims for our school system:

' 'Tt might be well to explain, before stating the objectives of this Division, that they are not

the type of objective which may be attained in the comparatively brief space of one or two years.

Instead, it is logical to expect that the satisfactory realization

to travel and the destination we

worked out.

III. To emphasize through ad equate supervisory procedures: A. The study of our environ ment and our culture.

B. The study of modern edu

on a clearer understandingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;on the part of both teachers and

as on a careful adaptation of material covered to the environ

ment in which the pupils and teachers live."

prepared to face their daily-life problems. In short, we wish to formulate an orientation so logi

cal, clear, and reasonable that it will be accepted and supported

by our teachers without their feeling that it has been imposed

ed manager of the State Insur ance Fund.

"PEDREIRA

HALL"

NEW

NAME OF ARTS AND SCIEN CE BUILDING AT UPR

Antonio S. Pedreira was ho

nored on the second anniversary of his death. In response to a

petition made by the Student Council in representation of the

student body of the University of Puerto Rico, Dr. Pedreira's FIVE NEW ARMORIES FOR

THE NATIONAL GUARD

name was given to Arts and Science Building at the Univer sity,

I To formulate an orientation, ediKation for our school system based on a point-by-point evolu tion of definite, logical, worth while facts. In this way, our tea chers will easily understand just what program should be adapt ed to our children's personal needs, so that they may be well-

Department of Economics, due to the fact the professor Rafael de J. Cordero has been appoint

supervisorsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;of the psychology

the teaching and supervising

or welLdefined philosophy of

Dean Julio B. Ortiz, of the College of Business Administra tion, and senior professor of eco nomics, has taken charge of the

cational psychology.

We must place more emphasis

expect to reach, we present to body of Puerto Rico's school sys tem, the following aims:

DEPARTMENT

pose to make of the classroom

of these aims will very probably of the learning process, as well

reQuire a period of from foui to six years' duration. In order that everyone may be familiar with the "direction in which we wish

DEAN ORTIZ AT ECONOMY

after a resolution

was

It's reported that five new adopted by the Board of Trus armories for the National Guard tees. A ceremony was held on the occassion, and during the of Puerto Rico will be construc same night, Fernando Sierra ted by the Department of the Beldecla, journalist, delivered a Interior.

The sites selected for the new

armories

are

conference on Dr. Pedreira's li terary work.

Yauco, Sabana

Born in Puerto Rico in 1899,

Grande, San German, Maricao

and educated at the universities

of Puerto Rico, Columbia and Madrid, Antonio S. Pedrema concrete, with two floors, and headed the Department of Spaall modern facilities. ni.sh Studies of the U. P- R-, from its establishment in 1927 iintil his ultimatelv death in

and Fenuelas. The new struc tures will be of reinforced

OCCUPATIONAL SURVEY

1939. A great teacher, Pedreira

The Insular Board of Voca

was also an assiduous investiga tor, critic and journalist. He

on them.

11. To design a curriculum which will be in harmony with

tional Education in cooperation

the orientation formulated for our school system. The courses

with the W. P. A., is conducting an occupational survey in all

completed the schoolarly and intersting "Biologia Puertorrique-

na", the standard bibliography of Puerto Rican material from of study that we have now were good at the time they were ma Maps showing business and 1499 to 1930, the year of public de. However, changing condi residential blocks have been ation; a record kept up to date tions necessarily involve total furnished by the Interior De by Dr. Pedreira's compilation elimination of some of this ma- partment. for each successive year of titles. establishments in Puerto Rico.

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about

Puerto

Rico

and

by

Puerto Ricans; the biographies of Eugenio Maria de Hostos

(1937), and Jose C. Barbosa

(1937); and seven volumes of essays on the Puerto Rican lite rary history and sociology. He had corrected the final manus

cript pages of his history of Puerto Rican Journalism a day or so before his death in 1939.

This book was published by U.

Senior—Ramon Cancio^ Sophomore—Arturo Estrella.

Freshman—Luis A. Rubio.

Law School

BALZAC HEADS SENIOR BU SINESS ADM. CLASS

At-large—Pedro Munoz Amato.

Third Year—Martin Almodovar.

Second Year-—Santiago Polanco.

First Year—Luis Velasco.

College of Education W

A new board of directors was

Senior—;Sylvia Navas.

elected for the

Junior—Ana C. Diaz.

Sophomor-e—Candida Ramirez.

Freshman — Mercedes

Munoz

de

Calderon.

College of Business Administration

P. R. in a handsome memorial edition in 1941; and the frater

Freshman—Gelestino Mor-ales.

Sophomore—Virginia Ramirez.

College of Pharmacy Senior—Tomas Hernandez.

Junior—Carlos Raspaldo.

Sophomore—Pedro Soto Respeto.

Freshman—Henrietta Orlandi.

i^aciones y Criticas".

NEW STUDENT COUNCIL Amato, third

year honor student in the Law School, has been elected Presi dent of the Student Council of

the University of Puerto Rico, for the academic year 1941-42.

Ricardo Alegria, junior Art and Science, was reelected as secre

tary. Following is the list of of ficers and members of the Coun

cil, which is elected by the stu dent body at its official repre sentations and spokesmen: Pvp^sidPnt — P«»4ro Munoz Amato.

Tst vtepresident - Santiago Po•''S. Vicepnesident - Pedro Soto

Vicopreisdent - Arturo Estre-

"''secretary — Assistant Seeietaiy

ta Diaz.

OFFICERS

dro T. Balzac.

man, treasurer; Jorge Suarez,

Jose C. Rodriguez Favale, Artu ro S. Garcia and Miguel A. Pe-

FOR PARENT TEACHERS ASCNT. AT U. P. R.

SOCIAL SERVICE COURSE

New officers of the Parent Teacher's Association were

been appointed by the Board of

elected at a meeting held at the

Modelo School, Rio Piedras, Oct.

reorganize and direct the Social Work College. Miss Canon is a

10. Florencio Saez was elected President with the following members on the board: Rafael

School of Social Work. The Fe

CharboLinnier,

Vice-president;

4)

Antoinette

Trustees

professor

Canon

has

of the University to

at the

New

York

deral Government through its

Children Bureau, and the Insu lar Department of Health, have Mrs. Ernesto Ramos Antonini, alloted $10,000, which funds,_ Raquel Rexad de Rodriguez, combined with University funds Carmen Calderon de Cordova, made possible the enlargement Rodolfo Ramirez Pabdn, and Feof this social work. The Insular Antonio

Rodriguez, Treasurer;

derico Maura.

Doctor J. J. Osuna and profesor Antonio Rodriguez were na

Department of Health also don ated 10 schoolarships for the re gular course.

med as honorary advisors. Doc

tor Alfredo Silva gave a talk on

Fifty two students have been

"Problem Children" which was

enrolled at this course, of which

followed by an open forum of

18 participate in the regular

comment and discussion. Steps

course and 35 to the Saturdays

SNERArL/sToF MEMBERS

taken here and

Other members

elected are: Rafael Riera, vicepresident ; Marcos A. Romero, secretary; Jose A. Martinez Ro

ELECTED

. Alvarez Santoni. are being taked to work toward

(Continued from

Year

Class at the College of Business Administration, headed by Pe

Miss

Munoz

Fourth

legrina.

NEW

Pedro

building

for the practice school.

Junior—Ricardo Alegria.

Senior—Marcos Romero.

Junior—Jose A. Santori.

nity Phi Eta Mu has recently edited a memorial edition of ■ Pedreira's hitherto uncollected essays under the title of "Acla-

secuidng an adecuate

College of Arts and Sciences

nazist banditry, call for the sup

classes only.

feeds it: the power of might.

port of each and every conscien

tious citizen. "We must be armed to the teeth in order to maintain peace." The bane of insure the hitlerism must and will be erradicated by the very force which

Juste Pastor Lozada.

NtLnarAdmfnistration toward National

San Juan — November 1941.

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ENMITY AMONG THE CREW

By Ruben A. Pinedo gang who managed to get hold

among his own crew.

monster when the raft was ap

of the raft during the wreck —

three darkies who had discover

proaching the Mona Passage on the western part of a Caribbean

three men who shone like ibony

under the tropical sun—helped

ed a gold treasure — perhaps the gold chest of some old Span

Island. The tides moaned under the fragile raft where seven men

the captain to land safely. The

ish

shoreline was rocky.

under a rock in the center of" the Island, had been talking se cretly, and the captain suspect ed that they were conspiring against the white men. One

The sea roared like a wild

belonging to the crew of a ship wreck were struggling under a torrid sun to save their lives.

The channel was full of corpses floating over the surge.

The seven men were suffering from lack of drinking water and

supplies. They were hungry and thirsty... Their clothing was

"Get overboard

and tie the

raft to the rocks", the captain ordered.

One of the three black men

galleon — that

But the-

was

hid

night, the captain was surpris

jumped into the water; some of

ed to

them were cut by the sharp

see

the three

darkies,

sharpening their old knives.

"I've experienced discomfort

rocks on the botton; they were

bleeding under the water, but

and danger many times in my

they carried on, pushing the raft

life. This ain't the

to the shore. The oldest man in

first

time

soacked. There was a smell of tar and burned oil on the sullen waters where the dead bodies

the gang pulled a rope from un der the craft and tied it to the

were floating at the mercy

I've been in a shipwreck. If you guys want to jump on us, now is the time!", the old sea wolf

rocks on the shore.

said.

the tides.

of

The little craft was

like a nutshell on the middle of the ocean.

Sitting on the center of the

When the seven men landed, they found out that there were no trees, no palms, no foliage on

the deserted spot.

A group of

raft, the captain of the lost mer chant ship — an old sea wolf listening to the whistle of the

sea monsters was jumping on

wild wind and the long sea thunder — was sweating under the hot tropical sun, hopping for a landing place. His face was

For several days the crew managed to live on fish and

grimy, unshaved. He was long

the surface

of the water. Sea

gulls and docks were flying.

wild sea birds. In this lonely island, away from civilization, the captain didn't expect enmity

The three black men struck

the captain in the face.

The-

rest of the crew jumped

on

the black gang. Only two indi viduals managed to survive from this terrific fight — the captain and his mate.

A dim thunder told them that

night that the red light of a vessel was shining near the sea shore. They were rescued and brought back to civilization. ..

ing for his old pipe of tobacco which

had

been

lost in

the

wreck. He was a strong man

about sixty year of age who had spent half his life on the sea.

The under

captain's eyes the

dark

smoldered

mat of

his

brown hair.

"Tierra! Tierra!", the captain cried when he saw a haven un

der the dull glow of a moonless

TO

READERS!

Have you a son, or friend, or sweetheart who has been inducted into the Army or Navy?

There is no better way to keep a soldier or sailor "at ease" — rookie or veteran — than to provide him with a subscription to a magazine such as CARIBBEAN REVIEW.

Here is the chance you've been waiting to offer him a read ing entertainment of local affairs and local atmosphere!

Each issue will remind him of you..

A six-issue (twelve months) subscription, to be more exact, to be with him for his whole hitch of service — is

sky. It was late in the evening.

only $2.00.

A landing place had been reach

NAME ADDRESS

ed, at last. The seven men smil ed as they saw the little island

OUR

on the distance. The sea gulls

donor'.'.

were flying over their heads.

ADDRESS

Three members of the black 14

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THE UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO: OUR ISLAND VYATCH TOWER

By Muna Lee de Mufioz Marin

The University of Puerto Ri

San Juan. This is a cooperative

co, founded in 1903, is an insti

project between Columbia Uni versity and the Univei'sity of

tution of the state university

type, with eight Colleges, two graduate Schools, and approxi

Puerto Rico which has been suc

mately 6,0000 students for the present session.

thirteen years.

cessfully operating for the past

An important addition to the

The main nucleus of build

University was the transfer se

ings is located on an extensive and beautiful tropical campus in Rio Piedras, a small college town, twenty minute's distance

partment of Agriculture

Education and Pharmacy, and

tire field force

veral years ago, from the De

and

Commerce, of the Insular Ex

from San Juan. Here are ^the periment Station, the Isabela Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Irrigation Substation, ten de Law, Business Administration, monstration farms, and an en of

extension

here probably will be the new agents.

College of Public Administx^aWith such a physical plant tion, apple of Govei'nor Tugwell's eye. This latter was creat and the facilities of modern la

ed by the recent special legis

boratory equipment, and with a

lative session in response to an

ui-gent suggestion in the Gover

young progressive faculty, the University of Puerto Rico has

nor's Message.

won recognition as the leading

The University's College of

Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, the most recent of U. S. Land Grant College under the Morrill Act, is in Mayagiiez, an indus trial city in the westeim portion of the island. The college

experiment of American higher education in a distinctly Spa nish American background.

In especial, the University of Puerto Rico has faced its duties

to its own people. Its widening

grounds are contiguous to the

influence is due primarily to its

Federal Agricultural Experi ment Station, and-there will be established its splendid new

close and succesful attention to

graduate Institute of Tropical Agriculture, also created by the

cause

special session of the Puerto Rican Legislature in November of

theoretically but actually bilin gual. Its graduates have a first hand acquaintance with Spa nish American and North Ame rican commercial procedure; they are practiced in the two dominant languages of our he misphere; they have become aware of the major differences in national methods. This Colle ge functions in Puerto Rico nx close collaboration with Boston

the task closest at hand. It wins

University, and courses may be taken at one institution or the

indorsement from

other. The favored pi'ocedure is

of

dealing

without

be

successfully

with the task within.

to spend part of the time in Bos ton, the rest in Rio Piedras, at the Univex'sity of Puerto Rico.

The University meets local problems, and incidentally, helps show the way to the solution of

Similarly, the School of Tropi cal Medicine in the few years of A third group, practically many pi'oblems not merely His its existence has already made autonomous, is the beautiful panic but Pan-american in scope. a name for itself among schools School of Tropical Medicine, ah For instance, its College of Bu of tropical medicine over the so a graduate institution, ad- siness Administration is not world. The only institution of its joining the Capitol grounds in

this year-

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15

kind in the Tropics under the

stars and stripes, it is carried on as an integral graduate co

llege of the University of Puer to Rico under the auspices of Columbia University.

under the auspices of the Uni versity.

In the past few years the Art Director of the University has brought to the island a distin guished list of Art Exhibitions

The new College of Public Adminstration will give one

young men and women the training that will render them fully efficient in public service and thus improve the whole structure of government. The

ed locally. The University Cho rus under direction of Augusto

rists the world over the research

in the appreciation of Music.

physicians.

lecturers before island schools

of education

Faculty members are constant

Home

and clubs. A group of firstrank

Economics of the University has made a synpathetic study of

musicians headed by Sanroma,

Orchestra, has made the Music

ADVANCED HERE

lace

planes leaving Puerto Rico for the

vine,

and flower as motif. Bulletins embodying these and other fea tures of the work of the depart ments have been not only wide

decrease in

daylight

hours,

Europe have expressed their in

As a result, the Post Office clos

ing time for

air mail has

been

moved forward from 8:00 to 7:30

on Saturday's, Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. The Monday and

sity faculty, which have made the mycology of that region the be.ÂŤt known of the tropical world, excepting only Puerto Ri co itself, where the investiga tions were likewise carried on 16

plished and in its importance as liaison officer between the two

cultures of this hemisphere.

"My classes in the University

of Puerto Rico were composed of the most courteous students I

Department of the University's

have ever engaged to help, and

Summer School internationally

the most diligent", declares Tho

known.

mas Graven in his best-selilng MODERN ART. "In

vestigations in the Venezuelan out by members of the Univer

scholars in America and

terest in what the University of Puerto Rico has already accom

not be effected.

and Colombian Andes, carried

Publicists and North and South

mainland will take off a half hour

have circled the tropical zone,

The University of Puerto Ri

cators of Spain and Spanish America; the regular faculty

earlier from now on.

Wedensday 10:00 closing hour will

co has sponsored scientific in

Spanish Studies, to which

With the approach of winter and

ly useful in Puerto Rico, but sent in answer to requests from a dozen countries.

Another striking example of the University's response to its environment is the Department

being made up also of highly the

signed with native leaf,

nition in all countries.

trained sepcialists.

making the island's typical and exquisite drawnwork and pillow scientifically

tic investigations which have received highest critical recog

some of the most famous edu AIRM.\IL SCHEDULE IS

ducts of the island. Methods of

been

already appeared valuable worivS embodying scientific and bngui.s-

have come as visiting professors

in other branches to the pro

have

In the series of University of Puerto Rico Monograph.^ hove

of

the instruction in cookery and

simplified, and new patterns de

complete report on the birds of

Porto Rican pianist, famous so

tradicional Spanish and Puerto' loist of the Boston Symphony

analyzed the food-value of ma ny native vegetables, adapting

Wind-ward Isles. Scientific con

Exhibiitons of materials collect

and experiment that the School of Tropical Medicine does for

Rican recipes, reducing them to scientific formulas, and has

surveys in the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic, and the

the island of St. Lucia, and a comprehensive study of the eco nomic geography of Puerto Rico.

Rodriguez, carries on a constant

of

tensive and valuable scientific

tributions by its faculty range from the discovery of a new species of potato to the first

island-wide work

Department

Venezuela. Investigators from the University have made ex

from Spain, Mexico and the United States. In addition, the University has held interesting and popular Art and History

Institute of Tropical Agriculture will do for tropical agricultu

The

tional systems of Panama and

The University has sent its graduates to organize modern systems of agricultural instruc tion in Columbia and Peru and

the Dominican Republic more recently. Other alumni have rendered significant service in the modernization of the educa

no

other

part of America is education so ardently cherished."

Editor's Note:â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Before leaving

for Washington, Mrs. Muna Lee de Munoz Marin, wrote this spe cial article for

CARIBBEAN

REVIEW.

Caribbean Review

HOW A BILL BECOMES A LAW IN CONGRESS

By Ventura Pinot

The first step in the enact ment of a bill into law is for

the Member sponsoring the le

Committees are called in speci fied order to report for inmediate consideration any bill they

make further compromises. Af ter final approval of the Confer ence Report in each House the

desire.

bill is sent to the President for

gislation to drop the bill, which is typed on a designated form, in the "hopper", a small, brown box near the Speaker's desk.

The Parliamentarian, trained in law and parliamentary proce

dure, examines the bill and de termines to which Committee it should be referred. Committees are .iealous of their prerrogatives and if the Parliamentarian's decision is contested, the Spea ker must rule. The bill is then numbered and sent to the Go vernment Printing office for

printing. Next

the

Committee to which the bill has been reefrred, receives the print

ed copies. A number of copies are also sent to the Document Room por public distribution.

Only those bills of importance are considered and the average bill dies in Committee; hundreds die in Committee to every bill considered and reported After

completing Committe^â&#x201E;˘

a vote is taken and the bi". "f

approved, is reported to the

nof pass"° Usually the House IA

hv the Committee decihot right the to sion, bu reserves thereject amend, approve, oi

When a bill is taken up in the

House for consideration every Member

is

furnished

with

a

printed copy of the Committee hearings, which contains infor mation and testimony consider

his signature.

The President may veto the bill; sign it and thereby con verting it into law, or may re fuse to sign it. If he takes no

ed by the Committee.

The time allowed for general

debate on the bill is equally di vided between both political par

ties. After general debate, the bill is them read under what is known as the 5-minute rule. At the end of each paragraph or section of the bill any member

may offer an amendment and is allowed to speak for 5 minutes

in support of it. The Speakerthen recognizes someone to speak 5 minutes in opposition to it. After the bill is read through in this way, the House votes then on the bill. If a ma

jority vote for the bill, it is sent to the Senate.

Atfer the bill is passed by

the House, it must go through similar steps in the Senate. It often happrms that the bill loses

action, it becomes law

without

his signature after 10 days have passed, excluding Sundays and

holidays. If he does not sign it, and Congress has adjourned, the bill is pocket-vetoed after the expiration of 10 days.

Congress may pass a bill over the President'e veto. However, a two-third's majority is neces sary in the House and Senate, which makes it difficult to over ride a veto.

After the bill is signed by the President, or after it has been

passed over his veto, the bill becomes a law and

the Presi

dent sends it to the Secretary of State. This official gives it a number as a public law, publi shes it as one of the laws of the United States, and it is then in

all resemblance to its House version before it emerges from

cluded in the Statutes.

the Senate and these variations

must be compromised in the

makes a bill a law. Ordinarily, he signs bills without any par

Conference Committee.

ticular attention being given his

The members of Conference

The

President's

signature

action, but there are times when

"'"he bill is then placed in its â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Hine: Calendar. It of a

Committees are chosen by the

the measure before him

Speaker and tht; President of the Senate, and consist of no

such importance that a ceremo ny is arranged for the occasion.

public natme,

more than 8 members. They are

correspon

authorizes an

appropriation,

^

invariably selected from the Union Calendai, , ] Committee which reported the nature but does not involve an bill in the House and Senate. aVnre of pnbbe funds, it These conferees then report the IS piaceu ^ bill back to the Senate and Other Ca en Discharge Ca- House to obtain final approval. ate Calen Calendar and It the Conference Committee's report is rejected in either ^strict Calendar. There is also House it must meet again to

^'Ze on the House calendar.

fcTlendar. Wednesday, when

is of

Sometimes the President uses

two or three different pens to affix his signature to the bill, using one pen for the first part of his name and other pen for

the latter part. These pens are

then presented to those persons who have been most interested

in the legislation.

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RICAN DEPAf tember 26, Major General James L. Collins ordered the troops to war positions. Observation posts were established along the en

tire Puerto Rican coastline, and large concentrations of troops were kept in reserve, ready to

Maneuver Force, flew over the entire island of Puerto Rico. He

inspected from the air every

military installation, command post, gun emplacement and ob

servation post in the Depart ment. After his inspection. Ge

be moved at a moment's notice.

neral Collins informed the Chief

Th emilitary operations were directed by the Provisional Ma

of Staff that

the

protective

measure taken were excellent.

neuver Force, commanded by While the enemy fleet ap Major General James L. Collins. proached the Islands, the Ame At daylight September 25, The staff was composed of Lt. rican Legion and Home Guard 1941, the troops of the Puerto Col. Harry R. Simmons, Chief set in operation plans prepared Rican Department were alerted, of Staff; Lt. Col. Joseph Mc K. by them and coordinated with and the longest maneuvers in Driscoll, Assistant Chief of those of the Maneuver Force.

Staff. G-1; Lt. Col. Francisco J. On Sunday, September 28, and Parra, Assistant Chief of Staff, again on October 5, aircraft ed.

G-2; Lt. Col. Harold H. McClu- warning exercises and anti-sa The first news of the enemy, ne, Assistant Chief of Staff, botage drills were held. A large received at 6:00 p. m. on Sep the history of Puerto Rico start

tember 24, indicated that an

enemy fleet three

accompanied

transports

and

by

supply

ships had left an unnamed ene my port for an unknown objec tive in the Western Hemisphere.

It was assumed that the U. S.

Fleet was engaged in protecting our interests in the Pacific

Ocean and could not be moved from there. A small force was

left in the Atlantic for the pur

pose of insuring lines of com munication between the United States and the mainland.

A department information center was placed in operation.

All messages were there receiv ed, evaluated and transmitted to the appropriate commands. The military authorities requested the help of such civilian orga nizations as the American Le

gion and Home Guard in the

operation of the Aircraft Warn ing Srevice, the protection of vi

G-3; Lt. Col. Crowell E, Pease,

number of civilian-operated ob

Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4; Majof Doulgas G. Ludlam, Ordenance Officer; Captain Louis S. Leiand, Medical Officer; 1st.

servation posts reported the mo

Lt. Thomas W. Blair, Signal Ofcer;

and

Chaplain (Lt. Col.)

Mariano Vasallo.

prepared in advance, the

10th

Naval District reported the mo vements of the enemy fleet. As

the maneuver period progressed,

it became increasingly apparent that the enemy fleet was head towards

Puerto Rico. The

commanding officers carried on a series of local problems to test their defense measures and

operation plans. These problems dealt mainly with attempted landings by assumed enemy for ces within local sectors. These

problems were enthusiastically carried out by the troops, af fording them valuable experien ce later used to great advant

tal installations against Fifth age in other problems.

On September 28, 1941, Ma Colum and sabotage activity, and the conduct of black-outs. jor General James L. Collins,

Early on the morning of Sep18

Commanding

General

other vital installations on the island.

In accordance with messages

ed

vement of all enemy aircraft,

while large numbers of Home Guard members patrolled the docks, bridges, warehouses and

of

the

The civilian population was given an opportunity to cooper ate in the holding of black-outs.

Black-outs were held on the nor-

tober 2, on the southern part on October 3, and throughout the entire island on October 6. This was the first time that an en

tire area was blacked-out in the

Western Hemisphere. Civilians cooperation in these exercises was excellent. Lights were ex-

tinguised by voluntary civilian action, switches being used on ly to control street lights.

Some of the problems deve loped prior to the actual land ing of troops dealt with enemy parachute troop attacks. The technique of dealing with this form was -throughly tested at Losey Field.

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tTMENT WAR GAMES As the enemy fleet approach ed, additional precautions were taken by the troops. At mid night, October 1-2, while the

part of the island. While the shore positions were being at tacked from the sea, squadrons of dive bombers simultaneously

enemy fleet was 500 miles from

attacked our positions, shatter

Puerto Rico, all radios were si lenced, requiring that other

ing them to pieces. The enemy aerial and naval bombardment continued for almost 3 hours.

Even though our observation

means of communications

used

until

be

the actual enemy

landing on October 7, 1941.

About 6:00 p. m. on October

2, the enemy fleet arrived with in striking distance of Puerto Rico, and on that date intensive air activity commenced. Most of the important towns of Puerto Rico were bombed, and enemy air reconnaissance kept our troops constantly under cover.

As a method of testing our

alertness, enemy small boats, si mulated by yachts and sail boats carrying soldiers, attack ed our shores constantly.

At 5:45 a. m. on October 7, the enemy fleet launched a strong attack upon our positions at Point Petrona, Jauca and Sa

linas

Playa, in

the

southern

posts and shore positions were destroyed by the enemy bom bardment, our troops in rear areas were ready to move for ward and fight the enemy at the first indication of an at tempted landing.

At 8:30 a. m., the enemy bom

bardment suddenly stopped and landing boats were lowered from most of the enemy ships Our troops moved forward and delivered heavy rifle, automatic rifle and machine gun fire at the enemy. However, due to the force of numbers, the enemy

was able to land and to establish a beach head, about four miles

long, between the Jueycs River and the Salinas River. Enemy

landing forces were estimated at two regiments of infantry, two 75 mm Howitzer battalions, and a medium tank battalion.

Preceded by its aviation, which bombed our positions and forced our troops to withdraw, the enemy forces advanced be tween the Salinas and Jueyes Rivers to a position 5,000 yards from the sea. At that place they were held by our fire and were

forced to consolidate their posi tions, strengthen their flanks and entrech. Our artillery and counter attack, delivering the anti-tank guns had put most of enemy a decisive blow. The ene the enemy tanks out of action. my fell back to positions about No further advance was made a thousand yards to the reai% during the rest of the day and where they effected a consoli night, and at 6:00 a. m., Octo dation. Our forces were also ber 8, our troops launched a Caribbni Review

cons d.dated in their new posi-

tions, and a second counter at tack was launched. Again our

ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVANCE Armistice

Day

ceremonies

out Russia, he will turn on En

gland and eventually to us.

"It's up to us to see that nei

forces were successful and the ther Russia nor England is enemy was pushed back, leav were celebrated in Puerto Rioc knocked out and that we take under the auspices of the Ame ing its remaining artillery in now whatever steps are necessa our hands. From then on, the rican Legion in front of Victory ry to prevent this.

Statue in San Juan. Thousands

enemy, disorganized and in

to of members of the armed for ces and other civic and patriotic hold back our troops. They were organizations gathered there to repulsed, and by noon not a hear the words of Governor Rex single enemy soldier was left on ford G. Tugwell, and the heads Puerto Rican shores. of the Army and Navy, and to On October 10. 1941, Major pay homage to soldiers and sai General James L. Collins, ad lors who died during World War dressed the following letter to No. 1. all officers and enlisted men "We are in the midst of an who participated in the maneu other effort to supress an un small groups, vainly tried

vers:

"Subject: Commendation.

"To: All Officers and EnlistDepartment Maneuvers; "1. The most etensive maneu

vers ever conducted in Puerto

limited appeal to force which is

again loose in the World", Go vernor Tugwell said at the cere monies.

"Some time soon — we may

hope — there will come

Rico have just been completed. Day of Armistice. We shall ha They have been notable for the ve another chance to be gene

enthusiasm and devotion to du

ty of all participants. No com mander coul ask for more who lehearted effort than was given

rous, patient, and wise. It is my

prayer now that we may use it

to archive those purposes, which

escaped us before. And that this

"The second best hand in a

poker game is worse that the

poorest since it wins nothing and may cost a great deal. For tunately for us — he pointed out — "machines were never so

important as in modern war and making and operating machines is what our nation does best.

"The side that can produce and efficiently maintain at the

front the

most airplanes and

tanks should win the war—and that means the Allies."

Real Admiral John Howard ifoover. Commandant of the

10th Naval District, also spoke briefly. Col. Manuel Font, Com

mander of the American Legion Po.st delivered the closing words.

The names of Puerto Ricans who serve with the A. E. F. and who die in action were read at

by all components during these time we may really sterilize the the ceremony by Luis F. Ciichi, in charge of civilian defense of

sources of violence on this

maneuvers.

"2. Everyone concerned ac

earth", he added. cepted lack of sleep, long hours Mai'or General James L. Col of duty, bad weather, and some times lack of food, without com

plaint and still worked with ar dor. This is as it should be since

lins, Commanding Officer of the Puerto Rican Department stat ed, in part as follows:

"The question (now) at issue discomfort and fatigue are involves everything we hold sa characteristics of war. cred and dear" —he said. "Our "3. It is a pleasure to have nation never turns back once it my opinion confirmed, that the has put its hands to the plow soldiers of the Puerto Rican De

partment can be counted upon to carry our their duties in a

and it will not now!", he empha sized .

"As one of our truly great

spirit of sacrifies and regardless presidents once said: "Let us of their personal comfort. All have faith that right makes coraanding officers will express might and in that faith let us my commendation to the mem

bers of their commands for the

highly

creditable manner in

which they conducted themsel ves during the maneuvers."

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the American Legion.

A floral

wreath was place on

Victory

Statue by members of Legion Auxiliars. The Regimental Band of the 65th Infantry, under the baton of Warrant Officer Juan

Mellado, rendered the musical

selections and

played

closing

taps.

COL. NEWGARDEN 65th. IN FANTRY HEAD TRANSFER-

ED TO TEXAS

Colonel George J. Newgarden Jr., Commander of 65th Infan try (Puerto Rico's own) since

dare to do our duty as we un- October 1940, has been ordered der-stand it".

The General continued: "Hitler's strategy of taking one adversary at a time and de

James L. Collins,

feating him has so far been

Major General, U. S. Army Commanding.

most successful. Make no mis take about it. If Hitler knocks-

for service a new post in Texas, it was learned at the Puerto Ri

co Military Headquarters.

Colonel Newgarden was the

successor of Brigadier Gen. R. P. Hartle, former Commanding Of ficer of the 65th.

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Mass.; and Arthur B. Jenks, of New Hampshire, and delegate Anthony J. Dimond, of Alaska.

Their passage was cancelled be cause of business in Washing ton.

VANDERBILT NAMES ARBI TRATION BOARD FOR PUERTO RICO An increased demand on the facilities of the American Arbi

Two congressional parties vi sited Puerto Rico to inspect na val bases during the past two months. Eight members of the House Naval Affairs Commit

sisting of five members of an original party of nine of the Na

the

val Affairs Committee

controversies

of the

House of Representatives. The second group consisted of Re

presentatives: William S. Jacobtee, headed by Chairman Wm. son, of Iowa, chairman; Law H. Sutphin, arrived from Ber muda in a four-motored flyingboat on October 23 in their ins

pection trip of all naval and aviation bases on the Caribbean.

The first congressional party was completed by the following:

rence E. Imhoff, Ohio; William

tration Association to expedite immediate

settlement

of

growing out of

commercial and industrial dis

putes involved in the national

defense

program, has

neces

sitated the adding to their Panel of arbitration members through

W. Blackney, Michigan; and

out the United States and the

Ward Johnson and John Z. An

territories. Consequently, the Association, through its pres

derson, both

Californian; Ro

bert H. Harper accompanied the

ident, Mr. Cornelious Vanderbilt

party as clerk.

Leaving Washington on Tues Ediiard V. Izac (Dem. Cal.) ; day November 4, the Congress

leading citizens of Puerto Rico

Thomas

to the National Panel of Arbi

A. Flaherty

(Dem.

men arrived in Bermuda Wed

Whitney, announced recently the

official

appointment

of

five

Mass.) ; L. Mendel Rivers (Dem. nesday the same week aboard a S. C.) ; Melvin J. Mass (Rep. navy patrol plane. They follow Minn.); James W. Mott (Rep. ed a route similar to that of the Ore.); W. Sterlin Cole (Rep. N. first eight Naval Affairs Com

tration. Those appointed, all of

Y.); and William E. Hess (Rep. mittee members who visited

mer Commissioner of the Inte

Ohio).

San Juan October 23.

Next day the Committee mem bers were guest at the home of Admiral and Mrs. John H. Hoo-

Before leaving for the States, the Congressmen were guests of

rior; Charles H. Terry, former Superintendent of Elections,

honor of Governor Rexford G.

ver, together with Major Gene Tugwell at La Fortaleza, where ral and Mrs. James L. Collins over 100 insular and federal go and several officers from the vernment heads, including John Tenth Naval District. After vi M. Carmody who was here dur

siting Vieques, where a huge naval base is going under way, and St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands, where a submarine base is being constructed, the party returned to San Juan, taking off the next day for Antigua They

were expected to see St. Lucia, Trinidad, Georgetown, British Guiana, Kingston, Jamaica, be fore returning to the States via Great Exuma.

_

The second naval affairs par-

ty arrived on November 7, con-

ing those

days in inspection

tour, were present.

Representative Jacobson, told newsmen: "We are much im

San Juan, were: Fernando J.

Geigel, former City Manager of San Juan; Francisco Pons, for

Emilio Vasallo, former Assistant Treasurer, and J. A. E. Rodri

guez, director of the Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Rico.

Over 8,000 qualified leading citizens

in

more tan

sixteen

hundred cities and towns have been listed to act as arbitrators

under rules set by the A. A. A.

pressed by the work being done in Bermuda, where construction is ahead of schedule." He de clared that he was also astonish ed to see that progress has been made in Puerto Rico since he vi sited here in 1939. The original

part of nine included Repre sentative Leonard W. Schuetz, of Illinois; George J. Bates, of

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the new carbine. Thus the pistol —considered esentially a defen LUIS RAMIREZ BRAU HONORED HERE

sive weapon—will be replaced by carbine, a weapon that can be used offensively or defensive ly", the official announcement said.

Actually the increase of fire power will be even greater be cause certain other soldiers will be released for combat work.

Luis Ramirez Brau, retired

held, virtually ending this case.

detective of the Manhattan Ho

micide Squad, a native of Puerto Rico, was conferred the distin

guished plaque of the Legion of

WARRANT OFFICER LLOYD

ARMY ADOPTS WINCHES TER CARBINE AFTER EX HAUSTIVE TESTS OF FIVE

Honor of the New York Police

TYPES

Department at a ceremony held

After putting five different types of short, light rifles

at the Insular Police Headquar

M. SEIBERT, A NATIONAL HERO

On November 11, 1941, among those

who

stood

at attention

in front of the Victory Sta tue, paying homage to those who ided for their country during the last World War, there was

ters Tuesday morning November

through a series of exhaustive

24th. Presentation was made by

service tests, the

retired

has adopted the Winchester car

a national hero. His name is Mr.

bine as the one best suited to

Lloyd M. Seibert, Warrant Offi cer of the United States Army,

Captain

Bernard

Ditsch, of New York.

A.

The re

U. S. Army

a brother to Enrique Ramirez

the rugged use of military ser vice, the War Department an-

Brau, journalist and poet, and

CHARLES RUTLEDGE NEW

tired Puerto Rican detective is

correspondent in San Juan for the newspaper "El Dia" of Pon

HEAD OF P. R. NEWS BR.

ce. Both Mr. Luis Ramirez Brau

and Captain Ditsch were the guests of Mr. Oliver Shaw, our Managing Editor in San Juan.

The distinguished

medal is

Charles Rutledge, new head of the Puerto Rico News Bureau ar

rived on Monday September 15 to San Juan, to replace Tom Ferris who left for Miami Beach Florida.

who since March 7, 1940, has been serving in the Adjutant General's Office, of the Puerto Rican Department.

A curious fact in Mr. Seibert's career is that when he was ap pointed Warrant Officer on Au

gust 1, 1937, he was the only en listed man of the United States

Army still on active duty who held the Congressional Medal of

awarded for valour in exposing

Mr. Rutledge was formerly asso ciated with the Willmington (Del.)

one's life to danger while in line

News.

of duty. The retired detective has an excellent record, during his

Rutledge has been active at the

and became a Commissioned Of

offices of the Institute of Tourism.

ficer.

Since his arrival here Mr.

twenty one years of continuous

nounced recently.

service in New York. He left

The carbine will largely re place the .45 caliber pistol

Puerto Rico in 1909, and had not been on the island since 1914.

Ramirez Brau was once an

interpreter for Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and James J. Wal

Honor for valour left the ranks

among Infantry troops. Other branches will replace to an ex tent consistent with their mis

sion in combat.

"When plans for the use of

ker. He is credited with having

this new weapon are put into

contributed to exterminate the

use effect, the offensive fire

marihuana weed in New Yoi*k.

power of the Infantry regiment

'Keep'

Difficult assignment were given

will be increased by nearly 33

to Ramirez Brau while in New

percent. At present Infantry re giments have 2,099 men armed

Em

York, including the famous Ar nold Rothstein case. George Mc-

Manus, accused by Ramirez Brau, died before the trial was

with the service rifle and 1,181 with the pistol. Of the latter number, 973 will be armed with Caribben Review

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INSULAR AFFAIRS President Roosevelt charac

terized as silly the protests from Puerto Rico against the so-called

Caribbean plan under which their economies would be asso ciated with other Caribbean is lands.

"There is no Caribbean plan in the form suggested by the

questions", the president said when asked for a comment at

a Press conference recently.

"However, government experts are studying the cooperation program and doing extensive research which would formulate

a program wherein Puerto Rico TUGWELL HEADS CIVILIAN DEFENSE

Governor Rexford G. Tugwell was appointed head of Civilian

would be included if justified", various capacities to the end that the President added. the civilian population in Puerto SOMETHING ABOUT THE SO Rico may make substantial con CALLED CARIBBEAN COOR tribution to the national defense.

Defense for Puerto Rico by Ma

All persons serving in civilian capacities will be motivated only

yor La Guardia of New York, on

by the highest patriotic conside

Saturday, October the 17th. He immediately named lieutenant

ration as the erectors are ser

Commander

statement said.

Thomas C. Hen-

ving without remuneration", the

nings Jr., as Coordinator for

after the much expected desig

Ladies have been organized for civilian defense work by Mis? Elisabeth I. F. Murphy, secre

nation was received, says:

tary to Coordinator of Civilian

Civilian Defense.

A statement

given to the Press at Fortaleza

"Since Lieutenant Commander

Defense Lt. Commander Thomas

C. Hennings Jr. The ladies are

Hennings Division, has been ac ting with and for the Governor receiving now first aid emergen in bringing together all activi cy measures training, it was ties having to do with possible learned at La Fortaleza.

emergencies of all kinds, the Governor desires to consolidate the activities of Civilian Defense with this Division.

"Commander Hennings, the Governor's naval aide, and foimer member of the United States

House of Representatives and now on leave of absence as distric attorney of St. Louis, Mo.,

was appointed Coordinator of

A series of eight weekly les

sons to gain their diplomas in the American Legion Disaster Relief Corps, are given at the Government House.

"Public spirited and patriotic citizens throughout the Island will be called upon from time to

time to give their services in

Mr. Coert Du Bois, Caribbean

Office Director, in Washington, defining the objectives of the so called Caribbean coordina tion, gave a statement to the

Press recently which reads as follow:

"The Caribbean Office of the

State Department will confine its activities for the present to: 1.—Study and research.

2.—Correlating actions of other divisions of the State De

partment dealing with Carib bean matters.

3.—Cooperating

with

other

branches of the government in

terested in the Caribbean.

4.—Providing means of co

operation with other govern ments interested in

activities

leading to the betterment of the Plans to bring all civilian de

social and economic status of the

fense activities in Puerto Rico under centralized control were

Caribbean peoples. , 5.—Solving various problems

discussed recently in a meeting

arising from parallel activities in that area, particularly in the fields of labor, agriculture, hous

held at La Fortaleza.

the Division of Emergency Plans created by the Governor.

DINATION

Buy Defense Bonds

ing, health and trade relations.

The

statement

continued:

''The Caribbean Affairs Office

and Stamps

will be interested in promoting

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presenting the State Depart ment and local officials -in is

lands where the U. S. govern ment is building air and naval bases. It is probable no prog ram of any sort will be defined

before study is made by myself and my associates in islands

A

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where the United States will maintain naval and air bases.

"In view of Puerto Rico's

proximity to those islands and in view of its position within the framework of American

bean coordination.

government, it is desired to have Puerto Rico adequately repre

of the Senate introduced a Reso

sented in any explorations of

possibilities of co-operation with other interested governments in social and economic fields".

Luis Muhoz Marin, president lution at the recent special ses

or purposes which may raise the standards of living of our sing that the "Senate has the people and put them closer to fullest confidence that no plan, their social security should have sident Roosevelt might approve

Roosevelt there has been creat

would contain the intention ro

ed in the State Department a Division of Caribbean Affairs,

lower the standards of living o'

our people, but that, on the con with the purpose of studying, trary, it would be his intent'.on to raise such standards of liv with a view to carrying into ef fect certain coordinating econo mic measures among the differ

ent islands, territories and coun Bolivar Pagan, Resident Com missioner of Puerto Rico in the

United States, at the request of Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, was given full informa tion about the objectives of the proposed

coordination

of

ing."

The resolution states in part as follows:

"That it is the sense of the

tries of the Caribbean Sea.

"That it is the sense of the

Senate that any plans, measures

sion of the Legislature, expres

measure or purpose which Pre By determination of President

measures or puposes;

Senate that no action whatever

the full support of our people and their representative organ izations; and that, likewise, any plans, measures or purposes

whose tendency may be to lower the standards of living of our

people and to abolish their hope of social security should have

the friendly, though frank and firm, opposition of our people and their representative organi zations;

"That it is the sense of the should be taken which would Senate that the following are tend to place the Government the points which, in the legiti of the United States in the dilemate interest of our people, ma of disclosing its studies on the tentative plans, measures

the

and purpose which it may have in mind with regard to the Ca statement issued by Mr. Du Bois ribbean area before in its judge Caribbean area. After the above

should be contained in no plan,

measure, or purpose connected with the Caribbean area: (a) That the international organi

was made public in Washington,

ment, based on its own know

Mr. Bolivar Pagan stated: "We

ledge of all the vast situation

have nothing to fear regarding

involved in this matter, it is con

the plan proper has been studied

plans that might damage Puerto

venient and proper so to do for general national purposes.

and determinedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;should have no

Rico. I am sure the Adminis

tration has the best intentions

for the well-being of Puerto Ri co".

The matter was widely dis cussed in Puerto Rico and a

meeting was held of representa tives of all the economic and

zation which is evidently neces sary to start such plan

political powers in any case; (DJ

"That, nevertheless, it is the that its economic powers be sue sense of the Senate of Puerto as are necessary to offer econo Rico that any plans, measures mic aid to initiate such P an as or purposes which might exist

may be determined and that said

should be revealed to the people organization should not ave of Puerto Rico before any action permanent administrative po is taken on them and with am ple time so that Puerto Rico

wers but simply those of initia

tion and guiding; (c) may efficaciously give expres political status be predeteimine sion to its total or partial sup for any of the regions invo ve were sent to Washington inquir ing about the proposed Carib- port or opposition to such plans, â&#x20AC;&#x201D;neither the present nor speci-

social organizations of the Is land, after which cablegrams

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fic concept of the future— but

no plan determined should in

that each region should,have its natural development in this res

volve a reduction in the sugar production of Puerto Rico or in any other place of the area con

pect in accordance with the de

has profound interest of its own beside its interest and loyalty toward the United States demo cracy."

cerned where the value of the land and other economic factors

Finally the resolution of the Upper House of our Legislature

should not involve in any case

may bring as a result that the

says:

a lowering of the present stand ard of living at any place, but

substitution of other products

mocratic will of its inhabitants;

(d)" that the economic purposes

"That it is the sense of the

Senate that, in case any nation

the use and interchange of eco

for sugar should increase pover ty and retard social security."

nomic power which is not at pre sent being adequately used for

The resolution, on the other hand, expresses the character

the benefit of each of the places

istics that any plan for the co Caribbean

mission is created to deal with the affairs connected with the economic coordination of the Caribbean area. Puerto Rico

area should have: (a) To main tain and increase sugar-cane

the justices of the Supreme

concerned; (e) that, specifically,

'I

ordination

of

the

al or international board or com

should be represented by one of

products of great yield; (b) to

Court of Puerto Rico and by the Governor of Puerto Rico, for the most efficient protection of the

facilitate the execution of the

interest

plans for internal economic re

people."

production and to start the pro duction

of

other

agricultural

of the Puerto

Rican

forms, such as the Land Act, al

ready enacted by the Legisla ture of Puerto Rico, and alrea

dy begun to be put into practice by the government of Puerto Ri co, for the best and fairest in ternal distribution, for the be nefit of the' people in general, of the wealth produced by sugar cane and by other products of

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necessary for our economy ;(c) that means of industrialization for the absorption of unemploy ment in Puerto Rico be favored and promoted; (d) that means be provided so that our people may acquire in the cheapest markets, including those of the neighboring island and countries of the Caribbean Sea, such foods and raw materials, many of which are not at present bought

in the United States, as Puerto Rico can not or. may not produce economically for consumption at advantageous prices for the

people in general; (e) that said purposes be in their form and

GALLARDO NAMED VICE PRESIDENT OF STATE UNI

VERSITIES BOARD

Dr. Jose M. Gallardo, Com missioner of Education and Pre

sident of the Board of Trustees

of the University, who returned with

Mrs. Gallardo from

the

mainland last month, from a trip that included visits to va rious universities of the States, has been appointed first vice-

president of the Association of Governing Boards of States Uni versities for the next year. Dr. Gallardo represented the Uni

versity of Puerto Rico at the 175th anniversary of the found ation of Rutgers University. He also visited the University of Texas to observe the progress made in a Federal project being

carried on there for the purpose of preparing examinations and tests for students who receive

bilingual instruction.

detail fully consistent with the

The Commissioner of Educa

greatest degree of effectiveness

tion attended the annual assem

for the national defense of the

bly of the National Council of the Y.M.C.A. acting as the first representative ever sent to the

United States in the civil field, in which defense it is the sense cf this Senate that Puerto Rico

council from Puerto Rico.

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LAND AUTHORITY ACT GOES INTO OPERATION absolutely necessary, as a funda the wealth may be effected, to ation since the appointment of mental agraria policey of The the point efficiency makes ad People of Puerto Rico, to extend visable, without parceling of the (ioetor Carlos E. Chardon, form the limitation on land holdings, land. It is also an integral part er head of the P.R.R.A., as exe cutive director of the Land set a five hundred acres, to every of the moral purpose and the Authority Board. The designa organization or partenership of aims of dignity and economic tion was accepted while Dr. a corporative character, to the freedom embodied in the public Chardon was in Venezuela. He end of preventing that through policy of the Legislature, to flew" off and arrived here to other judicial instrumentalities furnish the means whereby the social class of agregados (squat initiate immediately the prog A Land Law has been in oper

ram of land distribution that is

expected to increase the stand ard of living of our working clas ses.

Members of the board design

ated by Dr. Tugwell are: Rafael Menendez Ramos, acting dean of administration of the Univer

the purpose sought by this legis lation be frustrated." The agra

ters or, (that is, of agricultural

licy would not be complete if it

have their homes, will disappear

were no accompanied by, as co rollary germane to its nature and scope, of the purpose of pro-

from Puerto Rico); and to that end the Legislature states the fundamental right of all the

laborers enslavened through the rian law says in part as follow: fact that they are not the own "This fundamental public po ers of even the lot where they

human beings who live exclusi vely by the tilling of the soil,

sity of Puerto Rico, Dr. Rafael Pico, professor of geography,

to be the owners of at least a

Jose Acosta Velarde, engineer,

piece of that land they may use

Ralph Will, head of the F.S.A.

to erect thereon, in the full en joyment of the inviolability

local office, Isidore Colon, Comsioner of Agriculture and Com

guaranteed by law for the home

merce, B. Fernandez Garcia,

stead of the citizen, their own

Commissioner of Labor, Sergio

homes, thereby delivering them

Cuevas, Commissioner of the In

from coercion and leaving them free to sell their labor through

terior.

fair and equitable bargaining".

Section 25.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Upon the adquisition of any extension of land the Authority shall divide this

It's expected that the Land Authority will buy land from

the sugar mills that are violat ing the 500 acre law. A bond issued of $5,000,000 was authoiized by the Board for the acqui sition of land holdings.

Fundamental purposes of the Land Law

It is a fundamental purpose

land into individual holdings having an area of not less than Dr. Carlos E. Chardon

viding that in the case of land, where, for natural or economic reasons, the division of the land

of the Land Law to put an end

is not advisable from a stand

to corporative latifundia and to every large concentration of

point of efficienty, the greatest

land in the hands of entities legally organized in such a way as to tend to perpetuate them

selves and to prevent for all time the division of the great landed estates, according to the declaration of motives of this act. It is likewise the purpose

to prevent the reappearance of such latifundia in the future.

"To win these objectives it is 26

ten (10) acres nor more than one hundred (100) acres each, or into proportional-profit farms as defined and authorized under

Title IV of this Act. This divi sion shall be made in accordance

with the nature of the land, local conditions, and any other factors mic benefits of . the land may which the Authority may consi der pertinent. The Authority still be effected, thereby contri buting to raise substantially the shall fix the terms and condi tions for the payment of the standard of living of the great est po.ssible number of families. sales installments, rental fees, It is with a view to this phase interest, or any other payment diffusion posssible of the econo

of the legislative purpose that it is considered indispensable to make provision for the creation of proportional-profit fa r m s through which the diffusion of

which may have to be made in regard to the land sold, alienat

ed, transferred, ceded, or leased to individuals, agricultural co-

peratives, or proportional-profit Caribben Review

an opportunity to attend these

(Continued from page 9)

classes. This

was

so

pronounced that it was finally

sits

c) to afford the teachers an

deemed advisable to increase the

opportunity to use English

number of Field Assistants from

in natural situations

twenty to twenty-eight and to as

change the districts and the programs so that rural teachers

teachers' assistant — to

might have an opportunity to

In other words, the English Field Assistant was to act

the

demand

help them to eliminate minimize

their

or to

weaknesses in

participate.

The

program

is

functioning today under these

the use of the English language.

The program was carried on

conditions.

during the second semester of

be found in the schools of Puer to Rico, visiting the teachers in the classroom, handling classes

the school year of 1938-39, and, at stated intervals, conferences were held and the work evaluat

ed. In addition to visiting the

teachers and conducting profes sional classes with them, the Field Assistants prepared ma terials which were later issued

by the Department, for use in these classes.

The work was so successful

that some of the rural teachers, who had not been included

in

the program, began to demand

Today the Field Assitant may

of teachers, issuing information, in the form of pamphlets, in connection with the basic pro blems in the use of English in our schools — in short, doing all possible to make English a more effective tool in the hands of the teachers of the Islands.

The Department of Education, thus, not only has a group of very efficient representatives in the different sections of the Is

land, but is also afforded the opportunity of obtaining very vital information in regard to the correct situation in the teaching of English .

The teachers in the schools of the Island are now more aware

of their individual weaknesses,

are afforded an opportunity to better their ability in the use of English, and are thus able to elimintae the children's acquir

ing of the undesirable with the desirable.

One cannot help but hope, af ter watching the Field Assist ant at work—after noticing the

improvement effected through this work — that his position may not be a tempoi'ary one;

that he may continue, in a per manent capacity, to play the useful, practical, important part that he is now playing in the Puerto Rican school scene.

THE END

Use of Lottery Funds in the Campaign Against Tub ercuiosis

Lottery funds have been avail sis work done with the help of the tuberculosis mortality in able for antituberculosis work the lottery funds can be judged Puerto Rico has been reduced since July 1. 1935. Since that from the following figures: 4.1 from 1935 to 1940.

time these funds have provided the means to support 11 Antitu berculosis Centers and 9 Subcenters. These institutions have ve been devoted to the diagno sis of tuberculosis and to the treatment of indigent ambula

tory cases of pulmonaty utberculosis with artificial pneumotorax. In addition, four govern

ment tuberculosis hospitals have

been partly supported with these funds.

The amount of antituberculo-

Since July 1, 1935, to June 30, 1941, 21, 829 tuberculosis pa tients have been hospitalized:

In addition, a certain percent

age of Lottery Funds are dev oted to the maintenance of the

sons have been examined. These

Four General District Hospi tals at Bayamon, Fajardo, Arecibo and Agnadilla. These ge neral District Hospitals are tak ing care of a large number of

examinations included

408.910

cases from the districts covered

fUioroscopies and 181,216 X-Ray

by each, cases that before their opening with the help of the Lotery Funds were not attended or

23,009 ambulatory tuberculosis patients have received pneumotorax treatment in the Antitu

berculosis Centers. 311,667 per

plates of the chest. Largely as a result of the antituberculosis

received very little and inade work done by the Health Depart ment with the lottery funds, quate medical treatment.

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-rr

pecially those in charge

^^

Planning Division, of w ic Governor Tugwell was

e

29, 1941.

Commenting on this accom

plishment, Mr. Luchetti, in a

rector. Cuevas gathered mtoi- leport rendered to the Chief mation for the proposed pro Executive and the Commissioner gram of road and park of the Interior, says in part as tion in Puerto Rico-

"When this transfer is ac

he also conferred with city o i

complished the Authority will

cials to discuss matters regar

come into possession of an un

ing the construction and opera dertaking which started about tion of sewerage systems, and fifteen years ago with nothing also road and parks construc more than a vision of what could be done during ten years of

tion.

In Washington Mr. Cuevas operation of the electric system also conferred with officia s o of Puerto Rico Irrigation Ser the 0. P. M., about the is^uanc vice. That vision cristallized into

of priority orders for defense

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS

FOR PONCE AND SAN JUAN HARBORS EXPECTED

Mr. Sergio Cuevas, Commis

sioner of the Interior, returned from a trip to Washington, re

cently. He attended a hearing of the Rivers and Harbors Board with the purpose to file an ap

the passage by our Legislature projects. During the a*'®®"''® of an Act for the Development of of Commissioner Cuevas, ivir. the Water Ressources which Roberto Sanchez Vilella was the through the levy and collection acting Commissioner of the In of a special tax for the period of terior and Mr. Bernardino San 1925 and 1930, provided initial chez, the acting Assistant Com capital funds amounting to a missioner. million and a half dollars. After PUERTO RICAN LITTLE TVA IN ACTION

peal before the Board from ad verse decision rendered by the

Division Engineer, North Atlan tic Division of the War Depart

After four years of legislative battle both here and in Wash

having passed through various stages of grouth during which additional funds for further

development where obtained through the earnings of the system itself and through a bond issue of $1,000,000, actual ac

ment in connection with the pro

ington, a Water Resources Au thority Act was approved by the

posed improvements for the

Insular Legislature and signed

Ponce

by former Governor Guy J. the public, was such as to win Swope on May 2, 1941. The the approval of the Federal Water Resources Authority, — Government to the extent that commonly named Little T.V.A.— during the last six years it has

harbor.

Commissioner

Cuevas was successful in secur

ing prompt action from the Board and also the assurance

complishment, both in power

development and in service to

that the project as it now stands appointed by the governor fe voluntarily helped the U. F. F. would be favorably recommend composed of the following mem to finance much needed hidrced to Congress for the proper al bers: Governor Rexford G. Tug- electric developments". lotment of funds. Mr. Cuevas

also conferred with P.W.A offi

cials concerning the proposed projects for improvements at the San Juan harbor. The two

projects are to be carried out with combined insular and fe deral funds.

It is reported that due to the strategic importance of both the San Juan and Ponce harbors no

difficulty will be encountered in securing federal grants for these

well, Chairman, Sergio Cuevas, Utilization of Water Resour Commissioner of the Interior, ces has thus incurred in develo Isidoro A. Colon, Commissioner ping this undertaking to $4,500, of Agriculture and Commerce. 000 but it has to its credit as a Antonio Luchetti was desig result of its work, property in nated as Executive Director of operation with a present book the Authority with a salary of value of roughly $6,000,000 and $15,000 per year.

producing upwai*'ds of

Under the provisions of the Act, which went into effect july 31, I94I, all properties and functions of the Utilization of

million dollars a year of gross

one

revenues. This property compris es four hidro-electric plants and one ^eam plant wi1>h an ag

projects.

Water Resources were transfer

In New York City, Cuevas in terviewed the city officials, es-

red to the Puerto Rico Water

gregate generating capacity of 18,900 KVA; 300 miles of 38

Resources Authority on October

RV transmission line and 17 Caribben Review

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iiftfai hf

transformer substations with an

aggregate transformer capacity of 18,500 HVA; 550 miles of 4 HV secondary transmission lines; seven municipal distribu tion system serving in the ag

lars. When property now under construction has been completed and placed in operation, the Authority should be able to produce and readily sell in our rapidly increasing market two and a half times as much power

gregate approximately 23,000 consumers, plus private telepho

as

ne

revenues would accerdingly in

system

and

office

and

transportation equipment used in conducting the service. It has besided, property under cons truction and Hearing completion which will add approximately $9,000,000 to its fixed assets,

comprising

three

U F F

now

sells.

crease to approximately two and

one half million dollars a year."

ALL SERVICE MEN

The facilities of the Knights

immediate generating capacity of 25,00 KV and which with an additional expense of $600,000 have an ultimate generating capacity of 38,000 KVA,40 miles

Df Columbus Home in San Juan

purchase

the of

fund the

Rio

for

Sponsored by the National

Plant, amounting to $2,000,000.

"The Authority will therefore, commence oper^itions with an indebpteness of four and one half million dollars and total

assets of seventeen million dol-

etc. for the service men.

H. Ravazzin, director of the

NCCS here, which is the agency designated by the USO for work in San Juan, declared that the

Mr. Teodulo Llamas, manager of the CircuitŠ Teatral, is now visiting the United States on a business trip. It is expected San Juan before the Christmas

holidays with new contracts of interesting motion pictures to be exhibited at the various thea

tres of his organization.

ELKS CLUB PROVIDES RE

CREATION FOR LOCAL TROOPS Recreational facilities of the

San Juan Elks' Club have been

trown open to the use of the white enlisted personal of the Army during Wednesdays and Saturdays afternoons each week, it was announced at the

Puerto Rico Military Headquart ers.

Reading rooms, the launge, the game rooms and other faci lities at the Club, on Ashford Avenue, Condado, may be used

K. of C. Home would serve only as temporary quarters until a a building for the exclusive use

by enlisted men. Mayor C. R. Landon, Morale Officer of the

of the USO could be obtained.

Puerto Rican Department said:

BITHORN HERE TO VISIT HIS FAMILY

Hiram Bithorn, successful base-ball player who is now with

%

FOR MOVIE HOUSES

Catholic Community Service un der the USO, the K. of C. build

the

Blanco

TEODULO LLAMAS CON TRACTS NEW PICTURES

also are available to all men in the armed forces.

the San Juan area and two 10, ing (located on Ponce de Leon 000 HVA substations, all of Avenue) will be open from 4:00 which makes a total of approx P.M. until midnight. Arrangeimately $15,000,000 in fixed nients have been made to pro assets. There are in addition vide soft drinks, writing mate other assets such as stores, rial and desks, reading matter, including

return to the States during the forthcoming month of February.

that Mr. Llamas will be back in

K. OF C. HOME OPEN FOR

hydro-electric plants with a total

recievables and funds on hand

family in Santurce. He expect to

Gross

additional

of 110 KV transmission line into

Cubs. Bithorn is now visiting his

C. R. Landon, Morale Officer of the Puerto Rican Department said:

"I

believe

it's

an

excellent

idea and sincerely hope that it will be successful. The plan is

the Chicago Cubs. Bithorn is a

most encouraging. It provides not only clean and healthful en

native of Puerto Rico, 24 years

tertainment for the soldiers, but

of age, and started his carreer

is also a means of social inter

when a little kid in Santurce.

course.

Played with the San Juan team,

"We are grateful to the B. P.

then left for the United States

0. E., one of the pioneer island

where he has belonged to the institution in providing enter following teams: Hollywood, tainment for soldiers, for their Newark, Binghamton, Norfolk, wholehearted and enthusiastic and more recently the Chicago cooperation."

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Socletij A/otei Mr. Tom J. Oavis, President of the Rotary International will arrive in San Juan on December

Line, U. S. Naval Reserves for month for a short visit after a promotion to the rank of Liet. tour of inspection of the prinprincipal military and naval es

Commander.

17, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Rafael Larco Herrera, viceOavis, who is a native of Butte, Montana, is a member of the president of Peru and president finance committee of the Cham ber of that city, director of the

Y.M.C.A., chairman, Salvation Army Advisory Board, director Boy Scouts Council, chairman Northwest Society of Crippled

Children, and director of the Home and Hospital for Children

of the directorate of the daily newspaper "La Cronica" of Li ma, arrived in San Juan last

tablishments

of

the

United

States and interviews with gov ernment officials.

Governor and Mrs. Tugwell entertained Mrs. Virginia Smith

de HOCHH BTTENA —the Christmas Eve Sunner— wromissed from Miss

of Washington, D. C., at lunch eon recently. Mrs. Smith is Sec retary to Assistant Secretary of

CabanillVs of the Home Economics Department of the University of

the Interior Oscar Chapman.

CHRISTMAS ZVE SUPFHB: The menu foi" the traditional Cena

Puerto Rico.

at Butte.

Pasteles

Arroz-con-Pollo (Rice and-Chichen)

Almojabanas (Bice puff-fritters)

Dr. Eduardo Garrido Morales, Commissioner of Sanitation ar rived last month from the States where he conferred with health

officials regarding essential measures to protect the health of the armed foi'ces in Puerto

Lettucr

Mr. and Mrs. Lt. Col. Delmar

salad—bread.

Marchpane—Walnuts—Candied Almonds

Anisette—Red

wine

Our advice is that the "pasteles" be

boug-h': from a local practitioner

of

the art of confectioninff them. Miss Cabanillas' savoury recipe for "arrozcon-pollo'' is as follows:

1 small chichen (2 lbs.)

H. Dunton were given a fare well party at Losey Field before leaving for the States Col. Dunton has been ordered for duty at Duncan Field, Texas.

1 lb. rico 3-l'2 c. hot water

3-l!2 tbsp. achiote fat 12 olives

Rico. Garrido Morales attended

the 70th Annual meeting of the

2 tbsp. capers 3 tbsp. fat 1 spring" parsley

American Public Health

4 oz. ham 1 oz. bacom

ciation

Asso

where he was named

vice president. He also conferred with United States Surgeon Tho

mas Parran for the purposes of proposing projects supplement

ing those already under way to maintain

the

health

of

the

armed forces here.

<: 4 7, 2 1

1.

Governor Rexford G. Tugwell received last month Real Admi ral Jonas H. Ingram, second in command of the Atlantic fleet

tbsp. olive oil tsp. salt pepper (3 oz.) tomatoes (4 oz.) onion (2 oz.)

Dress the chicken

and

divide

into pieces.

2.

Cut the ham, bacon, tomatoe,

Pepper, onions and parsley into small pieces.

3. Melt the fat in an iron kettle, and add the ham and bacon. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes.

4.

Add

reg"etables, chicken,

and

cook for 5 minutos or more depend

ing" on amount and tenderness of the

Captain Vigil C. Griffin Jr.,

chicken.

5.

Add the washed rice, cook for

Commanding Officer of the San

3 minutes and add hot water and the

Juan Naval Air Station went to

6. Cook over low fire until rice is tender and all the water has eva porated. Add olives an capers.

7. Serve hot, garnished with

Washington to attend a meeting of the Naval Selections Board, which was called to recommend a group of Lieutenants of the

achiote far and strip thoroughly.

and his adjutant William C. F. H. Robars at La Fortaleza. The officers arrived in San Juan aboard the cruiser "Memphis".

Mr. Paul Van Zeeland. former

premier of Belgium and Mrs. Van Zeeland, called at La For taleza before the Governor s recent trip to Washington.

stripes of pimiento and peas.

Number of servings, 6.

It is reported that the follow ing orders have been issued y the War Department:

Captain Howard W. Doan from Puerto Rican Department to Camp Grant, 111.

Captain John H. Hylanch from Fort Bragg, N. C., to the Puerto Rican Department.

,

First Lt. Alfred H- Ervin,

from Gamp Shelby, Miss., to Puerto Rican Department.

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{Continued from pagre 26) farms in accordance with the

bonds issued by the Authority

such investigation shall be to

on the lands in question.

determine the places that can be divided into parcels of not less

provisions of this Act. Such Another important feature is payments shall be spread over a the policy adopted is that in re than one-fourth of a cuerda (cuadro) or more than a cuer pericM of forty (40) years; Pro gard to the squatters (agregada of land, to be distributed vided, That the payment for a dos):

among those agregado families,

property by a purchaser may be completed at any time before forty (40) years, at the will of the purchaser.

Section 26.—The Authority shall fix as the sales price for the land it sells, alienates, cedes or transfers, a sum which shall be at least equal to the price

as said term is defined in this Cession of Land for Homes and

Agregados

Act, who may wish to own such parcels to erect their homes.

Said places shall not be more

than five (5) kilometers apart Section 74.—In order to pro mote the welfare and economic

from each other and shall be

adequate for division into not

freedom of, and do social justice less than twenty-five (25) nor

to, agregados (squatters) as

more than five hundred (500)

paid for said land, and shall fix they are defined in Section 78

parcels. Said lands shall be ac annual installments for the pay- of this Act, and in accordance quired by the Authority through •-ment- thereof which- are suffi-- with the Statement of Motives direct negotiations with the owners thereof, and such nego cient to cover the said sales price hereof, it is hereby declared that tiations may be either on a mo and interest thereon within the the purpose of this Title is that period of forty (40) years, the ney basis or conditioned upon said interest to be computed at every agregado shall at least be a remission of taxes on the rest the rate of five (5) per cent on entitled to hold the fourth part of the taxable property of the the total amount outstanding of cuerda of land (cuadro) on owner, up to an amount equiva each year.

which he may permanently erect

lent to the assessed value of the

their home.

graph for the payment of the sales price, so that the annual

land segregated for such pur pose, plus then (10) per cent of The Authority shall investi gate the most fitting places loc said value; Provided, That in those specific cases in which the ated alongside or near the insu lar and municipal roads already Authority may consider it justicable, the Authority may estab constructed or that may be con

payment for the lease of a farm

structed for the traffic of rol

Section 27.—The annual lease

payments shall be computed and fixed in the same manner estab lished in the preceding para

shall be equal to the annual pay ling vehicles. The purpose of ment of principal and interest made for the purchase of a farm

lish with the approval of the Governor of Puerto Rico, a mar-

of equal value.

The Authority may, when In

its judgement it is advisable for the ends and purposes of this Act, sell to any lessee the pro

perty object of the lease, to be paid in installments under the same terms and conditions as were authorized by this Act for the sale of land and in these cases there shall be credited as installments of the sales price

such part of these payments as were made by the lessee foi

rent, and which shall be comput ed as part of the amortization.

WHICH 5HAIL IT B£ TONIGHT ? THE TROUBLE

Section 28.—The Authority is hereby empowered to lower the

AND COST OF DRIVING TO THE MOVIE Of? THE CLUB... PLUS PAYING FOR THE PRIVILEGE.

rate of interest to five (5) per cent to a rate at least one-half of one per cent higher than the

(?)0F PARKING...OR...A QUICK FREE'FROM CARE RIDE FOR 55^ ON A STAR BUS f

rate of interest fixed for the

Appraisal of properties of Cen-, (Continued from page 26) tral Azucarera del Toa and Cen gin higher than the said ten(lO) tral Cambalache and "Hacienda per cent. The Treasurer of Alianza", offered to the Autho Puerto Rico shall obtain from collecting taxes on the rest of

rity, for sale, has been ordered..

the property of the owner ced It's reported that the pur ing said lands for such number chase of Central Juncos with an of years as may be necessary to aggregate of 158 acres, in the pay the price thereof, according vincinity of Bayamon, also is to the foregoing provisions.

Section 75.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Authority shall fix passage or traffic ways,

pending negotiations..

Several other offers have been made to Dr. Chardon foi

and shall set apart lots to be leased to merchants or to be the purchase of lands from su

granted to the Insular or Fede

gar centrals.

ral Government, or to the mu

nicipalities, for medical dispen saries, police stations, schools, playgrounds, or for any other purpose that the Authority may deem convenient or of social benefit to the occupants of the

new IRRIGATION LAW FAVORS SMALL FAJlM

SAAVEDRA

tennants

Mr. Ignacio Saavedra, State

parcels mentioned in the preced

Director of the Public Work Re

ing section.

Section 76.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Authority shall cede gratuitously to any

Farm tennants with less than 10 acres receive the benefits of

serve, in charge of a long range public works program that will

agregado who may so reguest, a parcel of an area of one-fourth

new legislation (Act. No. 128 of may 14, 1941) by means of

co after the presente emergency.

of an acre (cuadro) of land in

which small farmers will pay Plans have already been estudied

said places, but such agregado

$1.00 per acre per year for the for the execution of municipal right to purchase water where public works in vazdous munici

may acquiere a cuerda by pay ing the difference according to such installments and conditions

desired and in the amount palities of the Island. A meeting

needed. Farmers with more than 10 acres, under irrigation, will have to pay $1.00 annually application and receiving a par cel of land shall transfer his for the first 10 acres and $4.00 house hereto, or shall construct per acre per year for every acre

as shall be fixed by the Authori ty. The agregado making such

a house thereon, within ninety days after receiving the same, and if he fails to do so, the grant of such parcel may be cancelled.

Principal steps already taken

by the Land Authority to en force the Act are as follow:

be put into effect in Puerto Ri

was held at La Fortaleza where

all the mayors expressed their views in connection with the proposed program. Mr. Saave dra is official Superintendent of in excess of the first 10 to cover Public Works of the Department donation of one and one-half of Interior and is at the same time in charge of the local Public acre-food at $2.00 per acre, and Reserve activities at $1.00 a year

$1.00 for the right to purchase salary. Mr. Saavedra has been of $26,000 anually or $16,000 connected with the Federal Go more than the revue of the vernment in other public agen

previous act, according to of

would be taken out of strategic

small farmers at the same time that increases the revenues foi

cies such as Chief Engineei of the F.E.R.A., the F.R.R.A., and more recently with the supervi sion of construction works and national defense jobs at the mi litary bases. Mr. Saavedra is the National Committeeman of

defense areas.

our Insular Treasury.

the American Legion.

Purchase of 295 acres of land

from Central Juanita, Bayamon, as ordered by the Board of Di rectors of the Authority to set

tle agricultural laborers, squat ters and small farmers that

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ficials of the Department of the Interior. Consequently, this is

the type of legislation that will report more beneficts to the

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the degree of Master of Arts,

Army of the United States had

Licentraterin in Sacred Theolo

been accepted, and the final ac ceptance of Munoz was neces sary. On that day Munoz w^as

gy and Doctor of Canon Law. Chaplain Vasallo was ordain ed to the Priesthood in Decem

notified, but due to the fact that

it was Saturday he was not able ber 1907, for the Dioceses of to reach the Headquarters in Puerto Rico. He became succes sively Secretary to the Bishop, time to accept his appointment.

On December 7, 1941, the Rector of Saint Augustine's in

Puerta de Tierra, Rector of St.

Ann's Church in San Juan, and Pastor of the Cathedral.

In 1918, Father Vasallo was

appointed Chaplain in the U. S. Army, and served in Puerto Ri

FATHER VASALLO AND HiS

MILITARY SERVISE Lieutenant Colonel Mariano

co until the end of the war, with the 373 Infantry at Camp Las Casas. Chaplain Vasallo was

then transferred to the Canal Zone, where he served with the Puerto Rican Regiment of In fantry, now the 65th Infantry,

Va?allo, Corps of Chaplains, U. "Puerto Rico's own".

S. Army, affectionately known as Father Vasallo, to the offi cers and men of the Puerto Ri-

:an Department, of which he is Chaplain, is the only officer in ;he Army who has served continoLisly at one post for over twenty-two years.

Chaplain Vasallo, while en gaged in Army work, has re

Returning to Puerto Rico in March 1919, Chaplain Vasallo has served here continously. His continous service in Puerto Ri co since 1919 is an unpredecenteed record among Army offi cers. His request for an exten sion of tour of duty in Puerto Rico has always been granted.

PUERTO RICO AFTER WAR WAS DECLARED

A tall, young American citizen born in Puerto Rico was the first

United States Army in Puerto

24, 1884. Early studies were in

the public schools of Corozal. In 1896 he entered the Seminary of San Ildefonso at San Juan.

man

to

enlist

in

the

Rico, after the declaration of war with Japan. His^ name is

Miguel Antonio Munoz, Jr., and he is the son of Colonel Miguel A. Munoz, Commanding Officer of the 295th Infantry Regiment.

On' December' 6, 1941, the In 1899 he was sent to Saint Headquarters of the Puerto Ri Charles College, Elliott City,

Maryland. From there, in 1904, can Military Department were he entered St. Mary's Seminary

and Pontificial University, Bal timore, Maryland. At the lat ter institution he was awarded

But he acted like a true Ameri can, and with wholehearted pa triotism rushed to the Army

Headquarters where on Monday, December 9, he swore alleginace to the United States Govern ment as an aviation cadet in the

Army of the United States.

Miguel A. Munoz Jr., is a senior student at the University of Puerto Rico, in six months more he would have obtained a

Bachellor of Science Degree.

PORT MOVEMENT

DECREASES Due to the retirement of a

continental United States, the number of ships entetring the

various ports of the Island was

XII.

Vega Baja, Puerto Rico, August

had an opportunity to refuse the appointment as aviation cadet.

service between Puerto Rico and FIRST MAN TO ENLIST IN

Apostolic by His Holiness Pious Chaplain Vasallo was born in

of America. Munoz, who was in no way obligated to the Army

number of merchant ships from

tained his relations with the

Puerto Rican Diocese, first as Chancellor until the year 1938, when he was appointed VicarGeneral in 1939; he received one of the highest Church honors when he was made Protonotary

Japanese launched their trecherous attack on the United States

2,047 with a gros tonnage of 8, 108,571 during the fiscal year of 1940-41, compared with 2,424 ships with a gross tonnage of 9,725,672 during 1939-40.

Collection

of

dues

at

the

various poifs of the Island, however, amounted to $111,803.

81 compared with $101,478.08 or an increase of $10,316.73 over the previous year, according to figures released by the Harbors and Docks Division of the De

partment of Interior. Total col lections at the port of San Juan

informed by Washington, that the application submitted by emounted to $60,230.84 com M. A. Munoz, Jr., for appoint pared with $49,688.17 during ment as aviation cadet in the the previous year.

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"Let's go"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he answered at about you and me and the ba

{Continued from page 8) each other trying to see what was the hidden truth.

Louis

lit a cigarette and finally sat down again. The other seemed obsessed with an idea.

"You can't imagine how I have suffered for the last two

last, "anywhere". "There are by. I tell you I'm the one who so many things I want to know. is crazy. Do you hear me...?

It seems that I stayed such a long time there! I believe I was all right then and that Tm really crazy now."

He stepped out to the hall way and waited for a moment while

long years", said the visitor sof- Louis went back inside to search ly, "and then, when I came back, for his hat and some forgotten

I found that child. She looked at him like a mother would, I

papers.

Then he heard voices,

and went near the door.

Louis

Charlotte 1, where are you, where is the baby?"

And now the truth, the hid den and painful truth came to him boring deep in his soul; fill ing every corner of his mind, like a beam of light searching in the darkness.

A bitter smile

played against the lips of his trembling mouth. He felt that reason was coming back strong er than ever to his frail body.

tell you! I can't possibly doubt, was talking over the telephone Louis. Or is it that you too with strange voice, a blend of Oh, it was strange, but it was want to deceive me?"â&#x20AC;&#x201D;he added anxiety, sorrow regret, anger; true. He had been insane, but sorrowfuly. an uneven mixture of passions again amongst his fellow-men.

"No, dont' say that. I have going through the electric wire Pain, shaking him to the very nothing to hide. Come on, we to the other end. He thought roots of his soul, had cleared his can go to the restaurant in the he had a strange delirium while

corner and talk things over".

Louis moved as if to go.

The other was exactly like a child from whom someone had

Louis said:

"He is here, Charlotte, at my office! I've been deceiving him

taken his toys, withered and

all morning but I can't any more,

pale, suddenly weak and lost.

I'm going to tell him the truth

mind.

But was it worthwhile?

He kept asking himself as he went away lost in the turmoil of a sane humanity!

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