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COLOSSAL AMERICAN

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FOUR U.S. INTERVENTIONS

(By N. de V. Hart.)

That mysterious language fase," which to the uninitiate is not quite so easy to read as Russian, apparently to disappear. since the cable companies have decided to apply to Press cables the same rules regarding permissible and unper- missible words as obtain for others.

No more inappropriate habita of American playgrounds, but vast No more then will the newspaper tion for the Spirit of Unrest that sums of American money have been correspondent be able to write has presided over Cuba's four cen-invested there. "rathern" when he means "rather turies of history could be found than" or "toom" when he means "to than that paradisal island act whom." Such combinations of crescent-wise in the deep-blue In normal times Cuba Lakes words are adjudged to be "contrary waters of the Caribbean.

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Mr.

International Arms Control.

ONE

Commission - is

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that is in accordance with the genius)

Sources Of Wealth

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continue to be lawful Whether la tree that does not bear Bome To give but two examples of Ameri- of the language I leave it to the luscious fruit, inhabited by a music can investments, there are the huge

and laughter-loving people, comely sugar estates, the mills, reader to decide.

of face and form, whose manners electric railway all owned by Mil- The most remarkable example ever seen was in a cable from Jack are charming, and who, while ton S. Hershey, the chocolate mag- gracefully indolent, are neither in-nate, and the numerous enterpriess emelent nor unintelligent, Cuba of Frank Steinhart. Baid, "swaitineed." This was even- would seem marked out for orderly Steinhart was an obscure

happiness and measured trangeant in the American Army of quillity.

occupation when the Republic was

Dempsey. **More exercise," he

tually made out to be "is what 1 need."

Your Daily Smile

UNLUCKY "Waiter, I ordered a dozen oys ters and you brought only eleven." "I thought you didn't want to sit thirteen at a table, sir.”

Economy

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"You've got seven children. They must cost you a lol to bring up." "Yen, but al least we save maid."

"How's that?"

There's seven children."

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But that has by no means been formed. To-day he is known her fate. Her history is one long "the man who owns Cuba." Thero story of the struggle for freedom is hardly an enterprise of any im jagainst tyranny and corruption.portance in the island in which he For centuries the villain of the is not concerned, and modern Hay- Ipiece was Spain.

ann is largely of his making. The beautiful Spain's Long Rule

race-course there, the palatial casino, and several of When Columbus discovered the Havana's largest suburbe are the island in 1492, he found it inhabit products of his mind and energy.

Cuba's main

'ed by C gentle, friendly, light brown, well-proportioned people

sources of wealth are her sugar, her tobacco and her who called themselves Siboneyestruit. The chief economic

The Spanish conquistadores sub-

DANIJ

jected them to so harsh and ruth-of her present troubles are the low "No maid will ever come where less a form of slavery that they price of sugar and the high Ameri- irapidly became extinet. As early can tariffa. Also in these times, of Jon 1624 so few of the original depression fewer Havana cigars

Islanders remained that African are being smoked. has slaves had to be brought to work

in the planations and mines,

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A reveller fell out of his bed-up arms against their Governor,

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as

"beheld several of the natives

going about with firebrands # their hands, and certain dried herbs which they rolled up in a icar, and lighting one end. put the other in their mouths, and continued exhaling and puffing out the smoke... The Spani- ards, although prepared to meet with wonders, were struck with Astonishment at this singular and apparently nauseating indul- gence."

tharrowed from the French, hasi not for French ears the same; suggestion of imposed authority

THE LIVING PROOF that it has for others. It is used

FATHER: Your teacher

Home Of Tobacco merely in the sense of super eritten anying he finds it impossible

Tobacco, which was known in its vision; and supervision by an

to teach you anything.

Not all the old Spanish Gover early days

"Cuba's Golden international authority, on which;

SON: There! I have always nors were every nation party to the agree said he was no good.

corrupt. Some sought Weed," came first into history from the material and spiritual good of; Cuba, for it was there. in 1492, ment should be represented, is

the people, and even under the that Columbus. Imeant. The setting up of such During the past two weeks, an authority-a Permanent Dis-We Know the Type

most tyrannou Cuba

grew in Eden. behalt of the armament

"The susceptible young man In wealth and prosperity. Cuba was Foreign Office, has met French vital part of the British Govern-search of a wife should give the ruled by Spain till 1889.

ballroom informal discus-ment's draft Disarmament Con-

a miss," YA a writer. But sa modern times approached, Ministers for lions of disarmament

doubt, policy invention, now before the Confer- Referring,

those the desire for liberty and indepen- Misses who are given to dancing dence became stronger and evi- 'advance of the reassembling offence. In that document the pro-

denced itself in revolts that were the Conference. It is well re-pased control is less rigid in ita with tease in their eyes.

no longer easy for the grandees to jeugnised that any approach to a operation than the system now

quell. In 1895 the Cubans took community of views between the favoured in Paris would be; butate Gardening Note (two Governments, whose differ- the essence of the plan is the enres hitherto have been 80 same supervision created by room window and rested-on his Gen. Weyler. It was a determined (strongly marked, would do much|all, voluntarily accepted by all, to smooth the way to general bearing upon all with absolute agreement at Geneva. It is true equality. There are differences that the best which can now be accompanying the acceptance of expected from the Conference this idea in principle by London, arm smart. makes a poor appearance com-Paris, and Washington-differ- pared with the hopes which were ences as regards the duration of your head? built upon it at the outset. On the text-period, the application

WRAT A QUESTION! the other hand, those hopes had, of the control. "sanctions," and even two years ago, much of the the acceptance of specific obliga- MAN AT GARDEN GATE (to character of dreamland about tions to disarm if, and when, the boy: Is your mother at home? them when mensured against the plan proves a success. But the BOY: You don't suppose I'm evident truth of the international germ of a fruitful agreement, mowing this lawn because the prass situation. To-tay. It is admitted the adherence to which of all long, do you? frankly by many who clung to members of the Conference mighti their optimism before, the posi-reasonably be invited, is in the tion is less than ever promising proposal now to be more closely for the Disarmament Conference discussed in Paris. being able to live up to its name.

It is possible, none the less, for

the Conference to be saved from

"Workers' Control".

luurels.

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A SMART IDEA

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rebellion. In which the peasants joined, and Gen. Weyler, to meet the position, devised a number of

is to be hoped that Cuba will JACK: This liniment makes my concentration camps, in which sus-not much longer retum her inco-

pected peasants were interned.

gruous position as a land of easy JOAN: Why not rub

out. Home Epidemies broke

and the

revolution. wretched inmates of the camps died

It is said that four out of every in their thousanda

American public feeling was in-ve Cuban women are pretty and that the Afth is beautful. To their famed against "Butcher Weyler", and various American filibustering good looks they add charming expeditions went to the help of the friendliness. The Cuban woman is an ardent and faithful mate, a de- Cuban insurrectionaries. Then on Feb. 15, 1898, the American battia voted mother, and a courageous re ship Maine was blown up in Hay-volutionary. In wars and insurrec ana Harbour, hundreds of Ameri-tious she is found fighting shoulder Our office boy had no "go"-so can sailors and marines being kille shoulder with the men.

Movement

The went.

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Facts You Did Not Know.

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American War

When the United States embark

ed on the Spanish-American War.

TRAFFIC COURT CHARGES

Reckless Driving In Race-Day Crowd.

Whether or not the explosion was actually caused by a Spaniard wil} probably never be known, but con- the reproach of futility by a con-

temporary American opinion blam In its discussion of plans to es-

ed Spain and certed approach to its general Lablish "workers' control" of indus-

demanded War The British rayon idustry es-against her. problem along more modest lines. try the Trades Union Congress gave tablished a record production for a What has come into prominence another demonstration that the So-single month of 6,640,000 pounds of in recent exchanges of views becialist movement is now a composite yarn and waste In March. tween the principal armed

While of bitterly hostile forces. Powers is the French Govern-Bocialism was growing in strength

Chief Inspector Marks prosecuted More than one half of the cheese (it was with promises of Cuban in- a Chinese private car driver, Ng ment's proposal for an inter-

in Britain, it was blessed with and more than three fourths of the dependence on her lips. A eyni Kwai-sang, at the Central Police national and permanent control leaders who kept carefully out of its olive oil imported by the United cal Europe prophesied that, when Court this morning for eausing ob of all armaments. The French!

programme the cruder follies of the States last year came from Italy. victory came, the promises would struction in Caine Road, by parking view is that "In the present dictatorship of the wage-earning

be forgotten. A cyniest Europe his car outside 56 Caine Road, in circumstances in Europe no Im-l class. Last year the forces of Featured by a self adjusting was wrong, As part of the war front of a bus stop. A bus was thus mediate and substantial reducanity at the Trades Union Congress variable pitch blade, a portable indemnity Spain handed Caba over prevented from stopping at the cor- tions of armaments can be ex-were able to conceal the dangerous wind turbine has been invented to to the United States, which in 1900 rect place. pected, but merely a limitation conflict of opinion on that principle generato electric power for use on promptly established at the present levels until the A few months ago the

the Cuban The defendant was fined $7. General farms.”

Republic. system of control has proved its Council of the T.U.C. and the Exe

Reckless Driving But a right was retained for Fung Kam, a taxi driver, WAS efficacy." In that opinion Lmcutive Committee of the Socialist

the don, and even Washington, are party jointly propounded a formula

American intervention whenever fined $25 by Mr. Schofield at now disposed to concur certain for the placation of their wild men in the management of industry. It necessary "for the maintenance of Central Police Court yesterday for a Government adequate for the dangerous driving in Wong Ne! ly with reluctance, since it means which endorsed "the claim of or would be waste of time to argue

Cheong Road on September 23. the postponement, at least, of anised labour to its place in the against fanatical nonsense into protection of life, property, Traffic Sergeant Brittain said that. purposes which have been most control of publicly owned industries." which neither any notion of justice individual liberty."

Since the establishment of a the defendant overtook a tram, on carnestly cherished. But the As might have been expected, the ex-nor of practical ponsibilities is al-

Geneva

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Trafic

disastrous change in the inter-tremists were not to be pacibed this lowed to enter. What is significant Republic in Cuba the United States the wrong side outside the Leighton national atmosphere brought year. When the formula came before is first that Mr. Citrine, the leader has exercised this right of inter-Hill Cafe, when the road was a about by the triumph of a flam-the T.U.C. it was met by a resolution of the moderates, thought it best vention four times-In 1906. in pecially busy with race-day traffic.

Speeding Lorry boyant and aggressive national-firming the "right" of trade to base his opposition on. grounds 1912, in 1917, and in 1920. On A lorry-driver, Wong Ping-hang, lam in Germany is a compelling unions to appoint 60 per cent of of political expediency, and secondly the first and last occasions the was fined $20 for speeding at 23 fact. It leaves open only ope the managing bodies, not merely of that the extremists mustered more United States virtually controlled serious possibility of progress at publicly owned undertakings, but of than a million votes against less the affairs of the country for two mph. in Lockhart Road

Sergeant McInnis prosecuted and Limitation, after all, all industries, while the unions than a million and a half for modera- or three years. On the other two the defendant pleaded guilty. would be a great deal as con- should still retain all their present tion. Will it help the Socialist occasions she contented herself in trasted with the unchecked com- powers over conditions of employ.party to get a Parliamentary landing a force of marines and re- petition in armaments which is ment and pay. Even this was not majority, Mr. Citrine asked, to tell storing order. the only likely alternative, Theough for some of the wilder or the public that if Socialism gets its Washington is always most re- measures of limitation accepted more muddled heads of the Congress. way each industry will be acquired luctant to intervene, But Ameri- by the Naval Powers were re Mr. Jaggera obiected to any sort of by the State and given up to the can interests in Cuba are so great H.M.S. Suffolk of the FIN. garded, justly, as a resounding control by administrative or techni-management of an untrained Junta that Washington cannot permit Cruiser Squadron returned from her success for the statesmanship of al parts; Mr. Will Thorne could of its workers? We shall see. It continuance of disorder. *. For not exercises this morning, peace. And limitation of arma-not see why, when a local authority does not look as if the moderates only are there many American sub- H.M.8. Brude is expected to arrive ments in general involves some may be wholly Socialists, there would be able to gag the Left Wing jects living in the island, not to the Colony on or about October 18 system of control. That term, should be men of any other colour shouting its slogana,

"only is it one of the most popular from Shanghai,

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