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ENERO - FEBRERO, 1947

NUM. 8

Editorial

EL lEEVO rntsm LHEItlCÁN \ li lEU La última contienda comicial en los Estados

Unidos para la elección de una gran mayoría de congresistas, ha dado al GOP un triunfo rotundo inicial de alentadores alcances... Tal parece que la conciencia pública norteamericana, una

ciudadana, ajenos al constante temor de ser víc timas de extemporáneos exabruptos de enemigos solapados de la continuación de Puerto Rico den

tro de la órbita de Estados Unidos, de aquí y de allá. Sinceros y responsables ciudadanos ameri vez ganada la guerra contra filosofías de orden canos deben ser protegidos por sus conciudada retrógrada, ha resuelto abandonar las aulas de nos del Norte a través de una medida que ga mócratas y abrazar la causa Republicana, hacia rantice su estabilidad política y económica,.. el establecimiento de un nuevo orden a tono con El único paso aconsejable es la aprobación por las inescapables urgencias de un mundo en lu el refeiido Congreso del Proyecto del Senado No. cha por una paz duradera.

59, del cual es autor el senador William Langer, Hacia el logro de objetivos de mejoramiento de North DaJcota, el gran amigo de Puerto Rico, social y económico para un pueblo recipiente de disponiendo la admisión de la isla dentro de la una indiscutible gloria en esta pasada guerra., federación de Estados norteamericanos. En el encamina sus pasos firmemente el nuevo Con aludido auto legislativo se vacían las más caras greso Republicano. Tiene ante sí una ingente y sentidas aspiraciones de la gran mayoría del pueblo puertorriqueño. labor a desarrollar y dentro de sus numero

sos problemas figura Puerto Rico, recabando

Considerando el gran espíritu patriótico y el

unos la solución del status en forma plebiscita ria, otros —los menos— la soberanía interna y externa, y la gran mayoría, la que menos usa la

deseo íntimo de cooperación a la solución de nues

tro problema político de los nuevos congresistas electos, no dudamos que nuestras continuas de

vocinglería infructuosa para imponer sus ideas, mandas han de hacer eco en las esferas congredemandando por derecho y por virtud de la ciu sionales. dadanía americana otorgádales, la admisión de la isla como un Estado más de la Unión.

Dentro de las distintas formas para resolver nuestro status político, señalamos al nuevo Con greso la necesidad urgente de que este territoHo sea mantenido dentro de un plano de igualdad

Esperamos del nuevo Congreso, sobre todo, la materialización feliz de los sueños libertarios del pueblo boricua en la forma ya apuntada.

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8TATEH00D FOR PÜFRTO RICO DELIRARLE By: ROBERT A. COOPER NOTE: This article is reproduced in this issne of El Estado, Puerto Rico, on petition of many of our friends who stand up for STATEHOOD FOR PUERTO RICO and had not the opportunlty of readins it wlien published

for the first time. It is for their benefit that we reprinted it witli great pleasure.

For almost fifty years Puerto Rico has been a territory or possession of the United States.

There is every indication, both in Puerto Rico and in continental United States, that the pre-

ing.

Every boy and girl in Puerto Rico should

have an opportunlty for at least a high school education and the basis of that must be to enable

TI l is, however, does not satisfy the pople of the Island. The problems which we are accustomed

them to do well the things which they must do.

I realize that the program here suggested will require time, patience and perseverance. It can not be accomplished overnight. While this is true it is also true that in the period of organizing and prosecuting this program there is a gradual and effective development leading us to the ultímate goal. If it be admitted that the foregoing statement is sound then the question arises as to how may the people of Puerto Rico have in reality a fair enjoyment of rights and privileges which are the heritage of every Ame-

to associate with Puerto Rico are not essentially

rican citizen.

sent status of the Island should not be inde-

finitely continuad. The people of Puerto Rico have a natural desire for local self-government.

The people of a territory are as much interested in the right of local self-government as are the

people of any one of the States. Personal liberty, the right of free speech and freedom of religión exists in Puerto Rico to the same extent that it does elsewhere in the United States.

Will this be attained if Puerto

different from the problems which face tho Rico should be completely separated from the people of every state of the unión. Free .gov- United States? Or will the rights of the citiernment cannot exist anywhere unless the peopla zens be more adequately protected if Puerto who constitute that government have a sufficient Rico remains permanently a part of the United knowledge to enable them to appreciate the pri- States. A comparison of conditions which have vileges with which they are naturally endowed. existed for a half century in Puerto Rico with It is through our educational facilities only that conditions in other parts of the West Indies will personal liberty may be maintained. In all free furnish some evidence which will enable the societies an informed militant public opinión is essential. For public opinión to function it must be based on an informed citizenship. An examination of the histoiy of our own country as well as that of other countries of the world abun-

■people of Puerto Rico to see this question in its true light. If independence is not desired and

if Puerto Rico is to remain permanently a part of the United States, it necessarily follows that

dantly sustain this proposition. The powei-s of

that permanent relationship must ultimately lead to statehood. Do not forget that so long as

government may be used not only to maintain

Puerto Rico remains a part of the United States

our liberties but if mis-directed it may be also

the educational facilities existing in the states

used to destroy or minimizo the right to Ufe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our Declaration of Independence states that it is the function of government to protect the natural

will be available at all times to American citizens

rights of free men and women. When I say that civil, religious and economic rights may be

preserved only through our educational facilities

lopment of the Island abundantly sustains the suggestion that there is material benefit to the people of Puerto Rico so long as the Island is a

I do not mean that it is essential for every in

part of the United States. Practically all Por-'

dividual to have a university degree. It is of first importance that the masses be given such educational training as is necessary for the citizen to meet intelligently his own responsibility. The very basis of our entire educational Btructure should be adequate vocational train

toricans rcsiding in the Island are now citizens

who live in Puerto Rico.

Our colleges and uni-

versities are open today to citizens of this Is land. An examination of the commercial deve

of the United States.

The people of Puerto Rico

have the same protection under the laws of the

United States. as do the citizens of any state of the unión.

Every intelligent individual must (Continué on Page 24)

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mi wASHiim To pn m By: WILLIAM J. DORVILLIER We are reprínting: herewith, with El Mundo's permission, William J. Dorvillier's Washington Column with reference to Puerto Rico demands in favor of Statehood and Senator Hugh Butler's statement about the Island Political Status. — William J. Dorvillier is Chief of EL MUNDO Bureau in Washington.

yet concluded that we should ever admit to state

hood any off-shore area."

Sometime later, about ten days ago, I was in Senator Butler's office the day he spoke with Mr. and Mrs. Celestino Iriarte and Mr. Eduardo

R. González. The Senator again said that he TO

"had not yet concluded" that off-shore areas should be admitted as States. He did add, however, that he always was "open to conviction."

The third time in a relatively short period in which I have obtained statements from Senator

Butler on the statehood question was on Wednesday afternocn of this week when he said he was oppo:ed to statehood, but that "any views are sub-

ject to change on the basis of additional evidence.

If I should be chairman of the Public Lands Com-

mittee, I always will be willing to grant any interested group a fair hearing."

It is my opinión, based on personal contact with Senator Butler, that it would be unfair to him and to those in Puerto Rico who advócate

statehood, to accept any statehood position from him at this time as final and irrevocable.

I think that his position can be summed up in a few words, thusly: Senator Butler is not in Mv, WILLIAH J. DORVILLIER Chief of El Mondo Eoreao in Washington, D. C.

favor of statehood "at this time," beacuse he has not "yet concluded" that statehood should be

WASHINGTON — Senator Hugh Butler's published statement in Puerto Rico that he was op-

granted to off-shore areas, but he is "willing to

po3ed to statehood for off-shore areas, and his statement given me for EL MUNDO, should not, 1 believe, be accepted as an unalterable fact or as the death-knell of statehood aspirations in Puer to Rico. Far from it. Despite its grim implications to statehood advocates, the statement was

If I were a Puerto Rican statehood advócate,

grant any interested group a FAIR HEARING."

I would cheer that one most significant state

ment, "a fair hearing" to the housetops. In all the years that Sen. Millard E. Tydings was chairman of the Senate Territories and Insular Affairs Committee, statehood sponsors in Puerto

the opinión of a man who, suddenly, has been Rico never did get a "fair hearing." Now they hurled into the forefront as spokesman on a sub- have the promise of the probable chairman of ject he has had littie time to study. the Senate Public Land Committee that their In a previous statement made exclusively for

views will be heard seriously and impartiallj'^.

EL MUNDO and written to me from his home in

So far as Puerto Rico and its people are con Omaha, Nebraska, shortly after the November cerned, Senator Butler has only the fondest meelections, Senador Butler said:

"As yet, I am not in favor of statehood. It's a matter of principie with me, in that I have not

mories of his contacts with the island and the people, here and in Puerto Rico.

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Letter from Mr. Luis A. Ferré to tlie Editor of

tlie New Yor\z Herald TriLune Answerin¿ to Mr. PetruJlo and admiration for facts but its anxiety for the sensational is so overpowering, that it caiinot

help changing the perspective and relativa position of these facts in order to make them what it considers as news-worthy. It professes to have great respect and admiration for the rights of

other people to be free but is is conveniently blind to the fact that racial prejudices exist in

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many sections of continental United States which

deny our own citizens the right to those very freedoms which it so quixotically champions for others. It is always willing and ready to chani-

pion facile abstractions or mentally buoyant

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Mr. ILIS A. FERI^E

generalities but is is thoroughly unaware of the scientific fact that at the level or reality such abstractions are usually inapplicable because of existing cultural patterns which must be changad to meet new concepts of social relationships.

In its irresponsible superficiality it is always overzealous to proclaim, —as has been recently reportad from vanquished Germany— that all other people must radically change their systems of govemment to conform to utopic democratic generalities, unmindful of the historie fact that our American Democracy has evolved and matured throughout the empirical give and take of

Exccetivc Více-Presideni El Día and Sccretary

ftvery-day political conflicts.

It pretends to be the crusader for just causes, December lOth, 1946. but it mistakes justice, which is always relativo

of cor Stateliood Asso.

The Editor

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Dear Sirs:

The November 3 issue of "This Week" carries an article on Puerto Rico which I believe worthy of brief appraisal. To my mind it is a perfect oxample of what the hysteria of mass production, which permeates our culture, has done to our sense of human valúes. Here is a typical product of the small school of money-mad newspaper correspondents, who must turn out sensa

to culture, with the enforcement of an arbitrary ideology whether this is functional or not in the new cultural environment under consideration.

In general it is imbued with the spirit of Mr. Truman's recent travesty, requesting that 100,000 jews be immediately admitted into Pa

lestina —in appearance upholding a just cause but in reality paying homage to pre-electionary political expediency, — a tactic which judging from recent election returns seems to have backfired.

In like fashion, Mr. Patrullo states that aftor spending four months in Puerto Rico he was sufficient speed to keep the fastest printing pres- convinced, that in view of the fact —which is ses in the world moving. This type of news i-e- not so— that its people have been denied stateporting has become so thorougly entangled in the hood by the U. S. Congress Puerto Ricans demechanics of publicity valué for mass production, mand their independence and that if it is not that the true object of journalism —the depict- granted —and quickly—'they will fight United tional stuff in well-dressed publicity fashion at

ing of the truth with an objactive sense of real States for it. Thus the alibi for the sensational ity— has moved into the background and has title "American Powder Keg" is cleverly, but been forgotten in the battle royal of circulation. inexactly, established — a Trumanian jewel of Such journalism pretends to have great respect expediency.

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To justify his assertion he quotes an island usually a superficial, prejudiced, and distorted legislator whose statement to this effect was sup- picture of a highly complex problem, drawn with ported by half a dozen colleagues — but he con- an eye on the selling angle rather than on the veniently forgets to mention that this same legis- veracity or human significance of the problem Jature, suffers a strange case of split personality, portrayed. whereby it adopts the offícial attitude of re"U. S. Powder Keg" will probabJy paraphrase questing a plebiscite authorizing the people of "Dynamite on our Doorstep"; just another groPuerto Rico to select between statehood, inde- tesque Dalinian elucubration on the simple pendence and a dominión status, while in their reality of a people who during 48 years have personal character they request from the same worked energetically and peacefully, with emcommittee of Congress, that Puerto Rico be phasis on the latter, to obtain a full-fledged regranted its independence — a unique case of de- cognition as American citizens under the stars mocratic mockery. and stripes, after the unpredictable events of power politics placed them under the custody of He then mentions that during four and one a people whose political institutions they had half centuries, the people of Puerto Rico have only once been allowed to govera themselves, i.e. looked upon with admiration for over a century. in 1897, when the island was granted autonomy This is born by the fact that a letter written

by Spain and that such period was promptly put

by A. Jourdan the American Cónsul in Puerto

to an end by the invading American troops —

Rico dated December 14, 1868, and kept in the files of the State Department in Washington states that a large group of Puerto Ricans

another obvious mistatement of fact since the

freedom enjoyed under the autonomous regime granted Puerto Rico was far from what we are enjoying today.

He then needs a sensational picture to attract the attention of that gullible reader who must be fecl such quickly digestible stuff that he can draw a conclusión by merely glancing over an eyecatcher or allowing himself to be indoctrinated with a catch-phrase without the fatiguing necessity of a careful mental analysis and there upon heads his article with an etching depicting a few negrees surrounding a decrepit oíd buggy and captions it "Puerto Ricans want self respect" — just as if pictures of Navajo Indians in a New Mexican Pueblo were used to illustrate a book

which pretended to depict the social and political

wanted their island annexed to the United States

and is further confirmed by the historical reality that the people of Puerto Rico welcomed the

Americans enthusiastically in 1898 and that the latter brought two Puerto ,Ricans with them (Continué on Page 24)

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pletely missed seeing the Puerto Rican problem he has tried to describe. Puerto Ricans are not

in want of the self respect they have always

retained. They demand justice, justice from Congress of the United States, justice from United States officials and particularly justice and respect from book-writers and correspon-

dents, who come to our island enjoy our hospitality and our rum —sometimes in excess—;

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foolish denial of our own sacred rights and n showing of ignorance with respect to our powerful condition of American citizens.

Puerto Rico is now living a significant and impressive hour. Summoned by the memories of forty-eight long years lived under the shadows and protected by dear "OLD GLORY", which decent and grateful people have learned to love long since 1898. we must recognize that from such span of American Ufe, so confortably lived, so surely crowned with one constant progress,

that the time has come when we must get more incentive and more inspiration and more interest

to continué our struggle with all our might o¡i behalf of our ideal of Statehood, until the Sun of our anxiety and hopes has reached its zenith.

Following our investure with the American

citizenship, which blessedly ocurred in 1917, the people of Puerto Rico, have sought some means whereby they might express to their continental

fellow citizens and to the world, their respect and nffection.

' They have sought srmething that could be completely ascociated with the rest of the nation.

They have wanted somithing that would keep alive in their history, the outlines of our grand forra Mr. JLILIIJS L. PIETRANTONI

of government, surmounted by the undestructi-

"Pm going over to the mainland, and expect to visit New York, Chicago, California, and on my

ble four liberties; and with a proud and smiling countenance illumined with their sparkling hopes they are all headed straight for Statehood. The Puertorican-Yanks desire something that should

way back I'll stay in Florida, etc."

be enduring, typical of the influence of our nation

Poncc, P. P.

This is the

proper way for any citizen in Puerto Rico to

upon the Uves of her people and upon the rest

expresa his intentions of visiting the continental

of the world which we as leader have created.

United States, because we should ever realizo What could more completely meet these reour unchallenged and real condition of American quirements than to wish Statehood? To enter citizens, and the indisputable fact that our island the Unión where there are others of different is an integi'al part of our nation. kinds, but interweaved into one whole piece of

When someone in Ponce plans to visit San national pride and patriotism, so they could with Juan, it would sound stupid if he said, "I'm the same enduring forra of government stand in

some suitable and dignified place on the premisos wishes to visit California, it would appear as of the national mansión. And it has been so deignorance if he says: "Pm going to the United cided. Every intelligent Puerto Rican-Amerigoing to Puerto Rico". If scmeone in New York

States". The first one would naturally say: can, until his earthly Ufe closes forever, lovingly

and patriotically has made the promise to strug gle and fight for Statehood, to hold it, to spread it, to defend it, if need be with our own Uves, United otates.

For US in Puerto Rico, it's absolutely wrong because for us Statehood brings individual and

"Pm going to San Juan" and the second: "Pm going to California". Both of them are in the

and misleading to say: "Pm going to the United collective liberty and happiness, and that same

States", and it is wrong because all We are doing liberty brings strength of purpose, unity of is to go from one place in the United States to action,, and the most sacred obligations. "Only another place within the same nation. To say the strong can be free", said a War slogan. That

otherwise would constitute an act of denying, a is why we aspire to Statehood, in order to be

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strong, so as to be free.

graphs of this article, I am forced to state that some Puertoricans know and feel that they are But before this is done, why, may I ask, are American citizens; they know darn well that the Puertoricans prompt to do this thing? For Puerto Rico is nothing else but an integral and what reason do we give our nation loyalty, love and devotion and sacrifices in our life, and why unseparated part of our nation, just as much as do we now wish to perpetúate our collective life any other región is; yet for unexplainable reain this enduring form? In the first place, the sons they speak and refer to continental United United States Congress and Govemment ha ve States and to the island, as though both were been our friends and protectors. We have never two sepárate and distinct nations.

An amusing incident occurred to me at the doubted the sincerity and genuiness of it.

"Missouri", that historical giant of our navy, In the next place, The Congress and The Pre- during her last visit to Ponce. While exchangsidents, have been fair. If they have not acted ing impressions with a young officer, he asked more generously on the political status, the blame me: "Are you American". Without an iota of is exclusively on us. Worthy ideáis deserve a hesitation I replied, "Why, yes". Born here? good fight. We must show them our stamina I said: "Yes", born in this little piece of U.S.A." in real fights for real worthy causes. We must Then the young officer smilingly said to me: not forget that they are the ones who are going "here is something I cannot understand. I underto decide if we can be admitted as a state now, stand you are as a much a part of the United or if we have to wait still more long years.

States as my own state of Minnesota is, although Our nation made a bargain, and I don't know you have not been admitted as state as yet; neif to cali it a fair bargain, because it was one vertheless during the reception given us last tlie benefit of which were unequal, notwithstand- night, by the local authorities, the Lion's Club, ing that unequal benefits are only futile. If at the Rotary Clubs, etc. I noticed with enthusiasm the same time that we were made American citi- and heard everybody speaking in good English,

zens we had been called to fulfill our part of but what shocked me most was that in the course the bargain, through our contribution to the national treasury with customs duties, federal internal revenue, income tax, and etc., we would

be now in a better position. On the contrary our national govemment with a generosity that has handicapped our pathway to the definition of our political status, gave us generously all of that income, so we could be helped in our economic difficulties.

As our friend Dr. Joe C. Fei'rer, pointed out: "Hou much interest has had Congress reflectad toward Puerto Rico and its people? The answer is obvious. Millions of discriminating dollars have been waisted on Puerto Rico; but have we ever felt the warmth of their paternal hearts?

Have We ever been considered their equals from an Arrierican stand point of view?".

We have and undestructible faith in our des-

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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

1337 Connecticut Avenue, Norwest

Washington 6, D. C. Telephone: Adams 9215

Chairman

February 6, 1947

Carroll Reece

AIRMAIL

Mr. E. R. González Box 4811

..

•

San Juan, Puerto Rico

Dear Mr. González:

It was extremely pleasing to me to learn that the Republican Party will celébrate Lincoln's Birthday at a dinner to be held in San Juan.

Though you, I would appreciate the opportunity to greet my fellow Republicans on this patriotic occasion. Even though I will be in our great Middle West on a speaking tour, I will be with you in spirit as you pay tribute to the illustrious Lincoln and gather renewed inspiration from the ncbility of his American ideáis and principies.

You in Puerto Rico have known, as we have in our beloved United States, the false pro-

phets of the New Deal and their efforts to change this Nation's traditional form of Government inherited from the framers of our glorious Constitution, While the restoration of our Republic is now under way as the result of the overwhelming election last November of a Republican

Congress, the enemies of individual freedom and our competitive enterprise system will attempt

to place cvery obstacle in our way to sound legislation and an economical administraron.

I wish to assure you that the Republican Party will keep its pledges to the people, and will merit their confidence to take control of the Executive Branch of the Government through

victory at the polis in 1948. However, we must not let over-confidence diminish our efforts to complete the job of restoration we have just started with the session of the 80th Congress.

Republicans may take strength from Lincoln's inmortal words at Cooper Unión — "Let US have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, daré to do our duty as We understand il."

The message I would leave with you as you reflect upon the rare qualities of Lincoln, the incomparable leader of men, is to adopt his dynamic and unfaltering faith, a faith that points the way to the solution of our complex present-day problems.

Very sincerely yours, —

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Letter froin Miss Marión E. Martín, Katíonal OonunitteeWuman of the State oí Maine to Mrs. Celestino triarte REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

WASHINGTON, D. C.

2745 - 29th Street, N. W. January 29, 1947

MARION E. MARTIN

Mrs. Celestino Triarte

Repiiblican National • Committee San Juan, Puerto Rico

My dear Mrs. Iriarte:

We Republieans on the mainland are very interested in the fine work that you are doing for the party in Puerto Rico.

I want to compliment you on presenting the case for statehood for Puerto Rico so ably and so well. I am sure that you have made niany converts to the cause and I want you to know

that the party platform espousing statehood was not an idle jest.

I, for one, sincerely believe that the party will fulfill its pledges and if there is anything that I can do to help further that aim you have only to cali on me.

Codially yours, (Signed) MARION E. MARTIN

NOTE: Miss Marión E. Martín, acted, until December 31, 1946, as assistant president of the

National Republican Committe. Among her maj'or outstanding services to the National Republican Party are: the organization of the National Women's Organization of the Republican Party.

She also organized and presided the National Women's Republieans Club, which actually have a membership of 400,000 ladies, with Clubs functioning in 41 states.

SUMMARY 60th ANNUAL REPORT

MANUFACTURERS LIFE ANNUAL REPORT

1946

INSURANCE IN FORCE

1945

1946

$853,687,237

$969,884,256

In its 60th Annual Report, l^he Llfe JnsBrance

ManufaciUrers

Company siates standing

(Including Deferred Annuities)

that the

features

of

the

outyear

1946 in the Lile Insurance Busi

NEW INSURANCE

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154,236,828

ness

were

the

volume

of

New

Business effected and the gain in

(Including Deferred Annuities)

Business in Forcé.

ASSETS

295,831,536

330,143,238

INCOME

61,914,587

67,950,665

In the case

of the Manufacturers Life, New Business amounted to over $154 million and gain in Business in Forcé was over $116 million.

CONTINGENCY RESERVE

AND SURPLUS

15,068,701

16,747,416

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Company

now

amounts

to

$969,800,000 and is spread over

Payments to Policyholders and Beneficiaries since

the inception oí the Company total $340,223,884,

a large area.

Assets for

under

administration

the fulfilment of contraéis

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THE

funds of the Company total $16%

Manufacturers INSURANCE

I FE

COMPANY

millón.

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Discurso del Ledo. José L Poventud en el "DM D£ bres ha reclamado la defensa y la vigencia de ese fundamental principio propugnado por Lincoln en Gettysburgh, otras tantas el pueblo ame ricano ha desparramado su sangre, su poderío in menso, por universales y sangrientos campos de batalla. Así, los derechos humanos acaban de ganar una Victoria Total en una Guerra Total.

Pero la Victoria de la Paz falta aún por ganarse en los frentes domésticos.

Subsiste el conflicto

ideológico por la hegemonía entre el estado socialízador, centralizador, totalitario, contra el ré gimen libre, constitucional, democrático.

La desorientación del febril interregno bélico fué suelo fértil para los falsos apóstoles de la

Democracia tratar de forzar a unos y alucinar a otros hacia nuevos campos de concentración de poder dictatorial.

Lincoln, contrario a prédicas pseudo-constitu-

cionalistas de última hora, proclamaba que una mayoría restringida por frenos y contrapesos constitucionales, integra el genuino poder sobe rano de un pueblo libre. Y advertía que quien repudiara este principio, se encaminaba directa mente por la senda de la anarquía o del despo Ledo. JCSC A. PCVENTLD Talentoso Abogado, gran orador pocriorriqucno y oniusíasta estadista convencido

Conmemoramos hoy el natalicio de un hombre

de humildad ingénita, de honradez reconocida, de conocimientos por él mismo alcanzado en la es

cuela de la naturaleza y de la vida. Ese bagaje moral le aupo sobre sus propios méritos hasta convertirlo en uno de los pocos líderes que más

prestigio y vigor diera al Partido Republicano nacional y a la Presidencia de los Estados Uni dos. Como apóstol de una raza, que no era la suya, glorificóse con la ofrenda de su verbo y de su vida misma, en santa causa por la confratei'nidad y la redención humana. La famo sa Emancipación del Esclavo le hizo prócer de las Américas. Su muerte trágica y dolorosa, le hizo mártir de la humanidad entera. Valía la pena vivir para lo que hizo. Valía la pena mo rir por lo que hizo. De su profunda sinceridad emotiva surgió la creación literaria de Gettysburgh, la pieza clásica que inmortalizó la frase, venerada por todo buen ciudadano americano, "that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

Y cuantas veces la historia de los hombres li

tismo: "Whoever rejects it does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or to despotism."

Y desde ha tiempo la protesta viene creciendo, viva y llameante, para que a las actividades ciu dadanas, como a los antiguos esclavos, no se les flagelase inmisericordemente por el severo diri-

gismo burocrático, que sólo tiende a perpetuar, dentro de la administración pública, a jefes y partidos en el poder.

Pero la burocracia y la oi'gía del poder no contaban con el celo del pueblo americano por conservar su forma de vida tradicional, esa mis ma forma de vida que desde Puerto Rico, el Pre

sidente de un país soberano como Uruguay re comendó a toda la humanidad para que ésta viva más feliz y más próspera en este mundo. No se contó tampoco con la voz del electorado ameri cano — la voz que surgió potente en las recien

tes elecciones congresionales, para dar al Par

tido Republicano un grandioso triunfo y un man dato trascendental.

"In giving freedom to the slave, \ve assure

—decía Lincoln—, freedom to the free." Y es innegable, señores, que las libertades que se dis fruten, tienen que necesariamente quedar rease guradas, reafirmadas, con la emancipación de lo (Continúa en la página 27)

Letter from Hon. Reeoe Carroll President of tke

National RepuUican

Party to tlie National Committee Woman

in Puerto Rico.

Mrs. Celestino Iriarte

San Juan, Puerto Rico Dear Mrs. Iriarte:

HON. REECE CARROLL President National Republican Party

I know that you will be delighted to learn that in my conversations with Republican Candidates for Congress in various parts of the country, I have found general support for the declaration in our 1944 Platform with respect to statehood for Puerto Rico. I am confident that the election of a Republican Congress this year will constitute a major step toward fullfilment of the ambition of the Puerto Rican people for full membership in the United States of América.

I may add that personally, I approve without reservati^n, the 1944 Plaform Declaration which reads:

"Statehood is a logical aspiration of the people of Puerto Rico who were made citizens of the United States by Congress in 1917; legislation affecting Puerto Rico, insofar as fea-

sible, should be in harmony with the realization of that aspiration."

Anything which I may be able to do to assist our Partv in fulfillment that Platform pledge, will be done.

May I take this occasion to contrast our Republican Platform Declaration with both the

promises and performance of the Democratic Party. The Democrat Platform of 1944 contains the following:

"We favor enactment of legislation granting the fullest measure of self-government for

Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, and eventual statehood for Alaska and Hawaii."

I am sure you have noted that the Democrat expressly excluded the possibility of state hood for Puerto Rico. Furthermore, with respect to their promise of statehood for Alaska and

Hawaii, it may be remarked that their Party has been in power for more than fourteen years and no steps have been taken to carry out those promises. I feel sure you will agi'ee with me that their performance with resirect to the promises made Alaska and Hawaii may be taken as an indicr.ticn of how much trust may be placed in whatever promises they make to Puerto Rico.

So far the Democrat Adminietration's principal manifestation of interest in Puerto Rico has bren to use Puerto Rice as a guinea pig to test the theories of otherwise unemployed members

of the Administ a'ien's Bram Trust.

j Cordially, you 's,

(sgd.) RRECE CARROLL

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SRA, ANA MARIA VALDES DE TRIARTE "Committee Woinan" del Partido Nacional Republicano en Puerto Rico

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STATEHOOD FOR...

(Continued from Page 5)

FROM WASHINGTON...

(Continued from Page 7) Senator Butler has no overpowering resent-

concede that the desire of the people of Puerto Rico to enjoy fully the rights of local self-gov- ment to cloud his thinking. • No protege of his

ermnent is a natural rlght and it has been the was ever assassinated in Puerto Rico, but such policy of the United States to recognize this legi a regrettable incident has served for years to tímate claim. Separation from the United States impel Sen. Tydings to strive consistently to "get will not aid the people of Puerto Rico in the rid" of Puerto Rico. aolution of their social, economic or educational problems. Let us strip this , question of all sen-

It is unfortunate, indeed, that so many conflict-

If the fundamental need of the people of Puerto

ler's statehood position. I sincerely believe from observation and personal contact with the Sena

timent and see the realities which confront us. ing stories are being printed regarding Mr. ButRico is more and better education, does any one

tor, that the people of Puerto Rico can avoid served by permanent unión with the United confusión in their thinking if they accept his po doubt that such need will be more efficiently

States? Once this educational program is started, sition as that described three paragraphs above yon will see new industries started in Puerto

this one. That, of course, is my personal opi

Rico. Social reforms will be given definite and effective support. "The forgotten man" will be made to realize that he is in fact a part of this

nión. BUT, the quotes are Senator Butler's.

great system which we cali the United States

of América. It can be then truthfully said that In this government "every citizen is a sovereign but that no one cares to wear a crown."

ROBERT A. COOPER

LETTER FROM...

(Continued from Page 11)

It might be appropriate at this time, however,

to quote from Senator Butler's statement read at the Puerto Rico Statehood convention in July, 1945:

"I personally believe that the day is not far distant when Puerto Rico will be given state hood, or a form of statehood, and will become an even more integral part —voluntarily— of our great unión."

when they made their first landing in Guánica: Mateo Fajardo and Mattei Besosa.

But the description of the every-day constructive effort of the Puerto Ricans to develop the

economy and the political institutions of the island so that it might gain the right to become a state of the Unión lacks the sensational ingre-

That was Senator Butler in 1945.

Personally,

I do not believe the Senator has given much thought or study to the question since that time.

I firmly believe, despite everything printed to the contrary, that he retains an open mind. I am equally confident that, for the first time, all factions supporting all foirnis of government

dients of the concoction necessary to make a best seller. Henee, in good yankee literary carpet- in Puerto Rico will find an impartial, honest,

bagger tradition, the facts must be exaggerated

and sincerely interested chairman of the Senate

and the perspective distorted. And the island committee handling their affairs, always "open is thus described in a picture which exaggerates to conviction" and willing to listen to all views

the irrelevant and unconsequential — just lixe its counterpart in the surrealistic school of paint-

ing, where incongruous absurdities and exag-

gerations serve to interpret reality in the realm

on all subjects.

OVER THE...

(Continued from Page 15)

of phantasy and illusion — a harmless pastime of their speeches they always referred to the

in the sphere of art, but a cruel and inhuman

practice when dealing with the very hfe and

futura of a people.

United States and to Puerto Rico in such an un-

explainable form that rea]ly gave us the impression that we were visiting a foreign country. I

I hope Mr. Editor, that in ñame of honesty and 'know that is not the truth and I am sure the

justice, you will publish these few Unes in the •people of Puerto Rico do not feel that way". "In

same preferential position of the article in ques- Hawaii, —he continued, no one ever mentions tion.

Yours respeetfully, the ñame United States. They all talk about our LUIS A. FERRE,

Executive Vice President EL DIA

nation, and when they are planning a trip. to the continental United States, they simply say I am (Continué on Page 42)

EL.ESTADO — PUERTO RICO

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HON. CELESTINO TRIARTE Member of the House of Representatives of Porto Rico, President of our XJnlon Republican Party and one of our best and hard leaders for Statehood for Porto Rioo.

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La Comisión de Recreo j Deportes leí

Coliierno de Puerto Rico Anuncia para Marzo 31, 1947

El Comienzo de su Campeonato insular de

Base Ball Aficionado

EL ESTADO — PUERTO RICO

DISCURSO DEL LCDO....

(Continuación de la pág. 21) que se halle esclavizado, de lo que se halle in tensamente regimentado.

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qué? Porque ese es el respaldo alentador de pro

minentes figuras en la política nacional. Ahí es tán Carrol Reece, Marión Martin, Leahy, Langer y, entre otros más, el caudillo de la mayoría re publicana, Senador Taft. ¿Acaso se duda por el

De ahí que el pueblo republicano, honrando y

más escéptico de que nuestra aspiración no esté

simbolizando la palabra y la obra del Salvador de

firme, sobre sus pies, en el camino de la crista

la República y de la Unión nacional, con su man

lización de la Estadidad, como el más preciado

dato trascendente.

legado político a la posteridad puertorriqueña?

Exhorta a la reafirmación de libertad para la Fuerzas de minoría ilustrada, pero sentimen respetuosa expresión del pensamiento y de la in talista, hablan y apelan a la pasión de parte del dependencia judicial. Demanda que la empresa pueblo y a emociones e idealismos juveniles, en libre quede emancipada de burocracias inútiles, pro de la separación e independencia. Claro es

de pesadas cargas contributivas, de excesiva ex propiación y concentración gubernativa de la

propiedad particular, de experimentaciones deirochadoras y costosos peritajes absentistas. Re quiere que la economía privada sea liberada del cúmulo y confusión de autoridades corporativas que se ocultan al conocimiento general tras den sas cortinas de hierro.

Ordena liberación de los

irritantes gobiernos por decretos. Insta que al capital y al trabajo se les redima de minorías organizadas que antepongan su voluntad capri chosa al bienestar común y su desacato desafiante

al gobierno, librando asi a la comunidad del des ajuste y desasosiego prevalecientes. Pide que los sei-vidores públicos no coarten los remedios del ciudadano ante el poder judicial de querellarse contra agravios y excesos administrativos; y que

esos mismos servidores públicos sirvan al pueblo con claridad y beneficio, más no con actuaciones

que el pueblo tiene derecho a escoger su felicidad Pero antes debe informársele ampliamente. No debiera colocársele ante espejismo peligrosos.

Eminentes personalidades en el campo politico económico, mantienen que la secesión no i'esultaria más que en un episodio dantesco en la vida económica de un Puerto Rico independiente, ais lado. Hasta se ha afirmado que esa actitud sen timentalista constituye una grave actitud de

irresponsabilidad.

"Can aliens make treaties easier than friends

can make laws? •—y seguía interrogando Lin coln— Can treaties be more faithfully enforced

between aliens than laws among friends?" ¿Es que puede sinceramente sostenerse que un Puerto

Rico como país extranjero, progresaría más que un Puerto Rico como Estado, en el trato comer cial, político, cultural y de relaciones mutuas con

la Nación? ¿Es que aún pueblos de gobiernos que tiendan a sembrar la desconfianza en las soberanos e independientes no ambicionan gozar nonnas republicanas de gobierno. Demanda que los mismos derechos civiles, las mismas ventajas los dineros del pueblo se empleen en hospitales, escuelas, carreteras y cuantos servicios guber políticas, el mismo respeto a la ciudadanía ame namentales sean menester, sin la socialización ricana, la misma protección internacional, que que fracasa en Francia, Inglaterra y en todas

disfrutan los puertorriqueños dentro y fuera de

partes en que pretende arraigar. Exígese tam

Puerto Rico?

Un Puerto Rico independiente podría ser un bién el desplazamiento de gobernantes menosprecampo fértil, no ya de inquietudes y conmocio ci adores y azotadores de las instituciones tradi nes domésticas, sí que de intrigas internaciona cionales de un pueblo democrático, y demándase la restauración del debido respeto a los princi pios constitucionales establecidos en nuestro sis tema de gobierno. El juramento del funcionario

les. Podría hasta convertirse en fruto codiciado por futuras fuerzas agresoras, debido a su situa

ción estratégica. ¿Convendría eso más al porve

tenía Lincoln, para defender y preservar las pau tas constitucionales de los Estados Unidos de

nir y felicidad de nuestro pueblo, que permane cer bajo la protección y la ciudadanía de la na ción más profundamente dedicada a los altos

América.

ideales de paz y confraternidad — de la nación

americano no es para destruir, sino —como sos

El triunfo del Partido de Lincoln ordena, ade más, la mayor suma de gobierno propio con miras

que es la más formidable columna del bien en la tierra?

hacia la estadidad para Puerto Rico. ¿Por qué?

Pero es que si el gran privilegio de la estadi Porque en su plataforma —que Lincoln con dad, suma consagración de nuestra soberanía in sideraba ley— el pueblo americano dejó clara terna, suma consagración de la libertad del in-

mente escrita esa promesa para la Isla. ¿Por

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Cable from Hon. Thomas

E. Dewey to Our Nationai Comitteeman

Mr. Eduardo R. González

Hcn. EDUARDO D. GONZALEZ Comíttecman Natíonal Republican Party of Pucrlo Rico

LJ26/7TH ALÉANY NY 72 1/45 6TH/645 PM HON. EDUARDO R. GONZALEZ

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE

288 PONCE DE LEON AVE. SAN JUAN, P. R. AM HAPPY SEND WARM GREETINGS REPUBLICANS OF PUERTO RICO AT LINCOLN DINNER AND EXPRESS

DEEP GRATITUDE FOR LOYALTY TO GREAT PRINCI-

PLES OF REPUBLICAN PARTY WHICH HAVE DISTINGUISHED REPUBLICANS IN PUERTO RICO PARACRAPH.

2/LJ26/7TH HON. EDUARDO R. GONZALEZ 27/W IT IS GREAT PLEASURE TO GREET YOU PERSONALLY AND EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR PUERTO RICO AND FOR OUR PARTY. (Signed) THOMAS E. DEWEY

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What are tlie Social and Polltical Objectlons to Statehood?

New York or Miami by airplane, and the airplane service is conducted under a regular daily schedule. The ocean and the space above the ground serve as avenues of intercommunication today, much more so than as barriers of isolation. The

idea of distance with reference to government is of course relativo, and depends upon political skill and the facilities of communication with the

central government. I think that it may be safely upheld that there is enough political skill (in both sides and adequate communications with Washington and the rest of the States to counterbalance the purely physical separation of the Is land from continental United States. In view of

these facts, non-contiguity is not a valid impediment for the achievement of Statehood for Puerto

Rico.

Is Total Assimüatio:i Desirable?

As to the next objection, I fail to see the ne-

cessity or even the convenience of assimilating the Puerto Rican, insofar as customs are con

ProfGSSor PEECC BOTPWEEE Lnívcrsíty of Puerto Rico

There are few political and social objectlons advanced against converting the Island of Puerto

Rico into a State of the Unión. Perhaps, the

cerned, to the people of the United States proper. Resides, I do not see any incompatibility between the Puerto Rican customs and those prevailing in the United States, except for a few details which may be found also among different groups of United States citizens on the mainland

itself. And, speaking of assimilation. Puerto Rico has assimilated the American institutions,

most important are the following, briefly stated: i.e., the jury system, the habeas corpus proce-

that the Island is not a contiguous territoi-y of the United States; that it would be a mistake to

admit into the Federation a Territory peopled

by such a large body of inhabitants still unas-

dure, the entire penal system, the codes of procedure, civil and criminal, the Anglo-Saxon prin cipies of evidence, the system of public schools and taxation, and in fact, the entire political and

similated in customs^D; that the great majority

administrative system of the Island — and this

tín American countries.^^) Let us biiefly exa

set and not a liability. Of course, under State hood the aim should be to make the Islanders bi-

qI people of the Island aie still ignoiant of process of assimilation has been carried out by the English language(2); and finally, that the in- the free will of the Puerto Rican themselves.

Spanish, an Asset or a Liabilitrj? corporation of Puerto Rico as a Sfate will appear as an "imperialistic" act in the eyes of La As to the Spanish language, I see in it an as mine chese arguments.

Is Non-contiguity \in Impcdimcnt?

lingual, or at least the great bulk of the popu-

The reply to the first argument is that the radio, telephone and telegraph have united Puerto

lation. That this would not be impossible must

Rico to the United States and have made com-

such as are afforded by European countries to day. The teaching of English today is facilitated to a great extent by the radio* and especial-

munication easier that was possible two genera-

tions ago. The airplane passenger and mail ser-

be admitted in the light of historical precedents,

vice has in point of time brough Washington ly by the talking pictures. For one of the great closer to Puerto Rico than to California, Oregon, obstacles in the teaching of English during the

Washington, Nevada and some other states. past few years in Puerto Rico has been preciselv Puerto Rico is less than eight hours away from the lack of the proper environment. The school-

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by Puerto Rican teachers with deficient pro-

fullest cooperation. If, on the other hand, we deal harshly with Porto Rico, the feeling of dis

nunciation, which is unfortunately ttue case in

trust, of which there were symptoms during and

many instances, still has the opportunity of hearing good English to a greater extent than

after the recent war, will tum into fear and hatred On the solution of the Porto Rican problem we are being subjected to a supreme test as an expanding nation. If we fail, our influence in the Western Hemisphere cannot long continué; if we succeed, our position of primacy will receive the sanction of every American country, and the Monroe Doctrine will acquire a new significance."(6) A long list bf similar statéments from a score of prominent writers

the formar generation had.

The language, and even the customs of Puerto Rico should be thought of as an asset and not as a liability, in her relations with the United States. Theodore Roosevit, Jr., former Governor of Puerto Rico, in his book "Colonial Policies of the United States" says: " ...Puerto Rico could form a connecting link between our English-speaking civilization which embraces most of the countries south of

Rio Grande. As citizens of the United States, but by blood and culture Spanish Americana, they could be woven into the general scheme as interpreters both ways. The university could be developed with visiting students and professors from both continents until it approximated a real Pan-American center of culture

where Cervantes and Shakespeare, so to speak,

could be included here.

Improvement of Inter-American Relations There is however, one point which must be emphasized. It must be admitted first of all,

that the inhabitants of the Americas, North and South, have failed to understand each other to a large extent. The reasons for this misunderstanding are many, but among those which the Latin-Americans have for distrusting the United

States is the fact that they see in the policies of the United States in dealing with them, a could be taught; there, courses in law could certain attitude of superiority on the part of be given, explaining the relationship and difAmericana which generally hurt their most inferences between pur law, based on the comtimate pride. The Latin-Americans are proud sat side by side.

Tliere, tropical medicine

mon law of England, and theirs, based on the

Román Code. We could well utilize as part of our diplomatic and consular service in South América, young Puerto Ricans trained in the .

United States."

of their culture and origin, as most peoples are, and they would never forgive when dealt with

as inferiora. This sentiment on the part of these peoples is, it must be admitted, to a great. ex tent justified. Not that the policies of the United

Mr. Lippman in his introduction to Mr. Roo- States, as such, in regard to such communities sevelt's book says:

carry essentially an element of pretended su

"I became interested in his conception of periority, but a large number of the officials who Puei-to Rico as a self-governing dominión of the were in charge of putting them into operatioa

future, Latin in its culture, North American in its political syinpathies, which would be a meeting place for those who speak English and those who speak Spanish in this hemisphere."(5) This

colored those policies with this feeling. This has been done, in the great majority of the cases unintentionally, and in many cases with the best of intentions. And it is pi'ecisely in the execution

aspiration of making Puerto Rico the connecting of those policies that the Unted States i-equires rica has been cherished since the very beginning perament, and the customs and ideologies of those

link between the United States and Latin-Ame- officials who are familiar with the Spanish tem-

of American rule in Puerto Rico. Thus the late peoples. In this particular, there is no territory Mr. L. S. Rowe said in 1901: " The inore under the Stars and Stripes better situated than thorough comprehension of the strength and Puerto Rico — because of its social, political, weakness of Spanish-American institutions, geographical and racial characteristics — to supwhich must come in cióse contact with these ply the needs of the Nation.-C?)

practical questions of law and government in The importance of Puerto Rico in this respect Porto Rico, may prepare the way for that closer has been recognized by different statesmen of relationship with the South American republics the mainland.

President Harding, at the unwhich the logic of our present situation demands.

The feeling of distrust which has existed will veiling of the statue of Simón Bolívar in New disappear, when it is clearly seen that there is York City, said: "We do not forget that in the Um'ted Stnt'^s nothing in the two civilizations to prevent the we have Latin-American devotion to the Stars

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and Stripes. Porto Rico is a parí of us, under a permanent policy aimed at its prosperity and progress, and we see in our LATIN AMERICAN STATE the splendid agency to help interpret the Americans to each other."(8) (¡talics supplied.)

I sincerely confess that I rejoice at such an eloquent statement of the President of the United

States at such a solemn occasion. Nevertheless, there is as yet an almost absoluto absence of Puerto Ricans in the American Diplomatic and Consular Services in South American countries, in spite of the fact that vei*y well-trained and

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might speculate concerning the reasons for the United States not incorporating Puerto Rico as a State.

Their answer to this observation would

Xirobably be: "The United States does not think

that the Puerto Ricans, because they are of Spanish extraction, are a desirable element in its national structure. They believe the Spa nish people are their inferiors " And, perhaps, they might be justified in that belief, if such a situation should occur after citizenship had been conferred to the Puerto Ricans.

Other Reasons For Statehood

terprises in those countries- and of the feasibi-

There are other arguments, but these are decidedly favorable to Puerto Rico in the achievement of Statehood. These must be biúefly sum-

lity of selecting exceptional fellow-citizens aca-

marized in what follows.

competent American citizens from 'the Island render valuable services to American private en-

The strategic position

of Puerto Rico as a defense for the Panama

demically fitted to serve the American GovernCanal has been recognized on different occasions nient in a diplomatic or consular capacity.

repercussions on Pan-Ameican policies. "The

by American statesmen, as well as by military strategists. It can be added that the main source of strength of a military or naval base, such as Puerto Rico would provide, is the complete loyalty of the population, and a sufficient territorial extensión for the quartering of troops and storing supplies. And also, it must be borne in

importance of Puerto Rico to the United States

mind that the population would afford a good

far ti-ascends its size. Washington's success or failure in the administration of this insular possession may affect the reaction of Latin Ame

wuited for service in tropical and subtropical regions, as was shown during the recent World

Woulcl Statehood Appear as an Imperialistic Act?

Puerto Rico is today a testing ground for two civilizations and its treatment under American i'Ule is likely to have favorable or unfavorable

aupply of soldiers, which would be especially

ricans to the Good Neighbor Policy."(9)

War.

del] Hull, at the Buenos Aires Conference laid

80,000 soldiers to our army and navy — some of

In that war Puerto Rico contributed some

down an eight-point peace formula for the Ame- whom served with great distinction and .gallan-

ricas. His second point was: "Promote closer

try. The ethnical composition of the population

international collaboration and the exchange of views, ideas and information."(io)

of Puerto Rico is another favorable factor. Puer

this end it is necesary to ■svin the confidence

and good will of fh® Central and South Ameri can republics. For this letter purpose it is necessary that those peoples convince themselves that the United States is not looking down upon

to Rico has 74.3% whites in her total popula

tion and 25.7% colcred.

There are only 38 per

sona of other races on the Island. The figures for the same year for the United States weie

88.7%whites; 9.7% negroes, and the rest belong-

ing to other races.

Illiteracy is no longer an

them and I see no. better viray of achieving this objection. According to the last census there end than by admitting Puerto Rico as a full fled- were in 1940 only 31% of the population over ged State of the Unión with all rights and du- ten years of age that were illiterates. It is fair ties which that situation would entail. This ac- to recall that at the time of the American oction on the part of Congress would open the cupation of the Island the percentage was more gates to a new era of international understand- than double, that is, 85%. The speedy rate at ing and mutual trust between the two conti- which illiteracy is being eradicatted can be apnents.

The continuance of the present status

preciated from the fact that in 1920 the percent

of Puerto Rico, the granting of autonomy or age was 55%. In 1946, 27.8% of the inhabitants e-ven independence would not have the same good above ten years of age were able to speak Enresults; in the former case, because autonomy glish. This is a remarkable achievement if the is in itself an inferior political status, and in the low income of the Island is taken into conside-

latter case, because the Latin Americans might

see in it the continuance of oíd policies and thev

ration.(U) Moi'eover, it is highly probable that (Continued on page 40)

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kies" are getting their batteries dry and even; the antenna is shaky. We had to engage AP,, PU and INS to help us bringing back the good news from the forward areas. Patrolling and "leelers" are doing a swell job. Joe, you know they were trained good and we expect a good: job from a trained man. Our artillery has dis-.; persed all enemy concentrations and we will jump off without the prearranged fires. Except for a few interdiction shots, enemy "heavies" are practically silent.

Do you remember some of the things I told

you in my first letter? Why, sure. I told you that some high brass would go to Capitol Hill and the White House, knock at the door and lay the cards on the table. Honest men, good fellows, prominent citizens and clever politicians.

No ulterior motives, nothing rolled up their sleeves, no crystal hall gazers, no' ?64 questions.

Just a change of our political status and nothing more.

Statehood, Independence, Dominión and

what not. One or two may not believe in what they see; one or two may stick their heads in

the floor and expose their buttocks. But no per sonal dishonesty. We had some Joes like that.

They went thru hell and they could not believe

it. Excentric creatures, yes, but good soldiers. ledo. WILSCN P. C€ICERJ3 Ex-CoroncI L. S. Army, laujy«3r and Lccturcr,

iaai SchocI Lnívcrsífy of Puerto Rico

Dear Joe:

Joe, things have changed a lot in the home

front, both at this and that end. By the way, we have a native Governor. Darii good fellow

and a regular guy. He has our people at heart and wastes no time doing what is right. Just

I wrote to you sometime ago in connection with this Island, which as you know by this time

like a gDod CO. He takes care of his personnel and has to feel sure that the forward areas are

is an American possession since 1898. Since my olear of mines fields before advancing any fiirfirst letter to you, the advance guavds have

ther. He takes no chances and likes to save as

kept on moving as I antícipated. Except for a much as he can all the stamina of his men unde>' few snipers still in the foxholes which fire spo- his command. Tugwell is gone. ¡Thanks God! radically, there have been no fatal casualties. Do you remember how we all felt when'our CO Traillad soldiers know how to take cara of them-

was a real martinet and got orders to report to

selves. They develop a high sense of self-pro- some other outfit? We all felt like a sense of tection and aven of smelling. Remember our relief. The situation down here is identical. He Joes talking about feeling the presence of the left a diary which he entitles the "Striken Japs at a long distance in the jungle because Land". Joe, if that monster had gone thru intel-

they stink?

Remember our Gis getting them

ligence channels it would have never get the

like rats, because they acted as such? Well, green light for release to the information and Joe, in our political panorama we are getting to press officers. No kidding, Joe. Imagine a Joe

that same situation. Isolated groups still cling

who has been persecuted for over 20 years bv

everybody; imagine a Corporal with those things called liberal ideas"; imagine a guy who during ammunitinn. Thev only have left their last sun~ 5 solid years was chased by "falangistas", eneto their weapons but our excellent G2 revealed

to be 1 ear CP that they ara running short of

ply of wooden shots. Not so hot. Messagas mies in all coi neis, soft mentalities, and what are coming back at a terrific speed. Tnforma- not, and still trying to break thru. A guy that tion is pouring to all echelons boautifullv. TrnC. v ith no friends, except his meagre staff, tries to fía.is so heavy that all .Unes are jammed. "Wa^(Continué on page 41)

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Puerto Rico, Como Coba, Debe Preocuparse por el Porvenir de su Industria Azucarera Por: FERNANDO A. VILLAMIL, 1947 y 1948, en que a su juicio no hay motivos

para temer dislocaciones de los mercados, ha sentido él, no obstante, el deber de tomar pre cauciones y adoptar medidas estabilizadoras an tes de que hagan presencia las situaciones difí ciles, y de antemano prepararse, no para en

frentarse a la crisis, sino para evitarla. Lo mismo que hemos dicho y repetido nosotros en cuanto al papel que desempeña la industria azucarera en

el desenvolvimiento económico y social de nuestro pueblo, se advierte en Cuba con la palabra auto

rizada del senador Casanova, cuando éste apela al patriotismo cubano, exhortándolo a cooperar en la formación de un frente nacional que ase gure la prosperidad de la industria azucarera cu

bana, porque, como dice el senador Casanova, «a» "cada industria y comercio del país prospera o vegeta según haya zafras buenas o malas, y por que, "herida de muerte la industria azucarera cu

bana, toda la vida pública y privada del pais que da expuesta a perecer por asfixia". Estas son textualmente las palabras del senador José Ma nuel Casanova,

En el llamamiento que hace el prominente hom

bre público de Cuba, hay un párrafo que nos pa Sr. fCRNANCAJ A. VILLAMIL Vicepresidente Ejeeutivo, Asociaeión de Productores de Azúcar de Puerto Rico

rece debemos reproducir íntegramente aquí para que los puertorriqueños todos, desde la posición más humilde hasta la más destacada, se apresten a brindar su concurso al movimiento similar que

Un artículo del senador don José Manuel Casa-

debemos también organizar aquí, velando por que

nova, de Cuba, que vió la luz pública en el diario "El Crisol", edición del lunes 20 de este mes de enero, bajo el título de "Necesidad de un Frente Nacional Azucarero", nos sugiere unos comenta rios, de manera que nuestros compatriotas se den

nuestra industria azucarera se desarrolle con el apoyo unánime del pueblo. He aquí el párrafo

cuenta de las actividades de defensa que coordina

y pone en práctica Cuba, como región productora de azúcar para el mercado de los Estados Unidos, y de la consiguiente obligación que deben sentir ios puertorriqueños de hacer otro tanto para brindar protección adecuada a nuestra principal fuente de vida y bienestar.

del artículo del senador Casanova a que acaba mos de hacer mención:

"Es imperativo constituir el Frente Nacio

nal de Defensa Azucarera; pero en él tenemos

que estar todos los cubanos, gobernantes y

gobernados, sin distinción de clases ni privi legio de castas. En primer término, el Go bierno, para que el bloque defensivo tenga ca rácter oficial. Después, las asociaciones de comerciantes e industriales, las Cámaras de

En su artículo el senador Casanova hace un

Comercio, las entidades de detallistas, navie

inventario de la situación actual y de la perspec tiva mundial. A pesar de que el distinguido le gislador y hacendado cubano reconoce que el

ros, banqueros, aseguradores y transportistas.

Es decir, todos los órganos vivientes de los ne gocios cubanos, cuyo florecimiento o penuria

azúcar tiene todavía por delante dos buenos años,

están supeditados de continuo a que nuestro

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azúcar siga produciéndose en gran escala y te-

berá conformarse con adhesiones espirituales,

que Puerto Rico no puede mirar indiferentemente hacia el futuro de nuestra industria azucarera, ya que no es ni patriótico ni previsor aguardar hasta que llegue el mal para desesperarnos en

sino que ha de fijarse una cuota en efectivo

tonces buscando el remedio.

. niendo mercados remuneradores.

Y cada cor- ■

poración de los grupos contribuyentes no de

con destino al fondo común que permita batir

al adversario, en la prensa y la radio ame ricanas, con sus mismas armas, si es que que remos sobrevivir."

Señala en su trabajo de Prensa el senador José Manuel Casanova que los productores de azúcar

cubanos, además de' mantener una oficina en Wa shington para la defensa del azúcar, "sostienen en Nueva York una organización compuesta ex

Estamos a tiempo de fomentar la defensa de nuestra industria azucarera, predicando con ejemplos constructivos la organización del frente puertorriqueño azucarero que asuma la defensa

de Puerto Rico para que no quedemos a merced de los otros frentes que han de organizarse en las demás regiones productoras de azúcar. Mejor se ría que la advertencia sobre lo que debemos ha cer los puertorriqueños, con el Gobierno Insular a

la cabeza, para salvaguardar nuestra industria

clusivamente por ciudadanos norteamericanos, deazucarera contra los ataques que han de venir, dedicada a informar al pueblo de los Estados y librarla así de postraciones económicas, nos la Unidos, bajo las firmas más responsables de es hiciera el senador José Manuel Casanova con las critores norteamericanos, la verdad sobre nuestro mismas palabras admonitivas que dirige él al azúcar y sobre la conducta de Cuba en la guerra, esclareciendo todas las cuestiones tanto en cuanto

se refiere a precios, utilidades, y demás, de tal modo que el pueblo americano esté informado de nuestra real conducta sobre el aprovisionamiento

pueblo cubano al pedirle que, por el bien de Cuba, se constituya en un frente nacional azu carero: "Y si hemos de escarmentar alguna vez en cabeza propia, cuerdo sería que, hasta donde sea posible, neutralicemos los peligros a tiempo".

y de todos los problemas que se relacionan con la producción, distribución y consumo del azúcar .

Agrega el senador Casanova que de ese modo WHAT ARE THE ...

(Continued fi'om Page 35) "vemos en revistas y periódicos que circulan por millones entre las amas de casas y demás com as a State, Puerto Rico would also be able to

ponentes del pueblo americano, cómo esa campa ña, no de anuncios, sino de divulgación, en ar

push faster the campaign against illiteracy.

Conclusión

tículos valorizados con las firmas más responsa

bles, llega a todas partes e ilustra y defiende nuestros derechos".

In view of what has been stated above, it would be advisable to sustain that Statehood is

the logical, perhaps the only acceptable, solution cesitamos, es hacer que el ciudadano comprenda to the problem of Puerto Rico's political status.

En Puerto Rico, lo primero que realmente ne

lo que el azúcar representa para nuestro pueblo.

Es indispensable que el puertorriqueño viva cons ciente de que, al igual que en Cuba, la prosperi dad de la industria azucarera determina las po sibilidades de mejoramiento de todo el pueblo. Es

A solution which will be mutually benefitial to the United States and to Puerto Rico.

(1) Report of the Advisory Committee of the Nationnl Republican Party on Policios and platform for 1920, pp. 270-271. See also T. Roosevelt, Colonial Policies of the United States, pp. 115-16.

innegable que nuestra industria azucarera sien,.e

(2) Morales, L. M., El Status Político de Puerto Rico,

la necesidad de una completa simpatía piiblica y

(3) Roosevelt, T. — Op. cit., pp. 116-117.

gubernameirtal. Entendemos que éste es el pri mer paso que debe darse para que cualquier^ f?estión que se realice en Washington, simultánea mente por nuestros hombres de Gobierno, orga nizaciones obreras, instituciones de crédito, cose

cheros de caña, y elaboradores de azúcar, cuente con el respaldo de todo el pueblo de la Isla, y sus demandas de protección puedan gozar de la fuerza que emana de ese absoluto endoso público.

Esa cordialidad puede desarrollarse perfecta mente bien si en su favor nos disponemos a con tribuir todos los puertorriqueños. Nos parece

p. 63.

(4) Roosevelt, op. cit., p. 194. See also Hearings on Bill H. R. 8501, p. 102.

(5) Roosevelt, op. cit., (Introduction).

Í6) North American Review, CIjXXIII, (p. 39) The Significance of the Porto Rican Problem", by L. S. Rowe (7) T. Roosevelt, op. cit., p. 119.

(8) Congressional Record, Vol. 61, Appendix, p. 8210 (1921).

(9) E. K. James. "Foreign Policy Reports", p. 182.

(10) ES Brown, "The President and His Policies", Ame

rican Yearbóok. 1936, New York, Thomas Nelson and

Sons, 193, p. 12.

(11) Descartes. S. L.. "Basis Statistics on Puerto Rico", pp. 74, 76 and 83.

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"tire. Do not fall in Une with the "kamikaze" OPEN LETTER.., forcé. You can go thru the fight and still come (Continued from Page 37) change the Army and make it brand new? You back alive. We all did it and feel happy. But that remembsr where they landed overseas? Yes, "operation 49th" has being planned and rehearJoe, they were sent to a physic clinic. But oui' sed; troops are seasoned; the artillery preparaboys after recuperation carne back and rejoined tion will be tremendous and our fighters are

the outfit. Our exgovernor stuck to his job for already in the air straffing everything within 5 years, yes, five solid years, and boy, ¡did he sight. changed things all overf The trouble was that when he left he spilled the beans. His staff was DISCURSO DEL LCDO.... no good and his "l.beral" ideas were phonies.

(Continuación de la Pág. 27) (So he says.) Joe,the creature of that imagination could not be recognized even by his foster dividuo en sus múltiples actividades, ha de ser father. He did not believe that they would work. computable en moneda, aún en ese orden mate

Money pouring everywhere from a percolator

rial son muchas las fuentes autorizadas que sos

called the insular budget and no soap. Sure tienen la capacidad de Puerto Rico para particienough he left behind a striken sector. No sup- l)ar de los beneficios de la Estadidad y cumplir plies and equipment to go to the forward Unes. con su responsabilidad federal de Estado.

Everything so centralized by the CP that officers Como teoría fantástica que siempre ha sido, va and men were like fricks inside the cross of the swastika.

Things are quite different too over there.

Harry is just like a División Cmder with all his staff against him. He never went to the Com-

mand and General Staff course. No prior planning and no plans A", "B" and "C" in case a

diluyéndose el argumento de la diferencia de idiosincracias, costumbres y lenguajes. No hay

más que de-tacar el hecho histórico de que el origen y la pujanza actual de la Nación, débese

pi-ecisamente a la savia mixtificadora de pueblos que eran distintos en tradiciones, religiones e idiomas, pero que fueron irresistiblemente atraí dos entre sí por las poderosas fuerzas magnéticas

flank is enveloped or a breakthrough. Joe Martin and Vandenburg are watching any suspitious de un clima y de una tierra de promisión y li move and if G2 collates and evaluates the inbertad. formation right, he gets a swing of positions.

El lenguaje de nuestra ciudadanía, la que todo Joe, things look just like in the "buldge". We

need right now some one who would repeat the el pueblo puertorriqueño, menos solamente unos

famoiis "nuts" of the lOlst Airbone. ¡Gee, they 278, aceptó honrosamente en el 1917, sin reser were fighters! Remember seeing them in Berst-

vas, consciente de que era vestíbulo hermoso de

chesgaden? Eagles of the US Anny encamped

la estadidad, el lenguaje inglés —repito—, sí es

near the "eagles nest" of the Fuhrer. Quite a lo que debe rápidamente mejorarse e intensifi coincidence.

Well, the future is looking brighter. Last mes-

sages coming thru are encouraging. Tydings withdrew and our Chief admitted that there is

carse en Puerto Rico. Dos millones de ciudada nos americanos apretujados en Puerto Rico tie nen derecho a que se les prepare en el dominio

del inglés, especialmente al obrero, y al pobre,

no hope for a severance of relations. A bilí for para que se les amplíen más las avenidas hacia la igualdad de oportunidades con los 140 millo statehood is being pressed hard in the Senate.

Independence, is practically out and permanent nes del Continente. El sentimiento separatista deja de ser altruista al hacer del lenguaje un a:s ,ciation is the pass word for tonite. Remem

ber when you get cióse to the "road block" to "issue" político. Quienes no crean en la convenien sound off right. "Permanent association" is it. cia de intensificar el inglés como vehículo de en

Don't get in trouble with the sentries if you for- señanza. no debieran dirigir, como representantes get it. You may even become a casualty. The del Gobierno de Estados Unidos, ni participar countersign is "citizenship". Be sure you under- activamente como mentores, en la instrucción pú stand it and don't get the chaplain busy with blica de los Ciudadanos americanos en Puei'to j^our things tomorrow and an investigating of- Rico. ficer getting your remains. Joe, "operation 49th" "A house divided against itself, cannot stand"

is on the way and it is going to be hard to stop

aconseja por último Lincoln a la posteridad.

it. Remember Patton, our master of amiored La lucha tenaz por el ideal de la Estadidad, que forcé is dead; Patch is gone; Ike is about to re- garantice definitivamente un gobierno del pue-

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tenerse en una casa dividida. El éxito del ideal necesita de la patriótica cony^nción de fuerzas en going over to the mainland. Why can not you esta hora crucial, en que el futuro de Puerto do the same thing?"

Rico está en el periodo más álgido de su historia

1, naturally accepted the young officer's obser-

de comunidad civilizada.

vation as truly correct.

En este aniversario conmemorativo, pleguémo

This incident goes to show that little things

nos en el ruego a Dios y a la América de Linclon, like that which sometimos seem unimportant, oh

para que sobre el terruño derramen la dulce ben dición de un sistema de gobierno en que reine libre, seguridad política, lealtad ciuda

the long run count just as much as big things do.

The young officer was correct. It's customary to hear well educated people in Puerto Rico, say-

dana y progreso efectivo para todos. Eso será ing: "l'm going to the United States"; "My son

Puerto Rico como Estado dentro de la Unió.i or daughter is in the United States"; etc. Being

más poderosa y humanitaria de hombres libres a part of the nation, why cann't we acquire the que ha registrado la Historia, i dentro de los Es habit of saying how it should be said: "l'm tados Unidos de América!; de esa América que nació del arado, se desarrolla en la fábrica y ae crece en la ciencia; de la América que no per mite siervos pero que tampoco admite amos; de la América del leñador Liiicoln, que levanta su

hacha, no para podar el árbol de la libertad, sino

going over to the mainland"; "My son or daugh

ter is on the mainland". To do that it must above

all demónstrate responsibility and intelligence, a kind of practical habit in Puerto Rico, which releases the creative forces of Statehood, well enough, and gives us the opportunity to organizo

para romper, comoquiera y dondequiera existan, a satisfactory state of mind favorable to our cadenas,a la humanidad.

sacred cause of Statehood.

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I s o RADICACION DE DECLARACIONES DE INGRESOS (INCOME TAX)

Las declaraciones de ingresos correspondientes

(6)

Todo fiduciario actuando a nombre de una

al año natural de 1946 deberán radicarse en el

sucesión o fideicomiso cualquiera de cuyos bene

Negociado de Contribución sobre Ingresos, debi

ficiarios es un extranjero no residente.

damente cumplimentadas, en o antes del 15 de marzo de 1947.

Los contribuyentes no residentes que no sean ciudadanos de Puerto Rico y las sociedades o cor poraciones extranjeras que no tengan oficina o si

tio de negocio en Puerto Rico deberán rendir estas declaraciones en o antes del 15 de Junio de 1947.

Vienen obligados a rendir declaración de in gresos:

(1) Todo individuo soltero, o casado si no vive con su esposa o esposo, o jefe de una familia por

otra razón que no sea la de estar casado y vivir con su esposa o esposo, si su ingreso neto es de $800.00 ó más por el año contributivo.

(2) Todo individuo casado que viva con su es posa o esposo, si su ingreso neto es de $2,000 ó más por el año contributivo. Si un esposo o es posa viven juntos y tienen unidos un ingreso neto de $2,000 ó más ó un ingreso bruto de $5,000 ó más, por el año contributivo, el ingreso total de berá ser incluido en una sola declaración de in gresos conjunta debiéndose computar la contribu ción normal y adicional sobre el ingreso neto en

(7)

Todo extranjero no residente sin tomar en

consideración el importe de su ingreso bruto de fuentes dentro de Puerto Rico.

(8)

Toda persona jurídica (sociedad, corpora

ción, etc.) cualquiera que sea el montante de sus ingresos.

El hecho de no haber recibido los impresos co rrespondientes no será excusa para dejar de ren dir o para rendir tarde una dclaración.

Los impresos pueden obtenerse en las Colectu

rías de Rentas Internas de la localidad y en el Negociado de Contribución sobre Ingresos del De partamento de Hacienda, en San Juan.

La declaración deberá venir acompañada de por lo menos la mitad de la contribución. Dicho pago deberá hacerse en monda corriente, giro postal o telegráfico, o cheque certificado.

La penalidad del 25% de la contribución será

impuesta invariablemente en todos aquellos casos en que se rindiere la declaración fuera de tiempo sin causa justificada para ello.

conjunto.

(3)

Todo individuo que tenga un ingreso bru

to de $5,000 ó más por el año eontributivo, sin considerar la cantidad de su ingreso neto.

(4) Todo fiduciario, en representación de un individuo a nombre del cual él actúa si está in cluido en los párrafos (1), (2), ó (3) que antece den.

(5)

Todo fiduciario actuando a nombre de

una .lucesión o fideicomiso que tenga por el año contributivo un ingreso neto de $800 ó más o un ingreso bruto de $5,000 o más sin tomar en consi deración su ingreso neto.

Cualquier persona que voluntariamente dejare de pagar la contribución impuesta por la Ley de Contribución sobre Ingresos vigente, incurrirá en

un delito castigable con multa máxima de $10,000 ó cárcel por un año, o ambas penas.

Los Colectores de Rentas Internas tienen ins trucciones de cooperar con los contribuyentes en

la preparación de las declaraciones. En San Juan, el Negociado de Contribución Sobre Ingresos, si tuado en la calle Infanta Luisa esquina Isabel Se gunda, en la Marina, prestará a los contribuyentes iguai cooperación.

31 de enero de 1947.

RAFAEL BUSCAGLIA, Tesorero de Puerto Rico

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