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the utmost faith in his integrity and ; honesty. | % Road Building Plan | He has taken a leaf out of Mlincis‘\ book of progress and has let conâ€"| tracts which will mean, very soon, a mm:â€"‘mfi-} ine end of the Island to the other.| ‘ffi-nn.--n-u,c-u‘ ‘in 750 miles long, or within 150 miles | tariff walls. Spenkers â€" who outlined â€" Cuba‘s w even hinted at retaliation. pressure of financial depresâ€" sion they feel the situation keenty. able to ship their cigars and tobaccos to American purchasers in small quantitiesâ€"a right denied them now. Cuba‘s present depression. its finanâ€"| cial men declare, is largely due to" Tobacco is Cuba‘s second export €rop. For the last three years the average tobacco exports to the U. S. hwmmmndmye-rly. And the tobacco growers have comâ€" Plaint, ‘too. They complain that our tariff wall has placed them at the mercy of American tobacco ifterests. They are pleading for the right to gain entry to the American market Cuba‘s tragedy. : has brought about a serious financial depression and many of Cuba‘s sugar growers Sugar Chief Crop I Sugar is Cuba‘s export crop. Sugar exports to the United States in 1923 totaled $331,.926,000; in 1924 it was $313,165,000 and in 1925 only $199,â€" 780,000. We received more sugar from Cuba in 1925 than ever before For the last three wears Cuba has averaged to import more than $12,â€" 000,000 worth of cotton cloth from the United States yearly. In the same period imports of condensed milk have: run from $2,500,000 to $4,400,000 a year. In 1925 we sold to Cuba $9.815,000 worth of wheat flour, $5,448,000 worth of sugar mill machinery and $4,790,000 worth of automobiles. Lard, bacon, hams and shouldersâ€"| packinghouse products chiefly fromi Chicagoâ€"entered Cuba from â€" the United States in 1925 to a value of | $20,288,000. Illinois has seventy shoe | factories so it is presumed this state | supplied its share of the S'.‘.O&’).OMi worth of boots and shoes imported" from the United States during the | same year. | On the docks at Havana we saw ships unloading cargoes of sacks. Inâ€" vestigation proved them to be filled with â€" potatoes â€"from â€" the United States. Our exports of potatoes to Cuba in 1925 were valued at $1.755,â€" "The outlook is for a still wider interchange of goods as the producâ€" tive capacity of Cuba is developed and diversified. With no other Latinâ€" American country is the United States so closely linked both commerâ€" cially and sentimentally: with no othâ€" er have our relations been so cordial and satisfactory." Imports "During the last twentyâ€"two years more than twoâ€"thirds of all her imâ€" ports have come from the United States and about fourâ€"fifths of all her exports have gone to the United States. Cuba normally buys from the United States close to $200,000,000 worth of merchandise each year and ships to the United States between $250,000,000 and $350,000,000 worth of goods. Sugar is by far the largest item. ‘"Thanks largely to the excellent communications with Cuba you peoâ€" ple of Illinois: are already doing a fine business with this country through your exports to Cuba considâ€" erably exceed your purchases. When I was with the United States Deâ€" partment of Commerce I became fairâ€" ly familiar with your industrial proâ€" duction and I believe no state proâ€" duces a wider variety of good in deâ€" mand in Cuba than Hlinois. . "The "United States now has close to . $1,500,000,000 invested in Cuba. Only in Canada have we such a large stake as here. Cuba ranks fifth among the nations as a seller to the United States and seventh as a buyer of American goo«b â€" Vlfinfiâ€":bt; ;a-p‘:cu she is ahead of all other Latinâ€"Amer ican countries. Members of the Goodâ€"Will Trade Cruise of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce have learned much of the trade possibilities of Cuba. At a dinâ€" ner given to the seventyâ€"nine memâ€" bers of the party at the Sevilia hotel, W. L. Schurz, economic advisor to the government of Cuba, an Ameriâ€" can and formerly with the United States Department of Commerce, President Machado, we learned, is by Lester R. Colby (Minois Chamber of Commerce) Cuba imported from the United Stllesinlmmhuthnlm_ 000 huevos. Huevos is Spanish for °g#s, barnyard variety. Cuba paid more than $3,000,000 for these cags. They came largely from our own cenâ€" tral west. t 3 Amiag ixing\in a scientific 'ay‘; plan ';i. t uviel -.IANID ON RECENT TRIP c"“‘"l ,'."""‘I"’““. ut me d""".' the o nation‘s present trouble is due to the *B-C‘yudll htt&-.liilmuy.tm Important Commercial Feaâ€"~ Con c...:uu.. & ‘ ures Island ; ~ grows and excellen s ).:\:, 1-..".‘! q-nlit;. in the :nurn :i-trich ol Cuba. However, as an industry it ABOUT ISLE OF CUBA low was less! ce of sus ESâ€"| _ General Enoch H. Crowder, ambasâ€" â€"{sador of the United States to Cuba, joined the lllinois party as soon as de| it stepped on Cuban soil and remainâ€" of | ed with the party at all times during be | the twoâ€"day stay in Havana. "Aweel, I micht," agreed the cauâ€" tious Sandy, "if the price is guid an‘ if ye‘ll include two pairs o‘ suits with them." "I‘d like to sell you these trousers," insinuated the tailor. yuu'henwcumhigflyuv.fit- able. He is also experimenting with rubber, cacao and fiber plants. Our own International Harvester comâ€" pany is raising sisal, for making binâ€" der twine, on its own Cuban plantaâ€" tions. of the distancé between New York Thursday, June 16 Coming! Carefully, Conscientiously Planned by the Progressive Merchants of Waukegan and North Chicago Once a Year to "Better their Best" in the interest of the Public. s Waukegan‘s Greatest Merchandising Event TheOne Day Known Throughoutthe North Shore as COMMUNITY BARGAIN DAY Correspondence between the Indian school and the Cornell school, Chiâ€" cago, began in February when the two â€" schools exchanged valentines through the Junior Red Cross interâ€" school correspondence program, the purpose of which is to unite by betâ€" ter understanding and by friendship the youth of all the nations of the world. The Indian children‘s mut was later fanned by a box of ets filled with candy Easter eggs. Indian clubs for Indian boys and girls who had never before heard of them (the gymnasium kind) made up the only contents of a package reâ€" mflyumfmnthecm!fl' school at Shiprock, New Mexico. TEACHER TELLS OF THEM Red Cross office to the Camp Indian Progress Made In Civilizâ€" ing School In New Watch Wednesday Waukegan Papers |__The indian pupi‘s are going to | learn to use the Indian clubs in their | class exercises soon. ; Civilized Now ‘ ‘"They are so civilized _ now, though," she says, "that a stranger rwouummfin they were | just out of the camps." "Of course," she says, "they didn‘t know a word of English when they came here a year ago. They were so undisciplined that when they were told to go to bed some of them lay on the floor under the bed, and othâ€" ers sat on the desks and put their feet on the seats. Indeed, they have seen scarcely anything that white boys and girls know about. lnllahq'l*h y3 One of the northern menâ€" tioned "Indian clubs" in his note with mmmuufih-b‘ dian boy replied that no one at their which is thirty miles from the nearâ€" very Their teacher, Miss Lydia S. 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