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When Governor James Rumsey Beverley advocated birth control to check the fast-growing population of Puerto Rico he stirred up a wasp's nest of indignation. But Puerto Ricans regard Nature's population-reducing visits with fatalistic equanimity. Every few years a hurricane kills a few hundred of them, destroys their homes and crops. They name the hurricane for the saint on whose day it occurred, then forget about it. When on the day of San Eusebio last week the sea became still under a windless sky, natives were suddenly reminded of the hours preceding the hurricane of San Felipe...
...blow itself out against the mountains of Haiti. San Juan, the populous capital, was sharply ripped by the storm's 120-m. p. h. vortex. Lesser villages were torn from the hillsides. In all, 217 Puerto Ricans were killed, 2,219 injured, 75,000 left homeless. Next day Governor Beverley flew over the devastated areas, reported that the entire banana crop was destroyed, that coffee and tobacco had suffered a 50% loss, citrus fruits nearly...
With the insular legislature about to begin its quarrelsome session last week, newly appointed Governor James Rumsey Beverley ordered an investigation. In charge were Ramon Quinones; Dr. Ed-wardo Garrido Morales, representing the insular health department; and Dr. Pablo Morales y Otero, representing the Medical Association of Porto Rico. Dr. George Calvin Payne, resident representative of the Rockefeller Foundation, stood by with Dr. William Bosworth Castle, Dr. Rhoads' immediate associate in the pernicious anemia research. Dozens of Puertorri quenos testified that Dr. Rhoads had saved their lives, had given them his own blood...
...Rhoads, demonstrated how stanch a friend he is to every member of his staff. They had worked together for two years on the in fantile paralysis problem, and Dr. Flexner could vouch for the validity of the explanation which Dr. Rhoads last week sent to Governor Beverley: "Regret very much that fantastic and playful composition written entirely for my own diversion and intended as parody on supposed attitude of some American minds in Porto Rico should have become public document and taken literally by any one. Of course nothing in the document was ever in-tended to mean other than...
...transferred to Manila. Mr. Beverley stepped up into his job. Last week he stepped up to the top of the insular Government with the transfer of Theodore Roosevelt to the Philippines as Governor General. A competent administrator, Governor Beverley speaks Spanish like a native, plays with Boy Scouts, is pleasing to Porto Ricans. His job: to keep peace among the five political parties in Porto Rico, and keep alive his predecessor's program of economic rehabilitation. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill adding $125,000.000 to the capital of the Federal Land Bank system...