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To the Editor of the CRIMSON:

Colonel A. T. Marix, Minister of Justice, Education, and Foreign Relations, has made his report on the American administration of Santo Domingo, and everybody is happy. At the request of France, England, and Germany, he says, the Americans took over the management of the island, for the sake. I suppose, of the Proteus excogitated by Monroe in 1823. Why the Monroe Doctrine was not called forth from the summit of the Olympus when the British occupied the Falkland Islands in 1832, or when a Spanish fleet bombarded Cuzeo and blockaded that and other Chilean ports in 1866, or, what is still more, when in 1863 Maximilian intervened in Mexico and founded there an empire, nobody has been able to tell us and I do not doubt that Colonel Marix could not tell us either. But the fact remains that in the latter case of Santo Domingo the Americans have taken over the management of the affairs of the island, and have apparently done well. They took up the matter of education, for instance, and decided to break all previous records. After a short time of training and coaching they raised the school enrollment from 18,000 to 103,000, a feat which certainly does honor to the American educational machine. But Colonel Marix has tailed to tell us it the new world record has been as successful qualitatively as it has quantitatively. He increased the number of the educated, but I doubt very much if he improved their quality.

Improvements like, the above made in the island certainly oblige the Dominicans. And I do not doubt that they will appreciate whatever good the Americans have done there. The Dominicans as well as many other Latin Americans, are getting used now to the outbursts of inexplicable generosity with which Uncle Sam sometimes overwhelms them, whether they like it or not. And besides the Dominicans are a grateful people. But I am sure just the same that when the last. U. S. Marines leave the island, the President of the little republic will feel like bidding them good by with the same words that Henry IV of France bid fare well to the Spanish garrison leaving Paris: "Gentlemen, give my regards to your master, but do not come again". R. A. MARIN '28   February 6, 1923.