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Cuban Scarcities Charged to Reds
By Phil Newsom
PII Foreign News Analyst
President Kennedy has made a point of the fact that the U.S. "quarantine" of Cuba will not cut off the necessities of life, as the Soviets attempted to do in their 1948 Berlin blockade.
In actual fact, inept Communist leadership and resistance of the workers already have placed the Cuban people at close to the subsistence level.
ALL STAPLE GOODS and most household commodities are rationed.
A government decree in March permitted each person three-quarters of a pound of meat and one and a half pounds of beans per week, and six pounds of rice and one cake of soap per month.
The government has been forced to parade tanks, troops and artillery to counter demonstrations against food scarcities in a country which once had one of the highest living standards in Latin America.
As shortages have mounted so has absenteeism. Earnings meant little if there was nothing to buy.
THE SOVIET Union has promised $457 million in credits to Cuba, of which about $45 million have been disbursed. The money spent thus far had no visible effect.
Nor have the Communist exhortations to the people to work harder had much more effect.
One of the top Communists, Blas Roca, wrote in the Arty Newspaper Hoy:
"If we do not increase our production, there is no possible defense . . . because people who are dead of hunger cannot carry out the defense."
THE STAY-AT-HOME tendencies of the Cuban people, plus the "great and costly errors" admitted by Industrial Minister Maj. Ernesto Guevara have meant drastic reductions in sugar, coffee, rice and tobacco crops.
Noted the Swiss Review of World Affairs;
"Because of Cuba's utter dependence on the East Bloc today, it now faces the question whether and to what extent its Communist trade partners will be willing and able to supply it with the raw materials, consumer goods and, above all, the food it cannot produce itself but must have to escape economic chaos . . .
"DESPITE THE great scarcity of meat the people refused to buy the East European canned meat offered for sale; a shiplod of Chinese geese and turkeys last fall finally had to be used to feed the men taken prisoners in the invasion of April, 1961, because this kind of poultry is an unfamiliar food to most Cubans . . .
"Havana stores are now stocked with the cheapest and most useless products of Eastern origin; poorly printed Communist pamphlets from Moscow, ceramics and artificial flowers from China, low-quality household goods made in East Germany and Czechoslovakia . . .
University Daily Kansan
Ex-ACLU Director To Talk on Prayers
The Supreme Court's ruling on prayers in New York high schools will be discussed by the ex-director of the American Civil Liberties Union at 4 p.m. Frdiay in the Kansas Union.
John De J. Pemberton Jr. will speak and answer questions at the Student Union Activities Current Events Forum. This will be the first Current Events Forum of this school year.
Trees Shedding, Not Dying
No, the pine trees in front of Flint Hall are not diving.
They are merely shedding their needles in quantity.
"You know, an evergreen is really not ever green," Harold E. Blitch, landscape foreman for building and grounds said yesterday.
"Evergreen trees renew themselves every $ _{1/2} $ to 2 years and the old needles fall off. If they didn't renew, they couldn't continue to grow."
Some trees on the campus, however, are sick. A few Austrian pines around the Chi Omega fountain have pine blight. Six trees have been lost
to the Dutch Elm disease so far this year. Eight were lost last year.
Attempts to prevent Dutch Elm disease include spraying the trees in the winter and removing deadwood in which the beetles causing the disease grow.
Agnew to Present 'Humor in Poetry'
L. R. Agnew, professor of history, will present "Humor in Poetry" at 4:30 this afternoon in the Music Room of the Kansas Union. The program is part of the SUA poetry hour.
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