Abstract

Porto Rico

The article presents information on the book "Social Problems in Porto Rico," by Fred K. Fleagle. Though a field for the philanthropist, social worker, and constructive statesman that ought directly to interest Americans, Porto Rico is an unknown land to all but a handful. While books appear steadily upon the Philippines, Hawaii, and Alaska, upon Panama and Cuba, while these attract tourists or adventurers, Porto Rico is little visited and almost never written about. This book is a specific and not a general picture, and by no means an attractive one. But it satisfies a thirst for information that has been growing with those who hear constantly of the great poverty in Porto Rico, of its baffling social difficulties, of its political unrest, and of the great improvements slowly being worked, hut who are unable to ascertain the exact state of affairs on this little island of 3500 square miles and 1200000 people.