Cuban Counterpoint cf CENTORES va Soh tra atone ofthe Middle Ages, personified Carnival and Lent snd inde them spea in unforgetable verses cleverly puting into the aliematons and rebutals of the atical contest between them cei contrasting ethics and the ill and benefis that ach Ins conferred upon mankind. This allegorical dialog by the rics Juan Rul, "Pelea que ovo Dow Carnal com Dott Ouse ‘smd? inhi Libro de Buen Armor, rodounded tothe glory not tats nane at of he pari o lta atest thusly upon chat ofthe genial composer of rustic ove songs ud every manner of unabashed mocking Yr. ?eshaps that famous controversy imagined by tis great poet ofthe Mile Ages mighe serve asa Ieeraty precedent to pete Inieme now to personify dark tobacco and “nigh yellow” spat, ful let them in the gue of a fable, uphold their vying mere it, But lacking, 251 do, authority eee as pet or at pris to onjure up creatures of fantasy and lend theta human passions nnd superhuman significance all I can do isto set down, Mab prose, the amazing contrasts I have aberved in the two iricltral produetson which the economic hiory of Cuba Thos cms ete rein or moa wer thon hymea by the post priest beeween the unfa disipaions of Gunival and the punfying Lententide astinences, Tobacco Hist sugar are opposed to each ther in the economic asin the Focal ean even stailaced meals have taken the ie te consideration inthe couse of thei history, viewing the one With mistrust and the other with favor, Moreover, the contrat: Hg parallels between tacco and sugar deo curious ice hac between the tio characters in the archprie's dialogue that Hoes Beyond the lit of merely socal problem snd touches ijn the ings of pecry. A post might be able to give ws in jus verss a Peles de Don Tabaco y Dots Aztcar=2 Con ersy baween Don Tobseco and Dafa Saga.” This type of b