Woman's Home Journal

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Title: Woman's Home Journal
Description: Official Publication of the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Issue Date: Volume XVII (Issue no. 20) February 28, 1947
Publisher: National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines
Language: English
Subject: Women's periodicals.
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Place of publication: Manila
extracted text: 0 M A n‘s 0 M Ee |0 ■■■■■■■■b urna 28. 1947 IM SubAOubfL Jo Jfat WOMAN'S HOM JOURNAL OUT TWO TIMES A MONTH! Good, Bad, or Indifferent Weather, You Will Receive This Monthly Of Progressive Women & Men As Soon As It Is Off The Press, Anywhere. ★ ★ ★ IF YOU ARE PLEASED WITH THIS ISSUE. OF WHICH WE HAVE NO DOUBTS, YOU WILL FIND MORE PLEASURE IN READING THE ISSUES TO COME. OUR EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS, TOP-FLIGHT WRITERS ALL OF THEM, ARE PREPARING MATERIALS THAT WILL GIVE YOU THE LATEST IN THOUGHT-PROVOKING ISSUES, THE BEST IN SHORT STORIES, AND UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEWS AND FASHION PICS. ★ ★ ★ And If You Want Your Friends To Share With You The Joy Of Reading This Mag azine And At The Same Time Receive Handsome Dividends For The Litt'e Time You Will Spare, We Are Inviting You -To Get In Touch With Our Circulation Manager And Ask For Particulars Concerning Our Subscription Commission Plan. ★ ★* ★ CLIP THIS COUPON TODAY AND MAIL IT TO US TOGETHER WITH THE NECES SARY REMITTANCE! 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WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL (Official Organ of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs) Board of Editors Trinidad Fernandez-Legarda Paz Policarpio-Mendez Geronima T. Pecson Enriqueta R. Benavides Managing Editor Minerva G. Laudico Associate Editor Paciencia Torre-Guzman Advertising Manager F. A. Fuenteciila VOL. xvn No. 20 Contents FBBBUAKY 28, 1S47 THIS FORTNIGHTS ISSUE • THE portrait on our cover this fortnight is that MRS. CONSUELO SALAZAR-PEREZ, wife of Speaker Eugenio Perez of the Congress of the Piunppines. neiore tms huge piece oi responsibiuiy—that of wile oi the fourth ranting man in the Philippines—fell on her she was known" as a singer ox note, a iinisned artist. Now sne has ner hanas lull oi nostessnig, of campaign touts, oi social weiiare activities and cnanty worK. tone is suit tops.as a singer, omy protocol finds very few-and-thr-between occa sions fit for her singing appearances. She is a very adept narrator especially when it comes to recounting her experiences as chair man or member of charity drives. It is not in frequent, she says, that she and Mrs. Meiencio for instance, find themselves waiting in line for the elevator that takes them to their objective only to be told to wait outside while they send in their names first. Not everyone, it seems, is up to date in current events and not even their daily, photographs in the newspapers can seem to stamp their identities in people’s minds . But Mrs. Perez is very jovial and nothing can bring on the gloom. ' Miss Zablan who’ll make an excellent newsgal because she can catch deadlines, here writes the second of the promised series of YWCA personalities. A stickler for accuracy, she would have us rectify what we said about her last time. She was about to graduate from college when war broke out, but she got her diploma in 1942. MRS. JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ of whom she writes is the mother of three charm ing and talented children, two girls and a boy. The older of her two girls, Amelita (better known as Ming) is an athlete while Erlinda, the younger, is an (Continued on page 34) Mass Media and the UNESCO . •............................... 4 Dr. Encarnacion Alzona ’Seems To Me.................................. 5 Pia Mancia Poor Boy (Short Story) .......................... 6 Eufrasio L. Abueg Book Review ....................,........................................ 7 Pura Santillan-Oastrence Down the Hill Together........................................... 7 Kingsley Tufts Housing Dream That Can Not. Come True............. 8 A City Built From Scratch ............................................9 Robert M. Hallett Flower Story .............................. (............. 10 Planning With the People........................................ 11 Oonrado V. Pedroche Courage For Marriage ................... 12 Josefa Jara Martinez................................................. 13 Aurora Zablan Friends In America ...................• •........................... 14 Free Legal Aid Clinic ............................................... 15 Cecilia MUnos-Palma Club Women’s Bulletinboard................ ••................ 16 P.I.—U.S. War Damage Commission....................... 17 Fashions: What’s New? .................................... 18-19 Home Institute ........... • •....................................... 20-24 Put Your Bets On Betty Betz................................ 26 Inel Heimer Silhouettes. 33 The “Woman’s Home Journal” is edited and published by the Women’s Publishers, Inc., at 1055 Soler, Ramon Roces Bldg., Manila, Philippines. Telephone: 8-64-23. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office on July 10. 1946. Subscription Rates: 1 year (24 issue?) P6.00; 6 months (12 issues) P3.00; 2 years (48 issues) P1J.00. For foreign countries double thesejates. MASS MEDIA A\l» UNESCO An eloquent expression ot man eternal quest for peace is me new international agency, me Limed LnCdTnaClOU HlZOlUL .x a uons .educational, Scientinc, J and Cultural Organization, popu larly called L’NisbCO. At tne lirst general conference of this body held recently in Pans, men and women of high distinction in ephemeral and cannot be depend- life both productive and enjoyeducation, science, and culture ed upon to maintain world peace, able. How to bring to the under met in utmost friendliness and Only through the diffusion of privileged and less fortunate peogoodwill to discuss a -program of education, the lowering of the pies the light of education is an action for the present year 1947. barriers of . prejudice, ignorance, enormous task, but UNESCO will It was inspiring to hear the in- and bigotry can peacee be secur- undertake it. To succeed, howtellectual elite of great and small ed. UNESCO is dedicated to the ever, it must have the ardent sup powers deliberate as equals, con- task of combating ignorance in port of governments, private orcerned solely with what they the belief that ignorance is one ganizations, and all individuals could contribute to the recon- of the fundamental causes of war. who subscribe to its philosophy struction of a war-weary and an- It will place emphasis on the en- of global humanism, xious world. These men and lightenment of the masses. Es- In implementing its progress, women represented governments, sentially a democratic movement, UNESCO will make the greatest At last, states have come to its plan encompass the entire- possible use of the media of mass realize the imperative need for world, transcending national fron- communication which modern orchestrating all efforts toward tiers. A world-wide educational technology has placed at the disevolving a new world founded movement has become imperative posal of man—press, film, microupon mutual understanding, just- in view of the fact that more film, radio, and television. As pre ice, liberty, and peace. They have than half of the world’s inhabit- liminary step it will create com....... .. c ants at the present time still missions to inquire into the needs come o rea lze in e lg of grope in totaj darkness, unaffect- of war-devastated countries in history that political arrange- e(j j,y an(j unaware of the tech- Europe and the Far East for raw ments between governments are nological advances that have made materials, equipment, and techni cal personnel in the fields of film, and press, including the supply of raw film stock, pulp, and paper; film cameras and projectors, radio transmiting receiving apparatus; printing machinery and type. After the conclusion of their in vestigation, the commission will recommend the immediate meas ures to correct the deficiencies that they have found. An important task of UNESCO in this field is the removal of artificial barriers to free and un trammeled dissemination of news and information between na tions. Censorship, official control of press and radio, and similar restrictions in the transmission of information across national bound aries must be abolished. The recent global war has am ply demonstrated the efficacy of mass media in stirring to action millions of men. There is no rea son why they should not be ef fective in peace to awaken the minds of men, stir their hearts, and enlist their wills in the cause of peace and justice. PAGE 4 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL It seems to me that the Filipino women are becoming more and more conscious of themselves, their rights and responsibilities, their potentialities and their capabilities Which is just as well. I.et me tell why, later. Perhaps they remember that, in the preamble of' the charter of the United Nations, the representatives of the different mem. ber-nations have reaffirmed their faith in the equal rights of men and women, stating as “one of the purposes of the organiza tion ........... the promotion and encouragement of respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to sex, race, etc.” It will be recalled that as early as 1935 the League of Nations adopted a resolution to determine the scope of a proposed world wide study on the legal stntus of women. The Committee was able to. hold three meetings and work on the project was going on when the war broke out. Let’s go on with the story, as the United Nations’ Bulletin tells it: At the United Nations Conference at San Francisco, references to the status of women were incorporated in the Chamber. The Brazilian delegation at that time recommended that the Economic and Social Council should appoint a '•Special commission to study the political status of women. Result: In May, 1946, in the Nuclear Commission of Human Rights, it was decided that priority of con sideration should be given to the political rights of women. Mrs. Bodil Begtrup of Denmark, Chairman of the nuclear Sub Commission on the status of Women, declared that the resolution to give the same political rights to women as those given to men would not only give hope that something would be done for them but also would provide moral support to governments which are anxious to improve women’s status. In this respect you’ll be sur prised to know that many countries do not enjoy even the rights enjoyed by the Filipino women. Two major reservations were expressed regarding the resolu tion To Mrs. Roosevelt, the resolution seemed superfluous, since it merely repeated what had already been accepted by the memFORMER SOCIALITE FACES EVICTION TIME HAS CHANGED things greatly for the widow of Superior Judge Francis J. Heney pictured looking at a picture of her late husband in Santa Monica, Calif. Mrs. Heney, 80, who has just been evicted from her home, was the center of the social and political set in California at the time of her marriage years ago._____ {International Soundphoto) ’Seems to Me By Pia Manci a ber states when they signed the Charter. She made it clear, how ever, that she would not oppose the resolution, and that she was not proposing any amendment. To Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India, the resolution was worded too restrictively. She thought it was not proper to speak of the rights of women apart from the rights of human beings as a whole. If it was necessary to single out the rights of women, all the rights should be cited. An in teresting sidelight which she gave was this: Indian women already possess political rights, but do not have the right to inherit property. Interesting too was the reaction of the delegates who supported Mrs. Pandit’s view that the proposal should not be restricted to political rights France, Panama and the U. S. S. R. all suggest ed that the word “political” might be removed from the resolu tion, because economic and social rights were also involved. And while we are speaking of rights, what about digressing to commend Ambassador Romulo’s brave stand condemning as unjust the two standards of human rights that the British and the -Belgian would set in the enjoyment of the principles of freedom and equality, one for the civilized and another for backward peo. pies. Mr. Romulo would have only one standard. Mr. Romulo has done such outstanding work in the UN for world peace that the World Government News gave him its first award. Now to go back to the women and the UN’s project to entrance their rights. It will be recalled that in connection with women’s rights, Mrs. Roosevelt said something which might just as well have come from the lips of a Filipino women. She would not swap the rights women might get from a wholesale equalization of men-andwomen’s status with the privileges the women are enjoying at present. She was, of course, thinking of the American woman, and especially of the labor legislations favoring the fairer sex. In fact Mrs. Roosevelt came out with a recommendation that the Council should try to help those countries which had not already granted equal political status to women. ‘Seems to me Mrs. Roosevelt has really a bag of surprises up her sleeve all the time. Only a few days ago she upped and declared that the Anglo-American allies should not consider Soviet Russia too tough to tackle. She would advise tact, coolness and discretion in “handling” the Russians. Just like a woman, I thought, when I read her wise counsel. As a matter of fact, there are many who feel that Russia and the Anglo-American “partner ship” can really get together on the basis of understanding pro vided that aggressive suspicion and distrust do not cloud their relationship. Even William Benton, when he spoke recently to the 21st women’s patriotic conference on national defense, representing 32 women’s organizations, emphasized the necessity of mutual un derstanding through tolerance and receptivity. And Elliot Roose velt, son of the late President Roosevelt,.had the same piece of ad vice to make to his fellow-countrymen. And so we see everywhere that women are appealed to for their support in movements, national or international. No wonder then that, as I said in the beginning, the Filipino woman should find herself with the urge to come out, even more than ^she’ had in the past, to express herself. This, in spite of male reproaches and misgivings that she has no social consciousness, no civicmindedness,—in general. It cannot be said truthfully that there is no justice in this accusation, but, ‘seems to me, the women, or at least same of them are doing their level best. But more of that later. FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE Short Story He shot a look at Mona who seemed to avoid him of all days. She was talking to Lita, the tom boy, about a new dress her mother bought her. He drew his eyes back and told himself, “What is the use!” He cast her a sweeping look, this time in a vain attempt to catch her eye, but still she seemed not to notice him. He felt peeved as he remembered that rainy day when she slipped into a mud pud dle. He helped her out of the dirty mess while their classmates stared, giggling foolishly. At one corner of the room, talk ing with a classmate, was Nilo wiht whom he had a fight one afternoon when he caught him stealing his pencil. Nilo was a rich man’s son. His father worked in the bank and owned a car. He knew Nilo hated him after that fight. He knew also that Nilo had told his father about the black eye. One Sunday morning, while going home from church, Nilo’s father nearly ran him over. He did not knew the car was very sacristan this vacation. Once he tried on the cassock and he saw in the mirror that he looked be coming in it. The thought of the prospective job thrilled him im mensely and he had to control him from shouting out loud from sheer joy. His face hardened as he saw Oscar enter the room. He was the mischief-maker who, on several occasions, had made a laughing stock out of him on account of his bristling and uncontrollable hair. He decided that one word from Oscar about his hair which he took extra pains to do for this particular day, would mean trou ble. He had thought long before of settling with Oscar through a fight, but he had received a warn ing from Miss Me'dina, the teacher, that if he fought Oscar, he would be suspended from school. So he had just let it go at that. The chap sat beside Mona who had taken a seat far apart from the hub.. He heard him telling her about his pending promotion to the fifth grade next month. It FOB a long minute, he stood hesitatingly at the doorway. As he met the questioning stare of those inside the room, he be came aware of a feeling of em barrassment. He felt . stupid, standing there, dressed in his best suit which was a sorry contrast to what these inside the room were wearing, and eyeing the happy group who did not seem to re cognize him at all. He felt revoltive inside, but outwardly, he looked scared and confused. Right then he was trying hard to tell himself not to shout a curse at his classmates, slam the door be hind and run away somewhere. The world is full of strange people, he mused. There are times when those you have friends with for months—talking with them, going around with them, joking and laughing with them—do not seem to know you at all. And this starts you thinking indifferently of the world—something cnfel and strange. Then you begin to realize that after all, you are alone and friendless. He had j>ut on his best clothes that day in compliance with the teacher’s order. It was Mothers’ Day and the class was going to entertain the mothers during the afternoon session. His feet had outgrown the canvas shoes he had been wearing for the last two POOR ROY By Eufrasio L. Abueg years, but anyway, he had man aged to borrow the wooden shoes of Pepe, his friend and playmate in the neighborhood. He had long counted on the promise of his un cle that he would buy him a_new pair, but it had been months since that promise. He knew his uncle was a very busy man and just did not have enough time to buy shoes for a nephew who lived ten kilo meters away. But if he had want ed to, he could have sent him the money for the purpose. “Just rubber shoes—like my old pair,” he had asked him besee chingly. And to this the uncle had answered, “Yes. Don’t you worry, old boy.” In spite of himself, he entered the room, taking the side ailse. His classmates were talking in whispers, obviously about him, but he did not mind them. He over heard one saying “Poor fellow” and he frowned. Two Against The World— An Old Woman And A Boy close behind him until he was tooted at with its horn, so loud that for a moment .he lost his wits and did not know what to do. Had not somebody pulled him out of the way, he might have been run over by that car. Since then, he had not thought favorably of Nilo and his kind. He had known them to be irrational in their dealings with the poor. He thought of Father Rosales, the town priest, whom the poor elements in the community loved and adored. One of these days, he would show these hooligans what he could do. Father Rosales had promised to employ him as a was with a gloating air that he said, “I’m going to be in the fifth grade next month, you’ll see!” And he felt like shouting at Oscar’s face, “You braggart!” “How do you know you’re going to be promoted?” Mona asked casually. “I knew it,” he said beaming proudly. "My grades are all 100 in the examinations. Don’t you know I’m Miss Medina’s favorite?”’ He noticed Oscar looking at him, whereupon, he pouted his lips and glared at him in return. The bell in the corridor rang announcing the start of the after noon classes. Simultaneously, Miss PAGE 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Medina entered the room follow ed by the other pupils. In a minute the class was seated an‘d the teacher announced that the visitors had arrived. Among the guests was a mo destly dressed woman who bore the weight of her old age wjth a cane. She displayed an air of uneasiness as she looked at the faces of the well-dressed ladies, who were all beaming with pride and happiness. She looked around for a seat and finally located one at the oppposite comer. Despite the overwhelming feel ing of self-consciousness that as sailed her, the old woman’ feign ed a smile and walk slowly to wards the empty seat, her cane knocking on the wooden floor. Halfway, she was halted by a frail bare-footed boy, who slung her left hand on his shoulder, and with his right hand firmly hold ing her by the waist, led her to an empty seat beside his, in the back row. “Oh, it’s you!” said the old woman to the boy, her eyes peer ing closely at him. “Yes, mother,” the boy said. “I thought, you said you’re not coming to school because you have no shoes.” Her voice trembled. “I came, anyway,” the boy said curtly. “It’s not the shoes, mother. I can also come to school without them—and live.” His voice was hard and echoed in the room. “I came to ask your teacher to excuse you, because you have no shoes, you know,” said the old woman, raising her eyes to the teacher who was standing by, lis tening tensely to the conversation between the old woman and her grandson. ' , “I guess, mother, I’d better take you home now," he said. <Lbown, By KINGSLEY TUFTS Let's run down the hill together, Fly like flags in windy weather! There’s a spring will quench our thirst— Race, to see who gets there first! Breatheless, down the sun-swept hill, Breathing deep, we’ll drink our fill Kneeling in a shady place, Dripping, laughing, face to face. Lovely weather, lovely wind! Coats unbuttoned, hair unpinned! Downhill to the spring we fly, Heart to heart, my love and I. By Pura Santillan-Castrence pure science are applied for the purpose of making our system of mass-producing and mass-distri buting industry more expensively elaborate and more highly specia lized, there can be nothing but ever greater centralization of power hands.” And since, as a complement to this centralization is the loss by the masses of their liberty and since, with the pre sent use made of science such a centralization is inevitable, one way to solve the problem presented is to deviate altogether the chan nels up to now taken by progres sive science and technology. For after all “the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath; and the same is true of applied science.” Science need not be harnessed to power; more human ly it may be harnessed to the pro duction of the greatest good by helping furnish man’s physical and psychological needs. Human beings Require nourishment, cloth ing, houses; they need the chance to explpit all their latent possibi( Continued on page 34) SCIENCE, LIBERTY AND PEACE By Aldous Huxley Published by Harper and Brothers Publishers, New York and London, 1946. Distributed in the Philippines by the Philippine Education Co. This is Aldous Huxley, the es sayist, at his convincing best. Slowly, methodically, almost professorially he deprecates the system of government in which science and technology have be come the masters and how they, naturally and logically, have brought about the centralization of political and economic power. He accuses progressive science as one of the chief factors for the centralization of power in the hands either of the capitalists or the government. At present, he ex plains, Western society is at the mercy of progressive technology, so much so that “man as a mo ral, social and political being is sacrificed to homo faber, or man the smith, the inventor and forger of new gadgets.” It is well that such a reminder should be made at a time when the eyes of the world seem to turn instinctively again to science to cure its difficulties. And there seems to impend in the minds of men the idea of the possibility of a third war to end all wars. Why not, says Aldous Huxley, the idea of peeace to end all wars all time? His solution to the problem presented by modern conditions of science and politics is that of de centralization, for, in his opinion, which is that of all the Decentra lists “so long as the results of FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 7 TIE Philippines is now facing a tremendous housing shortage with the destruction of more than 300,000 private structures all over the Islands. In Manila alone, 33,000 houses were destroyed, leav ing 24,000 families and 135,000 persons homeless. The word “homeless” readily strikes a sympathetic chord in our heart, for we are one of these 135,000 whose homes were razed to the ground during the what-isnow-known-as-the Liberation Fire. We know how difficult it is to live as “guests” in friends’ houses no matter how welcome they made us feel, to move three times in three months, to be asked by the landlord to leave at the end of the month “because my rela tives are arriving from the prov ince and the^ need the place.” In desperation, we built at consider able expense a temporary, sub standard house, a little better than a barong-barong because it has running water and bathroom with toilet. We are lucky than most fire victims for we still had our land on which we,could build and from where no one can drive us away. And we don’t have to pay exorbitant rent now. We are not concerned here with the rich and the well-to-do fire victims who comprise just a small percentage of the 135,000. They have built new homes or can well afford to pay high rent. We are concerned with the poor who have built temporary shelters called barong-barong on whatever va cant spaces they could find. These squatters are constantly facing ejection unless they pay the high rent (especially in the business sections of the city) which the property owners are asking for. Not a few of these owners have taken the matter to court, but even the law can’t throw these squatters out for they have no where to go, they say. Most of them really cannot afford even minimum rent. In the meantime, they continue to live in their temporary shelters devoid of any sanitary facility, and thus create bigger and more slums in the city. Many families who did hot' have a place to go to on the night of the Liberation Fire took shelter in public school buildings and continued to occupy these buildings until schools re-opened. Those who could not find accom Two types of dwellings in Barrio Fugoso. HOUSING DREAM THAT CANNOT COMT TRUE modations or could not afford to pay even nominal rent, were given tents and money and per mission to erect their tents (or whatever construction they could afford later) on a site donated by the city government. This re fugee center is now known as Barrio Fugoso, named a^ter its sponsor the city mayor. About one thousand families ’ have set up their dwellings in this barrio which is provided with lights, water and toilet facilities. There is a plan to enlarge this refugee center in order to accommodate the war widows and orphans. Although the residents in this barrio are very grateful to the city government for all the assist ance given to them, still they are not contented with their lot. First, the tents that were given to them were far from new and soon de veloped holes and tears. Second ly, the sum of one hundred pesos given to each family was not suf ficient for the construction of even the smallest, the simplest temporary structure that would take the place of the more tem porary tent. Many residents fear that when the baguio season starts, the flimsy shelters they have built will be blown away or fall down because the barrio is very near the sea. Those who work in the business center of the city complain of the distance they have to cover twice each (lav. The womenfolk who used to earn good pin money through washing and other means have lost all opportunity of ssupplementing their husbands’ meager incomes because they are now far from their former customers. Barrio Fugoso is frankly tem porary and created to give im mediate refuge to those who were dislodged from the diffferent public school buildings in the city. It is, therefore, unfair to expect much from it in the way of better planning. The donation of the land, free of rent, to the refugees is already a great help, in our opinion. The city gov. eminent wants to improve this barrio but it lacks funds and is depending on private donations for its enlargement in order to accommodate more families. Even before the war the gov ernment had already plans to provide decent housing to those who may be unable to otherwise provide themselves with and thus eradicate slums in populous cities and towns in the Philip pines. Thus an act (No. G48) was approved creating the Na tional Housing Commission in June, 1941. Before this body could be organized, war broke out and it was not until Septem ber 1945, that the Governing Council was appointed. Since then the Commission has been busy blue-printing a dream that may not be realized in the near future because of lack of funds and building materials. Just what is a “decent” home from the viewpoint of the Na tional Housing Commission? According to its minimum physical standards and criteria for the planning and design of urban low-cost housing, “the type shall be well suited to the gen eral economic level, customs and needs of the prospective tenant; the house should be 15 meters from the front or rear, and 3 meters from the side, of its neighbor; must have at least two exposures; the construction me thod and materials selected must be of such nature as to insure mi nimum costs of maintenance and repair, and discourage termites, insect pests, rodents, bats, etc.” Each dwelling unit must con tain the following: living room* and kitchen with dining space in the kitchen, electric lighting. The bathroom should be accessible from the living room and from each bedroom without passing through another room, and its facilities should include water closet, faucet and shower. In other words—a dream of a house, such as a low-salaried man dreams of owning or renting but finds impossible because it is not within his means. Picture orderly rows of these houses, in a site “free from smoke noise," fumes, odors and other nuisances, also from periodic floods, swamps or stagnant water, erosion or other physical hazards, well related to transportation lines, public schools and markets, recreation areas and other ameni ties to promote health and whole some living.” We can actually sec young children playing in the small parks or on the cement driveways and walks leading to their respective homes, even in (Continued on page 30) PAGE WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL WHY NOT According to C. M. Lo renzo, Secretary, Nation al Housing Commission. "The government serves best which seeks to do the greatest good for the greatest number.” To aptly apply this' democratic political philosophy to a housing program is to give every Filipino child a chance to be reared and nurtured in safe, decent, moral and healthful surroundings so that he may grow to live a use ful and peace-loving citizen of our country. Towards the realization of such an aim, the government, created in June, 1941, a public corporation known as the National Housing Commission. The pur poses for which this Commission was created are the following: “1. The acquisition, develop ment, construction, leasing and selling of lands and buildings or any interest therein in the cities and populous towns of the Phil ippines, with the object of provi ding decent housing for those who may be found unable otherwise to provide themselves therewith; Does this look like; a view of the Manila Hotel? Actually, it is one of the three-story modern apartment buildings to house families of employees of a Brazilian factory. “2. The promotion of .the phy sical, social,, and economic better ment of the inhabitants of the cities and populous towns of the Philippines by eliminating there from slums and dwelling places which are unhygienic or unsanitaary and by providing homes at low cost to replace those which, may be so eliminated; and A City Built From Scratch By Robert M. Hallett (From THE CHRISTIAN SICF.NCE MONITOR' The provision of community I istitutional housincr for des. ■ and Institutional housing for des titute individuals and families and for paupers.” Let us examine the housing problem in Manila before the j' war. The majority of the houses' were dilapidated, worn out, un safe, unhealthy, overcrowed, in short, the majority of the homes of Manila residents were of bad housing. Was this kind of housing increasing or decreasing? The yearly average increase in the number of families was 3,400 while the pre-war residential building construction was only about 2,400 dwelling units a year. What of the housing of the dif ference of 1,000 families who could not be provided with decent, safe and healthy dwellings? These families were absorbed in t Continued on page 31} IN a small but modernistic ofI fice in a New York City sky scraper, blue-prints have been drawn that may have a major in fluence on the future development 'of Brazil, 4,000 miles to the south. | Under commission from the Brazilian Government, Paul Les ter Wiener and Jose Luis Sert, , New York architects and plan ners, have designed- a complete » modem industrial community to accommodate nearly 25,000 popu lation to be located 25 miles from ( Rio de Janeiro. This “city of the future” will be built literally from the ground up in an area that was covered with swamps and jungle only five years ago. Today the jungle is cleared, the swamp drained, and an airplane factory is in operation, while in ! outlying areas a large modern poultry farm, piggeries and cattle ranches have already been set up to help feed the future population of “Cidade Dos Motores” (the City of Motors) as it will be called. “Cidade Dos Motores” will take 10 years for complete transforma tion from blueprint in New York City to actuality in the Brazilian valley, although work has already begun. Its designers say it will be the most complete city in the world planned in accordance with mo dem scientific, sociological and industrial principles. The new munkipality will be built around two factories, a tractor plant in addition to the present airplane factory, and will play an important part in the in dustrialization of Brazil. The factories will help meet Brazil’s two prime needs—airplanes for transportation and agricultural equipment for production of food. The plans of the New York architects have been accepted by the Brazilian Government /and ground broken for construction of the first unit of the town—a re sidential section to house some 6,000 persons in modern apart ment buildings ranged around a central recreation area. Although called “the City of Motors,” the project has been drafted in terms of the individual with respect to the accessibility and usability of city facilities and provisions for his social welfare, Mr. Wiener told m^. Population density will be about 100 persons to an acre, a figure arrived at after careful consideration of climate, walking distances and maintenance problems, he said. Planning, therefore, has been kept within the scope of the pedestrian, with average walking distances to the civic center less than a quarter of a mile. Periphe ral roads will give automobiles access to all neighborhoods, but. inside the neighborhood units all traffic will be by foot or bicycle paths under covered traffic ways fContinued on page 31) FEBRUARY '28. 1947 PAGE 9 Mrs. Mona Lisa Lindenberg-Steiner is here shown communing with her well-known friends, orchids and dnery green thing growing. The outhouse is a beehive of activity. Three, four men are busy daily preparing huge quantities of orchids for shipment to foreign lands. JJdjumJi Slaty Back in 1938 this professional botanist little dreamed that a huge orchid project was to be her happy life career. THIS flower story has, of all things, Hitler in it. For all this seeming incongruity, the story remains a flower story, beautiful and rare as only orchids can be. In justice, it must be mention ed at this early stage that had Hitler not come to Vienna and ordered that life must cease, Mo na Lisa Lindenberg (now Mrs. Steiner) might not have come to Manila and this particular orchid story would not have been possi ble. The story of Mrs. Steiner’s coming to Manila is a classic. She wrote it in a few hundred words and sent ib to the Atlantic Monthly in the United States which not only printed it in full but also awarded it a prize. The letter is reproduced somewhere in this article. It is run word for word to give the reader a chance to appreciate the gem of a story as told by one who hurdled a problem which included, among other things, language difficulty. To go back to the orchid story: There are orchids and orchids, and that’s beautiful but not necessarily startling news. But when orchids fly for parts unknown to scatter themselves and make a try at living with orchids of other species in a new habitat some where else in this universe—that’s someth/ng else. With Hawaii, Havana, Califor nia and other points as destina tion, some sixty of our classified Luzonian species of orchids have for their starting point the Bota nical Gardens of Mona Lisa Steiner, located in the depths of Park Avenue, out on Taft Exten sion, Manila. The place is not so easy to locate especially if the directions given you are to stop where Taft meets Park. But the expense and the effort are worth the taking because the moment you get a glimpse of the gardens you know that you have not come for nothing. You don’t get to the orchids right away. It’s a rose-strewn path you must tread first, bank ed on either side with green things growing—plants, big and small growing for all they’re worth. There is not an inch of ground left unplanted, never a bare nook. Empty milk tin cans, coconut shells, coconut busks, earthen pots, bamboo tubes and even the maid’s baquia hanging on its heels—all hold a bit of earth on which grows some kind of plant. The plants are not of the costly variety. They are plants that grow and grow once you give them the chance. They love to climb into people’s houses, adorn doorsteps, grow in window boxes with little care. Mrs. Steiner grows them, adding ftom day to day whatever species of plant life can be had including wild ones. That homemakers derive inspira tion from this venture which costs next to nothing is one of the axes Mrs. Steiner hopes to grind, along with her orchid project. The outhouse hard by is a beehive of activity. On the walls are bamboo and rattancraft all designed to hold ornate plant life. Three, four men are busy working on tampipis conditioning them into fit temporary habitations for> the orchild plants which are about to fly to foreign lands. The tam pipis are slit at the sides so the plants—dry and nicely packed in side—can breathe. They go via the Pan American Airways. They travel in grand style paying $1.40 for every pound they weigh. The biggest shipments so far have gone to Hawaii, noted as the most orchid-conscious ' country. Hawaii, according to Mrs. Steiner, has only about three indigenious species of known orchids, hence this great demand for our va rieties. Our orchids that go to Hawaii, as with the orchids that go elsewhere, are not only for or namental purposes. They are primarily for hybridyzing. Coun tries abroad have their Orchid Societies and it was through these agencies that Mrs. Steiner, a little over two months ago made her contacts. She needed literature on orchids from fellow botanists abroad, she wanted to talk orchids with congenial minds ar.d this is what started this ex portation of orchid plants which threatens to grow into a big scale venture. WITH DR. QUISUMBING (who is still abroad) Mrs. Steiner has plans for organizing an Orchid Society right here in Manila. Its avowed aim will be to make the Filipinos conscious of their great wealth in orchids alone. The Philippines, as against Havana which has only around 400 known species, has close to a thousand known species. If for no other reason, she claims, (Continued on page 28) PAGE 10 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Planning With The PEOPLE IN GREAT CITIES today — all the world over, man is a victim of urban chaos. His health, his well-being, his happiness — even his sanity i—i are menaced in cities where the odor of noxious establishments, the smoke of factories, and the noise and dangers of traffic are a constant threat to good living. But inspite of all of these, people continue flocking to the cities. And the worst part of it is that there seems to be a wide spread attitude of resignation to the chaotic and disorganized city life. People seems to believe that cities must necessarily continue to be what they are because they think that they are powerless and impotent to change them. Man's health and well-being—even his sanity— are being menaced in cities today. What shall we do about it? Planning seems to be the only sensible solution to our urban ills. By Conrado V. Pedroche To correct this attitude of the cynic towards city planning is one of the most immediate functions of the National Urban Planning Commission, which entity is en trusted with the task of rebuilding and reconstructing our devastated urban areas by means of sane, workable planning. In line with the concept of plan ning for and with the people, the government in organizing the Na tional Urban Planning Commission provided for in Section 5, of Ex ecutive Order No. 98, which creat ed this entity and defined its po wers and duties, that before adopt ing or amending any resolution, or general plan, the Commission shall hold a public hearing after giving public notice of the time, place and nature thereof in the manner that the Commission shall deem adequate. One such hearing on the preli minary plans for Downtown Mani la was held recently at the City Hall. It was attended by many property owners and presided over by Don Ramon J. Fernandez, Chairman of the Commission. The following based on stenographic notes, is the principal discussion that took place during the meet ing. The Chairman opens the hearing with a brief talk......... '. the order of the day is about Downtown Manila. Mr. Planter, before pro ceeding with the general discus sions, will you please explain briefly the proposals for Down town Manila? PLANNER: Gladly, Mr. Chair man. Gentlemen, the replanning of Downtown Manila was more than merely the replanning of its streets. And the work involved more than merely that of drawing the plan on paper. Our objectives are manifold. We want to make Downtown Manila a convenient and sale place in wmcn to shop—accessible irom all parts of the city and nee from tniuugn trafiic that produces congestion; to prevent overcrowding oi popu lation; to use the land to the best of advantage and bring order and le.ison of the present undesirable mixture of homes, stores, and factories; to solve the lack of open spaces; to protect and promote healthy property values; to create pleasant living areas within easy reach from the downtown district, and last but not least, to fit the area into the general pattern for an organic and functional Metropo litan Manila. Let us begin+wifh Escolta. The Escolta plan is the result of joint efforts of the National ■ Urban Planning Commjssion, City Engi neer’s Office, City Traffic Div ision, and other agencies. At present, Escolta is not uni form in width. At its narrowest section, two cars could hardly pass each other if there is a car parked on each side. Existing sidewalks, if they can be called such, couid hardly accomodate three pedes trians walking abreast. It is proposed to make Escolta uniform in width, enough for two cars to pass each other even if a car has stopped on each side. Longtime parking along Escolta will be prohibited. Instead of the present narrow sidewalks, we propose wide arcad ed sidewalks which will be incor porated in the existing buildings without affecting their structural stability. The proprietor will not be forced to provide these arcades if he is not rebuilding. It is only when and if the proprietor does some major reconstruction work The Planners welcome discussions with the public. Above is a ty pical meeting. that he is required to provide the arcades. The convenience of shopers will increase the volume of sales. CHAIRMAN: Just a moment, Mr. Planner. Some one wants to say something. Yes? PROPERTY: Mr. Chairman, I own a property on Escolta. By widening Escolta you will invite traffic there. This traffic will kill my business. And besides, your proposed arcades will darken our show windows and will take our valuable store space CHAIRMAN: What would you say to that, Mr. Planner? PLANNER: The Escolta will take a smooth turn into improved Nueva Street in order to route the traffic to Dasmarinas. This will prevent traffic from crossing Rosario at a point too dangerous ly near the heavily traveled north approach of Jones bridge. This bending of Escolta will discourage troublesome traffic that used to take a shortcut from Plaza Goiti to Plaza Cervantes via Escolta. In the plan, this traffic will have to take Dasmarinas instead. In other words, if a car takes Escolta, it has business there, otherwise it wont be there. Altho there is an apparent widening of the Escolta, this widening is only on the ground floors. The upper floors above the arcades will still be used by the owners. Businessmen must realize that the spaces being set aside for arcades will not be used by the government, but by pedestrians who will be their potential custom ers. (Continued, on page 27) FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 11 IT was the day when fall court ■ season opened. Veteran court room attendants had never seen anything like it—six hundred law yers jam-packed into four Chica go courtrooms, trying to file more than a thousand new divorce suits in the face of a docket already congested with 13,102 cases. COURAGE FOR MARRIAGE By William F. McDermott In one of the courts sat 76-year- py married life since 1888 makes While many marriages fail, Sa- but no one ever dreams of givold Joseph Sabath, world’s most hjm an optimiSt about marriage, in bath asserts that divorce as a ing up the struggle for improved famous divorce judge. He knew spjte of havjng heard 100 thou- panacea is more often a flop—a living. The same application to that while this opening day was san(j divorce cases. He has been vast number of those who are di- the social ills of society, includa tidal wave, the storm would not a jujge now for nearly forty years, vorced live to regret it. He be- ing the cancer of divorce, will end when the initial inundation ye helped to establish the Court lieves that probably sixty thou- eventually produce the same re sults. “The secret lies in preventive medicine,'’ judge Sabath continues. “Trying to treat domestic discord after it has reached open court is like treating a wound after infec tion has advanced too far. That is why the first year of marriage, when the pattern of living is be ing set, is crucial. Courtesy and courtship practiced after marriage as zealously as before, guarantee a lifelong honeymoon.” In one moderate-sized room Judge Sabath has reconciled 65 hundred jangling, discordant cou ples. In his chambers back of the courtroom he sometimes hears as many as fifty divorce cases in a day. It is here, after he has de clared a temporary recess, that he journeys from the bench, followed (Continued on page 28) subsided. He knew that a greater domestic catastrophe threatens American homes, bom of the countless war-hastened weddings now being put to critic al test by the return of millions of servicemen. Yet he also knew that the vast majority of modem marriages can be salvaged if the of Domestic Relations, founded the Divorce Court, launched an Ali mony Bureau which has collected more than two million dollars for the support of children without sand of the cases he has tried could have been prevented by ear ly “cauterizing” of the infections of misunderstanding and ill-will. As evidence, he recalls that seven cost to mothers, and has brought, ty per cent of the courtroom re65 hundred reconciliations where divorce proceedings had started. conciliations he has effected be tween couples—at least those with children—have endured. Neither youth nor lack of finan cial security need be a barrier to marriage, Sabath holds. “Boys and girls who marry when young are better able to adapt them selves to a new mode of life. They respond more readily to change and to new habits. As far as postponing marriage until eco nomic security is guaranteed, that is not wise. There isn’t any such thing as complete economic secur ity.” Millions have died in plagues, the white-haired judged explains. Miss Ester Mapua was married to Manuel Gonzalez, son of U.P. Pres ident and Mrs. Bienvenido Gonza lez. The ceremony took place at the chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows in Pasay. young people themselves, who rushed into matrimony under high emotional stress, will earnestly and honestly follow a few simple rules that spell success in marital partnership. “Young people won the war,” Judge Sabath said as court open ed. “Now they can win the mar riage.” He spoke with more authority than that of an arbiter of divorce, for he went through a “marriage mill” himself as a youth. Just 57 years ago last August, Sabath staged an elopment that had all the earmarks of a war wedding— without the war. Two almost-penniless youngsters ran away to a Gretna Green, fibbed about their ages, and were married by a jus tice of the peace. Today, Judge and Mrs. Sabath are called Chica go’s “ideal married couple.” The jurist asserts that a hapWOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PAGB 12 The subject of this write-up is one of the pioneer social workers in the Philippines. rf¥T|HEN the | VV Christian Young Women’s Association an nounced the resignation of Jose fa Jara Martinez from her posi tion as Executive Secretary of the Association in January this year —a position which she held for twelve eventful years—almost everybody wondered what the story was behind it all. “The Y.W.C.A. is Mrs. Marti nez. Why- should she leave it ? ’ “The Y.W.C.A. will not be the same without her. I wonder why shp is leaving.” “What could be behind this! What is the story?" Here is the story. BUILDER of cottages, tall, well appointed office buildings and straight, clean roads, and see not a carabao wallowing in the mud but green pastures, a neat little farmhouse merry with the sound of cackling chicken, squealing pigs, and the laughter of children..’, the story of a dreamer. And lastly, it is the story of a builder. For Josefa Jara Martinez does not stop at being a woman femi nine and motherly, nor at dream ing. She would go out and build. She would put this touch on that dress and make it look just right; she would get that child in hand, find out her possibilities and po tentialities and put her on the road to being a truly grand girl; and she would go to the city mayor, the town mayor, the farm ers and their wives and make them see what a spade and a shovel and a little imagination could do to relieve the barrenness, to clean out .the dirt and the squalor, and to turn the mudhole into a green pasture. It was the woman, the dreamer, the builder, who came to the Y.W.C.A. that day twelve years ago to became its first Ex ecutive Secretary. Before she came into the Asso ciation as a staff member, she worked first as one of its volun teer workers, serving in different capacities as president of the first Board of Directors and as chair man and .member of various com mittees. During those eight years as a volunteer, she found out for her self just what the Young Women’s Christian Association was and what it could mean to the Philippines and its people. She had been a teacher in the Bureau of Education, an Execu tive of the Associated Charities and, at the inception of the Y.W. C.A. movement in the Philippines in 1926, was Chief of the Depen dent Children’s Division of the Bureau of Public Welfare. She had seen and learned much about her country and her people. The woman had been stirred, the dreamer aroused. But the builder needed tools and .materials to go about her task. In the Y.W.C.A. she was these. So, in 1944, she resigned her position in the government to join the Y.W.C.A. staff. And in much the same way that friends now could not see why she should leave the Y. W. C.A., then they could not under stand why she—the highest paid woman in the service—gave up her post to join the Y.W.C.A. and a lesser salary. Then, too, as now she did not heed talks. She knew what she wanted to do and she did it. “To prepare young women to face the problems of their day with intelligence and to find per manent values of life; to awaken in them a social consciousness that will result in a concern for the betterment of their com munity; to develop in them an ap preciation and understanding of other races, nationalities, creeds and social groups as well as a desire to work toward the ideal of Christian fellowship.” This was the purpose of the Y.W.C.A. as she and the other organizers of the association had set it down and to the working realization of this end, she continually strove to come. She and the Y.W.C.A. were admirably suited to each other. She with her dreams and her eagerness to transform those dreams into realities, the Y.W.C. A. with its willingness to experi ment, to open up new avenues of social service. Within a short (Continued on page 32) It is the story of a woman, first of all. Of a woman such as you and I are who would look at a dress or a house and say, “A touch of this or that, here and there would do the trick—make it look just right." Or, looking at a child would say, “She will be a grand girl some day. Just you wait and see!” It is also the story of one who would sit in a chair with a book in hand, or stand on a hill in silent contem plation of the plains below, or drive around the city and the countryside and see not letters in the book but a picture of love liness and beauty, not the barren ness of the plains but a progres sive hamlet, not the dirt nor squalor of the city but a neat row By AURORA ZABLAN YWCA Staff Member ESSENCES OF AGES IN ptMtCtitZfl/ ..urnr V PA°RFUMZ LI7ZAR AA A NILA. P. I FEBRUARY 28. 1947 PAGE 13 The last mail brought letters from Mrs. Paz M. Catolico whose present address is 2278 Makanini Drive, Honolulu. It will be remem bered that she sailed not long ago for Honolulu to bring the ties be tween the Women’s Clubs of Hawaii and Women’s Club of the Philippines closer. She will also solicit the aid of the Filipinos in Hawaii for the Josefa Escoda Me morial Fund. Here is her latter to Mrs. Henares: FRIENDS IN AMERICA 28th at 3:00 P.M. The Maria Clara girls headed by Mrs. Avecilla, adFOR A EVERYDAY CHELSEA BLENDING TOBACCO Atkins, Kroll & Co., Inc. 4th Floor, R-422 Alaya Bldg. 124 Myers Bldg., Port Area Dear Mrs. Henares: The President Pierce docked at Honolulu last Tuesday, January viser, and Mrs. Ceferina Palaroan, president, were at the pier to meet me. So were Ligaya V. Reyes and her casera to whom a friend of mine highly recommended me. It was indeed a warm reception with the traditional Hawaiian Lei. The very night I arrived I was fortunate to meet some promi nent businessmen of Honolulu, Hilo, Manai, etc. and some repre sentatives of the laboring class. Mrs. Avecilla and I started giving them ideas about my mission here. They all pledged their full hearted cooperation with strings attached. I must have to go to their respec tive Islands. Well, It’s really my plan to visit those islands as they are quite near. Consul Farolan and Mrs. FaroIan gave us a swell luncheon at a Chinese restaurant yesterday noon. This was a welcome luncheon for the Filipino passengers on board the Pres. Pierce who were no others than Mrs. Doreen Gamboa and Children and. Miss Liialhati Aldaba of the P. W. U., In the morning I paid my respects to the Consul and presented at the same time your letter. He promised to help me in my mission and that was one good start. It’s the key to success. I’m writing this letter in the office of the Avecilla’s but here come visitors... Yes, I've just met some civic spirited Filipinos of Hawaii and can you imagine what happened in the few minutes I dropped my pen? Well, a certain Mr. Gorospe, a prominent leader of Manai and Molokai after hearing the object of my mission here without going any further and without my launching the campaign, me a $40.00 donation for Mrs. Escoda’s Memorial. He met Mrs. Es coda way back in 1939. It was a “buena mano” and spontaneous at that so some Filipino newspaper men sent for their photographers and made several shots. I can feel and have high hopes that I’ll make good. As I see it the appeal must be THE BEST WORLD, MAKES MILD YOUR FAVORITE CI GARETTE, SMOKE A STICK A PACKAGE OR MORE; YOUR THROAT WILL AL WAYS ASK FOR THE BEST CHELSEA. SMOKE CHELSEA AND SEE IF YOU WILL GO BACK AGAIN TO OTHER BRAND. handed * SOLE DISTRIBUTORS Dear Ner: It was so good of you and Miss Rey to send those letters in time for me to receive when I arrived and may I say again “thank you for everything?" The adviser and president, Mrs. Angeles Avecilla and Mrs. Ceferi na Palaroan respectively of the Maria Clara Club and some mem bers were at the pier to meet me with the traditional Hawaiian lei. I am living with the Avecillas and they are very nice and hospitable. Mrs. Avecilla was the hostess of our late Pepa and she was the one that accompanied her to some neighboring islands of Hawaii. Many prominent Filipino resi dents know Pepa very well and they have heard of her activities but not her most daring ones. Yes, they love Pepa here and the Fili pinos that stood for democracy. A prominent Filipino resident here when she heard me relate the trials of the Escodas, spontanously extracted two twenty dollar bills and gave them as donation to the Josefa Escoda Memorial Hall. Ac cording to the Philippine Consul ate, 95% of the Pinoys here are Ilocanos and after exchanging short conversations with some Fi lipinos I found out that' the best appeal for financial aid is Mrs. Escoda’s name and the principles for which she has given up her life. I have high hopes that I’ll make good. I am busy now making plans for a successful campaign. The morn ing following my arrival, the first thing I did was to pay my respects to Consul Farolan and at the sane time presented the letter of Mrs. Henares. He promised to help me as soon as I finish contacting the women leaders here. I’ll present my plans to Consul Farolan and whatever he says then, we will launch the Campaign. That dona tion of Mr. L. Gorospe was spon taneous without me asking for it. Some of the girls who went to the Philippines to attend our con vention way back in June 1941 still remember you. They are very anxious to see the Philippines again. One bad news is that the president of the M.C.C., Mrs. Ce ferina Palaroan left for Guam two days after I arrived. She has one year contract with the U.S. Army. Ligaya Victorio Reyes was at the pier too to welcome me. She knew I was coming from her land lady who is a member of the Maria Clara Club. Consul Farolan gave us, Mrs. Gamboa, Miss Aldaba and me a welcome luncheon at one of the popular Chinese restaurants at Waikiki beach. thru Mrss. Escoda’s Memory and the principles for which she has given up her life. It’s a good thing Pepa came and visited several islands of Hawaii before she died and was very much liked by the Ilocanos here which comprise 95% of the pinoys here. And they read about her activities during occupation. I am surprised that the people here know many, many things and happenings in the P.I., very much more than I expected. Mrs. Aveci lla and the other women leaders know you very well as the former Conception Maramba. At the Lauriat of Consul Faro lan, I extended your regards to Mrs. Barza and with the addition al touch that if 1 hope to succeed in my mission here I have to count also on her cooperation. Well, she is helping in the “Around the world YWCA Drive’’ but I request ed her to share us a bit of her help. The women leaders here are more concerned with my drive as it is for the perpetuation of a Filipina heroine so they assure me — We will take care of you. I’ll meet the Maria Clara club next Sunday and there we will dis cuss how we shall proceed with the campaign. Later on I’ll meet all the woman organizations and make final plans. I’m very busy now studying the ways and means which are more adaptable to the idiosyncracies of the people here. From tips at theConsulate and tips from here and there I think I know how—will write you later. I’ve been very lucky to have met already several Filipino leaders. Thanks to the Avecillas and they have enthusiastically pledged their support. So I’ll have to go from one island to another after I make the preliminaries in Honolulu. Please extend my affectionate regards to the members of the Board and to Club Women who drop at the office now and then but keep the most for you and your family. Mrs. Catolico likewise wrote to Mrs. Laudico the following letter: PAGE 14 WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL THE call to organize and band " together to produce force to push a worthy cause descended upon the women lawyers sometime in 1940, when a group of them ini tiated the movement to unify the women lawyers of the Philippines into one single body. Their ex press aim was to promote a more sincere understanding of and ful fill better the ideals of the legal profession for the benefit of women in particular and of human society in general. Thus was bom The Women Lawyers’ Association of the Philippines. To lead and direct the association, the members elected Tecla San Andres-Ziga as its first Pres ident. The Constitution of the Asso ciation provides that one of the activities of the latter shall be to give free legal aid to destitute women and children. Ways and means by which thi6 particular activity could be carried out were Shown above are some of the members of the Women Lawyers Association photographed with Pres ident and Mrs. Roxas on the occasion of the inauguration of their association. FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC By CECILIA MUAOS-PALMA President, Women Lawyers’ Association thought of, devised and planned. But just when everything was in readiness for execution, war broke out. Activities were abruptly dis rupted, the members were disper sed through no whim of their own, and the Association entered into an enforced inactivity. However, after the passing of the dark era, and with the com ing once more of light, freedom and peace, we, the women lawyers crept out of our places of seclu sion, joined hands together—once more determined to serve our wounded and bleeding country and people and help in however small measure towards their speedy recovery and rehabilita tion. full with cases of destitute widows and orphans of the USAFFE men clamoring for as sistance in the preparation of papers in relation to their claims against the United States Army and the Philippine Army and there being no legal section or chapter in said organization to handle the mountain pile of cases, turned for help to the women lawyers, first through Attorney Josefina Phodaca who in turn referred the matter to the Asso ciation. Immediately, the Association, through its Vice-President, Mrs. Nieves Baens-del Rosario of the Department of Labor, entered in to an agreement with the Philip pine Red Cross that the • former A field of service was opened to the Association when the Phil- shall render legal service and asippine Red Cross, seeing its hands sistance gratuitously to all indigent persons and destitutes in the preparation and filing of claims for whatever benefits they may be entitled to from the Unit ed States and the Philippine Gov ernments by reason of the death of their deceased USAFFE rela tives. Because of the importance of the work facing the Associa tion, it was deemed necessary to re-organize the same and put in to final execution an early drcam and ambition of the Women Law yers’ Association—the Legal Aid Clinic. Our Legal Aid Clinic conists only of one “tangible” table and two chairs placed in a corner of one of the rooms of the Bureau of Public Welfare Building at San Rafael. The table and the chairs have been offered for use to the Clinic by Mrs. Gertrudes R. Cabangon of the Child Welfare and Probation Section. This one-table Clinic, however, in the two months of its existence has proved to be a confessional, a consultation room, and even a dissecting and operating table where hearts and egos get the treatment they de serve. Every day of the week ex cepting Sundays, the Clinic is open from 8:00 to 12:00 o’clock in the morning. Members of the Association who are not in the government service are all avail able for duty at the Legal Aid Clinic. Two or three members are assigned for duty at the Clinic for a particular day of the week and this assignment is good for one month. The lawyer assigned for the day acts as attorney, typist, filer, all in one. Members who are in the government service help too in the work of the Clinic. For instance, if we get a case where study and research is needed, we refer it to our members working at the Department of Justice; if we need information or action on claims of war widows and orphans we secure the aid of our members working at the U. S. Veteran’s Administration or at the Recover ed Personnel Division of AFWESPAC. In other words, every member of the Association in whatever branch of service she m^y be will surely be needed to help carry out the work and ac tivities of our Legal Aid Clinic. In the Clinic our work is not limited to giving free legal aid and assistance to war widows and or phans and other indigent claim ants of benefits from the United States and the Philippine Govern ments. The bulk of dur cases re late to family troubles and the consequent heartaches and legal complications. We have many cases of abandonment by the fa. ther of his wife and children, the latter usually numbering eight or more, in which cases our usual (Continued on page 26) FEBRUARY 28. 1947 PAGE 15 In accordance with Proclama tion No. 20 of the President of the Philippines, the National Clean-Up-Week has been set for February 16 to February 22. In the proclamation committees were created and in all Chartered City Committees and Municipal Com mittees, the president of the Woman’s Club has been designat ed member. A circular was sent by Mrs. Henares to all club pres idents requesting them to par ticipate in this movement. It is obviously important. And it is to “imbue the people of the Philip pines with the importance of cleanliness and so that public health and sanitation may be placed at a higher level.” The be nefit of keeping homes, parks, and communities clean has always been close to the hearts of all club women since they started their club work. A tentative program for Clean-Up-Week has been sent Mrs. Amparo Francisco, President of the Morong Woman’s Club has turned in the biggest number of subsription to the Woman’s Home Jour nal. Her campaign for more subscriptions is still going strong. to chairmen of committees and we are looking forward with interest to the reports of different clubs regarding their participation. Another club from Leyte that has lately made a report is the Tacloban Woman’s Club. The of ficers are: Mrs. Eulalia B. Beni tez, president; Mrs. Eulogia B. Bahez, vice-president; Mrs. Paz Abasolo, secretary; Miss Encarna cion Octairan,' treasurer; Mrs. Mariquita Quintano, auditor. Board of directors: Mrs. Jesusa Brilio, Mrs. Simeona K. Price, Mrs. Aurora Montilla, Mrs. Severina Quintano, Mrs. Juanita Gatchaiian, and Mrs. Pacita de Vega. All the Women’s Club have been reporting regarding their assist ance to the Philippine Red Cross during its fund campaign. Mrs. Henares has expressed her grati tude to these clubs for the cooperation they are giving to the Red Cross. The Leyte Woman’s Club is not an exception. The latest report of Mrs. Benitez who was in Ma nila sometime last month started with the aid their club gave to the Red Cross. She was appoint ed chairman of the Advance Gift Division and they more than covered their quota. We quote part of her letter: The Red Cross and the Woman’s Club work side by side. Those who are recommended by the Red Cross for aid we do our best to help. For stranded persons we gave clothing, canned foods and some cash for transportation. We have distributed clothing to the indigents and dried milk which was given by the Bureau of Health under the Puericulture Center and Maternity Hospital. We helped distribute the relief in the form of clothing during the early part of the liberation and recently the municipal council gave us six boxes of relief goods for distribu tion to the poor. As to the planting of trees tl^e club has not undertaken this activity. However, with the help of the Rotary Club of the locality who promised to help us in re commending and making parks for grounds for our children, we can start planting memorial trees. The latest activity we had was the celebration of Parents’ Day. In the morning we had a Baby Contest of three groups—first division comprising of babies from 1 month to 1 year; second group— one to two years and the third group—from two to three years. Winning babies, Baby Price, Baby Batallones, Baby Mate and five others whom I can not mention because the record is in the Cen ter. In the afternoon, we had a parade in which the schools, private and public were represent ed followed by a program which was composed of the winning com positions which the Club sponsored. The winning essay, poem in En glish and another poem in Taga log were recited by a student in St. Paul’s College. Winner in Essay was won by a student and the two winning poems first and second prizes went to Holy Infant Academy girls. At the program the winning outstanding mothers were presented by the mayor. Out standing young mother was won by Mrs. A. Montilla and the one below forty years was won by Mrs. P. Redona. We had another mother—an ideal mother won by Mrs. Jesusa Brilio. After the program we had a little refresh ment. Mrs. Benitez while in Manila took the opportunity of planting a tree at the Quezon Groove and she was assisted by Mrs. Cuerpocruz, Mrs. Alafriz, and Mrs. Bau tista. Mrs. Rosario R. Navera, pres ident of the Guinobatan Woman’s Club, sent the following report regarding the achievements of the club during the past year: 1. The Guinobatan Women’s Club held its election on Jan. 16, 1946. A week after the election, the new officers took their oaths and held a party on this occa sion. New members were in vited to acquaint them with the work of the club. 2. The outgoing president read her annual report in this part icular date to inform the rest of the work accomplished dur ing her incumbency. 3. At present we hold meetings and during these meetings we have demonstrations on: cook ing, sewing, and hair dressing. We elect among the members one who is well versed in the line to do' the demonstration. We accomplish this by con tributing little sums of money to buy the ingredients. When cooked it will be divided among the members. For sewing, one offers the materials for de monstration. When finished she gets it, while the rest gets the patterns for the article de monstrated. 4. We joined the Food Production Campaign. We have a lot (Gov ernment’s Land) planted with colored camotes, gabi and some beans. Every after meeting the members clean their own as signments. Now they are ready for harvest. 5. During the first harvest of our camotes which will be on the first week of January, demons trations on the good recipes of camotes will be done. 6. At present the fund of the club is being • turned into a re volving fund. This means that (Continued on page 32) PAGE 16 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL US-Pl War Damage Commission QUESTIONS and ANSWERS In this issue, Mr. Edward E. Wilcox, Assistant Director of In formation of the Commission, is going to answer some questions on the subject of claims for damage done to public property and pub lic sendees. In the last issue which preceded this one, the matter of private claims, that is, claims for war damage to property owned by individuals, corporations, and associations was discussed in some detail. It is entirely understand able that private citizens are in terested primarily in damage which has occurred to their own homes and personal property. But citizens also have an interest in the things which are owned by their Government, which is, after all, the property of all the citi zens together. Question: Just who is qualified to recover under the procedure for receiving public claims? nswer: Under Title III, Section 304, of the Philippine Rehabilir tation Act, the Philippine War Damage Commission will receive claims to compensate the Repub lic of the Philippines, the pro vincial governments, the char tered cities, municipalities, and also corporations wholly owned by the Republic of the Philip pines, for loss or damage to property occurring after Decem ber 7," 1941 and before October 1, 1945. ' [: Is there a special claim form for the use of public claimants? A: Yes, there is. The Commis sion has prepared two special forms, which are known as Form 200, and Form 200.A. Q: Where may these forms be obtained ? A: The forms were prepared and printed here in the Philippines, and are to be distributed to the provincial governments, the chartered cities, and the munici palities by the Philippine Gov ernment. ;; How much money is available to pay public claims? : The Philippine Rehabilitation Act authorizes the appropria tion of 240,000,000 pesos for the restoration of public property and public services, but not all of this money has been actually appropriated. Q: Will all of it eventually ap propriated to the Philippine War Damage Commission? A: No, not all of it goes to the Commission. For instance, the United States Congress has ap- propriated a total of 66,000,000 pesos for the current fiscal year. Of this amount, the Philippines War Damage Commission was alloted 22,428,000 pesos. The re mainder of the total appropria tion is allocated to projects be ing pursued by other agencies of the United States. [TWhat ase these other projects? A: There are at present projects under way in the field of pub lic health, conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service. The U.S. Public Roads Administration is at work on road and bridge con struction and repair. The Corps of Engineers of the United States Army is to assist the Philippine Government and co operate with it in the restora tion and improvement of port and harbor facilities. Q: Were all of these projects provided for in the Philippine Re habilitation Act? (Continued on page 21) FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 17 U)hatA "What’s new?” is a common enough question. but it is an important question when the answer is what you see in these pages. Above, Jesusa Bautista show two coifs, otherwise hard to carry. A lone roll rises smoothly into a glistening tiara. Next is the coif that keeps your hair off your back without undergoing the rigors of the severe upswept. Note soft treatment. ' Photographs by Bob's View Jessie Revilla here shows front and back views of a very inspired panuelo-less creation. A sweetheart neck line claims a trimming of sequins which is repeated on camisa sleeves. A two-layered apron tunic is caught at back and flounced into a bustle. Back view reveals that the neckline ends into a deep V at back, which is likewise scintillating with sequins. The tunic takes on added gla mour as it sweeps up to enhance hip interest. Glitter has not been spared. Hair ornaments rhyme with dress decor. RIGHT on the cooking page you will find a suggestion that we are repeating here for fear that you might miss it; To pre vent ham slice or pork chops or beef steaks from curling and forming into cup-like shapes that refuse to Drown a-ound the edges, cut the edges at several places. The slices will then lay obediently flat throughout the cooking. The outer, greener leaves of cabbage and lettuce contains more vitamins than the whiter in side leaves, we learned from a magazine from abroad. So don’t throw them away. During the difficult days of the Japanese occupation we learned not only to cook but also to uti-‘ lize every bit of food—to the disadvantange of the pig we were raising (he was burned in the li beration fire). We used to buy bones (supposed to be those of a cow) and put them to boil with plenty of water. Since this soup was supposed to fest and keep for days (and it did), we would pour off what we needed at a time into another saucepan and boil in it odds and ends of vegetables—the tough stems and roots, yes, roots, thoroughly cleaned, of spinach, left-over radish or to matoes, kangkong stems, etc., etc. Every evening, before we went to bed, we added two cups of water to the bones and boiled them hard. This is still a good practice and we still follow it—sometimes. Now we get real soup bones from a genuine cow. 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If you are fortunate to havee a mattress for your bed but you lack sheets (they are still too expensive), buy two pieces of those Army surplus rain-proof, rubber-like squares we don’t know what for, and use them to cover your mattress. You use a mat on top. These “sheets” will not need any washing—simply wipe off the dust with a rag. Do not leave your mattress un covered. It will get dirty and cleaning it will involve too much trouble. We speak from ex perience, so heed our advice. Do not throw away or pour down the sink the water in which rice has been washed. Pour it into a large can or basin and use it to water your potted plants. Our ferns thrive on this water, it seems to us. If this rice water is good for pigs it should be good for plants, too. Maybe it contains tiki-tiki. Whenever we see somebody soaping dishes with a greyish, greasy rag, we shudder. As far as we know, this rag is never wash ed and put out in the sun to dry. We always wonder how many germs live on it. Imported dish rags are back again. Buy two of them so that you can alternate them. Or, if one is too large for your conve nience, cut into halves. ‘ And—be sure to always wash this rag after you are through washing your dishes, tableware, pots and pans, and put it out in the sun to dry. This way it will last longer and be more sanitary. If these imported dish rags Do you hesitate to buy brownshelled eggs thinking that they may be inferior in quality? The color of the shells does not make any difference in the quality or food value of eggs. Some eggs have stronger flavor or odor than others. If these are less expensive, use them in omelets with plenty of onion or with a little chopped kinchay or celery to neutralize their some what fi<»hy odor. Use the more expensive eggs for frying or scrambles. Washing the eggs removes the coating of a gum-like substance that preserves them. If you have a refrigerator, store your eggs in it, in a covered box or pan so that they will not absorb the odor of other foods. During the Japanese occupation when we used to buy eggs by the hundred, we kept them in shoe boxes. We don’t know the reason for it but white bleached muslin (coco) is more expensive than some of the printed fabrics. And unbleached muslin (coco crudo) if it is very wide, costs even more. When we needed a few are not available in your locality, pillow slips, we bought the use a face towel, or an old cheapest printed cotton we could towel, cut into small squares, find (and the lowest price was their edges hemmed. one peso per yard). For the If y»u use any old rag you pillows of the menfolk, we put a don’t have any incentive to wash border to the slips, using musand dry it, for you reason out— lin in i blue color to match the it can be thrown away and be re- prints. The slips when finished placed by another piece of old did not look so “sissy” after all. rag any day without any expense. ♦ ♦ ♦ EDUCATION NOTES BERLIN, Ohio—A faculty com mittee has been appointed at Ber lin College to work with a student committee in a joint study of the United Nations Educational, Scien tific and Cultural Organization. The study will emphasize the ways in which the work of UNESCO may be furthered by educational institutions. PROVIDENCE, Rhode IslandBrown University’s Pembroke Col lege has established a United Na tions council, the first in the state. Its purpose is to make students “U. N. concious” and to discuss issues facing the world organiza tion. There are now 87 such orga nizations bn college campuses throughout the United States. NEW YORK—For the first time since 1939, British universi ties this year will hold summer sessions for American students. Oxford, Birmingham, Aberdeen, London and Liverpool have made plans to accommodate nearly 400 American graduates. PAGE 20 WOMAN’S HOME. JOURNAL A: Yea, the scope of the Philip pine Rehabilitation Act is such that there is almost no phase of Philippine life which is not taken into consideration. The Philippine War Damage Commssion is a segment of this broad comprehensive undertak ing. Our duty is the payment of public property claims in addi tion to private claims for dam age caused directly or indirectly by the war. Q: How did the Philippine War Damage Commission work out its plan for the receiving, pro cessing, and paying of public claims ? A: From our preliminary obser vations and the observations of others, we knew that there had been widespread damage to pub lic property and widespread dis ruption and destruction of pub lic services in the Philippines. We discussed the entire matter with officials of the Philippine Government, who added greatly to our fund of general knowl edge of the situation. As the result of these discussions, we concluded that the best way in which to handle public claims was in close cooperation with the Government of the Repub lic. The Philippine Government is going to distribute the forms on which public claims must be filed, and all public claims will be filed through the Govern ment. Q: Then the Philippine Govern ment will be the authority with which provincial, chartered city, and municipal governments will deposit their eompleted claim forms? A: Yes, provincial and local gov ernments will get their claim forms through the Government of ths R ‘public, and will return them to the properly designated official of the Government. Q: Who is that official? A: President Roxas will desig nate the official who will take over this task. This official will not only issue the public claim forms, but will also issue the necessary instructions as to how the completed forms will be re ceived. Q: Will this official then turn the completed forms over to the Philippine War Damage Com mission ? A: Yes, but not until that office has given the public claims a preliminary screening. Q: What is the purpose of this screening ? A: I think the distinguished Fil ipino member of our Commission, Justice Francisco A. Del gado, gave the answer to that far better than I could. He said that it was a matter of seeing that first things were given first priority. Continuing, Justice Delgado pointed out that the Philippine Government has the intimate knowledge of local con ditions in all parts of the Re public which we could hardly hope to match. Q: Will the Philippine Govern ment make recommendations re garding ea<?h public claim? A: Yes, the. Government will sug gest a priority rating for each public claim. It is anxious, as we are, to see projects of first importance given first considers, tion. Q: The Government will forward a recommendation with each public claim ? A: Yes, and after we have re ceived these public claims, the Public Claims Division in the Office of our Chief Examiner will investigate each one, as re quired by the Philippine Rehabi litation Act. These findings, to gether with the recommenda tions of the Philippine Govern ment, will be sent to the Com mission, which, of course makes the final decision in all cases, whether public or private. Q: Can you tell us more about these forms for public claims? A: Well, each separate public claim has to be made on Form 200-A. This is the form on which, for instance, damage to each publicly owned building is to be filed. Space is provided for a complete description of the building or property for which the claim is made. The date of construction or manufacture must also be given. Information as to the original cost is requir ed, together with the cost of any alterations or improvements, which may have been made to the building or property. The extent to which any rebuilding or replacement has been under taken is also to be described, and information must be given as to whether any surplus prop erty of the United States Gov ernment has been used in such repair or replacement. 'Q: Must a separate Form 200-A be filed out for each item of PI-US WAR DAMAGE COMMISSION (Continued from page 17) property for which claim is be ing made? A: Yes, if only one item is being claimed by a government enti ty such as a provincial govern ment, or the government of a chartered city or municipality, a Fwm 200-A must be filed, and alro a Form 200. This is a short form in which the total of claims being made by a govern ment entity must be recapitulat ed. However, suppose a city pre sented a claim for the destruc tion of six school houses, the municipal building, and a hos pital, or a total of eight build ings. A separate Form 200-A must be made out for each of the eight building, but only one Form 200 is required to be sub mitted. On this Form 200, the total of the damage to the eight buildings is summarized. Inci dentally, public claims must be filed in duplicate, just as claims for damage to private proper ty have to be filed in duplicate. Q: How will public claims be paid? A: The Philippine Rehabilitation Act requires that the Philippine War Damage assure itself, to the fullest extent practicable, that lost or damaged property for which it decides to make compensation is replaced, re built, or repaired before payment of any money is made. The Commission also is empowered to make partial payments as the work of rebuilding, repairing, or replacement progresses. Q: Can the Commission make any payments for land purchases? A:No, the Commission is prohibit ed from making any payment for land, easements or rights-ofway necessary for public proj ects. In addition, the Commis sion cannot make payment for property transferred or work done, by any other agency of the United States Government, unless the work was done by that agency at the express re quest of the Philippine War Damage Commission. Q: You mentioned a while ago that the Philippine Government and the Philippine War Dam age Commission wanted to do the most important public proj ects first. What' do you consider these most important projects (Continued on page 26) FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 21 Because the supply of food stuffs is not yet stable, some products suddenly flood the market and as suddenly disapppear. Take the case of tomato sauce—it is back after an absence of more than two months, and during the time when tomatoes were scarce and very expensive. So our advice is: make the most of whatever product is plentiful and therefore cheap by serving it often. Or, if it is not perishable, stock up on it by buying one or two extra cans at a time for your emergency shelf. The food situation during the Japanese occupation should have taught you a lesson or two. Stock up on essentials but do not hoard. to guests. MACARONI WITH CHEESE. TOMATO SAUCE 1 package macaroni (elbow, quick-cooking preferred) 1 or 2 onions, chopped 1 small can of Tomato Sauce 1 cup grated cheese Butter, if available Boil the macaroni according to directions on the package. Drain thoroughly and set aside. Make a sauce by sauteeing the onion in a little lard, then adding the tomato COOKING ned string beans. Serve with beef steak. Because we are a lazy person, one-dish-meals have become our specialty. Try this one, which you serve right in the skillet in which it has cooked (nice if you have one of those Pyrex pans with re movable handles): SKILLET EGG SUPPER 1 cup chopped onion 2 cups cooked, chopped potatoes 3 tablespoons lard 1-1/2 cups stewed tomatoes MAKE THE MOST OF THEM Here is a recipe that you should master, against that time when unexpected visitors drop in on you and stay for lunch or supper. The sauce. The cheese, grated with a fork or cut up into small pieces, may be added at this time. Add the boiled macaroni to the sauce and gently mix until coated. If desired, more cheese may be add ed at this time. Also butter, if available. Serve while hot. To serve: Pile the macaroni on a platter. Garnish the top with more grated cheese or with slices of Spam or with Vienna Sausage. This is also a good Sunday dish for family lunch or dinner. Nice to go with it are string beans in vinegar or made into a salad with onion rings and quartered toma toes. Bell peppers are plentiful here in Manila and maybe also in the provinces. Add them to your achara (native pickles) or to coleslaw (raw cabbage and carrot salad). Or stuff them with ground pork in the usual way. But try canned spaghetti with ground beef as stuffing. Inexpensive and de licious. * ♦ ♦ HOT SALAD DRESSING 4 slices of bacon 1/4 cup vinegar 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt Dash of pepper 1/2 teaspoon mustard Cut up and fry the bacon till crisp. Add the rest of the ingre dients, mix well and bring to a boil. Pour over salad greens like cabbage, spinach, mustard leaves, even pechay, and toss with a fork over the fire until the greens are wilted. This is also nice poured over cooked and cubed potatoes or canmakings are available in all gro cery stores (or you should have them on your emergency shelf) and the dish is something that you will not be ashamed to serve Salt and pepper to taste 1/2 cup or more finely chopped cheese 4-6 eggs (one for each person to be served). Fry onions and potatoes in lard until brown. Add the tomatoes and cheese, then the seasonings. Vvhen well blended, smooth out in the skillet and allow to become very hot. Break the eggs and drop them one by one onto the mix ture and allow them to poach till the white is set—about 20 mi nutes. To serve: Cut into as many triangles as there are eggs and with a turner, transfer each por tion consisting of egg and sauce to a small plate. * * ♦ If you cannot afford a whole leg of ham, buy just a slice about 2 inches thick and broil it. If it is Chinese ham, parboil in water first to remove some of the saltiness in it and to freshen it. If desired, a little vinegar or beer, plus the usual spices, may be added to the water. Gash the slice along the fat edge, cutting through to the meat, to prevent curling. Broil over live coals, being careful to pierce at the fat edge when turning. For that super-delicious taste, baste it with the following while it is cooking: BARBECUE SAUCE 1/2 cup pineapple juice 3 tablespoons vinegar 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup prepared mustard This sauce will impart to the ham not only a delicate sweetsour taste relished by most of us but also a glaze that makes baked PAGE 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Keeping Up With Medicine viously recommended form of treatment. ” NEW “WONDER DRUGS” WASHINGTON—Dr. Walsh Mc Dermott recently presented evi dence at the antibiotics conference here that streptomycin can con quer the most fatal forms of tu berculosis. Doctor McDermott, whose work was done at the Cornell Medical School and the New York City Hospital, reported in detail on 19 cases which have been followed up for more than six months after the treatment began. Of these 19, eight are alive today. Nine pa tients had acute miliary tubercu losis, which is almost invariably fatal. Two of them are back to normal, a third is expected to reiiuiu oo uuracuVt. 1 cup alictU OIUOll 4 lauicspouiis laru or salad oil 1 bay leaf 1 ao. Z can tomatoes (not tne sauce) Dash of pepper 1 green ben pepper, seeded and diced 2 whole cloves 1 teaspoon sugar 4 tablespoons flour or corn starch 6 tablespoons water Saute the onion in the lard till tender. Add the bay leaf, the to. matoes and the rest of the ingre dients, except the flour and water. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove cloves and bay leaf. Dis solve flo"ur in water and add to the sauce and cook until thick. PORK ’POSSUM Get half a kilo of pork from the leg and ask the butcher to slice it thin as for tapa. When you arrive at home, make the slices even thinner by pounding them with the back of a bolo or with the edge of a thick saucer. Rub one side with salt and sprinkle with calamansi juice and a little toyo. Lay each slice flat on a plate and place a little of Bread Stuffing on it. Roll and fasten edges with toothpicks or tie securely with string. Brown in a little lard, then add a little water to the pan and cook over very low heat until the meat is tender. This is one version of the fa miliar morcon. If you do not like Bread Stuffing, use your own favorite morcon stuffing. cover. The others died. Doctor McDermott said that the tubercle bacilli, while vulnerable to streptomycin, start developing a resistance to the drug in about a month after treatment begins. Its effectiveness is limited to a period of four to eight weeks, hence the , outlook still is not bright in tuberculosis infections which cannot be expected to res pond favorably within that period. At the same conference, spon sored by the National Institute of Health, the remarkable properties of a disease-fighting substance produced by tomato and another manufactured by a bacillus were reported. Tomatin and bacitracin are the two new “wonder drugs.” Tomatin was isolated from the leaves of tomato plants at the United States Agricultural Re search Center in Beltsville, Mary land. It was discovered that an antibiotic substance, which still has not been isolated in pure form, is deadly in the test tube to fungi which cause ringworm, athlete's foot and certain other skin infections. Tomatin was found to be less effective against bac teria. Eighty-eight out of the 100 surgical cases which were treat ed with bacitracin received mark ed benefits, reported Dr. Frank L. Meleney, of the College of Physi cians and Surgeons, Columbia University. The cases consisted chiefly of severe boils, deep abscesses, in fected operative wounds, carbun cles, impetigo and ulcers of the leg. The healing time was short ened and in 62 per cent of the cases, the use of the new drug made surgery unnecessary. Peni cillin and sulfa drugs had been tried on some of the patients without success. With bacitracin, which was accidentally discovered about four years ago following an examination of the infected tissue removed from a leg frac ture, 31 patients received “excel lent” and 57 “good” results. In nine cases, the results were ques tionable, while in the remaining three, no benefits from the new drug were evident, Doctor Me leney said. Boils, styes and im petigo were particularly vulner able. NEW TREATMENT FOR PEP TIC ULCER FOUND NEW YORK—The New York FORMULA FOR 100 GMS. -Sulfathiazole, 2 gms. ; Salicylic Acid, 8 »ms> ; Ammon iated Mercury, 4 gms. : Bismuth Subnitrale, 12 gms. ; Oil of Eucalyptus, 12 gms. ; Lanolin Anhydrous, White Petrolatum aa. q. s., 100 gms. Herald-Tribune reported recently that three doctors at the Temple University school of medicine have announced a new laboratory approach to the problem of peptic ulcers which may lead eventually to treatment of the affliction in human beings. Research thus far has been con fined to dogs. It involves the use of a drug known as sodium do decyl sulfate. According to the doctors, the drug inhibits the effect of his tamine, a powerful stimulant of gestric secretion normally found in the body. The doctors emphasized their report is not to be intei preted as a cure for peptic ulcer, but mere ly as laboratory investigation which may give new clues to the possible treatment of peptic ulcer. Experiments showed that the drug not only inhibits the pro duction of acid but increases mucus secretion, the normal pro tective barrier for the stomach lining. The doctors also reported that “by increasing the mucus secretion and by inhibition of the acid and pepsin, the therapy with sodium dodecyl sulfate, if condi tions for its satisfactory employ ment for the human subject can be established, would more nearly approach the physiological requi rements for medicinal manage ment of the ulcer than any preCURES FOR MALARIA NEW YORK—The New York Times recently reported on the “success story” of wartime ex periments to find new cures for malaria. The experiments began early in 1942 .when the Japanese advance in the Pacific cut off the nation’s supply of quinine. The National Research Council, through its board for the coordi nation of malarial studies, let con tracts for study to universities, hospitals and research foundations. In all, the government spent about $7,00£,000 in testing nearly 15,00 new compoundss. Sixty of the most promising chemicals were tested on 900 hos pital patients by scientists of the New York University research service. The experiments showed three new drugs were “much more effective and less toxic” than those previously used, notably atabrine, according to Dr. David P. Earle, director of research. The new drugs were choloroquine, now available commercially under the name of aralen; paludrine, a British discovery, and pentaquine. One way in which the drugs were tested, Doctor Earle said, was in the treatment of malarial fevers induced to cure patients suffering from syphillis of the nervous system. When the high malarial temperatures cleared up syphillis, he said, the anti-mala rial drugs were tested. FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 23 CHILD bottles in 10 minutes (because the nipple holes were large) were much more likely to suck their thumbs than babies who had to work for 20 minutes. Dr. Levy fed a litter or puppies with a me dicine dropper sp that they did not have any chance to suck dur ing their feedings. They acted just the same as babies who don’t get enough chance to suck at feeding time. They sucked their own and each other’s paws and skin so hard that the fur came off! So, if your baby begins to try to suck his thumb, finger or hand, to be a thumb-sucker, probably because the mother is inclined to let him go on nursing as long as he wants to. She doesn’t know whether or not her breast is empty, so she leaves it to the baby. When a baby finishes a bottle, it is done. He’ll stop him self because he doesn’t want to suck air, or his mother takes away the bottle because she doesn’t want him to. To satisfy the sucking instinct of the bottle-fed baby, lengthen his feeding time to about 20 mi nutes. This is achieved by using tion of the permanent teeth, if the thumb-sucking stops before they come through. How about pacifiers? Dr. Spock thinks that there is a point in giving a pacifier to a young baby under three months old who is trying to suck his thumb a lot. The pacifier some times satisfies the baby com pletely in two or three months and he gives it up himself with out taking to his thumb. Some babies really get the pacifier ha bit and want it long after the nipples with small holes. Buy age of twelve months. This is new nipples and leave the holes not harmful to the baby, but inas they are, or buy the blind convenient to the parents, espekind, that is, without holees, and cially if the baby can’t sleep withpuncture two holes instead of out his pacifier and cries when three, with a red-hot fine needle, he drops it out of his mouth. IN our last article on this page you shouldn’t try to stop him diwe promised to write more rectly. Instead, you should try to about thumb-sucking, long consi- give him more opportunity to dered a very undesirable child hood habit that should be dis couraged at any cost. When a baby first started sucking his thumb, the mother tried to pre vent it, before it became a habit. When it developed into a habit, in spite of preventive measures, she tried curing it by various means, like, tying baby’s hand to his side or smearing his thumb with a bitter substance. Thumb-sucking is now consider ed a normal instinct and a highly desirable habit that should be sa tisfied instead of repressed. Pe diatricians have discovered that babies suck their thumbs because they, have not had enough sucking at the breast or bottle to satisfy their sucking instinct. Dr. David Levy was the first one to point out that babies who were fed every three hours didn’t suck their thumbs as much as babies who were fed every four hours, and that babies who emptied their suck at the breast or bottle. The time to pay attention to thumb-sucking is when the baby first tries to do it, not when he finally succeeds. The very young baby needs help most because if his craving to suck is thoroughly satisfied in the early months( there is very little chance of his taking to thumb-sucking when he is older. _ You don’t have to be concern ed when your baby sucks his thumb for only a few minutes just before his feeding time. He is doing this only because he is hungry. It’s when a baby tries to get his thumb just as soon as his feeding is over, or when he sucks a lot between feedings, that you have to think of ways to satisfy his sucking craving. Most babies who suck their thumbs start be fore they are three months old. The breast-fed baby, according to Dr. Benjamin Spock, is less apt Suppose that your three-monthStandardized* Pasteurized ★Non -Fermenting RECOMMENDED BY LEADING FILIPINO AND AMERICAN PHYSICIANS old is still thumb-sucking some, even though you have bought new nipples which makes his bottle last for 20 to 25 minutes, feeding him at three-hour intervals and still give him his ten o’clock evening feeding. Don’t be discouraged. You have lessened his need for thumb-sucking and he would probably give it up earlier. Don’t do anything to discourage it—he is only trying to satisfy a nor mal instinct. You may be worried about the effect of thumb-sucking on the baby’s jaws and teeth. Dentists aren’t able to settle this trouble some point definitely in all cases. It is true that if a baby is thumb sucking after his baby teeth come in, it sometimes pushes the upper teeth out and the lower teeth in. Many dentists believe that this usually has no serious effect on the jaw or on the posiBy the time the baby is one year old, his thumb sucking is turning into something different. It is a sort of comfort that he needs at special times. He sucks when he gets tired, when he is that the thumb is a kind of re fuge. When he can’t make a go of things at the more grown-up level, he retreats to early infancy when sucking was his chief joy of life. There is no need to worry about lengthening the sucking time of the one, two, or three-year-old. His need to suck for sucking’s sake is gone. Since his thumb sucking is now a comfort, his pa-' rents only need to ask themsel ves whether there is something they ought to do so that he won’t need to comfort himself so much. So, if your child is thumb sucking a lot, don’t do anything aside from seeing to it that his life is good. Don’t say anything. Most important of all, don't worry about it, for if you keep on worry ing, the child will feel it and react against it. Remember that most thumb-sucking, so Dr. Spock says, will go away in time. It doesn't go away steadily though. It may disappear and then come back, during an illness or when the child has a difficult adjustment to make. It is very easy to manage our nabors bizzness, but our own sum times brothers us. —JOSH BILLINGS. PAGE 24 WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL SUGGESTION BOX There are at least three phases of thumb-sucking. The first begins at birth when the baby must suck well to get enough food. Then he sucks anything that comes near him, including his fingers. This is one of his first achievements and he gets satisfaction from it. Later, when he can roll over and sit up, he investigates with his mouth and tries to put everything into his mouth. All this is to be ex pected. It is up to you his mother to keep objects near him as clean as possible. Give him only washable toys. Tie the rattle to his bed so it won’t fall and get dirty. During the third month, when you give the baby foods, such as cereal (Edi tor’s Note: there are special ly prepared cereals, like oat meal and whole wheat, for very young babies in the grocery stores), from a spoon, give him the bottle or breast after the meal, for he still will want to suck. From the sixth to the seventh months though, as his teeth begin to come through the gums, he makes and enjoys chewing and bit ing motions. This is the time to give him scraped beef or a chicken bone. (E. N. To scrape beef— broil a piece of meat in order to disinfect it and then lay it on a plate. Scrape away the soft bits with a spoon, help perpen dicular to it.) Some children are easy to wean from the bottle to a cup before they are a year old. But don’t force your child. If he isn’t ready for the transition, he will show it by sucking his thumb dur ing the day and before he WE MUST DESTROY THE LEGEND OF THE ROMANCE OF ALCOHOL RMJITH all our efforts, we shall ,11 be unsuccessful if we do not destroy the legend of the “romance of alcohol.” This le gend, so diligently propagated by our liquor advertisements, and so innocently indoctrinated by our goes to sleep at night. You can satisfy the desire by a little bottle-feeding after each meal or at bedtime. (Editor’s Note: We have found this system satisfac tory: We give our baby his orange juice in a cup, his milk from the bottle, after each of his three meals.) Most children, at the end of one year, eat chopped and mashed foods and chew reasonably well. By the sec ond year, the satisfaction derived from sucking should be replaced by other pleas ures. In the second phase of thumb-sucking, the child continues the habit when it is no longer connected with nutrition and serves no use ful purpose. You may con sider the habit cute or think he is shy or needs the com fort at nap or bedtime. But you must face the fact that because of some lack in your home or in your child’s immediate environment, he is retaining an infant’s response to life. When he grows older, such a habit might emphasize the differ ence between him and other children. This is the real harm from thumb-sucking. Let the habit alone but find out why your child does it. In the third phase, a child who apparently had forgot ten the habit goes back to it. If a tragedy has occurred in the home, if he is de prived of one or both of his parents, if a new baby usurps his all-important place, he may retreat to several infantile traits. The remedy is obvious—make him feel that he is loved and needed just as much as he ever was. —Dr. Josephine H. Kenyon. novels and photoplays, portrays alcohol as an inevitable concomit ant of “gracious” living and an absolute necessity if one is to be considered a sophisticated or upto-date member of society. Drink ing as a sign of conspicious spend. ing, smart living, drinking and style, drinkin gas a sign of con spicuous spending, drinking as a sign of good fellowship, are all being drummed into the American mind by radio, press, magazine and billboard. Addressed to emo tionally mature adults, such ad vertising would be comparatively harmless; addressed to immature youth, boys and girls still in their teens, it produces a yearning for the romance of alcohol. Youth She is adored, because she keeps tier skin so soft, so dainty, so velvet smooth...and that is what really attracts a man. So keep yourself lovely from top to toe and you’ll have him for life. 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The inevitable result is the wholesale drinking among boys and girls too imma ture to withstand its allure, and the early development of a tragic addiction to alcohol. Robert V. Seliger, M. D. FEBRUARY 28, 1H7 PAGE 25 US-PI WAR DAMAGE COMMISSION (Continued from page 21) FREE LEGAL AID CLINIC (Continued from page 15) to be? A: The Philippine Government believes schools and hospitals should have first consideration. President Roxas has stated that he believed these to be of prime importance, and as a result of his request to the Commission, the Commissioners have already made an advance payment on a public claim for schools and hos pitals. The total amount of the claim will be about 10,000,000 pesos. President Roxas request ed an advance against this claim, for the purpose of buying building materials, and, as you know, the Chairman of the Philippinee War Damage Commis sion, Dr. Frank A. Waring, and Commissioner Delgado, turned over a check for a million dol lars to President Roxas, which represented an advance against this 10,000,000-peso claim. Q: Is there anything tnat pub lic officials can do to speeu me payment of public cianns A: Yes, there is. If they will de vote time and tnougni now co the assembling of the data nec essary to support the claims in their respective jurisdictions, they can help a great deal, if they have all the necessary data on hand when the time comes for filing public claims, they will be able to supply the re quired information at once and file without delay. Q: How will the Philippine War Damage Commission determine the value of public property > losses ? A: The value will be determined according to a formula in which consideration is given to the re production cost in 1940, with ap propriate allowances for the con dition of the property at the time of its loss, damage, or de struction. Q: When will the Commission commence to receive public claims? A: The Philippine War Damage Commission will not receive di rectly from public claimants any claims for damage to public property, or the loss of public ly owned property. The Philip pine Government is completing the details. The claim forms were delivered to the Philippine Government today. We expect that an appropriate notice will be given by the Government to provincial, city, and municipal officials. The Philippine Gov. ernment is anxious to speed this task and we will continue to co operate with it to the fullest extent. procedure is to contact the hus band, arrange for an interview and effect reconciliation between the spouses if possible, but if the situation is beyond remedy, then we demand from the husband a reasonable amount for the support of his wife and children, other wise he shall face court action. In some cases we have been success ful in compelling the husband to give a monthly subsistence to his abandoned family without need of going to court. We have also cases of acknowledgement of na tural children; cases of guardian ship; petition for declaration of absence or death; and even cases of bigamy. Members of the Asso ciation have been appointed at torneys de oficio in treason cases before the People’s Court. We have extended our work beyond the seas and contacted proper auPLACE YOUR BETS ON BETTY BETZ; BUSIEST BEE OF TEEN-AGE GRADS By MEL HEIMER Central Press Correspondent NEW YORK.—To become an ex pert on anything is ordinarily an involved task. De Quincey wrote oi the charm of eating opium only after he had sampled the stuff generously. The late William Sea brook was considered something of an expert on cannibalism, but only after he allegedly had eaten human flesh. And Charles Jack son’s story of a drunk, “The Lost Weekend." was accomplished after Jackson admittedly had, in his youth, sampled every firewater from' gin to vodka. But for tall, tanned, attractive Betty Betz, the road to expertness was easier to hoe. She had neither to sample opium, chew on a human sparerib nor experience the DT’s. All she had to do was come of age. It was as simple as that. For Betty is an authority—prob ably THE authority, right now— on teen-agers . . . and like all of us, except perhaps Shaw, she was once a teen-ager herself. She wore white sweatsocks and loafers, drank cokes with deadly regular ity, listened reverently to the rumblings of the jukebox and for ever was wondering If she would ever stop gangling. (Fact is, she still does.) She Has Ideas There was one difference. Betty had ambition—and ideas. She was forever doing things, like selling and modeling during summer va cation, working on a magazine during college days, sketching, , suggesting—and today she is with out a doubt the busiest, and one of the most successful, young .women in America. For today Betty Betz draws and writes the King Features-syndicated column, “Look Who’s Talk ing,” she created a line of stationery, she has designed a recPAGE 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL thorities in the United States to help in the search for American soldiers married to our Filipino women, a task which is a difficult if not a hopeless one. In short, we give generously and gratuitously whatever legal aid or advice is needed in all cases of indigent per sons unable to pay for the services of a lawyer and properly referred to us at the Clinic by the Philip pine Red Cross or the Bureau of Public Welfare or any other char itable or government institution. Up to this date we have seventy cases in our files. Not bad, I sup pose, for a two-month work. Our Legal Aid Clinic is, how ever, greatly handicapped by lack of funds. As stated above, we have only one table and two chairs which we cannot even call as ours because they are government prop erty. We have no typewriter which is very essential in our work; we have to depend on the typewriter of the Bureau of Pub lic Welfare. We have no station ery—each member spends for whatever pap’er may be necessary in her case. We have no books. We have received, however, one donation from Judge Guillermo B. Guevarra—his 4th Edition of the Comentaries on the Revised Pen al Code. Dr. Rosalind Goodrich Bates from the United States has likewise written to the Association ord album, she lectures regularly to groups of teen-agers at schools or department stores, she has de signed a line of teen-age clothes and—of course—she has written a book, "Your Manners Are Show ing/’ which Grosset and Dunlap are bringing out this fall. The Betz story began in Chicago and ripened in nearby Hammond, ,Ind., where Betty promptly be came one of those astounding girls who win everything. She was chosen the most popular girl among 1,800 students at per high school, was named “Prom Queen," and at 16 was the women’s middlewestem swimming champion. With the high school firmly un der her lovely thumb, she turned to the business world; in vacation .time she started selling and model ling in Chicago department stores, a chore which ultimately led to a job as junior consultant in Carson 'Pirie’s college shop. Sarah Lawrence college is Bronx ville, N. Y., was the next step, and while there Betty found herself : with a couple of spare afternoons —and promptly got a part-time :job on Mademoiselle . . . and eventually a guest editorship and i two pages of drawings in one issue I "because they needed sketches in a hurry and there was no one else promising aid for the Clinic in the form of money and law books and materials. Sitting behind that table of the Legal Aid Clinic every Friday morning has become to me one of the most valuable experiences of my life. It has opened my eyes to the noble heights a lawyer can achieve if only he would now and then dedicate his time and his pro fession to the service, free and gratuitous, of his less fortunate fellow-beings. It has brought me in contact with the miseries and heartaches of life which seem to get a good number of their vic tims from the poor and the help less. Now I can say that I am noT at all sorry that I took up the law profession and that it is not useless to me. On the contrary, I am happy and proud that I am a lawyer because in my calling I see a field of service, in the courts or outside of the courts, an opportun ity to work for the good of the unhappy, the oppressed and the down-trodden. Our Legal Aid Clinic is, I am proud to say, a place of refuge where the ills and troubles of mankind are being remedied and cured with equity, law and jus tice. around to do them.” It Was drawings like those that were to be her real spring board to fame, but for a while she marked time—marking time for Betty consisting of spending six months in Japan as a magazine correspondent, working as menis fashion editor (already yet!) on Esquire and then associate editor of Harper’s Bazaar and modeling (for pin money, no doubt). Columnist Then, not long ago, she clicked with an illustrated column in the Women’s Home Companion, stud ded with her fey, stringy little ad olescents bearing the weight of the world on their shoulders. Inside of the last year, she signed a King Features contract and flew around South America, from which trip stemmed her summer dresses, com bining the best junior fashion fea tures of both continents. Not long out of her teens, Betty still works with the drive and in credible energy of schooldays. In her penthouse on Manhattan’s East Side, which is a well-known haunt for photographers and fashion de signers looking for smart back ground, she is up early, at her drawing board or typewriter by 8:30 a. m. and working furiously the rest of the day—unless she’s PLANNING WITH THE PEOPLE (Continued from page 11) have employed an architect whose counter-proposals meet our idea of what should and what should not be reconstructed with regards to Downtown Manila. His plans, we believe, preserve values where they already exist and create new values where they don’t exist. Mr. Chairman, may I be permitted to present our architect who will ex plain his counter-proposals. CHAIRMAN: Go ahead. ARCHITECT: We should re construct Manila, but the recon struction should not be made by means of radical changes which, are not in consonance with our re sources. Radicalism which impedes and delays the valued cooperation of property owners for its rapid rehabilitation has no place in our scheme. I admit that my counter proposals are far from perfect, but I believe that they are less expen sive and more sensible... CHAIRMAN: Did you want to say something, Mr. Planner? PLANNER: Yes, Mr. Chairman, if I may be allowed to acquaint Mr. Architect with what was said before. We said that the plans for the improvement of Downtown Ma nila were based on facts. We have CHAIRMAN: Mr. Property Owner, is the explanation satis factory? PROPERTY OWNER: Well, but there is another reason why Escolta should not be widened: This is the high .cost of land ex propriation. If your object is mainly the solution of traffic con gestion of Escolta, why not widen paralled streets instead—like Das marinas and the Muelle del Banco Nacional? By widening these pa rallel streets we could even close Escolta to vehicular traffic. CHAIRMAN: You have some details about Dasmarinas, haven’t you, Mr. Planner? PLANNER:—Yes, Mr. Chair man. In the plan, Dasmarinas will be widened and so also will Muelle del Banco Nacional or the River side Drive. The object of widen ing Escolta is not to invite traffic there, but to make it easy for cus tomers to shop by car. We know that many want to shop by car at Escolta. PROPERTY OWNER: Mr. Chairman, we property owners off lecturing, broadcasting, auto graphing, editing or sailing to China, Her constant companion is Fat so, a personable dachshund who, in newspaper parlance, is a lens louse—a mugger, a scene-stealer, a camera-whacky canine. Fatso dwells on long journeys in a plastic carrying case, and is at Betty’s side wherever she goes... even when she is engaging in her favorite sports of skiing and swim ming. Betty didn’t arrive at her pres ent eminence with the teen-agers by needling or satirizing them; she has ever been their mother confes sor, their Emily Post and their sympathetic biographer. This is a stage of affairs that she intends to have continue; this fall, for In stance, she plans a series of "cock tail” parties in her apartment for batches of tjie. small fry. One ambition remains unfulfilled, but perhaps not for long. This is Betty’s dream to "design the per fect recreation center for young folks, to be built in every city and hamlet in America, where kids can hold dances, plays and garnet —a place they could call their own.” And—if she wants to do it, you can make a little easy money betting that it is going to be done. here a chart to show us how much land will be used for street widening and how much of the present streets ’ could be closed and put to other uses. Mr. Archi tect asserts without proof that his counter-proposals are less expen sive. Maybe he is right. Maybe he isn’t. We propose, however, to analyze his plan for him on the same basis as ours, so that we may make proper comparison of costs. Will that be all right, Mr. Architect? ARCHITECT: Well, I must confess that I was handicapped in the preparation of these counter proposals because, except for your help in furnishing me base maps, I was quite alone and therefore cannot do the same detailed analy ses of costs as you have done. But I believe that defects of Manila can be corrected without destroy ing our landmarks, such as • churches. We must build around the churches. CLERGYMAN: Yes, Mr. Chair man, the churches! As a represen- • tative of the clergy, I speak for the Sta. Cruz Church. If you will FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 27 permit me, 1 should want to talk a little on why we should not touch Sta. Cruz Church. Why drive away God where He was first? The church contains the bones of COURAGE FOR MARRIAGE (Continued from page 12) FLOWER STORY (Continued from page 10) many Manila citizens; many have---------------------------------------------been baptized and married there; if planning is to disregard all these, then we are not building on by the estranged couple—and very tradition and spiritual values, we often by their children. are tresspassing on hallowed Soft curtains hide the glare of grounds. the city. A fireplace glows cheerAnd besides, in this church, Si- i'X- Easy chairs and lamps, bright mon de Anda received Manila back and pictures on the wall, parfrom the British. Furthermore, ticularly snapshots of the youngthe present site of the church is er Sabath generations, give the near the business district. Busi- pleasant atmosphere of a living nessmen must go to church once in ~ a while! Likewise, I want to point no'y* out that if Rizal Avenue exten- CLERGYMAN: I see now, Mr. sion bypas/6d the Chinese ceme- Planner, what your real intentions tery to respect the bones of the are. We assure you that the dead there, then why should not Church will be the last to stand in Sta. Cruz Church where the bones the’way of sound planning—for of thousands of Filipinos remain *-he £°°d of all. buried be respected? ARCHITECT: May I resume, PLANNER: Mr. Chairman, 1 Mr. Chairman? As an architect, am afraid the plan being proposed my idea of good city planning is by the Commission has been mis- respect for tradition. All historiunderstood in connection with the cal places destroyed during the war location of churches. We agree should be reconstructed so as to with the Revered Father in his maintain the traditions of the peohigh regard for sanctity and tra- pie. It is our duty to present dition connected with the Sta. Cruz these monuments where they still Church. The proposed plan points stand and reconstruct them where out the danger of retaining the old they were destroyed. church on its ruins. We are con- PLANNER: Mr. Chairman, we scious of the dangers of crossing planners also respect tradition, but either Plaza Goiti or Plaza Sta. we choose not to be enslaved by Cruz in order to attend mass in it—much less to use it as a front this church. We are also aware of for selfish aims. Our respect for the unpleasant encroachment of tradition is in our hearts.... and stores to the very ground of the not in stone. It is best that hischurch. In the plan, we are sug- torical landmarks be used to our gesting relocation to effect a more people’s advantage rather than be pleasant, a more convenient, and used to slow down their progress, a safer location for this church. CHAIRMAN: Well, anybody We are not suggesting elimina- wants to say something more...? tion. If the church still insist, I see that it is a ilttle late, however, to remain on its present Again, as Chairman of the Nation location in spite of the dangers and al Urban Commission, I thank you the difficulties that we have point- all for your intelligent participaed out, then other means will have tion. This has been a very ento be explored in order that we lightening forum. You can be sure may be able to make Downtown that your criticisms and suggesManila something that we and our tions will be carefully considered children could be proud of. Father, by the Commission. T hope our aims are understood * * * room. the Philippines is the most loThe Judge gazes idly out the gieal country to have the biggest window a moment or two. He is Orchid Society. The organization letting his ‘‘guests’’ become orient- will stimulate interest and ed to the strange surroundings ad- love for this bit of blessing jacent to a noisy courtroom. Then which has been bestowed upon he turns and with a smile says, °ur land. To hold orchid shows “Would you like to see pictures will encourage competition and of my great-grandchildren? it is not unlikely that many They’re the finest kids you ever unknown species may yet come to saw.” lightMinds are diverted. Judge Sa- Mrs. Mona Lisa Steiner came bath gives the husband a cigar, to Manila in 1938. Anent this offers chocolates to the wife and brave adventure of hers, she children. Before long he has es- wrote a letter which won a prize tablished a semblance of camara- in the Atlantic Monthly. In that derie. Then he shifts his strategy, letter she tells of how she, a “What lovely children you holder of a Absolutorium-Certifihave,” he goes on. “You both kat in Botany and Zoology and must love them dearly. And they the author of a thesis on plant love you too... You know, I’ve cancer, found herself faced with lived for 76 years and have seen the dilemma of leaving Vienna thousands of families. I know such or be trampled urtder Hitler’s fine children as these must have heels. been born of devoted parents. You “To leave Vienna was a very did love each other very much at difficult problem,” Mona Lisa one time, didn’t you?” Lindenberg recounts in her letter. By this time eyes are misty. “It was almost easier to get to “You loved each other once and heaven than to get a visa; only you can love again. I’m going to Shanghai was not closed. I leave you now so you can have the studied the map to find a place thrill of making up alone. When for my future. Shanghai seemvou want me, knock on the door, ed, for a single girl like me, an God bless you both.” awful place, but then my eyes fell Court remains in temporary re- on the Philippines. I did not cess, but neither lawyers, witness- know very much about this place, es nor onlookers chafe. They have but I just felt instinctively that learned Judge Sabath’s ways and this was the right one, and withwait patiently. It isn’t long until_____________________________ the tap-tap is heard, and the Judge enters his chambers to find con- yond the individual fireside, tentment there. Husband and wife, Once Judge Sabath succeeded in now hand-in-hand, promise to reconciling a workman and his write to the Judge. He lets them wife, thus salvaging a home for out a side door, goes back on the five children. He all but forgot bench, announces “Smith vs. the case until several months Smith continued. Call the next later when he «received a scrawly case.” letter: “Christmus is cummin and Afterwards, you ask Judge Sa- we want you to cum too. Please bath about it. "All I did was to cum and eat Christmus dinner restore the aura of their marriage, with us.” They shattered it by petty bick- Thus the portly but beaming ering, and the consequent disillu- jewjsh judge took his way to an sionment embittered them both, immigrant family household to celBut really the breach was easily ebrate the great Christian festihealed.” val! He not only enjoyed a fine Keep the glamour in marriage— turkey but came away with a that is the veteran’s magic. Rare- gaudy necktie. But the thing that ly do couples marry without it, entranced him most was the deso the beginning of married life lightful spirit of the home. In is usually auspicious. To main- fact, it seemed to do something tain this glowing feeling is a job, to him, for on the first day of but it is easily done with com- court after the Christmas holiday, mon sense and determination. And he effected four reconciliations inthe results often extend far be- stead of the customary one. PAGE 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Mrs. Steiner in iter gardens on Park Avenue. out relation or acquaintance there ticktet, she set out one October I decided to go to Manila. There day for the Orient. In Italy she I could study the tropical flora could not get a visa for Manila, and also Oriental culture in- In Bombay the landing officers fluenced by American and Euro- would not let her touch land pean civilizations.” even for a second. when the So armed with a guitar, a mi. S^’P captain asked her, all she croscope, a violin and the ship could say was she did not know where to go. In Singapore, she went to the American Consulate. Here a nice understanding gen tleman to whom she explained her plight finally gave her a visa to Manila. “No one can imagine how happy I was,” she says, “My goal was near, the Philippines, a real Oriental country, a mix ture of West and East, a land with the most interesting fauna and flora, a new race and a people who loved music.” And so she reached Manila. “In the first moment,” she con tinued, "I had a very peculiar feeling jn my stomach, seeing all those brown men looking at me. But 1 was not discouraged. I knew I had a strong character, I knew many things. And lone liness? No, when I saw so many well-known plants I said to my self, “Now you are not alone, you have many well-known friends here; it does not matter if they are only plants.” Her first position here, thanks to the YWCA, was as cashier in a restaurant. Never in her life had she worked as cashier, and •her English was so poor she could hardly .speak about com mon things. But that was the only way to carry on if she must achieve her end: to continue her work in Botany. To get a posi tion, she had to enroll one year in the University of the Philip pines. This was really very hard for the young immigrant. She worked as cashier from three in the afternoon to twelve at night and attended classes in the morning. But results finally crowned her efforts and before long she was graduate assistant in the University of the Philip pines in the Botany Department. And here the real orchid story begins. She went through the war,, lost everything. Came libe ration she and her husband and children decided to start anew. The result is the place out in Park Avenue, where orchids grow with abandon and plant life is so gen erous and bountiful, peace is a reality. “I was born in Vienna during the war in the year 1915, and no sisters or brothers followed me. My father, a cashier in a great bank, and my mother, a concert singer, indulged me only too much. After finishing the Volksschule and Gymnasium, I studied four years in the University of Vienna and got there Absolutorium-Certifikat in Botany and Zoology. I finished also a very interesting thesis about plant cancer, which will be published very soon in a German scientific magazine. I was just ready to make my final examination for NOW AVAILABLE • ASK YOUR DRUGGIST IkeSAFC Wrapped in Geld Foil VERMICOL has everything that a mother seeks in a worm remedy for her baby. The use of SANTONIN as' its active principle makes it safe. Thousands of users have proved its efficacy. Children take to it like candy because of its candy form and pleasant taste. ®>ERMICO NUMlNTMMONcJ SMUOHIMOOZCw ' IXCIPS. Q ' A Product of BOTICA BOIE Laboratories FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 29 getting the doctor’s degree when Hitler came and forbade me to finish my studies. “My father, having his pension, was not forced to go out, and therefore I had to think it over as to what I was to do*. I had no possibility to study myself, because no library was open for me, every public garden was closed, and no bath during summertime could refresh me. “But I take the situations as they are and I had to find .out some possibility. To leave Vienna was a very difficult problem, and thousands of other persons want ed the same thing. It was almost easier to go to heaven than to get a visa; only Shanghai was not closed. Therefore there was only one possibility for me—namely, Shanghai. My next step was then to study the map to find a place for my future. Shanghai seemed, for a single girl like me, an awful place, but then my eyes fell upon the Philippines. I did not know very much about this place, but I just felt instinctively that this was the right one, and without any relation or acquaint ance there I decided to go to Ma nila. There I could study the tro pical flora, and also Oriental culture influenced by American and European civilizations. The Philippines are closed, and with out affidavit no visa was issued. Yet I was told that one could get it in Italy or hi some other place. “I had to think of going away; what was the use of staying there? I could never hope to get a position in Vienna; I was not allowed to enter a coffeehouse, a show, a concert, or an opera. It was even dangerous to speak with a German friend, because if an Aryan is supposed to be well ac quainted with a Jew or a half Jew he could lose his position or get WARN I NG To Mothers! CASTORIA There is only one genuine Chas. H. Fletcher's Castoria—the laxative that is specially prepared for the tender systems of babies and children. So, Mothers, please beware of substitutes! They may be injurious to your children. v Always look for this signature........................ before you buy! Then, you tan be sure you're buying the genuine, the original. an ill reputation. How could a young girl live under such cir cumstances ? “In the beginning of October I started for some place in the Orient. My microscope, a guitar, a violin, the ship ticket, and twelve dollars were my whole treasure. “In Italy I was not able to get a visa for Manila and I had to think of going to Shanghai. To my greatest surprise I did not find one other single girl like me, going without parents or friends. From Aden I wrote to my parents I should go to Bombay because it was not possible for me ter go get a visa for Manila. When I arrived at Bombay the landing officers would not allow me to stay in Bombay, because I had no visa for Bombay. The offer of money did not change their attitude. “Now began an awful time, be cause I was always the center of sensation. Really, when the captain asked me where I should go, I did not know. The next let ter to my parents I wrote that I intended to go to Shanghai. “Walking through Singapore, I went, as was already my habit, to the American Consulate. A very nice young gentleman to whom I explained my situation gave me at last the visa for Manila. No one can imagine how happy I was. My goal was near, the Philippines, a real Oriental country, a mixture of West and East, a land with the most interesting flora and fauna, a new race, and a people who loved music. (This knowledge came from the Lexicon.) “After one month of traveling I was landing in Manila; the first time alone, without parents, help, friends, positibn and money. In the first moment I had a very pe culiar feeling in my stomach, see ing all those brown men looking at me. But I was not discouraged at all. I knew that I had a strong character, I knew many things. And loneliness? No, when I saw so many well-known plants I said to myself, now you are not alone, you have many well-known friends here; it does not matter if they are only plants. , “I went directly to the YWCA because I believed and I was told that this would be the safest place for a girl. I was received there so heartily that I felt really very happy. The next day I got a po sition as cashier in an American tearoom. “Never in my life had I work ed as cashier. All the special ex pressions were new. My English was so poor that I could hardly speak about common things. I had to know 11 the dishes and different drinks and to know all the prices. But in some way it HOUSING DREAM THAT CANNOT COME TRUE (Continued from page 8) Toilet facilities are provided for residents of Barrio fugoso. the paved streets, for no vehicular traffic will be allowed within the development. Alas! This is only a dream, now being put on paper, in prepara tion for that day when money will be available for such a'pro ject. The commission does not believe it could start this dream project within five years, unless the cost of building materials and labor goes down. In the mean time, should it allow the creation of more slums which it might find difficult to eradicate later on? We believe that the Housing Commission should, with what ever funds it has now at its dis posal, builS one or two refugee ceenters with temporary houses for those squatters who refuse to was very interesting. I had the opportunity to study more psycho logy than one can learn out of books. “Yet I was not satisfied be cause my intention was to con tinue my work in Botany. To get a position I had to enroll one year in the University. This was really very hard, for I was work ing from three o’clock in the afternoon to twelve o’clock in the evening and I had to go to the University in the morning and to wash and clean up« One must also not forget that the climate of Manila is, for a white girl coming directly from Vienna, not a good one. Studying is not easy if one is not fresh. It was also very hard for me to un derstand all lectures such as poli tical science, history of the Phil ippines, and so on, because there were so many new vocabularies. move out of private and public lots because they have no place to go. The houses can be of nipa and bamboo, if these are cheaper, but built according to rules to insure sanitation. It is a pity that few people saw the shanty towns inside the Santo Tomas Intern ment Camp before they were down. We were very much im pressed by the tidiness and clean liness of these towns, and by the adequacy of the nipa houses. The better built ones were still in very good condition after more than three years. Mr. Croft of the Urban Planning Commission, could give more details about these shanty towns, for he was one of the engineers and arch itects who planned them. PAGE 30 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL A CITY BUILT FROM SCRATCH (Continued from vage 9) WHY NOT (Continued from page 9) which will afford protection from the tropical sun. The authors of the plan said this "extended parasol” idea was borrowed from Arab bazaars where shoppers are protected from- solar heat. Each of the four neighborhoods of the city will have its own churches, recreation and educa tional areas with kindergardens, elementary schbols, dispensaries, swimming pools and community clubs. Surrounding the neighbor hood units will be laundries, re pair shops, grocery stores, bicycle parking areas and management offices. Housing will consist of eight story and three-story apartment blocks built around tropical gar dens and constructed with massproduced building parts. New types of duplex apartments and dormitory buildings for bachelors have been developed. Although the basid elements are few, and standardized for facility in mass production, various com binations, reverses in plan, dif ferent location on floor levels will provide great variety of accommodatitons and appearance, Mr. Wiener emphasized. Likewise, open spaces and free arangement of the buildings lessen the mono tonous characteristics f/und in many large-scale developments. The important civic center for the city will consist of an admi nistrative, amusement and com mercial district, cultural and sports sections. Typically South American features will be the "praca” or town square, and the “corso” or “passeie” (promenade) which caters to the natural desire of Latins to parade, to meet, to see, and to be seen. A shopping center, an eight story hotel, a motion-picture theater, a central restaurant, will be located along one side of the civic center. On the other side of the main highway (reached by a pedestrian overpass) will be the cultural buildings with a technical school and workshop, exhibition halls and library. Pedestrian movement in the civic center area, as in the neighborhoods, will be segregated from all vehicular traffic. The over-all plan for the city will follow the contours of the plateau in which it will be locat ed. Through it flows a canal, whose banks will be used for walks and pleasant recreational areas. In addition to the main highway to Rio and Potropolis, a rail line to the capital and an airport will, provide other trans portation. Brig. Gen. Antonio Guedes Muniz, chief of the Brazilian Air plane Factory Commission, is in charge of the whole regional deve lopment. General Muniz has dec lared that the, new city will play an important role in hemispheric defense. An overhaul shop will be added to the engine factory where facilities for. repairing any type of military airplane engine will be available. Except for the $1,200,000 loan from the Export-Import Bank of the United States for special factory equipment purchased in the United States, all construction is being financed with Brazilian funds. Special technical assistance has been forth-coming from va rious private American corpora tions. Mr. Wiener is an honorary member of the Institute de Arquitectos de Brazil, director of the American Chapter of the Congress International D’ Archi tecture Moderns, international architectural organization, and a member of the American Society of Architects and Planners. He developed new construction sys tems for prefabrication and site fabrication. Mr. Sert is Vice-President of the C. I. A. M., a member of the American Society, of Architects and Planners, and of the Planning Committee of the Citizens’ Housing Council of New York. He designed the Spanish Building at the New York World’s Fair. description of development or the slums. Hence, the slums were increasing in size, not only be cause of family increases who could not be provided with good housing but also of the houses that become deteriorated in the meantime because of lack of re pairs and maintenance. The problem of slum clearance after the war is of the worst of condition, because slums , of mag nitude unprecedented in history has been created. This is because of the fact that even families living in safe, decent and health ful homes before the war are now living in shelters remote from good housing. Everybody is aware that even in the swanky districts of Malate and Ermita, there are now families living in slums. The problem of slum clear ance is done by the process of thin ning out slum areas which can be effected only after the Commis sion has provided safe, decent and healthful housing in a suburbn site for affected families in the slum eradication. Thus the National Housing Commission is not only confront ed with prewar housing problems with its prewar fund facilities, but it is seriously and helplessly facing a tremendous housing problem unparalleled in history. Not only is the problem serious because of its extent, but also the fact that there is a scarcity of construction materials and that their prices are so much inflated whenever they are available in limited quantities. With the lack of adequate funds, with the des truction of a great portion of the construction material industries in the Philippines, with the enormours prices of building materials and with the difficulty of import ing other building materials from the United States because they are also badly needed by the American people, the prospect of starting a housing project even for the Manila area by the Na tional Housing Commission ap pears to be very dark in the im mediate future. With a meager fund of P500,000 released for the use of the Commission in February of last year, a research program was or ganized into three activities; namely, acquisition of sites, de sign and construction, and re search and statistics. Under the acquisition of sites, the activities and accomplishments consisted mostly of studies of areas under investigation in accordance with present utilization of land, possible new utilization of land, program, inherent qualities of land, and land classification of the National Urban Planning Commission, all general objectives of land classification being useful as basis for housing action. Jointly with these studies were the tracing of plans of the areas under consideration, showing ail the lots composing it, the owners thereof, their areas, and with the exception of a few, the assessed value of each lot. One probable housing site under consideration in the Manila area consists of two sections in the Tondo district; one section mostly of the burned area while the other a low-ground slum- area. The first section is situated between the North Har bor and the Manila Railroad line, bounded by Azcarraga Street and Estero de Vitas in the other di rection. The 'second lies between the Manila Railroad line and Es tero de San Lazaro, and from Az carraga Street to Antipolo Street towards the north. Cadastral plans of each are still being traced from salvaged blue print copies from the City Assessor’s Office. Four other possible sites, FEBRUARY 28, 1947 PAGE 31 two in the Diliman Estate in Quezon City, one in Paco and an other in Pandacan are being studied and investigated. After a housing site is tentative ly selected, a design of the site is prepared. The design requires a preliminary research and the gathering of statistical data that may serve as a basis for action. The codes and regulations and the minimum physical standards and criteria for the design or urban low-rent housing is used as a guide. Studies on dwelling types, number and sizes of bedrooms, are made in consideration of the housing needs, size and composi tion of families to be housed, fa mily income, and rent-paying ca pacities of the families. For lack of sufficient time, I cannot dis cuss with you in detail how dif ferent dwelling types are evolved in this manner. A continuous research for build ing materials for low-cost housing is being guided by the principle of durability, strong and fireproof materials, with the minimum ini tial expenditures. The possibilities of using to best advantage local materials are being considered when their costs can be reduced to a minimum. In this connection, a 1947 Super Vibrapac, fully auto matic, concrete block machine is being imported from the United States and will arrive about March or April this year in order to manufacture concrete blocks of different sizes with production cost about one-third of the pre vailing prices of the blocks ma nufactured elsewhere locally for the construction of low-cost housing for the low-income group of families. Factual information and quantitatives data, and their proper analysis and interpretations are very essential in scientific plan ning. This has been the activities of the Commission on research and statistics. The design and programming for housing action are being guided in most cases by the results of studies made the member who is not delin quent in the fees can borrow at least Twenty Pesos (P20.00), with an interest of 3% a month. After which the borrower pays the account with interest and another member who needs money can also borrow. The interest goes to the fund of the club. • This is done to prevent members from borrowing money from others with high interest. 7. The club had an excursion to Banao Experimentation for the purpose of gathering knowledge on the correct technique of planting vegetables as one of our projects. The Experimenta tion Personnel gave us some seedlings and suggested us on how to plant, them. 8. On the celebration of Mothers’ Day, we succeeded in electing an Outstanding Mother of the year. She delivered a nice speech during the program which was joined with the Gui nobatan Elementary School last December 2, 1946. The under signed gave a garland in her honor instead of medals which . were given to the Outstanding Mothers of the City. 9. The club helped the local com mittee of the Senior Red Cross in soliciting voluntary contribu tions from the civic spirited from population, real estate,- bu siness, and other statistical facts. Towards a housing market ana lysis, the economic background of the city, population and household formation, housing supply, housing needs, family income, and other pertinent facts are studied so as to give aid for the proper design and planning of a long-range program for housing action. CLUB WOMAN BULLETINBOARD (Continued from page 16) elected are: citizens and in selling tickets for all the benefits they gave. Some of the employees in our towns gave 5% of their salaries to the Senior Red Cross. 10. The G.W.C. helps the Puericulture Center of the town distributed milk to the nursing The San Juan League of Women Voters was organized at the re sidence of Mrs. Salud de Aguado on February 6, 1947. Mrs. Pura Kalaw was the guest speaker for the occasion. The officers and JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ (Continued from page 13) space of five years after she had taken office the Y.M.C.A. came to be recognized as the initiator of vacation camps for girls and women, the promoter of literacy classes for adults, parental educa tion, travellers’ aid, free employ ment service combined with vo cational guidance, the introducer of ideas of a play school for pre school age children, corrective gymnastics, a cooperative kitchen for families of limited means, rest rooms for students, business women and factory workers, and as a training ground for play leaders and health education teachers as well as instructors for constructive leisure-time pursuits for women. And always with conferences, panel discussions and committee work as bases for action. The builder had found her tools members of the Board of Directors President—Mrs. Magdalena de Santos Vice-President —Mrs. Salud de Aguado Secretary—Mrs. Carmen P.'Vda. de Borja Treasurer—Mrs. Felisa L. de Limjoco Members, Board of Directors: Mrs. Elisa de Paras Mrs. Gloria Camus Mrs. Juliana de la Torre Mrs. Soledad Buenconsejo Mrs. Laura de Paterno Mrs. Anastacia L. de Saptos Mrs. Fiorentina Escareal Mrs. Begone V. Flores Mrs. Asuncion de Fernandez Publicity Chairman—Miss Espe ranza Poblete and her materials. She used them ably. She did not limit herself to the Y.W.C.A. She worked in happy cooperation with other or ganizations, always giving free ly of her rich imaginative .mind and her eager, able leadership. She delivered lectures and speech es and gave talks in schools and clubhouses, in the city and in the provinces; she wrote too, articles which were published both in the Philippines and abroad. She went out to meet people, to talk to them, to really know them. She picked out those who had pos sibilities, those who showed pro mise and led them up the path of future leadership. She went abroad to the United States, Ca nada, Europe, other countries- in the Orient and in each place she went she was the builder—ce menting bonds of friendship, link ing ties of fellowship and spreadChristian understanding between If you have been used to your family lavandera for years we don’t aim to run her out of Job. But if you are looking for one we can prove to you that it ia more advantageous if you let us do the job. We are equipped with the latest American laundry machinery and we do it with modern American technique. WE CALL & DELIVER LIBERTY STEAM LAUNDRY’-DRY CLEANING 2392 HERRAN, PACO MANILA her country, among other peoples of the world. She worked constantly and hard, tempered with a keen sense of humor, a ready wit and a deep • religious fervor. Last January, after twelve years, for the first time Josefa Jara Martinez stepped back to view that which she had been working on all those years. And the builder saw, a little to her own surprise, an edifice which (Continued on page 34) PAGE 32 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SILHOUETTES There is only one evening dress here and its spohistieation you cannot ignore. Of very slim lines, the front flap is diplomacy itself. Beside it is a cocktail dress jacketed in white, with vest embellishments Want something new in tailoreds? The first sketch above supplies the demand. Note ample use of saddle stitching. Also note one huge lone but ton. For a dressy after noon, have a triangle neckline, three-quarter fringed sleeves, a giant bow and a choker. A new ' way to combine polka dots and plain white. Have cap sleeves on your jumper to be different, and enormous pockets to be distinctive. of skirt material. WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PAGE SX JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ (Continued on page 32) BOOK REVIEW (Continued from page 7) not even the war could manage to shake down. The Y.W.C.A. of Manila was established in the is lands as an important contributor to both community and individual welfare It had gained the re spect, the admiration and the sup port of the public. She tested its ' strength, left it for two months. It could stand without her. The Y.W.C.A. of Manila had become another Philippine institution. Josefa Jara Martinez beheld this and was dazed. But not for long. She realized that her job was done. Then, with her char acteristic wit and sense of humor, she threw her head back laugh ing and announced to the world, “I have worked .myself out of a job- ’ And stepped out from be hind the Executive Secretary’s desk. That is the story. Josefa Jara Martinez did work herself out of a job. But what builder doesn’t —only to start building again? A well-known woman writer has called Mrs. Martinez the “master of spontaneous epigram.” A very apt title, Mrs. Martinez is known for her wit not only in the islands but also abroad. Recently, following a luncheon given by the Y.W.C.A. in honor THIS FORTNIGHT'S ISSUE (Continued from page 3) things growing. The House is airy, plants, like members of the family inhabit the house, invading even the bedrooms and the bath room. An orchid was blooming on/the pipe of the washbasin fix ture, the day we were there. DR. ENCARNACION ALZONA once more proved her caliber'at the UNESCO conferences. When asked to speak over the radio upon her arrival here, for the League of Women Voters, she chose for her topic, Mass Media and the UNESCO p. 4. She is soon appearing in a comprehensive write-up as Woman of the Month. Mrs. Leynes is typical of women all over Manila who dreams up a house but knows not how to let the dream materialize. She describes in her article on page 8 the Barrio Fugoso and what it promises to be if someone were to act good and fast. Fol low-up topic to it, is a release excellent folk dancer and often takes part in exhibitions of these dances. Rufino, the only son, is a musician, and can play any instrument, mostly by ear. Mrs. Martinez, incidentally, appears in our personal list of ten women we admire most, solicited by one woman writer for publication in a local weekly. The reason we gave was her intellectual poise. FLOWER STORY page 10 is the original version of Orchids To You which, for lack of space, was badly cut to pieces. Mrs. Stenier lost everything in the war, at present she does not even own the place she lives in, but that does not keep her from making it the indescribable heaven of a place that it is. The house is situated well back out away from the road. Before you get to it, you tread a rose-strewn path banked on either side by green of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lin of Shanghai, she stood up to say the welcoming remarks and to intro duce the guests to the others in the room. In closing, she called on Mr. Lin to say a few words. Mr. Lin stood up rather hesitant ly, and obviously surprised, said, “But I thought it was ladies first in this country4” Quicker than a wink, Mrs. Mar tinez came back with, “Yes. But this time we want a woman to have the last say4” Note: Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lin passed through' Manila en route to the United States last Februa ry 16 to 18. Mr. Lin is President of the Shanghai University, one of the outstanding Christian uni versities in China. Mrs. Lin is Chairman of the Executive of the National Committee of the China Y.W.C.A. She- is going to the United States on invitation of the National Board of the Y.W.C.A. of the United States to help in interpreting the Y.W.C.A. move ment in China to the American public in connection with the $2,100,000 Y.W.C.A. Round-theWorld-Reconstruction Fund Drive now in full swing there. lities to develop themselves for vneir and tneir tellows’ good. And, according to nuxicy, "beyond tnese primary psycnoiogicai needs is man's spiritual need — the need, in theological language, to achieve his Final End, wnicn is the unitive knowledge of ultimate Reality, the realization that Atman and brah man are one, that the body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, that Tao or the Logos is at once trans cendent and immanent.” Very thought-provoking are Huxley’s reminders in which he fearlessly calls spades, spades. He derides the too deep and intense faith in the dogma of inevitable progress, calling attention to the fact that it has survived two world wars and still abides in the hearts of people. And yet, he says, “in practice, faith in the bigger and better future is one of the most po tent enemies ’to present liberty; for rulers feel themselves justified in imposing the most monstrous tyrannies on their subjects for the sake of the wholly imaginary fruits which these tyrannies are ex pected (only an implicit faith in progress can say why) to bear some time, let us say, in the twen ty-first or twenty-second century.” Then he says that the implicit faith in science and scientists is not totally merited. For these peo ple, because of their narrowed spe cialization often lack the philo sophical foundations and back ground of the sciences; in conse quence, they tend to ignore or mi“City Built From Scratch” court esy the USIS. The universality of the housing worry is balm to our ravaged spirit. Mrs. Pura Santillan Castrence will soon be on leave to have her baby. The Office of Foreign af fairs will miss her, but our read ers will not. She will keep on with her "Seems to Me’ and her book reviews. Fashion pictures are getting harder and harder to get, we don’t know why. To cap it all, the picture of Tessie Arrastia got purloined somewhere in the maze that is the composing room, but the collector was conscientious enough to allow us to finish with it first, hence, the reproduction in our fashion pages. We shud der at the mere thought of what would have happened had the picture got lost before the cut was made. riimize the value of experience and human relations, the spiritual and moral aspects of living as insigni ficant because they themselves are incapable of dealing with them. He would have people devote themselves to the idea that the “final end of man is not in the unknowable utopian future, but in the timeless eternity of the Inner Light, which every human being is capable, if he so desires, of real izing here and now,” so that the legend of progress as an opening into a glorious future would lose its harmful effects. He would have scientists refuse to work towards the destruction of mankind by having this spiritual ideal in mind: Is it possible to work on the development of ins truments of ever more indiscrimi nate slaugter and to remain... a good human being? Then he goes down to practical problems and suggests that the first item on the agenda of every meeting among the representatives of the various nations should be: “How are all men, women and children to get enough to eat?” Therefore, any scientific and technilogical campaign should be aimed at the fostering of interna tional peace and political and per sonal liberty and should move to wards “the increase of the total planetary food supply by increas ing the various regional supplies to the point of self-sufficiency.” And not only towards food-suffi ciency but also sufficiency in power for agriculture, industry and trans portation. In the end, Aldous Huxley pro poses with Dr. Weltfish (in Scienti fic Monthly) that technicians and scientists take the oath of Hippo crates, or something similar, before launching in their work: “I pledge njyself that I will use my know ledge for the good of humanity and against the destructive forces of the world and the ruthless intent of “men; and that I will work together with my fellow scientists of what ever nation, creed or color for these our common ends.” This book gives one of the most intelligent approaches to the pre sent-day world problem of uncer tainty of the futre that I have read. Aldous Huxley brings order into the chaos—or at least, sug gests how order may be brought about. 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