Obedience, charity urged by O’Doherty

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The Republic Year I (9) December 11, 1944

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1944

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O'Doherty, Michael J. -- Abp. of Manila -- 1874-

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4 Pages LIBRARY 50 Centavos YEAR I MANILA, PHILIPPINES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1944 No 9 LAUREL ASSERTS REPUBLIC’S SUPREMACY OVER ALL P. I. PATRIOT ORGANIZATIONS Republic’s Goal Reiterated By President Gov’t Of, By And For Filipinos Is Objective, He Tells Guests President Jose P. Laurel reite rated his unswerving belief that the Filipinos can be happy only if they are left alone to manage their own affairs and work out their own destiny in an extem poraneous speech before bureau directors, assistant directors, and managers of government-owned or controlled corporations whom he had as luncheon guests at Malacanan Tuesday last week. He reminded his guests, whom he called his collaborators in the Republic, that the goal of his Ad ministration is a government of the Filipinos, by the Filipinos and for the Filipinos, alone and exclu“As I said on one occasion,” the President declared, “it is not be cause we are dissatisfied or can not remedy a given situation or that we are not in a position to correct certain injustices, it is not because of hunger and starvation, fhat,wo Filipinos will^aban don our goal*“arcT'aspiration. ’’You''and T may not live long enough to achieve (Continued on page 2) SANVICTORES OFFERS AGRICULTURAL PLAN Speaking on the opening day of the conference on agriculture and animal husbandry last week, Chair man Jose G. Sanvictores proposed and outlined a program for the agricultural regeneration of the Philippines based on the findings of the agricultural survey com mission which recently made an in tensive study and survey of the agriculture of Taiwan. Chairman Sanvictores of the sur vey commission proposed the fol lowing: the construction of small irrigation systems and the build ing of small reservoirs in places where there are no streams to tap to catch and store water for use during the dry months to insure crops against drought; the replace ment of inferior seed varieties with superior ones; the popularization of the use of farmmade fertilizer— compost—along with the promotion (Continued on page 2) NATION’S INDIGENTS AIDED BY GOVERNMENT Considerable help has been ren dered and. is being rendered by the government of the Republic to country. Cash or material relief amounting to millions have been spent .and rehabilitation and so cial welfare work done through numerous public and private wel fare stations, convalescent and war widows’ homes, food produc tion and vocational projects. The sphere of activity covers no less than 30 provinces, 6 cities, and 280 municipalities. Convalescent homes established to help provincial released war prisoners, number 16. There are 28 food production projects put up and an equal number of voca tional projects. As of a few months ago, incom plete reports show that upwards of 309,845 families with depend ents numbering 1,549,225 have been aided, while 10,311 persons and their dependents of approxi mately 68,060 have been given' work relief assignments. Out of the 1*2,000,000 Relief Fund, ¥=1,189,989.19 has already been released to provincial and city relief committees. General gov ernment appropriations amount ing to ¥=1,393,144.72, together with sweepstake funds and numerous do nations have also been spent for the relief of the sufferings masses. (Continued on page 3) GE A War Made Asians Aware Of Their Noble Destiny-- Recto By CLARO M. RECTO Minister of State for Foreign Affairs It has been said that war is the great accelerator of history. It hastens social, political and eco nomic revelutions everywhere; it speeds up the rate of advance in industry, science and invention. What would, in time of peace, re quire a decade or two to accomplish often takes but a year or less to realize in time of war. Changes once regarded as remote or impro bable take place in the twinkling of an eye, as it were, and aspira tions that once seemed Utopian come within the realm of reality. Centuries are telescoped ■ in an hour, and as we watch mighty em pires fall and new ones rise to take, their place, we are compelled to acknowledge that war is, indeed, in spite of its brutal horrors, and in spite of i£s destructive power, the one irresistible propeller of hisHighest Commander Calls For Bold Spirit, Deed In “Makapili” Message Patriotic Motives Praised, Sound Advice Given On League Inaugural Ceremony Attended By High Officials Obedience, Charity Urged By O’Doherty Besides urging loyal and strict compliance with all rules and reg ulations designed to insure peace and the welfare of the -people in war-time, particularly those calcu lated to protect the civilian popula tion from the effects of bombing, Archbishop O’Doherty in a mess age to vicars forane urges the prac tice of charity.. The archbishop says that some of the fatal incidents occurring in Manila during air-raids would have been avoided or at least mini mized had the victims carefully followed the instructions issued by the proper officials. He, therefore, strongly suggests more careful ob servance of such instructions. “Our Christmas resolution should be,” the message continues, “to respect the rights of property, living in peace and patience, in obedience to all the laws of charity andjustice.” I Courtesy And Valor Are One In Gen. Yamasita torical change. No war in history fits this des cription more truly than the war which broke out in East Asia three years ago today. When the Ja panese Empire decided to send its intrepid forces by land and air and sea to crush the enemy and reduce the citadels of his power, little did the world suspect that the decision would produce within a short pe riod of time historical changes of a radical and far-reaching charac ter. Those changes have taken place—we. all have been witnesses to them. We have seen these (Continued on page 2) As a token of sincere respect and esteem for President Laurel, as head of the Republic of the Phil ippines, General T. Yamasita, Highest Commander of the Impe rial Japanese Army in the islands, went out of his way at the “Ma kapili” inaugural ceremony to give the former precedence in leaving the platform. “With the program completed,” the Tribune reported in its Satur day issue, “the-*a„. rmblage dis persed. General Yamasita’s . car drove to the platform first, but the general in a demonstration of sin cere esteem for President Laurel, ordered his driver to park it by the curve until the President’s car came. He saw the President to the ear and watched him drive away, then walked across the drive way in front o’f the Legislative Building to his waiting car.” Indeed, as the Spanish saying goes, “Lo cortes no quita lo valiente,” which may be translated as meaning “Courtesy does not rob one of valor.” Gen. Yamasita, the very personification of valor is also the acme of refinement. City Hall tssay Contest Stirs Widespread Interest Widespread interest has been stirred by a literary essay contest announced last week by Military Governor Leon G. Guinto on the subject, “Is There a Filipino Na tion?” The contest was inspired by an editorial of the Tribune which posed the rhetorical ques tion. A total of 14 prizes will be given to the winners. Entries may be in English, Ta galog or Spanish and should not be less than ten (10) pages of regular-sized typewriting paper, double-spaced, answering with a categorical “Yes” the subject of the contest. The contest is open to everybody and ends on Decem ber 25. Four of the prizes will be award ed to the best patriotic pictures depicting our struggle for eman cipation. Cloth Ration Tickets Being Rehabilitated Cloth ration tickets are being re habilitated Ijy the NADISCO, it was announced last Saturday. Only family heads and immediate members of the family may bring the tickets, accompanied by the school and residence tax certifi cates or DANA identification card. Mutilated tickets and those whose information on the stubs has been altered, erased and tam pered with shall be confiscated. In this connection, the NADISCO issued its warning to traffickers of cloth ration tickets. Those arrest ed with falsified tickets are sub ject to severe punishment. RICOA Warns Against Bringing Rice To City Persons bringing rice to Manila from the provinces were warned against continuing to do so last week by the RICOA. According to the warning issued, the trans portation of rice is a clear viola tion of Ordinance No. 44, which was recently issued by President Jose P. Laurel. Watch our next issue: Pres. Laurel’s Nat’I Survival Program Interpreted. The Philippines 25 Years Hence---By Hon. Claro M. Recto. Vigorously asserting the supremacy of the government of the Republic over any and all organizations of Filipinos within the country, President Laurel clearly marked out the field within which the “Makapili” headed by Benigno Ramoz, well-known Ganap leader, and ex-Assemblyman Pio Duran, new ViceMinister of Home Affairs, with General Artemio Ricarte as highest adviser, will function, in a speech delivered at the cere mony inaugurating the new patriotic league last Friday after noon in front of the Legislative Building. In the same program and from the same platform, General Tomoyuki Yamasita, Highest Commander of the Imperial Ja panese Army in the Philippines, urged the new group “boldly to forge ahead with me in both spirit and deed and contribute to the attainment of eternal peace and welfare of Greater East Asia,” offering the organization maximum support. President Laurel .declared that the newly organized, “Makapili” which in English shall be known as the Patriotic League of the Fi lipino^ must work in harmony and in cooperation with the government of the Republic and with other si milar organizations seeking to con serve and strengthen that Republic. He emphasized the point that | the “Makapili” must submit to the government ol' the ‘Republic, irom Which it is neither distinct nor se parate, as any organization that at tempts to be over or obstruct the government must, of necessity, be guilty of seeking to destroy the Republic itself and the work of Ja pan which has facilitated its es tablishment. President Laurel’s speech during the program follows: “On this momentous occasion, we celebrate three important events. The first is of world im port and historic significance, the Greater East Asia War, the third anniversary of which falls today. The second is national in scope and importance, the Kapisanan Sa Paglilingkod sa Bagong Pilipinas, Kalibapi for short, which cele brates on. the same date its second anniversary. And the third is the newest and latest national organi zation, a patriotic undertaking, the Kalipunang Makabayan ngmga Pilipino. The leader and head of the Makapili is a wellknown and uncompromising Fili pino patriot, General Artemio Ri carte, a soldier who would not bend his knees before any foreign flag flying over his country because to him there is only one flag,—the Sun and the Stars. For that' pa- triotic fervor and conviction, he Aquino Appeals For National Unity In Kalibapi Day Speech By BENIGNO S. AQUINO Speaker, National Assembly Vice-President and Director General, Kalibapi Much has already been written about the KALIBAPI: we know that, as a historical fact, in the past it has been an instrument of popular action for the quick com pliance with the conditions im posed upon us so that our inde pendence might be proclaimed and recognized within the shortest time possible and also for the urgent and immediate organization of our people’s government. Its present mission has been delineated clear ly and explicitly by our illustrious President in Ordinance No. 17 amending Executive Order No. 109 of the defunct Philippine Executive suffered banishment. He lived in Japan for nearly four decades un til the Imperial Japanese Forces smashed the combined power of Great Britain, the United .States, and Holland, in the Orient and (Continued on page 3) DEC. 8 IS MEMORARI E__ DAY, SAYS PRESIDENT December 8 will forever remain a memorable day in our calendar because it marks the moment when Japan sought to set arjght, through war, what she considered an unjust and undignified situation in this part of the world, Presi dent Jose P. Laurel declared in g, press statement on the occasion of the third anniversary of the Great er East Asia War. The President’s statement fol lows: “Three years ago today, the Im perial Japanese Forces became en tangled in a war with the United States. But Japan’s motive was neither economic greed nor po litical aggrandizement. She was fired, instead, by her consciousness that it was her sacred mission to liberate the peoples of this part of the world and bring about the es tablishment of a family of nations so welded together by reciprocal bonds as to present a solid and impregnable defense against fur ther attempts at domination and exploitation on the part of foreign powers. “With lightning rapidity, the Ja(Continued on page 3) Commission under the Japanese Military Administration. In one of the paragraphs of the said Or dinance the following is stated as one of the primordial objectives of the Association: “To render such assistance to the government as would bring about the rapid reconstruction of the Philippines and the rehabilitation of its-people for which purpose it shall strive to secure the unifica tion of the Filipino people by,in stilling in them the conviction that the permanent security, wellbeing and happiness of the Filipinos de pend on the perpetuation of the independence and the preservation of the territorial integrity of the Philippines.” In its first regular session the (Continued on page 3)

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