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extracted text: October, 1929 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER UE LUWUWEXLE Governor Davis’s Sugar-Meeting Talk The sugar industry is one of the most important in the Islands. Thirty per cent of our exports consist of sugar. The total value of sugar exported in the year ending June 30, 1929, was P100,428,198, of which P98,430,210 went to the United States. The prosperity of approximately a million people in the Islands is directly dependent on the conditions of the sugar trade, while indirectly everyone is effected by it. If the industry is pros perous, that prosperity is shared by every other business here. Any act which crippled the sugar industry would seriously injure every man, woman and child in the Islands. The destruction of the industry would ruin thousands of our people and would set back the prosperity, progress and development of the Islands for many long years of hardship and suffering. If then we consider the importance of the sugar industry to these Islands and if we realize that over 98 per cent of our sugar exports go to the United States due to the favorable tariff situation, we begin to get a slight conception of the vital necessity to the Philippine Islands of maintaining friendly trade relations with the United States. Recently it was proposed in Congress to limit the free entry of Philip pine sugar into the United States. The able Philippine commission worked hard and faithfully to defeat the proposal. Influential friends of the Phil ippine Islands, both in and out of Congress, effectively fought against it. The press of the United States supported' the fight by strong editorials. Finally the first battle was won; the tariff bill was re____________________ {Please turn to page 17)____________________ different in appearance, and outlooks on life, and she marveled at the un deniable affinities which she saw shape themselves into being. They chat ted animatedly between sips of tea. Miss Martin was telling an amusing story, her tapable hands planted on the hand-embroidered tea-cloth. “This friend of mine . . . she went home via Suez, it’s just two years ago . . . and she fell in love with a man . . . They parted in Boston . . . and she came back to the Islands. And who do you think stood at the pier in Manila? The very same man! He had come to meet his wife . . . Here she had been traveling with her all these four weeks ... I . . . She, my friend I mean, she laughed . . .” All were very still now. All three of them sensed here a tragedy that in their married security they had lost the fear of. Miss Martin laughed, a deliberately provoking laugh that spontaneously forbade compassion. Then Mrs. Blake spoke. She had sat still most of the time, taking no part in the conversation. But she had not lost the significance of that laugh. “There are all kinds of cads in this world,” she said and became aware of the apparent irrelevance of the remark. Pointing into the void of in vading night, she added: “Look! Isn’t it lovely?” One could distin guish the hazy outlines of the hills by the fires of the hill-dwellers. Helen Seeley gazed into the inky blackness splashed with spots of flame. It was lovely ... as lovely as that feeling of security in a place one loved, that attachment . . . But with her there never was time to become attached . . . one never stayed anywhere long enough to become at tached . . . One feared it because it hurt so to part . . . She sat still and very quiet. Her life had been spent roving from one military reservation to another.. . Margaret White, stroking the silken pleatedness of her lap, pondered. How charming, how humanly warm were these women! How much kind ness, how much friendship and understanding there was between them! With a sudden shock it came to her, as Mary Blake rose and put her arm around her, that always women were kind to one another, always . . . except at bridge. Roll Call On Independence (By United Press) Washington, D. C., Oct. 9.—The following senators voted in favor of the King measure for Philippine independence: Senator King, Henry F. Ashurst, Democract of Arizona; Alben W. Barkley, Democrat of Kentucky; Hugo L. Black, Democrat of Alabama; John J. Blaine, Republican of Wisconsin; Coleman L. Blease, Democrat of North Carolina; Sam G. Bratton, Democrat of New Mexico; Senator Brock, Democrat of Tennessee; Smith W. Brookhart, Republican of Iowa; Tom Connally, Democrat of Texas; Clarence C. Dill; Democrat of Wash ington; Duncan U. Fletcher, Democrat of Florida; Walter F. George, Democrat of Georgia; Harry B. Hawes, Democrat of Missouri; Carl Hay den, Democrat of Arizona; J. Thomas Heflin, Democrat of Alabama; Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., Republican of Wisconsin; Kenneth McKellar, Democrat of Tennessee; William II. McMaster, Republican of South Dakota; George W. Norris, Republican of Nebraska; Gerald P. Nye, Republican of North Dakota; Lee S. Overman, Democrat of North Caro lina; W. B. Pine, Republican of Oklahoma: Joseph T. Robinson, Democrat •of. Arkansas; Morris Sheppard, Democrat of Texas; Ellison D. Smith, Democrat of South Carolina; Daniel F. Steck, Democrat of Iowa; Hubert D. Stephens, Democrat of Mississippi; Thomas of Oklahoma; Park Tram mell, Democrat of Florida; Robert F. Wagner, Democrat of New York; Thomas J. Walsh, Democrat of Montana; David I. Walsh, Democrat of Massachusetts and Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana. The tabloids over here (in San Francisco) have described the typhoon over in Manila as being about the worst catastrophe that was ever visited upon that fair city. Hundreds killed and still more dying, twisted and mangled beyond recognition. Families torn apart, and little babies left without their mothers, to slowly die, their feeble little cries unheeded by the terror-stricken populace rushing wildly hither and yon, seeking shelter from the infuriated elements. INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS Have you seen the 6-SPEED SPECIAL? This extraordinary new number of the INTERNATIONAL line has created a sensation among trans portation men and all others who have need for motor transportation. Its ability to out-pull, out-climb and out perform any other truck of the same rated capacity under FULL load has made the motor world sit up and take notice. Six speeds, with a TWO-SPEED axle, makes available a reserve of power which makes it practically impossible to “stall” it if there is traction for the wheels. Speedy, safe, dependable, and most econom ical to operate, this new SIX SPEED SPECIAL is worth your while to look over. See it at our showroom. Macleod and Company 154 M. de Comillas Manila, P. I. 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Date: 1929
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