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English

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The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume 9 (No. 8) August 1929

Year

1929

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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x * UgU5L, inn ^nAivioniz ur LUMMZKGZ JUUKNAL One of the vitally essential matters now receiving increasing and intelligent attention from producers of Philippine products is that of standardization of grades, lack of which has in the past had an unfortunate effect on the re putation of certain Philippine products in export markets. Several of the more important of the products of the Islands such as coconuts, abaca and tobac co, which have in the past been produced by innumerable small growers and passed through several hands before reaching the exporter, are now receiving the intelligent attention of large growers and large-scale producers who are improving, standardizing and eliminating waste in both production and handling. What the Philippines produces today is but a fraction of what can be produced in her territory and her $156,000,000 of annual exports to all countries today is but a fraction of her possibil ities as a supplier of products which the United States needs, and for some of which the United States is now dependent on foreign countries. At present there are combinations controlled abroad in nine raw materials needed and im ported by American industries, and other virtual monopolies influenced through benevolent po licies of interested governments. There are also some thirty additional commodities im ported by the United States which are suscep tible to such foreign control. The more important, complete and partial controls include rubber, quinine, camphor, and coffee. All of these can be produced in the Philippine Islands, and, when they are produced, there is a ready market waiting, for the United States can consume all the Islands can produce for many decades. Weather You Like It or Not! You swelter, perspire and shiver with heat, You’re weary and bleary and feeling dead beat; You’ve got not the tiniest bit of ambition, You say, “My, this heat puts one in condition!” You snivel and sneeze and cough into your hanky, Your nose is the proof that you’re not Vilma Banky; You dodge the typhoons and you wear an um brella, You say, “Gosh, this weather ain’t hard on a fella!” You start in the morning dolled up in a sweater, You find out by noon a chemise would feel better; You get all steamed up, then go out in a breeze, And first thing you know you have started to sneeze. You see the thermometer says ninety-nine, Yet you write to the folks that the climate is fine; And so you are fated to steam and perspire In brimstone forever—because you’re a liar. —A. R. E. South Gate to Manila, through which American troops entered the city August 13, 1898. This gate was rebuilt too low and narrow for state uses after the British siege guns destroyed the original one in 1762 . The street lost its name of calle Real, therefore, which went to the one still bearing it, down which the progress of many a royal governor and archbishop has moved in solemn pomp. Early in the American period, this gate was removed in order to widen what then was calle Nozaleda and is now calle General Luna; for mercy’s sake not Gral Luna, for Gral. is the abbreviation of the Spanish word General, their G having the sound of our H, their vowels being broad, e as in whey, a as in ah, and the accent on the third syllable. The Prodigal So they sent him back On a freighter To the old New England Town. Where years before He had heard the Heathen’s call; Where twenty years Before, The First Church Congregation Had listened to a Farewell sermon On “Sacrifice”. He saw The scarlet sunset Of the southern seas And again He heard the call Of the Heathen And the langorous Song of the East. But the Orient call Was the loudest And it stilled The heathen’s cry; So he lingered Under the palm trees As he sipped the lotus Brew, While the Book In the chest of Camphor wood Was covered with mold And dust. Back to the cold New England Hills, To geranium fringed Windows and to shelves EFFICIENCY TODAY efficiency is the password to success, and efficiency and poor vision are incompatible. Whatever your vocation may be, you cannot possibly be doing your best work if your eyes are not functioning normally. Defective vision impairs the quality of work you produce; it does not allow you to work to your full capacity; and it pulls you down in physical fitness. Have your eyes examined. Always the best in quality but never hi ¿her in price And shelves Of faded green Books of Cotton Mather And Fox’s Book of Martyrs. ’Tis harder to die In an alcoved bed Than under sunlit Skies. “Speak, Brother, Before you join The Master’s throng— Speak, Brother! We want to hear Of thy yn-rS Of holy s. fice.” The silent ± mourners Waited And the black-frocked Elder prayed While two eyes That were sightless But seeing Beckoned a Fond “Maria!” And lips that Were parched With fever Shouted a farewell “Damn!” —Gilbert S. Perez. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL

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