The “Let your hair down”

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Part of The American Chamber of Commerce Journal

Title: The “Let your hair down”
Language: English
Year: 1954
Subject: American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines, Inc.; The American Chamber of Commerce Journal.
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Fulltext: 116 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL March, 1954 “LET YOUR HAIR DOWN’’ iiT WAS pleasantly surprised,” said 1 the editor, “that at a meeting of a certain committee, last night, four or five of the members of which are important Manila businessmen, when one of them happened to mention the article, ‘Tondol, Pangasinan’, in last month’s Journal, all the others present said they had read it, too, and found it very interesting. Also, they all had read the editorial How AG&P Serves Philippine Industry ... “Know-How” and Complete Facilities Cut Costs and Save Time— You get exactly what you want from AG&P! No matter how special your projects may be, chances are AG&P can meet them. A G & P’s facilities in the fields of engineering and con struction, manufacturing and merchandising are second to none. A G & P’s brilliant record for almost half a century is your assurance. ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION FACILITIES Design, fabrication, erection and construction. 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The editor did not seem to catch that, and answered seriously: “Well, of course, because the remarks made showed that the Journal is carefully read by such men. Also, because they showed that businessmen are genuinely inMerchandise Sales Division Robert Dollar Bldg.. Port Area, Manila Phones: 3-36-61 (Connecting all Depts.) terested in President Magsaysay’s program of barrio up-lift.” During the month, the editor received the following letter from Mr. J. H. Carpenter, President of the Chamber last year and now Executive Vice-President of Crusellas fie Co., S. A., at Havana, Cuba, an affiliate of the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Com pany: “I have read with great interest and certainly with a tremendous pride the most interesting and congratulatory editorial which you wrote for the November issue of the American Chamber of Commerce Journal regarding my 15 years of association in the Philippines. It gives me a great amount of pride to know that thoughts of this kind were in the minds of my associates, my friends and colleagues throughout the Islands. My stay in the Philippines was an enjoyable part of my life and I shall always look back upon it as most memorable, most pleasurable, and a part that I shall always treasure in my memories. “I want to thank you personally for the outstanding cooperation and assistance that you gave me during my term as President of the Chamber and to tell you that many things you did on my behalf made my assign ment much easier and much more enjoyable than it would have been otherwise. “May I take this oportunity of extending to you and all of yours my very best wishes for many more years of continued happiness and success and again extend my personal appreciation to you for all of the things that you have done in behalf of the community in general over the past years. Sincerely, etc.” KfRs. Gonder, Chamber Executive Vice-President, received the fol lowing letter from Mr. J. H. Carpen ter, President of the Chamber last year, dated January 19, and from Havana, Cuba: "Many thanks for sending me a copy of the ‘Welcome Brochure’ covering the visit of Vice-President Nixon. I have thought many times about the excellent work that you have been doing for the Chamber and on many occasions have a happy feeling that my associations with the American Chamber have been so extremely pleasant and bene ficial. I wish you would please extend my appreciation to all members of the Board for the cooperation they gave me during my term as President, and ask Mr. Palmer to express my thanks to the membership in general at the annual meeting. I wculd like to ask a favor of you and that is if you would send me one bound copy of all the issues of the Journal issued during my term as President. I would greatly appre ciate having this for my files if the Board would' agree to sending this to me. Mrs. Carpenter and little Jay join me in wishing you and yours the very best throughout the New Year.” From the Consul for Sweden, Mr. Ed. Varland, Royal Swedish Con sulate, Manila: “It is a pleasure for us to confirm that your monthly business review (the Journal), to which the Philippine Match Company subscribes and which has been placed at our disposal by courtesy of the mentioned Com pany, had proved to be of great value to us in our efforts to keep the Swedish Govern ment and various trade organizations in formed on the Philippines. . .’’ March, 1954 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 117 The editor received another letter from Mrs. Hornbostel during the month in which she ordered another copy of his “Short History of In dustry and Trade of the Philippines’’ after receiving three copies she had previously ordered: "We received the three copies of your Short History and find it extremely interest ing reading. I am inclosing 55.15 fcr another copy of it for my brother’s son, a cum laude graduate of the School of Journalism of Syra cuse University, who is now doing his stint in Tokyo, from where, I believe, he has written you concerning chances in the Philip pines. He is a very bright boy and is married. His wife is going to have a baby next month. She also is a journalist. He has fallen in love with the Orient and would very much like to locate out there somewhere. . . From what my brother said, your letter sounded a bit pessimistic for the Philippines. Nevertheless he has made up his mind to visit the Philip pines sometime this summer and will prob ably look you up. . . We were all very much delighted about having Magsaysay as the new President. He will have a hard road to travel, but I think he will make a go of it. . .” qpHE editor received a belated -* • letter and an original handpainted Christmas card from Mr. and Mrs. John Risley, sculptor and potter (ceramics), respectively, who were here with the M.S.A. and as signed to PRISCO. Their present address is Second Rangeway, Water ville, Maine, U.S.A. Mi * . Risley wrote: "A terrible address we have for you—wish you would send us a letter since we can’t find ycur heme address, not even in your book. We had a magnificent trip home through Europe—a very busy summer working, and then we bought a shell of a house, small but with a large studio, fixed it up, and are now at work. The be-hang looked magnificent in a clump of birches—sil very white—to make a fearsome and wonder ful contrast. Now he is safely tucked away for the winter. Mary joins me in wishing you and your family the best of seasons. 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BOX 282 118 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL March, 1954 The following was crowded out of an earlier issue of the Journal for which it was written, but is perhaps still of interest: <tT was among the small group of former Santo Tomas internees and their friends who attended, yester day evening, the unveiling of the EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION Owners-Brokers-Agents Manila 155 Juan Luna St., Tel. 2-79-31 General Agencies AMERICAN MAIL LINE To and From Seattle Tacoma Philippines Indonesia Portland Vancouver Japan Straits PACIFIC TRANSPORT LINES To and From California-Japan.Pliilippine. BARBER-FERN-VILLE LINES To U.S. Allantic Via Strain, Suez, Mediterranean FERN VILLE FAR EAST LINES To and From North Atlantic Port. Gull Port.-Philippine. MESSAGERIES MARITIMES To and From Europe and Mediterranean Port. EVERETT ORIENT LINE Between Philippines, China, Japan Korea, Straits, and India Ports EVERETT STAR LINE Between Japan, China, Straits, India, and Persian Cull Ports PHILIPPINE STEAM NAVIGATION CO. Serving the Philippine Islands UNITED STATES SALVAGE ASSOCIATION UNITAS OSLO THAI AIRWAYS To and From memorial plaque which was placed on the wall beside the entrance to the main building of the University of Santo Tomas by the American Association,” said the editor. ‘‘The plaque reads of the three years of suffering and humiliation the in ternees went through and of the final happy liberation. And, you know,” he went cn, ‘‘that the ex pression, ‘bowels of compassion’ is used in the Bible. The bowel was formerly supposed to be the seat of pity and tenderness and other such emotions. Well, we stood there, out in the open, listening to short speeches by Mr. Thomas, President of the Association, Earl Carroll, head of the internee executive committee, the Rev. Fonger, and a Catholic priest, and suddenly there was a flight of planes in the air, Philippine Air Force planes, I guess, which had no connection with the event but which served as an-additional reminder of those terrible war days, and then, very oddly, there was a heavy rumble, as of armed tanks, like those which crashed through the Santo Tomas gate on that memorable night of February 3, 1945, and,—I tell you, I felt it in my viscera, a strange, creeping, shuddery feeling, and I caught my breath. Then I looked around, and what it was was just a common tractor used for seme sort of work on the campus. 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