The “Let your hair down” column
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- The “Let your hair down” column
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- 124 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL March, 1953 “LET YOUR HAIR DOWN’’ THE National Economic Council does not seem to be able to keep its files of the Journal complete,— perhaps members carry issues away with them. At the request of the Council’s librarian, we recently sup plied quite a large number of back issues,—without charge, and received the following acknowledgement: “I have the honor to acknowledge, with thanfc, the receipt of copies of the following issues of the American Chamber of Com merce Journal: Vol. 22, 1945-1946, Nos. 1-4 and 6-8 Vol. 23, 1947, Vol. 27, 1951, Vol. 28, 1952, Nos. 2-7 Nos. 1-12 Nos. 1-2 and 4-12 “These copies are valuable additions to the National Economic Council Library. “Very respectfully, For the Acting Executive Secretary (Sgd.) Francisco P. Monce “Economic Research Coordinator In-Charge.” Well, we do not know of any group in the Philippines, other than the members of the National Economic Council, unless it be the members of the Senate and the House, whom we would rather have read the Journal. During the month the editor also received a letter which, according to the letter-head, was from the “Osmena Estate”. Cebu City. It read: “I wish to thank you for the complimen tary copies of the American Chamber of Commerce Journal which you send my father. I find your magazine highly infor mative and instructive. . . “Sincerely yours, “Edilbcrto Osmcna.” ALLIS <g> CHALMERS Basic Machinery for the World's Principal Industries MOTORS for Every Type of Application Generous design, extra-strong parts, precision workmanship and skillful application engineering of Allis-Chalmers motors mean dependable power and lower motor costs. Allis-Chalmers builds an extensive line of motors from 1 lip up. 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Atkinson Company, a San Francisco firm of contractors and engineers, which won the bid for the tunelling and other work to be done for the National Power Corporation at Ambuklao. The firm will employ several thousand people to be recruited locally, but will also necessarily bring in a number of American tech nical men, and it was these that the Company’s area manager, H. S. Booth, believed would benefit from a reading of the same article; so, with a covering letter, it was mimeo graphed as “Inter-Office Correspond ence” and addressed to “All Amer ican employees,—Ambuklao Project.” The Journal was given full credit, and Mr. Booth stated, “We believe that you will find this article very helpful in your efforts to understand the Filipino as well as seeing yourself as the Filipino sees you.” an official of the U. S. Veterans ™ Administration, who was kind enough to read an advance draft of this month’s instalment of the "Short History. . .”, wrote: “I tnade two small changes... It’s an excellent article. I should like to have several copies when available. . . Regards.” An official of the U. S. War Claims Commission wrote: “This is the most informative article I have ever read on the activities of the organ izations concerned. It contains a great amount of statistics, but is still easily readable and is most interesting. I have made a few small corrections. . . The total sums dis bursed by the War Claitns Commission to American prisoners-of-war and to American internees residing elsewhere than the Philip pines is much greater than those I have given you, but I believe you were primarily March, 1953 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 125 interested in payments which actually benefitted the Philippine economy and for that reason I gave you the breakdown I did. In regard to your question concerning the compensation paid religious organizations by the U. S. Philippine War Damage Com mission, I can not answer with certainty. I presume these payments will be deducted from the payments made under our Act, but I have nothing to do with the adjudica tion of claims and know of no claim paid to date in which this question has arisen.” In response to a request for certain information with respect to the Phil ippine Long Distance Telephone Com pany for a subsequent instalment of the “Short History. . ”, Mr. J. T. Naylor, General Manager of the Company, wrote in a covering letter: The United States subscription rate to the Journal sent by ordinary mail for one year, is $5.00. For $15.00 a year the Journal Office will send monthly any selected pageclipping by air-mail in addition to send ing the whole issue, as usual, by ordinary mall. ‘‘Please accept our compliments for the splendid record which I have had the plea sure of following in the American Chamber of Commerce Journal." With further reference to the “Short History. . .”, the editor received the following letter from Mr. C. G. Herdman, of Marsman & Company, Inc. ‘‘Just a line to let you know how much I have enjoyed your articles, ‘Short History of Industry and Trade in the Philippines’, which have been appearing in the American Chamber of Commerce Journal. I sincerely hope that these articles will be reprinted in book form and trust that due announce ment will be made if they are, as I should like to place an order for several copies if and when available.” This is just a line to express the editor’s appreciation of the foregoing letter. As for a re-print in book form, this would be an expensive undertaking and is still undecided upon. The safest thing would be for readers to preserve their copies of the Journal,—as they otherwise are likely to do anyway. We can still furnish some extra copies to those who want them. ‘“pHE sweetest music ever heard!” said the editor. “What?” He pointed to some lines in the February 16 issue of Time, heavily underscored: ‘‘The Economy... The New Freedom... By week’s end the Administration has moved to: “Take off ceilings on... “Abolish all wage and salary controls.. . “Dismiss 1,700 employees of the Wage Stabilization Committee, and eventually abolish the jobs of 6,000 other con trollers." “Whoopee! Whoopee!” “Aren’t you a bit sorry for so many persons loosing their jobs, their means of livelihood?” we asked. “I am not!” he said. “It is those controllers of all varieties, in every country, who have cost millions of men their jobs. Now let these supermen go out and make a living on their own in a healthily compe titive world. Let’s see what they can do other than ruining others with the greatest of ease! They and their little brief authority! And who gave it to them? That’s what gets my goat! We did! Or we per mitted it! We have fought for cen turies to gain political liberty and then we threw away our economic liberty, which is basic to the other. Don’t ask me to be sorry for a controllers losing their jobs! Whoo pee! Whoopee! Yeow!” C. 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