The "let your hair down" column

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Part of The American Chamber of Commerce Journal

Title: The "let your hair down" column
Language: English
Source: The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume XXVII (Issue No. 7) July 1951
Year: 1951
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Fulltext: 244 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL July, 1951 C. E SHARP & COMPANY, INC. STEAMSHIP OPERATORS—AGENTS SHIP BROKERS GENERAL ORIENTAL AGENTSi WATERMAN STEAMSHIP CORPORATION Mobilf, Alabama THE I VARAN LINES—FAR EAST SERVICE (Holter-Sorcman—Ojlo, Norway) PACIFIC ORIENT EXPRESS LINE (DITLEV-SIMONSEN LINES) (TRANSATLANTIC STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.) GENERAL STEAMSHIP CORPORATION San Francisco SIMPSON, SPENCE a YOUNG Naw York V. MULLER Kobcnhavn, Denmark Head Office: STH FL., INSULAR LIFE BLDG. MANILA, PHILIPPINES TELEPHONES: 2-69-56 2-69-57 2-69-58 2-69-59 2-69-50 Branch Offices: SAN FRANCISCO—SHANGHAI SINGAPORE—PENANG TOKYO—YOKOHAMA NAGOYA—OSAKA SHIMIZU—FUSAN (KOREA) Cable Address: "SUGARCRAFT" ell offices The ---- ' ----“LET YOUR HAIR-DOWN” ---- ------ = Column EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION GENERAL AGENTS AMERICAN MAIL LINE To and From Portland Seattle Vancouver Tacoma PACIFIC TRANSPORT LINES To and From California Philippines BARBER-FERN LINE Service to U.S. Atlantic Via Straits, Suez, Mediterranean FERN LINE To and From North Atlantic Ports Gulf Ports—Philippines EVERETjjf ORIENT LINE Serving the Orient Philippines to China, Japan, Korea, Straits and India Ports PHILIPPINE STEAM NAVIGATION CO. Serving the Philippine Islands 223 Dasmarifias St., Manila Tel. 2-98-46 (Priv. Exch. All Lines) MRS. Willimont, Executive VicePresident of our Chamber, re cently received a letter from Mr. Richard A. May, President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (Tokyo), informing her that Mr. Robert C. Story, of Seattle, had been appointed Executive Secretary of the Chamber. Manila business men will recall that Mr. Story was a member of the delegation from the Seattle Chamber of Commerce which visited the Philippines last year. The letter follows: . Dear Mrs. Willimont: ■ “The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan is pleased to advise you that Mr. Robert C. Story has become our Executive Secretary. “Mr. Story has come to Tokyo from Seattle where, for over six years, he was an executive in several departments of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, more recently serving as manager of the World Trade Department. His varied experience in the chamber of commerce field, coupled with his years in the business world, admirably qualify Mr. Story for . his key position in post-war Japan. “Under Mr. Story’s guidance we look forward to the continuance of our cordial relations with your organization.” We have received a number of appreciative, and appreciated, letters from Journal advertisers recently. One of them, from Mr. R. S. Davis, Resident Manager of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company of the Philippines, Ltd. stated in part: “We have always considered the Journal one of the. best of all the media in the country-” ______ Mr. George H. Fairchild, one time President of the Chamber, writing to the editor on a personal matter, said in part: “I have read every issue of the Journal since my return to Manila. Your editorials in particular have been most interesting and instructive to an old-timer who hopes to avoid ‘fading away * until the Republican Party takes over again and who hopes also that the leaders of that Party have not deviated from the Alexander Hamilton conceptions of republican government...” Having received a “second follow up” order for a renewal subscription to the Journal from the “Four Continent Book Corporation” of New York City, acting for a library in Moscow, which order ended with the sentence, “If this order was not accepted by you for any reason, please advise”, we replied as follows: “We regret that we can not accept any new or renewal subscriptions from you for the U.S.S.R. for the American Chamber of Commerce Journal (Manila). “You may take our decision as in line with the general embargo policies of the United States and the United Nations. “Very truly yours, etc.” “This deliberate restriction of the circulation of the Journal anywhere”, said the editor, “certainly goes against the grain, for we feel very deeply that the primary function of the press is to disseminate information. But the Kremlin has been so clearly demonstrating its implacable hos tility to the United States and the Philippines that we feel that to send any information to Russia today would be to aid an enemy. We have no way of knowing just how valuable the Journal might be to the Krem lin, but obviously the Journal is wanted and that is enough reason not to oblige. We have quite a large TRAVELING?? LBC Travel Agency Offers Passport and Visa Clearances Air and Ship Reservations Bank Clearances and many other services AT NO EXTRA COST LUZON BROKERAGE —COMPANY— TRAVEL AGENCY Office 113-115 Dasmarifias Telephone 3-34-31 July, 1951 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 245 exchange list with publications from other countries, but subscriptions sent to us for Russian government offices are always paid for in cash; there is never any suggestion of any exchange of information. “I recall,” continued the editor, “that before the war we sent the Philippine Magazine, of which I was the editor and publisher, to a number of Russian libraries and other government institutions. This monthly publication always contained quite a full summary of current world news. Later I learned from an American friend who held a scientific position in Leningrad for some years that he always read the Magazine while there, but that many sections were regularly blacked out by some Russian censor, including all references in the news summary to Russia itself, favorable or un favorable!” THREE FINGERS Blended Whisky Fabricado exclusivamente por la Sociedad Anonima de Borracheros de Filipinas This was the typewritten label on a bottle which had just been delivered to the editor, and he looked at it dubiously as he unfolded a note that had been wrapped around the bottle and affixed by a rubber band. The note read: “In response to your appeal in the June issue of the Journal, I hasten to make a modest contribution to your drive for Fuel for Thirsty Editors, trusting that it will help replenish your stock of adjectives in your usually very adequate comments ®n Govern mental Controls. “In spite of its label, this will do you no more harm than any other whisky. The only dangerous ingredient is about 50% water. “An Ardent Reader (for security reasons unsigned)” The editor grinned, but he well knew that not everybody likes editors, and, despite that apparently friendly, but anonymous note, it might still have been sent to him by some one, perhaps even a control official, who wished him no good. The bottle was unsealed and he unscrewed the cap. He sniffed. There was no odor of bitter almonds. He glanced up and saw that the young man who had delivered the bottle was still there. “Who”, he demanded sternly, “has sent me this?” The boy looked uncomfortable but as the editor continued to stare at him as if he could look him through and through, he finally whispered a name, Mrs................................ one well known to all of us. Smiling a winning smile, he then asked the boy to wait as he wrote the following note of thanks: “Dear Mrs.......................... “I think I have found out who you are, although perhaps I should not have. How ever, I am thus pretty sure the bottle does not contain poison. You see, I have to be rather careful. If it is as I think, I am very grateful for your kindness, and I promise to give you an expert opinion on the contents soon. “With regards, “H.” “You see,” said the editor to us, “there are women and women. The one last month [referred to this colum] was seemingly only curious as to whether I was a drunkard or not, but here is a fine woman who, some how, senses a need (that reference of hers to to ‘drive’ surely was a LINK-BELT also— BEARINGS Ball, roller and babbitted bearings are available from the outstanding LinkBelt line. Unique design plus precision manufacture, combine to give them de pendable, economical, job-proved service. Complete line of mounted and unmount ed bearings to meet all requirements. OTHER LINK-BELT PRODUCTS INCLUDE: Shaft Couplings and Col lars... Clutches... Speed Reducers and Increasers... Variable Speed Chan gers... 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Her sympathy and concern, you see, do not take a merely mental, emotional, or verbal Chains and Sprockets The line includes chains of all types —Silent, Roller, Malleable Iron, Promal, Steel and other alloys—in scores of standard sizes with a wide range of attach ment styles, in-1 eluding sprockets for every mechan ical power trans mission and con veying service. 246 AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL___________ July, 1951 form, but are expressed in direct and practical action from which, I am sure, directly and indirectly, we shall all benefit. Cheerio!” Those interested in English idiom, or in the development of language ability in children, will like this: A little girl asked her father for a treat of some kind, and he said he’d see about it, meaning, of course, that he would take it under consideration. But the little girl took it more lit erally. A while later she asked him, ‘‘Have you looked already?” STEEL FABRICATORS CONTRACTORS ENGINEERS MANUFACTURERS MERCHANDISERS RIVER & HARBOR WORK SHIPS' REPAIRS Operating: MACHINE SHOPS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR FOUNDRY FOR CAST IRON. BRASS & BRONZE STRUCTURAL STEEL FABRICATING SHOP MARINE REPAIR SHOPS WOOD PRESERVING PLANT Distributors of Office of the President . . . (Continued from page 224) June 27—The President gives a luncheon at Malacanan in honor of Rear Admiral Francis P. Old and of his successor, Rear Admiral Eichard H. Cruzen, as commander of the United States naval forces in the Philippines; Admiral Old is scheduled to leave the country June 30. The President confirms the sentence of life imprisonment imposed by the Military Com mission on Lt. Gen. Shigenori Kuroda, for mer commander of the Japanese army of occupation and head of the military admin istration, for atrocities committed by men under his command. The President receives Francisco Dalupan on his return from a trip aboard and urges him to continue his studies on taxation and to assist the Government in finding means to avoid the overlapping of taxes on the coun try’s industries. The President issues Proclamation No. 262 designating the period August 19-September 19 as “Anti-Tuberculosis Month” and authorizing the Philippine Tuberculosis So ciety t * o conduct a national fund and educa tional drive during the month. Announced by the Philippine Council for U. S. Aid that an ECA grant of $603,000 and an approximately equal amount con tributed by the Philippines will provide for a low-cost housing project in Kamias, Quezon City, for some 1,112 families or around 7,500 people; the duplex (two-family) houses will cost around P7.600 and rents will range from P33 to P41 for the residences and from P90 to Pl 15 for commercial buildings; work will be begun before the end of the year. June 28—The President approves the General Appropriations Bill with the excep tion of a few items, the amount of P386,171,490 remaining almost the same with a reduction of only P7.200. PHILCUSA announces that the Bureau of Mines with ECA assistance will shortly begin a survey of strategic mineral deposits. Announced that in accordance with a Presidential directive. Secretary of Educa tion Teodoro Evangelista ordered the stop of the use of Gregorio Zaide’s “Philippine History for Catholic Elementary Schools” as it allegedly contains inaccuracies and was neither submitted to nor approved by the Board on Textbooks. June 29—Announced by the Department of Foreign Affairs that 135 sunken Japanese vessels in Philippine waters have been trans ferred to the Government by James Mcl. Henderson, Philippine Alien Property Ad ministrator. Of the approximately 400 vessels sunk, beached, or damaged during the war, the ownership of 207 was vested in the United States Government, while the rest could not be identified and automatically became the property of the Philippine Government. Of the 207, some were sold to private individuals, leaving a remainder of 135. Proceeds from salvage will go to the Philip pine Government except those from vessels in the San Fernando Bay area which will be turned over to the PAPA for the satisfaction of pending claims against the former enemy owners. June 30—The President issues a statement expressing his great sorrow over the death, from a heart-attack, of Dean Francisco Benitez of the College of Education, Univer sity of the Philippines. ATLANTIC, GULF & PACIFIC CO. OF MANILA (PHILIPPINE CONTRACTORS SINCE 1905) EXECUTIVE OFFICES • ENGINEERING DIV. STRUCTURAL & MECHANIC SHOPS Barrio Punta. Sta. 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