Non-status sugar for Army

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English

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The American Chamber of Commerce Journal Volume XVII (Issue No.4) April 1937

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1937

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38 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL April, 1937 Mountain Farmers (Continued from page “Krom the Bontoc region come many ugly and apparently authentic stories of lowlanders’ staking claims and registering titles to lands which have been tile traditional mainstay of whole villages. I'ntil now the Igorot ha#> not realized that his land could be taken from him by entirely legal processes. He has assumed that because his fathers built and cultivated the terraces they were his; he has not seen the necessity of securing his title by a foolish piece of paper. In consequence' he has been exploited, and—if my information is reliable, which I have every reason to believe it is—by men whose duty w:is to guard his rights. (I could be plainer, but you understand the need of being wary in such statements!) These people will resist their expropriation—and they will be shot down. Other village's, spurred on by their educated younger generation, are taking warn ing in time and registering their holdings. "That is the situation, so far as I can learn. The legitimate, responsible mining companies I have no quarrel with, though my love of the Igorot and rnv anxiety to help him preserve all tile best features of his native lift' make me hope that gold will not be found in paying quantities round Besao. Much that made his life so admir ably distinct has gone beyond the hope of re covery; this includes, I regret to say, his costume'. Perhaps I had better qualify this by saying that his costume is going; vestiges still remain, but the gee-string and the tapis and the beauti fully woven blankets, all of them so attractively designed and coloured and so sensibly adapted to local conditions, are yielding to cheap cotton imports from Japan. The Twentieth Century is in these mountains, whether we like it or not, and I look on it as my job to help ferry the Igorot across the three to four thousand years of human history which he must cover in a single generation or perish. In the process I try to see that he retains the many admirable features of his own culture and shows some discrimination in what ho picks up from the West. “But. the mines, as you pointed out, produce lxnvildering social changes, and the prosperity they bring also fetches a retinue of harpies, whose object is to separate the Igorot from his earnings. I will close with just one instance to show how vulnerable the Igorot’s own customs make him. I refer to the system of trial marriage promoted by what we call locally the ‘ebgan’ though it is lx-tter known by its Bontoc name of ‘ulag’. Whether this system was advantageous in the past I cannot say; I do believe that the lack of adequate and livable homes made it practically inevitable, and I think that the family life which the new and better houses (Please turn to page 52) Non-Status Sugar for Army One bidder for the U. S. army sugar contract this year, May-June delivery, was the Domestic Sugar Administra tion. This is the set-up of the Philip pine Commonwealth for administra tion of domestic-consumpt ion and quota reserve sugar. The army calls for 12,000 bags of sugar 100 lbs. to the bag, a total of 1,200,000 lbs., half to be deli vered May 15, half June 15. Bids were as follows: Domestic Sugar Administra tion (P.I. Government)........ 1*3.56 Juan Ki Cho, foreign sugar, c.i.f. Pier, without sales tax, and without import duty............. 3.83 Victorias Milling Co., Inc........ 5.82 Insular Sugar Refining Corpo ration....................................... 5.75 F-csh Food, Inc., foreign sugar: c.i.f. Pier, with 1/2% cash discount for payment in 10 days......................................... 4.28 The Domestic Sugar Administration’s bid, successful, involves confiscated su gar, not reserve sugar nor domestic con sumption sugar. It. was sugar milled in excess of the quota for export, the quota for reserve.to make up deficiencies in the quota for export, and the quota for the local Philippine market. Con fiscated, it could not enter any regular market; it was non-status sugar neither to be sent to America, held in reserve for that purpose in case quota shipments were short of the allotment, nor sold for local consumption. The army’s requirements offered it an outlet. less 2% cash discount................................................. $0,096 or a not U. S. current price of...........per 100 lbs. $4,704 Philippine sugar bid by Insurefco, equivalent to, per 100 lbs........................................................................ $2.925 Philippine sugar bid lower than the U. S. current net market price (per 100 lbs. not bag) by P3.558, or.........................................................................U. S. $1779 Canadian Pacific The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Japan that left Manila for Vancouver April 12 via China and Japan took from this port the largest number of passengers ever booked for a single departure, 435, the agents report. The Pacific passenger trade could spell prosperity in capital letters with consistent trade of that calibre. Recipe for Sighting Your eyes need good light. Protect them by always using the economical OSRAM'S LAMPS. SMITH, BELL & GO., LTD. Sole Representatives Manila — Iloilo OSRAM-Q' give more and better light. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL

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