Philippine town meeting increases in popularity

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Title: Philippine town meeting increases in popularity
Language: English
Year: 1940
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Fulltext: PHILIPPINE TOWN MEETING INCREASES IN POPULARITY The Philippine Town Meeting of the Air's public is growing steadily because of its pertinent topics, intelligent speakers, and wide scope. In addition, various devices are being used to facilitate listening. For example, June 30th's meeting, for the first time, allowed questions to be asked the debaters in Spanish. Actually, that meeting was more of an exchange of ideas than a debate. Assemblyman Antonio Vill'arama, lead .. ing gynecologist, surveyed the history of socialized medicine and questioned the practicability of it as an institution in the Philippines. Dr. Pedro B. Ramirez, president of the Federation of Private Practitioners, agreed with Dr. Villarama in a measure, believing that the movement was premature here since the general mass of people are not prepared to meet its monetary demands. Considerabl'e interest was shown in the meeting by Professional men, and it was believed that the program would do much to arouse public discussion of the need, adaptability, and result of socialized medicine. Recent Japanese activities in the Far East and their Asiatic Monroe Doctrine proclamation, combined with changes resulting from the European situation in this part of the world made the Philippine Town Meeting of July 7th a very vital and exciting one. The resolution was that America should adopt a more vigorous Far Eastern policy. Speakers for the evening were Assemblyman Maximo M. Kalaw, authority on Far Eastern affairs, and Frederic S. Marquardt, Editor of the Philippines Free Press and Manila Manager of Interna ti on al News Service. Mr. Marquardt pointed out that our Democratic way of life is being threatened by the clutching grasp of totalitarianism. 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Marsman Trading' s next Town Meeting, on July 14th, considered a proposition that is particularly important just now to the Philippines, that is, "Is government sponsorship of cooperatives essential to their success?" Should the government, seeing the need, initiate and direct cooperatives, or should the people begin their own cooperatives rising out of their own needs? These were the questions discussed by Anastacio de Castro, leader of the National Trading Corporation which is doing so much toward promotion of government sponsored cooperations; and Miss Hel'en Topping, nationally known authority on cooperatives and executive secretary I of the Cooperative Institute of the Philippines. The debate of July 21st on the question, "Has compul'sory arbitration of industrial disputes by the Court of Industrial relations proved a success?" was another of the live issues discussed on the Town Meeting of the Air. 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