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Title: American Chamber of Commerce Journal
Description: Manila : The Chamber, 1921-1976
52 v.
Issue Date: Volume 9 (No. 4) April 1929
Publisher: The American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippine Islands (Member Chamber of Commerce of the United States)
Year: 1929
Language: English
Subject: Philippines -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals.; American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines--Periodicals.
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Place of publication: Manila
extracted text: Fiction: “Mr. Alloss,” by Henry Philip Broad. Folklore: “How the ‘Tigbalang’ Fought the Waterworks,” by Henry Lewis Minton; and “Ucudu!” by Hans G. Hornbostel. Poems on the Philippines by Gilbert S. Perez. — Mehr Licht! Being Remarks on the Passing of Marshal Foch, Heads the Month’s Editorials.—Monthly Features, Special Articles and the Customary Commercial Reviews RULY e 4. MAGAZINE . PREEMINENT . IN. THE. PHILIPPINES TABACALERA on silver $ The word “TABACALERA” on a cigar is just as significant as the word “Sterling” Your tobacconist will gladly supply you GOODRICH AIR CONTAINERS Goodrich de Luxe The Super Tire Is practically proof against all ac cidents of the road. It is built to resist cuts, blows and bruises. 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IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNA PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY The American Chamber of Gommerce OF THE Philippine Islands (Member Chamber of Commerce of the United States) ENTERED AS SECOND CLASS MATTER May 25, 1921, at the POST OFFICE AT MANILA, P. I. Local Subscription: P4.00 per year Foreign Subscription: $3.00 U. S. Currency, per year Single Copies: 35 Centavos WALTER ROBB, Editor and Manager DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS P. A. Meyer, President H. M. Cavender, Vice-President John W. Haussermann, Vice-President B. A. Green, Treasurer H. L. Heath W. L. Applegate J. C. Rockwell Kenneth B. Day Alf Welhaven ALTERNATE DIRECTORS J. L. Headington A. B. Cresap Frank W. Butler Wm. H. Rennolds John R. Wilson, Secretary E. E. Selph, General Counsel COMMITTEES The President has named and submits for confirmation the following Committees: EXECUTIVE P. A. Meyer, Chairman H. M. Cavender H. L. Heath FINANCE J. L. Headington, Chairman Wm. H. Rennolds F. W. Butler RELIEF W. J. Odom, Chairman Carl Hess John Gordon MANUFACTURING P. A. Meyer, Chairman Alf Welhaven E. A. Seidenspinner LEGISLATIVE P. A. Meyer, Chairman Frank B. Ingersoll J. R. Wilson FOREIGN TRADE H. B. Pond, Chairman L. L. Spellman M. M. Saleeby PUBLICATIONS P. A. Meyer, Chairman Roy C. Bennett BANKING AND CURRENCY Stanley Williams, Chair man W. J. Shaw RECEPTION AND ENTERTAINMENT J. L. Headington, Chair man F. W. Butler J. R. Wilson HOUSE B. A. Green, Chairman J. R. Wilson LIBRARY John Gordon, Chairman SHIPPING H. M. Cavender, Chairman G. P. Bradford L. E. Nantz INVESTMENTS P. A. Meyer, Chairman H. M. Cavender B. A. Green Certain Sulu Informalities Corrected John Hackett of the Mindanao Herald, pursuing his habitual pioneer ing for progress, applauds Colonel Stimson’s appointment of James R. Fugate governor of Sulu. In a manner of speaking, according to Hackett, Fugate has brought home the bacon in Sulu, and that alive, kicking and on the hoof. Of course, in Sulu, it isn’t really bacon at all. In Sulu, land of the proud Mohammedans, the swine runs wild and is contemptuously left to remain forever in a state of swinish nature: to break trail at will, scurry down into the branch, trouble it with his tusks for all get out, and show himself to be the deil’s private sedan, preford model, all he wants to: the Moros of Sulu leave the swine that makes the bacon religiously alone. No, it isn’t the bacon that’s been brought home by the wily shift in the gobernatorial chair at Jolo. It’s the beef. And there may be, later, a good deal of beefing about it. It seems a lamentable fact that the stalwart subjects of Sultan Hadji Mohammad Jamalul Kiram have not, all of them, that fine sense of dis crimination between their own and other chaps’ chattels that ought to be presumed to be an ingrained attribute of character in disciples of the Pro phet. Briefly, Suluanos will sometimes steal. Such is the naked (or at least partially and somewhat scandalously nude) truth. Stealing, a very informal practice, has always been eschewed by civilization—if for nothing else than on grounds of inconvenience; it is inconvenient for the husband man to lie down at night in the comfort and enjoyment of that which is his, only to awaken in the morning to the realization that what is his has been purloined by another. Even if it is a matter of no greater consequence than harem inmates, still it is often annoying. Much more so when it enters, as it seems to in Sulu, into domestic and local commerce. Even if one go back a long way, he will find it took a good deal of skillful writing to rehabi litate Jacob in public repute when he acquired Esau’s patrimony by almost . . .almost . . .well, it was nearly getting something for nothing, call it what you will. It was the more execrable, too, for being done to one of the tribe, in stead of to an outlander who might have been fairer prey. And that’s the low-down on the informalities complained of in Sulu. Your Suluano will steal from another Suluano in the same way he was wont to steal, not so long ago, from his credal enemy the Christian. That is to say, he will steal up in the night to an unsuspecting ranchería- and steal away again with all he can hastily lay his stealthy hands on. To his peculiar genius as a thief, he finds cattle lend themselves—■ cattle and carabaos. Such chattels, in a land such as Sulu, both transport and sustain themselves. Surreptitiously slaughtered, they and their hides are readily vendable in Sulu markets. They also make good marriage dowers and presents, and burial feasts. Left to breed and bear, they stock wisely isolated pastures. It is a regrettable truth that the untutored acquis itive faculties which, on the American plains, led to the branding of mave ricks and the inducement of twins in one’s own heifers, to the bereavement of one’s neighbors’ cows, is acutely manifest in rural Sulu. Though east is not west and the twain may not meet until the promised divine audit and physical inventory is made, cattle rustling is cattle rustling in Sulu just as it was in the days when it provoked wagon-tongue justice in the Panhandle. This vice of cattle rustling is reported by Hackett to have been the most popular outdoor sport in Sulu when Governor Fugate took office THE NEW FORD TUDOR SEDAN Pl,975.00 CASH (Ex. IFor Economy— TDECAUSE of its advanced mechanical design, the New Ford is extremely economical to operate and maintain. The New Ford is easy on tires. Light and flexible yet sturdily built, it has unusual “roadability.” “IT PAYS TO BUY A FORD” Decide to Buy one Today—Easy Terms May be Arranged “After We Sell We Serve” MANILA TRADING & SUPPLY CO. ILOILO A- BACOLOD in resp l ) a.-. ■■■■ - ■ A. G 'O THE AMERICAN CH 'ddhl MERCE JOURNAL 4 *j— — a few months ago. The wholesale robbing of Peter’s pastures to benefit Paul’s had grown to be a nuisance often provoking manslaughter and sometimes cold-blood murder. In the absence of pistols and Winchesters, the kris and kampilan, excellent meat spits, were adroitly wielded in the cause of vengeance. Then, too, a thief can kill a little now and then in his own behalf; if a raid has been planned and a rural householder is found unseasonably wakeful, a deft stroke to the midriff will often prove to be a sufficient soporific. Altogether— that is, taking one thing with another, especially cattle and carabaos—law and order on the jungle border in Sulu were not, until Governor Fugate’s advent, all that good manners and right conduct might have dictated. Something was rotten, allegedly, and it was far this side of Denmark and not much beyond the immediate environs of Jolo. And how has Governor Fugate expunged from Suluano conduct what Hackett describes as the cattle-stealing industry? Why, very easily. Last August, when he was acting Sulu gov ernor, he gathered all the best people of Sulu into a conclave which they call down there a bichara. There, some plain talk established distinctions among the guests. Some, in the opinion of their host, might be better than others, and even these others no better than they should be, but all were capable of manly renunciation of objec tionable conduct and of going straight in future. To go straight, Governor Fugate proposed to give every man a chance—up to January 1, this year. “Every holder of a stolen animal who turned it into one of the government pounds, established in various parts of the island (of Jolo), would not be prosecuted unless he repeated the offense, in which event he would be soaked to the limit.” After January 1 the probation period would expire; “a determined campaign would be started by the authorities to recover stolen animals, many of which had been definite ly located, and to punish the thieves.” At such words, the assembled Suluanos looked askance, and some were really worried. The result seems to have been that about half the cattle and carabaos in Sulu once more infor mally changed hands; men found that the night had restored to them animals long lost, and taken from them other animals which they had The Revolt of Youth By Rafael Palma, President, University of the Philippines. One of the many persistent problems of the day is that which refers to the new manners and customs of youth. Among the young men of today there is noticeable a sort of rebellion against Certain standards of conduct and habits of action generally accepted and firmly believed by pastgenerations. On numerous occasions, ,our pedagogues have remarked, in more or less censorious vein, that our youth have stampeded from their wonted bounds, and have ^become ungovernable and disobedient; that they seized in just reprisal; so that accounts were squared all round in hundreds of cases. Many cutthroats voluntarily gave themselves up for trial, and Ilackett thinks their number includes the last Sulu outlaw, who has been the standing joke of Manila newspapers for de/ ados. A Gala Day in Jolo That is the passing of cattle rustling in Sulu, if you care to believe so, and it doesn’t take into very thorough consideration some of the dogmat ism of Governor Fugate’s immediate successor, ex-Governor Carl M. Moore, now of the Indian bureau in Washington. After all, Moore too was an old hand in Sulu and a man of pretty keen intelligence and quite cool nerve. His dogmatism was roads and bridges, now followed by the dogmatism of the letter of the law—not that it ought to be inferred that Moore neglected the efficacy of the law. But it appears to have been his experience in Sulu, as it certainly was American experience on the cattle plains at home, that means of transportation and of getting readily about tend mightily to correct have lost tjjéir cherished attachments to the home, and d'heir age-old respect for their parents and elders has become a thing of the past; and that, totally unsubjected to the discipline that comes from religious Tnd moral training, they are daily becoming the victims of disbelief and immorality. Adherents of the old system of education have endeavored to attribute the so-called licentiousness and disorderly conduct of modern youth to laical education which, ac cording to them, has prostituted all that was border informalities and to make settlers out of men whom easy means of rendezvous and escape tempt into a roaming thieving daredevil life. It is certainly cheering to learn of the instant apparent success of Governor Fugate, but maybe there will be backsliders among the good people of Sulu, who will return to the wiles of the de fenseless border, until the Sulu jungle is made accessible by more roads and bridges. There seems just one way to rid a country of border characters permanently, and that’s to obliterate the border. It is hoped that the new adminis tration really begins where the Moore adminis tration left off, that what has been built is not destroyed or abandoned but only added to and continued in use for the public weal of one of the world’s last and most stubborn borders. Hac kett avers that livestock in Jolo is now as safe from being stolen as it would be in the backyard of the senate president’s Pasay home. That is encouraging. So are roads and bridges. —W. R. good in the old system. z Between the youth of today and the youth of yesterday, there is undoubtedly a difference in mentality, brought about not only by the type of education but also by the ¿ocial and economic conditions of the times. >/The young man of yesterday was trained to conform ab solutely to established dogmas and precepts, •'íle was not taught to assert and to talk; much less to discuss with his parents and teachers. From the very beginning he imbibed in the school a tragic version of life. The axiom that “learning enters with blood” was adhered to with Puritanic persistency and severity. I remember that in the little public school where I studied in my teens, my teacher used various Retail r>ine American £) WhoIesa Importers • Agents '■A" BOTICA BOIE ° MANILA Heavy Chemicals—Fertilizer—Manufacturers We have been selling drugs for 98 years TN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOUR m : i; • .. .' A <) ¡ : ó n -1.. - cn t for c .xJerent ends': i y, . r\'í. : lisk ;vith a handle, ' v 'i;jr c n cl the hand) for ■ ’a ., .•< i:.; .. proficiency in writing i <!!•' e of the times, and a . ’ ‘ .< who could not recite wen uieir assigned lessons by memory. At times when the* teacher was in ill humor, the key-ring, the inkstand, or any object within his reach, would rend the air with the heads of the poor students as targets. It never occurred to us then that this was not the best system of instruction. As a matter of fact, the more severe and exacting the teacher was the more he was liked by the community, because it was said that the youngsters turned out to be more witty, more quick, and more intelligent. To some extent, the system was vindicated by results. ¿The fear of instant punishment insured on the part of exceptional students a faultless imitation of the letters and numbers of the printed models of Iturzaeta, and when it came to conjugating the irregular Spanish verbs in their various modes and tenses, the ability to do so always evoked admiration and surprise. In the se condary schools, under the direction of religious orders, no instruments of torture were employed, but the youth was subjected to a similar stern discipline. For forwardness and little mis demeanors, they were required to extend their arms in the form of a cross, or to perform the “dip in the well exercise,” or kneel before the class. Besides, they were required to hear mass daily; recite prayers at the beginning and end of their classes; confess and take communion as often as possible, especially during Lent; time; and take part in processions and church festivals. Prizes were offered to reward not only scholar ship but also good behavior and external demeanor. In the university;_th^ etudent-wasdef-t- more, at ease, even with respect to religious obligations. The pi actice~~of~^takmg" communion was only required once a year. Outside of this no super vision was exercised over the scholarship of the students,—the studious and the “beater” had their way. Repetition of a subject in which they failed year in and year out was allowed. Expulsion from school was unknown except for violent disorders within the class-room and for offenses commit teed against the person oLthe professor. There were no longer prize's to stimulate studiousness and good conduct. The quizzes were few and far between because the classes were jammed to the limit and the profes sors cared little for the daily progress of their stpdents, expecting the “show-down” in the final examinations. The aims and objectives of the whole educa tional system were evidently to inculcate and force virtue through religious discipline, and to subordinate knowledge and information about the world and Nature, which were considered ofc temporary and transcient character, to the concerns of the eternal life, of the expectations and splendors of the other world. This system yielded the good results that were expected of it, while our country remained se questered from the rest of the world and the necessities and ambitions of our people were limited. The structure of society was based on. the uniformity of religious dogmas and the moralli and social code which controlled our daily life.lj Nobody dared to disagree with the precepts contained in these codes or examine whether they were good or bad; they were accepted as irrefutable truths, and whoever departed from their observance was sure to suffer sofijal ostra cism if not more severe penalties. However, our contact with the outside world aneTThnddH* progress, and especially the events during the Revolution, and the consequent transfer of these Islands to the United States, wrought radical changes in our perspective and outlook on life. The rise of human dignity, coupled with new In the avenues of intellectual research are to be found many opportunities for bringing those of us who are living in the Philippines into pleasant con tacts one with another; not precisely for the sake of accord, for we don’t stress harmony of views and conduct as much as the government does, but for the sake of understanding the other fellow-Mcnowing him better and learning how and of what he thinks; and to what purpose. For this reason we were delighted to come upon a recent address by President Rafael Palma of the University of the Philippines, on' such a vital subject, the reaction of Philippine young folks to modern times, as to deserve being printed in full in our pages. This we herewith do. And by the way, if your children are approaching their university period, it might not be unwise for you to con sider the institution which President Palma presides over. Our son took his freshman and sophomore work there. One of two American boys, his relations with his classmates and the faculty were all that could be desired, from the beginning; and he was excellently instructed in all the courses he took. There are many indications that the University is under the best direction it has ever had, and that it is, as a whole, a very efficient institution of higher learning.—ED. standards and modes of living, has created a less glistered view of life and is leading to- a process of reformation in the core of our family life and"tty a -spirit of restlessness-and revolt of youth against aged norms of conduct and of action. ----/UTo^Tfiis result has undoubtedly contributed the*” new system of education which permits self-discovery and development of individuality* and brings about a sense of responsibility, in contrast with the old uniformity of beliefs and practices and the acceptance of the absolute authority of the parents and teachers. ¿The use of corporal punishment in the instruction of the child has been eliminated and in its place warn ing, suspension and even dismissal have been introduced. In the various grades of our system of public instruction, the attention and diligence of the students are attracted by objective meth ods and by a variety of courses and activities which break the monotony of mental exertion. The optional courses, the specialization, the science neglect of the classics and the study of modem languages are the product of the new conditions of our modern life, i/tt is no longer desired to recite the lesson by memory, the main aim being to determine whether the substance of the printed page has been assimilated. No dogmas and moral precepts are imposed, but the princi ples of goo(l_manncrs and right conduct and civics are being taught, to give a practical notion of the nature of the relationship which a citizen has with himself, with society, and with his government. The school is considered as a reproduction, in miniature, of the community in which he has to live.* ¿Tn the colleges and universities, especially, the student societies and fraternities and the so-called extra-curricular activities place within the reach of the student a reasonably sufficient practical training so necessary for his membership in actual social life. 'ÓVs a part of this training, athletics and physical education and even military and tactics are required, calculate ‘ young men with the spirit of tean 1 fit them to survive in the arduou existence. 7 CTo my-mind, the principal distir •t-. K able between the one system and . . in the view of life and in the phik. o; back of it. jWhereas education in . ?■ guided by the theological conct world and undertook to reform 1 anee with a certain pattern that ' i? ? to have come by heavenly revel r:- n, day, education simply prepares < h tempting in so far as possible to • '< ditions surrounding Human exit the education of yesterday was . feeling Hif Divinity, today it is . feeling of humanity. In the pa- . was considered as a period of ti Aua . j better life, and a knowledge of t,L~ Jmigs vital surround man was not so essential as a behavior which would please God in this life and make man deserving of the rewards of the eternal life. ' Now education trains for life on this earth; it helps man to understand deeply what life is and what can be done to harness the varied forces of Nature in the service of man, to d'x' mine what are those subtle and invisible L that govern the mysterious actions of indi vid i and of societies, and to know how man’s coni over Nature can be enhanced. < In the light these differences, it may be inferred, with soi truth, that a spirit more materialistic th before is pervading the present system of eo. . cation—in its workings and consequences; but at bottom the idea of God has not disappeared, but it seeks God more at close range in the depths and grandeur of ¿His works, instead of considering Him as an unknowable and un known Being living in a distant region, divorced from the world and from its institutions? This new philosophy of education is not as bad as it may seem to those who have acquired the habit of looking at things from the view point of conservatism and the maintenance of the status quo. It is only a new i ? c * >r of God and His designs toward? T’ modern conception is that God if of Nature or of man; that Ée is ¡¡! lives with us, and although His Ki; jo; (Please turn to page 11) A SDEDNY MOTOR OILS AND MOTOR GASOLINE —make any car run better Standard Oil Company of New Yc ■■■i.WERTISEMENTS PLEASE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Mister Alloss” By Henry Philip Broad In the regiment from which he had retired after five and twenty years of service, he had been called Walrus, on account of the hirsute adornments on his florid ball of a face; and in the soft palaver of the Filipino, Walrus had become Alloss. As Mr. Alloss he was known to every man, woman and child in barrio Santa Maria, where he made his home. Three times a week he would go down to the post exchange, three miles away, to make his purchases at the army stores. He would trudge down the dusty, coconut-bordered road in his old khaki suit and battered Stetson, a basket swinging from his arm—as unlike his Philippine surroundings as could be imagined. They always took him the better three-fourths of the morning, these visits to the post exchange. Not that he did not start early enough; he set out regularly at seven, but progress to town was not easy. From their nipa huts the Filipino mothers would nod to him and smile, and he would stop at one dwelling or another and inquire into little Serafin’s condition, whether the chills and fever had gone down, and how wee Mariquita had spent the night. Sometimes Lady Marta, the well-to-do widow, wrould beckon to him. Laboriously he would ascend the steep bamboo stairs and have a look at little Anita’s English composition. More than once it would be: “Them ideas are not bad at all, Anita. But them letters!” And his pudgy freckled hand would trace a model letter, to the voluble admiration of his numerous onlookers. Then down into the street once more, and from many a dilapidated abode that could not be called a house, and yet was a real home, a small tot would scuttle forth, and another and another, as innocent of garments as on the day of their birth. He would stop in his lumbering gait and talk to the smallest and dirtiest of them, stroking with his sunburned hands the straight black hair, patting the small brown faces with . flat little noses, the while digging into the recesses of his khaki coat where lemon drops apparently generated spontaneously. Then he would wave to someone whose shack was set far back in the coconut grove that bordered the road, too far to go for a chat. So he would make a loud-speaker of his two hands and shout: “Hello, there, Mariano! How are them nuts coming on?” It would be nine o’clock by the time he reached the exchange. Nearly always, too, there were some officers’ ladies there and he had to wait, but that did not bother him. He had a way of greeting the ladies, removing his hat with one hand and receiving it with the other as it de scribed a sweeping downward curve, and the ladies liked it, for they always smiled. And the quartermaster would allow him to have a look at the new stores. He would feast his Ijish eyes on the tin-foil wrapped bacon, the pyramids of tinned goods in colorful wrappers, and the delicious glow of the oranges and apples. He would make his purchases, chat a little with the sergeant, add up and go. Once only had he had a little difficulty, and that with a new quartermaster sergeant, just arrived in the islands and therefore knowing it all. Looking askance at Mr. Alloss’ stock of goods, he had said: “Now, Sergeant Walrus, tell me, what in blazes do you do with all them things you get here? Six cans of milk again today! Why, man, you had twelve last time! Day before yesterday, that is!” “You should worry, young man! I pay for it, don’t I? My United States Army pension’s as good as the next fellow’s, eh?” He had taken the heavy basket from the counter, and was making ready to go. But the other was not yet satisfied. “You are registered a single man, Walrus. So don’t you tell me you use all the milk your self, not saying anything about the other things.” Mr. Alloss put down his basket and looked at his officious interlocutor who went on: “I’m under the regulations, you know! We must check up on people like. . like you, Walrus! Tell me now, what do you do with them things? Sell ’em, eh? Sell ’em to the civilians?” Anger shot through Mr. Alloss. Then he calmed down and put a hand on the trim, chevroned sleeve of the young man. “You know damn well I don’t even sell a toothpick! Never have. The Captain knows, and that ought to be enough for the likes of you! Want to be smart with me, eh?” The other shrugged trim shoulders: “Still, that does not tell me what you do with all the stuff, you old codger!” Mr. Alloss slowly picked up his basket. “Well, if you just got to know. . .” “Sure would like to know!” “Listen, then: It’s for my children!” The other man roared: “Now, Walrus, that’s the best I ever heard! Your children! And you a single man! Walrus, for shame!” Holding his sides, which seemed in imminent danger of splitting, he asked between spurts of laughter: “So you have children, Walrus? And how many have you, say?” “Fifty-three of ’em, Sergeant, fifty-three!” Adding, as he closed the door: “And plenty more coming!” If Mr. Alloss’ progress had been slow in the morning, it held no comparison with his progress back from the post exchange. First of all, he wrended his way to the market. It was a flimsy bamboo-and-iron structure near the seashore where, in their wooden stalls, Filipino women sold their wares. He knew all the women, especially the older ones, and they hailed him with undisguised delight. “Ay, Mister Alloss! Que tai, Mister Alloss?” He would shake hands with them, talking to them in a queer jumble of a language that had once been Spanish. Then he had to listen to Lady Ramona’s whispered complaints about her son-in-law, who abused her so; to Lady Amalia’s detailed particulars about her latest grandchild’s laborious advent. More than once he scratched his bald shining pate during the conciliabula with the rest of them, pondering When Touring in these islands it is wise to guard yourself against cho lera, dysentery and those deadly diseases that are contracted through drinking impure water. THE 1OO% PURE natural water— Good Shoes for all the Family 'pHIRTY Years of shoemaking in the Philippines is the record on which we base our bid to supply HIKE shoes to every member of your family. is available everywhere! It is guaranteed free from every trace of microbic life or hearthy deposits. Its radio-activity has earned for TANSAN the name of a preventive against stomach and kidney disorders! BEWARE OF IMITATIONS! HIKE SHOE FACTORY Style Creators 286 San Marcelino Manila, P. I. Sole Distributors: F. E. ZUELLIG, INC. MANILA ILOILO CEBU IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL solutions of their troubles. Then he would select his vegetables, buying from one today, tomorrow from another, so as to cause no ill-feel ings among them. But bananas he invariably purchased from Lady Stanislawa. Stanislava! The very name conjured up youth and freshness and he saw himself again, a trig young warrior, just come from the home land, and Stanislawa, the brown beauty! Those wonderful days! But the years had slipped by, unmercifully, as years have a way of doing, and Stanislawa, if still brown, was no longer a beauty. But that had not kept her from raising a huge family, by two Filipino husbands, and she and her earthwhile lover had remained good friends. That and no more; for unlike so many of his former companions whom the Islands had re tained, he had remained single. He knew the people, he liked them; he had of his own free choice made his home among them; yet at the thought of marrying he had balked. He was not the marrying kind, anyway, he reasoned; it would never do. At a side booth, after a hearty chat with the lady of his youth, he would purchase a dozen or so native gingerbreads of the fanciest shapes, fat little pigs with pink-icinged snoots, horses with flags in place of tails. That would be just the thing for Carlito, who had a touch of t. b., or for Sebastian, the lame boy, or for poor Filo mena with the hare lip. Fifty-three of ’em? Why, there were more than twice that many in the barrio now! He would pile the dulces on top of the already over-flowing basket, or stuff them into his gaping pockets. Then, sweeping his hat to the women in the stalls with the same incongruous yet captivating grace as he had to the ladies in the post, he would move on. Home? No, not yet. He had to take a drink first, over at Johnny’s bar. A glass of beer, in this hot country, would not do anybody any harm. So, with the basket pulling heavily at his arm, he would make for the gaily-painted, two-storied frame building at the corner, push open the door with his knee and get his glass of beer; one, sometimes two, never three. Too much money. He would sit and chat with the elderly owner of the place, or with a couple of sailors who were making a day of it while their vessel was in port. At last, wiping the foam from beard and mustache with the back of his hand, would finally stalk from the barroom and trudge homeward. The nearer he came to home, the lighter grew the burden. The tots would scuttle forth from their dwellings again, a little less naked than in the morning, and their young voices shrill with excitement and expectation, would cut into the stillness of the fiery hot forenoon “Hello, el Mister Alloss! Helle He would plant himself before thei. legs. “Hey, there, Pedro! A apple for the n she’s got the beriberi. Here, young Marg, a orange for you!” To another: “Say, Lu that sore sure ain’t looking right good to me. Come and get some zinc ointment.” “Ah, Lady Maria!” to a buxom young woman who was spreading out some baby linen on a hedge t dry “and how is the new baby? Wait a minu+ The pudgy hand would delve into the fastness of the basket and hand the young mother two or three scarlet-labelled cans of milk. Thus it would always be, on Wednesday, Monday and Friday; and noon would not be far off when he got home. Home was the wooden cubicle he had built himself, of packing cases, covering the “Stow away from boilers” and the “X.X. Brand Soap” with a color worthy of the luscious surroundings. The house stood flush with the road; age-old mango trees swayed dignifiedly behind it. It was not a grand home—oh, no—just two rooms, one that held his narrow army bed, his army locker, and an old aparador for his clothes, then the smaller room, his company room, as he called it, with oil stove and table so ingeniously attached that he could cook and eat without getting up. There was also the ice chest in this room, and under the table the round padded box for Sally, the cat. For Sally’s benefit, too, the square small opening at the right of the door ethat permitted her to come and go as her felin fancy directed. One morning late in May, when he returned from town, Mr. Alloss became aware from a distance that something was amiss at his house. Sally was wailing pitifully from within. Small wonder, he found. Sally’s little exit had been obstructed, someone had placed a board against it from the inside. 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I. Wholesale and Retail Departments - - - Tel. 2-21-31 Stationery Department - ................................Tel. 2-35-37 If there is anything you need in the way of Artists, Surveyors, School, Office, or Printers’ Supplies, give us a ring. ' IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNA jnding $7,000,000 Monthly With America .ia, P. I., March 23.—Customs figures x eleased show that every month last year s Philippines bought from America manufac tures valued at upward of $7,000,000; from the world as a whole the islands bought to the tune of $135,000,000 during the year, and their urchases from America are 62.2%, or $84,500,00 the year as a whole. Thus America now joys less than 2/3 of the purchasing trade of ne Philippines; the Philippine tariff, which iverages about 20% ad valorem, does not prevent a great deal of buying from Europe and Japan. Here are a few of the countries from which the Philippines buy: United States................. Great Britain................. Belgium........................... France............................. Germany......................... Switzerland..................... China.............................. Br. East Indies.............. Dutch E. Indies............. Fr. East Indies.............. Japan.............................. Australia.......................... $84,500,000 5,638,000 1,500,000 1,564.789 4,624'951 1,657,775 6,559,744 3,002,338 3,035,135 2,401,348 12,935,876 2,433,780 Australia, not a leading manufacturing coun try, sells the Philippines chiefly beef and coal. Twelve more countries trading with the Philip pines sell them less than a million’s worth of goods a year, respectively. But in pesos, half the value of dollars, the islands bought more than a million’s worth last year from each of the following, Spain, the Netherlands, and JapaneseChina. Single items in the purchases the islands made last year which each totalled more than a million dollars are: rice, flour, bread stuffs other than flour, automobiles, other vehicles, chemicals md drugs, coal, cotton cloths, other cotton products, eggs, electrical wares, fertilizers, iber manufactures, fish, leather, meats, dairy products, crude oil, gasoline, lubricating oil, Tuits and nuts, rubber manufactures, machinery, ron and steel, paper and books, silks, soaps, obacco and cigarettes, vegetables. Other items coming to more than a million pesos, but less than a million dollars, are: auto parts, cacao, chocolate, etc., coffee, precious stones, porcelain, glass and glassware, hats and caps, nonelectrical instruments, matches, minor oils, paints and varnishes, perfumery and cos metics, liquors, wood and rattan manufactures, voolen products. Some items bought chiefly or principally rom the United States are pretty large: Flour, 5,325,000; automobiles and parts, $5,028,000; otton cloths, $20,117,000; other cotton products, ‘>8,018,000; electrical wares, $2,185,000; fish roducts, $2,201,000; fruits and nuts, $1,645,'0; rubber manufactures, $2,325,000; dairy □ducts, $3,765,000, petroleum products, $10,1,000 in round numbers; tobacco and cigaret$3,101,000. And possibly silks should be eluded, about $4,000,000, as a great deal of nerican silk goods sells in the islands in com..tition with oriental silks. Of course America is the chief customer of the Philippines, as she is their chief merchant and íanufacturer. She gave $116,000,000 to the slands last year for their products, and from all their other customers they received $39,000,000, to make a rough approximation of the exact figures. Here are a few of the countries which bought from the Philippines last year: United States....................$116,000,000 Japan............................... 6,972,000 Great Britain.................. 7,896,000 China............................... 3,504,000 Germany.......................... 3,154,000 Spain................................ 5,091,000 France............................. 2,703,000 British East Indies........ 1,678,000 Belgium......................... 1,398,000 Netherlands..................... 1,466,000 Italy................................ 1,528,000 Hongkong........................ 1,348,000 No other country bought from the islands luring 1928 as much as a million’s worth. Amerca’s purchases were chiefly fiber, sugar and coconut products, the last being copra, coconut oil and desiccated coconut meat. In value, the import-export trade of the islands in 1928 was $289,711,444, exceeding that of 1927 by $18,285,887, an increase of 5.5%. Per capita it was an increase of $1.50; imports outvalued those of 1927 by $19,000,000, but exports fell slightly below the value of the exports of 1927, the price of sugar especially being quite low. Another important phase of the trade to the general reader is the shipping it involves. What is the nationality of the vessels taking so many products from America and other points in the world to the Philippines, and carrying such heavy cargoes away from the islands? Of what the Two More Philippine Poems by Gilbert S. Perez Paradise I drifted into Rosario Last Saturday Night, And in one of the cubicled Cathayan cloth marts I saw Old parchment faced Tan Gon Toying with his sweat-grimed, Ebony balled Abacus And listlessly clip-clapping The profits Of another day. And I remembered The wedding feast Years ago In the provinces And I knew That mellowed friendship Could risk Familiar queries. How is the wife, Tan? He turned to me With that mirthless, Heart sick Laugh of Oriental Grief. “You no hear? Too bad! too bad! She gone to the hell And she leave me Alone With nine kids.” Alone, With nine kids. And the wife Hopelessly Beating her hands Against an unseen Impenetrable Wall, Haunted By heart-breaking Terranean memories Which refuse to die Even In Paradise— Oh, the subtlety Of Oriental Jests! Manila, May 10, 1927. islands bought, American vessels carried cargoes valued at $61,229,879, of which $48,590,000, nearly, was from the United States. Of what the islands sold for delivery abroad, American vessels carried cargoes valued at $75,526,739, of which $67,500,000, nearly, went to the United States. British vessels were abou? the only material competitor, the imports they brought to the islands were valued at $48,916,732, and the exports they hauled away at $49,228,163. German ships brought the islands imports valued at $9,155,199 and hauled away exports valued at $5,201,458. The corresponding figures for Japan are $6,017,771 and $14,107,139 respec tively. Considerable values are in the mails, which in bulk pass between the islands and the United States: imports by mail were valued at $3,650,380, and exports at $5,605,332. Sarangani Bay I did not love Rudyard But I liked his verse And many were the times When I sailed away Across the Seven Seas, But that night The southern monsoon Groaned and moaned In Sarangani bay. Between the lightning flashes I could see The kneeling palms as they prayed Their unending orisons To the moon-starved Celebes sea. So I closed the windows And I thought that I was Alone And I opened the book And put on my heavy Tortoise shell Glasses. But they did not stay on And they slipped and slipped And dropped as I nodded And dreamed of the Moulmein pagoda In far-away Burmah. Then it was that I saw The flash Of the two-edged Campilan Mirrored on the dark green surface Of the flask of native gin On the table. Then the light went out and. . . Darkness. . . As my head rolled over The open book of verse And the crimson viscid lake Spread itself slowly Over the pages And on And over The Road to Mandalay. Lanao, March 1, 1927. vanish, Dutch, Norwegian and Swedish ships regularly call at Philippine ports and participate in the ocean carrying trade of the islands, and the Spanish mail line counts in the commerce with Spain. American vessels do not carry all the goods America sells the islands; of these goods last year fhe amount carried by British vessels was valued at $30,000,000, and Norwegian vessels How the “Tigbalang” Fought the Waterworks Frank Lewis Minton This is the story of the excavation and building of the 11 old reservoir"" in San Juan del Monte, as told by Juan J avalan, one of the few laborers still living ivho ivere employed on that great project. His wife, Aquilina, and an old friend, ivhose no,me the writer has forgotten, contributed several bits of forest lore. In order to bring the scene more vividly to the reader, I have used as nearly as possible the style of the narrators. It was many years ago, Señor—in 1877, to be exact—that the great Don Sebastian (Don Sebastian Jube, a noted Spanish engineer) came to the bondok for the purpose of carving in the solid rock of San Juan del Monte, this great chamber of waters which you have just seen; so the people of Manila might have pure, fresh water during the time of drought. I was very young then, Señor, yet I remember that day as if it were but yesterday. The people were greatly worried over Don Sebastian’s project; for, they argued, if it were God’s will that the people of Manila should have fresh water during the season of dryness, other than that of the great river, which they had used for centuries, then why had He not, in His omnipotence, caused such a receptacle to occur in his own way? Or why had he not caused springs of pure water to flow in convenient places about the city? And perhaps the people were right, for several times those who have drained and cleaned the great chamber have found the skeletons of dead men, who were doubtless thrown into the water by the angry tigbalang. At any rate, you will admit, Señor, that had God so willed, he could easily have supplied Manila with pure water himself, and saved all that great labor and expense, and lerhaps the lives of many unfortunate people s well. The people were much worried, and many of them refused to help with the construction )f the huge chamber; for it was believed—and his belief later proved to be well founded, ñor—that the building of such a receptacle mid offend the spirits of the bondok. The great 'k crest of San Juan del Monte is the home the tigbalang. ’Tis said it was constructed these spirits at the beginning of the world. aid there were other evil spirits, Señor, the tatanda sa punso, which infested the trails and ootpaths. “You know not of these evil spirits, mor? Strange! Then will I tell you of the -¿balang and the matanda sa punso, Señor, so it you may realize the dangers faced by the ave Don Sebastian, and all who helped him in íe construction of the great chamber. The tigbalang, Señor, sometimes appears in e form of a great dog, with a long red lolling gue, but usually he shows himself in his ^ral form, that of a very tall, thin creature, man, half beast, with most extraordinarily hiii legs, and long ears like those of an ass; ce also favors that of the horse, although certain human features at times. It is said ometimes the legs of the tigbalang are g that the total height of the terrible e is more than four times that of a very n; but those I have seen were not more iree times the height of a man. e spirits do not kill men outright, Señor; en they have successfully cast their spell human being, they lead him off into the ss of the wood. Losing his bearings, he s helplessly through the jungle. When JI entirely beneath the spell, they never •, but wander on at the call of the tiguntil they die/ Some say that those ie thus are eaten by the spirits, Señor; but I have no proof, and I incline to the belief 3 is a mere superstition. Seldom indeed •n overcome the spell of these evil ones, -ver except in cases where the tigbalang . - -.m,” .» * ‘i' ; ; • :■ de yYp carried another three millions’ worth. All this was offset but little by the shipments to Great Britain and Norway by American vessels, or from those countries by American vessels to the Philippines. There’s still a gap between what America sells and buys overseas, and what vessels of her own nationality are carrying for her. about the size of a large dog. Their hair some times grows so long that they resemble great balls, rolling hither and yon, in the darkness, menacing the pedestrian with their great round fiery eyes. They change shape with ease, and often the front feet become hands, "with which The Old Parish Church Apostrophises By Vernon J. Snapp Stand and look at me. Ponder. Well may you wonder. But do not think me dead. Think of yourself as you are, dreadfully young and giddy. My walls are stone, they will perish only with the hills. ' A typhoon took my roof. Then my bells were taken from me and placed on those pillars of wood—pillars the ants will gnaw down. Worst of all, puny men of this puny age have b uilt a puny structure of nipa palm and bamboo inside me—and they call it a church! How dearly they must love their god, that they build such a temple to him! Where are the worshipers who once thronged through my doors? Where are the children? For of such is the kingdom of heaven. There they are, romping out of school over my neglected plaza. They are saturated with the idea of progress, imbued with the myth of change. But the truth they get is only conf used discus sion, and their understanding is the understanding of the present only. At those buildings and at those builders, I scoff. For I shall see them waste into the mud out of which they have come, and die with the men who made them. And the tuise shall speak of them, and say, “Art thou also like the church the Spaniards bui^t? What, no?” Thy walls, O school, shall also br covered with cloying vines. From thy corners shall the baliti grow. In thy deserted portal shall spring up a woody growth. Thou shalt not be inhabited, nor resorted to from generation to generation. Neither shall the American teach in thee, nor shall the Filipino learn from thee of life. But the wild birds ... about thee, and vines shall hide thee from view. Thy gable shall be the haunt of bats. Trees shalt c mud against thy fallen walls. For thy time too shall come. Thy days shall not be prolonged forever. they hurl missiles at those with whom they are angry. It is a peculiar fact, Señor, that these bits of earth and stones, hurled by the matanda sa punso, have never, so far as Í know, actually touched those at whom they were thrown. Usually they go whistling past one’s head, or fall nearby. I have heard that should they actually strike the person at whom they were : ’i, the result bear tion; but a now ñor, and I tncy e story tc • . not _ put this i íany strange things have I seen in the bondok of San Juan del Monte. Like the tigbalang, the matanda sa punso have a language which, so far as 1 have learned, no human being understands. True, there once lived a man here who claimed that he had talked with the spirits of the bondok, but it is well known that he was a notorious liar, and his wife is believed to have been a witch. Many of the matanda sa punso have I seen rolling about the footpaths in the darkness, and menacing me with weird mouthings and their terrifying eyes; but when I have attacked them with staff or bolo, they have invariably escaped with incredible speed and agility. And as they fled they looked like very fat sheep. “Even thus, Señor, I told the story of the evil spirits to Don Sebastian; and then, as now, I spoke only of the things I have seen with my own two eves. Now I shall tell you of Don Sebast • .. He was a very great man and very , generous and proud; and terrible was 1 • n. wrath. He stood high in the favor of tl • > :)tain General, and the Director de Agu; s -ic had a knowledge of the spirits of the air, and of the stars, and of the water, and of the earth, and he feared nothing. Ah, he was a great caballero, Señor. He also knew much of magL, as you shall learn. So great was his influence that desm' displeasure of the tigbalang and tb sa punso he succeeded in gathering t force of laborers to aid him in carving chamber in the solid rock of San Juan ci How many, Señor? Perhaps ten b Some of them worked by day, others i the night. tu/rn to page 14) MEHR LICHT! If a final touch were needed, then, in Foch’s death, it has been supplied, to demonstrate that science is driving the ghosts of glory from the field of arms. On Flanders fields behold the regimented hosts of men too young to áte. Behold them swept away. The fields are fairer where they pour out the last full measure of patriotic devotion. But Marshal Foch, who commanded ten million men engaged in five simultaneous battles along a front of three hundred miles in 1918, when he was already sixty-seven, lives on as the master strategist—to die of senility ten years later, as pro saically as any citizen Jacques in the humblest arrondissement. The great memorials of his career are not of his death, but of how he, already an aged man, could send hundreds of thousands of men to death here, and equal numbers there, to hold his lines and write a page or two of history in the weird annals of mankind. The ensuing peace rankled exceedingly. Veterans of field and forum fell into lugubrious disputes as to who caused the war and who really brought about victory. The World War therefore fell short of success as a war ending war and making democracy secure. Hence war we shall have again, sculptors may as well prepare pedestals now for heroes who will soon claim them for their effigies. Nevertheless, the day will dawn when their chisels will have a more imaginative theme when they deal with Mars, and when heroes of steel and iron and t-n-t will be put to rest in the classics with Jove and his javelins, Caesar and his chariots, Alexander and Bucephalus. Humble as we are, yet we dare, in noticing the occasion of the passing Marshal Foch, master hero of the world's most heroic epoch of carnage, to say that war is obsolescent right now; that this world will find other ways of retaining in youth the attributes of manhood, and so, in the full ness of time, will make war obsolete. To hold otherwise is to despair of human progress, and vainly controvert even the rules of physics: for as men continue exercising their faculties in research on the problem of war, these faculties will expand in scope until they encompass the solution of To vision war dead by its own implacable hand ’ law ler v, war. Mehr licht! cried Goethe, and his light will shine to illuminate our dark ways of life long after the flames of war have been snuffed out. It will be science that makes war too terrible to endure. The first law of life will at last assert its privy dominion over the affairs of men, and parliaments will sit whose envoys sign open covenants worth something more than the current pound price of old paper: worth indeed the honor of the nations, felt then to be better preserved in the unbroken word than in the dispatch ing west of hordes of conscripts. For if France gives Foch a national funeral, the apogee of the people’s commendation, which he deserves, Hugo had one, Pasteur had one. is not to dream of Utopia, it is merely to put the bench and the v above the bludgeon and the blunderbuss. The latter weapons, the former a rational refinement of man’° force is called violence, and begins to be judged dissipated,” said Hugo, on the centeim’ rational conclusion of a conflict episode, Foch’s dashing a^1 dous cost. Not so U' the popular s^’ ' France b’ u,n stupenwho inspired ^cn a son of martial .uself that war confronted vdrn, as the Germans did, rally . iast defense will inevitably be broken, filer’s cry echoes forever in the human heart, .vith the retreating drums. Mehr licht! WE “TAN” SEE IT COMING By mandamus, the insular auditor has been hailed before the supreme court by Tan C. Tee, contractor for seven units of the Iloilo marginal wharf, and told by the court to certify that funds for the work are available, if they are, and sign on the dr * * he matter are minis terial, not discretional: it is.........................................rector to say who is the lowest responsible bidder: moreover, and as against what the auu. believed, acceptance of a bid on a job is not, the court holds, a contract. An offer is made, this offer is accepted, still it is not a contract, and the time for the auditor to perform his merely ministerial function concerning funds available for the job, which fact the law enjoins it upon him to certify, is when the formal agreement, later to be signed by the contracting parties, is drawn up and sent to his office in proper form for the certificate to issue. But the court takes occasion to say that whereas decisions of the auditor are binding on the executive, when not reversed by the secretary of war, they are not binding on the courts; numerous precedents are cited and the statement made that by a series of decisions the authority of the auditor has been materially modified from what it once was. It is, there fore, timely to inquire if the islands aren’t getting away from safe financial anchorage, and into dangerous waters which they have not sounded and where pilots will be required. Checkmating the auditor may be a fine show, but it’s a costly one. Shall we not soon arrive, at the rate we are going, at the time when special agents will come out to Manila to administer the proceeds of our government loans, and contractors in their good graces will come along with them? This, right now, is the humiliating and costly experience of ten several countries in South America. The difference between our present credit and theirs is about 50% in our favor. As this largely comes about through the powers the insular auditor has had here tofore but seems to have no longer, if Congress wishes to do us a friendly act it will redefine without further delay the powers it intends the auditor shall exercise. The auditor’s original powers were none too great. The government that has so radically curtailed them has already written finis to its independence of its creditors. SUGGESTIONS As soon as the government gets around to advertising the islands, the tourist traffic will become important. To spend a matter of $10,000 a year with two or three of the Big Seven magazines—Harper's, Atlantic, Review of Reviews, World’s Work, Scribner’s, Century and Golden Book— would do it. To this end the Ayuntamiento should be converted into a permanent museum and art exhibit, with its courts, two spacious ones devoted to orchids and ferns. For a time at least, offices could remaii housed on the upper floor, or part of it, but immediate steps in the utiliza tion of the lower floor, particularly Marble Hall, should secure this built ing forever to the uses of art and history. Functions, such as banquets, interfering with this purpose should be held elsewhere. Going farthei the government should take a leaf from Java’s ledger and designate entity to mark specifically historical buildings in Manila, which shot shen not be destroyed save by official consent. Proper memorial tabl thould be placed on them. The cooperation of the monasteries should obtained, that proper historical notes in English inscribed on tablets t placed in all the monastery churches, the chapel of the Clare nuns, am the Cathedral. Fort Santiago might come in on this. Then there’s th beach question. Manila lacks a first class beach in her immediate ei virons, but has one half an hour away on the Cavite road, where the st is all anyone could desire and the bottom shelving sand. Here a suitábi pavilion should be built and a concession let, when thousands of Manila! as well as tourists with either no time nor means for Baguio, would patror the place as one of healthful seashore recreation. There is ample par’ space. Cavite might well share the expense of this project, for the pri1 of maintaining a market there. No wonder tourist ships come and between daylight and dark, for we keep concealed or only half acc all the wonders and pleasures we have to offer. This costs us mon the natural disappointment of many hundreds of visitors. W1 formerly said about Mehan Gardens we don’t repeat. It stands wit is now added. It is time for the government to be practical ab( tourist trade and the pleasure and comfort and health o( the city. DR. QUEZON We are able sometimes to disagree with the senate president v grudging him the doctorate in law conferred upon him by the Uni1 of the Philippines. We heartily congratulate him, and the univerf well. The incident marks another step in scholastic progress here, ai appropriately coupled with similar honors for a woman, an educa girls, Miss Librada Avelina, Tounder of Centro Esco’ ’ cannot be gainsaid. They will conduce to the endf tion in the islands and to men’s and women’s maters. They at once dignify the institution 1 . viietic interest. tíñe explod again into uncontrollable sobs and wringing of hands and stampings of feet, till he could not help but remonstrate firmly, yet soothingly: “The neighbors, child! They might hear you!” Whereupon she stopped abruptly, turned her tear-stained eyes upon him and whispered hoarsely: “No, no neighbors! Nobody must know where I am, nobody. ” and went on, hands joined in pitiful imploration: “You help me, Mr. Alloss? Good Mr. Alloss, you help me?” “But, girlie, you must tell me how!” He sat down on the locker, beside her. She threw off the fringed scarf from her shoulders. The heat in the small room was intense. Then she turned to him and said in a broken stammer: “I have run—run away from home.” He said nothing. Instead he began to stroke her arm. Run away from home! She was not the first, nor the last to run away from home! Many had run away from home. He knew. He edged 1 little bit nearer. “My father,” she said, “wants me to marry . . an old, old man. . . old Eusebio. . . and he /ill beat me if I don’t! He beats me, Mr. klloss!” She peered at him through eyes splashed /ith tears. Deep pity filled him. He withdrew his hand rom her arm. Beating a child! Unconsciously e rolled up his sleeves, ready to fight. And dio, he wanted to know, was that brute of father, that skunk not fit be mentioned? lis eyes glittered like angry blue flames. “He ny stepfather. He beat my mother, too; now she’s been dead for more than a year, keeps a stall in the market, not far from Lady Stanislawa’s where you always buy your bananas. I’ve seen you many times, Mr. Alloss.” She put a crumpled tiny kerchief to her eyes. “He is terrible to me ... I do not know what to do . . . Mr. Alloss! Last night he said that I must to old Eusebio’s house this morning and. . . 1 stay there! I—I could not. I know old ^sebio! So, very very early this morning I slipped away from the stall in the market and came here to you, Mr. Alloss! You are a good man, Mr. Alloss! I have no one but Mariano, my sweetheart, and his boat will not be in until Monday or Tuesday. I wanted to hide so that 10 one could find me, till he comes. You will íelp me, Mr. Alloss, surely?” “I wish I knew how!” he said, scratching his lead. It was getting uncommonly hot in the louse, he felt. She fanned herself with the fringed scarf, Let me stay here with you, Mr. Alloss. Just he few days until Mariano comes back. I’ll ook for you. But no one must know. Oh, lease let me stay with you, please! I cannot go ack to my father. Have pity on me, have pity! This morning, coming here, I hid in the trees. And when I knew the women had gone down to the shore to do their washing, I ran in here.” “So you think nobody has seen you come in?” With bated breath he waited for her answer. “I am sure no one has.” He heaved a sigh of relief. He surely was in i pickle, he was! There he sat on the locker, jurple from heat and perplexity, thick drops if sweat standing on his furrowed white brow. What to do? What to do for the poor child? He resumed scratching his head for ideas. All of a sudden, from the company room, came a violent protest from the oil stove; like all things sensitive it has resented being ignored ¿o long. Mr. Alloss rushed out headlong, and tpo did the girl. ! “Let’s have a bite first,” he said when the Htove got quiet. Eat first, and the thoughts ^come trooping, someone had said once. “Here, niña, this is good American chow. Come, it will do you good.” She fell to with the easy appetite of the young. But Mr. Alloss was far too upset to eat. He kept on scratching his glossy bald pate and wondered and wondered how the devil he would get out of this. For under no circumstances must she be seen, either at his house or coming out of it; under no circumstances. Mr. Alloss knew what he meant when he laid no claim to sanctity. ™ one had seen her come in, he ho Lord! Now it was up to him see - one saw her go out. nd re,. .. luu noard o ex. t; and with a twist of his plump i ..ed the loor. The lock creaked and i ted, it had been unused for years. But 1 ed it must be; someone might drop in, L ¡listón, Kittredge, a neighbor; he could take no chances. At the tiny sink she was standing now, clean ing up after the meal, placing pots and pans on their shelf on the wall. She had removed her scraf and the gauzy hempcloth of the tight bodice more revealed than concealed the youthful form. The firm shoulders, spanned with glow ing golden silk. The tiny curl on the round, strong nape. The arms, dimpled and young. Mr. Alloss standing there by the door saw her now as she really was. No, no longer a child— a young woman. In a flash he saw that he must not remain here any longer; and in the same flash he saw a way out of the dilemma. 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Ou. iiarjrr^tn per haps from sheer perturbation, ne picked up the now empty market basket. She, intent upon her work and otherwise too much engrossed in her own matters, took no notice of him, and he had to go to her. Very lightly, very tenderly he touched the plump shoulder. She spun around, facing him with surprise. “I have to go to town, girlie,” he said, eyes fastened on the Stetson in his hand “I. . . I forgot ... I have an important engagement.” But she looked at him, uncom prehending. So he said it once more, and slowly her eyes began to fill. He patted her hand and made her listen to him as he rambled on in a husky, subdued voice: “Be sure no one sees you when you come out of here—except Mariano. He knows me, you say? Well, I’ll write him a letter. He will understand.” He wiped his forehead. How hard it was to make her understand! “So you see, little woman, you stay here . . stay right here! And leave the door well locked! Two days and TN REST MBER -xmrg, then o win ie. “And. . . ana, he sputtered as she wrung his hands in gratitude, “here is chow for you— enough; and on the shelf are some magazines to look at.” “But what about you, Mr. Alloss?” She queried as he drew nearer to the door. “What do you mean—you go away?” “I must! I absolutely must!” Before him, under the scorching midday sun, lay the road; and nowhere a sign of anyone. They were all taking their siestas. Blessed siesta! They would not see him go to town at this inordinate hour. He did not want anyone to know that he was not also taking his siesta. Safely in town, he first went to the post office. Slowly, painfully, unobserved, he wrote the How the “Tigbalang” Fought the Waterworks (Continued from páge 9) But the laborers soon lost courage, for every night they were harassed by the matanda sa punso, and frequently the tigbalang appeared. Many were the strange and frightful happenings. The laborers began leaving, surreptitiously at first, and then openly. Don Sebastian grew very wroth. I, Señor, never lost faith in him; so great was my admiration for him that I would have faced death in his service. Juan Jaralar is not a coward, Señor; I was young then, the hot blood of youth and adventure was in my veins. Besides, Señor, it is doubtful if the wrath of the spirits could have been as bad as that of Don Sebastian. One day Don Sebastian called me to the <<reat house at the edge of the bondok where he then lived, and I sat facing him on the ve randa even as I now face you, Señor; and after he had spoken of other things, he said to me: “Juan, do you trust me?” “Absolutely, Don Sebastian,” I answered. “But there are those who do not. eh?” “They are afraid of the spirits.” He nodded, and for a long time was silent; lost in contemplation of the great difficulties which faced him. Finally he arose and looked let,v*_ z mailed way for Johnny’s bar. For ;na. honorable way to get out of the dm. ,e would get drunk—gloriously x or inglorious Jit did not matter. Plenty of beer and n Jo tuba would put him just where he wanted ( e. He’d remain there all afternoon; and in >he evening, when the sailors would come on shoreleave, he would start a fight. Easy enough, with the beer and the tuba in him. He would make it a lively fight, they would take him to the police station, and he would refuse to be bailed out even if his barrio friends, hearing of it, were financially able to offer bail, which he much doubted. So he would have to spend the night there, two nights, this being Saturday. Mariano would be back on Monday. It worked fine. at me frowningly, and I could feel the power of his spirit as he spoke. “And you, Juan, are you afraid?” I knew not what to say, Señor. Of course every sensible man is afraid of evil spirits. One would be a fool to deny that. And, anyway, it was useless to lie to Don Sebastian; for by look ing in a man’s eyes he could tell whether or not he was speaking the truth. “It is well known that there is danger, Don Sebastian,’’ I said. Then I arose and looked in the great man’s eyes, and he knew that I would not run away like those others. Laying a hand on my shoulder, he said: “Juan, you are a brave man.” Ah, Señor, I know not his exact meaning to this day, but that was the proudest moment of my life. “Come then, Juan,” he commanded, “and tell me more of these evil spirits, and of how they frighten my laborers.” And so, there on the veranda of the great house, I told Don Sebastian of the anger of the spirits of the bondok and how they were attacking the laborers at night, and how they were deter mined to avenge themselves upon those who were destroying the great rock of San Juan del Monte, which has been the home of the tigbalang - w. oxiilling of tliiA spirits would bring misfortune 1 tne cniivix^ and even the children’s children ox all who wen engaged in the carving out of the chamber For the evil spirits never forget, Señor. For a long time after I finished telling Don Sebastian of the evil spirits he sat silent, and I wondered if he, too, was afraid of the tigbalang; but at last he arose and made the í¿gn of the cross, and I could see that he was not afraid. Then he addressed me, saying: “Juan, I do not fear these spirits. They will not harm me, nor those who help me carve the chamber in the rock. Heed you well my words. Tomorrow, after the siesta, there will occur a rainstorm, and a bolt of lightning will destroy that tree.” He pointed to a huge sampalok tree which stood at a distance of some fifty meters from the house. “Go you to the laborers and tell them of my words; tell them that I do not fear the evil spirits. Say to them that the evil spirits are jealous, but that they cannot harm us, becaust this project is pleasing in the sight of God. An tell them that the destruction of the sampalc tree is the sign by which they may know th* good spirits, more powerful than those of th bondok, are helping us in our work.” So I went to the laborers and told them th words Don Sebastian had bidden me. Man of them scoffed, saying: “How can Don Seba tian, being but a man, foretell the time an place a lightning bolt will strike? If he can c this, then he too must be a sorcerer, or witch. But I explained to them that the good Don bastian had but prayed for the lightning strike the great sampalok tree, and that fulfilment of his prophecy would be merely t sign that God was pleased with the work in which we were all engaged. There was much muttering among the labor ers, but their curiosity was aroused, and they at last agreed to stay and see if the words of r ’r master came true, and if so, to continue t. work. Don Sebastian went down to the sampalok tree at sunset, carrying strange looking bags, and candles. Far into the night he knelt pray1 EXPRESS RATES REDUCED Effective April 15, 1929, this Company will reduce its rates on Fresh Vegetables when handled on Express trains, in less than carload lots, from second class to third class, or a reduction of about 19 per cent in the transportation cost. ILA RAILROAD COMPANY ^RTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL J The old San Juan reservoir which figures in the story concluded below has become antiquated, with the development of Manila’s modern water system, but remains of peculiar historical interest.—The grilles cap the ventilators.—The large building was, in earlier years, the offices of the water administration. ing beneath the tree. Many of us watched him from a distance, but none venture near, for they were afraid that perhaps he, too, was in league with evil spirits. Finally, at a very late hour, we all fell asleep. In the morning the laborers all gathered about the plaza of the temporary village, and anxiously awaited the rain and the lightning bolt which our master had promised as a sign. And as truly as I sit before you, Señor, at midday clouds began to appear. At about the fourth hour in the afternoon, the rain began to fall, and there was thunder and light ning. Then, suddenly, a great sheet of flame shot up from the sampalok tree, and there was a deafening explosion. The great tree was thrown high in the air, and torn into fragments. And though most of us were much frightened, we did not run away, but fell to our knees and prayed. Then the great Don Sebastian came out and, kneeling in the rain before the great house, gave thanks to God for the sign which had restored the faith of the people. Thus was the confidence of the people in Don Sebastian reestablished and made absolute. Those who had left, returned to their work; still constant ly harassed by the tigbalang and the matanda sa punso, they continued steadily, until at last, in the year 1883, their task was finished. The great tube was laid from the foot of the chamber down to the fountain of Carriedo, in Manila. Then pure water from the moun tains was let in until it filled the twenty-four galleries of the great chamber, and the work of the great Don Sebastian was done. There was a great fiesta in Manila, a fiesta which none of us who were employed by Don Sebastian will ever forget. There was a very magnificent parade, Señor, headed by the Ar zobispo and the Gobernador General. The Ar zobispo himself turned the spigot of the foun tain, and blessed the pure water as it sprang forth, the water which was ever to supply the people of Manila in the seasons of dryness. Ah yes, it was a proud day, Señor. The great Don Sebastian sat in the carriage with the Director de Aguas,—there were no automobiles then, Señor, and our master made a speech, and praised all of us who had helped him build the chamber. There was plenty for all to eat and to drink; we all gave thanks to God. Much honor was conferred upon the Director de Aguas and upon Don Sebastian. Thus, Señor, was built the great water system which should really have been called the Aguas Don Sebastian, bet which was named the Aguas Carriedos, in honor of a great man who died long ago, and who left money to pay the ex penses of the work. The people of Manila should thank Don Sebastian, rather than this other man, for only he could have succeeded in completing so great a task. But many strange and frightful things have happened in the bondok since the completion of the Aguas Carriedos, Señor. The evil spirits are still angry, and they still strive to avenge themselves upon the de scendants of the builders of the chamber of waters, who destroyed their home. And of these things also will I tell you, Señor, some day when you have an hour to waste in listening to an old man’s tale. They shall be all true tales, Señor, for I do not believe in the superstitions of the ignorant folk; and I tell only of the things which I have seen with my own two eyes. Adiós, Señor. May you walk with God. Mii Sions in Old “Distrito del Princip Of Baler, in the old political division of north, eastern Luzon called the Distrito del Principewe talked last month, telling of the vain siege the Spanish garrison sustained there long after the change of sovereignty over the islands had occurred. The journey with the Franciscan mission priests may now be continued through the other towns of the district. Casiguran.—Founded by Fr. Blas Palomino and his companion missionaries in 1609. First parish priest, Fr. Pascual Serrano, 1616. Ad ministration ceded to the Recollects, 1658, “be cause of the great scarcity of religious in our province of St. George the Great,” Father Huerta says, our readers all understanding, of course, that to the Franciscans the Philippines are the province of St. George. Returned to the Franciscans by the Recollects, 1703. Situat ed on the east coast of Luzon at Cape San Ildefonso, mountain border of libela on the north, Dipaculao on the south, Casignan south Make More Money—Put These Machines On The Job! Macleod Batch 9-Minute Concrete Mixer Modern conditions require speed. Man power is slow and expensive. Macleod Hoist and Concretemixer will handle your heavy loads and mix your concrete quickly and eco nomically. Send for Complete Information Macleod & Co. MANILA Iloilo Cebu Dav^r west and the Caraballo range west. The church, dedicated to San Antonio de Padua, the great healer, is of mixed materials. Good timber abounds. “It is not easy to estimate the area of land pertaining to this pueblo, surrounded as it i (Huerta wrote in 1865) with infidel inhabitant which is the reason why few explorers ha’ visited it. But all the religious, whether fe or many, have penetrated the jungle in an effo to reduce to the Christian faith the infidel tribe and all affirm in one accord that these mon tains so generously irrigated by numero streams, produce all that may be produced fre the most fertile lands in the world. The co is a secure harbor even for vessels of the deept draft, and the entrance to the harbor is in wise dangerous of navigation.” The rich region which Huerta thus describes still remains but little developed, but unques tionably it cannot be long before its variation I I IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION ,R OF COMMERCE JOURNs The Manila Archdiocese The Archdiocese was established as a Diocese in 1581 and as an Archdiocese in 1585, and has been in continuous existence since that time. It includes the city of Manila, seven provinces and a part of two other provinces compris ing a total of 9,276 square miles. It has a Catholic population of 1,450,000 a larger Catholic population that that of the Archdiocese of either New York City or Chicago. Within the Arch diocese there are 188 churches and 62 colleges, academies and schools with 15,300 students. Among the educa tional and charitable institutions are the University of Santo Tomas, estab lished in 1611, Santa Catalina Col lege for Girls, founded in 1698, and a hospital, San Juan de Dios, founded in 1596. of soil, probable nin^_ai resources will, in conjunction with its salubrious dí ñate, attract the atention of enterprising irmers and planters. •esently, luring the rious traveler, the íole region is little adnced from the prim al conditions which Franciscans found ‘.re in 1609, only ' years after the nding of Jameszn. ytpaculao. —Founded 1. 1719 by Fr. Sebas tian de la Madre de Dios, who was then the parish priest at Baler. Patron, San José. “Enjoys a cool and healthful climate and lands suitable for crops of all kinds. It is supplied with water from nu merous perennial springs, pure and crystaline. Several times, the mis sionary fathers have contrived to build churches of bamboo and palm, which only lasted while the fathers remained in the pueblo; as soon as Jiey absented themselves even for a day, the people themselves tore the ^urches down.” Fr. José de Esparragosa gathered 300 people at the ísslon in 1851, but they did not remain there after he was called away ) oAher work, and the mission was again placed under the jurisdiction of he parish of Baler. Why should the people of such a rich region so sparsely inhabited, have cared to settle down in little pueblos? They cared rather to fish and hunt, as men anywhere would have under similar circumstances. Huerta speaks repeatedly of the abundance of game in the mountains md the excellence and abundance of fish along the entire coast. Casignan.—Founded in 1753 by Fr. Manuel de Olivencia; erected into parish in 1761, with Fr. Francisco Ferreras as priest. “It is situated in a nail valley eastward of the Caraballo de Baler, on the banks of the large ver which gives it its name.” Patron, San Vicente. So closes the account of the missions in the Distrito del Principe, Baler, asiguran, Dipaculao, Casignan, with total inhabitants of but 2,957 in 865, and only 690 tribute payers. Between this district and Laguna bay, was created the Distrito de la ifanta, in 1856, from territory theretofore pertaining to Laguna. It eluded the island of Polillo. The sea was its eastern boundary, Tayabas ras on the south, Laguna on the west. The Franciscan missions were ?olillo and Binangonan. Fr. Esteban Ortiz raised the cross aloft at Binangonan de Lampón, but Fr. Blas Palomino was the founder of the pueblo, in 1609, and the first parish priest. From 1658 to 1703 Binangonan was under the Recollects, then it was returned to the Franciscans. Baler is on the north, the island and town of Polillo on the east, Mauban on the south, and Siniloan 20 miles across the mountains to the southwest. The pueblo is built on the banks of the Agos near its confluence with the Pacific opposite Polillo. The common means of communication with neighboring towns, all stant, is by sea; in calm weather, Polillo is reached from Binangonan in ght hours; land ways, in 1865, were confined to the single precipitous trail /er the mountains to Siniloan, 24 miles away “To reach Mauban it is 3ce«sai y ; ~ 7 ■ by sea (the distance is 60 miles) and the voyage is very iangerous or quite impossible during the period from October to March that of the northeast monsoon, constantly lashing the Pacific coast); o reach Baler (the distance here is 81 miles) to the risks of the coastal myage are added the necessity to make no intermediate stops, because of he infidels inhabiting the region.” So it is an error to suppose the friars sglected to venture into the remote and isolated parts of the islands, ather it should be said that they went everywhere it was possible to go, id they established and maintained missions in places where the task is all but hopeless. Huerta records Binangonan as primarily a grazing and forest region; tere are many varieties of palms, rattans and edible roots, and game jounds. Polillo.—On the island of that name, opposite Binangonan de Lampón, ade a parish in 1635; in the hands of the Recollects from 1658 to 1703; •atron, San José; church and parish house of stone. “The jurisdiction of he pueblo is extensive with the island, which is quite mountainous, with íe Malolo valley cutting through the center.” Products are of many irieties, the mountains are heavily forested and yield hardwoods, rattans d bamboos. In Huerta’s time the cultivated lands were producing rice, -rn, sugar cane, cotton, cacao, coffee, fruits and legumes. Industries were ree, farming, fishing and hunting. The market towns were Mambulao id Paracale, Camarines Norte, where truck, timbers and rattans from olillo were exchanged for gold dust. Next comes the Distrito de Burias, comprising Burias island, where Lionel Stimson went on the Apo to enjoy the last politico-piscatorial p he made in the islands. (He -‘nd he wished to persuade Speaker Roxas o give up trolling, for the rod a? '' Luzon is on the north and east, Jasbate south; the straits are < ' miles wide. The surface f the island is quite broken. Me +he center. Up to 845 Burias was reckoned uninhab ‘-ns utilized as a place of rendezvous; it was th. Efficiency ELECTRIC LIGHT AT LOW COST For lighting homes, haciendas, centrals or small towns 115 VOLT Call or write us for information concerning lighting units Philippine Engineering Co. Sole Distributors 936 Raon, Manila Tel. 2-23-05 P. O. Box 786 RESPONDING TO ADVER1 ON THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL The Manila Stock Market Dúring March By W. P. G. Elliott Generally speaking, the close of the month witnessed, a healthier financial tone than was apparent at the end of February. To begin with, the shortage in money referred to in oililast issue has practically disappeared, and banks are now all buyers of foreign exchanges, instead of sellers, indicative of the liberal cash reserves. The Tariff.—The status quo remains unaltered. The advance guard of the Philippine mission to fight the question of tariffs and all restrictions on importations of islands products has already left for Washington, and it should be gratifying to all concerned here to note the sympathetic interest being displayed by so many chambers of commerce and trade organizations in the U. S. A. towards the Philippine side of the argument. Such bodies as the Merchants’ Association in New York, the American Exporters and Import ers Association, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, and others have all gone on record as vigorously opposing the Timberlake resolu tion and other restrictive measures against Philippine products. Customs Receipts.—The gross customs collec tions for February this year at all ports of the Philippines amounted to Pl,671,992.06, an increase of P94,380.67 over February of last year. But the internal revenue receipts for all ports were P241,345.82, against P407,501.56 for the corresponding month in 1928, a crop of 1*166,155.74. Stocks and Shares.—There was a steady busi ness in all sections of securities, with the excep tion of sugars, which are completely neglected, and sales aggregated 21,600 shares. Banks.—Hongkong banks were placed at $1292 to $1285 and values have declined to $1260. Mercantile Bank’s changed hands at P44 and China Bank’s at P87, with sellers ask ing P90 for large lots. Bank of P. I. are want ed at P165. The Chartered Bank have recom mended a dividend for the past half-year at the rate of 14% p. a., free of income tax and a bonus of £-/6/3 per share, free of income tax. £40,000 is set aside to meet contingencies and £186,656 carried forward. Insurances.—Unions of Canton were traded in freely at $387 and Hongkong Fires were placed at $800. Filipinas, Insular Life and Philippine Guaranty are firm, buyers at P3,100, P310 and P310 respectively. Sugars.—Trading in sugar shares was excep tionally dull, which is not surprising, in view of the depressed state of the industry. The old issue (P1000) Pilars went at par; these are now split up into P100 certificates. Pasudeco’s were taken at P45 at which more can be had. The Hawaiian Philippine Company have issued their report for the year ending 30th September 1928. The net profit for the year was Pl,013667.42, which was P617,323.20 less than the previous year. Surplus at P3,979,461.39 is now about equal to capital stock, P3,948,560. Cariota’s were sold at P235. Central Luzon’s at P150 Malabon’s at P30 and Tarlac’s at P170. The Malabon company declared a 10% dividend for 1928. Plantations.—Polo’s are now held at P500 and the plantation paid a 5% dividend for 1928. Pamplona’s are wanted and P85 would probably be paid. Prospects for both these plantations are said to be very good. Industrials.—There was a large turnover in La Urbana 8% liberadas, at P200 and Philip pine Education preferred were taken at Pl03. The Isuan corporation announced that they have deferred payment of the semi-annual divid end on the 7% preferred stock until some later date. They have spent during 1928 the sum of P156,000 on advertising and P39,000 on new plant and machinery. They look for increased business for some time and remind stockholders that as all dividends are comulative, this semi annual dividend will be paid in addition to all future dividends. Mines.—There was again a fair buying interest shown in these mining shares. Benguet’s changed hands at the advanced price of P2.75 with still buyers. The company had a success ful year, finishing up with a net profit of Fl, 23" 074.16. Balatok’s were traded in on a larg scale at P2.40 to P2.45, and at the close ther are no further sellers. Prospects for this coi pany seem bright; a clean-up of P82,000 v reported for 17 days operation. The shareho' ers at the annual general meeting decided postpone till the next meeting the proposition merge with Benguet. Itogon’s on small tri sactions were placed at P10. This company also has good prospects, operating profit foi 1928 being P149,163.25, compared with P42,442.02 for 1927. Bonds.—The demand continues for all first class bonds. During the month fair quantitie of Tarlac’s 8% were placed at par, and a largo parcel of Cariota’s 8% changed hands at Pl,020 plus interest. New York Market.—As we go to press, cables in from New York report the stock market there collapsed, with call-money pushed up to 20%, and heavy waves of selling orders pouring in from all over the country—sales reported over eight million in one day. 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It connects with shore by x. leans of the portion of the old wooden approach still standing, and a contract has been let to replace this wooden structur with a stone cause way. The contract period s 40° days, and work began in January. The causeway partly com pleted, out will have to come the wooden struc ture, the use of the approach will be stopped; after four years of waiting, when this causeway s completed we will only have an approach o a projected pier extending into 32 feet of water. “If the pier including the head were completed it would be none too large to accommodate xe shipping this year, estimated at 350 tons .aily. “Various technical objections are made to going ahead with the work. One is that even if there were a pier at Davao ocean vessels wouldn’t use it during the southwest monsoon. * have never known a time when the harbor was o rough for an interislander to tie up at the old ooden pier, provided the pier was not too rotten 3 hold it. It is also said that the harbor would It in around the new pier so much in a year or vo that steamers could no longer dock. The d wooden pier was bv.ilt in 1909, when there was depth of 19 feet, and today the depth is 15 eet; silting has amounted to 4 feet in 22 years. “It is generally believed the public works bureau has done everything possible to advance the port works at Davao, but has been blocked in its efforts by politics and wire-pulling. Small lacnches of from 5 to 15 tons capacity numbering upward of 30 ply Davao gulf the year round, and the Luzon Stevedoring company tow lighters around the coast with small launches. All these small vessels load and unload at the wooden pier the year round, often work day and night. If such small shipping can use the pier, inter islanders and larger ocean ships could surely use a new substantial one. “Davao requires a pier for her growing com merce. Interislanders have been severely cri ticized for slow and inefficient service, but they are so many years in advance of the poit works in many important harbors that the government ought not be too severe until it catches up with them. “The total overseas trade of Davao in 1928 was P13,752,805, of which P927,255 was im ports and P12,835,550 was exports. This ought to show how important a good pier at Davao is to Manila. “Davao’s production of Manila hemp last year increased 63% over 1927; it amounted to 38,000,000 kilos and was 22% of the islands entire crop. To the value of Pl 1,683,750 it was shipped overseas direct or on through bills of lading. Davao’s coora pioduction last year increased 51% over 1927; it was 6,900,000 kilos of which 5,656,564 kilos valued at Pl,063,675 were exported direct or on through bills of lading. Timber and lumber exports, a new industry in Davao, totalled 4,345 cubic feet valued at P80,210. All other exports were valued at P7,915. Davao, in overseas trade, is the fourth port of the Philippines by a wide margin. The expectation is that our hemp crop this year will be 25% in excess of that of 1928, and the copra ciop 35% ovex that of 1928. Although the hemp market was unusually low during 1928, still Davao registered a favorable trade balance of Pl 1,908,295.” In other words, Manila is interested in Davao’s getting an adequate pier to the extent at least of this 12 million pesos, which, not spent for imports direct ly from overseas, is nevertheless spent. But provide Davao a good pier, and soon she will be buying by the 20 million instead of 12. It ought to be possible for a Manilan to visit the provinces and not be ashamed of the manner in which they are being neglected. Gohn invites attention to the fact that the Davao resident pays all the excessive cost of a pierless harbor. Cargoes are frequently water damaged, and the interislanders are subjected to heavy claims; and cargoes are carried ashore on men’s backs, which causes losses and delays of some times 3 or 4 days. “The Davao producer, who is the consumer of imports, must bear all the expense caused by the lack of portworks, whe ther or not is incoming or outgoing cargo. The expense on a bale of hemp, including the freight differential, is Pl.20 at present.” RAIL COMMODITY MOVEMENTS By M. D. Royer Traffic Manager, Manila Railroad Company The following commodities were received in Manila February 26, 1929, to March 25, 1929, both inclusive, via Manila Railroad: 1929 March February Rice, cavans................... 206,625 272,500 584,752 Sugar, piculs................... 516,768 Tobacco, bales................ 360 240 Copra, piculs................... 131,500 186,100 Coconuts.......................... 2,725,800 2,186,800 Lumber, B.F................... 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This man’s circumstances were such that he might have kept up his insurance; no doubt he intended to get round to doing it; he was in robust health, there really seemed plenty of time; but there was not plenty of time, an acute intestinal attack carried him off within a few hours after the first symptoms appeared. His policy was examined. It was still in force! The hazards of existence are casual, fate a quixotic power. The main point in life insurance is to keep it in force. Plainly the purpose of it is to circum vent fate. It can and will do this, when kept going. It is an excellent means of saving, but its homely virtue of sheer protection is what makes it insurance. Meet premiums when due. Once a premium-due notice to a conscientious policy holder in Manila went astray. It was the second notice, too—the last that would be sent. May be the mails were at fault, maybe some thing in the office. 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There seems to be no le of detailed attention to which reh insurance companies will not go order to keep policies in force policy holders in unbroken enjoyr of the protection they have sought. Sometimes it pinches to meet pre miums, but it’s similar to rememberin Mother’s birthday—it gives you a lo of satisfaction. More, the just concei it gives you adds an element to you reputation that the actual money put into premiums could never bestow. The Insular Life Assurance Co., Ltd. MANILA, P. I. Low rates iberal conditions ocal investments oans on real estates repayable monthly instalments, at ow interest If a mindful man with a fixed salary dies, he will only leave a small saving to his family FOR ABOUT P31.00 ANNUALLY our company guarantees the payment of Pl,000 to your wife or sons in case of death, or to the insured himself if he survives the policy. Call or write for particulars to: HOME OFFICE C. S. SALMON 4th Floor, Filipinas Bldg. 3rd Floor, Gachés Bldg* Plaza Moraga, Manila, P. I. Escolta cor. T. Pinpin 115 P. O. Box 128 P. O. Box 734, Manila V. SINGSON ENCARNACION, President J. McMICKING, Manager Leaving the payment of premium} in the charge of another than yourseL places him vicariously between yourselJ and your family. And maybe he doesn’i think as much of that family as you do Called hurriedly out of town, a mar left the payment of his premium to hit partner, who, not vitally interested, allowed the days of grace to expire. The policy was impaired, could not be reinstated: ill-feeling between business associates, anxiety at the aggrieved man’s home, new insurance at the higher rate for a more advanced age. Husband:—“What would you do if I should die and leave you?” Wife:—“Leave me how much?” He:—“I haven’t seen much of you lately, what’s been the matter?” She:—‘ can’t wear an evening dress all the e, can I?” IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAM OF COMMERCE JOUR doon Will Hide Sun’s Face May Ninth . sun which warms the earth, quickens the n the planted seed, and ripens the harvest, therefore a beneficent god, will engage in . and death struggle with celestial demons lg the afternoon of May 9. Such is a iring belief among remote and primitive ’.es of the Philippines, who know nothing t eclipses and have not heard of the one that ning on May 9, when these peoples, acng to man’s ways with things he does not rstand, must ascribe the phenomenon to ’natural causes and do all in their power ’ive the devouring demons away from the -as on similar occasions their forefathers : done. They must beat upon gongs and xns, rally their warriors, and menace the on with their weapons. They must make r allegiance to the sun manifest, that he and cohorts may take heart and escape the iger ere the moon swallows him up; and so it come to pass, and the moon, frustrated, 11 retire from the combat ignominiously. Joy 11 reign in mountain villages, where the medi ae will have been made, and the sacrificial ist will be spread and the wine jar patronized, icre will be ceremonial dancing, and thanksving to ancestral spirits who will obviously ve aided in the triumphant rout of evil spirits. ;as will be chanted, sagas exalting the sun’s «tie power, fecundity and procreation. There be a grand holiday and tribal rejoicing. uch is rural credulity, which will be surprised j activity at 3:30 p. m. May 9, mideclipse ne as Father C. E. Deppermann, S. J., writing Cultura Social, quotes from Father Miguel lga’s manual on the subject. But science ponds differently, thanks the moon for getg in the sun’s way for a few minutes, and iceeds to make the most of its opportunity to ver new secrets of the universe and verify r ones. We quote: The darkness of night approaches in early ernoon, the sky and landscape are garbed strange colors, even the animals are uneasy, aile chickens go to roost. It is getting cooler; .range, quivering, ripple-like shadows are seen ) flit in bands across surfaces that are white, monster shadow, like that cast by a thunerstorm, comes rushing on with awful speed, thousand miles per hour. . . No, we are not escribing the end of the world, only the comlg of a total eclipse of the sun. Behold, the ist vestige of sun is now disappearing, with its so-called Bailey Beads, the effect of light een through the irregularities of the moon’s '.mb; now only a narrow circle of red fringes ;he dark moon, it is the sun’s chromosphere; REPUTATION has been built through service on the road—not by extravagant claims. We say nothing about DUNLOP Tires that is not fully substantiated by DUNLOP Performance. When you ride on them you know that all the claims made for DUNLOP are facts. Try DUNLOP next time and prove it for yourself. First i ' 1888—Foremost Ever Since and outside this, in startling contrast, is the pearly whiteness of the corona, glowing with about, half the brightness of the full moon, while first and second magnitude stars with the planets become plainly visible. It is an inspiring sight. If your vantage point be elevated, you may even see the brightness still hovering around the horizon, from place where the sun still reigns. Scarcely have you time to realize the wondrous event, when again come We Have The Largest and Most Complete Stock of Drygoods in the Philippines If you need silks, linens, cottons, or notions you can serve yourself best by choosing from our large stocks We also carry haberdashery, and make men’s suits and shirts Manuel Pellicer y Co., Inc. 44 Escolta, Manila Phone 2-11-06 the tantalizing shadow bands, then the first fleck of the sun, looking for all the world like a gleaming diamond of which the ring setting is formed by the sun’s brilliant atmosphere. But the brightness soon dazzles, you withdraw your eyes, and the eclipse is over, while the attend ant astronomers already begin to think about packing their instruments and to dream about home in distant lands! “It is indeed a spectacle to fill the mind of man with awe, for ‘the heavens and earth are filled with God’s glory,’ but yet on the other hand it may beget some confidence in the powers of mind and its triumph over mere matter. For it should be remembered that even in the vx. j of the ancient Chaldea. knew that eclipses were natura^ ^.enumena, occurring in cycles of eighteen years and some eleven days; i. e.,they knew that if an eclipse occurred at any time, they could expect another at the end of this period, the so-called Saros. The usual number of eclipses in a complete Saros is about seventy-one, and several series of these are going on at the same time, so that eclipses are fairly frequent at some place or other on the earth. “The exact calculation, however, of the time and place of totality for a given eclipse is quite intricate, but with our present day knowledge of the orbits of the earth and moon relative to the sun, what is to the layman a surprising degree of accuracy can be attained. * * * “So sure are astronomers of the correctness of their calculations that they will travel half way around the world to a little out of the way corner of the earth, set up their instruments in a very definite position, and have all their pre parations made for a very definite minute on a very definite day, with physical certitude that the eclipse will be observed as planned, provided that: Oh humiliating reflection, the fly in the ointment of the proud calculations of man! provided only that the weather be propitious! So many variables control the elements of the sky that a little cloud, hardly ‘bigger than a man’s hand’ can unexpectedly spoil a half year’s patient preparations. Sunny California frowned at the wrong time and ruined one eclipse; stormy, wintry New England smiled at a propitious moment, and blessed another. “But why do astronomers take all these chan ces? Not surely for aesthetic, but for scien tific reasons. Eclipses afford opportunities for still further refining and defining the orbits of the moon and of the earth. They permit the photography of stars whose light on its way to us just shaves the sun’s disc; the bend ing or non-bending of this light from its straight line course is a test of Einstein’s general relativity theory. They allow the solar corona to be seen and studied for its exact nature is even yet full of tempting mysteries. Then there are spec troscopic measures to be taken of the light from various layers of the sun’s outer shell, obser vations of the curious shadow bands that flit across the earth’s surface at beginning and end of totality, meteorological changes during the progress of the eclipse, effects upon atmospherical electricity, upon the transmission of radio signals, etc., etc. It is interesting to note, however, that, though the problems are still very numer ous that seem to require the actual eclipse time, still one after another of the phenomena at firstthought capable of being studied only then, have by man’s ingenuity yielded to daily scru tiny. Excellent examples in point are the daily examination of solar prominences, those gigantic RESPONDING TO ADV1 'EMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL _.6ues of tta , _ - ~ face, and just la. <ly the photograpny ui the corona in broad daylight by means of infra-red light. “What of the present eclipse? It is really going to be a' good one, with a long duration of totality, the maximum being about five mi nutes, seven seconds; but in the Philippines it will range from about three minutes fifty-four seconds around Palawan, to three minutes twenty-eight seconds near Siargo Island. San José de Buenavista and Iloilo in Panay, Catmon and Sogod in Cebu lie near the center of the path of totality. At Cebu, Cebu, and Tacloban, Leyte, the eclipse will also be total but the duration shorter, since these places are nearer the southern and northern limits re spectively. Capiz, Panay, is just north of the northern limit, while Surigao, Mindanao, is just south of the southern limit. At Manila and Zamboanga about ninety per cent of the sun’s disc will be obscured, at Aparri only seventyseven per cent. Mideclipse will occur about 3:30 p. m. (Philip. Standard Time), but the moon starts to obscure the sun one and a half hours earlier, and finally leaves it near fortyfive minutes past five o’clock. “Where are the various eclipse parties from different countries going to be stationed, and what do they expect to do? It is still a little early to state exactly, but the following will give some idea of present plans. In Sumatra, a Dutch expedition expects to take spectro grams of the chromosphere and corona, and to study the solar radiation near and through totality; a German expedition will study the Einstein shift already mentioned; an Austra lian party will consider the outer coronal spec trum. Two British expeditions will go to Kedah and Siam, both to study the Einstein effect and the coronal spectrum. Two German expeditions favor Siam for spectral and photo metric work. “One American expedition is heading towards Sumatra, while Italian, French and even Rus sian expeditions are planned, with sites not yet definite. “Who are coming to the Philippines? * * * The Naval Observatory, Washington, which intends to go to Iloilo. * * * Their pro gram will be astronomical. In connection with them, the local naval wireless experts intend to study wireless signal fading across and in the totality zone. A German expedition from the Hamburg Observatory will station themselves around Catmon or Sogod in Cebu to take direct photographs of the inner and outer corona, and to study the spectrum of the sun’s outer atmos phere. * * * “What of the Manila Observatory itself? At present it is planned that Father Selga go to Iloilo to study meteorological changes during the eclipse and also the changes in the solar radiation. The writer hopes to go with the German expedition to Catmon, Cebu, to take comparative photographs of the corona in the red and green light of the corona, and also spectrograms of different parts of the corona. In addition, a recording electrometer will be used to study any variations there may be in atmospherical electricity during the eclipse. It may be added that the observatory was also instrumental in suggesting the plan of study ing wireless fading to the local navy men and amateur radio fans. The observatory’s master clocks will be connected to the Cavite wireless to broadcast accurate time signals to help the as tronomical parties. * * *” Over in America scientists have taken advantage of the proximity of Mars and Venus, to study them. Surmises concerning both are now better defined, and Mars, more than ever before, encourages the conjecture that it is inhabited. It is found that the atmosphere will support life such as exists on earth; changes in the surface appearance are ascribed by one authority to new vegetation. In this wonderful age of progress in the sciences grouped loosely under the head of physics, it is a pleasure to note the esteem in which the Jesuit scholars who conduct the Philippine weather bureau (at the observatory which pioneers of their order founded) are held by their colleagues in science throughout uie world. As this article has"cíelved into legend, it may as well add a word of history: Jesuit mathematicians gained im perial Chinese support for their missions and the Christian doctrine when they confounded the soothsayers at Peking in the 16th century and Ucudo! By H. G. Hornbostel Ucudo! in the Chamorro language of Rota, an island of the Mariana group, means, in its not-too-liberal English translation, Tell it to the Marines! In other words, You don't mean it; you are only trying to fool us. The word was particularly interesting to me, hearing it often, as I did, in conversa tions between the natives during my recent exploration of Rota. * Then, quite naturally, when I finally came across the legend concerning the word, an even greater interest developed, that of its association with the prehistoric burials at the foot of the giant latte stones on the island and its connection with the habits and customs of a long-departed race. As is the case with most antiquities of the Mariana group, the legend quite palpably antedates the period of hab itation of the present native peoples. “On a stormy night many years ago,” the story runs in Chamorro, “long, long before Magellan made his voyage, the principal chief of the island of Satpana (Rota) lay dying. Around the finely woven pandanus mat upon which he lay were gathered the minor chiefs and the wise men of the tribe, for the great one had ruled justly and they were anxious to have him live. “Long they pondered upon what should be done to save their beloved Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Co. OF MANILA ENGINEERS MANUFACTURERS CONTRACTORS 71-77 Muelle de la Industria MANILA, P. I. accurately f^^coiu eclipse. The emper thereupon gave them the places which Arab scholars had been occupying at his court, and they founded the Peking meteorological station which is still functioning. They themselves have a station at Shanghai. master’s life. All known medicines and mystic ceremonies had failed, and each succeeding sunset saw a greater decline. The great chief was indeed so ill that the native high priest had ordered that he be so placed upon his mat that his feet might face the east—a last desperate attempt to save him. One must face the rising sun in order to gain strength, it was believed. “Secretly, the ill one’s wife had gather ed together his many ornaments of pearl shell, his polished stone weapons and his implements in order that they might be ready to be placed beside him in his grave beneath the colossal latte stone. His pottery was also carefully collected, ready to be broken into frag ments and to be scattered over his body when it should be lowered into the grave. “Then, as was the habit of those bold seafaring men, one of the minor chiefs left his place among the watchers and. at the first blush of dawn, strode towar the beach. He looked upon the skj with a mariner’s critical eyes. As he glanced in a southeasterly direction, he discerned a large, oil-polished canoe approaching the island from the direc tion of Guhan (Guam). A strong south west gale was howling over a stormy sea, and in such weather, he noted, IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL ily the boldest une uOld would venture out to attempt the passage. “The priest at once regarded the coming of this canoe during such a gale as a good omen. Presently, it shot through the perilous entrance of the reef and grounded on the sand of the beach, and then out stepped Ucudo, a chief from Guam, his magnificent brown body glistening in the rays of the sun as he saluted the chiefs of Rota. BABCOCK & TEMPLETON, INC. IMPORTERS—EXPORTERS HEMP COPRA MAGUEY PHILIPPINE PRODUCTS FINE LITHO AND PRINTING INKS Agents for JOHN KIDD & Co., Ltd. LONDON NEW YORK MANILA CEBU SAN FRANCISCO “Upon being told of the great chief’s illness, the stranger expressed his sor row and asked permission to be admit ted to his presence in order, as he said, to suggest a cure. The people of Rota were pleased to grant the wish. “Ucudo sat down near the sick man, assuming a very learned air and, after many minutes of apparently deep medi ation, spoke as follows: ‘If you, the eople of Rota, will allow me to select .he most beautiful maiden of your island and will allow her to accompany me into the jungle for three days, I will be able, with her help, to find certain herbs that will, I am sure, restore your beloved chief to health.’ The people readily con sented to the plan and brought before Ucudo all the handsome maidens of their islands. “From among them Ucudo selected the most beautiful and asked her if she was willing to go with him upon his errand. The maiden looked upon him and coyly consented. The herbs were secured, and after three days the pair returned to the village. It was noted it the time that the maiden cast many admiring glances at Ucudo. “The stranger brewed the potion that was to restore the chief’s health and gave it to the priest with instruc tions. -When I pass through the en trance of the reef with my canoe and I have raised my sail, let your king be brought forth from his house between CHARTERED BANK OF ,N?’AD’ cahuintaralia Capital and Reserve Fund..................................... . £7,000,000 Reserve Liability of Proprietor............................... . 3,000,000 MANILA BRANCH established 1872 SUB-BRANCHES AT CEBU, ILOILO AND ZAMBOANGA Every description of banking business transacted. Branches in every important town throughout India, China, Japan, Java, Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, French Indo-China, Siam, and Borneo; also in New York. Head Office: 38 Bishopsgate, London, E. C. T. H. Fraser, Manager. Manila. two chiefs and give mm this life-giving drug. After he has taken it it will only be a matter of a few hours before he will again take his normal place among his people.’ The priest assured Ucudo that his instructions would be strictly obeyed. “During the interview between Ucudo and the priest all the people had gather ed around the two, so that no one saw the maiden who had accompanied the Guam man into the jungle, cautiously approach his canoe and hide herself under covered bow. “Several young men helped Ucudo to launch his canoe, and as he raised his sail the king was brought forth and given the potion. But instead of gain ing strength he fell dead. “Then the people of Rota became enraged and called out: ‘Ucudo, man THE MANILA HOTLL LEADING HOTEL IN THE ORIENT Designed and constructed to secure coolness, sanitation and comfort under tropic climatic conditions Provides every Western convenience combined with every Oriental luxury Finest Dance Orchestra in the Far East Management - - WALTER E. ANTRIM of Guam! What medicine should we give to a dead man?’ The answer came: ‘Bury him or he will have a foul odor!’ The men of Rota called back: ‘Your advice will be followed and that medicine will be given to you!’ “At the word of the senior chief they ran toward the beach, hastily threw their fighting spears, pointed with barb ed points of human bone, into their canoes and pursued Ucudo. As they is they bu the Kuta “The m^nbers of the Rota navy had a tactical advantage over Ucudo in that, in addition to the driving power of their sails, they used their paddles, each canoe being manned by several men, but they had forgotten their artillery, and Ucudo had not. “In his canoe was a basketful of highly polished and sharp-pointed sling stones. As his swifter enemies approach ed he handed the steering paddle to his mate. Taking deliberate aim at the helmsman of the nearest enemy craft, he hurled a slingstone with terrific force, striking the man between the eyes and killing him. Then for the next few minutes the slingstones did their work to such deadly effect that the men of Rota, realizing that it was impossible to capture Ucudo on the high seas, maneuvered so as to sail paral lel with him on both starboard and larboard quarters and well out of range of his deadly missiles. “The chase continued until the pur suers and pursued approached the strand of Letegyan on the island of Guam. There two canoes of the men of Rota left their position in line and landed a few moments before Ucudo and, after a short tussle, the Guam man was in the hands of his enemies. Realizing that he was about to die, Ucudo said to the men of Rota: ‘We have had a glorious chase and it takes good men to catch a man like me. Will you not grant me one last wish? It is the custom of my people to allow a captured enemy to walk 100 yards to the north and 100 yards to the south before he is killed.’ “This wish they foolishly granted. Ucudo walked 100 yards to the south and returned, then walked 100 yards north and bolted into the jungle along a trail leading up a precipice. The Rota tribesmen followed, but, not know ing the short cuts, were hopelessly out distanced. “Ucudo rested at the top of the cliff, having placed a large boulder ready to roll down upon the first Rota man to show his head, but instead of a man he beheld the beautiful face of his loved one as she toiled up the steep grade to join him. Great was his joy and IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL aviaran AW JtK F JUUK 29 REVIEW OF THE HEM* *ARKET By L. L. Spellman Macleod and Company This report covers the Manila hemp market for the month of March with statistics up to April 1st, 1929. U. S. Grades:—The first of the month found the U. S. market firm but quiet owing to lack of buyers. Shippers were offering at D, 17-3/4 cents; E, 16-1/2 cents; F, 14-1/8 cents; G, 8-1/2 cents; I, 13-1/8 cents; JI, 10 cents; SI, 13-3/4 cents; S2, 12-1/2 cents; 83, 10-1/8 cents. The market remained quiet with prices prac tically unchanged until the middle of the month. Shippers then commenced to show some anxiety to get on with business and prices began to decline. By the 20th sellers were asking: D, 17-1/4 cents; E, 15-5/8 cents; F, 13-7/8 cents; G, 8-5/8 cents; I, 12-5/8 cents; JI, 9-7/8 cents; SI, 13-1/2 cents; S2, 12 cents; S3, 10 cents. For the remainder of the month the market remained dull with prices gradually declining and at the close nominal quotations were as follows: D, 17 cents; E, 16 cents; F, 13-1/4 cents; G, 8 cents; I, 12 cents; JI, 9-1/4 cents; SI, 12-5/8 cents; S2, 11-3/8 cents; S3, 9-1/2 cents. Probably a small quantity of hemp could have been purchased at even lower prices but certainly any demand on the part of the consum ing market would have had the immediate effect of strengthening the market and advancing prices. The market in Manila for U. S. grades opened firm with sellers inclined to hold for better prices but a fair amount of hemp was changing hands at D, P38; E, P34; F, P31; G, P19; I, P29; JI, P21; Si, P30; S2, F28; S3, P20. For the first two weeks all the hemp arriving found readv buyers and prices moved up to D, P41; E, P38; F, P32; G, P18.50, I, P28.50, JI, P21.50; SI, P31; S2, P28; S3, P21.50. By the 20th the market was slightly easier and prices were from P0.25 to Fl.00 lower. From then on the market was rather quieter and the end of the month found buyers rather reluctant to take hemp due to the unsatisfactory selling condi tions in America. A few purchases were made at D, P38; E, P35; F, P30; G, P17.6; I, P27; JI, P20; SI, P28.4; S2, P26; S3, P20. These prices showed an average decline of about Pl.00 a picul during the month. U. K. Grades:—At the beginning of the month the U. K. and Continental markets were firm with buyers paving J2, £37; K, £34.5; LI, £34; L2, £29; Ml, £30.10; M2, £28.10, DL, £28; DM, £26. The market eased off almost immediately but owing to the fact that shippers were offering very little hemp, prices strengthened and toward the middle of the month were up from 5/- to £1 a ton. A week later the market was easier and prices were about 10/- lower than at the beginning of the month. The latter part of the month found the market ruling quiet to dull with nominal quota tions as follows: J2, £37; K, £33, LI, £33.5: L2, £29.10; Ml,£30; M2, £27;DL, £27.10; DM, £24. It is doubtful, however, if any quantity of hemp could have been bought at these prices. The London market closed the last of the month on account of the holidays. The market in Manila for U. K. grades was quiet at the beginning of the month with very little fibre offering. Shippers were quoting: J2, P17; K, P16; LI, P15.4; L2, P12.4; Ml, F13.4; M2, P12; DL, P12; DM, Pll. During the first week of the month the market was firm and prices moved up from P0.50 to Pl.00 a picul but during the second week prices declined somewhat but the market regained strength almost immediately. By the middle of the month a fair amount of trading was going on at J2, P17.4; K, P15.4; LI, P15.2; L2. P13; Ml, P13.4; M2, P11.6; DL, P12; DM, P1L During the latter part of the month it became apparent that receipts would remain heavy and prices declined somewhat. The holidays no doubt restricted business somewhat but a fair amount of hemp was sold during the last week and closing prices were: J2, P17.2; K, P15; LI, P14.6; L2, P12.4; Ml, P13; M2, P11.4; DL, P12; DM, P10. Some of the grades lost Pl.00 a picul during the month but on the whole the average was about the same. Japan:—The demand from the Japanese market has been fair but it is apparent there is more damaged fibre than they are willing to take at this time. The hemp plants blown down by the typhoon have now all been cleaned and the actual production of low grades, specially from Legaspi, will show a material decline. How ever, there is a good deal of loose fibre in the provinces still to be baled. Maguey:—Prices for both Manila and Cebu Maguey remain abnormally high. The demand from the local cordage mills accounts for the Manila Maguey prices and shortsales in Europe are no doubt keeping the Cebu market up. Production:—Receipts continue high and aver aged 37,000 bales per week during the month and the estimates for the next two weeks are at the rate of 32,000 bales per week. 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Savings Bank, or any trans pacific steamship company will gladly furnish additional information. Oswald Crawford, G. A. 501 Granville Street Vancouver, B. C. Northern Pacific Railway <352) “First of the Northern Transcontinental»” Immediately after the typhoon it was estimated that the year would be short anywhere from 150,000 to 250,000 bales. Some authorities now claim the year’s crop will be slightly less than 1,300,000 bales while others are equally confident that production will be fully equal to last year. Freight Rates:—There is no change in rates on hemp since the last report. Statistics:—The figures below arc for the period ending April 1st, 1929: Manila Hemp 1929 1928 Ba. Ba. On hand January 1st....... . 158,452 139,632 Receipts to date.............. 459,494 348,334 Supply to date............... 617,946 487,966 Shipments to— U. K.............................. 78,164 99,631 Continent...................... 43,925 50,898 U. S............................... . 139,228 89,687 Japan............................. . 124,862 70,650 All Others..................... 9,735 14,319 Local Consumption. . . . 9,000 15,000 404,914 340,185 The humorous magazine Life has grown malicious about the Scotch again. It turns up the Scotchman who is seek ing the woman who always pays! it IJllIOQMllllMIIIJlifllur ¡UtKlOU ‘W w E. E. Blackwood, G. A. 912 Goven nent Street Vlctoru B. G. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL ÓU ky jvrk. opi n, IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIÍIIIIII Commercial Printing is a silent but powerful messenger, and your letter heads, billheads, cards, envelopes, etc., when well printed, all help to build up that feeling of confidence so much desired in this modern business age. Close personal attention to every phase of a printed job is an invariable feature of McCullough Service, and our repu■ tation for producing good printing merits your patronage. McCullough printing company 101 escolta Phone 21801 manila, p. i. After the Day’s Work At the Office........... a hot water bath will actually put new life into you. These hot baths are instantly available with one of our WATER HEATERS which are operated by gas. Hot water is as plentiful as cold with one of these. The hot season is here; let us arrange to install a heater and enjoy its refreshing, cleansing, rejuvenating showers. Manila Gas Corporation Main Office: Downtown Showroom: Calle Otis, Paco. Tel. 5-69-34 7 Calle David. Tel. 2-16-43, MARCH SUGAR REVIEW By George H. Fairchild New York Market.— At the beginning of the month, the brisk de mand for refined sugar led to a better tone in the New York market, resulting in liberal offer ings of Cubas at 1-31/32 cents c. and f., equiv alent to 3.74 cents 1. t. for Philippine centri fugals. The New York sugar market weakened about the middle of the month owing to the publication of a revised Guma Meyer estimate of over 5,000,000 tons for the present Cuban crop. The market, however, reacted shortly thereafter, and prompt shipment Cubas changed hands at approximately the same prices as during the beginning of March. In the third week the spot market in New York again slumped due to accumulation of stocks in storage ports, when prompt shipment Cubas were sold at 1-15/16 cents c. and f., equivalent to 3.71 cents 1. t. for P. I. centrifugals. The abundance of near supplies in Cuba and Atlantic Coast ports during the last week of the month under review caused a further decline to 1-7/8 cents c. and f., equiv alent to 3.65 cents 1. t. for P. I. centrifugals. The number of centrals working in Cuba has been reduced during the last week of March by 8 centrals, the total now operating being 153. The visible stocks in the U. K., U. S., Cuba, and European statistical countries at the encl of March were 6,083,000 tons as against 5,513,000 tons last year and 5,143,000 tons in 1927. Futures:—Quotations on the New York Ex change during March fluctuated as follows: High Low Latest March, 1929. . . .. 1.95 1.88 1.92 May.................. .. 2.05 1.88 1.90 July.................. .. 2.15 2.00 2.00 September........ 2 19 2.10 2.10 December......... .. 2.24 2.18 2.18 January............ .. 2.25 2.19 2.20 March, (1930).. .. 2.29 2.24 2.24 Philippine Sales:—During the month under review, sales of Philippine centrifugals in the Atlantic Coast—afloats, near arrivals, and for future deliveries—amounted to 62,000 tons at prices ranging from 3.64 cents to 4.00 cents landed terms, as compared with sales amounting to 85,090 tons during the same period last year. Local Market:—The local centrifugal market has ruled firm and small quantities have changed hands at from P8.875 to P9.00 per picul ex godown The muscovado market is weaker owing to a falling off in the Chinese demand due to political complications in China. Chinese dealers are inclined to buy muscovados on the basis of P6.50 for No. 3. Crop Prospects:—Milling operations on Negros will come to an end in most districts next month. The outturn will be approximately the Philip pine Sugar Association’s estimate of 400,000 tons for Negros, while the estimate for Luzon may be exceeded. The advices from the United States are more encouraging with respect to the enactment of discriminatory or restrictive legislation against Philippine sugar at the special session of Congress. Philippine Exports:—Exports of sugar from the Philippines for the 1928-29 crop from No vember 1, .1928, to March 31, 1929, amounted to 245,951 tons, segregated as follows: Centrifugals 237,084 m. tons Muscovados 5,027 “ “ Refined 3,840 11 “ Total 245,951 m. tons European Market:—Advices from Europe are not encouraging, since the practice established shortly after the war of utilizing sugar as a means of indirect taxation by imposing a series of taxes on sugar has increased its price to such an extent that it has become a luxury, resulting in consumption in Europe again declin ing. While Europe is still an importer of foreign grown sugar, notwithstanding the fact that it produces over 8,000,000 tons annually, from an authoritative source it is reported that the imports this year are likely to be less than last year since there is still a substantial quantity of hold-over sugars still unsold and that this pear’s crop will be from 300.000 to 400,000 tons in excess of last year. The unexpected increase in yield from Cuba over last year and also from Java due to the wonder PÓJ 2878 cane makes the outlook for prices for the balance of the year far from re assuring. Java Market:—During the early part of the month, the Java market showed an improve ment, owing to speculators buying near positions and covering local requirements. This improve ment was maintained until the latter part of the month. The following are the latest quotations: March-April shipment Su periors Gs................. 16 -3/4 = May Shipment Superiors Gs.............................. 15 June Shipment Superiors Gs.....................................13 3/4 July-August shipment Su periors Gs......................13 f*8.96\ 8.05 7.40 7.02/ per P. I. picul f. o. b. The first estimate issued by the Trust gives the following figures for the present crop of Java: Trust mills, 2,755,000 metric tons; outside mills, 280,000 metric tons; total, 3,035,000 metric tons. Hark to Maryanna Jones, Her life was full of terrors, An old maid born, an old maid died—■ No hits, no runs, no errors. —Life. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL Commodities PRINCIPAL EXPORTS Sugar................................................... Hemp....... .......................................... Coconut Oil....................................... Copra................................................... Cigars (Number).............................. Embroidery........................................ Maguey............................................... Leaf Tobacco.................................. • Desiccated and Shredded Coconut. Hats (Number)................................ Lumber (Cubic Meter).................. Copra Meal....................................... Cordage............................................... Knotted Hemp................................. Pearl Buttons (Gross)............ • • • • Canton (low grade cordage fiber). All Other Products........................... Total Domestic Products................ United States Products................... Foreign Products............................... Grand Total........... ..... January, 1928 Monthly average for 12 months ending January, 1929 January, 1929 Quantity Value % * Quanitty Value % Quantity Value % 64,978,751 P10,364,751 34.7 86,170,553 P14,475,087 51.8 48,199,192 P 8,061,179 30.9 13,583,344 4,412,100 14.8 10,959,371 3,743,920 13.5 14,886,359 4,448,518 17.0 15,634,642 5,157,915 17.3 12,425,693 4,205,018 15.2 12,213,455 4,019,743 15.3 19,988,650 3,944,775 13.3 8,020,548 1,585,584 5.8 19,813,053 3,794,868 14.4 16,192,798 673,965 2.3 14,082,473 623,151 1.4 18,424,074 789,258 2.9 758,773 2.6 397,724 1.6 760,208 2.8 1,195,933 274,051 0.9 1,373,921 307,518 1.2 1,428,568 290,540 1.1 2,924,019 847,755 2.9 284,544 105,420 0.5 1,562,280 471,742 1.8 505,038 179,145 0.6 536,639 198,615 0.8 1,682,103 611,552 2.3 116,309 617,842 2.1 62,369 288,191 1 .1 125,905 601,450 2.3 13,553 460,656 1 .4 15,710 508,408 1.8 14,015 477,675 1.8 6,880,302 506,592 1.7 5,558,326 340,839 1.2 6,814,780 489,639 1.8 639,958 336,857 1.1 445,107 249,220 0.9 320,632 297,430 1.1 73,825 266,786 0.9 23,436 70,966 0.3 29,083 91,541 0.3 73,859 66,687 0.2 65,198 57,750 0.2 68,491 62,661 0.2 531,053 106,182 0.4 559,781 137,196 0.5 604,219 114,390 0.4 755,585 2.5 489,975 1.8 824,872 3.1 P29,630,417 99.6 P27.694.610 99.6 P26,057,258 99.5 121,926 0.4 76,320 0.3 115,502 0.4 8,517 13,652 0.1 34,506 0.1 P29.760.860 100.0 P27.784.582 100.0 P26.207.266 100.0 Note:—All quantities are in kilos except where otherwise indicated. PRINCIPAL IMPORTS Articles January, 1929 Monthly average for January, 1928 12 months ending January 1929. Value % Value % Value % Cotton Cloths................... P 4,313,272 16.0 P 5,143,144 19.2 P 3,385,851 14.9 Other Cotton Goods........ 1,056,226 3.8 1,328,984 5.1 1,165,209 5.2 Iron and Steel, Except Machinery..................... 2,138,952 7.9 1,980,924 7.5 1,883,857 8.3 Rice.................................... 783,356 2.8 106,340 0.8 477,780 2.2 Wheat Flour.................... 395,700 1.5 836,418 3.2 882,243 4.0 Machinery and Parts of.. 1,638,481 6.1 1,495,248 2.7 1,417,642 6.3 Dairy Products................ 840,779 3.1 588,288 2.3 597,671 2.7 Gasoline............................. 971,402 3.6 830,412 3.2 661,804 3.0 Silk Goods........................ 887,804 3.3 989,362 3.8 693,316 3.2 Automobiles...................... 685,359 2.6 829,013 3.2 761,372 3.4 Vegetable Fiber Goods... 923,930 3.4 396,859 1.6 392,483 1.8 Meat Products................. 810,946 3.0 593,973 2.3 502,964 2.3 Illuminating Oil............... 276,584 1.1 718,977 2.8 298,341 1.4 Fish and Fish Products.. 432,982 1.6 386,938 1.6 367,619 1.7 Crude Oil.......................... 152,616 0.6 358,632 1.5 227,098 1.1 Coal....... ............................ 193,796 0.7 676,629 2.6 451,051 2.1 Chemicals, Dyes, Drugs, Etc.................................. 498,944 1.9 424,869 1.7 394,333 1.8 Fertilizers.......................... 329,110 1.2 517,765 2.0 292,698 1.4 Vegetable........................... 395,316 1.5 395,583 1.6 359,687 1.7 Paper Goods, Except Books............................. 569,221 2.2 434,311 1.7 404,682 1.9 Tobacco and Manufac tures of.......................... 306,958 1.2 205,703 0.9 574,753 2.6 Electrical Machinery.. .. 564,618 2.1 401,644 1.6 370,477 1.7 Books and Other Printed Matters..................... 215,350 0.8 515,752 1.9 242,525 1.2 Cars and Carriages, Ex cept Autos.................... 280,532 1.1 269,334 1.1 223,253 1.1 Automobile Tires............ 462,084 1.7 339,217 1.4 255,258 1.1 Fruits and Nuts.............. 348,664 1.3 421,384 1.7 291,259 1.3 Woolen Goods.................. 106,001 0.4 177,378 0.8 124,758 0.6 Leather Goods................. 374,879 1.4 391,530 1.6 243,813 J .1 Shoes and Other Footware 248,769 0.9 272,395 1.1 142,779 0.7 Coffee ............................... 164,037 0.6 139,116 0.6 157,089 0.7 Breadstuff, Except Wheat Flour................. 186,165 0.7 158,538 0.7 178,259 0.8 Eggs................................... 170,560 0.6 135,935 0.6 181,594 0.8 Perfumery and Other Toilet Goods................ 256,954 1.0 183,632 0.8 129,232 0.6 Lubricating Oil................ 152,646 0.6 147,902 0.7 195,833 0.9 Cacao Manufactures, Ex cept Candy................... 184,685 0.7 214,229 0.9 149,838 0.6 Glass and Glassware....... 216,032 0.8 178,701 0.8 171,565 0.8 Paints, Pigments, Var nish, Etc....................... 174,496 0.7 142,169 0.7 152,633 0.7 Oils not separately listed. 100,566 0.4 112,274 0.5 145,583 0.7 Earthern Stones and Chinaware..................... 138,348 0.5 130,169 0.6 129,000 0.6 Automobile Accessories.. 281,701 1.1 169,922 0.8 138,167 0.6 Diamond and Other Pre cious Stone Unset........ 138,801 0.5 49,819 0.3 120,003 0.6 Wood, Bamboo, Reed, Rattan........................... 141,759 0.5 73,067 0.4 108,884 0.5 India Rubber Goods.... 143,286 0.5 129,065 0.6 116,583 0.5 Soap................................... 237,989 0.9 182,376 0.7 180,028 0.8 Matches............................. 51,112 0.2 48,282 0.2 91,940 0.5 Cattle................................. 41,708 0.2 66,211 0.3 32,563 0.2 Explosives......................... 49,569 0.2 55,102 0.2 56,040 0.2 Cement.............. 52,600 0.2 29,928 0.1 89,178 0.4 Sugar and Molasses....... 87^594 0 3 71*805 0 3 80,354 0.4 Motion Picture Films.. . . 38,784 0.1 50,184 0.2 30,418 0.1 All Other Imports.......... 2,668,299 9.9 1,682,094 6.3 1,883,847 8.2 Total.................. P26.514.049 100.0 P26.277.526 100.0 P22.605.207 100.0 PORT STATISTICS TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES Monthly average for Ports January, 1929 January, 1928 12 months ending January, 1929. Value % Value % Value % Manila............................... P39.685.926 70.8 P37,693,000 69.9 P32,780,935 65.9 Iloilo................................... 7,634,228 13.6 10,765,875 19.9 7,031,541 14.4 Cebu................................... 5,450,549 9.7 4,294,209 7.9 6,605,563 13.6 Zamboanga....................... 610,735 1.1 364,874 0.7 562,567 1.5 Jolo..................................... 53,245 0.1 56,513 0.1 106,669 0.4 Davao................................. 1,790,410 3.2 666,939 1.2 1,162,237 2.8 Legaspi.............................. 849,816 1.5 220,708 0.2 562,962 1.4 Total.................. P56.274.909 100.0 P54.062.118 100.0 P48.812.474 100.0 CARRYING TRADE IMPORTS Monthly average for Nationality of Vessels January, 1929 January, 1928 12 months ending January, 1929. Value % Value % Value % American........................... Pll,319,158 43.6 Pll.872,162 45.5 P10,093,531 42.3 British................................ 10,084,952 37.8 9,671,668 37.0 7,544,314 33.4 Japanese............................. 719,448 2.8 1,099,940 4.1 984,063 5.3 Dutch................................. 781,409 3.0 879,711 3.2 644,388 1.4 German.............................. 1,438,112 5.6 1,493,051 5.7 1,538,595 7.7 Norwegian......................... 432,954 1.6 717,799 3.2 Philippine.......................... 27,819 0.1 268,637 0.9 157,206 0.7 Spanish............................... 236,320 0.8 409,588 1.5 172,062 0.8 Chinese............................... 178,799 0.6 43,074 0.1 71,349 0.3 Swedish.............................. 10,092 691 13,628 Dannish............................. 346,277 1.6 13,442 Csechoslovak.................... 1,340 French ............................... 247,656 0.8 35,639 0.2 By Freight........................ 25,812,996 98.3 25,738,522 98.0 11,991,023 97.3 By Mail............................ 691,053 1.7 539,014 2.0 614,184 2.7 Total.................. 26,514,049 100.0 26,277,536 100.0 22,605,207 100.0 EXPORTS Monthly average for Nationality of Vessels January, 1929 January, 1928 12 months ending January, 1929. Value % Value % Value % American................... .... P17,781,365 59.6 P15,984,895 57.2 Pl 1,930,060 46.1 British........................ . . . . 5,417,723 18.4 7,078,955 25.4 8,081,195 31 .3 Japanese.................... .... 1,592,452 3.6 1,752,693 6.4 2,563,981 6.1 German...................... .... 842,373 3.1 753,257 2.9 886,994 3.6 Norwegian................. .... 73,590 0.5 523,135 2.2 Spanish...................... 101,201 0.5 Dutch......................... 656,090 2.4 297,115 1.2 512,881 2.2 Philippine.................. .... 946,184 3.4 82,570 0.2 146,291 0.8 Chinese...................... 33,547 0.4 2,799 8,207 Swedish...................... 1,388,800 5.0 464,532 1.9 French....................... 4,880 Dannish..................... .... 1,500,838 5.3 295,219 1.3 By Freight............... .... 28,844,162 96.7 27,341,084 98.5 25,201,413 96.0 By Mail.................... .... 916,698 3.3 443,498 1.5 1,005,853 4.0 Total.......... .... P29.760.860 100.0 P27.784.582 100.0 P26,207,266 100.0 TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES Countries January, 1929 Monthly average for January, 1928 12 months ending January, 1929. Value % Value % Value % United States............... . . P40.604.743 72.6 P41.0J 4,659 75.9 P33.927.669 68.0 United Kingdom......... 1,512,644 2.7 2,112,347 3.9 2,259,548 4.7 Japan............................. 3,099,814 5.5 3,153,642 5.9 3,308,083 6.8 China............................. 1,564,719 2.8 1,338,677 2.5 1,718,646 3.6 French East Indies. . . 790,531 1.4 99,083 0.2 481,322 1.1 Germany....................... 1,245,949 2.2 1,246,431 2.3 1,213,080 2.6 Spain.............................. 1,773,036 3.1 313,800 0.6 936,350 2.0 Australia........................ 576,358 1.0 606,848 1.1 508,619 1.2 British East Indies. . . 1,119,455 2.0 814,510 1.5 684,210 1.5 Dutch East Indies.... 604,116 1.1 678,541 1.3 551,933 1.2 France............................ 1,349,933 2.4 477,705 0.9 714,097 1.6 Netherlands.................. 335,467 0.6 242,855 0.4 338,294 0.8 Italy............................... 318,954 0.6 188,598 0.3 333,643 0.8 Hongkong...................... 141,817 0.2 220,549 0.4 286,787 0.7 Belgium......................... 389,859 0.7 490,935 0.9 479,927 1.1 Switzerland................... 261,113 0.4 275,040 0.5 285,821 0.6 Japanese-China............ 78,265 0.1 263,433 0.5 115,591 0.3 Siam............................... 47,669 0.1 39,598 0.1 32,490 0.1 Sweden........................... 45,367 0.1 85,801 0.2 96,685 0.2 Canada.......................... 108,470 0.2 114,096 0.2 105,875 0.2 Nor wav.......................... 25,612 66,625 0.1 77,399 0.2 Austria........................... 11,912 16,731 18,003 Denmark....................... 38,249 60,990 0.1 34,281 0.1 Other Countries.......... 230,857 0.4 140,624 0.3 304,121 0.6 Total.............. . . P56.274.909 100.0 P54.061.118 100.0 P48.812.474 100.0 ü¿ i nn ur ^/kyiK£iK¿üxvkzx> juuiwiau npm, BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Kerr Steamship Co., Inc. General Agents “SILVER FLEET” Express Freight Services Philippines-New York via Java and Singapore Roosevelt Steamship Agency Agents Chaco Bldg. Phone 2-14-20 Manila, P. I. Myers-Buck Co., Inc. Surveying and Mapping PRIVATE MINERAL AND PUBLIC LAND 316 Carriedo Tel. 2-16-10 Pagarciáí 5TA. POTENCIA NA 32 TEL. 22715 GjT«S COLOR PLATES HALF-TONES ZINC-ETCHING PHILIPPINES COLD STORES Wholesale and Retail Dealers in American and Australian Refrigerated Produce STORES AND OFFICES Calle Echague Manila, P. I. MACLEOD & COMPANY Manila Cebu Vigan Davao Iloilo Exporters of Hemp and Maguey Agents for INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. Agricultural Machinery UNIVERSAL BATTERIES P26.50 One Year Guarantee CARO ELECTRICAL SERVICE 110P. Faura Tel. 5-69-44 fí ffi M $ CHINA BANKING CORPORATION MANILA, P. I. 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Your Dodge Brothers Dealer will be proud to have you test it for get-away, flexibility, pull on the hills, and every other vital phase of quality performance. And you will agree with him that the Nf Senior is Dodge Brothers’ masterpiece! Sole Distributors: ESTRELLA AUTO PALACE LEVY HERMANOS, Inc. 536-568 Gandara ILOILO — MANILA — CEBU □ □□ee Brothers MOTOR CARS IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL