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Title: The American Chamber of Commerce Journal
Issue Date: Volume XIII (Issue No. 8) August 1933
Year: 1933
Language: English
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extracted text: F. u. box ibd» IWl, 35 Centavos a Copy LEADING PAPERS IN THIS ISSUE— Philippine Market for American Tobacco Grows Trade almost ideally balanced First Philippine Americans Old Traders of the Clipper Days Governor General Murphy’s Tribute to Oldtimers “Earned respect of their adversaries" Tribute to Herbert Lee Heath World Tourists: How to Please Them Philippine Gold Mining and Gold Exports Practical Steps in Collecting Sales Tax Recommended to the Legislature Editorials: “A Remarkable Probe” How the American Community Has In fluenced the Philippines Effort for Justice for Veterans Here I? Other Features and the Usual 51 a Expert Reviews of Commerce & Get the Benefit of Chevrolet Economy Low Purchase Price Low Operating Cost reduce your transportation costs—to get the biggest motor car value of the year •—invest in a 1933 Chevrolet Six! Chevrolet prices remain at the same low level announc ed several months ago. Chevrolet operating and upkeep cost is now lower than ever be fore. Turn in your old car NOW—toward the purchase of a new Chevrolet. NOTE THE 1933 CHEVROLET PRICES De Luxe Roadster.......... 1’1.790 Regular Phaeton............. 1,850 De Luxe Coach . ............ 1,945 De Luxe Coupe.............. 1’1,985 De Luxe Phaeton.......... 1,945 Special Sedan................. 2,275 Truck Chasses: Utility, 1 >/2-ton. 131" wheelbase.......................................... 1’1,580.00 Utility 2-ton, 157" wheelbase.............................................. 1,780.00 Utility, 2-ton. 157" wheelbase with dual wheels............... 1,880.00 F. O. B. Manila—Discount for Cash PACIFIC COMMERCIAL COMPANY ILOILO — MANILA — CEBU You Know Prices Are Going Up You men in business have received the same advice from your suppliers—Prices on everything will advance, if they have not already done so. That is why you will ap preciate our urging to buy that GAS Water Heater NOW “PICCOLO” GAS SHOWER HEATER A small, compact, neat, and efficient shower heater for your home. Hot or cold water instantly at any minute of the day or night. BUY ITNo°X P90.22 MANILA GAS CORPORATION Display Room ---------------------------- > Regina Building IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 1 As Comfortable as the lounging chair you sitin'. ESCO The Shoe of Quality Obtainable Most Anywhere ESCO SHOE STORES 615 Escolta and 333 Legarda He Always Picks a Winner the horse he rides during the game— and the drink he calls for after the game— ^>an Miguel brewed by San Miguel Brewery Refinements Feature Rockne Six Models For 1933 (ABOVE) THE NEW TYPE COACH In the new Coach. Rockne presents this popular body type in its finest expression. Refinements include adjustable front seats, pockets in right cowl and door arid arm rests in the rear. (RIGHT)THEREAR COMPARTMENT The rear compart ment of the de luxe sedan is luxuriously roomy and richly appointed. To pro vide additional com forts, Marshall-type spring cushions are New Beauty distinguishes the 1933 Rockne Six. Bodies are lower and more richly appointed. Features include Free Wheeling with Synchronized Shifts and silent second speed... Electro fused steel bodies ... safety glass windshields ... closed models wired for radio. You see, Rockne’s big advantage is that Studebaker builds it. The Studebaker people have seen to it that Rockne is a Studebaker in everything but name. They’ve given Rockne Studebaker materials and workmanship. A TRIAL RIDE WILL CONVINCE YOU Manila Motor Co., Inc. ™s IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL. 2 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 I Advertise In Meralco Street Cars and Buses Street-car advertising is an extreme ly efficient means of reaching the consuming public. Advertising on the inside is read by the thousands who daily use this means of trans portation. Advertising on the outside of the cars is seen by the throngs of shoppers on the sidewalks and plazas, as well as the thousands of riders in auto mobiles and other vehicles. Street-car advertising costs very little per thousand circulation— much less than most other forms of advertising. i For Rates and Particulars—Call Up A. B. TIGH Advertising Manager Manila Electric Company Telephone 2-19-11 ALHAMBRA CIGARS continue to be the recognized leaders in QUALITY cigars ESPECIALES ALHAMBRA SUNSET MATCHES SOLD EVERYWHERE I Easy to Ask for— I BEST TO USE i Philippine Match Company, Ltd. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL Philippine Market Grows for American Tobacco Use of American wrapper for cigars sold in the United States is rapidly increasing Philippine Imports of U. S. Tobacco and Products Type Year 1931 Year 1932 Kilograms Value Kilograms Value Leaf....................... 348,470 P604,705 836,562 P704.812 Cigars (No.)......... 4,100 930 78,000 4,807 Cigarettes (No.). . 1,131,299,900 3,8'16,781 1,053,483,207 3,889,884 Chewing................. 405,949 867,389 295,000 607,440 Pipe........................ 17,574 47,967 30,742 45,357 Totals.................... P5,337,772 P5,252,300 The above table shows the value of American tobacco and tobacco products imported into the Philippines in 1931 to have been 1*5,337,772, and 1*5,252,300 in 1932. It is in teresting to compare these figures with the value of Philippine cigars sent to the United States, shown for 1931, in the latest printed report of the internal revenue bureau, to have been 1*6,022,834. This is but 1*685,062 more than the value of American tobacco and tobacco products sold in the Philippine market that year. Ratios are running as well, from the American viewpoint, this year; while the Philippines market a considerable quantity of cigars in the United States, they spend practically all they get for these cigars for American tobacco and tobacco products. Especially is there a tendency among Philippine cigar fac First Philippine Americans Captain Arlington U. Betts of Albay shares with a few other Americans, Judge James C. Ross one of them, the dis tinction of having been elected governor of his province. He was first made governor by appointment, Taft appointed him in 1901 in the transition period from the military regime. When the election for the office came, and the town mayors and councilmen exercised their suffrage right, he was elected governor and remained in office until 1905. His first report as governor shows he built a road, on which bicycles were popular and the first automobile imported into the Philippines seems to have been used, 1902. Going about in Albay and the adjoining Bicol provinces, Captain Betts has had an interest in tracing traditions of the Americans who were in the Philippines a century ago, and up to the Civil war, as agents ashore of the sailing-ship trade of New England. Some of these Americans lived in the Bicol region. Confederate privateers outfitted and even built in Britain obliterated American shipping on the Pacific during the Civil war, but three trading companies who estab lished British connections kept on in business in the Philip pines until 50 years ago: Peele, Hubbell & Co., now Warner, Barnes & Co., Russell & Sturgis, now Smith, Bell & Co., and Endicott & Co., of which records are meager indeed. Endicott & Company may have operated in the Bicol region only, where Betts has found traditions of it. There tories to use American leaf tobacco, and the trend now, in these factories, to use Virginia tobacco for cigarettes to be sold in the Philippines and perhaps in the China market increases the demand for American leaf tobacco. In applying the industrial recovery act to Philippine cigars sold in the United States these facts will surely be taken into consideration—as they surely should be. After all, the chief objective of the industrial legislation of the new-deal era in the United States is betterment of prices for farm products and indexing these products as nearly as possible opposite the manufactures the farmers have to buy. The market the Philippines now offer American growers of tobacco is not insignificant. Confining comment to Amer ican leaf tobacco bought in the Philippines for use as wrappers, such leaf makes up the wrappers on 40% of the Philippine cigars sold in the United States, this for the year 1931; in 1928 it reached 56.72%, but in 1916 it was only 3%. Sumatra wrapper is used only on 2.58% of Philippine cigars sold in the United States, figures for 1931, and Philippine wrapper on 57.88% of them. The making of better domestic cigarettes in the Philippines of late, by use of Virginia leaf, makes small inroads upon the market here for American cigarettes. The use of American pipe and chewing tobacco, on the other hand, steadily increases in the islands. The tobacco trade between the Philippines and the United States is almost ideally reciprocal. was an Endicott daughter, tall, blonde, slender, of whom Betts has seen photographs and whose husband was a Spanish planter of the region. She is said to have been the last of the Endicott family in the islands. Fourth in the line of Russells, of Boston, in the islands is the well known broker in Manila, J. J. Russell, a member of the chamber of commerce and once on its board of directors. None of the Sturgis family is traced, but George W. Hubbell (as the Journal brought out years ago), of Peele, Hubbell & Co., was American consul in Manila in 1830 and his monument, found in a hemp warehouse by the American soldiers when they occupied Manila, fittingly stands today* on Cervantes plaza, in the heart of the banking and wholesale district and not far from where his company’s offices must have been. At the port of Tabaco in Albay ships anchor with their poops toward shore and are loaded and unloaded over tem porary runways of planks laid between rows of poles set in the water and rising from the shore to a level with the ships’ decks. Over these runways carriers port the cargo. Betts traces this convenience to a Yankee origin of clipper-ship days. When storms sweep Tabaco bay the ships find safety in the open roadstead; the owner of the runway has the planks hastily piled ashore, and if the storm sweeps away the poles they are finally tossed back on shore and easily set in place again, when the storm passes. These conveniences, common (Please turn to page 15) 4 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Governor General Murphy Eulogizes Veterans Governor Frank Murphy at His Desk at Malacanan Sun Studio Photo (Office of tfje (gobernor (general of tfje ^Ijilippine 3folanb£ Dear Mr. Robb: Manila, July 7, 1933. Thank you for yours of July 3rd. I am very glad to comply with your suggestion that I write a few words of greeting to the surviving Veterans of Foreign Wars. This is your authorization to make use of the following as you see fit: It is a pleasure to respond to the suggestion of the Editor of the American Chamber of Commerce Journal that I address a few words to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and particularly to those Veterans of the Spanish-American war and subsequent campaigns jn the Philippines. The story of the American occupation of these Islands is a creditable chapter in American history. Just as the soldiers of the North and South, veterans of our Civil War, are friends and march side by side today, so those who fought on either side in the Philippines respect each other now. The Americans were good soldiers in those campaigns and earned the respect of their adversaries, who later became their friends. Just as they were good soldiers, the many who remained in the Islands have become good citizens, and to them a great deal of credit for the present satisfactory conditions here is due. I consider it an honor to greet these good soldiers and good citizens and to express my pleasure at the opportunity which has come to me of knowing them and working amongst them. Very sincerely, Mr. Walter J. Robb, Editor, American Chamber of Commerce Journal. Manila. Governor-General. August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 5 A Small Tribute to Herbert Lee Heath Herbert Lee Heath and Mrs. Heath have left Manila for the United States with purpose not to return to the islands but to make their permanent home in America, somewhere in the west. It is hard to bid a citizen such as Captain Heath goodbye. Formally, it is rather impossible, he evades it; he is a man who all his life has reasoned sentiment sternly down, perhaps because his blood is Celtic and therefore full of sentiment; instinct told him indulgence of it might bowl him over. He won’t like anything being said about his leaving. Down deep he won’t like leaving, which he does on account of his health, but he will make his words belie this feeling—he will boast that he is glad he is going away, going for good. Nevertheless, he shall have a farewell in our pages. It has often been necessary to dare his disapproval in the Journal, founded under his presidency of the chamber of commerce, and to which he contributed the first feature story, The Amer ican Community in the Philippines. There used to come up questions about which it was suggested stories might be made, sometimes there were doubts that this would be wise. Once someone thought the material under discussion too little for a story. “Oh, hell!” demurred Heath. “There’s nothing to that. Why, just say Heath went downstairs, for example—that’s all he'd need to write a page about!” Ten years have passed, ten and more. On a May day in 1898, when the young editor, H. L. Heath, of a McMinnville, Oregon, newspaper had got out the day’s edition, he left his desk and went downstairs into Main street where all was talk of the land forces Dewey wanted to rein force his position at Manila. McKinley had called for volun teers, militia regiments in the western states were to be federal ized and sent to the Philippines. That movement brought the young Oregon editor and promising Democrat to the islands as captain of Company A, 2nd Oregon U. S. Volunteer Infantry. The Oregon regiment was of the First Expedflion under Major General Thomas A. Anderson and two battalions sailed to the islands on the Australia, landing at Cavite June 30, 1898. Passing Guam, where the Spanish garrison was unware war existed between Spain and the United States, fire was opened to compel surrender. It was taken as a salute, a polite boarding party went out to the transport to explain that, wanting ammunition, the garrison couldn’t return the Americans’ salute—and the party learned that it was war, the Americans would have to take formal possession, make the garrison formally prisoners of war. A landing party went ashore, Captain Heath commanded it. On sailed the Australia to Cavite, and soon, because of having Guam, an American cable line stretched across the Pacific and America had her own permanent communication with the Far East. In the occupation of Manila August 13, 1898, the Oregon regiment, ferried over from Cavite, marched a distance down Malecon drive, now Bonifacio drive, along the west wall of the city—a wall bristling with cannons that were not to be fired. The regiment proceeded to Major General Wesley Merritt’s headquarters at the Ayuntamiento; the Spanish were coming in from the trenches where the Americans were being sent to replace them, and the Spanish were giving up their arms. The drama of this did not escape Captain Heath. He saw a gallant officer, riding in front of his men as if on dress parade in celebration of victory. By no gesture did this officer betray his feeling, except that the tears coursed down his cheeks. It had not been long since Captain Heath, Editor Heath, had gone downstairs at McMinnville, yet he was already seeing these things—the visual acquisition of empire by the United States, by an effort of which he was a part and in which the dullest man could not but sense his usefulness— much less a bright young editor who could sense it all. Pre sently the Red and Gold were to be lowered at Fort Santiago (Please turn to page 16) Courtesy of Captain E. 0. Worrick Some Oregon Men in the Philippines This picture was taken in Major P. G. Eastwick’s house in Manila in 1909. Major Eastwick is seated, center. Captain H. L. Heath is on his left, Captain Elmer O. Worrick on his right. Standing, left to right: Major J. F. Case, Lt. George Wolff, Major Albert J. Brazee. These men were all of the 2nd Oregons. Major Eastwick is now a banker in the United States, in Manila for many years he was manager of the local branch of the International Banking Corporation. A sketch of Captain Heath’s career here appears in this issue. Captain Worrick lives at Daet, Camarines Norte, where he is a rancher and lumberman. We owe him much for his old pictures, reclaimed on his moving to a new house. Major Case built the Montalban waterworks for Manila, the Bull Run water system for Portland, Oregon. George Wolff was director of prisons in Manila; he left the islands many years ago and is now a banker in South America. Major Brazee, a staff lieutenant in the 2nd Oregons, has long been a hemp broker in Manila and of late has been secretary of the Elks Club. 6 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 World Tourists: How to Please Them Tourist traffic here increased 56.04 °/o during the year ended July 31, visiting tourists numbered 16,552 and spent ^2,482,800 The most profitable industry New England has, says Harry Carr of the Los Angeles Times, is that of showing visitors historic battlegrounds. California spent $600,000 last year advertising her history to travelers, experience having proved that it pays. Carr believes the natural beauty of the Philip pines and their historic fertility—not a few, but thousands of old mission churches and quaint chapels, hundreds with ro mantic legends clinging to them, the walled city of old Manila, best preserved of all the mediaeval cit adels, and Cavite, ancient port of the galleons—are tourist attractions such as no other country in the world can offer. Our experience verifies this. We have accompanied hundreds of resident and visiting Americans through the walled city, about a third as many men as women—more business men than writers and university men. To sum up briefly, unusual interest has been universal. Carr tells the simple truth. But he has not, in our opinion, hit upon what is even a better attraction for tourists in the islands, more unique and bound to make their fame spread quickly over all the world. In not getting all the world to travel to the Philippines, not merely the American world, the islands are blindly, even grossly, neglecting op portunities cheaply to be seized upon and permanently held. In the problem of pleasing visitors, let us take up historic Manila first. For an illustrated free booklet, crib the introduction to Old Manila. Any one is welcome to it, credit for author ship unnecessary. Get up a class of tourist-bureau guides and instruct them in their duties. The undersigned vo lunteers to help teach them, with the privilege of weeding out the unimag inative or unfit, and of course without charge; and Father Gloria, at St. Paul’s, would no doubt do the same. Four principal things are to learn: How to show the walls, how to show St. Paul’s, how to show the Recollect church, how to show Santa Clara convent. This .is more, even, than can be crowded into 2 hours, about the time that will be found best. If the museum at the Ayuntamiento is visited, the archives, oldest under the American flag, should not be missed. Guiding at the Ayuntamiento, except in the archives, is superfluous; the attendant^ there do the work. Legaspi’s orders from the king and other Legaspi documents should be translated, got into attractive pam phlet form, and given away or sold at cost. For the history of the provincial missions, paragraphs on church after church, legends and facts and romance, Journal files carrying the record as far as the Jesuits—that is, through the Augustinians, the Dominicans, the Franciscans, the Re Tourist Bureau Elects At its annual meeting August 1, the Philippine tourist association reelected last year’s directors for this year: H. M. Cavender, F. B. Ingersoll, Arsenio Luz, Juan Posadas, John W. Ilaussermann, Alejandro Roces, jr., and J. E. H. Stevenot. The directors elected H. M. Cavender president, Arsenio Luz and Judge In gersoll vice presidents, Judge Ingersoll, secretary, Juan Posadas, treasurer. President Cavender’s report was a capital showing of the effective work of the bureau last year. To this work the paper on this page is intended to be sup plemental. There is a goal to reach: to make the Philippines the prime tourist point in the orient and to make the utili zation of this advantage the biggest industry in the islands. President Ca vender reports the bureau’s executive secretary James King Steele on his fourth office-to-office trip abroad to inform book ing agents about the Philippines and distribute the excellent literature he had prepared under the directors’ policy. Further, the Cavender report shows the progress possible during hard times, as in the following summary: During the period under review, 16,552 tourists arrived in the Philippine Islands— an increase of 5,404 or 56.04 per cent over last year. These visitors spent an estimated amount of 1*2,484,800 in the Islands, distributed approximately as follows: 41 per cent to hotels, restaurants, and bars. 31 per cent to retail, stores, shops, and manufacturers. 13 per cent to garages, taxicabs, and transportation. 12 per cent to miscellaneous enterprises. 3 per cent for entertainment. Through these channels of trade, this money found its way into the business life of the Philippines and thus indirectly to the benefit of the whole country. The Philippine Tourist association has again justified its existence by bringing from outside the Islands P2,482,800. collects—and only dropped after years of research because serving no immediate purpose. This condensed material is freely usable by anyone without the necessity to acknowledge its source; for its original sources were the monastery chro nicles. Now for the last and best: Show tourists the Philippine people, their interesting but languishing arts and crafts. They are the only Christians in the orient, and they are orientals who speak a universal modern language, English, while in any sizable group there will be numbers who speak both Eng lish and Spanish. With all this, thrillingly unique to any visitor, they have preserved their Malayan customs, folk lore, dances and what-not, and they have a charming and distinctive dress. It is such opportunities that are now being absolutely thrown away. There is a practical remedy for this neglect, which is, on the government’s part, indefensible. Arrange some days for tourists in the nearby provinces. The same program, or practically, the same, will serve for at least two days, with returns to Manila of an evening. Choose a cen tral point, where there is a public high school, say Malolos. Get the use of a large Spanishcolonial house with a sala for dancing and other large rooms for exhibits and booths. Bring to this point and display for sale, native products; which requires aid of local authorities, the schools especially, but the products ought to be mostly from the homes. With each car taking tourists to this place, have someone who can give town names, explain the industries in dicated by the fields and otherwise beguile the traveling time. At the house, as hostesses for the day, have bevies of school girls chosen for their facility in English and arrayed in balintawak and mestiza dress. Ask wealthy girls to wear their jewels, since these displays often astonish visitors pleasantly and provoke deluges of gossipy letters. Carefully explain to your tourists that their hostesses are offering the country's hospitality and are all entitled to the same respect as their own daughters are: that they are school girls impressed into service for the tourists’ entertainment and to enable the tourists to learn a bit about the country and its people. Insure mutual respect. Have the high-school orchestra, young men in peasant costume, furnish music—the boys will be glad of the holiday and the money for uses of the orchestra or of the school. In each booth of exhibits for sale have in telligent salesgirls from the high school, with all the articles marked and given their native names. Let those who wish, dance; and be tween ballroom dances stage the native dances and choruses, especially the peasant songs of planting and harvesting. For luncheon serve the lechon, roast suck ling pig, that has been turning on the spit in full sight from the win dows since your visitors arrived. Have a proper chef in charge of this, but disguised in peasant garb. After merieiula in the afternoon, send your tourists back to town; and if you like, repeat, in another province and another town, the same program the next day—in still another province the day following. Actual friendships will derive from this source, letters and word-of-mouth advertising will be endless; for all your guests will be fairly swept off their feet by the delightful experiences they have, only to be had in the Philippines. Moral, do it now.—W. R. August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 7 Islands' mines have repaid America's payment to Spain in the Philip pine settlement, $20,000,000, twice over with $8,000,000 besides Gold’mining in the Philippines has taken on unusual activity during the past six months without material investment of any capital from outside the islands. The main advance has been in the Baguio district, where the gold fever is running high and progress with new mines promises that gold at least exists in large quantities throughout the mountains of that locality. Among mines already proved valuable, count those of the Benguet Con solidated and Balatoc com panies, Antamok Goldfields, Gold Creek, Itogon. Benguet Consolidated shares are a phenomenon of the mining-share market. Authorized capital of this company is 1*2,000,000 issued in 2,000,000 shares which returns of capital from time to time have reduced to a remaining invested capital of 10 centavos a share. Cur rent market value of these shares is P25 a share. The quarterly dividend paid June 30 was 50 centavos a share, the reserve December 31, 1932, was P5,099,663.04. May’s milling was 15,278 tons of ore from which the bullion was valued a^ P406,367.40; and report is, the production of the mine will be increased in the near future. The accompanying table of Philippine gold exports year by year from 1899 to 1932 inclusive is of interest. It was compiled from cus tomhouse records and the figures are all in dollars. Balatoc’s capital is in 2 million shares at Pl each, for which the current market is P23 a share. The dividend paid June 30 was 30 centavos a share. In May, 14,204 tons of ore were milled and the yield of gold was P444,729.10. The mill capacity will soon be 600 tons of ore a day. Baguio Gold Mining Company has a capital of Pl,000,000 issued in 10 million shares of par value 10 centavos each, for which the current market is 25 centavos a share. The Philippine Gold Exports Year Values Total Dollars Bullion Dollars Coins Dollars Ore Dollars 1899 ............. 1900 ............. 3,550 2,426,655 2,365 1,060,395 587,228 3,487,050 593,143 1901............. 5,950 3,150 848,463 852,563 1902............. 222 314,295 314,517 1903............. 100 63,440 63,540 1904............. 3,085 3,250 80,670 87,005 1905............. 258 10,340 10,598 1906............. 5,010 750 10,000 15,760 1907............. 3,570 90,254 3,982 92,806 1908............ 1,813 215,437 53,183 170,433 1909............. 297,597 486,534 734,131 1910............. 14,746 139,684 345,238 499,668 1911............. 9,898 180,105 90,650 280,603 1912............. 10,410 559,802 570,212 1913............. 8,882 859,480 868,362 1914............. 141,722 1,068,760 7,500 217,982 1915............. 11,848 1,293,143.50 28,500 1,334,491.50 1916*........... 175 1,493,434 3,100 1,496,659 1917............. 12,010 1,348,642 406,357 J ,807,009 1918............. 936,969 936,969 1919............. 50,000 921,576.50 971,576.50 1920............. 10,250 1,161,693 1,171,943 1921............. 25,542 1,305,146 5,500 1,336,188 1922............. 16,472 1,433,956 1,450,428 1923............. 27,767 1,653,838 100 1,681,705 1924............. 12,459 1,724,473 790,000 2,526,932 1925............. 7,842 1,931,059 75,000 2,013,901 1926............. 13,175 1,933,380 1,946,554 1927............. 11,534 1,588,600 1,600,134 1928............. 750 1,865,176 1,865,926 19295........... 19,176 3,281,217 200,000 3,500,393 1930............. 4,100 3,730,641 3,734,741 1931............. 1,452 3,765,675 3,767,127 1932............. 375 5,035,746 5,036,121 34 years. ... 434,542 41,692,156 5,520,330 47,747,028 ♦First dividend paid by Benguet Consolidated, $50,000. This mine was organized in 1903 by Metcalf A. Clarke and associates. The mine was flooded and equipment lost in 1910, after which the present chief owners, John W. Haussermann and A. W. Beam, re-equipped and refinanced it and began operations in 1914 that have been continuous and fabulously profitable ever since. bFirst dividend paid by Balatoc fin which Benguet Consolidated has a 65% interest), $25,000. Balatoc now pays the highest divi dends per ton of ore milled of any gold mine in the world. Authority, World’s Work, June 1932. new mill this company is erecting promises to be in operation in September; latest reports are that the work of installing this mill and starting its operation is moving along as had been anticipated. Benguet Exploration, Inc. has issued at par value of 10 centavos a share, 4,980,750 shares amounting to P498,075 of its authorized capital stock of Pl,500,000. These shares are now quoted at P0.20 a share. Since installation of its mill, the product of gold of this company has steadily in creased each month; in March the gold output was about P5,000, in May P14,292.80, from, it is asserted, ore from the sur face, with the deeper deposits to be developed later. Antamok Goldfields Mining Co. has issued Pl,250,000 of its authorized capital of Pl,500,000, in 12,500,000 shares at par value of 10 centavos each, for which the current market is 36 centavos a share. Installation of a new mill at this mine is practically com pleted and is expected greatly to increase the mine’s month ly output. Gold Greek Mining Co. has an authorized capital of Pl,000,000 and has issued 600,000 shares at par value of Pl a share, now quoted at P3.90 a share. The property is under development, new tunnels are being run, and ore that has been located is reported of a satisfactory nature. Authorized capital of the Itogon Mining Co. is Pl,000,000, of which P986,495 is paid up in the 986,495 shares that have been issued at par value of Pl each, for which the current market is P3.90. The dividend paid June 30 was 5 centavos a share. This company has been a regular dividend payer for some time and its pros pects are reported satisfactory. Probably stock offer ings of about 12 more mines will be on the market before another twelvemonth passes. Many new mines have been staked and a majority of them are in the course of exploration and development. THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Practical Steps Possible in Collecting the Sales Tax Less than 200 field agents too few for the task of checking up 285,851 sets of books and detecting practiced evasions The merchants’ sales tax is currently bringing the govern ment about 1*12,000,000 a year. This is about 25% of all insular taxes collected, the merchants’ sales tax is therefore the most important branch of the taxing system. There is much complaint about this tax, mainly because it is often evaded by arrant subterfuges that enable one merchant to escape it while his competitor pays it. Investigation of some of the more apparent facts, conversations with Collector Juan Posadas of the internal revenue bureau, and with merchants, and a study of the revenue reports all lead to the conclusion that the law prescribing this tax could be advantageously amended and the tax administration put in a position to enforce the tax more justly and effectively. In other words, if the bulk of illegal evasions of this tax could be stopped the tax would pay the government a much larger revenue. But methods taken to stop illegal evasions are important to wholesale merchants, who ought not to be placed in the position of forced informers upon their customers; this is the case when information gleaned from a wholesale merchants’ books of ac count is made the basis of probes and com plaints getting their customers into tax troubles with the revenue bureau. The agency of every merchant in the collection of this tax properly ceases with accurate reports of his own sales and due payment of the tax to which he is legally liable. It jeopardises his business to make his books mute stoolpigeons. The tempta tion to do so comes of the common use of fictitious or erroneous names in plans to evade the tax, and also use of wrong ad dresses. A merchant buys from a whole saler, say for cash, gives a fictitious name and perhaps not his own address, for the date on the sales record, but tips the whole saler’s driver as to where and to whom really to deliver the purchase. (Revenue regulations require that in all cash sales in excess of P50 the name of the purchaser be shown.) One voluntary informant of the revenue bureau has argued in the press of late, and argued wrong, that this evader of the sales tax should be traced by the wholesaler’s books, and that his driver should be made to divulge the real name and place of business of the man who bought the goods. This is not defensible, however excellently it serves a desirable end, because it drives trade away from the wholesaler from whom the information to detect an evader is forced under the government’s police powers; and of this evader the wholesaler himself may, and probably does, know nothing. If a case were thus made out against the evader, the wholesaler’s books and employes would be forced sources of evidence, all to the wholesaler’s injury. Such frauds, reported to be common enough, ought to be detected and punished by other means; and the means taken should only involve the evader’s business correspondent when collusion is evident or there is strong suspicion of collusion. On the other hand, it is very strongly suspected that by such subterfuges the government is defrauded of millions of pesos L€TS Be Eair ABOUT every year. The evader who gets his goods under such false pretenses has them safe from the tax: he need not record the purchase in his books, and therefore not the sales he makes of the goods; and, as the law stands, if his recorded sales run below P5,000 a quarter he need not keep a formal set of books at all—mere jottings of sales, or perhaps purchases and sales, must suffice for the government’s whole information on his business. Here is a flagrant looseness in the law, very tempt ing to take advantage of, and crooks will seize upon it at all times. There should be a stricter requirement about the keeping of books. Perhaps it should be based upon the nature of a business rather than on the amount of sales. Two men are in the same line of business. One has sales of more than f*5,000 a quarter and keeps books; the other claims his sales don’t run to 1*5,000 a quarter, keeps no formal books—and it is clear that he is given an unfair advantage over his competitor. Or it may be imagined that a man organizes a single business under several names; for each name, though the business is all his, he claims sales of less than f*5,000 a quarter, keeps no formal books and plays fast and loose with the revenue collector. Here, without question, is a fertile source of sales-tax evasion—even of income tax evasion. It is learned that Filipinos now pay 1/4 of all the merchants’ sales tax, Americans and other foreigners than Chinese pay 1/4, and Chinese merchants pay 1/2. This is not the ratio of the total business done by Filipinos, by Americans and other foreigners than Chinese, and by Chinese. The law does not require merchants’ books to be kept in a language familiar to the revenue agents, and the classes in the Chinese language formerly taught at the revenue bureau have been discontinued, so few agents can get far in that language. But the bookkeeping law that would have had all books of account kept in languages intelligible to the revenue agents was held unconstitutional by the United States su preme court—that remedy is out. It is proposed to try again, in a slightly modified direction: to provide by law that all books kept in other languages than English, Spanish or a Philippine dialect shall have, as an integral part of them, translations either in English, Spanish, or a Philippine dialect. Essentials of such translations would be dates of purchases and sales, names of firms from whom purchases were made, amounts of purchases and sales, and the nature of transac tions—what was bought, what sold. There are said to be few merchants in the islands who could not conform to such requirements without employing translators. This is thought to be true. The recommendation therefore merits the legis lature’s early attention. Proposals to collect the sales tax at sources, at the custom houses on imports, at factories and other central points on domestic products, seem impracticable. They involve a large volume of imports from the United States; however a customhouse tax might be named, courts might style it an (Please turn to page 9) August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 9 Anniversary of General Wood’s Death is Remembered in the Philippines—His Labors Are Bearing Fruit By Alva J. Hill On August 18, 1927, the deceased body of Major-General Leonard Wood was placed with military honors in the Arlington Cemetery. Numerous memorial services were then held. The newspapers printed eloquent addresses and eulogies which were delivered by eminent men and ptominent officials. Biographies of the deceased filled many pages of the leading maga zines. Flags were flown at half-mast, and great tributes were paid to the memory of the departed General. The histories of future generations will tell of his life and deeds. Still, after all those speeches, and eulogies, and biographies, and volumes have been studied, those who knew the great General and his labors in the Philippines will truthfully declare that much in his favor will still remain unsaid. The eulogies will all fall short of giving sufficient praise to the real man within the uniform; and the biographers will all fail fully to portray the deeds of heroism and unselfishness, the fidelity to duty, and the love and concern which the deceased manifested for the poor and needy, for the sick and unfortunate, for the uneducated too timid or unable to speak for themselves, and especially for the Philippine lepers. There are only a few characters in all history with whom one might appropriately compare the departed General. Few persons can be recalled whose self-sacrifice, devotion to duty, and unceasing labors for the diseased, defective, dependent, and delinquent members of society were more intense than those of Major-General Leonard Wood. The Scriptures tell us that Jesus of Nazareth was mocked, and misrep resented, and reviled, and tortured, and finally nailed to the cross, and that he suffered all this that he might bring comfort and peace to the meek and the mild, to the lowly shepherds of the hills, and to the fishermen by the sea. His tory also tells us that Abraham Lincoln had the wisdom to choose the right, and that he then fearlessly defied the attacks of his political enemies, and remained deaf and mute to their slandering and vilifying attacks. The words of our Master, “Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for my sake,’’ must have been comforting indeed to the early disciples who were being stoned and imprisoned lor their loyalty to Christ. So likewise, those same words must have been a wonderful comfort to the great Lincoln, and to the patient and long suffering Governor-General Wood during his unselfish struggles for the welfare of the Filipino people despite the slander and abuse heaped upon him by the shortsighted. The people of Iloilo will never forget the last time Governor-General Wood stepped ashore at that place. He let it be known that he would like to have an impromptu gathering at the Provincial Building so that he might talk with the people on pressing economical and sociolo gical questions. Those who were there will recall how emphatically yet politely he silenced a young man who wanted to argue politics in the short space of time during which the General wished to learn about the local courts of justice, the jails, the poor houses, the hospitals, the water works, the irrigation plant, and the lepers. He never came to Iloilo that he did not visit the prisoners in the jail to see if there were any unfortunates there whose cases were not being promptly dispatched, or who were deserving of Executive clemency. The last time he was there he brought gladness to a man claiming to be over a hundred years old who had been con fined for taking a few mangoes from a tree which he believed to be his own. Likewise an old lady with snow-white hair who had been many months confined in jail by order of the Court to remain there until she should produce a document, which she insisted the white ants had eaten, was made glad by an order of the socalled Military Governor, who, though a soldier, still, like Lincoln, had a heart full of tender com passion. The orphanage, the poor house, the Mission Hospital, the contagious disease hospital, and similar places were always visited by the late General on his trips to Iloilo. Why? Simply because his heart and life were filled with the Christian spirit; the desire to be practical and useful. Good roads, bridges, wharves, school houses, hospitals, growing crops, and a full plate of rice for the poor meant more to his practical mind than political arguments, and visionary ideals. In what more fitting campaign could a great General be engaged at the time of his death than in a war to exterminate that most dreaded Boys Free of Leprosy by Leonard Wood's Work of diseases,—leprosy? During the last weeks of his life, knowing that his labors were nearly at an end, he spent the last of his reserve strength in a mammoth drive to raise several million dollars to wipe leprosy out of the world; a di sease which has been a scourge during all his tory. That herculean task is not the dream of a visionary, but is a great practical undertaking, a job comparing in magnitude with the building of the Panama Canal, and in importance with the freeing of the slaves by Lincoln; a job to be accomplished only by such big men as Abraham Lincoln, General Goethals, and General Wood. I am sure if Governor-General Weod could broadcast a message to the world today, he would say, “if you people wish to honor me get busy and help carry out this plan to wipe out the scourge of leprosy which is still in your midst”. I am sure he unselfishly would turn all conversations away from himself and his achievements, and would plead the cause of the poor lepers, and request that we minister unto them. He would undoubtedly quote the words of our Master and say, “Inasmuch as you have done it unto the least of these my brethren you have done it unto me.” His greatest satisfaction would unquestionably be in the new hospitals for the cure of lepers which are now under construction in the Philippines, and the 200 patients which they at present are annually curing. The impossibility of paying adequate tribute in the space of a few lines to the life of such a man as Major-General Wood is readily apparent. Instead of attempting fully to express our ad miration for his useful life and our grief over his death, and instead of trying to recount all of the praiseworthy deeds of his life in a short period of meditation, we might better on the anniversary of his death bow or heads in humble silent communion with the Great Creator of the Universe, and thank Him for the blessings bestowed upon us by having given us the life of so great and good a man. Practical Steps (Continued from page 8) import levy and declare it void. So the way of levying the tax must, it seems, remain what it is today. Betterments must be sought in reduced evasions. It will never be altogether a just tax, and no tax ever is. The question of adequate personnel affects the problem. How wide a field is left open to practiced evaders by the few agents the revenue bureau is permitted, the few the legislature provides for. The bureau has 189 agents all told, its whole budget is below P800,000 a year. We understand that the sum of collections and penalties by the bureau’s 189 agents increases all the time, and that these collections average per year at least 3 times an agent’s salary. So why not provide the bureau more agents? There are 285,851 business establishments in the islands subject to the sales tax. These are in 13 revenue districts (1 district to every million inhabitants, though districting is not on this arbitrary basis). In these 13 districts the 189 agents operate, an average of 1,513 business establishments under each agent’s jurisdiction. It is obvious that with most of the business written up in Chinese characters, adequate inspection and detection of frauds upon the revenues is out of the question. The conclusion is that the revenue service needs stepping up, through amendment of the law in the way Collector Posadas suggests and by providing agents enough to see to its better enforcement. The worst evil of having too few agents is that naturally they cover their districts in the most productive way, collecting where they know they can collect and leaving hard collections and detection of evasions to be done last—if at all. In the legendary and actual history of the world only one chap, and he a demigod, has ever been known to have cleaned the Augean stables: all others took the easiest way, therefore even a government can’t expect Herculean tasks to be done for it. In this paper, we think, we have laid finger on the main weaknesses of the sales-tax and have endorsed effective remedies. The question is not one of what ought to be done, but of what can be done without increasing the per capita cost of collection. Agents and more agents should be employed, as long as the per capita collection cost keeps falling and the volume of sales tax in relation to imports and domestic production keeps rising: or in other words, as long as the government remains the gainer and the people get their laws better respected. 10 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 The American Chamber of Commerce directors and officers H. M. Cavender, President C. S. Salmon, Vice Preident John L. Headington, Treasurer Leo K. Cotterman W. L. Applegate J. C. Rockwell Kenneth B. Day E. M. Grimm P. A. Meyer ALTERNATE DIRECTORS Verne E. Miller S. R. Hawthorne F. H. Hale L. D. Lockwood. John R. Wilson, Secretary James C. Ross, General Conusel EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: H. M. Cavender C. S. Salmon Paul A. Meyer FINANCE COMMITTEE: C. S. Salmon Verne E. Miller FOREIGN TRADE COMMITTEE: H. B. Pond Paul A. Meyer L. Spellman COMMITTEES PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE: H. M. Cavender K. B. Day R. C. Bennett J. R, Wilson banking committee: C. M. Cotterman' W. K. LeCount J. R. Lloyd RECEPTION, ENTERTAINMENT & HOUSE COMMITTEE: L. M. Hausman LIBRARY COMMITTEE: S. A. Warner SHIPPING COMMITTEE: E. M. Grimm G. P. Bradford E. W. Latie INVESTMENT COMMITTEE: H. M. Cavender C. S. Salmon Paul A. Meyer J. L. Headington OF ECONOMIC INTEREST How Japan manages her mandate islands in Polynesia ought to be some economic interest in the Philippines, lieing west of the mandate groups—the Marianas, the Carolines, the Yap group. Land in these islands comprises 2,149 square kilometers; the population is about 80,000, of whom 30,000 are Japanese, and while natives don’t inherit Japanese citizenship they may be naturalized. Trade between Japan and the islands is free, yearly balances greatly in favor of the islands and against Japan, which buys more than 99*4% of all the islands sell overseas and sells them 95% of their imports, 70% of which are purchases of the resident Japanese. When these islands were under Spain they produced practically nothing and the missions were regularly sup plied from Manila. All sects are encouraged to religious effort in the islands now, and are financially aided by the government for the good they do. 78% of the resident Japanese live on the island of Saipan, where a sugar industry has been so rapidly developed that it will bring this year about Yen 20,000,000 (estimated) com pared to Yen 2,538 in 1918. The administration is already selfsupporting, the budget got into balance from local revenue alone in 1932. Harbors, roads and ship subsidies are main budget items; 1 ocean line, to Japan, and 3 interisland lines are subsidized. The government exploits a phospate deposit, which cost Yen 938,878 in 1922, sells 50,000 to 60,000 tons of phosphate a year to Japanese buyers in Japan and has 2 million tons in reserve. Communica tions, transport, industrial subsidy and experimentation precede education and sanitation in the budget. Yet schooling is not neglected, there are even vocational schools. Crop experimenta tion is emphasized. Bonito and tuna fishing hold possibilities and are in view for the future. Subsidized farm industries are sugar growing and manufacturing, vegetable culture, coffee growing, marine products exploitation, palm cultivation, grazing; and miscellaneous shop industries, such as laundering and shoemaking, were subsidized Yen 31,995 in 1930. Arable land on the islands comprises 70,000 hectares, about 200,000 acres, of which 30,000 hectares, 75,000 acres, yield copra. Sugar’s yearly subsidy is about Yen 500,000, which has extended cane plantings from 20 hectares in 1916 to about 7,000 hectares now. It is obvious that Japan ties her administration of these islands in with merchandising and shipping. The great port is at Saipan. In 1926, 6 years before industrial development balanced the budget, the subsidy from Japan for harbors in the islands, for Saipan chiefly, was Yen 307,896, but now the harbor work, along with all activities, goes on en tirely upon local revenue. In Yap the native population is rapidly dwindling, there is little native industry anywhere. Basically the native inhabitants are Indonesian, with Malay, Papuan and other strata laid on. Saipan, where the initiative of the native folk broke down a hampering barrier reef before Japan began there, could harbor the fleets of the world and is strategically situated in relation to the Philippines. A REMARKABLE PROBE When California’s margarine tax bill was up and riding public opinion hard, the Los Angeles chamber of commerce chairmaned a probe committee with the president of the city’s stockyards and threw a spotlight on the bill that revealed it as a naked piece of class legislation injurious to the state. It was claimed the bill would give California revenue. The probe found “the bill would not produce any revenue. . . . since the amount of the tax would serve to prohibit use of coconut oil.” It was claimed the bill would benefit dairymen. The probe found “From the dairyman’s standpoint, margarine must be margarine. . . Any claim that nut margarine lowers the’ butter price and that animal fat margarine would not affect it is absurd and untrue.” The probe quotes the federal tariff commission, headed by the able Dr. Coulter who has been holding the sugarquota conferences, in a report congress demanded “on the effect of imported oils on domestic fats and oils and the relation between them.” The tariffers said, “Insofar as use of coconut oil merely involves a change in the character and not in quantity of the mar garine, it clearly does not affect the production and consumption of butter.” Hearings at Sacramento brought it out that much whole milk is used in animal fat margarine, leaving the inference this is not true of oil fat margarine. The probe found “no more whole milk in animal fat margarine than there is in vegetable oil margarine. As a matter of fact, however, neither margarine has any influence on the consumption and price of butter.” Secretary A. M. Loomis of the American Dairy Federation, headquartered at Washington, said in 1930, “A duty on copra would be without appreciable benefit to the American dairyman.” It was claimed the bill would benefit California grazers by ex panding the market for California animal fats. Grazers fell for this, but the probe found they would not have done so had they known it was the purpose of the bill’s sponsors to ship animal fats for margarine “from the eastern states via the Panama canal. . . . This charge was made by those opposing the bill and was not denied by its supporters.” Illinois had a similar bill up and it was claimed the price of beef cattle would be raised $1 a head. Governor Horner asked packing-house representatives if they would guarantee this, “but no promise was made and the governor vetoed the bill.” But the best authority is again the tariff commission: “Oleo oil alone represents somewhat less than 2% of the weight of salable parts of slaughtered cattle and of oleo stearine it represents approximately 3% of that weight. Any change in the price of oleo oil could therefore not be expected to affect appreciably the production of beef cattle.” The probe cinched the point. It was claimed 20,000,000 pounds of margarine are consumed in California dur ing a year. Best grades of animal fat margarine are 50% animal fat, the bill would have made a market for the fat from 500,000 more cattle a year, which would have put 280,000,000 more pounds of meat on the state market. “Where,” asks the probe, “is the market for 56 pounds more meat for every man, woman, and child in California? The 1932 per capita consumption of beef was only 47.4 pounds.” The probe’s conclusion was that it would be folly to produce 280,000,000 pounds more meat for a glutted market, in order to produce 10,000,000 pounds more of oleo fat. It was claimed California cotton growers would benefit from the bill, but the probe points out that satisfactory margarine has never been made from cotton-seed oil and that a responsible margarine company’s offered prize of $5,000 for such a formula goes unclaimed. “The cotton farmer was not informed that all his cotton-seed oil is already consumed in California, nor was he told that the cotton seed oil brought in from Texas and Arizona during the present crop year will probably be 5 times as much as California produces." California’s 1932 cotton was 126,000 bales, oil 9,000 tons, oil im ports 22,000 tons from 352,000 bales of cotton. The probe’s figures are that California would have to grow 520,000 acres of cotton to supply present demands for cotton-seed oil in California plus the margarine demand, which would mean 520,000 bales. Against which the tariff commission says, “Any increase in the production of cotton-seed would involve a corresponding increase in that of cotton and would thus affect the price of cotton.” Asking, finally, whom the bill would hurt, the probe alludes to all the California industries, mainly of the farm, who sold the Philippines $15,000,000 worth of products last year. The report of the probe is printed in pamphlet form by the Pacific Coast Oil Seeds Association. It was a splendid thing for the Los Angeles chamber of commerce to undertake and fight through to a successful finish, with its rever beratory effects in other states; and it is hoped that from Manila and Cebu and Zamboanga, letters of appreciation will be sent Los Angeles that will help cement the new understanding of that city’s and our mutual interest in transpacific trade. THE LONDON CONFERENCES The whole world is materially interested in the economic con ferences at London recently broken off without coming to point, but to be convened again this fall. Immediate accord was not to be expected, with countries like Britain and the United States slumping away from gold and countries like France and Holland still worshiping the golden calf. The British press, too, chose to be captious; in fact there were a good many lessons to be learned August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 11 all round, until the fact that American diplomacy is no longer anglophilic, but independently American, should penetrate Bri tish and European consciousness. Garver of the Manchester Guardian had written months ago the warning, “If America goes off gold England is ruin ed and France bank rupt,” and America was off gold when the conferences opened. No wonder there was fidgeting,and much whist ling to keep up cour age; while President Roosevelt chose to be ambiguous and elusive as long as talk center ed on currencies and avoided his main point, national economy everywhere and the balancing of budgets. We believe the United States will not be will ful with her power, born of her new diplomatic independence, but she will hold the whip hand to the end; and when the conferences again convene America will propose concretely in ternational planning much of a piece with her own national plan ning. It will then be evident to all that the Murphy Submits Report Showing Cash Position Of Government A report submitted by Governor General Frank Murphy to the Philippine leg islature last night shows that the insular government at the end of last June 30 had cash amounting to P43,750,443.65 as against P39,831,415 for the same date last year, or an increase of P3,919,028,65. “Of the total amount of cash, however, only 1*9,959,161.17 in Philippine currency and 1*3,586,071.30 in U. S. Currency were kept in the insular treasury vaults and 1*30,205,211.18 was on deposit with the United States banks. The corresponding amounts for June 30, 1932, were Pll,180.169.50, 1*6,349,323 and 1*22,301,922.50. The report indicates that the total assets of the Philippine government under the gold standard fund on June 30, last, amounted to 1*44,140,983.97 as against 1*41,624,489.86 for the same date last year. The report contains a detailed statement of the resources and liabilities of the gold standard fund and the treasury certificates fund and of all the operations of the Philippine treasury from July 1, 1932; to June 30, 1933. A statement of the operation of the gold standard fund proper shows that total receipts during the 12-month period ending June 30, 1933, amounted to P2,506,237.78 against 1*3,587,157.36, or a decrease of 1*1,080,919.58. The decrease is attributed to that of deposits in the gold standard fund and in the treasury certificate fund with banks in the United States and also to the decrease in sale of telegraphic transfers and demand drafts during the period under review. It is also explained that the decrease of Pl 57,328.15 in the expenses of the gold standard fund proper is due to the small quantity of engraved and printed Philippine treasury certificates ordered in the United States bureau of engraving and printing at Washington, D. C., and also to the forced savings made by the government. It is also indicated that the operation of the mint under the gold standard fund constitutes an important source of income of the fund. dollar can’t be raided whether on gold or off. This means much to the Philippines. Lower tariffs universally would boost com modity prices and reopen markets, while cheaper pesos in ex change for fairly stabilized currencies might open more import trade here to Britain and Europe permanently, as it now does tempora rily. Watch the confer ences, where Roosevelt has indeed sold Russia 5,000,000 bales of cotton and started 41 Russian buyers to NewYork, but has not as yet played a single one of his trump cards. He is not only well rep resented at London, whether fashionably or not, but represents himself well and has the country dynamic ally behind him. We never won a confer ence isn’t true. We never lost a conference that we didn’t enter under somebody else’s coat-tails is about the fact, and that at least we aren’t fawning on anyone at London is a present consolation— and even the just hope that America at Lon don works for our inter ests as well as her own. The 1934 Budget Governor Murphy Submitted COMING IN GOING OUT SOURCES OF GOVERNMENT REVENUE Import Duties............ ........................................................... P13,800,000 License and Business Tax....................................................... 10,721,440 Excise Tax................................................................................ 10,164,330 Income Tax............................................................................... 2,750,000 Incidental Taxes......................................................................., 2,484,830 This includes documentary tax, inheritance tax, ton nage dues, immigration tax and franchise tax. Incidental Revenues................................................................ 2,558,300 This includes forest charges, U. S. internal revenue stamp, fines and forfeitures, interest on bank deposits and investments, sales of public domain and other revenues. Industrial operating income................................................. 8,036,200 Functional income................................................................... 2,859,100 Other credits........................................................................... 2,707,500 ALLOCATION OF EXPENDITURES Public Instruction.................................................................... P18.286.749 Finance...................................................................................... 12,465,997 This includes public debt and investments. Interior and Labor.................................................................. 5,295,959 Public Works and Communications..................................... 4,636,989 This includes public works fund. Agriculture and Commerce..................................................... 4,386,688 Justice....................................................................................... 3,415,834 Offices under the Governor General..................................... 2,381,532 This includes extraordinary charges and retirement gratuities. Legislature................................................................................. 1,824,461 This includes the resident commissioners. and the national library. 12 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 How the American Community Has Influenced the Philippines This community is predominantly of pioneer character disciplined by soldiering, “with a heart for any fate.” When civil government was established in the Philippines, July 4, 1901, it manned its service very largely with men who came to the islands as soldiers, many of them with the vo lunteer regiments. Thus the body of what was to become the permanent American community was formed. The men were from the western and southwestern states almost to a man. Their parents as homesteaders had occupied the public domain of the west, acquired in treaty after treaty with the Indians, and the line of settlement steadily reached out to ward the sunset. The mandate of Horace Greeley was eagerly obeyed, “Go west, young man, and grow up with the country.’’ It meant in actual operation, going west and taking pos session of the country with Anglo-Saxon institutions for an Anglo-Saxon pioneer stock that, presently selling cleared farms to bands of European immigrant farmers, still moved westward. It meant the coun try school, the rugged indivi dualism of rural communities in which neighbors lived miles apart and school districts were three miles square. It meant easy graduation from the farm to the professions and business, since it meant the founding of state and small colleges, the latter usually religious foundations maintained by the sectarian churches—in them selves manifestations of the in dividualism that marked the period. On this page is reproduced a page from the muster roll of one of the volunteer regiments that made a part of the com mand of Major General Wesley Merritt in the occupation of Ma nila, August 13, 1898. Every man in that regiment could sign the roll, every man was literate. Yet hardly one had been born in the state where he enlisted, but had come there with his parents from farther east—where improved land had been sold for the capital for a new adventure. Mark Sullivan’s second vol ume of Our Times reviews the character of the books these men studied in school, McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers, Barnes’s United States History, Ray’s Arithmetic. The readers and history idealized America and the destiny of Americans; it was an idealistic age. “That country (America) has come about like a dream,” the Due de Croy exclaimed to Franklin in Paris in 1783. Pennsylvanian settlers were then engaged against the Indians in the western part of the state. Like a dream the country grew from ocean to ocean, until it was the German observer Jagor’s natural prophecy, 60 years ago, that America would come to the Philippines. When she did, with her 100,000 del From an 1X9S Volunteer Jnfa Saxon names dominant, and all rr ntry Muster Roll, Celtic and Angloicn in the entire regiment literate. young pioneers out of the border states, an era ended in Amer ica and a new era began here. In the Philippines, for the first time, the Anglo-Saxon settler encountered an indigenous population that was not to be supplanted. Always, during centuries of the steady march westward, it had been only a matter of pushing opposing forces and civilizations out of the way and giving individualism full swing at virgin natural resources. In the Philippines the indigenous population was to remain, with it the American was to make his way. Filipinos were accustomed enough to dealing with strangers, but these rugged and untiring pioneers were a new experience for them.. On their part the Americans displayed a remark able adaptability; without de stroying what existed, they set to building upon it and to patterning for the Philippines a government of the American type that was effective against a Latin background. Prac tically everything was to be done, but McGuffey’s com piled heroics were a sufficient inspiration—together with the hope of personal reward that is the soul of the pioneer and border settler. Now it is a truism that on the border the arts decline. Pioneers are craftsmen of the arts without being masters of them. With pioneers, utility is the first consideration and commonly the last. This has markedly affected the Amer ican period in the Philippines. There was nothing the pioneers could not do, nothing they would not undertake to do; but they had not in their experience the best standards before them as to how to do things well, how to do them best. In improving cities, Baguio and Manila, no chances were taken on the govern ment’s part; resort was had to the man who had replanned Washington, Charles Burnham of Chicago, and the ends of good appearance as well as utility were both secured. This is the unique exception. In general, the architecture of the islands, even of Manila, remains plainly utilitarian and little else. Infinitely better than what it supplanted, the modern building is still so short of what it might have been that future generations must surely date it unsatisfactory. Americans have influenced the islands to build usefully, with good materials; they have been in too much haste—as if they should build, sell and move on west—to devise ways of building beautifully with the natural materials abounding in the country; and much of modern Manila is built of perishable timber even where native stone must be quarried and moved aside.to make place for August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 13 the timbers. In business blocks downtown in Manila, substantially built, it is usual that heavy sustaining pillars, little relieved even with ornament, encumber the space; and the best effects in the arrangement of stores can’t be obtained. These buildings are incomparably better than the dark careening structures they have replaced; they are even better than the buildings most boasted of in country towns in America, but they don’t exhibit application of the arts of fine construction and they bear no par ticular aspect identifying them with the country—as if they were really of the country. In its residence districts Manila (like all Philippine towns) is a city of low, ugly roofs. Most houses are two stories high. Their roofs are an inescapable feature of them that, beyond concern for their utility, have been given such small attention that they spoil the outward appearance of many otherwise good houses. At a later day Manila will build better than this, which is simply utilitarian betterment of what is older: the house of today, with its porches, surpasses in usefulness ana health fulness the Spanish colonial house of yesterday. This pioneering practicing of the arts without mastery over them largely built America and is surely building the Philippines. It has given the Philippines many public works of great usefulness at very moderate cost. Thus the American pioneers found the Spaniards had planned a harbor for Manila that they had not built. These plans were carried out in con junction with pro jects of sanitation that filled the moats around the city walls with silt suck ed from the bottom of the harbor, and built an area of 140 acres west of the walls that is being occupied with use ful and unornamen tal buildings, mainly warehouses. Roads in the prov inces were built, and streets in Ma nila either built new or improved, for use; and bridges and cul verts were made, to plain designs. In ihe interest oi neaitn, mousanus of artesian wells were drilled; where the flow was Spanish friar priests released to the American soldiers by the Filipino troops and restored to liberty after some months of captivity especially trying to the older men. plain designs. In the interest of health, thousands of artesian wells were drilled; where the now was not free, pumps of the plainest design were put on them to make them useful. Schools were so badly needed that the education bureau early adopted a standard plan for concrete school buildings with iron roofs; and in any setting, in the midst of trees, or on the open prairie, or on the wooded bank of a stream, without respect to their environment, these ready-to-wear school houses are seen today everywhere in the islands— built at low cost and answering their utilitarian purpose. There was hurried need of them, so the need was quickly supplied. No pioneers from any other country of the world could have built so well in the Philippines as have the Americans, it is safe to say, and so much in so short a time. Audacious in ap plication of the arts, as apprentices where they could not be masters, their haste to accomplish was in their souls; so a transformation has taken place in the islands that astonished the world— a transformation almost solely the work of the pioneers who put war aside for peace when the country was ready to accept peace. The same spirit of derring-do, the same bold Three Musketeers of the 45th U. S. Infantry Courtesy of Captain E. O. Worrick Captain E. O. Worrick, left, Lieutenants Fred Cook and Fred Shiras in front of their quarters at Daet, Camarines Norte. These men soldiered actively throughout the Bicol region, particularly in Camarines, where Captain Worrick still lives. One of his trophies of the war is a pin-fire pistol, about 12 gauge, the barrel grooved—a menacing piece of machinery. Captain Worrick’s life as soldier and civilian in the Camarines country would make a popular American book. Some writer ought to visit him at Daet and write it. individualism, made many of the pioneers audacious in business. It was seen at once that a remarkable trade was to develop between America and the Philippines. Business ex ecutives were needed, and were found among the pioneers who have since become the islands’ outstanding business men. Those branches of the civil service that had to do with accounting, the treasury, the auditor’s office, the tax offices were training schools for men who could take conimand of business. The progress of in vention, turning up the typewriter, the auto mobile, office conveniences and equipment, the phonograph, and at last the radio, gave these men valuable agencies to exploit in a territory of 8 million, now 13 million or more, inhabitants. Here was that opportunity the individualist seizes,upon most heartily: new demands of a growing population enjoying increased yearly production of wealth and constantly expanding markets under a system of free trade established by co gress between the islands and the United States in 1909. These conditions, with pioneer initiative intensely applied, made the American fortunes in the islands; incidentally, the fortunes of many people native to the islands, while they in the islands and engaged in trade. The American business man in the Phiippines both stimulated his environment and was stimul ated by it. From the outset he grew in stature of business capa city. His associates demanded leadership of him, he responded with pioneer courage. He mas tered intricacies of exchange, for dealing with bankers. He gather ed information from high sources; his frequent world trips and the large orders he placed gave him intimate contact with men of the grandest affairs, the heads of great distributing and manufacturing houses as well as of great banks. Mature sagacity and long experi ence have made this oldtimer of the campaign days, who was oftener of the ranks than of the files, a business man the peer of the best practitioners of that gainful craft; his success, derived from his adaptability to circumstances he could not set aside, repeats the old idealization of the border and its material blessings waiting only the alchemy of the bold hand of the pioneer. The American pioneer, when he came to the Philippines, had one more trick in his bag. Though it was a trick his forebears never had had to resort to, adaptation, it worked just the same. Mahomet went to the mountain. The American community in the Philippines has profoundly influenced society in the islands, always in the direction of dem ocracy : schools, courts, highways, marts, standard currency, trade marks, joint stock companies exploit ing both agriculture and commerce, ex ploiting mining too. Materially the oldtime pioneers have rebuilt the islands from farm to fac tory, all the islands do bears the chop of American prac tice and follows American forms— but with that cer tain adaptation, of course, of the new to the old and the familiar. Americans brought to the is lands their facility for organization, their government soon provided a corporation law. Those who were Masons negotiated for a charter, got the islands a Grand Lodge and regimented local Masonry under its administration. Those who were militantly religious carried on militantly, either in the Roman or the Protestant churches. With the sectarian churches came seminaries, hos pitals, schools; into the service of the Roman church went self-sacrificing young priests and teachers, notably Jesuits and the Maryknoll fathers. The American government at once separated government from religion, provided a law of civil marriage even early in the military administration of the islands. An adaptation was the respect given by the courts to precedents of canon law. All that Americans took hold of, which in fact was everything, they bettered. If they fell short of the finest application of the arts, often even of satisfactory application, they abundantly achieved betterments. They mo dernized mining and now are about to reveal the Philippines as one of the leading gold coun tries of the world; they are tapping the cordillera of Luzon from Abra north to Ipo south; two 14 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 mines, Benguet Consolidated and Balatoc, at Baguio, have put into America’s monetary circulation $26,000,000, thereby repaying her the $20,000,000 she paid Spain in the Philippine settlement, with $6,000,000 by way of interest. The capacity of both mines is still being in creased. On ranches Americans improved Phil ippine livestock, horses, cattle, carabao, poultry, swine; in the science and agriculture bureaus they found remedies for animal diseases, prac tically eradicated rinderpest. They modernized the lumber industry, cheapened and bettered the product of hardwood lumber mills and found export markets for the surplus the domestic market doesn’t consume. Americans in Davao and Cotabato pioneered in Manila hemp, planting and cultivating it instead of depending upon wild growth; they were followed by Japanese planters, and Davao with its use of machinery is now the principal hemp district of the islands that has hope of its hemp industry surviving Sumatra’s intensive competition. Americans bettered the copra industry both by cultivated plantations and by mills for extracting the oil in the islands and exporting only this essential part instead of the crude copra; the surplus exported is now divided between oil and oopra. Americans took the lead in founding sugar centrals in the islands that have led, since free trade with America was decreed for the islands by congress in 1909, to upping the yearly yield of sugar in the islands from 300,000 tons or so to 4 times as much (promised of the crop coming on for harvest) and to the enrichment of skillful Philippine planters, and their cousins who followed the Americans’ example and organized sugar centrals of their own. The sugar industry has come to bring the islands P 100,000,000 a year, from the surplus sold in the United States. The industry estimates that 1,500,000 people in the Philip?ines are dependent upon it, that its taxes are *20,000,000 a year, 43% of all insular taxes collected. Twenty-five years ago the American attended to the future of the professions in the islands by founding a state university, the University of the Philippines, whose undergraduate body now numbers 7,000 students. Seventeen years ago an American vice-governor, Henderson S. Martin, of Kansas, induced the founding of a national bank by submitting to the legislature a suitable charter for such an institution; the Philippine National Bank was thus founded that was soon to capitalize six large native corporations whose sugar centrals have made a preeminent place for themselves in that in dustry. Similarly, Martin wrote a rural credit law for the islands, the best work of which is still to be realized—because every adaptation will not work at once. Dean C. Worcester, while his colleague on the Philippine Commission, W. Cameron Forbes, built roads and bridges and provided a per manent road tax, fought epidemics and diseases: fathered the science bureau, the agriculture bureau, the general hospital, a system of pro vincial hospitals, segregation and treatment of lepers, the public health administration where Dr. Victor G. Heiser fitted himself for his present worldwide work with the Rockefeller foundation. Worcester put the islands in that state of health whereunder, now, the natural increase of the population is about 2% a year, accumulative. His roads and trails in the nonchristian ter ritory destroyed the isolation of the settlements, and with it their sanguinary laws enforced with the headaxe—laid aside now for town meetings and municipal codes. All this, the whole American influence, was distinctly in the direction of democracy. With the franchise, for illustration, the Americans began where Spain left off, adapting their desire to compelling facts. The franchise was at first limited to town mayors and the boards of coun cilmen, in choice of provincial officers, but congress decreed male suffrage with liberal qualifications when the census of 1903 should have been taken. There are now more than 1,200,000 voters in the islands, and American governors general consistently advocate votes for women. Literacy, rather than property, tests the voter. Democracy in the Philippines marches on; the Americans were bound to establish it, without a philosophic reflection on what its effects might be or where it would lead—but with profound faith that it was better than royalism, would be better for any race. The American community in the Philippines has, as a community, never thought of the polit ical separation of the islands from the United States as practical or desirable, but has felt that the two countries should somehow be kept permanently united. This is still another manifestation of its kinetic democracy, for it has always felt its own roots to be lightly planted here, and individuals have counted upon a pulling up of stakes and a return to the homeland. This community, which has scarcely written a book, has produced almost no poetry, no music, no paintings, no novels, hardly a bit of fiction of any kind, though there are elements of stirring romance in almost every man’s career. The rule of life has been the rule of the Anglo-Saxon border, essentials first; dalliance at unessentials frowned down as almost an open confession of weakness in the face of grave and immediate undertakings. No, from the outset the com munity has had useful tasks at hand that had to be done at once and as well as possible, yet done at once: of personal benefit, of benefit to the town, to the islands, to the homeland—of mate rial benefit. To this the American community in the islands has addressed untiring energy and wrought the respectable edifice of a remolded Courtesy o! Captain E. O. Worrick Page from the menu of a banquet enjoyed by the men attending the first insular meeting of district supervisors, now designated district engineers, 1904, in Manila. Note how Shakespeare is made use of at the top, and note the way labor was to be re cruited for the building of roads and bridges, in the proclamation. Instead of being printed, though the governor-general was a banquet guest, this menu was blueprinted. These men were pioneers who built roads and bridges and repaired old ones at very low cost to the taxpayer. civilization that challenges the world’s admira tion. Though this subjective study of the achievement runs to some length, its limit to matters of general fact falls short of the epic in which the tale of the pioneers of the last Amer ican border should be told. Every life, almost, has its glories that should be imperishable, but the liver of it is too busy making it useful to the present generation to allow himself to feel for a moment that it might have some worthwhile interest to posterity. Nothing more marks a community as pioneer than its indifference to historical record. The border calls, men respond, do their work ideal istically and ... generations of small memory for what they did live after them. The impor tant thing is this, the pioneer character of the campaigners and teachers whom America sent here with uniforms and flags, rifles and school books 30 and 35 years ago, conditioned all but absolutely the character of the Philippines today, succeeded where men of less stem stuff would have failed; and these settlers, of no more than prosaic talent, making places for them selves in a culture that could be modified but not uprooted, amid a people that could be readily influenced but not supplanted, have lived, though withal they have failed to write, a glowing chapter in their country’s annals. They have triumphed on the last frontier. August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 15 Holliday Leaves Islands Next Month Left to right: C. almon , Rear Admiral C. E. Courtney, Vice Governor John H. Holliday. President H. M. Cavender, H. B. Pond, Brigadier General Casper H. Conrad, jr., and Kenneth B. Day.—The picture was taken on the occasion of the luncheon given by the chamber of commerce in honor of Vice Governor John H. Holliday, March 28, at a time when Vice Governor Holliday was acting governor general of the Philippines. Vice Governor and Mrs. John H. Holliday are leaving the Philip pines for the United States about September 1, after having gained many friends throughout the islands during Vice Governor Holliday’s service here. This service won general approval and it was generally desired that Vice Governor Holliday either continue in the service of Philippine government in that capacity, or take a place on the islands’ supreme court. This, however, was more than could be expected and Vice Gov ernor Holliday followed out his desire to return to the United States by submitting his resignation and refusing to be a candidate for the court. Good wishes of the Philippines will follow the Hollidays home. It is hoped that they will at least return to the islands for an occasional visit. A PIONEER’S STORY SMITH OF THE ENGINEERS Walter A. Smith of Iloilo, who was prominent in the lumber industry there until his mill in southern Negros burned down a few years ago, is among the American veterans of the islands who served both in Cuba and the Philippines. In Cuba, in 1898, he was with the 5th army corps. He arrived in Manila August 13, 1899, as a member of Company B, Battery of Engineers, U. S. A., and took part in campaigns in northern and southern Luzon until detailed to construction work in Manila, August 1900. At the end of his enlistment, January 23, 1901, he took his dis charge. His rank was a corporal’s. In August 1901 he joined the Philip pine constabulary as a third lieutenant and was the first constabulary officer to land in Negros. When he left the constabulary service in 1908 he was senior inspector of Occidental Negros, the rank now designated provincial commander. Colonel John R. White, author of Bullets and Bolos, was Smith’s pre decessor as senior inspector of Occidental Negros and mentions Smith repeatedly in his book. Getting into civilian life in 1908, Smith organized a lumber company in Iloilo and sold, from the Insular Lumber Company’s plant at Fabrica, Occidental Negros, the first mill-sawed lumber used in that market. Smith’s company later operated sawmills on its own concessions and Smith branched into other activities. He built a lime hydrating plant on Guimaras island between Iloilo and Negros, with 3 rotary kilns, and gave the Negros sugar mills their first local supply of this product. In 1912 associated with John Boardman and Judge Edmund Block, he founded the Iloilo Enterprise-Press, a daily newspaper in English and Spanish that gave Iloilo its first substantial cable news service and gained a well distributed circulation in Panay and Negros. Smith ran this paper 4 years, Boardman ran it several years more. Captain Smith, to give him his constabulary rank at time of quitting the service, has been a member of Major Oliver B. Warwick Camp No. 8, United Spanish War Veterans, since 1902; except during the period the camp had no charter, when he associated himself with Lawton-Egbert camp. His industrial pioneering in the Bisayas has been very extensive. First Philippine Americans (Continued from page 3) to the Bicol region, are operated as concessions and sometimes bring their owners more than Pl,000 a month. They are supplemented at Tabaco with high-wheeled carts, pulled by carabao, that can place cargo alongside ships at low tide; and it is to be surmised that these very carts are a product of some ingenius Yankee mind—if they were of Spanish origin their use ought to be iftore general. Betts reports old hand presses from New England, with factory dates as early as 1834, still in use here and there in the Bicol region for baling hemp. (The region has been so tardy in modernizing its nemp industry that it is likely to lose it altogether, yet it was there, in 1830, that Father Despallarguez, a friar, devised a hemp stripping tool that first attracted New England and British traders to tne region and made it rich from its fiber and copra). The Yankees in Bicol in those far-off days beguiled the time in many ways. Gold at one period was in common’circulation, cockfighting and horse racing were not despised as diversions. Old Bicolanos tell even today of traders from Albay junketing to Naga for the yearly fiesta with boxes of gold coins and favorite racing ponies, even fighting cocks; and they add that these men were sure to return to Albay either with all of Naga’s money or none of their own. There are family names in the Bicol region clearly traceable to a New England origin. One such name is Tomas, sometimes still spelled Thomas. COPRA AND ITS PRODUCTS By Kenneth B. Day and Leo Schnurmacher The modified inflation, coupled with impending effects of recently passed American legislation, had its influence on copra products in July, together with almost all other world commodities. Copra:—At the beginning of July, copra was selling in Manila as low as P5.20 resecada, with comparatively little interest on the part of buyers. The month had no sooner begun than the increase in the Sterling cross rate, which reached as high a point as $4.90, changed'the entire perspective, by making Philippine copra attractive to European buyers. American copra importers seeing their supplies slipping away from them, were forced to put their prices up and this, in turn, had its effect on the oil market. Thus, by the middle of the month, the average copra price was P5.70 to P5.80 and a few selective parcels changed hands as high as P6.20. When the bubble burst about the 20th of the month, the market started to decline again, and by the first of July was back at around P5.50, which still showed an advance over June copra. Arrivals in Manila totalled 464,000 sacks, a 10% increase over June and an 87% increase over July 1932. Cebu receipts, while heavy, totalling 331,000 sacks was slightly lower than June but far heavier than the previous year. July weather was uniformly good and nothing has happened yet to destroy the prospects of a heavy copra crop. Pacific Coast copra buyers raised their prices from 1.57-1/2 cents to 1.75 cents, at which figure considerable business was done. The market then declined gradually and at the end of the month buyers would not pay over 1.65 cents. European prices increased from £9/15/0 to £10/12/6, the latter figure being very attractive with exchange so high. Probably 20,000 tons were sold to Europe in July and this, naturally, brought the market down again towards the end of the month. July was a profitable month for copra exporters, most of whom are carrying long positions with the expectation of gradually increasing markets. July shipments of copra totalled 26,000 tons, of which over 15,000 were shipped from Cebu and the balance scattered between 13 different ports. Of this amount 14,000 were shipped to the Pacific Coast, including a ship ment of 1,200 tons to Mexico. European shipments totalled only 5,800 tons, but August shipments to Europe will be heavy. Copra stocks on hand continue to increase and totalled nearly 50,000 tons at the end of the month, a tremendous quantity for this season of the year. Coconut Oil:—We left coconut oil at the end of June with the market very dull and buyers showing no interest in three cent offers c.i.f. New York. By the 10th of the month, the market tightened up and instead of being a buyer’s market, it became, for a week or two, a seller’s market with business done as high as 3-1/2 cents c.i.f. New York. Consumers, whose supplies had been small, considered this an opportune time to pro tect themselves, which they did and after they had bought what they wanted, they lost interest in everything except very late shipment, with the result that the market eased off and at the end of the month sales were registered at 3-1/4 cents for February-March shipment. Shipments for the month jumped to 14,000 tons, of which over 10,000 went to the East Coast, 2,800 to the Gulf and 1,000 to New Orleans. For a few days it looked as though European buyers would be able to come into this market, but freight rates were too high and by the time that these freight rates were reduced, buyers had withdrawn. Most mills were producing through out the month and stocks on hand August 1st were just about the same as they were July 1st, in spite of heavy shipments. Copra Cake:—In sympathy with other commodities, copra cake advanced early in the month to as high as $20.00 c.i.f. Hamburg. Local buyers increased their prices to Pl9.50 ex-warehouse, but were only inter ested in September-December shipment. Sellers were slow in making contracts, expecting higher prices. Shortly after the middle of the month, however, the w’hole market flattened out and very little business was done thereafter. Meal on the Pacific Coast improved and a moderate amount was sold from the Philippines at prices ranging up to $18.50 per short ton. Exports of copra cake and meal were heavy, totalling 11,500 tons and this served to bring local stocks down and relieve the congestion of June. At the end of the month, buyers were very uncertain while sellers were waiting hoping for an UDturn in the market later on. Desiccated Coconut:—Unlike other commodities, desiccated prices went up in June. Therefore, there was no appreciable additional increase in July. Demand improved due partially to the approach of the Christmas season and partially to general conditions and by the end of the month all mills were running full blast with more business in sight than fora considerable period. Shipments increased to nearly 1,800 tons and the business seemed to be in a healthy condition, with buyers at 7-1/4 cents or a shade better. General:—July was a month of flurries with transient opportunities for doing profitable business. These conditions resulted from very special causes and as soon as the causes were removed, the conditions vanished. Even so, copra products registered a net advance of the month which advance was relatively less than other staple commodities. The future on August 1st w’as most uncertain. 16 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 A Small Tribute to Herbert Lee Heath (Continued from page 5) Manly Returns to Naga and Old Glory run up in their stead, its first official raising over Philippine soil. Bromley brought a flag from the Olympia, a little ceremony was improvised. Captain Heath commanded the color guard, that remained on duty through out the night. An artillery colonel’s red-headed daughter came running like a banshee, like a righteous fury. She would have interfered with the business. In scornful Castillian she cursed the Americans when they laid hold of her country’s flag. Captain Heath grinned at her. She was a fighter and had won his instant admiration. But not he hers, she tried to spit in his face, he laughingly warded her off, reluctantly had her led back to the same officer’s quarters on the parapet occupied today by an American officer, who perhaps himself has a daughter who be lieves in him and would defy his enemies. “Well, it was history,” Heath says of it. He took into his own possession the Spanish flag. It is of the finest of stuffs. He still has it. When they sent for it, because some ranking officer was of course expected to get it, he non chalantly delivered them another. Not for nothing had he walked downstairs in McMinn ville that fateful May day. He was soon on provost duty in Manila with headquarters, as commander of the district, in what is now the internal revenue building. Here he anticipated an uprising that was to be sanguinary. But when actual hostilities with Aguinaldo began on the night of February 4, 1899, he and his company were quartered at Cuartel de Espafia and when he heard the first shots at San Juan bridge and grabbed his blouse and pistol and went downstairs, his company was already in formation. Omit the activities ofllie-Oregon regiment in the campaign, until regular troops substituted them and they were sent home and mustered out at San Francisco. Oldtimers know all about such things. When Captain Heath came back to the islands, in 1901, he was a civilian, Boon he represented the business he has represent ed ever since, the Tubbs Cordage Company. On his own account he bought the Masbate ranch he still owns and began breeding better cattle and horses on that island; and for many years he had a business there in the buying and the sale of Manila hemp and copra. He tried to warehouse his fiber and copra well and give dry weights; he did this, too, but the trade was indifferent to such squaredealing and it never really paid. Heath raised his family here, his son Herbert Lee Heath, his daughter. Blessed beyond the lot of many men, he leaves here both a grand daughter and a great grand-son; when he went downstairs that day in McMinnville, he was getting ready to make his home in the Philip pines for 35 years. See him in front of the pup tent with the lieutenants of his old company, and see that other stolen picture of him in 1909, too good not to let his old friends see. In business life Captain Heath pursued an incon spicuous way until the old Manila Merchants Association advised Washington against ex tending the American coastwise laws to the Philippines. It was tn 1920, and the last act of the association. Captain Heath and others equally responsible busied themselves at once to organize an island-wide chamber of commerce for Americans alone, who could cooperate with other merchants and associations when interests were mutual, but w’ho could express in their own organization an American viewpoint. As the first president of the chamber of com merce and its president for several years after, Heath laid down uncompromising views opposed to the separation of the Philippines from the United States and the theory of the homogeneity of the Philippines. When his views could not altogether prevail, he didn’t sulk; he let others take the reins and he remained in the organ ization to help it, presiding daily at its roundtable at lunch time. Americans can be wrong often enough in Captain Heath’s opinion, but they can’t do wrong unless they do what is crooked; so he is just as loyal a follower as he is a leader. (Among Filipino leaders he has always reckoned Quezon the best, because most squarely opposed to him\ He has always wanted the Philippine question put squarely before the American people, by both sides. His opinion has never given the Philippine people the capacity they have claim ed, but has always applauded the capacity they have proved). Whether men have wanted to go all the way with Captain Heath or not, it can’t be argued down that his proposals for the islands were for their practical benefit. He wanted an organized territory made of the islands, that in effect would have evolved into a kind of commonwealth. He wanted this territory federated in three divisions, Mindanao, the Bisayas, Luzon, each with its divisional government, and the costly and supernumerous provincial governments abolished. He wanted every ton of freight passing between the islands and the United States to be hauled in American 6hips; not excluding Philippine ships, but he would have had them registered American. If he could have got what he wanted, it would have permanently and legally established free trade between the islands and the United States; it would have given each region of the islands a responsible government not very expensive to maintain, and general laws for the islands from a general assembly of the federation of divisions. If primary aims of government are security of life and property, thence the welfare of the people governed, Captain Heath’s formula for the Philippines was good from the ground up. Captain Heath’s vigorous support of his views made an epic period in Philippine history. But to him it has become just that, history. Habit ually he gives to yesterday yesterday’s cares, all of its affairs. It was characteristic of him never to have gone back to Fort Santiago, where he put his men to guard the flag that first night, until a few years ago when he showed the Daughters of the Amer ican Revolution where they should place a tablet noting the event, and it was character istic of him not to attend the ceremonies they arranged. It was characteristic of him to manage the Manila Hotel, as he did at one period, without salary and paying for his own board and room: the hotel was a part of the American effort here and deserved, he thought, that kind of service. It is characteristic of him now, though his affections are here, stoically to write up the books of life to date, strike a true balance and close the Philippine account. With a bent for figures, even a verve for mathematics and philosophy, Captain Heath never deceives himself nor allows others to deceive him. Captain Heath’s 35 years here were construc tive years. His activities were constructive, the ideas he broached in business and politics were constructive. His influence on his generation here was definite, firm and unexceptionably beneficial. No one who knew him says goodbye to him without poignant regret, all would much prefer that it merely be till we meet again—that it be just one of the occasional trips that have always brought him back again. If years were not upon him, and a dangerous asthma torment ing him, that the humid climate aggravates, so it would be. The Journal owes much to him, freely acknowledges its debt, calls to him goodbye and good luck. —W. R. Judge Robert E. Manly, who has been ill and under treatment at the Manila Sanitarium on calle Vermont recently, has recovered his health and returned to his home in Naga, provincial capital of Camarines Sur. Judge Manly enjoys a wide practice in the law at Naga, where he has been located for 32 years and now owns consid erable land. He came to the islands, a graduate in law from the University of Minnesota, after practicing his profession for a time in North Dakota, with the 1st North Dakota U. S. Vol unteer Infantry. This outfit, 2 battalions, was of the 3rd Philippine Expedition and most of the Dakota men were on the Valencia, though some were on the Indiana. There were 5 ships in the expedition, the Morgan City and City of Pard among them, besides those just mentioned. Major General Wesley Merritt, on a cruiser, started with the expedition but soon went on ahead of it to take as early charge as possible of the general command of the American army in the islands. The expedition arrived at Manila in the night of July 30, 1898, and could see the Astor and Utah batteries in trench action, by the flare of their fire, south of the city. Landing was made next day. Manly, sergeant of his company, was in active service with his regiment until it was ordered home in July 1899, but before he was mustered out he had hung out his shingle as an attorney in Manila and resolved to make the Philippines his home. The pace in Manila was a fast one, socially, Manly preferred the provinces. Having to try some cases at Naga, he stayed on there. This w-as about September, 1901, 2 months after civil government under Civil Governor Wm. H. Taft nad been established. Soon, with offices at Naga and Legaspi, the firm of Manly, Gallup and McMahon was organized. Wm. W. Gallup, who left the islands many years ago, and Wm. E. McMahon, later a land-court judge and now chief counsel in Mexico for the Standard Oil Company, were Manly’s associates in this firm. Later the firm was Manly, Goddard and Lock wood, dissolved when L. D. Lockwood moved to Manila a few years ago to take charge of A. L. Ammen’s interests. Judge Leonard S. God dard, of Manila’s court of first instance, was the other member of this firm. Manly’s present partner is Jaime M. Reyes, a nephew of the well-known Manila, Jaime C. de Veyra, and the firm name is Manly &'Reyes. Since 1912, Judge Manly has been Democratic national committeeman for the Philippines and has attended Democratic national conventions beginning with the 1912 convention at Baltimore that nominated Woodrow Wilson. A bachelor, he has a beautiful home at Naga where his hospitality is on the gracious order of a manorial estate. At Democratic conventions in Manila he sounds the key note. Scholar Wants Philippine Material Will all bureaus and departments of the government, granted they are so minded, and others who have printed material from time to time about the Philippines, mail such material to— I. B. Powell Llanfihangel, Lalyllyn Brecon, Great Britain I. B. Powell made a close personal study of the Philippines for more than tw’o years before settling down where he now is, in a university position in Wales. He lectures sometimes on the Philippines, sometimes writes about them for the British press. The purpose of keeping him supplied with new material as it may appear is to keep his voluminous references up to date. —W. R. August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 17 Johnson’s Fights: The Broader Aspects Johnson was from California and must have come to the Philippines with the 1st California U. S. Volunteer Infantry, but we pick him up in one of the regiments of regulars recruited in Manila, from among the discharged volunteers, and soon find him on duty in the Bicol region as a company sergeant. The trouble with Johnson was his size; he was well set up but only about 5 feet 4 inches tall, a handicap he seemed never to have made himself aware of. In the campaigning in which Johnson’s outfit was engaged in the Bicol region there was one day a skirmish between an American patrol armed with Springfields and a force of Filipinos armed with Mausers. Between the skirmishing parties was a road. Everybody lay flat on either side of this road, and fired as chance offered—everybody but Johnson with his Spring field and a Filipino with his Mauser: they were not flat on their bellies, but flat on their feet in the middle of the road, about 75 yards apart, firing at each other like duelists. Mauser against Springfield, it was a kind of David and Goliath proposition. The men in the skirmish lines watched it intently. The Filipino, as game as Johnson, had the drop on Johnson; his Mauser was of course a repeating arm and its bullets whined all around their intended target while Johnson calmly made ready to fire. But when Johnson put his Spring field to his shoulder, he discovered that in wading a mudhole a dob of mud had got on the muzzle and sight of the thing; and so, the Mauser still pecking at him, its bullets whining death, he calmly brought his gun down again and cleaned it, giving the sight a final swipe against his trousers. Then at last he aimed, fired. The antiquated Springfields America sent her volunteers to the Philippines with made awful roars when they went off, and a lot of smoke, but they were effective. Johnson was a first rate shot either with rifle or pistol. That day, when he had dropped the man with the Mauser dead in his tracks, he got back with the skir mishers on his side and cleaned his piece more carefully. "Did you see that fellow?” he asked. “God, he was game! He took an awful chance!” The fellow's 'fellow-skirmishers dragged his body away and that fight faded out. The Americans went on to where they were going. There were a good many outlaws in that region, roving and robbing in bands and not stopping at murder. Johnson’s detail had the job of cleaning them out, they were a stumbling block to the government’s policy of attraction, because they were lawless rogues preying on their own people. Johnson found, after a while, that whenever he went still-hunting for these desperadoes, with men with him, he could never bring them to quarter. He then began going out alone, armed with his pistol. By this means he exterminated the outlaws, to the last man. Doing this he had some corking duels. Once he was going along a road on a bicycle. It was a narrow and overgrown road. Outlaws, with boloes, who had planned an ambush, leaped out upon him from both sides of the road and almost fatally wounded him. He was terribly cut up by these first blows, but managed to get out his pistol and use it, making his bicycle a shield. When that was over he tried to make his way to camp, walking, but of course he soon fainted from loss of blood and a searching patrol picked him up. His shots had been heard, it seems. Some of the patrol went back along the road to ascertain what had happened. Six men lay dead in the road, 8 in the brush. Johnson had had to reload his pistol twice. When Johnson went into the Philippine constabulary, as such a man inevitably would, he was a lieutenant in this same region under command of a huge and overbearing captain. Johnson obeyed this man in everything and gave him no lip, unt’l he, Johnson, resigned his consta bulary commission—probably just because he was boiling over to get even with his tormentor, a man who weighed more than 200 pounds and was about 6 feet 4 inches tall, broad in pro portion. As soon as Johnson was independent of this man’s orders, he insulted him and tried to make him fight. But the man wouldn’t fight. Johnson then publicly and consistently pelted him with fighting words, on the street, in the tiendas where men gathered to drink and while the time, every whereand every time they met. But Johnson never got this fight. His itch for it merely drove the man out of the province. One night, in a tienda, a 12th infantry giant w'anted Johnson to fight. Johnson pushed him aside, told him it wouldn’t be fair to fight him. Then the man said he would go and get his knife and cut Johnson into ribbons, and Johnson told him to go and get it. He did. He came back to the tienda with the long knife open in his hand, and lunged at Johnson and slashed open his right cheek. Johnson, who seemed not to feel the cut or notice the blood, then knocked the man down and, not bothering to take the knife away from him, began twisting his neck with the plain intention of breaking it. Bystanders had quickly to end this fight before tragedy came of it. The bulldozing soldier had made Johnson thoroughly angry, whereas usually nothing made him angry. He was always the best nat.ured of men, with a quick smile and a ready laugh. And though he was so short, he was stocky and very good looking. In 1902, when cholera swept the Bicol region, Johnson and two other Americans were one day going down the Naga river in a dugout and whiling away the tedious time drinking beer, passing the bottles from one to another. After hours of this weary pleasure, Johnson said he felt a cramp in one of his legs and asked one of his friends to rub it. The two other Americans exchanged glances, rather terrified, they knew Johnson’s cramp was probably cholera. They rubbed his leg, but had the boatmen make back for Naga. Almost at once, in going back, the cholera was upon Johnson. He dealt with it over the side of the boat, turned green and seem ed to lose 50 pounds of weight in 15 minutes. When his friends got him to Naga, they dragged him between them toward the doctor’s house at the military post. From time to time he whis pered a halt—it took all his strength even to whisper—and when they started on with him his legs dangled on his toes as if they carried a dead man. He murmured, however, that he was all right, and he actually tried to help himself along a bit before they got him to the doctor’s house and laid him out on a cot, expecting him to breathe his last. Then the doctor examined Johnson, told him he had cholera and would die and asked what, if anything, he wanted done. Johnson told the doctor he exaggerated; it was only true that he had cholera, not that he would die. They fell into an argument about it, and the doctor told Johnson that 12 men out of the 12th infantry had got cholera and had all died. But Johnson whispered in final rebuttal, "That’s no argu ment, Doc—they were only 12 men and they were all out of the 12th infantry!” Well, as Johnson wouldn’t die at once, he had to be quarantined in an isolated shack, and the two men he had exposed to cholera along with hirtl. Captain E. O. Worric<c attended to this. Captain H. L. Heath, who tells all this about Johnson, was one of the men—Worrick’s closest friend then and now. Worrick got a gallon of Hunter’s Rye and case of soda water for Heath and the other well man quarantined with Johnson and told them to drink hearty and be merry, for tomorrow ... and they so drank and so were merry because they thought Johnson would surely die first and they soon after. But in 3 days Johnson stubbornly got better and event ually able to prop himself up on an elbow and twit his companions in durance. “Well, I’ve had the cholera and I’m getting well,” he chortled. “You fellows haven't had it yet, but are sure goin’ to get it, and you won’t get well!” They loved Johnson, but his brand of cheer wasn’t the best. “I’ve got the best of you, I’ve got one on you,” he insisted. They consoled themselves with rye. But somehow they didn’t get cholera, the ordeal passed and in due time Johnson was really well and the doctor released them all from quaran tine. They went their several ways. Johnson, after a while, went up to Bauang Sur to work on the Baguio road, which the Philippine (Please turn to page 20) Judge James C. Ross Now Chamber’s Counsel Men of Manila today know Judge James C. Ross as a portly, dignified and leading member of the Philippine bar, senior member of the firm of Ross, Lawrence & Selph. They know him too as chairman of the Democratic committee of the Philippines, a former judge of first instance, a good club man and yet a lover of good literature outside that of the law—in short they know him as an outstanding and influential citizen. Few will recognize Judge Ross in the picture printed here, enlarged and engraved from a group photo graph of the officers of the old 45th U. S. In fantry in which Ross was a captain. We have the picture by courtesy of Captain E. O. Wor rick, who joined the 45th infantry after his earlier service in the islands with the 2nd Oregons. The temptation to show the youthful Ross to the generation of today was too much to resist. Ross, was in Manila and going home with his regiment when he was told Taft wanted to see him. Taft was governor of the islands. Ross wondered what he wanted, which turned out to be that he wanted Ross to go to Naga as provincial governor of Ambos Camarines. Ross demurred, Taft talked duty, Ross weakened and went to Naga, where, after being an ap pointive governor, the people elected him to the post by the votes of the town mayors and council men. On March 3, 1902, the elected Governor James C. Ross of Ambos Camarines assumed office and made an inaugural address. This address put education first among the objectives of the Ross administration—“go back to your towns and impress it upon your people.” With the permission of Captain Worrick, Judge Ross is being sent a copy of that address. Ilis good friend Worrick preserved it 31 years. Succeeding his partner Ewald E. Selph, Judge Ross has been appointed general counsel to the chamber of commerce, which is grateful to Attorney Selph for services so long and well done and grateful to Judge Ross for accepting the post. Of course Judge Ross did not go to Naga for Taft without assurances as to his future in his profession. Taft told him the first good place open should be his, kept his word by making him supervisor of fiscals when Trent, who had been supervisor, went to the supreme court; afterward, Ross was appointed judge and the place of supervisor of fiscals abolished. Judge Ross left the trial bench 20 years ago, to build up the lucrative legal practice he enjoys. 18 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Effort for Justice for Veterans Here Wm. C. Brady, Department Commander, United Spanish War Veterans The March legislation in Washington on pensions fixed at 50% of the normal pension or compensation the pension or compensation to be given in future to veterans of American wars living outside the United States, and in this reduction veterans living in the Philippines were unjustly, perhaps by oversight, included. High officers of veteran organizations in the Philippines are now trying to get this corrected, and are spending on cablegrams and other cor respondence their own funds liberally. They include Attorney Wm. C. Brady, department commander, United Spanish War Veterans, John L. Headington, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Colonel Louis J. Van Schaick of the governor-general’s advisory staff, and others. Parts of a recent pension circular pertinent to the interests of veterans in the Philippines appear below: “The rate for non-service connected permanent and total disabilities for war veterans is increased from $20.00 the rate provided by the original Executive Orders under the Act of March 20, 1933, to $30.00 per month the rate provided by the latest Executive Order. “Spanish-American War veterans (including the Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrection) who served 90 days or more, were honorably discharged, are 55 years of age or over, are 50% disabled and in need, will receive $15.00 per month. “Spanish War veterans over 62 years of age who were in active service before cessation of hostilities, served 90 days or more and were honorably discharged, will receive $15.00 per month. Likewise, Spanish War veterans over 62 years of age who were on the pension rolls March 20, 1933, are entitled to $15.00 per month unless the pension being paid on March 20, 1933, was less than $15.00, in which event the rate then being received will be continued. “Widows, children and dependent mothers and fathers of deceased veterans who died as the result of disease or injury incurred in or aggravated by active military or naval service Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U. S. Rational Headquarters, Kansas City. Mo., U.S.A. Commander in Chief, Rear Admiral R. E. Coontz, U.S.N. Retired, Tower Building, Washington, D.C. Adjutant, Capt. R. B. Handy, Jr., Natl. Hdqtrs., Kansas City, Mo. Philippine Department Officers Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Capt. John L. Headington, Manila, P. I. Deputy Commander, Maj. Leo Fischer, Manila, P. I. Department Aide-de-Camp, Capt. Joseph Schmidt, Manila, P. I. during the Spanish-American War, Boxer Re bellion, or Philippine Insurrection, receive the same rate as that paid to the dependents of deceased World War veterans. “Widows, children and the dependent mothers and fathers of deceased veterans who died as the result of disease or injury incurred during time of peace are entitled to receive pension approximately 75% of that paid for dependents of veterans who died as the result of war service. “Widows and children of deceased veterans who served for a period of ninety (90) days or more and who were honorably discharged from a period of service entered into before cessation of hostilities during the Spanish-American War, or who actually participated in the Boxer Re bellion, or Philippine Insurrection, and who served for a period of ninety (90) days or more and were honorably discharged and who died from disabilities not the result of service, are entitled to a pension of approximately one-half of that paid to dependents of veterans who died as the result of war service. “Pensions paid to widows of veterans are not reduced even though the widows be employed by the Federal government. “Pension is now payable to the child of a deceased veteran up to the age of 18 years and if such child is in an approved school or college, pension may be continued up to the age of 21, providing in all cases that the child is unmarried. “Burial and funeral expenses for deceased, honorably discharged veterans of the war, occupation, or expedition, are liberalized so as to authorize the payment of a $75.00 allowance, including transportation, if the veteran’s assets at the time of death are less than $1,000.00. In determining assets, accrued benefits such as compensation, pension, and insurance are not to be included. “In addition to the pension provided, the Administrator is authorized within the limits of existing Veterans’ Administration facilities to furnish to men discharged from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard, for dis abilities incurred in line of duty, during time of peace, and to veterans of any war, including the Boxer Rebellion and Philippine Insurrec tion, domiciliary care where they are suffering with permanent disabilities, tuberculosis, or neuropsychiatric ailments. Medical and hos pital treatment is also authorized for diseases or injuries but hospital and domiciliary care for veterans suffering from other than service con nected disabilities, must be predicated upon the following: (a) service of 90 days or more in a war, including the Boxer Rebellion and the Philippine Insurrection, (b) an honorable discharge, (c) the veteran having no adequate means of support and suffering from a tuberculous or neuropsychiatric ailment, or a per manent disability which incapacitates him from earning a living. “The claimant’s entitlement to hospitaliza tion mav now be determined at the facility to which the applicant presents himself. “The Veterans’ Administration will continue to furnish prosthetic appliances where they are necessary as a part of the treatment being given, and in addition will furnish special clothing made necessary by the wearing of such prosthetic appliances.” Officers, Lawton Post No. 27 Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U. S., Manila, P. I. C. S. Lounsbury, Commander Henry Herman, Senior Vice-Commander E. E. Littlewood, Junior Vice-Commander Major A. J. Brazee, Chaplain E. I. Totten, Quartermaster John P. Flynn, Adjutant Ernest E. Voss, Officer of Day Capt. John L. Headington, Deputy Commander-in-Chief, V. F. W. Captain Headington was recently awarded the “Silver Star Medal for Gallantry”, the third highest decoration bestowed by the United States Govern ment upon her soldiers. The citation follows: “John L. Headington formerly private 1st class, Signal Corps, United States Army. For gallantry in action against Boxer forces at Yang-tsun, China, August 14, 1900. Residence at enlist ment: Mount Vernon, Ohio.” Captain Headington served in Porto Rico, the Philippines and China in 1898, 1899, and 1900 respectively. He was also cited for bravery June 30, 1900, for “repairing the line (telegraph) under dangerous conditions between Vigan and Laoag”. Captain Headington is now vice-president and manager of the Philip pine Button Corporation. Director and Treasurer, American Chamber of Com merce; Elks Club, Army and Navy Club; University Club; Golf, and Wack Wack Clubs. List of Past Department Commanders United Spanish War Veterans 1908— General James G. Harboard 1909— Major Thos. I. Hartigan, Dead 1910— Geo. L. Armstrong 1911— Milton W. Lazansky 1912— Sydney C. Schwarzkoff 1913— Captain Robert H. Page, Dead 1914— E. W. Wilbur, Dead 1915— Chas. A. Tansil 1916— Judge W. L. Goldsborough 1917— Albert Mars Easthagen 1918— Allen B. Burkholder, Dead 1919— Major Albert J. Brazee 1920— J. E. Northrup, Dead 1921— E. I. Totten 1922— John Arville, Dead 1923— Major Leo Fischer 1924— Capt. W. W. Weston 1925— Charles P. Jarman 1926— E. Criss 1927— Andrew Bruce Cresap 1928— Col. Joseph N. Wolfson 1929— Joseph H. Schmidt 1930— Col. Louis J. Van Schaick 1931— Fred C. Stevens 1932— Judge William C. Brady August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 19 Department Headquarters Veteran Army of the Philippines United Spanish War Veterans P. O. Box 1264, Manila, P. I. List of Camps in Department of Philippines United Spanish War Veterans, their location, tames and addresses of Commanders, Adjutants and Quartermasters. Department Officers—1933-1934 Department Commander, William C. Brady. Senior Vice Department Commander, Henry R. Andreas. Junior Vice Department Commander, Fausto Fronda. Department Chief of Staff, Henry Gilhouser (P.C.C.) Department Adjutant, Higinio Basis (P.C.C.) Department Quartermaster, E. I. Totten (P.D.C.) Department Inspector, B. H. Brown. Department J udge-Advocate, William F. Mueller. Department Surgeon, II. Eugene Stafford. Department Chaplain, Albert J. Brazee (P.D.C.) Department Patriotic Instructor, Mamerto Garcia (P.C.C.) Department Marshal, J. F. Townsend. Department Historian, Frank C. Jones (P.C.C.) Department Pension Officer, Ernest Criss (P.D.C.) (N.A.) Department Chief Musician, Moses Reynolds (P.C.C.) Assistant Department Quartermaster, Juan Cunanan. -District Inspector, Fred E. Baughmap. District Inspector, Thomas G. Henderson (P.C.C.) District Inspector, Bernard H. Brown (P.C.C.) District Inspector, Joseph A. Bunch. District Inspector, Wm. Ludwig (P.C.C.) District Inspector, Chester Sanders (P.C.C.) District Inspector, Juan Sacdalan (P.C.C.) District Inspector, C. E. Dibble. District Inspector, Wm. B. Young (P.C.C.) Department Aides-de-Camp, Albert M. Easthagen (P.D.C.) Department-Aides-de-Camp, Henry McDaniels (P.C.C.) Department Aides-de-Camp, Leo Fischer (P.D.C.) Department Aides-de-Camp, Felix Balinguit (P.C.C.) Department Aides-de-Camp, Martin B. Anderson. Department Aides-de-Camp, C. E. Rice (P.C.C.) Department Aides-de-Camp, Alejandro Caylao (P.C.C.) (N.A.) Department Aides-de-Camp, J. Benton Clausen. Department Aides-de-Camp, R. E. Sullivan (P.C.C.) Department Aides-de-Camp, Gregorio Salgado. Department Aides-de-Camp, A. T. Hill. Department Aides-de-Camp, Alva J. Hill Department Aides-de-Camp, Rodrigo Vallejo. Department Aides-de-Camp, Bonifacio Dizon. LOCATION OF CAMPS AND CAMP OFFICERS 1933 Generals Lawton-Egbert Camp No. 1 Manila, P. I. Membership 197 Commander: Martin B. Anderson, 424 Quiricada, Manila, P. I. Adjutant: William A. Hubbard, (P.C.C.) P. O. Box 168, Manila, P. I. Quartermaster: Edw. D. W. St. Clair, P. O. Box 168, Manila, P. I. Colonel John M. Stotsenburg Camp No. 2 Manila, P. I. Membership 66 Commander: Fred E. Baughman, P. O. Box 1593, Manila, P. I. Adjutant: E. I. Totten, (P.D.C.), P. O. Box 1593, Manila, P. I. Quartermaster: E. I. Totten, (P.D.C.), P. O. Box 1593, Manila, P. I. 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IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 20 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 “First Expedition” Men Who Celebrated This Year Annual First Expedition Banquet, June Left to right, seated: W. E. McCamus, 1st California U. S. Volunteer Infantry; Captain P. M. Duarte, secretary to the Spanish governor of Guam when the expedition took that island for the United States; Carl C. Swanson, 1st California U. S. Volunteer Infantry; J. T. Maddy, 2nd Oregon U. S. Volunteer Infantry; J. P. Heilbronn, 1st California U. S. Volunteer InJohnson’s Fights: The Broader Aspects (Conlinud from page 17) Commission was building. Johnson was in charge of a gang blasting ledges off the mountains for the road. One day the gang had drilled and got a lot of blasts ready, and the fuses lighted, and had got to a safe distance and was waiting for the blasts to go off, when a party of Filipinos, men, women, and children came down the road and into the danger zone. Waving and shout ing they misunderstood, and they kept coming and the fuses kept burning. Then Johnson had, of course, to go back and pull the fuses and try to save their lives. It wasn’t a fight. Johnson got all the fuses pulled but one. The road authorities gave him the best funeral they could, but of course the work had to go on. None of the Filipinos was hurt at all, and nobody else but Johnson. Forbes, then on the Philippine Commission, later governor of the islands, lately ambassador to Japan, is the father of the Philippine highway system. He was enthu siastic about the Benguet road to Baguio, with its picturesque zigzag along ledges of the moun tains where so much blasting was required. In his 2 volumes on the Philippines he writes ex tensively about this road, but there is no mention of Johnson of California. Forbes views the Philippine problem in its broader aspects, sees things in a big way, more or less impersonal. — W. R. Manila, P. I., July 2.9, 1933. 30, at the Army & NAvy Club, Manila. fantry; Joseph De Burgh, 2nd Oregon U. S. Volunteer Infantry; Captain Elmer 0. Worrick, 2nd Oregon U. S. Volunteer Infantry. Standing: James M. Coyne, Battery A, Heavy Artillery, California volunteers; Charles E. Cull, 2nd Oregon U. S. Volunteer Infantry; Lieutenant Albert J. Brazee, regimental staff officer, 2nd Oregon U. S. Volunteer Infantry. Of the more than two regiments of men of the First Philippine Expedition transported to the islands on the Australia, City of Sydney, and City of Peking and landed at Cavite June 30, 1898, some 15 of the men of the ranks and files still live in the islands and gather yearly on the evening of June 30, as guests of J. P. “Joe” Heilbronn at the Army & Navy club to banquet together, recall old times and celebrate the distinction of having been among the first American soldiers to touch Philippine soil. Captain H. L. Heath was not in this year’s picture, he was ill at the time and under treatmentatthe Manila Sanitarium, the Adventists’ hospital on dalle Vermont. (An account of his career in the islands appears elsewhere in this issue). Volunteer J. P. Heilbronn had, when he returned to the Philippines after being mustered out of the service, to engage in business, a con siderable capital and good connections with the Pacific-coast paper manufacturers. With this capital and much diligence he has amassed one of the largest fortunes in the islands and is still active in many profitable enterprises. His paper business is incorporated, J. P. Heilbronn & Co., and housed in his building on calle David, near his downtown warehouses at the north end of the same street. He also has warehouses on the port area. The Heilbronns have a beautiful home in Pasay and another in Baguio. Both Mr. and Mrs. Heilbronn are liberal benefactors of Manila, their bequests have especially aided the Anti-Tuberculosis society and its sanitarium at Santolan. There’s only one CORONA REAL It’s made by LA YEBANA It may Rain Cats and Dogs, Typhoons may come and go, But Nothing can happen to your Coleman KEROSENE LANTERN “World’s leading pressure lighting appliance’ LR-yiGUIMJLDO IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 21 United Spanish War Veterans (Continued from page 19) Major Edward Mc-Conville Camp No. 6 Cebu, Cebu, P. I. Membership 46 Commander: Jeremiah O’Keefe, 3 Calle Imus, Cebu, Cebu, P. I. Adjutant: W. B. Young, (P.C.C.) P. O. Box 459, Cebu, Cebu, P. I. Quartermaster: W. B. Young, (P.C.C.), P. O. Box 459, Cebu, Cebu, P. 1. Major Oliver B. Warwick Camp No. 8 Iloilo, Iloilo, P. I. Membership 58 Commander: Alva J. Hill, P. O. Box 1, Iloilo, Iloilo, P. I. Adjutant: Wm. Ludwig, (P.C.C.) P. O. Box 3, Iloilo, Iloilo, P. I. Quartermaster: Pedro Casanave, Iloilo, Iloilo, P.I. General Frederick Funston Camp No. 18 Manila, P. I. Membership 64 Commander: Juan Cunanan, 1132 Tuberias, Int. D., Quiapo, Manila, P. I. Adjutant: Ambrocio Reyes, Munting Lupa, Rizal, P. I. Quartermaster: Alejandro Guevara, 1331 San Andres, Singalong, Manila. General Guy V. Henry Camp No. 19 Manila, P. I. Membership 71 Commander: John Mitchell, 19 Antonio Garrido, Sta. Ana Sub-Division Manila, P. I. Adjutant: Frank C. Jones, (P.C.C.) P. O. Box 2018, Manila, P. I. Quartermaster: Thomas Searson, 173 F. B. Harrison, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Major Crispulo Patajo Camp No. 23 Manila, P. I. Membership 108 Commander: Fausto Fronda, Paranaque, Rizal, P. I. Adjutant: Ciriaco Raccay, Fort Wm. McKinley, Rizal, P. I. Quartermaster: Emeterio Asis, (P.C.C.) 247 Constancia, Sampaloc, Manila. Filipino Camp No. 24 Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, P. I. Membership 60 Commander: Gregorio Salgado, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, P. I. Adjutant: Ciriaco Bernarte, Bo. Bicos, Rizal, Nueva Ecija, P. I. Quartermaster: Protacio Alamon, Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, P. I. San Felipe Camp No. 25 San Felipe, Zambales, P. I. Membership 21 Commander: Proceso de Ocampo, (P.C.C.), San Felipe, Zambales, P. I. Adjutant: Leocadio Fontecha, San Felipe, Zambales, P. I. Quartermaster: Victor Feria, San Felipe, Zambales. P. I. FUNG TAI Curio Store Rock-bottom Prices Tel. 2-72-06 72 Real, Intramuros Macabebe Camp No. 26 Macabebe, Pampanga, P, I. Membership 111 Commander:' Aquilino S. Bustos, Macabebe, Pampanga, P. I. Adjutant: Severo Lazano, (P.C.C.) Macabebe, Pampanga, P. I. Quartermaster: Hilario Cajanding, Macabebe, Pampanga, P. I. Valeriano Briton Camp No. 27 Iloilo, Iloilo, P. I. Membership 77 Commander: Ricardo Mondejar, (P.C.C.), Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, P. I. Adjutant: Bernardo Siaotong, (P.C.C.), Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, P. I. Quartermaster: Lucas Capaque, Alimodian, Iloilo, P. I. Francisco Madrid Camp No. 28 Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, P. I. Membership 72 Commander: Martin de los Reyes, Solano, Nueva Vizcaya. Adjutant: Filomeno Aliga, Bo. Bomhal, Bayombong, N. Vizcaya. Quartermaster: Martin Tallungan, Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya, P. I. Major Mathew A. Batson Camp No. 29 Masantol, Pampanga, P. I. Membership 125 Commander: Alejandro Caylao, (P.C.C.), (N.A.) San Nicolas 12, Masantol, Pamp., P. I. Adjutant: Ambrocio Flores, Sta. Lucia, Masantol, Pampanga, P. I. Quartermaster: Melencio de Guzman, Sta. Lucia, Masantol, Pampanga, P. I. OXYGEN Compressed Oxygen 99.5% pure HYDROGEN Compressed Hydrogen 99.8% pure ACETYLENE Dissolved Acetylene for all purposes WELDING Fully Equip ped Oxy-Ace tylene Weld ing Shops. BATTERIES Prest-O-Lite Electric Stor age Batteries Philippine Acetylene Co. 281 CALLE CRISTOBAL, PACO MANILA, P. I. Here’s how to get Manilas! List of upon re quest to— Genuine Manila Long Filler Cigars in cellophane are obtain - able in your city or nearby! Distribut ors furC. A. Bond Philippine Tobacco Agent: 15 Williams Street, New York City Collector of Internal Revenue Manila, P. I. MA NIL AS made under sanitary conditions will satisfy your taste! (Health Bulletin No. 28) Rules and Regulations for the Sanitary Control of the Factories of Tobacco Products. ••Section IS. Insanitary Acts.—No person engaged in the handling, preparation, processing, manufacture, or packing of tobacco product or supervising such employment, shall perform, cause, permit, or suffer to be permitted any insanitary act during such employment, nor shall any 6uch person touch or contaminate any tobacco products with filthy hands or permit the same to be brought into contact with the tongue or lips, or use saliva, impure water, or other unwholesome substances as a moist ening agent; IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 22 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Quality Printing is as essential to your business as well-tailored clothes are to the successful salesman. Attractive letterheads, bill heads, cards, envelopes, labels, etc., are silent but powerful salesman. Why not let them carry your message in the most effective way? The McCullough Imprint ensures quality printing and all that it implies. McCullough service means expert supervision and the intelligent hand ling of your printing problems. Whatever your printing needs may be, you are assured the utmost satisfaction when McCullough does the job. May we serve you? McCullough printing co. Division of Philippine Education Co., Inc. 101 ESCOLTA Phone 21801 MANILA, P. I. San Quintin Camp No. 30 San Quintin, Pangasinan, P. I. Membership 43 Commander: Tomas Vengaso, Lupao, Nueva Ecija. Adjutant: Patricio Gimenez, San Quintin, Pangasinan, P. I. Quartermaster: Victoriano Lacanlale, Umingan, Pangasinan, P. I. La Union Camp No. 31 San Fernando, La Union, P. I. Membership 34 Commander: Juan Fonseca, (N.A.), San Fernando, La Union, P. I. Adjutant: Baltazar Andrada, Bauan, La Union, P. I. Quartermaster: Alejandro Guibarra, San Fernando, La Union, P. I. Major John A. Logan Camp No. 32 Binalonan, Pang., P. I. Membership 24 Commander: Raymundo Miranda, Binalonan, Pangasinan, P. I. Adjutant: Tomas Nicolas, Malasiqui, Pangasinan, P. I. Quartermaster: Inosencio Abelino, Binalonan, Pangasinan, P. I. San Fernando, Pamp. Camp No. 33 San Fernando, Pamp. Specify “Apo” Cement “Apo” cement is a product of Philippine Industry, furnishing lucrative employ ment to both Americans and Filipinos. It is unsurpassed in quality, and is sold at prices in keeping with Philippine economic conditions. SPECIFY “APO” CEMENT IN YOUR NEXT JOB Cebu Portland Cement Co. Insular Life Building, Manila Telephone 2-14-89 Plant: Naga, Cebu ----- PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRY ■ Membership 31 Commander: Jos6 Silba, Minalin, Pampanga, P. I. Adjutant: Antonio Tolentino, San Fernando, Pampanga, P. I. Quartermaster: Tomas Bautista, San Fernando, Pampanga, P. I. Echague Camp No. 34 Echague, Isabela, P. 1. Membership 31 Commander: Rodrigo Vallejo, Echague, Isabela, P. I. Adjutant: Pascual Duran, Ilagan, Isabela, P. I. Quartermaster: Aquilino Laquindanum, Cordon, Santiago, Isabela, P. I. Cuyo Camp No. 35 Cuyo, Palawan, P. I. Membership 30 'Commander: Manuel Juan, Cuyo, Palawan, P. I. Adjutant: Ramon Magbanna, Cuyo, Palawan, P. I. Quartermaster: Angel Rabang, Cuyo, Palawan, P. I. General J. Franklin Bell Camp No. 36 Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Membership 32 Commander: Alejandro de la Cruz, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Adjutant: Juan Santillana, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Quartermaster: Ambrocio Bonifacio, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Captain John F. Green Camp No. 37 Santa Maria, I. Sur. Membership 28 Commander: Ramon Camarillo, Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, P. I. Adjutant: Leon Obrero, Santa Cruz, Ilocos Sur, P. I. Quartermaster: Victor Pascua, Santa Maria, Ilocos Sur, P. I. Tuguegarao Camp No. 38 Commander: Mariano Simangan, Tuguegarao, Cagayan. Adjutant: Graciano Gumabay, Tuguegarao, Cagayan. Quartermaster: Donato Remolacio, Tuguegarao, Cagayan. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 23 Manila Camp No. 40 Commander: Bonifacio Dizon, 1230 A. Rivera, Manila, P. I. Adjutant: Cosme Salonga, 1230 A. Rivera, Manila, P. I. Quartermaster: Eugenio de Guzman, 155 Calle Solana, Manila, P. I. Note: (P.D.C.) Past Department Commander. (P.C.C.) Past Camp Commander. (N.A.) National Aide-de-Camp. LIST OF MEMBERS OF LAWTON-EGBERT . CAMP NO. 1, MANILA Abel, William, 73 Roberts, Pasay. Adams, F. R., S. Francisco del Monte. Ah Gam, Lin, 136 Burgos, Caridad, Cavite. Anderson, Jas., 46 Santol, Sta. Mesa. Anderson, M. B., 424 Quiricada, Manila. Anderson, Victor, c o Q. M. Corps, Pt. Area, Manila. Andreas, H. R., S. Fernando, Pamp. Axt, Albert A., 138 N. Domingo, S. Juan del Monte. Baker, B. F., Ass. Oil Co., Manila. Barry, Jas. J., Camp Stotsenburg, Pamp. Beebe, Walter S., 373 Simoun, Manila. Beedle, Wm. H„ Cabanatuan, N. E., P. I. Benton, Lawrence, P. 0. Box 2302, Manila. Berkenkotter, H. B., Syndicate Mining Co., Masbate. Betts, A. U., Legaspi, Albay. Birt, Wm. H., P. O. Box 169, Manila. Bolton, Owen, 1620 Herran, Paco. Boone, Chas. D., Office Dept. Eng., Ft. Santiago. Boston, Wm. S., c/o Independent Shoe Shop, Manila. Boyer, Roderick C., 130 Cementerio, Pasay. Boyer, W. C., 3 Tupas, Pasay. Bradley, Geo. W., Tayug, Pangasinan. Brady. Wm. C., P. O. Box 760, Manila. Branigan, John J., 275 Sandejas, Manila. Brown, B. H. c/o Std. Oil Co., Manila. Burwell, W. S., Surigao, Mindanao. Canson, John, P. O. Box 902, Manila. Clausen, John B., c/o P. C. C., Manila. Collette, Alfred B., Bacolod, Negros Occ. Cook, Geo., Ft. Mills, Corregidor. Cooke, .Clifford J., Rio Guinobatan, Masbate. Cousart, Earl M., c/o Ph. L. D. Tel. Co., Manila. Cummine, Frank L., Nichols Field, Pasay. Davis, Jas. W., c/o Manila-Dagupan Railroad, Dagupan. de Bates, John, Calamba, Laguna. Dixon, Wm. E. S., P. O. Box 2641, Manila. Dreaney, Jos., 240 Anda, Intramuros, Manila. Dunbar, John J., P. 0. Box 1049, Manila. Dusdecker, Henry 197 Juan Luna, Manila. Easthagen, A. M., c/o Meralco, Manila. Egan, John P., 2121 Rizal Ave., Manila. Ellis, Wm. J., 506 Sto. Sepulcro, Manila. Ellsworth, Henry G., c/o Q.M.C., Pt. Area, Mapila. Evans, Harry V., Los Banos, Laguna. Farr, Wm. C., P. O. Box 83, Cavite Nuevo. Fields, S. P., 4 de la Carmine, S. Pedro Macati, Rizal. Fink, F. W„ 1849 Oroquieta, Manila. Fischbach, Leo L., P. O. Box 1982, Manila. Fleming, Wm. F., 143 Panaderos, Manila. Fletcher, Jos. F., 10 Lozada, S. Juan del Monte, Rizal. Foss, Henry, P. O. Box 2834, Manila. Foster, David, P. 0. Box 1066, Manila. Frank, P. H., 305 Vito Cruz, Manila. Frederick, A. W., c/o Bureau of Prisons. Free, Abra, 119 Guipit, Sampaloc, Manila. Fry, David, c/o Int. Cold Stores, Manila. Fyffe, C. L., 391 Mabini, Caloocan, P. I. Gardner, Frank, Los Banos, Laguna. Garrison, John L., Calauag, Tayabas. Gathercole, Fred, 6 Callejon No. 7, Pasay. Greetings to the Veterans from LEYTE LAND TRANSPORTATION CO. --------------------------------- (INCORPORATED)------------- --------------------Walter S. Price President IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 24 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Compliments of Mori Bicycle Store 713-719 Ave. Rizal—MANILA “FUJI” BICYCLES Racers, Diamond Arch Bar, and Other Models. Spare Parts and Tires Telephone 2-23-64 Gillis, Jas. R., 556-B S. Luis, Manila. Gioketo, Mario, 842 Sta. Mesa, Manila. Guittard, A. M., Cabanatuan, N. E., P. I. Hahn, D. H., P. O. Box 59, Manila. Haase, Frederick, 91 Cementerio, Pasay. Hammond, Alfred J., Utilities Shops, Q.M.C., Pt. Area, Manila. Hammond, Arthur N., 1408 Misericordia, Manila. Hann, Caleb P., Baguio, Mt. Prov., P. I. Harn, J. P, 1777 Mangahan, Manila. Harris, E. B., P. 0. Box 546, Manila. Hart, Irving, 1119 G. Tuason, Manila. Hartman, John G., 266 Sta. Mesa, Manila. Haussermann, J. W., P. O. Box 817, Manila. Haut, Wilhelm, 421 Leveriza, Pasay. Heil, Herman, Pasig, Rizal, P. I. Henderson, T. G., Independent Shop Shop, Echague. Hibbard, Jas. F., Los Banos, Laguna. Hill, Edward J., 269 Park Ave., Pasay. Hill, Enoch, S. PedroMacati,Rizal. (Gen. Del.) Himes, Kimpton, 84 Valenzuela, Sta. Mesa, Manila. Hoff, Chas. H., 1402 Leveriza, Manila. Horn, Wm. H., Meisic Pol. Sta., Manila. House, Jos. V., P. 0. Box 17, Tacloban, Leyte. Howard, Wm., c/o Navy Yard, Cavite, P. I. Hubbard, Wm. A., P. 0. Box 2958, Manila. Hunt, Oscar, c/o S. Lazaro Hosp., Manila. Hunter, Wm. C., 96 Cementerio, Pasay. Irwin, Jas. T., P. 0. Box 2334, Manila. Jackson, A. B., 314 Pampanga, Manila. Jackson, Orlie, Meralco, Manila. Jensen, J. A., Aparri, Cagayan. Johnson, Alva, 1016 Vermont, Manila. Johnson, Peter M. A., P. 0. Box 39, Cavite. Jones, C. E., c/o Meisic Pol. Sta. Kellermeyer, Louis, 97 Cristobal, Manila. Krick, Morris J., 331 L. Guerrero, Manila. Lake, John J., c/o B.P.W., Manila. Lawrence, Fred T., San Miguel, Bulacan. Leary, O. A., 1645 Domingo, Manila. Levett, Abe, 325 Echague, Manila. Loos, Wm. P., 1169 Dakota, Manila. Luersen, H. C., c/o U. S. Army Morgue, Manila. Lukens, Ben. P., 349 A. Mabini, Manila. Luszac, Alexander, c/o "Cleveland Bar”, Manila. McDonald, Jacob, 733 Int., Leveriza, Pasay. McGrath, R. A., c/o “Hike Shoe Store”, Manila Marsman & Co., Inc. MINE and MILL SUPPLIES Consulting Engineers Development of Mines and Prospects Erection and Operation of Metallurgical Plants Examinations and Reports on Lode and Placer Properties Stewart Building Post Office Box 18 Burnham Park Boulevard Telephone 287 IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 25 McGuire, J. or I., Borongan, Samar. Mcllvaine, Chas. H., 4 Simoun, Manila. McMahon, Frank P., P. O. Box 2186, Manila. Maddy, Jas. T., P. O. Box 709, Manila. Manly, Rob. E., Naga, Camarines Sur. (P. 0. Box 15) Marders, J. H., c, o Q.M.C., Ft.. McKinley, Rizal. Martin, Harry, c, e “Stag Hotel”, Manila. Martin, Marion E., P. O. Box 2823, Manila. Mavhew, Geo., P. O. Box 1476, Manila. Mellan, C. N., c o B.P.W., Manila. Millfield, Wm. c o Q.M.C., Pt. Area, Manila. Milne, O. G., Canluban, Laguna. Minford, Edward D.. P. O. Box 3128, Manila. Mitkiewiz, Eugene, 219 Mabini, Caloocan. Monks, A. C.. P. O. Box 571, Manila. Montgomery, John M.. P. O. Box 2479, Manila. Moss, R. A., Mueller, Wm. F., P. O. Box 1076, Manila. Mullen, Jos., 2240 Felix Huertas, Sta. Cruz, Manila. Murphv, J. A., P. 6. Box 1223, Manila. Murray, John, 11 Santo Domingo, Cavite. Myers, Jas., 1373 Leveriza, Malate. Nelson, Paul E., 46 Baclaran, Paranaque, Rizal. Newsbaumer, E. M., Culion, P. I. Norman, C. R., P. O. Box 2073, Manila. Normandy, Edward, S. Fernando, Pamp. O’Day, Patrick, 60 Legaspi, Manila. O'Hara, Jas., Antipolo, Rizal. Owen, Theo. I., 712 Kansas Ave., Manila. Philips. Chas S., P. O. Box 1918, Manila. Presbv, Allen, P. O. Box 1379, Manila. Price, Walter S., Tacloban, Leyte. Rader, John, 149 Basal, Pasay. Ratliff, John W.. 47 L. Lupa, Mavpajo, Rizal . Ray, Wm. N„ 339 S. Marcelino, Manila. Riehl, John J., 108 Laura, S. J. del Mo ite. Renner, John F., 1360 Leveriza, Malate. Rider, John, 512 Guadalupe, Macati, Rizal. Robbinson, John F., P. O. Box 2559, Manila. Rogge, Albert E., 1343 Penn. Ave., Manila. Ross, Jas., P. O. Box 781, Manila. Rowan, Alex, c o “Boston Hotel", Manila. Russell, Albert, P. O. Box 1399, Manila. Russell, Solomon, Batangas, Batangas. Ruyman, J. C., c o Phil. Ed. Co., Manila. Ryan, Michael, c o “Shamrock Hotel”, Cebu, Cebu. Is the remedy — it is quite harmless, soothes the nerves and induces healthy and invigo rating sleep. Obtainable from all chemists in tubes of 20 tablets. Knoll A.-G., Chemical Works, Ludwigshafen-on-Rhine. 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WE PAY THE HIGHEST PRICES Do not miss this opportunity, start a lucrative business. HOW TO SKIN REPTILES To skin the crocodile:—-Cut down the belly, straight from head to tip of tail. In skinning the lizard cut straight down the middle of the back. When the skins are removed, scrape out all meat, then salt them thoroughly, pack in boxes and send them to us. PRIZE OFFER For every fifty lizard skins we give a special prize of a reptile skin belt, pocket book, or some similar article. R. WEIDMANN Leather Chemist THE REPTILE STORE 28 Dewey Boulevard, Ermita, Manila IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 26 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 “DUNLOP More than the name of a tire— a safeguard for every trader; an assurance of quality, service and “square deal” business methods. Monserrat Enterprises Co., Ltd. Distributors for the Philippines 550-554 San Luis, Ermita Tel. 5-72-51 Saleeby, N. M., P. O. Box 139, Baguio. Salmon, C. S., P. O. Box 734, Manila. Scheidegger, Samuel, 544 San Luis. Manila. Schilling, J. W., P. O. Box 1096, Manila. Schmidt, Jos. H., P. O. Box 768, Manila. Schrameck, E. A., P. O. Box 1425, Manila. Scott, Walter T., Bulan, Barrio San Ramon, Sorsogon. Seeckts, Francis, Orion, Bataan. Shea, Patrick, c/o Insular Treasury, Manila. Siebert, A. C., c o Q. M. C., Pt. Area, Manila. Sintzenich, Philip, P. 0. Box 1272, Manila. Somers, R. L., c/o Sing. Sew. Mach. Co., Manila Sousley, R. G., 525 Penn. Ave., Manila. Stevens, TJSB., N. Negros Sugar Co., Manapla, Negros Occ. Stevenson, J. W., Foch Ave., S. J. del Monte, Rizal. St. Claire, Edward D. W, 67 Gral. L. Geronimo, Sampaloc, Manila. Strauss, Henry, Legaspi. Stroup, Louis R., P. O. Box 2616, Manila. Summerfield, Ore, 184 Cementerio, Pasay. Talmadge, Thom. J., Tatton, Albert E., P. O. Box 2244, Manila. Thater, Wm. P., c/o Q. M. Laundry, Pt. Area, Manila. Tinsley, H. P., “Baclaran Bar”, Paranaque, Rizal. Townsend, J. F., P. O. Box 2519, Manila. Toy Toy, Transfaglia, Nicolo, P. O. Box 1102, Manila. Uhler, Fred C., 113 Rebellin, Manila. Uschold, John A., 874 Sta. Mesa. Manila. Van Schaick, Col. Louis J., c/o Malacanan, Manila. Vrooman, Abram, P. O. Box 902, Manila. Waloe, Ole C., 5745 Harold Way, Los Angeles, Cal. Webb, W. B., 2511 Herran, Paco, Manila. Weeks, Thos. I. P. O. Box 648, Manila. Weisbecker, Carl I., c/o Q.M.C., Pt. Area, Manila. Welch, Max R.. P. O. Box 1624, Manila. Welte, Frank, c/o Q.M.C., Pt. Area, Manila. White, Jos. A., Muntinlupa, Rizal. Whittaker, Frank J., U.S.S. Nashville, U.S.N. P. O. Box 48, Cavite Nuevo, P. I. Williams, Geo. H„ 1620 Herran, Manila. Williams, T. H., 1620 Herran, Manila. Winfrey, Robert C., c/o Luneta Pol. Sta. Woodard, John, Ft. Mills, Corregidor. Worrick, E. O., Mercedes, Camarines Norte. Zemboritz, M., New Wash. Hotel, Manila. GREAT EASTERN HOTEL Manila, P. I. THE ORIGINAL PENNSYLVANIA OIL IS THE CHEAPEST LAST COST OIL IN THE WORLD IT LASTS LONGER UNDER HARDER FASTER USE IT NEVER FORMS GUMMY DEPOSITS IT NEVER HAS BEEN KNOWN TO BURN OUT BEARINGS IT PRODUCES LESS PISTON DRAG IT LUBRICATES COMPLETELY UNDER ALL CONDITIONS, CUTTING DOWN FRICTION, INCREASING SPEED AND POWER IT DELIVERS BETTER RESULTS FROM A SMALLER QUANTITY USED IT SAVES AND SATISFIES ELMAC, ING. ELECTRICAL & MACHINERY COMPANY 627 RIZAL AVE. MANILA P. O. BOX 625 A New, Modern, Fire proof, Seven-Story Building located in the business center and theatrical district of Manila. Attractive Rates for Permanent Guests Tel. 24115 Cable Address: GREATHOTEL IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 27 NOT AFFILIATED Barker, Chas. A., S. Nicolas Fire Sta., Manila. Becker, Henry, Aparri, P. I. Bohler, Fred W., Briggs, W. M., Ft. Mills, Corregidor. Citzman, Chas. R. E., Naic, Cavite. Criss, Ernest, P. O. Box 1060, Manila. Earl, G. W., Baguio. Franco, Ellery G., 112 Real, Guadalupe Viejo, S. Pedro Macati, Rizal. Harrison, Wm. A., 250 Jockian, Pasay. Heim, John B., 330 P. Campa, Sampaloc, Ma nila. Hendrix, Joel, c/o Q.M.C., Pt. Area, Manila. Hewald, Wm., 428 Park Ave., Pasay. Hirschfeld, Wm., c/o Pioneer Club, Manila. Howell, John M., Fort Mills, P. I. Jacobson, Oscar E., P. 0. Box 1596, Manila. Kershner, J. W., P. O. Box 1933, Manila. Lee, K„ 205 Plaza Sta. Cruz, Manila. Lusby, Robert, 52 Int., P. Burgos, S. P. Macati. Martin, F. G., 197 Juan Luna, Manila. Meyer, Wm., 82 Baclaran, Rizal. Nill, J. A., P. 0. Box 132, Baguio. Oakes, Walter B., Poodle Dog Cafe, Manila, P. I. Oswald, Judge H., 896 M. Natividad, Manila. Outlaw, H. II., P. O. Box 24, San Pablo, Laguna. Quillen, J. W., P. O. Box 1306. Radditz, Richard, 1048 Castillcjos, Manila. Roberson, F. C., Sipaco, Camarines (?) Rogers, F. Theo., c/o “Free Press”. Rumuohr, Jas. H., Calbayog, Samar. Schultz, Wm., Ft. Mills, Corregidor. Sloan, Otto, Lubao, Pamp. Slonsky, H. A., Dasmarinas, Cavite, P. I. Smith, A. T., P. O. Box 330, Manila. Smith, Ernest D., S. J. del Monte. Steinman, Wm. H. Los Banos, Laguna. Stephenson, Edgar, P. O. Box 1918, Manila. Terry, Bert, P. 0. Box 75, Legaspi. Van Patten, C. H., Squires Bingham Co., Manila. Vasey, Peter. Walter, Thos. A., 324 P. Gomez, Manila. West, I., c/o B.P.W., Manila. White, George, No. 99, Imus, Cebu, P. I. Whitt, Albert L., Angat, Barrio Morinco, Bulacan. Wing, R. C., P. O. Box 2399. Manila. BECK’S, MANILA ESTABLISHED, 1899 The old firm of I. Beck, established thirty - four years ago, greets the Veterans as of old, and looks forward to their continued patronage. Visit us Often or Send for Catalogues Thanks, I. Beck. WHENEVER or wherever comparisons are made, you’ll find our food superior in taste and freshness to all others Tel. 2-15-63 ' J. B. Banning Walter B. Oakes [ Manager Proprietor Born 1820—Still Going Strong! John Walker & Sons Ltd. Scotch Whisky Distillehs Kilmarnock Scotland Sole Agents for the Philippine Islands THE MANILA WINE MERCHANTS, LTD. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 28 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Col. John M. Stotsenburg Camp No. 2, U. S. W. V. P. 0. Box 1593, Manila, P. I. Addison, P. W., Fort Santiago, Manila, P. I. Baughman, F. E., No. 2906 Calle Herran, Manila, P. 1. Bellis, A. G., P. O. Box 199, Manila, P. I. Blackman, R. B., Dagupan, Pangasinan, P. I. Bohanan, C. O., P. O. Box 1513, Manila, P. I. Brazee, A. J., P. O. Box 1913, Manila, P. I. Carney, Clem, No. 784 Calle Maria Carpena, Manila, P. I. Corn, W. D., Catbalogan, Samar, P. I. Cresap, A. B., No. 2901 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, Calif., IT. S. Damman, Lt. Col. Fred., No. 4918 Kesington Drive, San Diego, Calif., U. S. Dibble, C. E., P. O. Box 1163, Manila, P. I. Drummond, M. G., No. 1212 Calle Leveriza, Manila, P. I. Edmands, William, P. 0. Box 2788, Manila, P. I. Einseidal, A. H., P. O. Box 2634, Manila, P. I. Filardo, D. A., P. O. Box 1849, Manila, P. I. Fischer, Leo, P. O. Box 622, Manila, P. I. Fowler, Major G. R., Fort Clayton, Canal Zone. Garfinkel, Major A., No. 250 Calle Robert, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Gulick, P. A., P. O. Box 712, Manila, P. I. Hale, W. F., P. O. Box 10, Baguio, P. I. Harris, J. I., P. O. Box 2103, Manila, P. I. Harris, Meyer, P. O. Box 356, Manila, P. I. Haube, William, P. O. Box 10, Baguio, P. I. Headington, J. L., P. O. Box 329, Manila, P. I. Heilbronn, J. P., P. O. Box 773, Manila, P. 1. Hill, A. T., P. O. Box 403, Manila, P. I. Hogle, W. G., No. 984 Calle Singalong, lnt., Manila, P. I. Jarman, C. P., 239 Grand Ave., San Francisco, Calif., U. S. Jones, J. W., P. O. Box 839, Manila, P. I. Kneedler, H. D., Bay View Hotel, Manila, P. I. Krueger, Frank, Meisic Police Station, Manila, P. I. La Mountain, W. A., No. 135 Calle Real, Manila, P. I. Lambert, L. J., No. 670 Vernon St., Oakland, Calif., U. S. A. (P. O. Box 1460, Manila, P.I.) Lampe, Fred, P. O. Box 1706, Manila, P. 1. Lawrence. W. H., No. 220 Montgomery St,. San Francisco, Calif., U. S. A. Mangels, J. F., c/o Pacific Commercial Co., Manila, P. I. McGuire, P. E., No. 306 Calle R. Hidalgo, Manila, P. I. Moore, L. C., P. O’. Box 1311, Manila, P. I. Neuffer, C. P., P. O. Box 671, Manila, P. I. O’Neill, P. J., P. O. Box 10, Baguio, P. 1. Paradies, Richard, Cagayan, Oriental Misamis, P. I. Pierce, J. L., P. O. Box 1043, Manila, P. I. Prager, Jerome, P. O. Box 2615, Manila, P. I. Reid, B. J., Ft. Wm. McKinley, Rizal, P. I. Rease, J. S., c/o Manila Trading and Supply Co., Manila, P. I. Renner, J. H., c/o Phil. Railway Co., Cabu, Cebu, P. I. Rheberg, C. W., Lingayen, Pangasinan, P. I. Rice, C. E., P. O. Box 1434, Manila, P. I. Schwarzkopf, S. C., Zamboanga, Zamboanga, P. I. Shauger, C. M., Wright, Samar, P. 1. Simmie, G. W., P. O. Box 72, Upper Lake, Calif., U. S. A. Springer, M. E., No. 10 E CooverSt., Mechanicsburg, Penn., U. S. A. Stafford, H. E., P. O. Box 191, Baguio, P. I. Stevens, F. H., P. O. Box 1447, Manila, P. I. Stewart, F. G., P. O. Box 539, Manila, P. I. Taylor, Carson, No. 3105 Irving Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif., U. S. A. (P. O. Box 769, Manila, P. I. Totten, E. I., P. O. Box 379, Manila, P. I. Waite, F. P., No. 1810 Calle Natividad, Manila, P. 1. Walter, Eugene, Bacon, Sorsogon, P. I. Wang, O. F., P. O. Box 1713, Manila, P. 1. Weinstein, Ike, No. 409 Calle Raon, Manila, P. I. Wolfson, J. N., P. O. Box 450, Manila, P. ). Wright, Tobias, P. O. Box 547, Manila, P. I. (Please turn to page 30) NOTICE Veterans of Foreign Wars In view of the fact that many of the members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars are World War Veterans, and to avoid the du plications of names of those who also are members of the United Spanish War Veterans, we have published only the names of the officers of the V. F. W., leaving the general roster until November, when we hope to publish the roster of World War veterans of all nations now living in the Philippines. 1898-1933 HEACOCKS . DENNISTON . C.ALKAN in all these years—these names—have stood for all that is best in their respective lines H. E. HEACOCK CO. Jewelers—Watchmakers—Opticians DENNISTON Everything Photographic C. ALKAN Firearms—Ammunition—Athletic Goods Heacock’s Office Equipment Dept. Remington Agency HEACOCK INTERESTS H.OILO-DAVAO IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 29 SHIPPING REVIEW By H. M. Cavender General Agent, The Robert Dollar Co. Total shipments for the month of June amounted to only 123,822 tons, a de crease of 125,000 tons from the previous month. This is entire ly accounted for by a like reduction in Atlantic Coast sugar shipments which will be comparatively light until the new crop sugar starts to move. To China and Japan, the hemp movement was good, amounting to 45,566 bales. Lumber speaking were only fair. We made mention above regarding the very decided reduction in the sugar movement. To European Ports, hemp and copra cake and meal shipments were good, while logs and lumber were poor. There was no movement of copra. From statistics compiled by the Associated Steamship Lines, during the month of June there were exported from the Philippine Islands the following: Tons Sailings 638 were carried in American Bottoms with 7 28,718 with 16 of which 24,443 were carried in American Bottoms with 9 570 with 7 of which and log shipments were also good, totalling nearly four million feet. To the Pacific Coast, the outstanding feature was the heavy movement of copra, amounting to over twenty thousand tons. This, we believe, constitutes a record. Refined sugar shipments were not as heavy as for the previous few months. Cigars, coconut oil, copra meal, hemp, desiccated coconut, and other items moved in fair quantities. To the Atlantic Coast, shipments generally Tons Miscl. Sailings China and Japan.............. 15,938 with 44 of which Pacific Coast Local Deliv ery................................. Pacific Coast Overland Delivery......................... Pacific Coast Intercoastal Steamer......................... 748 with 8 of which Atlantic Ports.................. 62,924 with 19 of which European Ports................ 14,598 with 17 of which Australian Ports.............. 323 with 11 of which A grand total of 123,819 tons with a total of 83 sailings of which American bottoms carried 26,378 tons with a total of 11 sailings. 234 were carried in American Bottoms with 3 419 were carried in American Bottoms with 5 1,576 were carried in American Bottoms with 4 68 were carried in American Bottoms with 2 — were carried in American Bottoms with - THE PRESIDENT LINER FLEET WORLD-WIDE SERVICE AMERICAN MAIL LINE “The Short Route to America” To SEATTLE via CHINA, JAPAN and VICTORIA Pres. Jackson - Aug. 23 Pres. Jefferson - Sept. 6 Pres. Grant - - Sept. 20 Pres. Cleveland-Sept. 27 Pres. Jackson - Oct. 11 Through tickets frcm Manila to London, Havre, Bremen and other European ports issued in pounds sterling at attractively low fares DOLLAR STEAMSHIP LINES EAST OR WEST TO NEW YORK Via China-Japan, Honolulu San Francisco Panama Canal Pres. McKinley Aug. 26 Pres. Hoover - - Sept. 9 Pres. Lincoln - - Sept. 23 Pres. Coolidge - Oct. 7 Pres. Wilson - Oct. 27 Via Suez Canal and Europe Pres. Van Buren-Aug. 21 Pres. Garfield - - Sept. 4 Pres. Polk ----- Sept. 18 Pres. Adams - - Oct 2 Pres. Harrison - Oct. 16 PHILIPPINE INTER-ISLAND STEAMSHIP CO. SUPERIOR INTER-ISLAND SERVICE S. S. “MAYON” sails Tuesdays at 2 P. M. from Manila to Iloilo Zamboanga, Cebu, Iloilo back to Manila. FUTURE sailings Aug. 22 Aug. 29 Sept. 5 Sept. 12 Sept. 19 Sept. 26 Robert Dollar Bldg., Port Area FOR BOOKINGS AND INFORMATION APPLY TO: THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO General Agents MANILA — Telephone 2-24-41 87 Escolta IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 30 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Passenger departures show a decrease in all classes from last month’s figures. First class de partures dropped from a total of 303 passengers to 192, the decrease being mostly in departures to China and Japan. Intermediate class departures dropped from 478 to 394, this decrease also being attributable to China and Japan departures. Third class departures continue at a very low figure, the current figure being practically the same as for the previous month. The following figures show the number of passengers departing from the Philippine Islands during the month of June, 1933: InterFirst mediate Third China and Japan............... 84 219 Honolulu.............................. 0 21 Pacific Coast....................... 31 102 Europe via America........... 11 9 Straits Settlements and Dutch East Indies.......... 47 14 Europe and Mediterranean ports beyond Colombo.. 10 26 America via Suez............... 5 0 Australia............................... 4 3 283 20 44 0 19 0 0 Total............................. 192 394 367 United Spanish War Veterans (Continued from page 28) Membership of General Guy V. Henry Camp No. 19, U. S. W. V. Bevill, James, c/o Meralco, Manila, P. I. Bunch, J. A., San Quintin, Pangasinan, P. I. Brown, Thaddus, Manila, P. I. Brooks, Robert H., Manila, P. I. Brixton, Ridie, Sta. Ana, Manila, P. I. Casey, Thomas, 315 M. H. del Pilar, Manila, P. 1. Carpenter, R. B., 327 Gotamco, Pasay, Rizal, Chambers, George, c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. I. Clayton, Sie, c/o Kenwood Hotel, R. Hidalgo, Manila, P. I. Dagulash, W. J., 231 Morga, Tondo, Manila, P. I. Davis, J. W., Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Dimery, Henry, Batangas, P. I. Flipping, J. A., Subig, Zambales, P. I. Foster, Samuel, P. O. Box 2073, Manila, P. I. Fowlers, Kirk, c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. I. Glover, William, 19 Salvador, San Juan del Monte, Rizal, P. I. Goodloe, Robert F., Canlubang, Laguna, P. I. Hawkins. Monroe, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, Hunter, John, San Francisco del Monte, Rizal, P. I. Johnson, John, Baclaran, Rizal, P. I. Johnson, H. H., San Quintin, Pangasinan, P. 1. Jones, Robert, San Francisco del Monte, Rizal, I’. I. Lay, Rufus, Pasig, Rizal, P. I. Laster, Paul, c/o Esco Factory, Manila, P. I. Lewis, Charles, Los Banos, Laguna, P. I. Lloyd, Isaac, Mariveles, Bataan, P. I. McCoy, F. O., San Juan Height Addition, San Juan, Rizal, I’. I. McMurray, Jackson, c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, Mason, Charles, c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. 1. Maxwell, J. B., Albay, Albay, P. I. Netherland, Robert K., Bayambang, Panga sinan, P. I. Richardson, S. L., U. S. Russ, John, San • Francisco del Monte, Rizal, P. I. Sanders, U. L., San Juan, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Scott, David, H. Domingo, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Seabrook, Isaac, Baclaran, Rizal, P. I. Silverston, Henry, No. 37 A. Mabini, Manila, P. I. Sims, Elliott, Salud, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Smith, William, Sagat, Paco, Manila, P. I. Tinch, Joseph, Sinsengo, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. Terrill, Charles, c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. 1. Webster, Walter, Culi-Culi, Rizal, P. I. White, Thomas, San Quintin, Pangasinan, P. I. Whitmore, C. L., c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. I. Williams, James, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, Williams, Charles, 327 Gotamco, Pasay, Rizal, P. I. William, Albert, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, P. 1. Washington, R. H., c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. I. White, Curtis, San Pedro Makati, Rizal, P. i. Honorary Members Edward Huff, c/o Q. M. Depot, Manila, P. I. Outpost No. 1 Located in Fort Stotsenburg, P. I. Bell, William, 1st Class Private, Q. M. Corps, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Clark, Andrew, Margot Barrio, Fort Stotsen burg, Pampanga, P. I. Dudley, Harry, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Evans, L. R., Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. 1. Edwards, John, Sapang-Bato, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Gray, John W., Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Mitchell, Oscar, 1st Class Private, Q. M. C., Fort Stot-enburg, Pampanga, P. I. Porter, Lloyd T., Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Polk, William, Sapang-Bato, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Rogan, Benjamin, Angeles, Pampanga, P. I. Thompson, T. G., Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Young, Roman, Sapang-Bato, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Board, Ester, Sapang-Bato, Fort Stotsenburg, Pampanga, P. I. Founded 1904 PHILIPPINE EDUCATION COMPANY INCORPORATED N this issue of the Journal, dedicated to the Veterans, we take the opportunity to call your attention that we are also Veterans. Veterans by virtue of twenty-nine years of continuous merchandizing service. We have and are serving the Veterans, and the children of Veterans. Our merchandise, our facilities, our service as now available are due to appreciation expressed in our customers’ purchases. GENERAL IMPORTING MERCHANTS WHOLESALE AND RETAIL MANUFACTURING STAT I ONERS —BOOKSELLERS —PUBLI SHERS—NEWS DEALERS—PRI NT ERS ENGRAVERS —PAPER DEALERS—OFFICE, SCHOOL, AND ART SUPPLIES —RUBBER STAMPS—BRASS SIGNS IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 31 Major Oliver B. Warwick CAMP NO. 8, U. S. W. V. Iloilo, Iloilo, P. I. ROSTER OF MEMBERS Banid, I. J., Cabatuan, Iloilo Bohanan, >S., Iloilo, Phil. Ry. Co. Brown, F. E., Passi, Iloilo Prov. Bush, Edw. S._ (Mission Ilospt.), Iloilo, Manila Trading Co. Casanave, Pedro, Iloilo, P. 1. Cecilio, A., Cagayan, Oriental Misamis Clark, Wallace R., Buenavista, Guimaras Cooke William S., Fabrica, Neg. Occ. Crabtree W. B., Iloilo, PI. Davis, Roy, Buenavista, Guimaras Dudlev, E., Iloilo, P. I., P.C.C. Dulin,' L. J., Iloilo, P. 1. Emerson, Ause, Passi, Iloilo Prov. Fairbanks, David, Ilimamaylan, Neg. Occ. Fallon, C. J., Isabela, Neg. Occ. Fortune, E., Iloilo, P. I. Franke, W. E., Bacolod, Neg. Occ. French, James P., Passi, Iloilo Prov. G'lhouser, Henry, P. C., Iloilo, Standard Oil Hall, Quin F., Calinog, Iloilo Prov. Hansen, Otto O., Manila, Sun Life Insurance Co. Hodges, C. N., Iloilo, P. I. Horstman, Wm., Iloilo, P. 1. Hughes, J. J., Manila, Plaza Lunch Hughes, O. P., Pulupandan, Neg. Occ. Jamison, R. E., Manila, P.C.C. Jarrell, G. C., Passi, Iloilo Prov. Laing, Patrick G. IL, Cebu, Cebu, P. I. Lampara, Frank, Iloilo, P. I. Maynew, Ray, Cadiz, Neg. Occ. McCarthy, F. W., Misamis, Min. Nolan, Richard, Bacolod, Neg. Occ. Pfleider, Edward J., Iloilo, P. I. Pine, George C., Bacolod, Neg. Occ. Redding. R. C., Bacolod, Neg. Occ. Roberts, Charles E., Iloilo, P. I. Roberson, Silas A., 107 Calle Antigua, Molo, Iloilo Sherrard, H. H., Jaro, Iloilo Prov. Simpson, W. D., Passi, Iloilo Prov. Smith, Walter A., Olutanga, Min. Walton, Louis A., Pulupandan, Neg. Occ. Whitney, F. A., Bacolod, Neg. Occ. Wilson,' F. M., Iloilo, I>. I, TRADEMARKS REGISTERED During the month of June, 1933 Reg. No. 11395. Trademark consisting of the word “SURTIDOS” with a design, for food products, such as fruit products, vegetable products, cerettl products, etc., registered on June 16, 1933, by Genato Commercial Cor poration, of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11396. Trademark consisting of the representation of a series of diamonds, for rubber soles and heels, registered on June 16, 1933, by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Com pany, of Akron, Ohio, U. S. A. Reg. No. 11397. Trademark consisting of the initials “I.C.V.” for ventilating windows for automobiles, trucks, busses, etc., regis tered on June 16, 1933, by General Motors Corporation, of Detroit, Michigan, U. S. A. Reg. No. 11398. Trademark consisting of the letters “S.S.S” in block capitals, for medicinal preparation, registered on June 16, 1933, by S. S. S. Company, of Atlanta, Georgia, U. S. A. FOR THESE GOOD REASONS... GO EMPRESS Reason/...Record size. Reason 2...Record speed. Reason 3... Luxury of Pacific and Atlantic standards. More Reasons...? Ask anyone who’s made an “Empress” crossing! Fortnight ly sailings from ORIENT TO VICTORIA AND VANCOUVER Choice of 2 Routes... Direct Express: Empress of Asia and Empress of Russia make trans Pacific crossing from Yokohama in 9 days. Via Honolulu; Empress of Japan (largest, fastest liner on Pacific) and Empress of Canada add but three days to the journey.... First and Tourist Class. Also, Third Class. RAILWAY SERVICE ACROSS CANADA —Judge. Man Looking In.—Foreman or no foreman, I’m going in and ask for my supper! That's the Stuff! GORDON DPV The heart %of a good (jl-LN cocktail The trip from Pacific Coast (Vancouver) to Atlantic Coast (Montreal or Quebec) is made in four days in the luxurious trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway. ONLY 3 TO 4 DAYS OCEAN TO EUROPE l'ia St. Lawrence Seaway! Sail from Montreal or Quebec and enjoy 2 days on the smooth St. Lawrence. Then, only 3 to 4 days more to British and Continental ports. Regular sailings: F.mpress of Britain. size-speed-SPACF marvel. Famous “Duchess" liners for smart economy. Popular “Mont-ships" for solid comfort, low cost. Attractive, low-priced Tourist and Third Class on all ships. YOUR INQUIRIES ARE INVITED CANADIAN PACIFIC WORLD’S GREATEST TRAVEL SYSTEM Special McNish’s Scotch Whisky for Good Highballs Kuenzle & Streiff IMPORTERS 343 T. Pinpin Tel. 2-39-36 Manila, P. I. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 32 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 Reg. No. 11399. Trademark consisting of the word “MERCUROCHROME” with a design, for antiseptics, germicides and bac tericides, registered on June 16, 1933, by Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Incorporated, of Bal timore, Maryland, U. S. A. Reg. No. 11400. Trademark consisting of the word “SUNSET” with a design, for matches, registered on June 16, 1933, by Philippine Match Company, Ltd., of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11401. Trademark consisting of the words “REPUBLICANOS CIGARETTES” with a design, for cigarettes, registered on June 20, 1933, by La Insular Fabrica de Tabacos y Cigarillos Inc., of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11402. Trade-name consisting of the words “TABLERIA LA SUERTE”, for the business of contracting construction of buildings, standard public markets, etc., re gistered on June 20, 1933, by Keh It, of Dagupan, Pangasinan, P. I. Reg. No. 11403. Trademark consisting of the word “LIBERTY” with a design, for cigarettes, registered on June 23, 1933, by Maria Luisa Hidalgo Vda. de Gonzalez La O, of Manila, P. 1. Reg. No. 11404. Trademark consisting of the letters "YMC” with a design, for cigarettes, registered on June 23, 1933, by Sweet Dreams Aromatic Cigarettes Company, Inc., of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11405. Trademark consisting of the word “KINGSWEAR” for shoes, coats, pants, shirts, undershirts, etc., registered on June 24, 1933, by T. Isardas & Co., of Iloilo, Iloilo, P. I. Reg. No. 11406. Trademark consisting of the representation of an eagle with spread wings and extended claws, for textiles of all kinds and similar articles, registered on June 24, 1933, by Germann & Co. Ltd., of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11407. Trademark consisting of the letter “T” with the words “Trade-Mark”, for beer, registered on June 24, 1933, by J. & R. Tennent, Limited, of Glasgow, Scotland. Reg. No. 11408. Trade-name consisting of the words “PHILIPPINE SCHOOL OF AVIA TION” with a design, for advetisements, signs over the place of business, upon letter heads, etc., registered on June 26, 1933, by Donato M. Halili, of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11409. Trademark consisting of the word “PALS” with a design, for powder, perfume and pomade, registered on June 27, 1933, by Tan Tiongchuy, of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11410. Trademark consisting of the word “TRUMP” with a design, for powder, perfume and pomade, registered on June 27, 1933, by Tan Tiongchuy, of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11411. Trademark consisting of the word “MENTOTUM” with a design, for pharmaceutical preparation, registered on June 28, 1933, by Jos6 E. Jimenez, of Manila, P. I. Reg. No. 11412. Trademark consisting of the words “BLACK CAT” with a design, for cigarettes, registered on June 30, 1933, by Katubusan, of Manila, P. I. (7’o be Continued') Trade-Mark, Designs, Registration Copyrights—Trade Names (In Philippines or United States) Reasonable Service Charges GRANITE & MARBLE MONUMENTS MAUSOLEUMS FRANK LEWIS-MINTON Telephones 2-54-22—2-11-26 Have You a Hobby? The projected paper on men’s avoca tions in the Philippines is held over to September. If you ride a hobby, please let the Journal know about it; while hobbies are not many in the islands, it is desired to know of as many of them as possible so as to have the survey accurate. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 33 TOBACCO REVIEW By P. A. Meyer Alhambra Cigar and Cigarette Mfg. Co. Recommended By Leading Doctors Raw Leaf: Buy ing of the 1933 Crop' in the Cagayan Val ley has started now but in view of the limited demand on one side and the poor quality of the leaf on the other, prices offered are low. Union Tobac co is moving better, the whole output having.been dispos ed of. " Export of Leaf Tobacco dur ing July shows the following figures: Australia.............................................. 380 China................................................... 6,499 France.................................................. 100 Hongkong............................................ 14,366 North Africa....................................... 35,480 North Atlantic (Europe).................. 7,289 Spain.................................................... 1,224,714 Straits Settlements............................. 474 Tonkin................................................. 75 United States..................................... 71,610 1,360,987 Cigars: After the monthly shipments to the United States up to June 30 of this year have been below last year’s, July of this year has practically approached the figure of July 1932. to u . o. A.. Period Cigars July, 1933........................................... 15,405,569 July, 1932........................................... 15,641,245 January-July, 1933........................... 76,272,240 January-July, 1932........................... 94,215,448 REAL ESTATE By P. D. Carman Addition Hills This month’s total, while somewhat greater than that of July, 1932, is the lowest since 1923 excepting July of last year. Transfers, how ever, exceeded consider ably those of February, May and June of 1933. Sales City oj Manila June July 1933 1933 Sta. Cruz......................... P 93,357 P174,076 Sampaloc......................... 73,501 112,605 Tondo............................... 71,832 50,410 Binondo........................... 136,200 53,000 San Nicolas..................... 18,800 58,794 Ermita............................. 46,830 79,533 Malate............................. 179,844 113,013 Paco................................. 11,290 36,067 Intramuros...................... 6,720 San Miguel..................... 31,000 41,080 Sta. Mesa....................... 5,310 Quiapo............................. 34,800 39,273 Sta. Ana........................... 41,111 23,421 Pandacan.......................... 3,326_____3,873 Drink It for Your Health’s Sake w TEL. 5-73-06 Nature's Best Mineral Water The Philippine Guaranty Company, Inc. (Established in 1917) SURETY BONDS— We execute Bonds of various kinds, specially CUSTOMS BONDS, FIRE ARMS BONDS, INTERNAL REVENUE BONDS, PUBLIC WORKS BONDS for Contractors, COURT BONDS for Executors, Administrators and Receivers and BAIL BONDS FIRE INSURANCE— In the Philippine Islands. LOANS— Secured by first mortgage on improved properties in the City of Manila on the monthly amortization plan. Second Floor INSULAR LIFE BLDG. Phone 2-41-11 The Bank of the Philippine Islands Authorized Capital PIO,000,000 Paid up Capital........ 6,750,000 Interest Paid on All Types of Accounts Safe Deposit Boxes Trust Department Established in 1851, as the oldest bank in the Philippines we extend patrons every accom modation consistent with sound banking policy. Corresponden ts : Thruout the World P. O. Box 777 Branches: Cebu, Iloilo and Zamboanga Head Office: No. 10 Plaza Cervantes, Manila Cable Address: “BANCO” P741,891 P797.175 IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 34 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 The National City Bank of New York Capital (Paid)------P248,000,000.00 Surplus................... P152,000,000.00 Undivided Profits - P 10,889,025.54 (as of June 30, 1932) COMPLETE BANKING SERVICES MANILA OFFICE National City Bank Building Luzon Stevedoring Co., Inc. DONT THROWAWAY YOUR MOAEY 'T'HE last word in hospitality is to offer your guest THORNE’S. If he demands an “encore", well— There’s only one thing better than one glass of THORNE’S, and that's two glasses! THORNE’S SCOTCH WHISKY Sole Ai/enl Established 1831 J. B. Vicente Cosin r. THORNE & SONS, LTD. 155 Marquez do Comillns Manila Glasgow, Scotland. HHCIEHTSCOTCH • WHISKY TOR LESS • WHEY SIR, AHD THE QUALITY IS HIGHER f MOf SCOTLAND'S BEST WHISKYS S/HCE1831. /& UROMIL Lightering, Marine Contractors Towboats, Launches, Waterboats Shipbuilders and Provisions SIMMIE & GRILK Phone .2-16-61 Port Area Powerful Urenic Dissolvent Astonishing cures of the most rebellious ca ses of Gout Rheumatism Arthritis A'jcnts for the Philippines BOTICA BOIE t'roiroplna 0.051; Henzoato lltlco 0 028; Sales plperaefnlcas 0.04«; Posfato dlsodlco 0.028; Esclplcnte ofcrvescente q. s. para 1 gr n. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL 35 Commodities Coconut Oil.......................................... Cigar (Number)................................... Embroidery........................................... Maguey.................................................. Leaf Tobacco....................................... Desiccated and Shredded Coconuts. Hats (Number)................................... Lumber (Cubic Meters).................... Copra* Meal.......................................... Cordage.................................................. Knotted Hemp.................................... Pearl Buttons (Gross)...................... Canton (low grade cordage fibre).. . All Other Products.............................. PRINCIPAL EXPORTS • June, 1933 Quantity 46,210,961 13,397,385 10,458,082 28,629,876 11,354,763 22,513 53,720 324,728 P June, 1932 Monthly average for 12 month* previous to June, 1933 Value % Quantity Value % Quantity Value % 6,058,213 1,080,410 1,117,038 1,687.947 363,298 281,857 40,229 14,298 209,683 78.638 212,478 100.300 26,154 33,522 16,714 604,795 76 3 7 3 Total Domestic Products........................................................................................ United States Products............................................................................................ Foreign Countries Products................................................................................... Grand Total............................................................................................... P12.000.113 100.0 P14,153,430 100.0 Cotton Cloths................... Other Cotton Goods........ Iron and Steel, Except Machinery..................... Rice..................................... Wheat Flour..................... Machinery and Parts of.. Dairy Products................ Gasoline............................. Silk Goods......................... Automobiles....................... Vegetable Fiber Goods... Meat Products................. Illuminating Oil............... Fish and Fish Products .. Crude Oil........................... Coal..................................... Chemicals, Dyes, Drugs, Etc................................... Fertilizers........................... Vegetables......................... Paper Goods, Except Books..................... Tobacco and Manufac tures of........................... Electrical Machinery.. .. Books and Other Printed Matters........................... Cara and Carriages*......... Automobile Tires............. Fruits and Nuts............... Woolen Goods................... Leather Goods.................. Shoes and Other Foot ware................................. Coffee................................. Breadstuff, Except Wheat Flour............................... Eggs.................................... Perfumery and Other Toilet Goods................ Lubricating Oil................. Cacao Manufactures, Ex cept Candy................... Glass and Glassware.. .. Paints, Pigments, Var nish, Etc........................ Oils not separately listed. Earthern Stones and Chinaware..................... Automobile Accessories.. Diamond and Other Pre cious Stones Unset.. .. Wood. Reed, Bamboo, and Rattan.................... India Rubber Goods.. .. Soaps................................... Matches............................. Cattle................................. Explosives.......................... Cement............................... Sugar and Molasses........ Motion Picture Films. .. Other imports................... Total. PRINCIPAL IMPORTS Monthly Average for 12 months previous to June, 1933 Vah % 10 9 2 % Value % Nationality of Vessels 288.812 154,105 211,620 82,351 128,637 34,656 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 14 6 7 6 0 3 3 3 6 0 3 7 P l.C 13 7 299,486 81,661 170.796 310,30J 57.796 117,141 24,7 93,760 4,701 13,616 28,001 772,171 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 8 0 2 6 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 6 1 2 102,788.174 9,473,296 9,550,528 14,591,580 14,146,717 P10,978,115 783,330 1,201,442 585,482 477,017 457,678 20,603 1,297.990 61,777 2,926 6,080,041 3L000 117,852 305,512 CARRYING TRADE IMPORTS June, 1933 June, 1932 Value Value 315.234 263,008 98,113 75,473 698,645 107.200 29,354 49,064 16.248 1.273,636 P17.429.642 100.0 Monthly average for 12 months previous to June, 1933 % Value % 28,814 94,967 354,598 531,942 410,514 421,67? 394,496 419,397 246,027 210,505 166,752 59,716 298,295 93,596 329,552 195,442 227,447 271,450 358,697 330,547. 147,132 92,060 86,069 100,505 41,423 82,540 23,432 0 0 2 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 0 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES Ports June, 1933 Value % Jfoailo,la. .... Cebu.......... Zamboanga. 62 12 17 Total. American. . British........ Japanese... Dutch........ German.. .. Norwegian. Philippines. Chinese.. .. Swedish.. .. Danish........ Portuguese. Panaman . . Italian........ Belgian.. .. By Freight.... By Mail........... P 34 33 7 5 5 7 0 1 426 70,103 333.268 5,974 428,898 0.5 2.8 0.4 1.5 1.7 843,245 5.5 2.8 168 Pll.475,560 98.7 P15,193.619 98.5 P12.256.458 98.3 150,752 1.3 241,586 1.5 213,045 1.7 1.3 1.7 Total. EXPORTS Nationality of Vessels Monthly average for June, 1933 June, 1932 12 months previous to June, 1933 Value % Value % Value % Monthly average for June, 1932 12 months previous to June, 1933 Value %’ 9 1 P2 American. . British........ Japanese... German.. .. Norwegian. Spanish.. .. Dutch........ Philippines. Chinese.. .. Swedish.. .. Danish........ Panaman .. Italian .... P 2,963,317 3,016,596 2,876,506 155,997 1,014,828 354,081 108,311 653,821 776,490 By Freight. By Mail. .. 24.8 25.1 23.9 1.3 8.5 2.9 0.9 5.5 6.5 P P 28.6 25.7 26.5 1.3 12.5 1.1 103,870 3,371 1,740 76,329 601,139 171,394 0.6 0.4 3.4 1.0 Total. P12.000.113 100.0 P14.153.430 100.0 P17,429,642 100.0 0.6 TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES AND FOREIGN COUNTRIES June, 1933 J Monthly average for lune, 1932 12 months previous Countries to June, 1933 Value % Value % Value % United States........... United Kingdom.. .. Japan.......................... China.......................... French East Indies. Germany.................... Australia.................... British East Indies. Dutch East Indies.. Netherlands............. Italy.......................... Hongkong................. Belgium.................... Switzerland.............. Japanese-China. .. . Norway..................... Denmark.................. Other Countries .... Total. P23.62 71 3 7 8 0 2 7 7 0 0 0 0 7 2 2 5 4 0.‘ 78 2 4 3 0 2 2 8 2 3 0 7 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 3 1 0.1 36 THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL August, 1933 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Kerr SteamshipCo.,Inc. General Agents “SILVER FLEET” Express Freight Services Philippines-New York-Boston Philippines-San Francisco (Direct) 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 680 Rizal Avenue Tel. 2-16-10 INFORMATION FOR INVESTORS Expert, confidential reports made on Philippine projects ENGINEERING, MINING, AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, LUMBER, ETC. Hydroelectric projects OTHER COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES BRYAN, LANDON CO. Cebu, P. I. Cable Address: "YPIL," Cebu. Manila Wine Merchants LIMITED P. O. Box 403 Head Office: 174 Juan Luna Manila, P. I. Phones 4-90-57 and 4-90-58 Branch Store: 39 Alhambra opposite Elks Club Phone 2-17-61 PHILIPPINES COLD STORES Wholesale and Retail Dealers in American and Australian Refrigerated Produce STORES AND OFFICES Calle Echague Manila, P. I. M + CHINA BANKING CORPORATION MANILA, P. I. Domestic and Foreign Banking of Every Description HANSON, ORTH & STEVENSON, INC. Manila, P. I. Buyers and Exporters of Hemp and Other Fibers Chaco Building — Tel. 2-24-18 BRANCHES: New York — London — Merida — Davao THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL P.O. BOX 1638 TEL. 21126 International Harvester Co. of Philippines formerly MACLEOD & COMPANY Manila—Cebu—Vigan—Davao—Iloilo Exporters of Hemp and Maguey Agents for INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER CO. Agricultural Machinery MADRIGAL & CO. 8 Muelle del Banco Nacional Manila, P. I. Coal Contractors and Coconut Oil Manufacturers MILL LOCATED AT CEBU P. O. Box 1394 Telephone 22070 J. A. STIVER Attorney-At-Law-Notary Public Certified Public Accountant Administration of Estates Receiverships Investments Collections Income Tax 121 Real, Intramuros Manila, P. I. “LA URBANA” (Sociedad Mutua de Construccidn y Pristamos) Prestamos Hipotecarios Inversiones de Capital Paterno Building, Calle Helios MANILA, P. I. The Earnshaws Docks and Honolulu Iron Works Sugar Machinery Slipways Machine Shops Port Area Manila, P. I. IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL Four Merchants’ Opinions One merchant says: “. . . It is difficult to tell what we have learned from our experiences except that, speaking for our organization, we have all learned to be very humble.” An other merchant, as well known, says: “Success is going to be measured by our consistent everyday business, with balanced stocks in wanted staples and styles that are in demand; in the continued promotion of those goods.” A third says: “...the promotion of timely, wanted mer chandise is essential to our continued profit making; in fact, to our very existence.” A fourth says: “...and I cannot too strongly repeat that we in our store are firmly of the opinion that not one peso should be spent on the advertising of goods not in demand —and that not one peso less than what is required to do a thorough job should be spent on the advertising of goods in demand.” When you place your advertising in the MANILA DAILY BULLETIN you are making a direct appeal to the buying power of Manila PREVENTS DESTRUCTION OF WOOD FROM ATTACK BY ROT, TERMITES, WHITE ANTS OR ANAY, AND BOK-BOK STAMPED ON LUMBER MEANS THAT IT HAS BEEN PRESSURE TREATED WITH , A WOOD PRESERVATIVE OF EXCEPTIONAL MERIT. LUMBER IS PERMANENTLY PRO TECTED AGAINST ALL FORMS OF ROT AND INSECT ATTACK. IT IS CLEAN AND TAKES PAINT OR VARNISH AS SATISFACTORILY AS UNTREATED WOOD. A NEW INTERNATIONAL LUMBER TRADE MARK LUMBER IS ROT PROOF LUMBER IS PAINTABLE ZMA prevents attack by anay and bok-bok. Tests have shown that only a very small quan tity o*2MA *’ necessary to termites or ZMA does not change the strength, physical appearance, nor any other characteristics of the wood and has the added advantage of making it somewhat fire resistant. LUMBER IS ODORLESS LUMBER IS PERMANENT 4^1 CURTIN-HOWE CORPORATION Timber Preservation Engineers New York, N. Y. ZMA Inmber may be used unpainted since it is colorless or it may be painted or finished in any manner desired. lumber is PRESSURE TREATED and is not to be confused with open tank, dip, spray or brush treatments. Unless lumber is PRESSURE TREATED it is not permanently protected against decay and anay. ZMA 1s practically insoluble in water and hence permanently present in the wood to protect it during the useful life of the structure. ATLANTIC GULF & PACIFIC COMPANY OF MANILA 71-77 Muelle de la Industria Sole Licensee Philippine Islands Manila, P. I. TN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL Cigars that win and hold friends THREE FAMOUS LEADERS PIGTAILS. A ’round-the-world favor ite, made in three sizes. CORONAS. This style is among the most popular in the cigar field. ESPECIALES. A close contender with our Coronas for pop ularity. These are but three of our many fine cigars, which are on sale at discriminating tobacco shops. Selected leaf tobacco from our own plantations in Isabela, cured under our own slow but perfect process, assures you cigars that you will enjoy. Made by TABACALERA ORIGINATORS OF HIGH GRADE PHILIPPINE TOBACCO PRODUCTS IN RESPONDING TO ADVERTISEMENTS PLEASE MENTION THE AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE JOURNAL