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About The Ione independent. (Ione, Or.) 1916-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1929)
Amiricin Plow With Phlllpplna Motlvt Power. (Prpml tha National Oaotraphla Social?. Waanlntton. D. Ct THE status of the Philippine Inlands crop op afresh with the writing of a new tariff bill. Thli tslnnd group, T.UUU miles from the pacific coast of North America, furnishes at once the great est stake ant) the most difficult ad ministratis problem of the United States lo the I'aclflc. This Is no tin; Island territory like some of those that fly the Stars and Stripes In mld-Paclfic. but a country of nearly 115,000 aquare mllea a greater area than that of New York. Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland combined; or among the Islands, greater than the three large southern Islands of Japan upon which the life of thnt nation centered while It grew to Imperial stature. This faraway territory of the tnlted Statea Is Inhabited by nearly 12.0(10.000 people of many races and different religions, less than quarter the present population of the three most Important Japanese Islands. But the tropical Philippines with their am ple rainfall and luxuriant vegetation are capable. In spite of their moun tainous character, of supporting much larger population than at present ' Sine pacifying the tslnnds, the Cnlted States has given the Filipinos steadily Increasing political control of their affairs. The appointive commis sion which ruled over the Islands at first under the American regime has Bow given place to so elective house and senate, aryl five of the seven mem bers of the cabinet are Filipinos. The governor general and vice governor nr still appointed by the Fresldent of the Cnlted 8tates. V Education has been the center of the American policy In the Islands. A very small percentage of the na tives were litem te In 189S. Numerous Jonguages and dialects were In use and only a minority understood Span ish. It was determined to make Eng lish the common language and to oio the necesssry public schools to rench the great mass of children. By JJ17 more than 4,000 primary schools were In operation In charge of 13, B77 Filipino and 417 American teach ers. About half the estimated total of the children of the lslands-floo.000 were enrolled In that yenr. By tfrjo the enrollment had reached TOI.fMJ, and It has steadily Increased since until now approximately one and a quarter million pupils are enrolled. Trade Grows Rapidly. The trade of the Philippines hns Increased tremendously since ISO. In that year the combined total of ex ports snd Imports was 2.ooo,n0 ; by 1017 the total was S1M.0W.OiiO: and In 10M It had reached $275,000,000. Jvearly every man In the world who Hues a rope pays tribute to the Philip pines, for "Manila hemp" It one of the best rope materials known. It Is har vested from a species of banana tree. Nearly $.i0.0"0.(i0 worth of It was shipped In 1!C7. Coconut products "meat" and oil come second. Much of America's butter substitute is made from Philippine coconut oil Ship ments In 1!C7 amounted to more than flfl.OUO.iXK). As producer of sugar. the Philippines ennnot yet be com' pared with the fumous "tugsr Isles," Cuba and Java, but Its production more than .yi,ooo.i0 worth In 1027 entltlit the group to be classed with Ilnn-sll. Porto Itlco and Formosa aiming the world's sweeteners. Pmhnhly the) moat significant detail In n n Inventory of the state of the plillllililnos Is the decrease In the num I it of white residents. The census of l!i:i allowed 14.000 white people, most of them American, while the last au thi.rltntlve census, 101?, showed 12, ooo. Meantime the popnlntlon of the whole archlpelngo hod Increased by R,ll0,000. Straws In the wind are probably more Important than the tablets of 25 years of progress In the Philippines These are some of the straws. Plans are under way for planting So.ooo.ooo Pur a rubber seedlings during the cur rent year. A new profitable export has been discovered In buntnl or ban kok straw hnts which has lenped In four years from the $200,000 peg to $2,000,000, Fruits and Flbsr. The world Is waking up to an appe tite for delicious tropical fruit and the Philippines are waking up to the fact Hint the Islands are eminently fitted to grow such fruit. The Fill plni look with envious eyes on the profits of Hawaiian pineapple snd now clulra they can raise even better pineapples. Mango, lanson, chlco and pomelo are strange names to the American housewife, but they muy not long remain so U the Philippines re successful In canning and mar keting their fruit products. But if the custom of.plgeoohoiing jailor- or district by Us products. such ss Illinois, the Cora Belt state; Sao Paulo, the Coffee country; the South, the Land of Cotton, la ac cepted, then the Philippines should be known st the Land of Fiber. From banana plant Filipinos obtain prob ably the strongest known plant fiber. Manila hemp, from the fibrous stalk of the cane they produce sugar, the long hairs od the busks of the Mllloo snd half coconuts are now put to many oses, the fiber of the maguey, mem ber of the emsryllts family and close relative of the century plant Is an Important export. Buntal hats are made from the burl palm, and then there la the wood and rattau from the forest. Finally their embroidery In- dustry depends on the Imported fibers of silk, cotton snd flax. The Philippines might be said to be jagged land both vertically snd horizontally: Tbey are very moun tainous snd their coasts are much In dented. Though only about one twen ty-fifth the area of the United States exclusive of Alaska, the Philippines have coast line twice as great Commercially, Manila, on com modious bay and with good harbor, has an excellent strategic position. It Is sort of oriental center, less than a thousand miles from Important Chinese ports and less than I 00 mllea from southern Japan, southern Korea, Singapore and the ports of the Dutch East Indies. It Is estimated that within radius of S-VO miles of Manila live three-quarters of billion Inhabitants more than third of (he total population of the earth. We Lose One Island. Recently Cncle Sam lost one of hla tiniest Philippine Islands Pulmns. That Is, for years be conaldered It his, but found later that tht .Nether lands also claimed It as an outlying fragment of the Dutch East Indies. The dispute was duly arbitrated, and the arbitrator, s Swiss, decided lo favor of The Netherlands. Few of the many Philippine Islets are so Isolated as Pa I mas. It Ilea 43 mllea off the nearest point of Min danao, Cape San Augnstln. and was the farthest southeastern bit of land claimed to be part of the Philip pines. So neglected bad the Islet been that many mapa do not show It. and most of the gazetteers pass Its came by. Palmas (It Is sometimes colled Mlangas) Is only little over half the. size of Central par In New Turk city, being one and one-third mile long by two-thirds of mile wide: mere speck In the sea when Its dis tance from large land bodies Is con sidered. It lies about 20 miles west of the 127th meridian (east longU tude) which forms the eastern boundary of the region ceded by Spnln to the United States, and about 40 miles north of the parallel 4 degrees 45 minutes (north latitude) which forms the southern boundary. It was therefore well within the area marked out by the treaty for United 8tates ownership. There It no record of visit by any official of the Cnlted States or the Philippines to Pnlmns until lood when Leonard Wood, then governor of the adjacent Islnnd of Mindanao, while on an Inspection trip through the en ters of his province, anchored off Hie Island. To his surprise the little boat that put off from the Island village carried a Dutch flag. It was explained to him that the native headman had on appointment from the Dutch and that for 15 years Dutch ships had called once a yenr to bring supplies anl tn kn away copra. Four hundred ant) -fifty-eight Inhabitants were then on the Islet A report was duly made on this ap parent alien occupation of American territory; the Btnte department be came Interested. For 17 years the matter was under consideration by the diplomats of The Netherlands, Spain and the United Stales, before the status of Palmas wot settled, Senate Seniority The terms Junior and senior sen ator refer to their continuous service in the United Stntos senate, and not to ages or terms. The senior senator from a state Is the senator who hat had more continuous service In the senate than the other, who It called tht Junior senator. t HOW TO LIVE LONGER JOHN CLARENCE FUNK . PUT ON YOUR ARMOR TI1R romance of scientific achieve ment but been written In the past fifty yeiira. More advancement In pure and applied science hns been made In that period thnn In all the past centuries combined. And what tt true concerning sci ence generally Is equnlly applicable to the healing art There can be no doubt about the matter; the sav ing of life through modern preventive methods It one of the outstanding achievements of the age. Smallpox, which formerly possessed devastating power Is In this day Dow-and-then proposition only. Ty phoid fever, which alayed Its many thousands annually Is at the present time at bay. Diphtheria, which at late as a decade ago whs a terrible and terrifying enemy to child life. Is now In many Jurisdictions practically extinct. Scarlet fever, the power of which has remained unchallenged un til the past few years. Is losing lit fearful bold. And so the fascinating story goes. However, the point to this histori cal recitation Is not to prate about tht past or even boast about the pres ent, but to place everyone on guard concerning the future. It Is not enough for the Individual to brag about public sanitation, pure water supplies, control In the com municable diseases and modern su pervision over foods. Nevertheless that Is what many people do, and that Is practically all they do. Of course too much credit cannot be given to officials snd scientists who re responsible for the present satis factory state of public health affairs but It must be understood that there ire still few things left for the In dividual to do If the personal safety factor Is to be developed to Its high est expression. Life Is battle, a dally struggle with enemy germs, enemy living con ditions and enemy habits. If this fact would be more generally recog nized there would be a phenomenal decline In the sick and death Hut a Toxlo-antltaxln for yonr children Is their scientific protection against deatb or serious Illness to thnt form And scarlet fever Immunization for the susceptible, young and old. Is ct sldered to be equally efficient Typhoid vaccine Is effective for st least seven years. A Journey Into far country, or even to summer re sorts where the purity of the water supply may he questionable, demands this prevention. And the efficiency story of vaccination for snialtpox Is an old and conclusive one. These are all simple, harmless and powerful weapons. If life Is worth anything It Is worth living. So put on your armor, and live I SMART ALECKS THE percentage of "smart alecks" Is s fixed ratio In the general pop ulation. This large group hns Ignor ance for Ita basis of Intelligence! II Is positively painful to see the num ber of people who In their own con celt Insist upon overriding the Judg ment of lesrned and scientific men. Tht pathetic feature Is the ho(ie lesaness of logic In persuading them that they are wrong. Sound argu ment, common sense with theita things they will have nothing what soever to do. They know II all. Why Should they bother? Well, If a temlenllghtened person blinded by his own magnificent bruin desires to Indulge In fancies relative to his health, there la not much thiil can be done to stop him. And II Is this pa tlcular breed of person who fills the pockets of tht rhiirlnuma. cultlsts, faddists and other peculiar reactionaries whose wares are fine words, half-truths, bluff and some times downright lies. i Rut children should have a better chance. Death Is t pretty hlg price for youngster! and babies to pay. sim ply becuuse they have parents who re Ignorantly stubborn and blissfully headstrong. A little while ago a wotnun refused to have her hoy I m mo til zed against diphtheria. She even would not per mil the simple test to be made; thnt would prove or disprove susceptibility None of this modern foolishness for her I "Lots of my friends' children never had toxin antitoxin and they didn't get diphtheria either," the ar gued. Well, she took the chance, lint her boy got diphtheria and diphtheria got the boy. It would be cruel to tell thlt mis guided parent thnt In n l.-rr -tin ruled way she killed her child. But Unit la exactly what happened. Ilc-r painfully Ignorant wisdom and sense of itiperl orlty blinded her to the plain fuels about modern preventives. Tht toxin-antitoxin procedure It simple, harmless and efficient. If your child Is over tlx months old and hut not been Immunized, you too art lo tht "smart sleek" cliiss. Get out of It at once. (A. till. Wnttra Nawapapar t)oios. Not Las? If you think you art too tired la walk to work, Jusl put It down to tht fact you are veiling hntelessly soft Think of the Chinese coolie, lit pushes wheelbarrow loaded with eight persons. Try that on youi downtown. CThe Kitchen Cabinet (CO, ISIS, Wwitrn N.wil MHir Union,! W hurt th strllltnst 47 Is ovctr, Ana ins sun is soma aown, Whan ths shstlas of nllit art tall lug In the country ant) the town) When thct whir-poor will la railing, And ths wolf begin, to roam, Whan tht mocking bird Is doling, TucjB I want to bt at horn. Morris Olson. A FEW TID BITS When making a luyer cuke of two layers, If the family Is sum 1 1, use one Inyor cut Into halves and put together with sweet eued whipped c renin light ly flavored. The other layer 1111 with tht follow ing tilling: Oringt Flllln... Mix one-half cupful of sugar, three lublcspoonfult of Hour, and the grated rind of one half an orange; when well blended add one-fourth cupful of urnngt Juice, one tublcapooiiful of lemon Juice, the yolka of two eggs, and cook until smooth and Illicit ever water. Add S teaspoon ful of butter anil spread on the cuke. Ice with confectioner's tugnr moistened with orange Juice. A nice sauce to serve with steak or hoi II sii It: Parsley Butttr, Take three table- spoonfuls of butler, one fourth tea spoonful of tail, one-eighth leii-poon- ful of HpKr, two tiibleHHNihfulk of lemon Juice and add one liilili-spiMin-ful of finely minced puralcy. Work the butter until creamy, then add lemon Juice and puraley. Fruity Cuatard. Ileal the egg yolka. add one-fourth of a cupful of augar, (wo teaspoonfula of flour, one-eighth teaapoonful of suit to cupfuls of milk, one-half tempoonful of vanilla added at the last, five tnblespoonfult of sugar. Beat the egg yolks, add tht sugar, salt and mix welt Add the milk and cook until thick enough to coat tht spoon. Cool, add tht vanilla and turn Into serving dish contain ing four sliced oranges. Heat the egg whites, sdd the five tablespoonfuls of tugar, heap on top of the custard. A Delicacy. Take two large or anges, three cupfuls of diced rhubarb, two cupfuls of sugar, one-balf tea spoonful of mace, one fourth teaspoon- ful of cinnamon, twelve whole cloves. Place all tht Ingredients together In casserole adding thf grated orange nna ana coot who ruuuaro until tender. Good Food. The mother who feeds ber children green vegetables, plenty or mug, c o s r t e cereals aud breads, need have no fear of s n undernour ished child. The coarse foods, bard to mssttcate, make tht teeth strong, by exer cise. Tht gums which carry the blood that nourishes tht teeth, need this course food also lo keep them firm and healthy. In recent Investigations of school children In the East tht results art moat Interesting. The poorer children, coming often from very pour homes, averaged a better percentage than the children from wealthy homes. This shows that Intelligence and not wealth It the Important factor In well nourished children. The cuatotn of giving everybody glass of orange Juice dully la a good one and most Important for the child. It contains lime In smnll amount, fur nishes excellent Iron suit. Is well sup plied with vltauilnes enpeclully C, which prevents rickets, and Is free from possible conta.nlnutlon, which Is not true of milk (alwaye). Orange Juice stimulates the retention of lime In the teeth, bone tissues and the body fluids. Alternate the orange Juice with milk It will be found most helpful. In many schools they art using oranges Instead of milk for ths lunch time, Junket In tabled and various forms Is avnllablo In all markets. Junket Is convenient way of serving milk dishes. Strawberry let Crtam. Crush one Junket tablet and dissolve In ta- blesK)onfu of cold water. Add one cupful of sugar to pint of milk that has been warmed to new milk tem perature. Add the dissolved tablet stir well, pour Into s freezer and freeze to a mush. Add hnlf pint of cream whipped, two cupfuls of crushed strawberries, and two table spoonfuls of lemon Juice. Mil well and let stand until well frozen. ' Date and Chocolatt Cakt. Tukt two tnbtenpootiful! of butler, creotn with one cupful of sugar, add a bit of fla voring, lemon, almond or vanllln, or a mixture of all; add two well-beaten eggs, two tablespoonfuls of cocoa, or l aquare of chocolate melted ; add one and three-fourths cupfuls of flour sift ed with two teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Add the flour alternately with one half cupful of milk. linke In square tin and when cool cover with the following! ' One cupful of dates cut flue, one cujiful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of lemon Juice, with a bit of the grntetj rind. When thick add a tnblespoonful of butter and cool. After the" date covering has been added, cover with Icing, to which a little lemon Juice hns been added. juuU :7U 5t , m 81 Safety for Aviator in New Light System The dimgeroui possibilities of fog at tht airport luiullng place Is report ed to have been successfully ovttreoms hy a new system of lighting recently Installed experimentally at the muni cipal airport at L'lovtflltnd. Incorpo rated In the design of this multi-light unit are several principles of lighting, each tt distinct nld In night pilots. It provides a fun of light which, when rotated, reaches tht pilot nt any angio at which he may approach the field, One-half of this fan of light Is whits and tht other half red. The rotation produces alternate red and white Hashes which Instantly attract the pi lot's attention aud enable him to Iden tify the nlrport from brightly lighted parka, railroad yards and streets. The high Intensity beams are projected by the lower, drum-shaped units, of which there are four two red and two clear Identical In design with those uaed lo mark airways. Tin upper units set to project a less Intense beam of light at higher angles, are standard, narrow ben in, floodlight projectors. Const to Coast good Grocers tell and recommend Ituss Unit Blue, Better value than any other. Adv. Pott-War Complealoai The latt 0. K. Montague, tht Eng lish editor and author, bated poat-war conditions. An American publisher, after listen ing to Mr, Montague's complalnta for an hour or so ont day, said sootb Inglyt "The post-war girl, anyhow, thaukt to athletics. Is shapelier than tht pre war girl." "Maybe she Is," snld Mr. Montague, "and maybe ths Isn't Still there's one thing I will tdmll shout her. Her complexion Is better thso tt used lo be." "Naturally," said the publisher. "No, not naturally," said Mr. Mon- tngue. "Artificially." Odd Hiding Place for Money While cleaning old rubber tires be fore (hey went Into a regenerator at a Hanover (Germany) factory, a wom an employee discovered In one of tht tires a small package, neatly tied, coo talnlng $213. Doth (he woman and the factory owner claimed It The Judge derided In fnvor of the Under, unlets the American who, to Judge from the wrappings of the package, lost It should turn up to claim It Coattitaeatt ef Honey Honey contains 18 parts water, 78 parte carbohydrate (including 7Q parts auzar and 2 oarts dextrin). J02 min eral substances or 4 parts of pollen grain, gum, bee glue, formic acid and volatile oils and other flavor sub stances. Dainty white dresses for baby or daughter made beautiful by Rues Ball Blue. Tour Grocer has 1L Adv. Maasloe Mere Appropriate Several masked tenors sre featured where muzzles would be more appro priate. Toledo Blade, . MeaUe'a First Coll.ge The Brat university In Mexico wat established In 1553 snd was founded by a royal order from Spain. ''I was three times under an operation and I was very weak and nervous and could not eat I suffered for ten years. I learned about Lydia E. rink' ham Vegetable Compound and my husband bought me a bottle, I felt a little better and he bought me two more. I had the Compound In my home for two yean and took it all the time. Now I feci strong and can do anything." Mrs. A. Michalk, 3443 Mitchell Ave., Detroit, Michigan. The EMcntial of Scanty Clear TfoulhfHl Shin S-rr USB Cntlcnra Soap daily to thoroughly cleante the ikin snd keep it in a fresh, healthy condition. Ai with Cntieure Ointment to soothe snd heat sny irritstioni. Tht fa vorite method of cuing for the skin fof tht put titty yctri. " Soap He Olntmani He. tni UK. Ttkiua He. atmplt each fret. AMmil "Caucus," Deal. Bo, Mtldao, Mau. Mr Cntlenm Snaring Uek Bos. fe" c 1 Maheslife Siveeter Too much to eut too rich a diet or too much amok lug. Loll of thing causa sour stomach, but one thing can correct It quickly. I'hllllps Milk of Magnesia will alkallnlze the acid. Take a spoonful of (his pleasant preparation, and the system Is sooo sweetened, Phillips la always ready to relieve distress from overeating; to check all acidity or neutralize nicotine, Ite- member this for your own comrort! for the sake of those around yon. Kndorsod by physicians, but they al ways lay J'Mlfipi. Don't buy some thing else and expect the same re mits I PHILLIPS Mnk , of Magnesia fne Soap fu awee? for n? tVe of betmtaheM, tm ToUet kM tUw Ml. mootai jmI whta, fovi rstaf lkf ei gUattftlni. Votjfl Bath Shampoo i body nfiNltM. Use Glenn's SulnhurSoan M s . Erudite "Can yon spelt cair wt aiked of tht little Boston boy. tea, air, and I can do conic aec- (Jons. For Poisoned Wounds ss Rusty Nail Wounds, Ivy Poisonioe.etc HANrORD'S BALSAM O MYRRH SmkthIMMUillMIMl All lllilllO. Tke Toil.r. Somebody Is trying to Introduce snot her new dance." "Yea, at least there Is a lot of agitation on foot." We dont call confidence In one' ' ability to accomplish what he under takes, self conceit. Worse Iban a bloody hand Is a bard) heart Shelley. WELL OR MONEY BACK 1m Hit t HI 1 ftMrttStS-aiHus VVKJTTKN ASiilfK ANCB (in In iMWf Ins int m. 1. 1. Uhi ham aoa-CKirgktl CMIhdrl mi mat. Mat (IM kl m ocMnlvk Kurlubl aiKctM Um Win SinnKKtiiaMUiiofliiirMnt. st TOUAY (nf fkkg 100 paat knot) nl dalallt tad tiwfwlrtda oHfttlimwttala. COLON CLINIC sctoolTfor men Wat tat amiNui. nubtt rtorusioM Hiirull an tlma. Hand fur ll!ratiir ORtO ON INSTITUTg Of TtCHNOUXJV ( k.U. A iiltis rorLUMul,lr;ua PARKER'S mX'.JfM HAIK BALSAM - 7 H 1 .... .. . .. E UJb ", I Baaulr la Or., and Fadad HaM F 3i' a1- w. an.nt wat iirnati-ia. .i'J1 Jllliriii., l-il.lvnna. , PtORESTON BHAMPOO-M'tl fir " n CitiniKllou wllh t'alk-r'l Hair IIHMn. MtknUi balr niM and AurTf. tn ranla hjr mall it at ilcujj. (lilt, lliauil Cuaralcal Wukt, I'tutwaut, M. (. ' W. N, U., PORTLAND, NO. 28-1929, I v?