Arizona republican., 1901-11-04

 the school teachers sent toethe Philip
 pines during the past CONDITIONS summer carry ample IN THE evidence of homesick- PHILIPPINES, ness on the part of the
 writers. Undoubtedly many of the young ladies who went to the islands in that spirit of adventure which possesses all Americans more or less, have found the situation uninvit- ing since the novelty of their sur roundings has worn off. School-teach- ing is hard work. even in the most pleasant environment. And when the teacher is in a strange land, thousands of miles from home and beset by count less inconvenience and annoyanceS which had not been anticipated, it is not strange that nostalgia is preva- lent for awhile at least. Ultimately 1t will be clear to all, of course, that only those teachers who are impelled by the missionary spirit should go to the Philippines. Meantime. the few Ari- zona teachers who applied for Philip pine positions and failed to get them have, evidently, no reason to com plain. Speaking the general conditions in the islands, General MacArthur, who recently returned to the United States said:
 The teachers are evidently little hon1esick, so violent is the change in conditions that they knew here to those that they meet in the Philip pines It was the same way with the soldiers for some time I remember an English newspaper which said, in discouragement of our work there: "A homesick nation is never q colonizing nation This maxim contains good deal of truth, as history has often shown. But the homesickness of our soldiers was only temporary, and that will be the case with the school teach CTS, I feel sure.
 The recent troubles in Samar are sporadic and mean nothing as to gen. eral conditions an prospects Two centers of insurrection still exist one in Luzor1s where Malvar is operating. and the other in Samar, under Lux ban. I do not believe that either rep resents d serious situation. although we are liable to have these little out breaks from time to time- l think the army in the archipelago is about the | right size, and. while I believe condi- tions are going to continue to inn prove all the time. I would not like to make any predictions as to the num- Der of months or years that it will be | necessary to maintain the present r:lii- ] itary establishment As l have said ! many times before, the work there | must be necessarily slow. You can inn agine what the undertaking would be | if, in the six New England states, all | the institutions of centuries were to ! be uprooted and an entirely new order ! of things introduced. It would produce a tremendous upheaval, and some thing of the same sort is now going on I in the Philippines.
 1 The Manila Times. in it's editions of | Sept 13. which has just come to hand | tells something of the difficulties or i the educational problem. The editor ! says that "lt is very questionable whether Superintendent Atkinson would ever have allowed the teachers to leave the states had he known in time that the military authorities would recall the order granting the corumissary privileges to civil em- ployes. This act really overturned the
 vhole basis upon which the educational
 uthorfties had laid their plans"
 It was clearly no small matter to import GOO teachers and within three weeks from their arrival to distribute and establish them in a systematic manner throughout the archipelago. The primitive means of travel, the IT, .egularities in the steamboat service. he baffiing and meager information obtained from desired sources. to say nothing of the personal equations that had to be taken into account, in all these establishments. presented a prob lem which must have taxed severely the ingenuity of the authorities.