Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-31
HoMEslck TEACHERS.
II is Hinted that The Maine Boys in the Philip
pines Are Disappointed.

Those who have read in the Journal
Of the Maine boys among the not
American teachers who have gone 10
the Philippines will find some interest :
ing points in Il recent interview with
General Macarthur in Washington
In speaking of the school teachers let
t"rS which are becoming an important
contribution TO American knowledge of
the Philippines. General Macarthur.
who has recently returned to this
country from command there. says:
The teachers are evidently little
homesick. so violent is the change
from conditions that they knew to
those that they meet in the Philippine
islands. Ii vas the same way with the
soldiers for some time. | remember an
English newspaper which said in dis
col,rarement of our work there: a
homesick nation is never coloniZlng
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
erS. ! feel sure.
The recent troubles in Samar are
sporadic and signify nothing as TO
general conditions and prospects. Two
centres Of inSurrection still exist. one
in Luzon where Malvar is operating,
and the other in Samar. under Lukban.
do not believe that either represents a
serious situation. although we are
liable TO have these little outbreaks
from time to time. | think the army in
The a., hipelago is about the right size.
and while believe conditions are gong
10 continue to improve all the time. l
would not like To make any prediction
IS to tn. number of months or years
fhc; il will be necessary to MAINTAIN
the present military establishment. AS
| have. said many times before. the
,yorl, There, must be necessarily SLOW.
Yo,: can imagine what the undertaking
would y. it, in the six New England
states. all the institutions of centuries
were. to be uprooted and an entir ~
new order of things introduced 1t
wo,,Id produce Il tremendous upheaNal.
and something of the same sort is now
going on in the Philippines"
I'll. Manila Times, in its edition OF
Sent X which has just com" to hand.
tolls something of the difficulties OF
Tho educational problem The editor
saws that lit is very question -"le
whether superintendent Atkinson
would ever have allowed the teachers
+, leave the states had he knoWi n
time tnat the military authorities
would recall the order granting the
.ommiysary privileges to civil en-
,,loy.es. This act really overturned the
whole BASIS upon which the educational
,nthorities had laid their plans
7, was clearly no small matter TO I'm
mort six hundred teachers and within
three weeks from their arrival to dis
,rihute and esta hlish them in sys-
,ena,ic manner throughout the aren't
nalaro. The primitive means Of travel.
tho irregularities in the steamboat
.nrvice the battling and meagre In
formation obtained from desired
SOURCES to say nothing of the personal
onuatiou that had to be taken into ac-
count in all these appointments. pre-
scented a problem that must have taxed
s.verelv the ingenuity of Supernteh-
dam Atkinson, Probably no. man on
the islands has had a harder task. but
I'm, he has performed it with ability
and vigor no one doubts.