The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1913-09-04
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the past eight years, challenges the attention,
study admiration and imitation of all lands And
In connection with it should be studied the self
governing penal agricultural settlement on the
Island of Palawan which has already proved
notable success.
The army and constabulary quarters are mod
els of their kind. The building of the Young
Mems Christion association in Manila and the
one at Fort Mckinley, donated by Helen Gould,
are perfect in their equipment. There clubs
aplenty. The stranger asks, What Is this or that
fine structure? The answer may be, such or
such a municipal building Yonder Is one for
medical research That is the headquarters for
public works. There is the plant for the public
water supply, and there is the ice plant.
The Ayuntamento, the old Spanish capitol
building, is now used for the Philippine assembly
and for the government offices. It's commodious
hall is the center of interest, 1t Is there that
the laws are made for the islands and their
finances regulated. Eighty Filipnos form the
assembly, which may be described as correspond
ing to our lower house. The Commission" which
is at once senate and cabinet consists Of four
from the islands and five from the states
including the governorgeneral and the vicegov-
ernor. Several of these men are heads of de-
partments. All bills passed In the assembly must
be ratified by the commission in order to be-
come laws The upper chamber has the power
of Veto But this function is usually exercised
In the less QraStlC form or laying on the table
questionable measures-and leaving them there.
It goes without saying that as Americans have
charge of things there schools galore. In
these, throughout the islands. 100000 pupils are
gathered. Now all schools, including the paro-
chial the Jesuit and those of other religious or
ders, under government supervision as re-
CARDS the standard of scholarship. The schools
are all embracing, from the university to the
kindergarten, including state, church, mission.
boarding, charity, industrial, trade and normal;
even schools for the blind and the deaf and
dumb and, by no means least for the training
of nurses
Manila depends much for its interest and fas-
cination upon the native nipa dwellings seen on
every hand They are scattered, keeping up the
ever present note Of contrast among the modern
houses, or hudded, almost touching each other,
on the poorest lands lined along miles of road
in suburban barrios Nipa Is coarse dwarf
palm Of which the Filipino makes anything, from
a string or basket to the house he lives in.
Like all matched construction the nipa cottage is
wonderfully picturesque. AS rule 1t Is raised
on posts eight or ten feet above the often damp
or marshy ground, and thus affords shelter for
chickens, goats and even pigs and ponies. When
these cottages are, as Is more and more the
case, clean in their surroundings. and have the
shade Of cocoanut palms, broad-leaved bananas
or plumy bamboos with the blaze among them
of a, brilliant fre tree or the bloom of lovely
habiscus, the effect is of finished picture This
is heightened at dusk as lights appear inside the