El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-28

ball team At games Of baseball be-
tween teams representing rival towns
the crowds are sometimes larger and
even more enthusiastic than at similar
events in the United States A feature,
by the way, is always made of the
American fIag-particularly. of course,
on such an occasion as the Fourth OF
July.
In the evening, after the moving
picture show has been given. great
bOnfires are built, and the warriors
gather round and sing The scene,
where thousands Of these wild folk are
assembled, is picturesque in the eN-
IRENE.
At the above mentioned schools, by
the way, a feature is made of indus
trial training. instruction is given in
sewing ard the boys are taught to
make coats and other garments for
themselves, while the girls learn to
put skirts and waists together after
the material has been cut out The
children like this kind of work very
much because the garments are given
them TO wear.
Soap, combs hair brushes, hair
clippers, and shears are regularly
called for as school supplies. The boys
cut each others hair, and every morn
ing the girls, big and little, present
themselves at school with faces shin
ing, hair neatly cOmbed and wearing
the garments they have themselves
made.
The boys are taught the arts Of
woodworking and irOnWOrking. and
how to build houses. They have al
ready built number of school build
ings OF brick and stone. Also they
have made bedsteads for the teachers,
desks for the schools, and many other
things.
Up to a very few years ago the wild
people Of the Mountain Province re-
garded all civilized folk as their nat
ural enemies; and no wonder. The
Spaniards treated them with utmost
cruelty, enslaviug them when ever an
opportunity offered, and the TagaloEs
have Initiated this Christian example
It was a great surprise to them, there
fore, to discover that the Americans
wished TO be kind to them, to pay them
Tor their labor, TO instruct them in the
arts Of civilization, and to help them ir
every possible way Having once
grasped this fact they exhibit a most
touching gratitude.
Like the Americans.
In fact, they fairly worship the
Americans, and the Fourth of July has
substantial meaning to them because
to the Americans it means so much. 1t
signifies liberty, as the Americans have
explained to them, and they never
knew what liberty was until the
Americans came and gave it to them
Should the United States withdraw
from the Philippines, the wild tribes
would again be oppressed by the TaEa-
logs as they were before; they would
hunting would be resumed. This, our
war department says, is the real and
substantial reason why our govern
ment in the archipelago should con-
tinue.
The opening Of government sex
changes" where the natives can sell
their products, and can buy what they
need at reasonable prices, is doing a
great deal toward extending the bene-
fits Of civilization throughout the /
Mountain Province, even in the most |
inaccessible regiOns-and this among
people, who, until recently. were |
hunted and otherwise treated like wild /
beasts The trail TO the IfugaO border /
from the sea Quilt not long ago by I
the wild men under American direc- |
uon) has been converted into a cart I
road over which salt "a necessary hard I
20 obtain I'm the INTERIOR is now cheap /
" transported in large quantities.
On other Islands of the archipelago |
civilization under American impulse is 4
rapidly progressing Prof. Dean G. /
W Orcester says THE MOrOs of Pala- /
wan are now astonishingly friendly. I /
recently visited their principal town .
without guard and unarmed- The /
wives of the ranking chiefs appeared |
publicly thing unprecedented Dat
10 Tumay, whose men attacked my es-
corI tWO years ago. showed me with
great pride that he had built with his
own hands the best house in Bonabona-
ana was nlmSel1 ulllnE the largest
piece Of land cultivated by a Moro in
7alaWan. Ploughs and other agricul-
-ural implements requested by the
horos, have been furnished
AT one of the newest and most in
accessible OF the new model villages in Z
ne very heart of Mindanao," SAYS Prof {
w orcester- II found the NanobOs cut |
ms grass on their town plaza with /
avn mower, and building excellent