Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1913-09-05

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are llghh
ed under the house to cook the unpublished" RICE
with possibly bit Of cheap fish, for supper The
pot is often watched by man and woman wien
ed before their time, squatting on their heels,
each smoking the perpetual cigarette. The wom-
an is apt to be holding, always tenderly, the
smallest of half dozen nearly naked children.
The man with no less fondles a docie but
spurred game cock Fields for manly sport are
slowly rivang the cockpit with it's ruinous idle
ness and betting The Filipino women have al
ways shared the passion for gambling with their
men, to the hurt Of the family and its earnings.
Many of them are now learning embroidery. They
do it well and find ii even more interesting than
cock fights cards or craps.
visitor is lucky who comes upon one Of the
tidier cottages and espes a youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso cumming sort Oh
guitar for the benefit of a nutbrown maid at
the window above the stills. She has delicate
features and bright eyes and long and strikingly
graceful neck and mass of smooth, glossy, jet
black hair hangs below her waist over her gay
balloonsleeved bodice and folded panuelo. or kerr
chief. One waits, half expecting to see chorus
emerge from the fowery background and break
into dance or song. But, alack! such romantic
illusions are rare and heetng. The reality that
stays is homely and hard and sometimes tragic.
Manila is beautiful for situation. The bay to,
the west IS as blue as the Mediterranean and the
splendor Of the sunsets is beyond telling. Some
times nothing is to be seen but luminous sky and
water Then OF sudden there appear as If just
created the scalloped hills Of the distant coast
beyond the long low peninsula Of Cavite, for
merly, and still to some extent, used as naval
station. The fortified island OF Corregidor, soft
and dim on the horizon, stands In reality vert-
able armed Titan to guard the narrow entrance OF
the vast bay. Close beside 1t the lovely noun
tain Of Maribeles suggests an earthly paradise.
but in fact 1t is the unfriendly abode of the Ne
CRITICS. race resembling the pigmies of Africa
Beyond on other shores and on other islands
OF the vast Philippine archipelago other races
unclaimed, untamed unchristian. Among them.
most dreaded by foreigners and natives are the
fanatical, treacherous, fierce Mohammedan Moros
AS we look at the work in Manila and through
out the Philippines during the last ten years we
feel that America has made here its finest mark
the finest and fairest it is not too much to say.
made by any western people In any eastern col
ony. But 1t has not done enough Nor would IL
have done enough If the material benefits be-
slowed were immeasurably greater Altruism
has still its most potent part to play its most
immitigable demands to meet. There is need Of
more American missionaries, wise, consecrated
tactful There are such men and women already
at work in the provinces-teachers, doctors in
structors in manual industry and in farming
uplift workers, who are at the same time evange-
lists. And there are those who give themselves
wholly to preaching and to pastoral work. OF all
this service it would be JOY to tell II space
allowed. But we owe far larger ministry to
bodies and minds, and above all to souls that
consciously unconsciously are feeling after God
If haply they may find him.