Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-19
FILIPINO MAKES PLEA
THAT UNITED STATES
GRANT INDEPENDENCE
Maximo M. Kalaw, in "The Case
for the Filipinos," Denies That
His Countrymen Are Savage
Igorrotes
OTHER NEW BOOKS

One cannot but wonder N Maximo L.
Kalaw's eniightening book, THE Case for
the Filipinos." would have been so generous
10 American ideals Of 1916 had It been
written after the defeat of the Clarke
snendment in the House. authorizing the
President to grant ''our wards" complete
independence within four years. The author,
young Filipino educated in American
schools in his native land and living under
United States guardianship, claims to voice
the sentiment of the generation Of which he
Is spokesman. His people, he says, will
never relinquish the hope that their country
viii be free and Independent.
Mr.. Kalaw employs the most effective
form of argument. He makes the United
Etates establish ''the case for the Filipnos."
His conclusions are all based upon evidence
submitted by the Americans themselves,
from Admiral Dewey and President Nc.
Kinley down to the sponsors ofPhiippine in
dependence In the present session of Con.
gress. Among the statements which the
author supports with communications from
Admiral Dewey and the then President Is
the assertion that 'the acquisition of the
Philippines by the United States was the
most Unforeseen event in the history of
American expansion
The defeat of the Spanish forces in
Manila instead of being mere side issue,
diverted the attention of this country from
the main question of freeing Cuba from the
yoke of Spain and became. of itself, the
most important issue of American politics
Mr.. Kalaw recalls that at the time of the
Spanish-American War, Spain had been
, beaten so severely by the Filipinos that
only small strip of land around Manila
remained under its control In fact, the
author says, the Philippines had won their
independence before America came to their
rescue
Il In his plea for independence Mr. Kalaw
Indignantly denies that the people are unfit
for self-government. Only few hundred
thousand of the total of 100000 of the
islands are not Christians. The "misrepre.
sentation' in which all Filipnos are
pictured as naked Ingorrotes standing over
beheaded corpse is the worst form of
libel, the author adds. Here, too. he proves
his case by quotations from the Congress
sional Record and from reports books and
speeches by prominent Americans. Former
President Taft and former Comm'S soner
Worcester are the two main, and the au-
thor says, only opponents of Philippine ih-
dependence on the grounds of unfitness. !
Mr.. kalaw is secretary to the Resident
Commissioner Manuel l., Quezon. at Wash.
ington The entire history of the Philippine
question is related and appendices contain
the important official documents and ut
terances bearing upon the subject.
When Sydney Brooks was about to sail
from New York this spring friend sent
TO him on the steamer Il small neatly
wrapped package. The guards at the
Eangplank held up the messenger and forced
him to take off the, ,>wrappngs and disclose
the contents. They did not intend to allow
any internal ma6hine on board if they could
prevent it-e'They breathed freely when they
discovered that there was no dynamite in
the package. 1t was simply We a book
by Gerald Stanley Lee fresh from the
press of Doubleday. Page & Co.. Garden
; City, N. Y There is really no dyna-
mite in the book. 1t is discursive, i'll d
gested plea for peace to be brought about
and maintained by overcoming evil with
good Mr.. Lee devotes I'll pages to his
plea when he could have delivered his mes
sage more effectively in IL pages. Yet those
persons who have leisure and like to be
amused may find entertainment II not in
struction in reading what he has to say.
The Lee devotees those who regard this
one-time preacher and former professor and
present explolter of his own personality as
the type of personality of humanity in gen.
eral may be edited by the book. but the
average man of hard sense will feel toward
the suggestions for bringing about universal
peace as the flremen would feel toward the
interference of a 3-yeaR-old child with their
efforts to put out a great conlagration,
In writing with the French in France
and Salonica" (Charles Scrlbners Sons
New York;, the second of his books
the late Richard Harding Davis showed
the same skill in selection of topics and
the same facility of expression that marked
all his work, whether fiction or descriptive
OF particular interest is that part of the
book dealing with the Salpnica campaign,
concerning which probably more misinfor-
nation than information has reached the
outside world. Mr.. Davis throws new light
upon the Balkan situation as II existed at
the time the Allied nations felt compelled
TO throw a heavy force into Macedonia,
II is, however, the small incidents of SOL
der life there and on the French Flanders
lines rather than political causes and ef-
fects which chiefly interested the author
and which he, in turn, made so interesting
for his readers. Details of camp life, of
work and play in the trenches. that other
writer's have missed. were seized upon and
presented in that delightful style upon
which the authors fame chiefly rests,
.Rellly's Pocket Medical Dictionary
(Pster Reilly. Philadelphia) has proved so
popular at its small price Of so cents that
4 second edition has been necessitated. The
work was compiled by Thomas Dutton, NJ,
D. OF the University of Durham and mem
ber of the Royal College Of Physicians, OF
Marlborough.
The book contains about 200 pages.
slightly larger than pocket size, and defines
alphabetically wide variety OF terms, con-
clsely but with full accuracy so that the
book Is valuable not merely to the medical
student and practitioner, but 70 the general
rsader who wishes an intelligent knowl-
edge OF such medical terms as come up in
his daily experience. There are good tables
of abbreviation used in prescriptions, etc,
weights and measures and remedies for
polFoning.
Mr. Cameron Mackenzie, whose novel OF
sew York financial and social life-"Mr,
ana Mrs Pierce'-has Just been published,
aas for three years editor of MeClure's
AIaeazine, succeeding $. $. Mcclure upon
The latter's retirement AS his name indi-
Gates he IS OF Scotch origin and is remotely
related to Compton Mackenzie. His novel
-safr. and Mrs. Pierce" was written TO MI
what. as editor. he felt was want-stories
not dealing with the very rich or the poor
with New Englanders or Sougherners, with
crooks, finaneiers or fashionable folk hui
with the average wellt-odo, substantial
people who form the great body of the read
iag public. With his miiieu decided upon
another idea entered into the plan--to show
that life and business are not two separahle
factors but are one ana the same. related
and interelated-
Tha interest IN Johnny Applessed which
rzrHfaliized last year IN Eleanor Atklnson's