The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-20
EAGER FOR FIGHT
Natives of Philippines Want To
Go to the Trenches.
They Desire To Fight for U. 5.
and Democracy.
INl AIMS KNnW u r. 0E |
ISLANDS KNOW H. C. OF |
DIR. $. B. Hubbard, Former Kan.
san, Tells of Conditions.
Former Wakarusa Man Is at
Head of Big School.

War has spread even to the Philip
pines, according to DR.. s. B. Hihbard,
president of the SiIliman Institute of
the Philippine Islands who has just
returned to Topeka. National guard
units have been organized. drilled and
prepared for action he states and may
soon be eligible for fighting side by
side with the American Sammies.
More than 5000 have already flocked
to the national guard organization in
the provinces OF the islands and have
catered their training with the great
est enthusiasm. he declares.
In addition to the % 900 men in the
guards the Philippine Islands have
three thousand scouts. attached to the
regular army of the United States,
under the command of American Off
GERS, that are going thru course
of intensive training and are eligible
for a trip to France. They are at
tached to the regular army and are
likely candidates for fight in France,
DR.. Hibbard believes.
The United States government has
granted drilling privileges to many of
the educational Institutions and ac-
cording to DIR. Hubbard. will grant still
more during the fall and winter of
this year. The whole island promises
to be a military center as busy and
as enthusiastic as any of the camps
in the United States.
Wants 10 Go to France.
of the island" Doctor Hubbard said
this afternoon. ITO go to France and
fight under the American flag. They
are enthused by the little war news
that the Islanders receive thru the
press And not only are they inter
ested in the war from a fighting
standpoint but thousands of natives
there insist that it is religious war
and that they are more than anxious
to help spread the doctrine of Chris
n lfsxr
1.-THE second great concern of the
Islanders is their fear of attack and
of being seized by the japanese gov
eminent. They are thousands of miles
closer to that country than they are
to their mother country and are IN
constant fear of being 5esieged- AT
the recent trouble between Japan and
the United States in regard to the
Japanese exclusion act, an attack
from Japan was expected a any time.
School children were taken from the
schools and colleges and were made
to remain at home. Corner CONVERSE
lions were all of Japan and a likely
invasion. But now the whole situa-
ton has apparently changed. Japan
at the present time is looked on rs I
true friend and as a possible ally
Food Prices Higher.
Food in the islands has taken n
jump in price that would make the
grumbling consumers of the United
States look sheepish. Potatoes have
mounted to 1925 per crate, which is
less than bushel. The price is more
than twice that paid before the war
was declared. Sugar has mounted TO
10 cents per pound in spite of their
nearness to the source of production
Flour now sells for IS per 100 pounds
and will probab bly, sell for more before
spring. Milk, which is sold only ir
tin cans. costs IS per crate or AZ Il
quart cans
Living is high but, according to DIR.
Hibbard, there is little complaint "a
TO prices. OF course, he states, there
is always one man here and there that
has a complaint to make. but such
men are comparatively few
DIR. Billiard was raised in WaNa-
rusa and was for time pastor a.
Lyndon, Kan. Eighteen years ago he
was appointed to the presidency of the
Silliman institute. which is under the
direction of the board of foreign mis-
sions of the Presbyterian church. His
school, he states, is the largest Protest
ant institute in the islands and had
900 persons enrolled last year. He IS